Chapter Thirteen
The workings of Khushi Kumari Gupta's brain
Reasons Why she shouldn't marry Arnav:
- Well hello!!! he doesn't believe in marriage, the only reason he even offered to marry her[he told her so a thousand times] was from his sense of responsibility.He feels he is responsible for the scandal [well he is!! HE grabbed her and kissed her until she was breathless]
- He had a thousand girlfriends and numerous scandals about him while she only kissed a few times and that too only him!!! How is that fair!!
- How long will she be able to keep him interested in a simple girl like her. She knew about his affairs with well known models. What if he wanders elsewhere after marriage??? What will she do??
- She won't be ever able to have babies.
Reasons Why she should marry Arnav:
- She would be in the same house as her jiji!! [okay she herself knew it was the lamest reason. she practically lives in her jiji's sasural so that really doesn't make any sense]
- She'd have the awesomest nanad [Di] and the best sasural ever. [it feels nice to think herself a part of this family]
- Arnav is a caring guy. He climbed up a unknown guy's room in the middle of the night only to make sure she was safe [If this doesn't prove that the guy is caring I don't know what will??]
- He is an awesome kisser!!
Khushi looked at her scribblings in the diary. Four reasons to marry and four reasons not to. Both are equally justified. What should she do???
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"Hello"
"Hello Arnavji"
"Hi Khushi"
"I called you to let you know my decision"
"tell me.. whatever you decide I'm fine with it... did you think everything through??"
"Yes I did.. my decision is.. my decision is..."
"I'm waiting"
"I'll marry you"
"Are you sure?"
"yes"
"have you thought this through?"
"haan"
"okay fine I'll talk with the family members"
"okay bye then"
"umm Khushi??"
"yes?"
Arnav hesitated a bit...
"are you happy with the decision??"
now khushi hesitated a bit
"ummm yes... I... I am... bye"
"bye"
...
If Arnav had held his breath in the whole time he made sure Khushi didn't find out. He acted very cool and composed in the phone while his hands were sweating like crazy.
She had said yes!!But why did she seem hesitant at the end... Does she regret agreeing... Will this kind of marriage work??
Did he himself want this marriage to happen??
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Reasons why Khushi shouldn't marry Arnav were actually much more valid than reasons why she should then what made Khushi say yes??
Well in the end nothing mattered. The fact is that she is terribly attracted to him, has grown really fond of him and can't picture anyone other than Arnav as her husband.
So that left to two options : Either she marry him or stay unmarried the rest of her life. Okay fine the second one is not even an option because her mom,buaji,jiji and even di and naniji will never let her be single the rest of her life...
So khushi tore the page she took so much time writing and then turned a fresh page and wrote
" it's better to regret something you did, than something you did not do"
Khushi is indeed a very strong girl.
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"Hello"
"Hi" said ASR
Khushi let out a nervous breath
"Hey"
"I was wondering ..." ASR trailed off
"yes??"
"umm... would you like to on a date... maybe tonight"
Khushi remained quite... waiting for her voice to turn back to normal so that she could say something to ASR
On the other hand, Arnav mistook her silence as her negative answer
"you know... since we are getting married... I thought we should go out and get to know each other properly... "
"I'd like that"
"So I'd pick you up at eight??" He asked
"Eight's fine with me" she replied suddenly feeling light-headed... uff it must be because of skipping lunch, she made a mental note.
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Normally Khushi was a girl who hated dressing up. She spent far too much time poking her nose into other peoples business and doing stuff she shouldn't be doing.
So it came as a shock to Garima and Buaji when she spent an hour only selecting a dress. Another hour was spent on styling her hair, applying makeup and looking at herself to see if everything was perfect. La kept on giggling while Khushi threw her angry glares. Finally when she was satisfied she started fiddling with her bangles waiting for time to while away.
Garima is not naive. She is a mother after all. She was a little scared as ASR is not the sort or guy she'd choose for her daughter. He was intimidating, angry young man yet she could see where her daughter's heart lay?
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Arnav on the other hand ws sitting out in the car. HE said he'd arrive at 8 and here 15 minutes was left. How the hell is he supposed to spend this fifteen minutes???
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At exactly 8 Arnav entered the house and escorted Khushi to the most lavish restaurant ever.
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"Awkward... OMG it's so awkward"
15 minutes have gone by and they haven't spoken anything except for normal pleasantries .
Ever since they had started talking never had a time come when they couldn't say anything to each other and here they were about to get married and nothing to say to each other.
"Umm you look stunning"
"yes you have mentioned it already"
"what can I say you do look great"
"thanks"
again the awkward silence
After another gruelling 15 minutes ASR and Khushi both were wondering if they made the correct decision of geting married. They could hardly talk with each other now.
"It was better when we were friends" Khushi suddenly said.
ASR raised his eyebrows and a small smile appeared.
Khushi just realised what she said...
"Oh I meant we..."
"used to talk more" ASR completed for her...
From that point everything became lighter and they talked for the next one hour non-stop.
"Do you want to dance" Arnav suddenly asked khushi looking at the dancing couples besides them.
"I'd love to..."
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They danced for a couple of minutes enjoying each other immensely...
When they stopped a lady came up to them and looked dirctly at ASR. She was wearing the skimpiest of dressing hiding almost nothing in the upper portion of her body... and god had truly given her a lot... she was heavenly pretty and every guy was just drooling over her...
"hey ASR"
"hi Rose" Arnav said while checking to see khushi's reaction. Khushi kept her face passive revealing nothing...
"haven't seen you in a while" she added with a wink...
"will talk later Rose... am slight busy at this moment"
"sure" she replied. Before leaving she came near ASR and hugged him in such a way that all part of her body touched his.
Arnav forcefully pulled her apart. "Bye"
"Bye"
Arnav now looked at khushi whose face didn't reveal anything. They left a few minutes later as it was really getting late. Khushi was really silent in the whole ride back. Arnav would have said something to Khushi in front of her door but buaji was waiting there and asked them every minute detail of their date.Arnav left soon afterward..
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Later that night as Khushi was lying on the bed...
Did she take the correct decision - she wondered. Will she be able to walk through this path? Seeing him only hug a woman made her feel like this. How will she live her whole life with him?? He owns a freaking design house.There will always be models like the s**t today...
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Me a Dazzler now đĽł
Edited by SamiyaIPKKND - 13 years ago
Indian Idol 16
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