ArHi FF: Check Mate! (completed) - Page 26

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Arnav woke up the next day morning hearing the clinking sound of bangles...He smiled to himself thinking how difficult it was to go to sleep, sleeping next to her, the clinking of her lone pair of gold bangles and ringing of her Anklets not making it easy...bringing in happy memories associated with them...urging him to hug her and kiss her senseless...

She was continuosly twisting and turning in bed and he had asked her if she was not feeling comfortable to sleep, wondering if she always kept turning and rolling like this when she slept... she had murmered something about new place, but the look she gave told him something else... probably this was the effect of his presense and blazing looks at her or probably she was also in the same boat as him reminiscing through those moments!

she then finally turned the other way, putting her head on the downside of the bed, and dozed off... but for him, this seemed difficult too, in his direct view were her feet as beautiful as ever, the anklets in them brought yet another memory continuing with the sweet torture... He didnt exactly remember when he slept finally.

He opened his eyes to see her looking through the assorted array of her bangles, confused which she should choose. she must have been up for sometime now, she had taken her bath and her hair was still wet. she was wearing a peach coloured salwar suit and was in the process of choosing matching bangles for the same... He got up and went near her.
"shall I?"
She was taken aback hearing his voice all of a sudden, but went back to choosing her bangles ignoring him. she chose a set of bangles finally but he took them from her, replacing them back, He took the ones he had bought her before the misunderstanding happened...
"this one?"
she stared at him. He looked at her lovingly.
"who is watching?" she asked abruptly
"No one!" Arnav calmly replied.
"I Know...I was only wondering..." her voice trailed off.
"my god! Kushi, I never thought you could be this sarcastic!" he told her with a laugh.
"I have been with you for a month"
"If you want to learn from me... I would advise you not to choose from my bad examples!"
"I had to give you a taste of your own bitter medicine! then you will know how others feel when they are the recipients!"
"believe me..I know, Actually when I gave you the medicine... didnt I take half of it myself?"
"yeah...but the point is...it was just an allergy and we took medicines for chicken pox!"
he burst out laughing...
"kushi, you are getting better and bettr with words, my god what an analogy"
"hmm.. afterall, I am a Raizada now aint I?"
he smiled...

"I have done mistakes, but with my mom's bangles, I am happy I ended up doing the right thing" he smiled at her
She merely nodded.. She realised, that he had slipped the other set of bangles into both her hands and he was still holding her right hand.
"I think, I have to go down" She told abruptly
he nodded but was still holding her hand
"You are not yet complete"
"what?"
He turned her making her face the mirror, standing behind her, holding her by shoulders.
"Can you see?"
She took a while to find out
"sindoor!"
but before she could take some and apply it, he did it for her.
"now its complete!" he smiled coyly at her
She pushed him away.
"You dont believe in this, then why do you play with my emotions again? I have told you, I still havent forgiven or forgotten still!"
but before he could answer her, they heard a knock at the door, and they saw Anjali standing at their room entrance.

"Anjaliji?"
"shall I come in?"
"Yeah Di, Ofcourse"
"Are you still Angry with me Chotey?"
"with you? no di! what.."
"But I am angry with you!"
"With me?" he asked her baffled.
"you will know later" she laughed.."actually I came to tell you both not to let any one in the family know about our little secret nor give any clue to Shyam that I know about his secret!"
"you still defend him?" kushi was stumped "I am sorry Anjaliji but I fail to understand this... he doesnt deserve you at all...then Why?"
"why?" Anjali repeated again and then smiled sadly before continuing...
"Kushiji you are married for a month now... has you husband treated you well?"
her question threw both of them off guard... Arnav was shocked while Kushi was perplexed.
"yeah Ofcourse..."
Anjali simply turned and opened the door to the poolside and showed them the bed which was left there. They guessed that Anjali had heard their conversation last night before they heard her voice.
"so what does this mean then?" she asked Kushi."you have been sleeping outside all these days right?" she asked throwing dirty looks at Arnav.
"No Anjaliji, we just forgot to take it.. we came in right after we saw you..."
"I know about my brother Kushi... I know to what extent he will go when he loves someone and I know how ruthless he can be when he wants to be" Anjali told Kushi. she paused for moment and then continued...

Anjali left the room, closing the door.

to be continued...