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loved the long update...asya admittin their feelings was perf...update soon!!!!!!!!! wat happnd to arnav? :(
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WELL HELLLO THERE! THREE UPDATES, THREE DAYS IN A ROW! Wooot! Thanks for all the lovely comments, you make me smileee like an idiot. So I thought I'd make you all smile like idiots, I have a feeling you guys are going to love this chapter as much as I do. So read on!
Chapter 10
"ARNAV!" Screamed a terrified Khushi as she tan towards a stumbling Arnav at the door of the cottage tears streaming down her face. "What happened?" She said watching the blood ooze from his left shoulder.
"Nothing, one of them just managed to shoot me before I got to them." Arnav said calmly. "He has terrible aim though." Arnav said trying to lighten the mood.
"It is not funny." Khushi cried. "Y-you're hurt."
"I am okay." Arnav said putting his right arm around Khushi and pulling her into a hug. "Shhh."
Khushi pulled back and led him to the stack of hay in the middle of the cottage. "Sit." She said.
"Yes M'am." Arnav said wincing in pain. "Call Asad."
"There is no signal." Khushi said sadly.
"Well then you're going to have to do it." Arnav said sighing.
"Wh-what?" Khushi asked.
"I need you to pull the bullet out Khushi."
"I-I c-can't." Khushi said her eyes wide.
"I am going to be slowly poisoned to death if you don't. It's not deep, just grazed my shoulder. You can do it." Arnav said wincing. "Your purse?" He asked looking around.
Khushi grabbed it from where she had been sitting.
"Now please tell me your are like normal girls and have tweezers and other contraptions in there." Arnav tried to smile as Khushi nodded, still crying, ransacking her purse for her make-up kit.
Khushi took out wet wipes and opened the pack.
"Damn, you come prepared." Arnav joked trying to lighten the mood. He couldn't stand to see her crying.
Khushi didn't say anything but unbuttoned his white shirt and helped him lean forward to pull it off his arm. She cringed as she saw the bullet lodged in his skin.
"That must hurt." She cried.
"Just a little bit." Arnav said as Khushi wiped away the blood with the wipes, cleaning the wound. Arnav took a lighter out of his jean pocket. "Hand me the tweezers." He said to Khushi. He took the tweezers and gently heated the front part of them.
"Try to grasp the bullet and pull it out. It should come out easily since it is not a deep wound." Arnav said handing the tweezers back to her noticing the look of despair on her face. "You can do this Khushi." He encouraged smiling. Khushi nodded through her tears and took a deep breath.
She touched the bullet with the tweezers causing Aranv to let out a hiss. She stopped short staring at him, he nodded asking her to continue. She grasped the bullet and pulled, it wouldn't budge.
"Wiggle it a bit." Arnav said his eyes closed trying to conceal his pain from her. Khushi followed his instructions wiggling the bullet. "Pull now." Arnav said as Khushi jerked the bullet out causing blood to flow down his arm.
"You wouldn't happen to have antiseptic?" Arnav asked.
"I-I have nail polish remover..." Khushi said.
"That works. Pour it over the wound." Arnav instructed as Khushi nodded and took out a small bottle of nail polish remover.
She opened the bottle and slowly poured it over the wound causing Arnav to hiss in pain. F**k, that stings. He thought closing his eyes. Khushi took out her favourite scarf, the teal one that looked amazing against her skin.
I am sorry scarf, but he is more important. She thought parting with it. She tied it around Arnav's arm making sure it was tight. "Is it okay?" Khushi asked causing Arnav to nod and open his eyes.
"You scared me to death." Khushi admitted a single tear flowing down her right cheek.
"Already in love with me?" Arnav smiled looking at her.
Zoya's POV
The sun was bright and high in the sky. I smiled as I sat beside Khushi on our beach towel soaking up the sun as Arnav and Asad played football a few yards away.
"They are so perfect." I said to Khushi.
"I know. Who would have thought that we would find the perfect men back in India?" Khushi laughed.
"I did of course! I am a genius after all." I teased turning around to look at Khushi, but she disappeared into thin air.
"KHUSHI?" I screamed but she wasn't there. I turned around to call Asad and Arnav but watched shocked as Arnav also disappeared in a poof of smoke followed by Asad.
"ARNAV! ASAD!" I yelled getting up and running towards where they just were.
"NOOO!" I said as I fell down on my knees sobbing.
"Zoya." I heard a whisper. "Zoya, wake up."
I opened my eyes to meet Asad's concerned gaze. He had moved up to lay beside me on the bed and was staring at me in question now.
"What happened? Bad Dream?" He asked caressing my face as I nodded. "Come here." He said holding out his arm. I smiled and moved towards him snuggling into his chest and breathing in his comforting scent. He put his arm on my back and buried his head in my hair.
"You want to talk about it?" He asked.
"I-I always have a particular dream, ever since childhood. The only thing that changes is the people and the location, but the same thing happens every time. It starts off as a perfect happy dream, like this one was at the beach, I was there, Khushi, Arnav and you. I was just talking to Khushi and when I turned around she disappeared. And then Arnav disappeared and then you. It always happens, the people that are close to me just vanish in a poof of smoke. Before it just used to be Aapi, Jiju and Khushi. But now Arnav and you are in them too." I mumbled into his chest.
"Why do you think you have them?" He whispered.
"I've had them since my parents left me." I whispered into the dark. Asad tensed around me and then pulled me closer. "I was three when my father left my mother and me. He just disappeared one day never to come back. My ammi would cry all day and I didn't know why. Then on my fourth birthday we went to visit my dad, I remember being so happy to see him again. I don't know what he said to my ammi or what she saw but she couldn't stop crying, she left me on the doorsteps of an orphanage that day, she never came back. Aapi and Jiju adopted me after they heard of her death, years later they told me she had committed suicide because my father left her, he was married to another woman, I was the illegimate child no one wanted anything to do with. I think I just developed this fear of people leaving me...whenever I let someone into my life they start appearing in my dreams, they just vanish into the air." I explained.
Asad pulled back and looked at me his eyes wet with tears. "And you think we are all going to leave you...that I am going to leave you?" He asked. "Forget about it crazy beautiful girl, it is not going to happen. Khushi loves you like a sister, I don't think anything in this world or the next could make her leave you. Arnav loves you like a sister, he'd do anything for you in a heartbeat, you've managed to worm your way into his life and be on par with Anjali Di. He almost dotes on you more than he does her, and that is saying something. And me, I couldn't leave you even if I tried. You are a part of my life now, an important part. I don't know if you know, you know our conversation earlier I meant every word. I really really like you Zoya Beautiful Farooqui." He said simply causing me to smile. Hearing those words from him felt...it felt as if everything stopped and the sky opened up and light shone down on me and my body filled with warmth and light of its own and I wanted to break into a sappy Bollywood song. It felt perfect, that perfect.
"So you won't leave me even if I annoy you to death by playing One Direction all day and fighting with you about everything?" I smiled.
"Not a chance Miss Zoya Farooqui." He laughed. "As much as I hate One Direction I'd stand it for you, and you're kind of cute when you fight with me."
"So I should argue with you more?"
"No, you really shouldn't." He said laughing his eyes shining. He looked so perfect when he laughed. He quietened as he realized that I was staring at him. I don't know how I got this lucky, lucky enough to have him like me, to be laying beside me, face to face.
The look on his face turned a bit more serious, then intense as he looked at me. "You are so beautiful." He whispered tracing my face with one of his fingers as my eyes closed in pleasure.
He started at my forehead working his way over my eyelids to my cheek bones straying there, rubbing in circles. I opened my eyes to see him gazing at me...lovingly. I smiled and reached up to touch his jaw, something I had been dreaming about forever.
He was clean shaven now, the stubble I loved gone but I loved how smooth his skin felt under my finger as I ran my fingers across his jaw and up to his forehead following the same path he did. I traced his forehead, his eyelids to his chiseled cheek bones, his angular nose, and his sexy jaw line where I strayed. His fingers decided to move from my cheeks down towards my lips. My breath hitched as he swiped his thumb across my bottom lip, once, twice and then stopping in the middle as he stared at my lips.
I waited in anticipation, hoping he would finally kiss me and not pull away like the last time.
"Zoya." He whispered. "Can I kiss you?"
I nodded dazed while my mind screamed YES!
He moved his eyes up from my lips to my eyes. He smiled slightly, one corner of his mouth going up giving me that perfect crooked smile. He kept his smoldering eyes locked on mine as he leaned, his eyes pierced mine as they lit on fire just before he closed them just our lips finally met causing my eyes to fly shut as I felt sparks run through me.
Nothing ever, no sensation, no feeling compared to what I felt when his lips locked onto mine. My hand moved from his jaw to the back of his head, where I tangled it in his hair. His free hand, which was not holding my face, pulled me even closer, so I was flush against him as his lips started moving against mine. The kiss wasn't aggressive, it was sweet and perfect.
The kiss turned deeper and deeper and I never wanted it to end. His taste was absolutely intoxicating as he deepened the kiss increasing the pressure of his mouth. I let out a little moan as his tongue traced my bottom lip and met mine. I was in heaven. I don't know how long we kissed for but I refused to break away from the kiss, even as I grew lightheaded I refused to let this sweet torture end. It was a long while after he finally pulled back gasping for air as I tried to pull in as much air as I could into my lungs.
I felt a goofy grin appear on my face as I processed the fact that we had just kissed. I looked up at him to see a matching grin on his face.
"I've been wanting to do that for two years now." He whispered causing me to giggle.
"Did it live up to your expectations?" I teased.
"Blew them out of the water." He said as he rolled over pulling me on top of him for the sake of being closer. "I think we should try again, just to make sure." He said.
"I think so too." I said before closing my lips over his.
Arnav's POV
"Already in love with me?" I teased smiling at her confession. I watched as Khushi bolted up like she was on fire and moved to the other side of the little cottage. Well now, that won't do.
"Uh...no. I feel nothing of the sort." She said looking the ceiling as I got up from the floor.
"Really?"
"Yeah." She said making it sound more like a question than a statement.
"Why are you avoiding this Khushi?" I asked as I calmly walked towards her, she looked up and that cute thing she does with her eyes happened again, I didn't know it was possible for her eyes to go that wide. She slowly started backing away, but there was nowhere for her to go. She ended up trapped between the wall and my body.
"If you don't feel anything for me then why do you shiver when I do this?" I said putting her hair behind her ear and caressing her cheeks, her eyes automatically closed as a shiver ran through her. Perfect.
"If you don't feel anything for me then why does that beautiful red blush appear on your cheek when I look at you?" I asked caressing the apples of her cheeks.
"If you don't feel anything for me would you let me do this?" I said leaning towards her face and capturing her lower lip between mine, kissing her lips softly.
"Do you feel nothing when I do this Khushi?" I whispered into her lips.
"No." She whispered opening her eyes and looking at me. I smirked as her 'no' sounded more like a question than an answer.
"Look into my eyes and tell me that Khushi. Tell me that it makes no difference to you. Tell that your heart doesn't start beating faster when I am near you. Tell me your eyes don't look for me as soon as you walk into a room. Tell me that it doesn't matter to you if I had died back there." I said. Khushi looked up, her eyes going wide hearing last sentence.
"Stop..." she gasped.
"Why are you doing this Khushi?" I asked softly.
"I-I don't want to get hurt...again." She whispered looking away.
I put my finger under her chin and willed her to look at me.
"Do you think I would ever do that Khushi?" I said, the pain in my voice evident. "Even after what I told you, even after knowing me."
Khushi shook her head.
"You know how I feel Khushi. You're it for me. The ball is in your court now, I'll wait. Take as long as you want, I'll be here." I whispered, even if it takes her a thousand years.
Khushi let out a sob and threw her arms around my neck burying her face in my chest. I smiled and pulled her closer placing a kiss on her hair. She felt perfect there.
Khushi moved away and looked at me, her eyes glowing.
"I come with a lot of baggage." She said.
"Me too."
"I talk in my sleep."
"I know." I had heard her countless times through the past few days.
"I won't have sex with you until I am sure you are the one."
"I'll wait for as long as you need to realize I am the one." I smiled.
"How are you so sure that I am the one for you?" She asked.
"When you touch me do you feel a current running through you? I know it must sound crazy, but when you are near me it's like my whole body has current running through it. I-"
"I feel it too." Khushi whispered shocked.
"I felt it the first day, as soon as you fell on me. And when you opened your eyes and looked at me I knew you were it for me." I whispered caressing her cheek.
"But what if you feel the same thing with someone else?" She asked.
"I won't."
"But if you do- I mean how can you be so sure based on that one thing?"
"It's not just that Khushi. When you smile I feel happy, when you cry it hurts me more, I always look for you wherever I go, you constantly run through my mind. I just-God Khushi, I never knew I would feel like this, but I know I can't live without you. I am in love with you Khushi. I always will be. So I'll wait, as long as you need."
Khushi stared at me her eyes moist.
"No more tears." I said wiping them away.
Khushi went up on her tippy toes and ran her lips across mine. Softly. She nibbled on my bottom lip like I had done. I smiled against her lips and kissed her back softly. Khushi shyly ran her tongue across my lips. It felt heavenly causing me to let out a groan, she took advantage of it and entered her shy tongue into my mouth. We both shuddered when her tongue met mine. I tangled her tongue with mine and deepened the kiss. Her hands went around my neck slowly, being careful of my wound. I ran my hands across her back rubbing in small circles with my thumbs causing her to shiver. I could kiss her all day.
She broke apart first taking in a huge gasp of breath. I kissed her on her forehead and took her face between my hands as I leaned my forehead against hers.
"This is meant to happen Khushi. It is just that you are working on slow motion and I am working double time. So I am going to wait for you to realize how much you love me, because you are on your way as much as you like to deny it. We will become one but only when you come to me willingly, without hesitation." I said placing another kiss on her forehead. "Okay?"
She nodded smiling. "Uh, uhm...how do we start?" She turned red as soon as the words left her mouth. I decided to tease her just a bit.
I wrapped both my arms around her waist tightly and pulled her close to me so that she was flush against me. I smiled as I heard her breath hitch.
"Miss Khushi Kumari Gupta, your work fast. You want to start right now?" I whispered in her ear. "Right here? Are you sure you're ready for that? Ready for me?"
Khushi's eyes grew wide as saucers as I moved back, her chest heaving against mine as she bit her bottom lip.
"Don't do that." I said bringing a hand up to her bottom lip and pulling it out. "That's my job." I smiled leaning in a bit her lip lightly causing her to let out a low moan.
"Khushi?"
"Hmmm." She said her eyes closed.
"I am going to kiss you again." I warned causing her to giggle.
Sooo, leave me your thoughts. Are you grinning as much as I did writing this? All this is making me miss my bf , WAAAH. He is coming back tomorrow, so don't expect updates this weekend. LOL. K, BYEEE.
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