IPKKND OS:Tonight Parts 1-2 (Happy New Year!) - Page 8

Fall For You

He snuck an eyelid open and could just make out the faint glow of the single light bulb on the balcony. Groaning, he lifted his hand against his jaw and faintly rubbed against where he had just been hit by Arnav. He smiled through the pain, his cousin was so good at hiding his love, yet he opened his anger out on everyone more than was necessary.

He saw the flash of red, gold and black merge together in a sudden movement under the ghostly glow cast by the light. Shutting his eyes, he sunk low in his seat and smiled to himself again.

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She felt the throbbing of his heart against her chest before anything else made any sense to her. She felt as though her mind was listening to her heart. She had been thinking about seeing him and she was sure it was 12.00 so she was imagining him in front of her. This Arnav wasn't real, just her mind playing tricks on her.

She looked up at his eyes, ignoring his touch against her shoulders and the pin pricks all over her body that told her that the collision had been everything but imaginary. Her hands flew up to cover her face as soon as she convinced herself that she could never imagine Arnav so perfectly and he looked on in awe.

He had never seen something so beautiful, everything about her was perfect and everything about her was what he wanted.

His eyes followed up her entire form from her shivering legs up her heaving chest and pulsating neck until he realised that she had covered her face up in both hands, muttering softly into her skin.

He felt as though the image was incomplete, he desperately wanted to see her face, see those lips, those eyes. So he shot his hand up without thinking and slowly pulled away her hands, leaving her surprised eyes staring back straight up at him.

The sight of her took his breath away.

"Khus..." he started.

"What, what are you, what did you just do" she asked, unable to think straight through her rapidly beating heart.

"You can't, no, no, you are not supposed to be here, and you can't, why did, why did you come, you cant see me, not now..." she said, abruptly turning around and taking a step.

He held on to her arm, pulling her back to him. He didn't have anything to say. To be completely honest, his mind was almost completely blank. All he knew was that he didn't want her to leave him.

"You...what are you wearing?" he asked, not saying what he was thinking.

The sound of his voice snapped her mind back to earth and looking down at herself she realised that the little pricks she had been feeling were pins tucking into her skin from their collision.

"Ahhh" she complained, lifting her hand up to a pin near her elbow.

"Shh" Arnav quietly whispered, raising his finger to her lips in response to her sound, feeling their warmth as they quivered against his cold fingers.

"Khushi!? Hurry up, I cannot wait all day" Buaji called from inside making Khushi jump.

"Y...yes Buaji...just a minute" she called against his finger tips, not making an effort to move.

"Its midnight" she whispered, glancing down at his fingers still held against her lips.

He looked at his hand consciously and pulled back away from her lips, holding on to her arms instead and pulling the pin away from where it was hurting her. Not breaking eye contact until absolutely necessary her turned her around by the shoulders as she breathed heavily, brushing his hand against the bare skin of her back as he swept her hair over her shoulder. Her breath hitched as he watched her intently, pulling another pin away from her flawless skin. Arnav felt his fingers melt with every sweep against her skin. He resisted the urge to kiss the skin at the nape of her neck. Turning back around, Khushi's mind shot her back to the night when she had been wrapped in lights.

That all had ended badly, and thinking about it she took a step back from him as he reached out for the pin around her top of her lehenga.

"I..its o..okay" she stammered, still flushing from the heat of his touch as he retracted the hand that was burning from her touch. He hadnt even realised what he had been doing, too mesmerised by her.

He looked down and let her eyes off, allowing her mind to start thinking again. She suddenly remembered the words he had spoken to her the day before and the anger flushed up in her cheeks.

"YOU! You said it was me, but its you, you are here, you are running to me, you bumped into me" she gleamed, smiling widely and pointing at his chest.

He looked at her accusing finger and realised that she was right, blushing from the blow to his pride. He didn't want to dicuss it, he didn't think he had it in him to say much when she was looking like that.

"Just tell Aakash to hurry up, NK is..." he stopped, realising what he had done "is waiting" he lied, watching Khushi's face register confusion for a second before she let it go.

"Admit it" she said triumphantly "You came to me, even when you said it would be me."

"Go on" she urged "I'm waiting."

He looked up at her angrily, her beauty adding to the intensity of his emotions. Her eyes breaking through his protective layer in a matter of seconds.

"Well then you will keep waiting for a long time"

He reluctantly turned away from her, sneaking back a look at her before he began to descend down the steps, stopping when he heard her clear her throat.

"Don't worry, I have time" she said slyly "about a year or so I believe" she finished as Arnav turned to look at her, glimpsing down at her body before forcing himself to look up in to her eyes, which wasn't too hard a task.

She noticed his gaze and looked down at herself to find her scarf missing.

Blushing a bright red to match that of her clothes she covered her front with her arms, looking up at Arnav awkwardly and huffing loudly before running back inside, shutting the front door behind her with a loud bang.

Arnav smiled in spite of himself "I guess we have one whole year then Khushi Kumari Gupta" he looked at where she had been standing moments ago, the image of her beauty carved in his mind as though on stone. He imagined her eyes... "Bring it on."

And that is all guys ! A little cheesy, but gosh I love ArHi so let me be cheesy :p I really hope you liked it and please do drop by a like or comment to let me know what you thought. Do check out my index if you want more reading

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