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It was almost a week since Khushi had stopped talking with Arnav. She just carried out whatever he asked her to do mutely. She didnt look at him. She was successful in ignoring his presence when she was forced to be in his proximity and she avoided being in the same place as him in front of the family so that she was not forced to sit near him or talk to him. Even during breakfast and dinner she would make excuses of making tea for everyone or any other extra item for everyone and would escape into the kitchen. All these did not gi unnoticed by Arnav. He was terribly feeling her absence in the room. His room had become soo quiet, but he thought "this was how it was before she came, so why now i dont like this silence anymore?". He couldnt concentrate on his work. At office, he didnt like the food that was being served, he just ate to not have the tablets in emtpy stomach. He was missing her food. He was missing her voice, their fights, her impulsiveness everything.
It was 3 in the afternoon when he was at office, but his mind kept wandering somewhere so he decided to go home. When he entered their room, she was folding her clothes in the cupboard and rearranging them. She knew at once when he entered. Though she was a bit surprised that he was at home at this time of the day, she did not want to show any reaction. As he just stood there looking at her, she immly took the clothes dumped them inside hurriedly and left the room without a glance at him. Arnav felt very annoyed at her actions, but couldnt ask anything as she was exactly doing what he had told her literally.Khushi did not know what to do at this time of the day, so she went to Anjali's room, where she found Anjali just relaxing with a book in her bed. Khushi called, "Di can i come in?". "pls khushiji come in, u wany anything?". "No di, just came to spend some time with u if its ok with u. I was just sitting freely." "Pls, come u r welcome, even im in need of company other than this book." They both sat and started chatting together happily, after some time khushi asked, "Di why dont u lie down and sleep for sometime?" "No khushiji i dont get sleep at this time usually" "Oh! u do one thing, u lie down and I will make u sleep." Anjali obeyed her words and as she laid down khushi sat near her and with one hand started stroking and massaging Anjali's head, and in no time Anjali drifted to a peaceful sleep. Khushi started reading the book that Anjali was reading with one hand and still stroking Anjali with the other hand.
Arnav whose anger was rising by the min with Khushi's silence and the irritation with her indifference, stopped working on his laptop and got up. He felt that if he sees his Di and talks to her for sometime may he would feel better, so he went to Anjali's room. The sight that he saw there mesmerized him. Anjali was sleeping peacefully with a smile on her lips. She looked very happy. Khushi who was half sitting and half laying beside his Di was also sleeping with a book resting on her chest and her other hand stroking his sister. They both looked like sisters bonded with love. He couldnt take his eyes off them. He just wanted the warmth and the moment to last forever. The two most impt ppl of his life in tune with each other, "God wat else can i ask for? but..." his thoughts wandered again to all his bitter memories. He retreated slowly from the room without making noise and on his way back his mind raced "can she really be so peaceful and loving to Di, when she is trying to take away her husband? is she that cruel? is she that good an acress? can she pull wool over evryone's eyes at everytime? God! how am I supposed to live with this state of mind and how long...?" his thoughts were interrupted with a call from Akash. "Yes Akash! Oh..ok..Im coming rightaway." He left for the office immly.
In Anjali's room Shyam entered to see both his wife and Khushi sleeping. He had all his eyes for Khushi. He went near them without any noise and stretched his hand to touch Khushi's cheeks. Just by feeling an unwanted presence near khushi got up with a jerk, and before Shyam's hand touched her cheeks she slapped his hands away. Anjali just cringed her eyes with the disturbance, Shyam took a step backwards and Khushi took the oppotunity to slip away from the room and she ran to her room unknowing that shyam was intending to follow her and that she has left her room door wide open.
She went near the cupboard and opened it to continue her work when she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned with shock to find that it was Shyam with an evil smile on his face. "How long will u run from me khushiji..how long? u r running back to a man who nothing but hates u? why? why dont u come forward to me, the man who loves u utterly?" Khushi at flinched at his touch. She shook his hands away. "Dont u dare touch me? I am serious this time. If once more u lay ur filthy hands on me i wont be responsible for any consequence." "U r threatening me now, khushiji comeon now..I know so well about u...just look at your state..Arnav hates u..so he wont believe whatever u tell him against me..and on the other side the two families though they will believe u..i know that u r too good for your own good to let things out to spoil Rani Saibha's life and ur jiji's life. I know u will go to any extent to sacrifice ur life for others...so u r left with no option but to come along with me..." Khushi's eyes were spitting hatred at her current state and the fact that how much this gutter creature is taking advantage of her nature.. "Never in your dreams think that I will come to you..U r right when u say i will sacrifice myself for Di and jiji, but u left another person my husband..I will do anything to keep any harm away from him..." Shyam without thinking came back, "Yes exactly thats what im also telling, to keep any harm away from Arnav I sincerely suggest that u come along with my plans, so that I shall leave Arnav and all the others whom u love undisturbed...what do u say?" Khushi was taken aback with the thought that Arnav would get hurt, "For a min dont think u will get away by causing any harm to Arnavji or my two families, I will not hesistate to lay down my life for what its worth mind it..." Shyam himself was a little taken by surprise when Khushi mentioned that she will lay down her life, but before he could react they heard a noise outside the room and Shyam didnt hesistate for a second to hurry out. After Shyam left the room, Khushi just sat down on the floor near the cupboard too shocked with what had just happened and slowly thinking back at his uttered threats.
At office, when Akash asked Arnav for a data to finalise the deal, only then did Arnav notice that his laptop was missing. When he recollected he closed his eyes, "Offf! I left it in my room, I was working on it and when u called i just forgot to take it..." Akash replied, "Its ok bhai, just call Khushiji and ask her to search for the data and tell it to u over the phone." "No! she might not know to operate it properly..and might just end up deleting everything.." "Bhai atleast once call her and ask if she knows to operate a laptop.." without waiting for Arnav's answer Akash dialled Khushi's number.
The ringing of the phone did not reach Khushi's mind or ears. Akash called to Payal and asked her if Khushi knows to operate a laptop. Payal answered that neither she nor Khushi know to operate that.
Arnav interrupted, "its ok Akash, I will go home and send the file so that u can handle this here. is that ok?" "Ok bhai..."
Arnav returned to RM and when he walked to his room he found Khushi in a trance on the floor with tears flowing out of her eyes. He suddenly felt tears pricking his eyes feeling that he was the sole reason behind those tears and called "Khushi?" Hearing his voice brought her out of her thoughts with a jerk and she looked up at him. Arnav came into the room walking towards her just about to ask wat happ, but Khushi even without giving him a chance to ask the question quickly walked past him out of the room. Arnav immly switched back to ASR mode, "God dammit, why do i bother at all..." he tuned to see his laptop as he had left it and sat to search for his files. When he was searching he found many unwanted files and so after sending the required data to Akash sat back to clear his datas. While on the process, he came across video files, which he clicked open and found the video of Khushi mixing something in his drink, he was taken back to the memory but was immly angered at how he had believed her innocent act. Though he closed the file and kept his finger on the delete button, he didnt want to delete it, so he skipped to the rest of the video files which were related to his office and when he came across one file that was not saved and asking a command to save or not, he went into the file only to see the worst scene of his life (or the best). The entire shyam-Khushi interaction came in front of his eyes. He was preplexed seeing and hearing everything. Breaking down would be the least word to explain his state.
When he was at least able to comprehend his thoughts he felt so low of himself and felt that he was worse than Shyam with regards to Khushi. He was able to realise that Shyam had understood Khushi too well to take adv of her, whereas he who claimed that he loved her had not understood her one bit, in the least not trusted her and spoiled her left altogether. His world started spinning when he thought how was he going to put things back to right track.
FOR ONCE ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA WAS CLUELESS..
PLEASE TAKE THE PAIN OF LEAVING A FEW WORDS NOT FOR ME AT LEAST AS A DEDICATION TO THE BRILLANT PERFORMANCES OF BARUN AND SANAYA EVENTHOUGH THE SCRIPT IS GOING IN AN ABSURD DIRECTION AND DRAGGING...
