Dil Se Dil Tak
Chapter -37
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NOTE:
Iam so much involved in my Arnav and khushi, that I could not think so soon of fast tracking the story and update. They have got the whole day to spend , it would be in-justice right, if I simply fast forward.? As I promised, i will surely pace the story once their trip is over. But till then please beer my imagination and crazy conversion of ours ARnav and Khushi..Ful Dil Se Dil tak...
They are alone, without any one bothering. Intricate details of their day coming for you..
Perhaps my longest update ..So read it aram se. but dont forget to comment
Splitting in 3 parts..
PART 1
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1:30 AM.
The moments of ARnav suddenly coming so close to her was stirring her entire emotions up and down. Sometime she smiled, sometime she was surprised, and sometime she was confused. Various different questions popping inside her over fuelled brain-, Last 30 hours of the day had been such a dramatic phase of her life- before in the party he was starring in a such a different way , now few minutes before he came so close to me.Is he by any chance….? NO, No Khushi.Why would he?. Iam thinking too much! He would have met countless like me. Haven’t you seen Khushi, how much he argues with you!.
To put her brain to partially rest, she opened her personal diary and scribbled the latest events of last 24 hours.. and finished with below lines--
Why it is getting so difficult to tell him? But why should I tell him I am being his fan? Is it really necessary at this point? Iam scared sometime of his reaction. We can’t be even friends because we are miles apart, our thinking and values are poles apart, but to be honest, iam just loving his company, Not because he is Arnav Singh Raijyada, but because he so true to himself and to others. May be he is right. We make things more complicated by lying. May be after a day or two we both will be departed to different places. I may never see him. But I have lied, and I have told him that I won’t ever Lie and I will stand by it. I have to confess him…..Khushi face it. He is your arnav singh Raijyada..your’s hero..!., but again, usko kuch pharak padega ,if I tell him iam being his fan? I don’t think so…
She closed her diary and kept in her laptop bag safely. Only if she knew at that second, that this would remain the last entry in that diary. Only if she knew that this diary would change her world upside down.
If Sleep was becoming so difficult task for Khushi at the moment, it was for a change was so unlike for ARnav. He somehow did not feel to grab next tin of alcohol .His lips widened by recalling “bullet Raja”, karate stuff. She was the lone women in his life who did not show a 1% chance of any interest in him, he wondered if any woman has least ignored this chance of sleeping with him or did not show any advances towards him. He thought about Khushi’s innocence and how she sees the things from different perspective baffled him and just like thinking about her, he slept off easily.
3AM
It was when Khushi shut her eyes off finally tossing and turning
5AM:
TINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Khushi stretched her hand to shut the alarm phone. It was ac old morning of that yet to start beautiful spring day. She squeezed herself more inside the soft cosy blanket and then sleep took over again.
Arnav woke up on his routine time. After many years he has woken up without dreaming about his mother. For the very first time, he felt light headed. He stretched his arms. After freshening up, he planned for his usual routine jog, which he never misses mainly because he loves to see the Sunrise, but not before dropping a message to his dad.”I hope you have solid reason ready for replacing my music player!”
Least expected he received an instant reply from Manohar
“Life is too short;realize it before it’s too late! Enjoy the day”
“What the!”He was puzzled with the reply and equally confused with the crazy talks his father has being doing recently.
6AM.
TINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Khushi extended her hand to pick the phone and woke up in jitter. “Shit, it’s already 6. Eyes drowsy, body tired and with half squeezed eyes, she went to brush up. After freshening up, she opened her mini grocery bag to take her TajMahal tea sachet. Her eyes narrowed, enlarged, expressing shock! She removed all the items one by one, but did not find her tea sachet!.“Shit Shit Shit, Khushi how can you be so careless!? How can you forget to pack it? Mr Raijyada, this is all because of you. I should not have gone to that party only,I should not have gone with him in that car…pura dimag hang over ho jata hai aapke sath
She went to see the goodies box that hotel had provided.There was no tea sachet in it. Some flower seeds to dip in hot water and drink!, “ab itne bure din to nahi aaye, ki yeh sab try karu. I need TEAA”. She dialled the reception and asked about the Indian tea, but she was left with despair. They did not understand about the specification of tea. Frustrated she went down to talk to them directly.
6:30 am
With the help of translator and images, she tried to explain the pretty receptionist about Indian tea and if they can provide her, since they had multi cuisine restaurant. They politely noded her that it’s not available and suddenly drifted their sight towards the main entrance with their eyes wide open, and started gushing with each other. “Look, he is here.” one of them muttered to another. "HOTT isnt he?"
Confused khushi vigorously looked towards their eyes direction and was equally dumbfounded seeing Arnav entering lobby. He was in his jogging tracks. She immediately turned back to avoid face off so early in morning imagining what happened yesterday.
ARnav retraced his steps towards the desk, typing something in his mobile, least aware of the fact that khushi was standing few fts away.
“Send My Customary juice and breakfast. Room no 789”
“At the earliest Sir. Our pleasure”. Lady replied stretching her lips to maximum level.
As Arnav made way from desk, khushi turned to face the help desk girl back and spoke in irritating tone.
“Iam requesting you Tea from that time and you have been saying sorry but you have been so partial towards others.”
“Mam, we are sorry, but we should be notified in advance for any special food and drink request.
Arnav was making his way passing Khushi, still busy checking something in his mobile when he stopped hearing that familiar voice . heslightly turned to see her facing her back, same black tshirt and blue dotted pyajama. A smile spread over his lips.
“Good Morning, Miss Gupta,”
Khsuhi turned herself to face him being hesitative. “Good morning Mr Raijyada”
“Look like you did not have a GOOD-NIGHT sleep Miss Gupta.” he smirked.
Khsuhi walked towards him agitated- “Aapke wajah sai puri raat so nahi paayi!”
“kYuuu? Maine aisa kya kiya?” he curved his lips seeing her tensefull state.
“Wo aap..” She paused . “Nothing!” she replied back.
She kept her hand on her forehead and continued-“Ek to puri raat so nahi paayi, uper sai I forgot my tea sachet. And this so called 7 star hotel with multi cuisine restaurant have not understood what is Indian tea. “
“This is Beijing Khushi”
“Sab aapke wajah sai hua . I could not pack anything properly”
“Excuse me!?”
“Yes.!.. hey bhagwan, how should I kick start my day without Tea”
“Whaat? A tea? You are making fuss for this?”
“Just a Tea? It’s the most mandatory thing! .I can’t think of starting my day, without that. “ She then lowered her tone and spoke clutching her fingers -Slowly body ache will start,then stomach will start flaring, mind will be feeble and at last brain will start further bombarding as if someone will hold the hammer and will be hitting you slowly. Tea is like a medicine, a drug MR raijyada
Arnav was mused with her talk. Seeing him she got further annoyed.
. Aap to Arnav Singh raijyada hai na. Why don’t you ask them?. But leave it. They don’t even know about it!
“hmm. But I think, I have one solution for the symptoms you are mentioning.”
Khsuhi looked puzzled.
“Why don’t you take left and then take immediate right. There is something which you should consider it, and I am sure it will be more than sufficient to kick start your day, he paused..and and and I must tell you, you are very much in need of that!!”
Khushi facial expression still remained clueless.
“See you at GKTowers” He replies and walked away towards the lift
Confused Khushi, went towards the reception counter and asked if there as any food counter towards the left and then right of it?”
“There is a GYM mam”
“aaaahhh!”
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7 AM
Khsuhi quickly freshened up; she had kept her phone for charging when it beeped with Aman message asking about her health. She felt guilty for the act done. She replied him saying she was feeling better. She tugged her mineral bottle at the side of the bag, when her phone started ringing, it was Aman calling. She tugged mobile from charger port, and received the call. She politely talked for few minutes and convinced him that she was in-deed feeling better now to go to office.
After brief talk, when she cut the call, a moment later,there was a knock on the door; she opened in surprise to see a Waiter holding a tray for her.
“Good Morning mam. This special Indian tea for you!”
“Whaaaaat? She took the tray from the waiter.
Thank you so much!!”, Her face beaming with much happiness. She placed tray on small table, and was quick enough to make the tea for herself.She stretched her leg sitting on comfy sofa and relished the drink having a ginger flavour-“Mann sukhi, to sab sukhi. Wah Taj”. She was relishing the tea, when she noticed the small card-note on the tray. She picked up to read the message and jerked immediately reading the one
“There is nothing impossible in my Dictionary”
“Was it ordered by Arnav?!” A smile spread over her lips.
After finally getting ready, she dialled the reception to book a taxi for the address she was holding when they apologized that all their cars have been booked and she has to wait for another few minutes. She put the receiver down and immediately dialled Arnav number from her mobile.
“Who is this?” Arnav received a call aftr 4th ring
“KHUSHII. Aapne mera number save nahi kiya?”
“Why should I? “
Khushi made an irritating face looking at her mobile screen and continued back “See the cars are not available. We need to wait for 15mins”
“Why? My car driver with his car has already arrived and I am on my way”
“whaaaat? You had booked it already!”
“Discipline is another thing you need to learn the most”
“Will discuss that later, but for now, please wait for just 5mins, Iam coming down..5 mins. Ok. ” She cut the call , kept the phone on table,quickly arranged her laptop bag, and placed some eatables inside the same bag .She went to washroom again, came back and made a quick short prayer and picked her laptop bag , locked the room and rushed to the ground floor.
“Hurry up, we are already late” Arnav looked furiously at her,as she came inside the car.
“Uff. Thank you much”
Arnav did not reply, but kept himself hooked checking his mails which Manohar had sent.
“Thank you so much” Khsuhi spoke again
“That’s fine.I heard it the very first time” HE replied still looking at his mobile screen
“No, this is for the TEA, which you ordered. That was so unexpected. Mr Raijyada, that was really a sweet surprise,I felt so happy. Thanku , I mean thanku so much for thinking about me. You don’t know how much better I am feeling” She spoke in very calm tone emotionally,when Arnav stopped her
“Ahh. Don’t misunderstand I was bit selfish you see!.I have actually thought about myself than about you”
Khushi looked perplexed.
“I just took your symptoms seriously. Your brain which is I assume must be a victim of TBI, as per your description and what happens if it gets bombarded.You know, I don’t want my day to get affected. We have a business meet you see.So better thought of giving you, your dam medicine!
“ahh?” She was still confused with the analysis what he was giving, but turned towards the windows ignoring it and then a moment later she faced him back.
“You know, back in college days, me and my close friend were so addicted to Tea that we almost constructed a short quote on that
“Who needs a GUY,
When there is a CHAI”
Nice na?
Arnav eyes widened..”Unbelievable. This women is crazy”
“By the way, what is this TBI?” She asked in next moment after seeing no reaction from Arnav for her quote.
“Traumatic Brain Injury”
“Whaat? Not funny”
“Iam serious. TBI refers to that”
“No I mean how you can link it to me!”
“The symptoms what you said, refers to TBI”
“Mr raijyada, this is not good. You always tease me. Even in the morning, how could you say that I am in need of GYM? Am I looking bull dozer to you? “Khushi spoke making gestures ,
“There is something called Fitness, which you should be aware of!, which is clearly MISSING” ARnav replied glancing her .
“SO you mean to say I am not Fit?”
Arnav nodded seeing her dramatic facial expression.
“Just building biceps, muscles, weight lifting is not everything. I am so energetic, and that’s real fitness. Mann khubsurat hona chahiye. Achi body rakhkar koi kuch kaam nahi kar raha, to kya fyada fitness ka.! “Wait I will show you something in my mobile, how yoga helps the same!”
“oh NO” Arnav muttered.
She extended her hand inside her laptop bag to take out the mobile, but could not find it.
“pcc pch pch. Shit!! she again scrabbled inside every compartment of bag, but no luck
“oh GOD!...!! Stop the car plzzzzz”, she shouted and the driver looked back in unisome and finally applied break in tension.
What happened?
“My mobile! , it’s in my hotel room!. I I forgot, I had kept for charging or on table somewhere I guess”
“Congratulations” Arnav looked in disbelief
Khushi looked towards driver and requested him to take back to hotel.
“Are you mad!. We have almost come of half of the route!” Arnav was furious with her demand
“How can I survive without mobile?. Infact here nothing works without translator. I need it”
“NO!!”
Khushi was utterly disappointed. She was clutching her fingers, biting her nails overlooking windows. Arnav momentary looked at her emotional sad state.
“Think practical Khushi. Meeting is at 8:30. It’s already 8. We cannot go and come back on time!. It will be so unprofessional to make anyone wait”
She did not reply him anything
“If you need anytime to make a call or anything, you may use mine!. It is totally fine”
“No Thanks!”
10 mins passed in utter silence, when Khushi realised she was over reacting. It was her mistake and it was impossible to go back at this time to go back to hotel. She slowly turned her face to look towards Arnav . He was watching the Beijing streets from his side of the window. “he was so generous to offer his phone. chay. I act soo stupid sometime”
Hesitated she initiated her conversion again. “MrRaijyada, what are your plans after the meeting?”
Arnav turned in surprise to look back at her.
“May I know why?”ARnav raised his eyebrows
“If our presentation, meetings get over before the expected time, shall we go for Sight Seeing? Beijing has many places to visit!”
“ahhh?”
“Yes I am serious. See I always wanted to visit this place. It’s one of my secret wish list to visit all wonders of world! And this is the land of the one! There is Great wall of china, Olympic stadium and many more interesting places”
“First of all, I wonder, why your secret wish list don’t remain as a secret? “
“Wo aise hi..ab secrets to bahar aayenge hi na... You know In my diary, I have written some 100 such wish list …”She giggled. “But on a serious note, shall we go. plzzz?”
“Not interested”
“Why? See you should be adventurous. What is the use of sitting quietly in hotel after work!, again the same alcohol?”
“Excuse me!. I have my own plans in evening!”
“Oh, you already did one? U did not even share with me. This is bad MrRaijyada!”
“Why should I share with you?”
“Just like that, since we have come together for this business trip right. Waise what have you planned.
“I have got an invitation for a club party”
“oh WAOO.” She said excitedly and then soon cursed herself.“What a co traveller-Ek baar puch bhinahi sakta. Kaash mere sath kishore hota”
“I will go for sightseeing from hotel”
“Your wish!” he replied “And also sightseeing has to be done with someone who is interesting to spend time with!” He gave a mocking reply again.
“So do I look like a boring person?”
“Not with someone who has-TBI” He curved his eyebrows seeing her face, turned away to overlook the windows and flushed a smile
A ride next went in sheer silence!
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8:30 AM:
How easily this woman transforms herself so easily from an effervescent, chirpy to suddenly more calm, composed and yeah, speaking with utter confidence-These were the exact thoughts running in Arnav mind when he saw Khushi giving the presentation. She was the same women, who almost made him go mad with her silly fizzy talks few hours before and now she was standing there speaking concisely and with such clarity.
As soon as presentation was done, Arnav received a call from manohar and then later he proceeded with business partners meet in conference
When Khushi wrapped the work, she was not able to find Arnav anywhere in the conference room. Her eyes motioned in all possible direction. “He did not even wait to give me the feedback.”She then went ahead with another meeting with developer’s panel.
. 12:01PM
It was when Khushi finally wrapped her work for the day. It got over before her expected time because of her well planned preparations. She wanted to reach out to Arnav, but considering for the purpose of visit he has,she dropped the idea and went to grab the special lunch arranged for all the people associated with the project.
Just 3 hours of his absence made her to realize her how much she missed to see him, but she was equally bothered that nothing affects Arnav and then convinced herself that she always overthink about him and why he should think same about her!
As she entered the room, she saw him having a discussion surrounded with bunch of people..
Guess, only if someone could make a wild card entry into his heart and could peep to know how much his heart missed her absence and how his eyes seeked for her in every direction and it finally beamed with joy when he finally saw her standing lost in her thoughts.
He made a quick excuse and went to her with food platter in his hand.
“I so pity you!, Look’s like your stomach finally ditched you!”
“haan” she jerked from her thoughts seeing him standing at his side.
“You ok? kya baat hai khuushi, you don’t want to have your food ? Your favourite activity?”
“I don’t know, Just not feeling comfortable“
“Food?”
“Hmm..the food, the strange smell , the environment..I don’t know…I am not liking what is being getting served” She then tamed her sentence.
Arnav looked surprised at her low exhausted tone.”It is traditional Chinese sausage smell!.They have arranged a veg platter. You need to try”
“I think it will not go well with me. SUbah bhi breakfast skip kiya na. I think I will leave back to hotel. I have some ready to eat stuffs. I will manage “ She replied in same cold tone ,Was that food which bothered her or mere thinking that soon everything with Arnav will be just a memory was the real reason to trouble her.?
He simply nodded without saying anything more. As she was going, he stopped with his remark.
“By the way Khushi, your presentation was good “
“thanku, she turned back, gave a cold smile and walked past the door.
She went to exit, and instructed the driver to drop her to given address in the printout sheet which she had opened from her wallet. She waited near the entrance for driver to take the reverse and when she was about to pull the car door , she felt the hard hands holding on to her hand,the door handle.She turned in jolt, to find ARnav standing beside her.
“aap? “uff, the touch of his hand, but she immediately pulled away from his hold.
“Get in” ARnav instructed her to move inside. Once he made himself comfortable back in car, he was in conversion with the driver showing something in mobile.
“What happened?” Khushi asked hearing overly confused with their conversion
“10mins” He replied
“Just 10 min drive and the vehicle radically stopped.
“Look over there-“ Arnav waved with his thumb finger and signalled khushi to look outside and when khushi glanced over the direction ,she was plainly flabbergasted reading the board –“
Chak De”, an Indian restaurant and then her eyes glowed suddenly with happiness which did not stop to appear on her face.
“But why suddenly here?”
“You were right, the sausages were not that good and I was feeling lot hungry!” He spoke twisting his lips and no wonder received a 1000 watt infectious smile from khushi. It was not that difficult task for him to get the booking done in one of the top Indian restaurant in Beijing.
Next moment, as the food slowly made its way to Khuhi’s digestive tract, he was again hell tortured by her elaborate description about the food and telling about the history about her favourite dish.
“I need to tell you something Khushi”
Khushi raised her eyebrows in question
“You see, from time to time, its best advisable you should be on diet!, a plain no sugar, no salt, no spice diet”.
“kyuuuuuuuuu?”..
“High chances of cephalagia!!”
“ahh?”
“Ignore!”
[cephalagia: term forsevere headache]
Btw Why you always eat so less. On diet always?”Khushi asked when Arnav food order was just so minimum.
“For the amount of food that I have eaten now, I need to work out 10 times more today to burn those extra calories”
“It’s ok, sometimes you should have a cheat day!” she winked.”
“Oh I see! Cheat day? Is it applicable only for food?” he asked with his husky tone.
Before she could reply him, he gets a call from Anjali.
“Hey Di” He took an excuse and walked away from the table. Khushi did not miss to hear that and expected it might be Anjali. With her name, it reminded her so much about Anjali’s affair with Akash and his wife whom she met yesterday in bank. She was lost thinking if Arnav knows about Anjali relation.
“Mr Raijyada, you gave me so many lectures about the Truth and the Lie. Now how in this world, this affair can be right? This is not acceptable .I need to know your opinion on this!””
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PART 1 ends
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