MY LOVER MY HUSBAND

CHAPTER 2

"shaurya?? " dev asks

"yes..." arnav replies

"you told her, your name was shaurya....?" dev asks again

"yes..." arnav replies

"why shaurya?" dev  asks

"it was what came to me..." arnav says

"but shaurya..." dev says

"what's wrong with shaurya?" arnav asks midly annoyed

"out of all the names you could have chosen... you just had to go by shaurya......" dev says

"i panicked ...you of all people should know i don't do well when am under pressure " arnav says

"so, khushi doesn't remember you or anything? " dev asks again

"no she doesn't...  " arnav replies "i stared into her eyes and i saw someone else..." arnav adds

"i still don't beleive that... " dev says

"Defining moments, we all have them...think about it. There is always that one moment that defines how you live the rest of your life, for me it was giving up my art to become the son my father always wanted... and for khushi it was finding out what  her father had done to her mother... she let that dictate how she would spend the rest of her life...  she never let herself get happy because a part of her has always believed she's impure....you take that one moment away and she becomes a whole new person... she's has a light in her now... you should see her without the weight of knowing what arvinid had done..." arnav says

"i totally see this back firing you...." dev says

"rehan already told her about me... i don't know what exactly but i know it's not in my favor and whatever he said am not that person anymore and it  doesn't  matter if she doesn't remember me...she's still khushi...so now yes am shaurya...." arnav says

"so what does mr.shaurya do?? what is his sur name?? where does he live?? who are his parents ? what is--- " dev starts and arnav cuts him off...

"i dont know yet.... " arnav says

"you can't be arnav and be shaurya " dev says
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a few days later............
khushi is seated at the same bench she met shaurya when he approaches her....

"what time is it?? she asks

"time? " shaurya raises an eyebrow as if the word is a foreign concept

"yes time... you know the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present  and future regarded as a whole" khushi replies

"i know what time is.... " arnav whose pretending to be shaurya replies

"do you know what time it is?? " khushi asks still not looking at him

"4: 35 p.m " arnav replies as he checks on his wrist watch

"which means i have been seating here waiting for how long?" khushi asks again

"15 minutes khushi " arnav replies

"i hope you have a good excuse, other wise am going  to ignore you  " khushi exclaims

"i got held up in a meeting with a client...honest " arnav says

"not good enough.... you know that this is my last day here at the hospital and your late...deliberately" khushi says

''would it help my case if say i stopped on the way to buy you these..." he says holding out to her a single rose and a box of choclates that she pulls out his grasp almost immediately...