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Just for fun. No offense intended. Good luck to Chanchan and Sukhi :)
Almost three months after Arnav and Khushi moved out of our lives, I managed to eavesdrop into a conversation between the pair as they reminiscence about the past and contemplate the future.
Arnav: Hello Biwi! What are you reading that is making you smile so much?
Khushi: Reading posts on India Forums.
A: That is still a thing?
K: Apparently it is. You are at Number 2 position among TV stars. Even though Star Plus said that Shri Arnav Singh Raizada chale Bollywood.
A: Hah! Take that evil corporations! BTW what is your rank?
K: I am at Number 3.
A: Awww.
K: Hmpfh! No need to patronise me. Like they say, behind every successful man there is a woman, rolling her eyes. I am rolling my eyes sitting on the third spot.
A: Your eyes are byooteefull, Mrs India.
K: I know. They disarm you, don't they?
A: Indeed. So what are fangirls discussing on IF? Do they still obsess about my hair?
K: Of course. Every strand of it.
A: *sigh* But don't noch-fy the hair of my fangirls, okay?
K: Why would I do that? Devi Maiyya knows whose hair I really need to noch-fy.
A: Well, you did that once remember?
K: Oh ya, DNA testing days. Good times.
A: I wouldn't call them "good" times, you know.
K: C'mon. We met our son because of that. Devi Maiyya's ways are mysterious.
A: Hmm. Speaking of which, what is son doing?
K: Selling health drinks. Do you know he is endorsing both Horlicks and Bournvita? Maybe AR Industries should enter the health drinks market as well.
A: We are a fashion company. How can we sell health drinks?
K: I thought we were a chain of industries. BTW, what happened to that construction business - Amezing Builders?
A: I sold that to Asad Ahmed Khan.
K: Devi Maiyya, what is wrong with you?
A: Well it had served its purpose. I managed to get you back home.
K: And the next day Daadi arrived.
A: Ya, good times.
K: Hmpfh. Not "good" times at all.
A: C'mon. You got the dream wedding every girl does not dream of thanks to her.
K: Thanks to Daadi my mom slapped me for the second time.
A: I remember, as NK would say your laal had become gaal.
K: Nanheji!!! I am glad he found a job. Else he would just accompany me on my veggie shopping expeditions.
A: Khushi and her never ending and entirely unexplained fascination for shopping for tomatoes.
K: BTW speaking of Daadi and wedding, what happened to that present you bought me? Bracelet, was it? You never gave it to me. *grumble*
A: They all went into the Bermuda Triangle of IPKland. Unexplained, mysterious occurrences or non occurrences.
K: You mean like your redemption.
A: Redemption. Hahahaha. Yeah. Along with missing Maamaji, Laxmi, Dhruv , the will under the crib, or how I bought you silver coins and you bought me plants, etc.
K: Also Shyam-ji's mysterious past.
A: STOP calling him Shyam-ji.
K: Fine. But I am from Lucknow, you know, we are excessively polite.
A: You were from Lucknow for precisely 5 episodes.
K: And 18 years before that. Or 21. Or 24. Whatever.
A: Do our fangirls still fight with each other?
K: They used to. Then one wise moderator drew an Arnav Rekha on the forum. Mostly people keep to their side. But occasionally some taekwondo champion manages to cross the LOC and roll over to the other side.
A: Speaking of which, today I almost fell off the bed because of you.
K: *giggle* Be glad that I don't make Aarav sleep between us.
A: If we were still hanging around in Star Plus, we would have probably done that. You know because nothing says intense passionate romance better than a life of celibacy.
K: Well, it is a good thing they sent you to Bollywood with three movie offers then.
A: Hah! Yes. So I am checking IF, who is this Chanchan? Your fangirls seem all excited.
K: Ya. Chanchan is coming soon.
A: You mean like Sukhi?
K: Exactly.
A: You know Sukhi anagrams to Khushi.
K: If you misspell it as Khusi.
A: Sukhi likes Salman Khan.
K: Aww. I hope Chanchan doesn't like Shahrukh Khan. That would be sad.
A: I guess this is truly the end of an era for Arnav and Khushi. Hmm.
K: Arrey. Arnav and Khushi will grow old together and Rabba Vey at 70 or 80 or whatever life expectancy we will have. We will continue to be ajeeb together.
A: Hamesha.
K: Forever.
A: We are into English-Vinglish now?
K: Yes, I am Modern Bahu. Why are you saying English-Vinglish?
A: Because I am a Punjabi-Shunjabi munda.
Aarav: Mom Dad, can you please stop Anjali Bua from interrupting me each time I am about to hit a high-score on my X-Box.
A: I feel for you big guy.
K: Don't call me mom, call me Amma.
A: I thought you were the Modern Bahu?
K: Not to all of you.
Aarav: Why can't you get Bua a job or something? Or maybe a husband.
K: We would have...
A: If Star Plus allowed her to take time off from poojas..
K: Or if your dad would have just played matchmaker between Aman and Anjali..
A: Or if your mom hadn't called Aman to our house in the middle of the night and made fandom realise that Aman was actually a balding middle-aged man..
K: Or if your dad was not insecure that any husband of Anjali Bua would eventually fall in love with me..
A: Or if your mother did not confuse me with non-consensual hugs..
K: Or if Star Plus didn't have a call centre..
A: Or if the story hadn't run its course..
Aarav: You guys are so strange <shakes head>
The End
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