Her Hidden Love

Twenty One

/* In the evening party is going on in full swing. Arvind and Sandhya arrive with Varun and Panchi. Sushmitha welcomes them. */

Sandhya- How are you mom? 

Sushmitha- I am fine. How are you all?

Arvind- Fine as always. Where are dad and Arjun?

Sushmitha- They are talking to someone. Now let me play with my grand daughter Panchi.

Varun- So nobody wants to speak to me.

Sushmitha- Of course why will I not speak to my sweet son?

Varun- You're always busy speaking to Sandhya bhabi. You love her more than me.

Arvind- That's true. In this matter I am also with him.

Sushmitha- I agree for me my bahu is more adorable than you.

Arvind- Oh so now you only have one and you speak like this. What would you do if you get another, that is Arjun's wife?

Sushmitha- Then may be I'll not even look at you. I will simply spend all my time with them.

/* Arjun comes there and everyone congratulates him. They enjoy the day and next morning Arjun leaves for his guest house in his car. The caretaker, Ramu,over there is a person who had brought up Arjun from childhood. Ramu had cleaned up the house and even cooked food for Arjun. Arjun asks him to empty one of the rooms on upper floor so that he could design it himself. After it's done he asks Ramu to leave and fills the room with all his personal things and locks it up. In the evening he sits in the balcony from which a lake could be seen. Actually it was a slightly forested area and Arjun liked the calmness of the place. In the night Ramu came to serve him food. */

Arjun- Ramu tomorrow early morning a carpenter will come, send him directly to the room on that floor. Clean one room here for me.

Ramu- Then what for is the room on that floor?

Arjun- It's not for me,for someone else.

/* He finishes his dinner and goes to sleep. Next day the carpenter comes and Arjun gets some furniture designed and arranges in that room. For two more days he stayed in that guest house. All the time he was thinking about Arohi but didn't do any trial for finding her because he wanted Arohi to realize her mistake and come back to him. Staying alone had helped him a lot and he could come out of his depression. Her absence was painful but he knew he had to go on and now he had some time so he could adapt himself again. 

He remembered every small thing that happened between them in detail and her dance, her voice,how she looked when he dressed her up and how she hugged him in the end. God! It was so much and couldn't be easily forgotten. He didn't even want to listen to her name hereafter. He loved her so much and what did she do to him? Although she didn't mean it, her words that he used her to satisfy his ego were so painful. He felt like somebody was stabbing him in his heart. He was full of anger. He knew he could never forget her but decided to put away his depression for his parent's happiness.     The next day he comes to Chandigarh and from there he directly went to US. He applies for Civil engineering as he aspired to run his father's firm.*/

/* Arjun reaches his university and goes to his room. He settles fast and takes some rest as his classes were to start from he next day. He hears a knock on the door. When he opens it, he is surprised to find Rey there. */

Arjun- Rey you here?

Rey- Yes surprised?

Arjun- A lot.

Rey(comes in and sits down)- Even I too was surprised when my dad asked me to study here. I agreed soon as I knew that you would be here.

Arjun- That's great. I missed you all a lot.