Choti Si Duniya - ArShi FF

114. Bheegi Bheegi Raato mein

Baarish (Rain)! Often synonymous with romance. It symbolizes divine blessings on every infatuated couple who have already drenched themselves in this feeling called love. Then how could it not be a vital part of the world's arguably most passionate love story?

The first rainy night of arnav and khushi's love story was almost 12 years ago, in a parking lot! Arnav had condemned her to the odd job of parking vehicles in AR's parking garage. In his battle to keep her away from his mind and his surroundings, he had unintentionally but carelessly pushed her to a very risky spot. And khushi being khushi, adamantly continued doing her work even when it started raining cats and dogs, to the point where the visibility was also reduced, and she was about to get hit by an incoming car. Thankfully, thank-freaking-fully his damn good instincts came handy, and Arnav reached there on time and pulled her safely in his arms.

And then they both stood there, in each other's arms, getting drenched in that wicked rain which was conspiring against their wishes and providing them this privacy!

And now, as Delhi was getting its first rain shower of the year, Arnav and khushi were still in each other's arms, very much in privacy of their safe haven, with no complaints as such to the showers!

Or maybe there was one complaint from Khushi. They were not out there, getting drenched in rain.

Khushi felt Arnav bring her closer to his chest in his attempt to seek her warmth and she sighed as she wrapped her hand around him and kept her head on his shoulder.

"What are you thinking?" she heard him ask and looked up in surprise. His eyes were still closed. How did he know? Well, it was futile thing to ask as he always knew every small, tiny thing about her.

Maybe this was a good time to pitch in her crazy craving in front of him. Over the years, they had enjoyed the rain but never on plan. It was always a sudden surprise from the sky god that they got. Like on their Europe trip a year before chiku's birth, when they were out on Paris tour and just as they were exiting from the Eiffel tower premises, the light drizzling bathed them. By the time they reached their hotel, the atmosphere around them had become too heated despite the cool that rain had brought and khushi's plans to go to the balcony of their penthouse suite to enjoy some more of this weather were put away by Arnav who had better plan to enjoy their evening in Paris! Soon after that year, Mr. Chiku came into their lives and then his sisters and Khushi-the-mom had to be the responsible one to lead by example and thus keep her own cravings to play in rain away. At least in front of her children. So, save for some accidental dates with those showers, they hadn't really had a full-fledged rain romance, in a long time.

"Humein baarish mein bheegna hai (I want to get drenched in the rain)." She answered. And even as Arnav was preparing to say no as he would to Kavish or Arohi, Khushi said, "Aap ke saath (with you)."

Arnav was robbed off his ability to say anything, much less deny her when she looked up at that moment, lifting her head from his shoulder and her eyes casting their spell on him which all the time got him to do whatever she demanded!

But he quickly gathered himself. Forming a plan. After all, Arnav wasn't known as being shrewd for nothing.

He pretended to have a sudden bout difficult breathing and took a noisy breath as if he had a blocked nose. "Eh, Khushi, I think I am having cold." He scratched his nose as if trying to get it "work" and said, "but if you want to go out right now, sure, I will come with you."

The way he said all that with so much conviction got his innocent wife and she immediately said, "Hey Devi maiyya, aap ko sardi ho rahi hai (you are getting cold)? Hum abhi aap ke liye dawai aur garam coffee le kar aate hai (Let me get you medicines and coffee)."