I have a feeling I'm going to be rambling a lot here ... sorry in advance! 😛
Arnav's feelings are actually very simple ... he's starting to feel something for Khushi, he doesn't know why... she started off by enraging him challenging him, annoying him, interefering in his life, which even his sister and nani didn't dare to do ... now she makes him smile, she makes him laugh, she makes him feel lighter than he has done for years ... he doesn't know why he's behaving less like the autocratic tyrant that he has built himself carefully over the years to become, but he is ... his subconscious feelings are starting to struggle to the surface and he's busy fighting them ... in the process, he has these wild mood swings and the person who bears the brunt is ... Khushi ...
Khushi ... I feel the cv's should not have started off on her dhak-dhak yet, since they are taking it nowhere, and anyway it was a bit premature. As of now, she is far more confused about Arnav's wild mood swings than anything else ... she HAS no emotions for Arnav ... and the reason everyone is wondering why her emotions are not being shown ... it's not because she's hiding them, it's because we all EXPECT Khushi to start falling in love with Arnav at the signs of his softening ... and when she is not, we all say ... why are the cv's not showing her emotions???
I think Khushi is just about getting used to Arnav NOT hating her, not shouting at her at the slightest occasion ... she is hoping after the Nainital trip that she has moved from his Most Hated list to the list of people he can tolerate ... maybe even like (although she's not holding her breath on that one - at least I wouldn't if I were Khushi!) For now, the fact that he didn't blow up on the Nainital trip, that he's not getting angry all the time is enough for her ... he did get angry twice, once she knew why, and accepted his anger ... but the second time, she had absolutely no clue!
Which is confusing her - their equation had started to change, earlier he blew up on "aukat", "haisiyat" all the time ... after the apology, that changed and he started tolerating her, they had that one tenuous bond of losing their parents ... so the fact that he stopped blowing her up all the time was because of that ... but now what happened?
If that dhak dhak of awareness has started ... well, actually it's been there almost from the start ... but it will stay in her subconscious ... Khushi will not let it surface consciously, because for her, Arnav is taken ... he belongs to Lavanya. So she will ascribe any and every reason to her feelings except the correct one. And honestly I don't think her feelings have developed as far as Arnav's yet anyway ... there IS nothing for her to realise ... when he softens she feels happy, when he's angry, or hurtful, especially without reason , she feels hurt, upset ... normal feelings for anyone ... except that it does mean a little more to her ...
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