Ishq Junooniyat (Book 3)

3. First Meet

"Who the hell created a wall here?" She asked herself angrily as she rubbed her forehead which she knew would be red.

"Hello girlfriend" Aarchi looked up surprised at seeing her boyfriend, Gautam stood in front of her with a wide smile. A smile automatically formed on her face seeing him and she jumped to hug him.

"What are you doing here?" She asked still hugging him tightly.

"Wishing my lovely girlfriend best of luck for her day" Gautam broke the hug and handed her a rose flower making her lower her eyes in shyness.

"You know my crush is back home" She said happily forgetting about her work.

"Who? Siddharth Malhotra or Kartik Aryan?" Gautam asked bending his head to her level.

"Siddharth Malhotra, Arush told me this morning" Aarchi blushed at the mention of Siddharth Malhotra.

"He's married beautiful" Gautam chuckled at her blush.

"So? Its not written anywhere that I can't like a married man" She glared at Gautam for breaking her bubble.

"Stop standing here darling and go, you want to be late on your first day?" He asked her by placing a hand under her chin and making her look at him. She kissed his cheek and ran inside the hospital still holding the rose close to her. With a heavy heart she placed the rose in her handbag and stood at the reception with other people.

The receptionist sorted the 15 of them. She took a deep breath and prayed a small chant in her head before she knocked on her supervisor's door.

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"Aaru Aaru" Rishav called Aarchi as she wrapped up for the day.

"Come direct to Malhotra, me and Kayu are going there" Rishav said as he and Kaira sat in the car.

"Why are you going there? Anything special?" Aarchi opened her hair and ran a comb through it to detangle them.

"Nope just like that" Rishav said and Aarchi agreed to the plan. She quickly removed her phone and sent a long paragraph of how her day was to both her sister-in laws.

Nidhi still wasn't the official wife of Aviraj but just to tease them she always mentioned Nidhi as Aviraj's wife and not girlfriend. Earlier they had thought that they were discrete enough to keep their relation hidden but Aarchi had caught them at a restaurant once having a scrumptious romantic dinner date.

She drove to the Malhotra Mansion. Each time she went there the architecture amused her.

Passing her keys to the valet, she rushed inside the house screaming for Veer and Ridhima Malhotra.

"Hey Aarchi" Rishav was the first one to see her and stood up to hug her.

"How was your day?" Rishav asked excitedly to which Aarchi filled him in with small details here and there as the whole room listened to them.

"You've forgotten us young princess" Veer and Ridhima said with an angry pout.

"Me? Forgotten you two? You are confusing me with your useless son, Arush" She joked as she moved to them to hug them.

"Even that's true. He's never home" Ridhima said as she kissed Aarchi's cheek.

"You look so grown and mature in Kurtis, don't wear them, we like our small, little bundle of sunshine dressed in sundresses" Ridhima looked at Aarchi head to toe and looked at her complainingly.

"That's true. When did this small one grow up so fast?" Veer placed his hand on her head and hugged her.

"You guys are just being over emotional" She sat on the sofas and pulled the plate of bhajia towards her.