" khushi comeon... we're getting late..." yash, arnav's dad... yelled making khushi jump on teh stairs and almost tumble down...
" unkle... you almost gave mee a heart attack..." krhushi said coming towards teh car with her hand on her chest...
yash laughed... " ok comeon now... you were supposed to be teh first one here... i thought you would be teh happiest person among us that arnav comming..." he siad this and sat inside...
khushi too sat inside and mumbled... " i was untill a few weeks ago..."
everyone had already left and khushi had begged yash that they'll go together as she had to talk to him... and yash had merely agreed to it..as he too had something to talk to her...
" soo khushi... what did you want to talk about?" yash said...
" unmmm can you take teh long route to the airport?" khushi said unsure...
" sure... (pause) are you ok khushi..." yash said turning slightly to khushi...
" uhh...errr... ummm... actually... umm i dont know how to say this but... (pause) you know... everyone knows about mee and arnav right??" she asked slowly...
" yess... (sensing something is wrong...) did you guyss have a fight... or something... or something happened khushi..??" yash asked nervously now... what was coming his way now...
" unkle... arnav----"
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arnavnervously looked around to locate his family... lavanya was by his side holding his arm... he was much more nervous than she was... as he looked around he saw khushi coming his way with a broad smile... the smile that is on her face when she does something really naughty... or if shes going to play a prank... he stared at her as she came his way...
" hi arnav!!..." she said in teh most enthusiactic manner... then she pulled him into a hug and whispered... " dont go infront of unkle for sometime... he is really mad at you... oh and pls dont let HER infront of him or im telling you she'll leave you teh very next moment..." she patted his back and pulled away...
it took sometime for him to register everything... he looked his side to see lavanyae and khushi rlaughing about something... " arnav.. really... khushi is just like what you had said... see wipae made friends soo fast..."
" you guyss must bee tired... lets go..." she grabbed teh lugguage cart and pushed it to arnav's family... arnav and lavanya followed him... khushi came all smiles to arnav's smiling family... but as soon as they saw lavanya and arnav together... holding hands.. their smiles disappeared... arnav came ad took everyone's blessings... and soo dis lavanya... hesitatingly they all took the two home... everyones excitement was gone by lavanya's presense but everyone plastered a fake smile to their faces as they dint want to say anything infront of lavanya..
khushi slowly peeked into yash's room... he was pacing aorund teh room...khushi slowly knocked on the door... yash madly looked at teh door but soon he smield adn called her in...
" unkle... come downstairs everyone is waiting for you to satrt dinner..."she said...
" i am not hungry khushi.." yash said...
" oh comeon unkle...you need to come downstairs... and eat... or we'll all starve to death... and also you need to see your daughter in law right??" khushi said sadly but tryig to be cheerful...
" i dont need to see my daughter in law... cuz she is right here infront of mee..." yash sad cupping her face and kissed her forehead...
khushi wrapped her hand around his waist and dropped her head to his chest... " stop dreaming about things that will never happen unkle..." khushi said and a tear dropped her eye... " you need to accept your son's happiness over me..." she said...
" no... i dont NEED to..." yash said wrapping his hands around her...
to easy teh atmosphere khushi wiped her tears and grinned... " now that i know you love mee sooo much... can you pls convince dad to get me a new car... my car suxx..." khushi complained... "... with a capital S"
yash and khushi both laughed... and walked downstairs...
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after dinner... khushi gave her room(she has a room in raizada house... its like her second home)which is right nesxt to arnavd's room to lavanya... and moved all her stuff to her own house.. which is next door... lavanya went to saleep right away as she was really tired... arnav also went to bed but he couldn't sleep at all... he hadn't expected this at all... he had expected khushi to yell at him... cry and what else... but instead she just welcomed both him adn lavanya warmly... he looked to his side tabel and saw a box... on top was a note... he read it...
open this box the day you'll leave... that is three months later...
xx khsuhi xx
he looked at the box and put it safely in the cupboard... he would open it when he wll leave as it is saidn on teh note...
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arnav couldn't sleep... as khushi's thoughts were haunting him... he walked to teh balcony and saw her a reading the 'LOVE STORY' for eth hundredth time... she felt
someone staring at her..soo she looked up to find arnav... she took her glasses off and gestured 'what hapened?' he gestured he couldn't sleep... khushi gigled and called him to teh terrace... arnav ran to the terrace as if he was runningfor his life.. after three mins.. khushii appeared through teh dark... wrapping herself in teh robe...
she tiedher hair in teh pony tail adn leaned to teh railing... " soo why aren't you sleeping yet? you must be tired..." she asked him...
" i couldn't sleep because of oyu..." he said...
" me? what did i do??" khushi asked amused...
" why did you act soo normal when you saw mee and lavanya together? i mean i had expected--" he was interrupted...
" you had expected mee t yell at you for cheating... cry and do anythihng but welcom you adn your girlfriened huh? ( she gigled) i did that... i yelled at your picture... i cried for three days straight without eating or drinking anything...locked up in my room... but then i realized that when you love someone you want to see them happy... now if you are happy with someone else... then who am i to take your hapiness away?" khushi said... adn shrugged...
" i am sor--" arnav was interrupetd again...
" dont say sorry arnav... sorry doesn't have a meaning when you say it after doing something on purpose..." khushi said... " ok forget this... say somethng... about what happened in these two years..??(pause) if i still have the right to know..." khushi asked...
" ofcourse you have khushi.." arnav said now getting mad... " whatever happened between us... we are still best friends... "
" true.. soo lets catch up with things we missed...shall we...??" khushi said...
" yes.." he said... he climbed the railing adnslowly jumped... ther houses are just afeet away from eachother... it isn't really tuff for arnav to jump it.. he has had teh practise from before... they both sat there catching up iwth things they had missed... arnav after two years for teh first time felt guilty for cheatin khushi... and also he started asking himself.. was he reall in love with lavanyae? cus he had never had such casual and easy talks, chats, conversations, duiscussions with her... they enver really argued about things like khushi and arnav did .. in a cute way...he always gave up to anything lavanya e said or asked for...
they both fell asleep talking... at around 4 in teh morning...
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