Ek Duje Ke Vaaste

Part 35

Khushi grabbed Arnav's hand and pulled him along to the dining table, they sat down opposite her brothers and then they all looked at each other awkwardly.

Arnav was feeling pretty nervous and scared, her brothers were really scary and knowing they dint approve of him was even scarier.

All he wanted was for them to like him a little bit and understand that he meant no harm to her, he just wanted to love her.

"So get to know each other." Khushi said breaking the awkward silence.

"How did you two meet?" Rudra asked.

Both Arnav and Khushi looked at each other wondering whether they should tell them the actual story or not. Learning that Khushi was secretly talking to someone online would make them mad.

"We..." Arnav started to speaking but Khushi interrupted.

"He came to help his sister in our school for something then we kept meeting by chance in different places, and then later we both ended up going to the same college and doing the same course too.

So we became friends and yeah... that's all." Khushi smiled, Arnav nodded agreeing with her, he could understand why she left out the details of her being in love with Mr. Writer without knowing that he was Mr. writer, that could actually make her brothers mad.

"And you used to lie to me that he likes Suman, I should have known." Prem said.

"You know now."

"Because we caught you, or you could still be hiding things from us."

"I wouldn't have had to if you wouldn't be so strict. Jeez why are we going there again, the whole purpose of this is getting to know Arnav, not us starting to argue again." Khushi said.

"What do your parents do?" Arjun asked diverting the topic.

I don't know why Prem was always so over strict with me, like he had a really short temper, he was always angry about everything.

"Dad is in the army and mom passed away years ago." Arnav said, there was a little bit of sadness in his voice, I held his hand and smiled at him faintly trying to make him feel okay.

"Oh... so who do you live with?"

"My aunt, I live with her and my cousin sister, dad's almost always at work so he visits whenever he gets off duty." Arnav said.

"Oh okay... it's good to know." Rudra said as him and Arjun kept on asking him a few more questions, Prem dint even bother to ask any questions he just sat there listening to the conversation, it was like he just dint want to accept Arnav for whatever reason, like Arjun and Rudra were at least trying to get to know him and stuff but he seemed least interested.

They all finished having breakfast then they went to the hall where they settled down and played a movie that they all watched together.

With every passing minute things got a bit easier for both Arnav and Khushi, Arnav dint even feel nervous anymore, he knew he had nothing to hide neither did he have any wrong intentions with Khushi and one day her brothers were going to see that too.

"I have to go out for a while, he can stay here as long as he likes as I promised you'll get all the time to spend together but no going out okay?" Rudra said as he stood up to leave.

"But what will we do at the house whole day?" Khushi pouted.

"Watch movies, play some board games and talk to each other."

"We can do that for a day or two, eventually it will get boring, why cant you let us go out once in a while if not daily?"

"Aren't you too stubborn?" Rudra smiled.