ARHI FF: A Ray Of Hope pt 13 pg 123 updated 19/12 - Page 33

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Chapter 7

The next day the whole Raizada family went to GH with the shagun.

Khushi was helping Payal get ready and Aryan was on his Payal's bed playing with his toys. The pair heard a car horn and Khushi went out of Payal's room towards the window at the front of the house to see the Raizada's all coming. She had a big smile on her face as she ran back into Payal's room shouting "there here."

Everyone heard her. Shashi and Garima were very happy seeing Khushi smile but were also sad that she will never have this kind of day in her life.

Khushi ran up to Payal and hugged her from behind with a big smile on her face. "Jiji I am very happy for you" Khushi said excited. Payal who had been sitting in front of the mirror looked at her through the mirror and smiled. Payal got up and turned to look at her sister. She cupped her face with one of her hands and caressed her cheek while Khushi just had a huge grin on her face. "Khushi are you happy?" Payal asked. "Of course jiji. I am very happy because very soon my jiji's going to get married and I get to irritate my would be jijaji. After all I am his would be saali and that is my right" Khushi giggled. Payal just looked at Khushi not believing that after so long she was able to see this smile.

"Khushi bring Payal out. They are here" Garima shouted as they all headed towards the front room to invite them in.

Once Shashi, Garima and Madhumati got the front room they invited the Raizada family in who all sat down.

Khushi had picked up Aryan and placed him on one arm while her other arm was around Payal. Garima stood up when she saw her girls and went towards them placing both hands on Payal's shoulders leading her towards the Raizada's. Anjali got up and went up to Khushi while holding Priyan's hand who was looking at the scene unfold. "Maa, maa why here?" Priyan inquired while pulling his mother's hand. "Shhh Priyan! We are here to see your future mami" Anjali replied. Priyan looked around and was very confused. "Maa what mami?" Priyan quizzed. Anjali looked at her son and couldn't help but giggle as others joined in. She went down on her knees balancing herself on her feet so she was face level with Priyan. "Priyan your Akash mama is getting married to that aunty over there sitting next to your parnani and she will become your mami" Anjali said. Priyan turned to look at Payal who was looking at him. She gestured him to come over to her but Priyan looked back at his mum and hugged her making everyone laugh at his reaction. While hugging her he looked up and looked at Khushi then at Aryan whom she was holding. "Maa baby" Priyan said while still looking at Aryan. Anjali let go of Priyan turned while she was still on bent down and looked up towards Aryan. She turned back to look at Priyan. "Priyan his name is Aryan." "Aywan" Priyan pronounced making everyone laugh. "No..beta..Aryan" Anjali said while slightly giggling. "Aryan" Priyan said. "Yes Aryan. Good boy Priyan" Anjali said as she smiled at her son who smiled right back at his mum.

Everyone was watching this whole scene between mother and son and loving every moment.

Arnav who had seen Khushi come out with Aryan a while back saw her and at first felt his temper rise as he still remembered the first time they met but then looking at Aryan he realised he had seen Aryan here right outside making his eyes go wide as it dawned on him that Khushi was the one who had sang that song reminding him of his own childhood memories.

Khushi who had been watching the scene between mother and son smiled and looked up to see Arnav looking at her. She at first felt her temper flare but then became self-conscious as he carried on looking.

Anjali got up got a hold of priyan's hand and walked back picking up Aryan and placing him on Shyam's lap where he sat quietly before sitting down herself.

Nani turned to look at Manorama. "Manorama we should start." Manorama stood up picked up the thali which was on the table walked up to Payal and put a tikka on her forehead. She then threw some rice over her before placing her hand over her head giving her blessing. She then turned to place the thali on the table before picking up another thali full off gifts which was covered with a cloth. The thali was placed in Payal's hand then put back on the table. Manorama turned to look at Payal, placed her fingers on her chin and tilted her head up slightly. "Welcome to the family" Manorama smiled at Payal while making everyone else smile. She went back and sat down before Anjali got up and did the same but this time handed her some jewellery boxes.

Once the ritual was finished Garima headed towards the kitchen to get refreshments. Khushi went and gave Aryan to her father who sat on his lap busy playing with his toy he had in his hand before heading towards the kitchen helping her mum. Khushi helped place the tea cups and snacks on a tray while Garima bought another tray with tea cups and sweets. Khushi placed the tray on the table and started passing the tea to everyone.

Madhumati was not pleased about Khushi being around but she had no choice because Payal's in-laws were there.

Khushi went over to Akash and grinned at him as he was busy eyeing up his sister who was busy talking to Manorama and nani.

Anjali couldn't help but notice her brother looking towards Payal. She nudged her husband who was playing with Priyan. He turned to look at her as she gestured for him to look at Akash which he did and he couldn't help but smirk.

Khushi then turned to pick up another cup and gave it to Arnav who had been still looking at her. She looked up to see him and their eyes met, his molten brown to her hazel. He went to take the cup and their hands touched sending a jolt of electricity throughout both their bodies which neither of them had ever felt for him making both of them look down towards the cup before looking back at one another. Khushi then jerked her hand away but as Arnav didn't have a hold of the cup, the cup fell making the tea drop on his hand and arm and the cup fall on the floor breaking into pieces.

Everyone turned to look at the scene. Anjali was worried as she knew her brothers hot temper.

Khushi backed up and gasped with her hands over her mouth while she looked directly at Arnav then his arm. Arnav was certainly not pleased. He looked up at Khushi as temper flared in his eyes.

Garima stood up and went up to Khushi. She hit her slightly on her arm making Khushi look at her mum. "Khushi what have you done" in a telling off tone. Before Khushi could answer Arnav spoke. "It's ok aunty I'm fine. Can I please use your bathroom?" Arnav enquired. "Of course bitwa" Garima turned and smiled at Arnav. "Khushi show Arnav bitwa where the bathroom is" as Garima looked back at Khushi. Khushi moved her hands face and looked from her mum to Arnav wide eyed. Garima saw Khushi's reaction and glared at her making Khushi give in. Arnav also had no choice but to follow Khushi.

The Raizada's were still worried about Arnav's temper. They knew too well what could happen.

Arnav followed Khushi as they headed towards the bathroom. She suddenly stopped making Arnav walk right into her. "What the'.why'd you stop?" Arnav said trying to keep his temper under control. "The bathroom is in front" Khushi turned to look at Arnav with the same flare in her eyes as his. Arnav just stormed passed her making jerk slightly backwards. "I'm sure you can make your own way back then" she said to his retreating back before hearing the bathroom door close with a bang. Laad governor kahike she muttered to herself as she made her way back to the living room.

Once Arnav had finished in the bathroom he made his way back to where his family were but he certainly wasn't best pleased.

Anjali saw this. "Ummm nani I think we should go" Anjali said. "Yes lets go" nani replied. "Garima bitiya Shashi bitwa we were thinking of having the roka ceremony in a week at RM if that's ok with you?" looking at Garima and Shashi. Both Shashi and Garima looked at one another. "Yes, that would be fine" Shashi replied.

The Raizada's got up and started walking out wishing a goodbye to everyone.

Once they were out of the house Khushi started picking up the broken pieces of the cup. Madhumati who's temper was flaring since the tea incident spoke "I did tell you all not to let her be a part of this but no one listened to me. She almost ruined everything by her stunt." Khushi who heard this had tears in her eyes but didn't turn to look at anyone. "Buaji leave it please" Payal said while trying to defuse the situation. "I will not leave it alone. Mark my words she will ruin this whole thing for you one way or another" buaji said and stormed off leaving the rest of the family upset after a good day but what they didn't know was Arnav had heard everything from outside.

He knocked on the door making everyone jump and Shashi went to answer the door. Shashi saw Arnav and looked at him in shock. "Sorry uncle I left my phone here" Arnav said trying to sound as though he didn't hear the argument. Shashi turned towards the table and found Arnav's phone while Arnav's eyes had gone towards Khushi who had got up took Aryan with her and left the room. Shashi handed him his phone and Arnav left but as he headed towards the car he pretended he got a call. So he gestured to his family that he would be a couple of minutes. As he was pretending he walked round the side of the house and heard someone sobbing which he knew was Khushi. He walked up to her bedroom window which was open and saw her crying while hugging Aryan close to her chest. Arnav didn't know why he felt his heart constraint seeing her cry but ignored it and went from there.

Over the next few days things were very busy in both households. Everyone had their own jobs to do. The roka was being held in the outside garden under a marquee. So RM had a lot of men putting up the marquee. Once they had finished they had the decorators and florists decorating RM plus the marquee after all the wedding happened to be a family member of Raizada's.

At GH everyone was also very busy but buaji was still upset that Khushi was involved in the whole thing.

Khushi on the other hand was ecstatic and seeing her happy Payal, Shashi and Garima were also very happy.

The day of the roka had finally arrived and the gupta family reached RM. They were all taken to the marquee where the rest of the Raizada family were waiting. Payal was taken towards the Akash where he was waiting and Arnav was standing next to him.

Arnav had noticed Khushi the moment she had come in and Khushi had noticed him but both didn't look pleased to see each other. They didn't have any choice but to tolerate one another after all it happened to be a family function.

The raizada's, the gupta's and the jha's were all at the function plus some other family friends from both sides.

Anjali and Garima started the ritual of the tikka on the forehead and after that both Payal and Akash put rings on each other's fingers. Everyone started clapping watching the scene. Payal and Akash got the blessings of all their elders. Arnav hugged Akash while Khushi half hugged Payal as she had Aryan in her arms.

As the media had been invited and were waiting in the main hall in the house Arnav gestured Akash to take Payal to the hall so they can take photo's for the papers.

Akash did just that and took Payal away from there.

Priyan who had been with Shyam the whole time was looking at Aryan by now and as he was holding Shyam's hand he was pulling him towards Aryan. "Papa me want to play with baby" as Aryan kept on pulling Shyam. Shyam gave in and walked towards Khushi. "Umm I'm sorry Khushiji but Priyan is insisting on playing with Aryan" Shyam looking apologetic. Khushi just smiled at him. "Shyamji but Priyan is quite young" as Khushi looked from Shyam to Priyan. "I know Khushiji but he is being stubborn" Shyam said. "Let's go over there with them" as Shyam showed Khushi some seating. They both moved towards the seats. Shyam sat down with Priyan on the seat next to him and Khushi sat next to Priyan on the other side. She then placed Aryan on Priyan's lap who put his small arms around Aryan but Shyam had a hold of Aryan from behind as well while Aryan was now looking at Priyan.

As the gupta girls both knew how to make sweets really well Khushi had been preparing mithai since the day before just for this occasion and they had bought it all.

"Khushi" Garima called. Khushi turned to see her mother coming her way. As soon as Garima was in front of her she spoke "come Khushi we have to hand out the mithai to everyone." Khushi turned to look at Shyamji "ummm Shyamji can you please take care of Aryan. I will be back soon." Shyam smiled and nodded a yes and Khushi went from there.

Garima and Khushi went over to the table where the mithai had been placed and started putting the mithai in plates. Once that was done the waiters who had been hired for the event were called over and each of them given a tray each with plates full of mithai's. Garima then took some mithai over to her husband and both headed towards the Raizada family. They started feeding all the Raizada family and hugging them congratulating each other on the engagement.

One of the waiters had made their way towards Arnav who was talking to some of his clients when the waiters approached with the mithai. His clients took the plates and started eating as Arnav also took a plate and all he heard was his clients praising the mithai while congratulating Arnav for the awesome setting but they praised the mithai more than anything. Arnav looked at his plate and took one of the mithai's in his fingers and started eating it. He suddenly felt like he was in heaven. He had never tasted mithai like this before and even he had to find out who made it. He excused himself from the group and went up to one of the waiters.

"Who gave you these?" he asked one of the waiters. "Sir they were handing them out from over there" the waiter said pointing towards the table. Arnav turned to look but all he saw were people hanging around the table. He started walking towards the table. Khushi happened to be on the other side serving people as they all came for seconds. He came up to the table and came face to face with Khushi. She saw him and he was looking directly at her. "Did you make these?" he enquired. "Of course I did" she said sweetly with a grin. "No wonder why they are not that good. I have tasted better" Arnav commented as Khushi looked at him wide eyed in shock. "If they weren't any good everyone wouldn't be coming for seconds" waving her hand showing him that all the people in front of her had come for seconds. "They just feel sorry for you that's all" Arnav said quite calmly making Khushi more mad. "You'.." but before she could say anything Garima had come over. "Khushi stop making a scene" Garima said to her quietly. "But amma'." Khushi was about to reply but Garima held her arm and nodded a no making Khushi huff and turn to glare at Arnav who took another sweet and walked away smirking. I will get this laad governor somehow she thought.

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Chapter 6

I hope your internet issue gets fixed soon. Was missing this update for a while. Glad to see the sparks between Arshi. I am still curious how the kid looks like Arnav but Khushi doesn't know Arnav. Is he not her biological son? You are killing me with this suspense

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