Hi there all! Here is the second one shot by me..I hope you like it.
Year-
1991
Khushi Gupta was really happy . And why not? Afterall hardly anyone would be out there who would'nt be happy to get a brand new strawberry scented teddy bear shaped eraser. Rocky,the bully of the class ll-A, on whom Khushi wanted to practice her hair pulling skills ,but had'nt been able to because'because'well lets be honest with ourselves atleast,she too was afraid of him; so he ,Rocky, had snatched her Nataraj rubber but if it had'nt been for him then how she would have got a new one? So with that thought, a 7 year old Khushi, in a red frock with a blue bow at the back,skipped along the lane nearby her home, with her two pigtails on either side of her little head,bobbing up and down ,merrily.
Arnav Malik was really angry. If his being new in a new place and a new school with so many new faces who irritated the hell out of him was'nt enough.,his new class teacher had decided to make him sit next to a girl! A girl! He just did'nt like them. They had nothing to talk about apart from drawings and crayons,rubber bands and tic-tac pins and so on. Can't his seat mate understand that he was just not interested in knowing how, last evening she had given a makeover to her doll, washed and combed her hair and made her wear an oh so lovely dress?!
This is how a happy Khushi found an angry 8 year old Arnav with cherubic cheeks,his plump arms folded across his chest,frown marred on his face and pouting lips, in Singh General Store,behind the counter who had just royally ignored her request for a kismi bar. And if it would'nt have been for singh uncle , Khushi would have told him, how his behaviour like this could have cost his shop,losses. Hmpf! Laad Governor.!
That was the first time Arnav Malik met Khushi Gupta,in a residential colony somewhere in Lucknow.
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Year-1994
This could'nt be happening to her. Khushi had prepared so well for her tests. Then how did she get an A instead of A++? She knew it. The teacher had been partial towards that Sheetal because she was a ward of one of the teacher's. ofcourse ! and hence this is absolutely the most reasonable problem to shed tears on. That is when Arnav came to her to speak some words of wisdom that had instantly put her heart to rest.
He was a very nice boy and a dear friend. She although had'nt thought so when she had met him for the first time. He had always stayed aloof from her in the school where they both went and also in the neighbourhood. She also had'nt cared much apart from when she wished to have him as a company to play tipi tipi top. But this one day,two years back,she had come across a group of seniors towering over a small Arnav making fun of him, bullying him and talking somewhat on the lines of Mr. and Mrs.Malik and sheesh mahal. That's it! She could'nt have kept on looking. She had immediately called for help. She was'nt a weakling anymore that she was earlier and hence an 8 year old Khushi that day,2 yrs back, had saved a 9 year old Arnav with the slogan have no fear when Khushi is here. That had been their first steps of ease,trust,friendship towards each other.
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Morning, at school-
Evening,at home-
Apparently,hopes of Arnav of securing a date with Lavanya had been stashed by her. Ofcourse! She would love to go out with those rich ones, isn't it? What could a general merchant shop owner s' nephew, who was studying in the school by the scholarship for hardworking and intelligent students,offer her?
What Arnav had gone for was worth it. He had worked so hard for this foreign scholarship at Harvard University.He would be a big man. And she could'nt have hoped for anything else than fulfillment of Arnav s' wishes. Every night, an 18 year old Khushi, went to sleep with a smile on her face thinking of the time when they had parted at the airport. That hug and kisses on her forehead and cheeks still lingering in her being.
As the chopper with the AR logo descended in the sprawling lawns of Sheesh Mahal, the media went berserk in an attempt to secure a byte about its occupant and his newest venture that stood before them.
When he finally emerged,his stance demanded nothing but attention and the power of his being was palpable. 29, exceptionally handsome, youngest business tycoon to have recieved such envious success,talk of the nation, Arnav Singh Raizada had broken many female hearts today, as he was here in Lucknow , to get married to his childhood sweetheart, Khushi Kumari Gupta in his ancestral home.
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