When The Stars Go Blue (ArHi)

The funny thing about love, is that it seldom gives you happiness. Really, the fantasy about roses and rainbows is washed away from the very first date on, because obviously, its not a movie. And I'm not Shah Rukh Khan, besides, its just so damn cheesy. And the girl's completely cool with it, Come On! Roses are so last century. You gift me a blackberry, and we drive off into another city smoking and drinking, and clicking a whole lot of awesome pictures to post on facebook, and everyone knows whatta lovely couple we are. Five hundred and seventy three likes, life doesn't get any better right?

That is especially true, if you are nineteen years old, and dating the most popular guy of the college, whose parents are so f**king rich that the most he got to see of poverty was in his Social Science books in school. And only obviously the pictures, because Arnav never really felt the need to read any of them. Whose gonna memorise a whole bloody page about the Gondwanas? Its not like he needed to earn or something. It had always been a piece of cake for him, the school not throwing him out because no one had the guts, the teachers not keeping him in the class because no one had the patience, and the girls all throwing themselves on him because no one had the will power to resist. It didn't make him a bad person, and to a large extent, he was even humble, talking to everyone. Acting smart only when challenged, ridiculing the weak yes, but thats a normal guy tendency.

But Khushi, whose father barely earned enough to scrape through the month, and worked extra hours to send her to school, had always, always, only felt resentment towards him. There was this big whole in her heart, that formed sometime in kindergarten, when everyone had fancy handkerchiefs to do the project with, and she had an old piece of cloth that her mother had tried decorating so that she did not feel out of place. That whole, in her heart, which gave her almost a physical ache, it only grew bigger as the years passed, and he and his girl friends made glamour come alive.

She had no idea how she was dating the same guy now, and it was really just quite surreal. Three weeks back she hated him, and now this? And from what she heard, he was crazy about her. Last evening he had proposed in front of the whole college, and she had no option but to say yes, They hadn't spoken since. She bit her nails nervously as she thought about her options. The best bet she had at the moment was probably a five star fruit and nut. Chocolates never disappoint.