It was half past six when Arnav
reached RM. He parked his car and sneaked in through the door. Di was always
the first to wake up but she only woke up at seven on a Sunday. He climbed up
the stairs stealthily and opened the door to his bedroom only to find his worst
nightmare. There she was sitting on the recliner waiting for him. He thought it
was so unbelievable that after everything that happened she was mad at him as
if everything that happened was his fault. “Where were you all night? You
obviously weren’t with Lavanya because she came her looking for you, so where
were you?” she did this every time he stayed out without telling her and was
used to it by now. “I told you before Sanju, I don’t have to answer to you.
You’re not Di. You’re Aakash’s sister,” he said annoyed and angry. “And how
many times do I have to tell you that it doesn’t make a difference to me
because you’re both my brothers. Where were you last night?” Sanjana asked
getting irritated. Arnav gave the ASR look. The one that scared all of his
employees and anyone else that tried to mess with him. “Fine, if you don’t want
to tell me I can’t force you. It’s your choice. There’s something else I want
to ask you and if you answer it maybe you’ll know the reason I’m angry and
annoyed with you all the time. Whether you’re going to answer me or not is
another story.”
Arnav took off his waistcoat and undid
his tie settling down on the bed, “What is it?” Sanju looked unsure of whether
she should do it but after what happened last night she wouldn’t find a better
opportunity, “What happened that day? How did it start?” Arnav looked up at her
in shock. He couldn’t avoid it any longer so he might as well tell her what
Payal didn’t, “Shyam brought it up. We going to throw a party for Aakash and
Payal and I was discussing the idea with
Di when she suggested that maybe we should Khushi involved and between the two
of us we could organize the party. I don’t know what happened to Shyam or why
it took him so long but he came clean then saying he doesn’t want her to come
and that she had been trying to seduce him and you know the rest.” Sanjana
shook her head, “I can’t believe you. Just because he said something like that
you took his word for it and didn’t even hear her out. What is wrong with you
Arnav and don’t think I don’t know what happened here. Everyone else was scared
because they were downstairs but I know you like the back of my hand Arnav. You
are disgusting! Do you know that for five seconds she actually thought you were
going to rape her? She of all people knew what you are capable of. She worked
with you and after everything you did to her it wasn’t totally unexpected but
it did come as shock. That’s why she got so angry Arnav. She was hurt. You hurt
her!” Sanjana was pacing around the room shouting and screaming at him. Arnav
stood up, ‘Enough,” he bellowed. “You have no right to judge me foe whatever I
did. You won’t understand. Di is my life and I can do anything for her.
Understand? I can’t stand it if someone tries to ruin her happiness.” Sanjana
walked up to him and asked coolly, “Why are you getting so angry Arnav?” She
could see the anger boiling in his eyes. “Why did you save her if you hate her
so much? Why didn’t you just leave her there?” Arnav looked at her with
surprise. “How do you know?” he asked softly. “I know everything that happens.
You can’t hide anything from me. I have spies everywhere,” Sanju said with a
small smile taking a step closer to him. “I… I couldn’t leave her there. They
were going to… they were going to rape her Sanju,” Arnav said, his voice
breaking. Sanjana wiped away the lone tear running down her face and placed a
hand on his cheek. She could see it in his eyes. It was all a façade. He could
deceive everybody else but not her. The hatred was only a show. It was the only
way he could convince himself that whatever he had done was right and she was
wrong. Hating her was the only way he could kick her out of his life, still it
wasn’t strong enough. The love was still there. It was always there. She could
see it in his eyes. He couldn’t stand the thought of someone else touching her.
“It’s okay. I understand, I know why you did what you did but it was still
wrong. You can’t hate her Arnav and you know that. You don’t have it in you.
The hate you feel is because you think she cheated you. Because she tried to
ruin Di’s happiness. Everything will fall into place eventually but I’m worried
about you. I don’t know if you’ll be able to handle it, the regret for
everything you did will kill you if she’s not here Arnav. No one knows you
better than I do and I can’t see you like that.” Arnav looked at her confused.
She gave him a small smile, “Don’t worry everything will be okay,” and she gave
him a tight hug.
“We have to do something about this.
I’ve never known she could be like this. She’s my best friend and I can’t stand
the fact that she can hate him so much. She’s told me that he hates her, it’s
the only reason he did what he did to her but I don’t think she knows. After
what he did last night there is no way he hates her as much she thinks he does,”
Karan blabbered over the phone. Sanjana knew he was right. If it wasn’t for
Karan she would have never known what he did for Khushi. In a way she was
grateful that someone saw. At least now she had some help otherwise this was
never going to end. Now that they met it was going to be a waging war. She saw
what had happened backstage and could see they clearly didn’t want to be near
each other but now they had no choice. “You’re right he doesn’t hate her as
much she thinks he does but I know for a fact that she hates the sight of him
and doesn’t want to see him again. We have to find a way to clear all this up
but first they need to meet a couple of times before everything gets sorted out
otherwise it’s just going to make things very difficult,” Sanjana sighed.
“Khushi’s gone to the mall so maybe you can come home and we can think about
what we can do then…” Sanju cut him off, “Wait… Which mall?” The answer was
exactly what Sanjana hoped wasn’t coming. “I’ll call you late. I have to get to
the mall to see what’s going to happen because knowing their luck they’re
probably going to find each other there too. I sent him to buy some stuff for
Di but I guess he’s coming back empty handed. Meet me there if you can this is
going to be interesting,” Sanju cut the call grabbed her bag and keys and got
in her car. Karan followed suit and they both reached the mall.
Khushi was bored at home so decided to
go shopping to kill time. She had been roaming around the mall for a couple of
hours but couldn’t find anything she liked. Fifteen minutes later, after a very
unsatisfactory shopping trip, she was walking out the mall to the parking lot.
She was looking for the key to the car Karan had lent her and wasn’t looking
where she was going when she heard a car speeding in her direction. She turned
around and saw the car speeding towards her. She froze. She didn’t know what to
do and the shock had taken control over body. She closed her eyes as the car
neared her praying to her Devi Maaiya to save her. The car was three seconds away
from hitting her when she felt a strong grip around her waist pulling her out
of the way. She hugged him tight her eyes still closed, her head against his
chest where she could hear his heartbeat. She could feel the warmth of his body
against hers. He was holding her tight, both arms around her waist. She slowly
recovered from the shock and felt the droplets of rain on her hands, her hair
and then on her face as she slowly raised her head to look up at her saviour.
For some reason she wasn’t surprised, she was thankful instead but when she
looked at him his eyes were closed tight almost as if he was afraid. He opened
his eyes and looked down to meet those hazel eyes that he loved. There they
stood in the rain. Khushi in Arnav’s arms, drenched in the rain lost in each
other.
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