IPKKND FF:Tearing Ourselves Apart Parts 1-26 :) - Page 14

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"Get off of me" was all she could manage through her struggle. She didn't like feeling helpless, she wished she was stronger, but she knew she couldn't get him off. It made her angry, it filled her eyes up with tears to the brim, she would not let them fall, and she would not give him that satisfaction.

Just when she thought she could not take anymore, she closed her eyes and felt Shyam being distanced from her. What was he doing?

As Arnav walked in to the kitchen he saw a desperate Khushi trying to push Shyam away from her. It took less than a moment for him to register the situation. She looked so weak and fragile behind him, cornered like a defenceless little girl, he was holding one hand over her mouth and another around her wrists as she struggled to break free. Rage blinded him as he lunged for Shyams collar and tore him away from her. He stumbled backwards as a fuming Arnav stepped between him and Khushi who still had her eyes closed and was breathing heavily against the wall.

Arnav stepped up to Shyam again and shoved him so that he fell backwards. He didn't need words, he had given this man a warning, which he had ignored and he was not in a forgiving mood. How dare he touch her? Arnav didn't know how best to inflict as much pain on him as possible for what he had just done, or attempted to.

As he fell backwards, Shyam grabbed at the counter to stop himself from falling, instead he managed to place his weight on the corner of the tray that held the cake and it came crashing to the ground.

The noise caused Khushi's eyes to flutter open and the scene that met her eyes was very unfamiliar to the one that she had closed them to. She quickly walked over to Arnav, placing a shaking hand on his shoulder, this was not a time to relive the moments just over three weeks ago when he had first found out about Shyam. She knew he was about to hit him again, but the voice behind them made them all freeze.

"Oh no!" What happened here?" Anjali exclaimed, reaching up to cover her mouth with her hand. She was looking at her birthday cake which now lay flattened against the floor.

Shyam's scared eyes darted between the three of them. Nobody spoke for a while, which prompted Khushi to at least attempt to control the situation before it got any worse.

"Shyam ji tripped and the cake fell"

Arnav was still furiously looking at Shyam, which Anjali misinterpreted.

"It's okay, it's only a cake, we can order one quickly from some place that is still open, Chote?" she asked, when he did not respond "Chote, there is no need to be so angry, I never really liked cake anyway."

"I'll go and order one now" he said, thinking of his sister.

This was her birthday, there was no need to make things worse. He gave Shyam a warning look and turned to leave, roughly grabbing Khushi's arm as he did.

There was no way he was leaving her in the same room with him. They left as Anjali began to fuss over the state of Shyams clothes which had cake sprayed on them.

He dragged her along behind him as they circled around the hall, avoiding all the guests.

"What do you think you were doing, have you gone crazy? I ask you to do one thing, I asked you to stay away from him, but you are stupid eno.."

"You didn't"

"I didn't what?" he angrily asked, still dragging her behind him and opening the door that led them outside to the garden.

"You never asked me to stay away from him"

That shut him up for a while, she was right. He had been thinking it all day, but he had not said that to her. They walked through the damp grass,

"It should have been obvious, what were you thinking? Can you not even do one thing right? It is Di's birthday, ONE DAY dammit" he continued as he finally stopped and swung her around to face him.

The wetness on her cheeks made him stop speaking. He was doing it again, breaking her heart without meaning to. She must have been scared.

"I just wanted him to stop, doing what he was doing. I could tell it was hurting you, I didn't want him to"

"You have no right to worry about me"

She looked down, and that is when he noticed that he was gripping her arm too tightly, he immediately let go.

"Stay here" he said as he walked back into the house to tell his assistant to call any bakery he could find that was still open. It was almost ten o clock, most of them would be closed by now.

Khushi waited outside, she was tired of it all. She missed being care free Khushi Kumari Gupta, not Khushi Singh Raizada, having to live with a husband who didn't care for her and a crazy brother-in-law that was obsessed with her. She sat down on the ground, burying her back in a tree, not caring that it would leave marks on her gorgeous sari, she was just too tired of it all.

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Arnav stood fuming just inside the doors that led to the garden.

"It better be here in the next 20 minutes" he ordered, at the poor man at the other end of the line.

He was about to step outside when he decided to take a minute to calm down, if he saw her, it would bring back the image of what he saw when he stepped into the kitchen. He clenched his jaw and fists. What the hell was his brother-in-law doing, how dare he touch Khushi, his Khushi.

A few minutes later he walked out to find Khushi sitting at the foot of a large tree where he had left her, surrounded by little dim lights making the image in front of him seem very familiar. Her head was buried in her hands just like it had been the day he had asked her to marry him.

He had asked her. He thought.

This was on him, it wasn't right to make her suffer just because she made him feel unlike anything else before. Seeing how Khushi and Shyam behaved with each other only reaffirmed his thoughts that Khushi could not have been in on the plan to ruin his sister's life. She was just an innocent girl, caught in unfortunate circumstances.

"I'm sorry" she whispered. Arnav looked at her with a pained expression. He didn't even know she had realised he was back.

"I'm just making things more difficult, I promise I didn't mean to"

Arnav sighed, his shoulders drooping slightly "With you, nothing that you mean to do ever ends up happening"

She shuffled her face closer into her hands at his words. Arnav walked around her, making sure not to step on the tail of her sari that was sprawled on the ground around her feet. He slid his back down the tree so that he was now sitting on the ground right next to her, he could feel her breathing as he tried to control his own.

His proximity surprised her as she looked up to find him much closer than expected "I know you didn't mean to, but you need to stay away from him. Can you do that for me?"

Khushi just nodded like a small child being told what to do. He was treating her a bit like a wife, it felt unusual to her. His expression calmed and a small smile crept over Khushi's face slowly spreading out wider.

"What?" he questioned.

She just shook her head, not planning on sharing until she started to giggle. She covered her mouth trying not to make too much noise as she continued to laugh harder.

"Did you have something to drink?" Arnav asked confused.

She shook her head in response again as she now struggled to breath; she was almost rolling on the ground, in fits of laughter, gasping in for air when she could. Arnav watched her as his own lips started to curl into a small smile. Her laughter was so free-spirited, he hadn't seen her like this before, it was mesmerising.

"Khushi?" he cautiously asked as she still giggled fiercely, placing his hand on her shaking shoulder.

"Shh...sh..ya...aaa..aa..aaa...amm..shay...m" was all he could make from inbetween her fits.

"Shyam what?" he asked, even more confused, what could be so funny about him.

She sensed him stiffening up beside her so she tried her best to calm down before continuing.

"The cakeee, falling on him, and his.. faa.aa... aahhh" she cried, holding her stomach from the pain of laughing so much "hiss.. his faceee.was..sooo...so.. funny...aaahh"

Arnav thought back to the moment, clouded by his own anger, he had failed to see the humour as Shyams eyes bulged with cake splattered all over him, and his look of betrayal when Khushi had promptly blamed it on his tripping. He smiled slowly looking over at Khushi who was trying to control herself now, she could find happiness in the darkest places, he thought. It was wondrous.

She calmed down after a while and leaned against the tree again, her shoulder slightly brushing Arnav's.

"Ahh, it is really beautiful out tonight" she said, finally wiping her eyes and looking out at the stars above them.

"You've been looking at the stars a lot today" he murmured, glad that she was back to normal.

"You've been looking at me looking at the stars?" she joked, bumping his shoulder, but then taking it back with her eyes when he didn't look too comfortable. Too soon - she thought.

"They are so beautiful; they just seem to shine forever"

So do you -he thought.

"That one" she pointed at a particularly bright star "is my dad, and that one" now pointing at a star with a faint pink haze "that one is my mum, well I'd like to think that anyway"

They could hear the guests inside, a while later as they chanted a merry Happy Birthday song but neither of them wanted to go back. Khushi stared up at the stars and Arnav saw them reflected back in her eyes as he gazed at her.

Hours passed like minutes.

After what seemed like a long enough time, Khushi's eyes started to close and she rested her head against something warm next to her, falling into the most comfortable sleep she had had in a long time.

He let her sleep against him for a few minutes, before he tried to lightly shake her awake

"Khushi" he whispered into her ear, his lips brushing against her silky locks. His warm breath made Khushi shiver with the cold that surrounded the rest of her but she stayed asleep. So he carried her back inside, with his hands buckled under her knees and her back. She was so small, so fragile, her head rested against his chest as he made his way through the dark house. Everyone was gone; all the lights were switched off. It was just the both of them.

After he gently placed her down on their bed he lightly brushed the few strands of hair from her face, staring at her grace as the moonlight hit her face from all the right angles.

"You don't need to be sorry" he said, gathering up the courage knowing that she was asleep "that should be me, I should be sorry, and I am"

He traced his hands down her cheek and jawline and without thinking followed her skin down her neck feeling her pulse, her life, and along her arms till he reached her fingertips. Her skin was so soft, so smooth, it felt like it was made for him to caress.

"I'm sorry for getting angry at you tonight, and for shouting at you the other day, I'm sorry for a lot of things, I am sorry for it all. Forgive me?"

When he got no response he followed her fingertips, onto her bare stomach where her hand lay, tracing circles around her naval. She shifted in her sleep, scratching her skin, where he had been touching her, making Arnav jump up from where he was kneeling next to the bed. What had he been doing?

He angrily changed and before going to bed he made sure to reinforce the line of pillows that separated them even though the back of his mind told him that a few pillows wouldn't keep his feelings at bay.

He fell asleep with the image of her starry eyes on his mind.

Next Chapter 10

amazin part..loved it..lykd d arhi moments...awesomee..plzz conti soon :)

aww they are getting close

awesome work hayley!!! i loved it!

Such a nice update!! Hahahahaha cake all over creep shyamus face what a delight!! Loved this update and can't wait for the next one! Thanks for the PM and your PM wasn't bothersome at all!!

wow..awsome..loved its every bit..the protective and then the caring arnie..khushi's finding humour in that situation..and then sleeping on his shoulder..loved it..and that crap..he shoudl have burried him there.

wonderful!!!!

Thanx for the pm... Lovely update. Haha...nice one ...Shyam with cake all over himself.

Originally posted by: sarach

wow..awsome..loved its every bit..the protective and then the caring arnie..khushi's finding humour in that situation..and then sleeping on his shoulder..loved it..and that crap..he shoudl have burried him there.