TILL I MET YOU

chapter 10....

Khushi is listening to really loud music as she is just from showering...she makes her way to the living room where buaji is..

KHUSHI:tiny, where is the razor? Why do i have so much hair on my legs..i just shaved and it grew so much again..the growing speed is like the speed of light and my arm pits are worse

Buaji can't help but stiffle a laugh ...looking at arnav's expression

BUAJI:khushi you have a visitor arnav

KHUSHI:oh...(she has never been more embarassed than this)

BUAJI:say hi khushi..he came to pick you up

KHUSHI:this early

BUAJI:yes that's why i offered him some tea and the arm pits..sorry i mean the razor i kept it next to the shampoo..search for it properly

KHUSHI:my eye brows are half gone now like Mona lisa..why couldnt you have given me more eyebrows God...(she whispers to her self)

KHUSHI:buaji you should have told me that my guest was already here

BUAJI:oh i did ..i told you but the song you turned on was too loud..besides every one is like that at home..being your self at home

ARNAV:oh not to this level, ma'am

KHUSHI:oh stop lying..for all we know you might not be even human at home..

ARNAV:just get ready before its gets late...and oh you can take your time...

KHUSHI:oh i will..

Khushi makes her back to her room totally embarrassed...why did he have to come at this time..oh she forgot he likes to be accurate and punctual...

Buaji is helping her get ready and is combing her hair...

BUAJI:you look beautiful you know that...

KHUSHI:don't flatter me tiny i might believe you..

BUAJI:how come i just got to find out now that you two had become close

KHUSHI: you never asked

BUAJI:well am asking now

KHUSHI:he is my friend..for a quite a while now..i thought i mentioned it to you...

BUAJI:perhaps you did and my brain forgot
..am aging ..so what are you going to put on...

KHUSHI:look for a red dress in my closet tiny..

BUAJI:which one exactly?? Be more specific khushi..you do have alot of red

KHUSHI:its my favourite colour that's why...

Arnav waits impatiently for khushi to come out..what is it with girls and taking ages to dress up..at this rate they might miss the fashion event...he invited her cause she had shared with him that she wished one day to attend one of those rather than watch from the comfort of her TV like she used to do while she still had her sight....so he thought to invite her to his event...
Khushi comes out dressed fully in red along with buaji...dressed fully in red like the very first day they met...

"Arnav" she calls out to him drifting his attention from his phone to her.."am all set, did i keep you waiting for so long" she adds on....

The moment arnav sees her his mind travels somewhere else to that fateful day he wishes to wipe from his memory....seeing her dressed like this...he recalls when he first met how she looked familiar..her eyes did remind her of someone but who he couldn't quite figure out that part yet...and now that he thinks of it khushi fits in the description of that woman...it cant be..it couldn't possibly be her...his mind refuses to believe the obvious as he goes back through a memory lane....no..it cant be her your just imagining things arnav..sham he wouldn't lie to you...

KHUSHI:hey arnav your just quiet, aren't you going to compliment me or something, be a gentleman for once..you could say khushi that dress fits you perfectly, or you look rather ravishing...

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Arnav has been driving the car in total silence, though khushi keeps on trying to engage him in a conversation he gives short replies...and she finds his behaviour odd...arnav's head is going through a dilemma till he cant take it any more..all he can see is khushi on that fatefull day in his head...he screeches his car to a stop..

KHUSHI:what happened arnav??

ARNAV;khushi i have to ask something

KHUSHI:wait are you finally interested in me...be careful arnav that interest will lead to love interest...are you going to take that typical procedure..then i would gladly be a part of it..

ARNAV;apart of what khushi?? This is serious

KHUSHI:what a temper..okay go a head

ARNAV:that day in the park

KHUSHI:arnav

ARNAV:hear me out

KHUSHI:we are getting late

ARNAV:khushi this is important for me..if you consider me as your friend please tell me

KHUSHI:why now?? Why the sudden interest...

ARNAV:khushi

KHUSHI:i dont recall much..but the little i do..isn't pleasant but i will tell you... arnav ..someone tried to rape me..

(So its her...he had known this fact ever since he saw her in that dress..not that she was wearing that same dress when he almost raped her..)

KHUSHI:i haven't told this to anyone..but you..i don't know why ..but i feel that i can confide in you..when i woke up in the hospital i couldn't remember a thing..i didn't know that if this was permanent or temporary but apart of me wished it was permanent..i wish i can erase that one day but i cant..all i see now as i drift to sleep in my dreams is that man trying to hurt me..i try to get away from him, from his grip from his touch..but he is way stronger ..i retaliate by hitting him i don't know what he does after that...i cant remember further..who was he...where i was..(isn't he aware of all this...he has that scar on his upper left arm...of all the women it had to be her...it had to be khushi...why..not that his crime would be justifiable...but why khushi..why her)

KHUSHI:he killed all my dreams..he shattered them..i hate him..i hate him with every inch of my body...you don't know the kind of pain i live through each day...

ARNAV:if he appeared in front of you..that man..and apologised to you genuinely..would you

KHUSHI:look at me arnav..not even if he were on his death bed...do you think this is the kind of life i wanted for my self..i had dreams..ambitions but he ruined everything for me..if he ever comes infront of me..i would make him pay for every single tear i have shed...that's how much i hate him..

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Lavanya approaches khushi and arnav as they walk inside...how come she never met this woman before..she is pretty she cant deny that...and apart from that she is wearing red coincidentally she is also putting on red..its arnav's favourite colour right..she sighs at her unfruitful attempts to get arnav's attention...he always does this..

LAVANYA:asr how are you and who is this lovely lady besides you

ARNAV:khushi meet lavanya...she works for me

LAVANYA:i also happen to be your best friend...

KHUSHI:oh thats great..am his girfriend...(lavanya freezes but arnav sighs of relief seeing her back to her playful moods...)

LAVANYA:what??

KHUSHI:just kidding am also friend a special one...(khushi offers her hand and thats when lavanya realises she is blind..)

LAVANYA:your

KHUSHI:blind??

ARNAV:lavanya could you give her company till i come back...

KHUSHI:what..you said yoy wouldn't leave me for a moment..that's why i agreed to come here in the first place...

ARNAV:am going to the washroom would you rather accompany me there

KHUSHI:i wont see a thing..am joking you can go ahead..

LAVANYA:oh so how did the two of you meet khushi....(she aaks as arnav walks away)......