Arshi FF: Entwined(T2)-- Completed! - Page 15

Swastika, Alwyz, My Trouble! Not very often in life you meet people who matter to you instinctively... Yes, faraq padtha hai dammit..!

Not Very Often in life you meet people with whom you feel connected in such empowered way.. it's truly indescribable... Yes, We are Entwined Dammit!

& Not very often you feel you have been blessed with something which you never asked for, or rather have never even thought of having one for yourself-- soul sister, is that what you called me?"Yes, Bache, I love you Dammit!

And to that Hum toh aise hai Bhayya's, to our virtual long tour trips, to our imaginary bathroom singing n dancing, to our next life togetherness and to our stupid silly banter... This one is for you! Thank you so much for giving me a chance to call you my Bache... Bache.. coz... tu abbhi choti hai,... Yaaad RAK or SR ke sapnon ko abhi Pause kar :P :P :D

Entwined:

Chapter-28:

The top class national security with correspondence to London private investigators have been appointed over-night, his apartment building as a whole has been equipped with permitted entry access, his flat in particular had been circumfused with electrical access control along with sophisticated CC camera arrangement in every corner of the place and the screens of which being monitored 24/7, all in all, the next couple of days have seen Arnav completely worked up with his mission and thoughts completely preoccupied, all of which being totally oblivious to Khushi. Everything was hidden and their privacy was even ensured.

Arnav was totally driven by such sudden urge or protectiveness towards her and all he wanted was her safety, at least until Shyam would be able to get some police help. His mind was completely occupied, or so he wanted to keep saying this to himself, for, he really didn't have any time to think about the complexities of the web of feelings he was being thrown into time and again.

----- Keeping her safe, so he could expand the validity of time she had been talking about, the longevity of the happiness she was referring to in between her conversations, had become his main motive, or so he reminded himself.

-----Because there was one thing amidst all this, which he was sure about and that is, whatever was going on, love as she had termed it, his instincts to protect her as he had been telling himself, everything of which offering him time to spend with a rather lively Khushi, the one imprinted in his earlier memories and he couldn't help but yearn for more of it, as selfish as that might sound; he just needed it all even more and he was just making sure of that.

That is all to it, for now, or so he told himself, yet again.

And one thing known to man-kind about Arnav Singh Raizada was, come what may his work would never be left behind. And so, two nights later, even as he indulged himself finalizing yet another new version of ad designs submitted by his designers working from different branches around the world, he found himself getting frustrated yet again.

"Let the NewYork designer know that I'm online and will be waiting for his design, this time it better be worth it! We don't have time Aman!... yeah yeah..."

He buried his head in his hands gently massaging his forehead with the tips of his fingers as he placed back the phone on the bed-side table when he heard the familiar shuffling sound from the living room. He rolled his eyes controlling the surfacing anger and stood up placing the laptop back on the bed as he walked out of his room.

"Not again, please Khushi!" he said earnestly pushing the anger away from his stance desperately as he looked on while she only continued to tug herself inside the long leather coat.

"I'm scared to walk alone Arnav, please?" she said opening the living room door, stepping out still keeping the door open and looked at him sheepishly. It wasn't very usual for her to admit that she was scared but more than that something at the way she looked at him standing behind the small opening of that door, caused him to instantly grab his own coat from near-by hanger on his way out of the house.

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"Do you want to tell me what are you stressed about?" she asked lazily thumping the sole of her shoes on the empty road, her hand oscillating the holding of the umbrella she had brought along, her dark brown leather jacket appealing in the soft glow of street light as the river water from under the Chelsea bridge made tinkling sounds filling in the vicinity.

He observed her walking beside her, tugging his own hands into the deep pockets of his black coat, his legs lazily matching that of hers although not in that weird way, he just looked on as her hair blew away from her neck owing to the late night wind.

"What? Are we really doing this lets share dukh-sukh thing?

She snapped a look at him annoyingly before shifting her eyes back to the umbrella rolling her eyes "Oh I'm just asking alright! You don't have to be so grumpy about it and its okay! Mr.Uptight Buisinessman! Your problem doesn't decrease its size if you share, spill!" she nudged playfully at his sides and he chuckled.

"So, is this is a prank, do get me out?"

"Uh, huh, to get you take some fresh air rather, you are so locked up all day!" she said as her glance lingered a moment longer on the river ahead of them---------- " actually, walking here in this city road is not as much fun as walking beside the beach-----"

"Not again!"

"Not Philosophy Arnav, I just wanted to see something-------"

"What?"

"How does it look if there is a snow-fall around here, I mean how does the flakes look while falling over this small water body? Isn't that amusing to imagine Arnav? Have you seen it anytime?"

"Uh, I haven't particularly noticed, besides snow isn't that prominent every winter, may be just around Christmas or later on for just a few days-----"

"----------Oh, Christmas is almost a week ahead of us!"

"And that reminds me, I'm running out of time Khushi, can we head back?"

She pouted at that as they have now reached a small bank area of the river, with the bridge almost peeping onto them from the opposite road, and she threw a look behind her at the road they have just walked, before nodding her head in approval and hooking her hand inside the angle of his elbow.

As they started walking back, he snapped a look at her stance, walking along with him leaning onto him, her face lost ahead in a distant world, her eyes zoned out, with serenity though, it suddenly made him wonder, what might have been going on in her mind. But before he could ask her out, he found himself pondering over it for a moment. She had been lately giving quite complicated answers, and something about the way her eyes snapped to lock with that of his every often, told him that she might even be seeing images of the longevity of such moments, may be just like the one part of his mind has been wondering.

"Up for a small Philosophy?" she said suddenly starting to take small steps and hooking her arm more inside his arm.

"Since when did you start taking permission?"

She chuckled and snaked her arm surfacing his waist causing him to draw her inside his arm by her shoulder, a gesture made against the cold of the wind around, but it looked too perfect to ignore the little tightening of his insides even as he looked to his side to find her looking right back at him reflecting the same kind of emotion in her hazels. She then flipped her head a little and he followed her gaze only to be met by the image of their shadows caused by the peeping street-light, walking ahead of them, glaring back at them with the same kind of perfection right now evident in his mind.

When he looked back at her again, she was then glancing the small distance of road ahead of their shadows, quite thoughtfully which took him back to his initial thoughts about longevity of it all, as she thinks it would be.

"This small distance we have walked Arnav, the destination clearly in our view, the end point right ahead, talks about the distance we might travel in this little journey of our lives together--------" she said trailing off thoughtfully and all he did was look at her with that very stony yet intense eyes.

"So, why not capture the moments!" she said her chirpy voice resuming and before he could process what was she talking about, she started giving weird poses looking at their shadows simultaneously making those clicking sounds with verbally and even it all made him chuckle, his mind wandered off thoughtfully to her previous words.

"Common Arnav, Titanic!" she said making him to stretch his hands, standing with her back pressing to his front, and giving away a dramatic pose.

What the!"

"Its Khachak!"

She said before turning around, opening her umbrella and making another so called romantic pose, but his mind continued to process her words, even more than it might be required at the moment.

In that lonely night, with her right at his arm, happiness and serenity completely evident in her stance, positivity totally pouring out of her words, but her mind... her mind had always been the same, inferior, uncertain combined with all her inner fears, he thought.

It didn't give him any good feeling that she thinks that this happiness would be short-lived. He had discovered this weird gut feeling about it all, just when she confessed those very four letter word in her own uncertain way. He was stumped at his trait of thoughts about it all. Her way of putting it, just made him all the more determined to drive away all the demons of her past, for once and for all.

Isn't he supposed to jump in the No Expectations and No Regrets deal right away with open arms?

Isn't he supposed to sigh in relief at the No Strings Attached offer?

Surprisingly and quite astonishingly enough, he didn't. And like she had termed about it, if he wasn't happy with her deal, he wasn't, there are no second thoughts to it. And honestly he was tired of pondering over the changes evident in his thoughts, because they were as defiant and true as her mere presence in his life. So he was just not happy to take whatever it would come his way. He suddenly wanted more or rather all of it. And ending the demons of her past had occurred to him as the only solution to get her into his way, into his little longer planning with her, maybe quite longer than what she thinks about it--------- because again, he didn't want her to force her into anything. He wanted her to let him in, all by herself, willingly and he wanted her to look at everything, look at life, look at living in a wider perspective, without having a validity date or rather, without having a defined end point, as she have just termed it.

"You seem lost!!" her heard utter in her whining tone, effectively breaking his trance and he finally looked at her only to find her holding his one stretched hand putting a small distance between them.

"Huh, what?"

"I said pull me in!" she said before a knowing smirk made its way on his face.

"Oh yeah? Are you sure?"

And before she could react, he pulled her in swiftly, causing her to hit inside his chest, her hands instantly gripping the both of her shoulders and she flickered her gaze up nervously.

"I, uh------"

"What kind of stupid Bollywood pose is this?" he whispered, suddenly finding his voice and eyes all attuned to her nervous self.

"Uh, we...we are supposed to... press the sides of our faces together towards camera-----"

"There is no camera"

"----I mean the shadow..."

"It will do its job" he said leaning and pecking her lips gently, causing her to close her eyes in that serene way. "Arnav?" he heard her say in between his little feathery kisses over her lips, just teasing them with right amount of adulation pouring out.

"Hmm?"

"What were you thinking about? Talk to me?" she said in her low innocent voice, causing him to snap open his eyes to look at her closed ones and she opened her eyes to meet his uncertain gaze, she tugged her lips inside sheepishly, causing him to adore her in that defiant way.

"Its work Khushi..." he said the first thing crossing his mind and have instantly seen disappointment flicker in her eyes.

"Oh, I'm sorry to keep you away, so let's just go then?" she said stepping away and just when she turned around, he held her hand and gently tugged her in.

"It's not like that-------"

"Work comes first Arnav" she smiled gracefully, assuring him before making him to start walking towards the apartment.

"You know I have mentioned about this Ireland deal--------"

"----shut up! You don't have to explain!"

"It was rejected"

"Shit! They didn't like the famous AR-brand designs?"

For a moment, his eyes zoned out thoughtfully about her knowledge of details of his work, before realization hit him. "Oh yeah!! what was the firm name again? Amusing------"

"Amazing Ad agency! Cut that tone RichieRich, so what product is this Ireland deal about?"

"--------- It's actually a travel agency of that country and they wanted a tourism advertisement"

"Oh that's huge!! National tourism?"

"No, no, this is a private tourism firm, quite famous though and they needed apparently very refreshing' add------" he said making air-quotes disinterestedly and all she did was process the information thoughtfully holding his hand, whilst he continued--------- "As far as I know Ireland has always been famous for their cattle, high-land greenery all over, the potato famine, Guiness beer-----------"

"-----------Beer!!! How does that taste!" she cut him off with sudden excitement. He threw a look ignoring her and continued to list further------"Leprechauns fairy and all that myth, literature, music, high cliffs, Golf-----"

"Alright alright, I know you got your facts right, so are these supposed to be in every advertisement made for the country tourism attraction?"

"Well, that's how it's supposed to be, and I picked up best one made by the designers, but they rejected"

"Hmm, you know as a tourist, if I was one, none of which you mentioned would have interested me, at least not as much as I want to jump right into the country except for the beer you mentioned of course, what's the name again?"

"Guiness"

"Yeah, so I'll get back to the details of it later, you know you heard this famous quote by some traveler-- If you want to get people to come to a place, they have to be able to envision themselves in the place,"

"It's a beautiful place Khushi, really!"

"Yeah the whole world knows it's a beautiful place, but what do I do with castle there Arnav, I mean may be you could drop in a picture of a couple holding hands amidst those large green cliff or probably looking at the view of those clear rivers, you know like getting in the human touch to it, personalizing instead of just beautiful sceneries?" he just looked on suddenly amused at his own idea of diverting the topic and finding it quite fruitful even.

"I don't know about the country but let me put it this way. If you were to sell your this pent-house apartment-----" she said using her hands conservatively pointing to the tall building just ahead of them.

"I personally feel the long glass wall with this bridge view is probably the best thing about it, but then if you just show me the picture of it, I might not jump in to buy, instead if you add in a picture of family dining or chatting away just looking at the view from the wall, it would surely interest me, you know what I mean?"

"What?" she asked annoyed at his constant amused, smiling eyes that remained like that since quite a few minutes.

"I think I just got myself a new designer" he stated stepping away from her, dramatically observing her posture from top to bottom, before folding his hands across his stomach even as a satisfied smirk made its way on his lips.

"What! Are you nuts?" she said turning around to walk away into the apartment causing him to follow right behind her with his mission set.

"Wow! My own personal add-designer, and you could travel with me to all my branches!"

"Shut up Arnav! I shouldn't have opened my mouth in the first place" she spoke nonchalantly getting into the elevator.

"Oh, you are quite innovative, really!" he said smirking.

"Okay enough! I'm sorry I butted my views in your international famous project, you know what?"
She spoke just when the elevators doors opened in their floor and she walked out, closely being followed by him as she turned around continuing with her banter.

"That's nice Khushi, let me give these inputs to my team, would have worked, you don't have to be so sarcastic about it-------"

"Whoa, whoa, wait!" he said holding onto her right ahead of their door, holding her both arms and turning her annoyed self to face him. "I'm pretty serious!"

"What!?? Why would you want to hire just a graduate with minimal experience that too quite a time back when for all I know you might have plenty of well qualified experts in your team!"

"Well-----"

"And I haven't even worked in designing area; it was just computer graphics that I took care of!"

"But you do have a vision that I can use..."

"You are being partial; I couldn't have earned this job!"

"Alright!! Missy, no job, just help me alright? Help me decide on designs or just be my spokes person and inspire the designers, be my guest at work tomorrow, this way you could have hands on brushing up of your skills?"

"You have lost it!"

She said the traces of approval already being evident in her voice, before she turned around smiling and walking away inside his flat.

"Khushi!" He called out following right behind her with his mission set in his mind.

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Chapter-29