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Nani and Anjali were surprised when Arnav came back home at midday.
"Chotey how come? its only 3.30 and you are back at home... are you travelling somewhere?" Nani asked him...
"No Nani I was little free today and decided to come home" he said throwing a glance at Anjali who was looking at him as well...she nodded at him before he climbed upstairs.
Arnav entered his room to see Kushi putting his ironed clothes into his wardrobe. She was oblivious to his presence. He stood at the door for sometime looking at her quietly. He owed her an apology. A serious heartfelt one! but before he could call her name, he heard her speak.
"you are home" He had thought she didnt know he was there.. But she had noticed his arrival. She turned to smile at him.
"yeah..."
"you have a headache? hmm...I know...I have one too... Thats what happens when you dont sleep at night!" she told him as a matter of fact...
All the three had spent the entire night sitting in the terrace until the wee hours of the morning... and then had hastily come down to their own rooms to catch sleep for a couple of hours before everyone in the household would wake up.
Then he took his car keys and left his house.
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Later that night Arnav came in only moments before dinner...and both of them avoided looking at eachother during dinner. Anjali was curious about this.. she was throwing suspicious glances at both of them... But decided not to interfere and give them sometime.
when Arnav climbed the stairs to his room, he noticed that Kushi was by the pool side, arranging her bed.
"Kushi, come in and sleep... Its cold outside"
"You realised it only today is it?"
"Kushi please...You can stay angry with me.. but dont make this very difficult for me..."
kushi neglected him, going on about making her bed.
"Now if you dont come in then, I will also sleep here" he told her
"I am staying here because I dont want to stay in the same room where you are..."
"then let me sleep here" he said squatting next to her bed. She did not heed to his words... she took out a mosquito coil and lit it.
"do you have mosquitoes here?"
"what did you expect with plants and water?warm and cosy like your bedroom? go in and sleep!You wont be able to sustain even two hours here"
"What? Kushi you."
but they were cut off by Anjali's voice just above them
"Chotey!"
They looked up to see Anjali descending down the stairs near the pool, she had been spending some time in the terrace and had decided to take this path down, Arnav realised that he had forgotten to close the door from the terrace which leads to the pool by his room side.
"Di!"
"what are you both doing here?"
"Anjaliji, I like to watch the stars from here... So I thought weI will spend some time here...he is not letting me" Kushi told her.
"yeah... And I was saying her it is late and the place is full of mosquitoes and we should go in..." Arnav told with a smirk..
Anjali smiled and nodded
Arnav stood up, pulling kushi out of her bed and dragging her inside, come in now!
Anjali smiled as she came down and went the other way towards her room.
Arnav pushed her into his bed and covered her with his quilt.
"Stay put and sleep! did you get it?" he told her with finality "If it bothers you so much, I will sleep on the recliner"
she watched him as he went to close the door, and settle down by the recliner, and then turned look at her and smile. She got up suddenly throwing away his quilt.
"what now?" he asked
she went to the cabinet where the extra pillows were piled. She took some and arranged them in line on the bed.
"That recliner will not be comfortable... you can sleep on the other side...but dont dare cross the pillows ok?" she told him with so much sincerity, that his amused look when she was arranging the pillows diving the bed, turned into a laugh which he tried hard to surpress. He looked at this girl with whom he had fallen in irrevocably in love with, the girl who was rightfully standing in his room, holding his quilt and defining terms for sharing his bed...
"what? come and sleep... I am not heartless like you" she told with mock fury
"If you wish so.." he told her and settled down on the other side of the bed ignoring the strange feeling that it is going to be difficult to agree to her terms and lay quiet.
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to be continued...
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