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Part 11

When Khushi got up and done with her check up and had their breakfast from the canteen, they both sat facing each other. Khushi sat on her bed and Arnav sat on the chair.

Dr. Aditya came to the ward and check her vitals, medicines, her injuries and etc... and instructed the nurse to change her bandages in his presence and left Khushi and Arnav alone.

Arnav after a moment of silence said, "Khushi, I instructed to NK to tell the family not to come today and also said that you will get your conscious tomorrow so they will not disturb us today." To which Khushi was astonished for a moment and said OK.

Khushi said, "You know Arnavji, when I attempted my suicide (Arnav closed his eyes for a moment and opened them to listen to her without disturbing her and thought that it is her moment to open up),....I....I felt that there is no one in the world for me and all the atrocities I went through by my adopted family and by your family before and after marriage and your accusing words I couldn't take it. But you know when I was in mid-air I saw you face which was filled with terror then in that moment I understood you were my world not my so called family and yours. That moment I prayed to my devi maiya to give a second chance to live for myself not for others but for you and me but before that I will confront you and question you for your judgemental behaviour and bring back my Arnavji."

"Arnavji, only my devi maiya knows how much I LOVE YOU not even me until that moment. But after getting my conscious when I heard you explanation, though it's not full but still I understood one thing we both are immatures in this, and we never opened our self to one another, there was always a third person between us it might be lavanyaji, anjaliji, shyamji or payalji. But from now on we should not entertain any third person even when the said person is our own."

"But Arnavji, in marriage or in any relationship love alone is never enough trust, respect, loyalty, honest and communication are few important things which are essential. In our relationship these are missing which we have to overcome. If we communicate with each other without involving any third one we can build our relation, even if we start our relation with friendship this is compulsory other wise even our friend ship will not be maintained."

"I hope you understand why I am telling you all these, because there is lot of insecurity have been present in my mind and heart at present now Arnavji, which it is your responsibility to erase because even I want a second chance to live my life happily. Till now I faced only partiality and craved for love but when I got that I felt everyone was trying to snatch that from me."

"Regarding Shyamji, you can ask me anything I will tell you but please don't judge me with out cross checking me, because for every coin there are two sides which you missed don't do that never again in your life. If you are up for it then we can start with being friends." Said Khushi with tears flowing from her eyes and Arnav's state was not any different.

Arnav composed himself with lot of difficulty brushed his checks and wiped his tears, then brushed her checks softly and wiped her tears. "Khushi, I will try my level best to be best friend and later best husband for you and build Khushi's world where only you and I will be there, I give you my word Khushi but you know I lack in words so you have to help me in that." To which Khushi chuckled and Arnav got a small light of hope with that small chuckled and thought he can bring old Khushi back with his honesty and continued "Khushi, as you already heard yesterday, I am doing background check on all but still I want to hear first hand from you whatever you have gone through in your life and how Shyam entered in your life and all at least in brief. Will you tell me?"

Taking a deep breath Khushi said "My father's name is Kunal Tivari and Mother Rashi Tivari; we are from Lucknow. My father is a manager in some company and my mother....hmmm I think she is a home maker and their marriage is love marriage I was just 6 year when we met with an accident, we were returning or going to somewhere I hardly remember them because of the my age and accident. My amma is actually is my masi and my bauji is my masaji and they adopted me after the accident. Buaji is bauji's sister "Madhumati misra". Buaji didn't want me to adopt but since masi is the only living relative they have no choice and added to that amma and bauji never say no to her because she lost her husband after their marriage of 3 yrs.