Keeping Khushi Thread 11 Part 111 Page 135 - Page 19

Originally posted by: Revolutionbreez

nice one

Originally posted by: smitar

Part 103 completely updated.

Smita,😊

Here is my interpretation for Part 103.

The update shows liking, partiality, fondness, love, appreciation, enjoyment, zest, want, desire wish, longing, pleasure, enthusiasm, delight, satisfaction and the list goes on.

In a word its ...RELISH...

Akash fixed his specs on his nose with a glee-filled smile, looking at his image in the mirror.

"Today, we get to cover NK Bhai in haldi!", he laughed.

Payal laughed, hugging him from behind.

He lifted his arm and brought her to stand under it.

Dressed in a yellow anarkali with a pink border, she looked delicious. He nuzzled her neck. Laughing, she pushed him away, and ran out of the room.

Akash followed.

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy"

~ Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Arnav, dressed in a white kurta, entered his room, pulling at the sleeves and the slight collar. What wouldn't he give to wear his black formals! But Amma had made him a gift of the kurta, and he couldn't very well refuse to wear it.

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer"

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Khushi came out of the washroom, and stood staring at him.

Arnav turned his head & looked at her. Her eyes were wide and her mouth open.

"Kya?", he asked her.

She stared at him, silent.

"Khushi? Kya hua?"

Khushi shook her head. "Nothing. It is just that'..that you look so handsome!"

"The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect good looks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees"

~ Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

Arnav blushed.

Khushi giggled, seeing the red colour spread on his cheeks.

"Err... the pyjama...", Arnav mumbled.

"The pyjama?", Khushi bit her lip not to burst out laughing.

"I think it will fall off.", Arnav confessed.

Khushi took a moment to swallow her giggles, and said in a choked voice, "Would you like to fasten a belt over the waist? No body will be able to see it over the kurta."

Arnav nodded gratefully.

"Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life"

~ Todd Stocker, Refined

Arnav, Anand, Gopi Kakka, Baba, Akash, Mamaji, Raj Kisore, & NK watched the ladies lead Aarti down the steps to the hall for the haldi ceremony.

Aarti was wearing a simple, sleeveless yellow anarkali with stones worked down the front. Her hair now touched her shoulders in a straight, silky fall, cupping her beautiful face.

NK, in a white kurta, smiled at her. She smiled back, stars twinkling in her eyes.

"And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me"

~ Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Arnav looked at the ladies. All were in different shades of yellow, some in suits and some in sarees. He noticed Mami's pink goggles and then saw only his Khushi. She was in a yellow silk sari.

The pallu was pinned against her shoulder, and she held the end of it against her front, covering their baby. His eyes melted. She looked up, saw him, and smiled shyly.

"My heart only ever had one thought, one want, one need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you"

~ Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire

Mami called her, "Khushi Bitiyaa, Maana ki hamre Arnav Bitwaa ijj bery handsome and it ijj bery diphicult (difficult) to look abay (away) from him, but if you apply haldi to Aarti Bitiyaa looking at hamre Arnav Bitwaa, her hairwaa will become yellow not her phacewaa (face)!"

"Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire" ~ Charles Bukowski, Women

All laughed, while Khushi blushed and blushed.

Nani and Anjali joined the fun.

"Why are you hiding my great grandchild behind the pallu?", asked Nani.

"Let everyone know what our Chotey has managed to do!", teased Di.

"Aur naahin to kaa... hamre Arnav Bitwaa has put in so much hard work... Credit to milni chahiye ke naahi...", Mami laughed.

"Hard work is much more important than talent"

~ Carlo Rotella

All giggled, while Khushi looked as red as a ripe tomato.

Arnav looked at her and smiled.

After praying to Devi Maiyya, the haldi ceremony started in earnest. Ladies began applying haldi to Aarti and NK, taking great delight in spreading a thick layer of the yellow mixture on their feet, hands, & faces.

NK protested. "What is this, Maasi? This is too much. Don't cover my eyes! My kaan, my kaan! I can't breathe!"

Mami pulled his nose. "This is your naak, not kaan, NK Bitwaa. And don't complain. Don't you want to be bootiphul like your Maasi?"

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical" ~ Sophia Loren

NK looked at her, scared.

"How do you think I maintain my boooty, NK Bitwaa?", asked Mami. "It is bery painful! The girls at the isspa pull my hair out, squeeze me, and cover me in pastes of dipherent colors to make me boootiphul!", she sighed.

Aarti smiled, looking at her feet.

"I'll be your sun, I'll shine on you.. I'll make you happy; I'll smile to you" ~ Nouf Alfadl

Khushi and Payal applied haldi to NK lovingly, teasing him.

"Our Sunflower is looking very sunflowerish today, Payalji!", laughed Khushi, spreading more yellow on NK's yellow face.

"More sunflowerish than a real sunflower, Khushiji!", replied Payal, tweaking NK's nose.

NK laughed, and Khushi and Payal kissed him lovingly on his forehead, wiping off the haldi that stuck to their lips afterwards.

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring" ~ Oscar Wilde

Then they applied haldi to Aarti, teasing her.

"Our Aartiji has taken on our NK Bhai's favourite colour, yellow!", laughed Khushi.

"Soon we will have two sunflowers here instead of one!", added Payal.

The sunflower is mine, in a way" ~Vincent van Gogh

As the ladies and gents enjoyed the haldi ceremony, Arnav received a call from Aman, and moved away to take it.

As he talked over the phone, he felt Khushi's presence near him, and turned around.

"Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me" ~ Nina LaCour, Hold Still

She was standing there with an innocent look on her face, her hands behind her back.

Arnav smiled at her, cupping her beautiful face with his free hand, caressing the strands of silky hair that had fallen against her cheek. He continued to converse with Aman as his eyes adored her. Soon, he switched off the phone and pocketed it.

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being"

~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"Kuch chahiye tha, Khushi?", he asked in his husky voice.

She shook her head in the negative, a small smile playing on her lips. Then, in a sudden move, she applied haldi to his nose, and turned to run away, laughing.

"Everything yields to diligence" ~ Thomas Jefferson

He hauled her back against him, his hold on her arm firm but gentle.

He bent his head and breathing in her jasmine fragrance, rubbed his nose against her creamy cheek, neatly transferring most of his haldi on to her face and her haldi on to his.

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze" ~ Elinor Glyn

She turned her head to look reproachfully at him, her lips pouting.

"You know, Khushi...", he whispered in her ear, his hot breath falling against the sensitive skin behind her ear.

"The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change" ~ Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift

She shuddered.

His arms closed gently around her waist and their baby.

"Mami is wrong. It was not hard work. I enjoyed it...", he whispered.

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going"

~ Beverly Sills

Khushi blushed all shades of red.

This update begins with Akash delighted with the prospect of at last getting the chance to apply Haldi on to his cousin NK. While he is delighted, his wife Payal is amused by his enthusiasm and hugs him from behind. He deftly brings her under his arm to appreciate his deliciously looking wife. But she sensing his intension makes an escape!

Arnav dressed in a white kurta gifted by Kamala,

is ill at ease wearing it. Khushi seeing him dressed so just stood staring at him. She was dumbstruck to see her husband looking extremely delightful to look at who is otherwise too extremely handsome! She with her wonderstruck eyes starts appreciating his appearance. Seeing her open mouthed, wide eyed stance he asks her what the matter was. When she tells him the cause of her silence, he feels embarrassed bringing in a rush of blush. Enjoying his state Khushi begins to giggle. In order to divert her mind he tells her his concern about the pyjama getting loosened. Khushi controlling her laughter tells him that he could use his belt as it would not be visible through the kurta.

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained" ~ C.S. Lewis

Menfolk watched, the ladies leading Aarti in a simple yellow sleeveless anarkali, into the hall looking beautiful. NK in white kurta smiled at her. He received a delighted smile from her that reached her eyes. Arnav watching everyone resplendent in various shades of yellow rested his eyes on his wife, Khushi. She was looking breathtakingly beautiful in yellow silk saree and had covered her baby bump with her pallu. He felt overwhelming love looking at her. Sensing his eyes on her, she looked up and smiled!

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupry, Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight/Wind Sand & Stars/Flight to Arras

This gesture of hers was noticed by the ever sharp eyed Mami who called out loudly in her particular style,

"Khushi Bitiyaa, Maana ki hamre Arnav Bitwaa ijj bery handsome and it ijj bery diphicult (difficult) to look abay (away) from him, but if you apply haldi to Aarti Bitiyaa looking at hamre Arnav Bitwaa, her hairwaa will become yellow not her phacewaa (face)!"

thereby, drawing everbody's attention on to Khushi much to her embarrassment. This set the base to the Khushi teasing spree! Nani and Anjali pitched in. Nani asked Khushi why she was covering her baby bump with pallu. Anjali teased her saying let all know what her brother has acheived! Topping it Mami said why are you covering the loving handiwork of our Arnav bitwa? He has worked so hard and he has the right for accolades. This had Khushi blushing to the tip of her toes, Arnav looking at her with delightful satisfactionwith a smile and the rest roaring with laughter.

"The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul" ~ Linda Knight

Seeking the blessings of the family deity Devi Maiyya, Haldi ceremony was started. The ladies applied haldi on NK and Aarti on their faces hands and legs. NK who was getting uncomfortable with the application protested when his Maasi Manorama, applied it thickly near his nose. Manorama known for quick repartee told him he has to bear it. That is how he is going to look beautiful! That is what they do it to her in her spa. Though painful that makes her beautiful. She asks him doesn't he want to look beautiful like her? This remark of hers had laughter bubble up in Aarti. She controlled it as not to offend Maasi, whose intentions were good but very funnily presented! She also understood that Mami wished to provide her nephew only the best within her means and understanding! Her enthusiasm and zestfor life was commendable. It manifested Mami's fondness for NK.

Next when Khushi's turn came, while applying she teased NK saying, our Sunflower is looking a lot like the real sunflower and spread the paste on his face and laughed. Payal too joined her saying, he is looking a lot more sunflowerish than the real sunflower itself. While applying haldi on Aarti Khushi commented she has taken NK's favorite color yellow and Payal's rejoinder that they now have two sunflowers had all in laughter.

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable" ~ Joseph Addison

While all the family members were enjoying the ceremony, Arnav who got a call from his lieutenant Aman, moved away from the area. While on call, feeling the presence of Khushi, he turned around to see her. He went near her, caressed her face and hair while still on call.

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back" ~ Barbara De Angelis

Once he finished he asked her, whether she was in need of anything. She just nodded and with naughty smile, smeared his nose with the haldi in her hand and quickly turned around to escape! But Arnav with quick reflex caught her and pulling her towards him, inhaling the fragrance of Jasmine adorning her, rubbed most of the haldi on to her cheeks. Then in his husky seducing voice, with his arm around her waist and their baby he whispered to her,

"Mami is wrong. It was not hard work. I enjoyed it..." making Khushi turn into his favorite shade of color! For him life with her was always a pleasurable journey. He would never feel burdened by it. He enjoyed her company and there was no other place he would be than with her. Same with her too.

"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home"

~ Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

Her love for him was such that, for her, he was essential even to breathe.

"When you kiss a man you can't breathe without, you find that breath is of little consequence."

~ Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

We see the update is filled with likings, partiality, fondness, love, appreciation, enjoyment, zest, want, desire wish, longings, pleasure, enthusiasm, delight, satisfaction. ...RELISH...

Truly a RELISHING update!

That's it from me. Hope you enjoy it!