ARSHI SS : Blind Date -Courtesy of Match Making Family [√]

Chapter 15: " A Wedding to Remember"

Wedding, especially Indian Wedding takes time and lots of functions before the happy ever after part, so when her sister finally got married to the man who looked at her with love, Khushi was filled with happiness that were inexplainable, all the guilt she had felt over time about her sister unmarried state vanished when her sister walked hand in hand with her husband to take the elders blessing and she knew following their moment will end up with her facing him ,as her brother in law hugged his cousin and who in turn hugged his sister welcoming her to their family. 

"You are part of the family now officially" he had said while smiling towards his sister and she almost would have forgiven him for that welcome alone if not for her sister words next. 

"Marry Khushi soon, so i can have my sister be part of my new family as well" her sister answered back and smiled with the rest of her family except two people him and her. His gaze turned towards her at the remainder and she as always turned her head away unwilling to see him.

It had been hard to be angry with him, much harder to pretend to their family that they were exactly an happy couple. When he announced that she agreed to marry him, she could have killed him for the lie, because she knew he had no intention of following through with it and it had been his reaction to the possibility that she might marry someone else. And she wasn't a toy to claim his ownership on his whim and yet she stood in silence as her family congratulated them with happy tears until they left them alone

"You are angry?" he asked once they were alone as if it dawned on his that she wouldn't just go along with his plan.

"So when are we getting married, how about a joint wedding with my sister, it would be so romantic, after all you can't wait to get married" she spoke up and the fear in his face was her answer enough , he had no intention of marrying at the moment.

"I just thought.." he trailed off a little unable to complete the sentence and she knew what he had thought, he thought to say prolong the farce engagement as long as he wants and until he got tired of having her as his girlfriend then break it up with her . The great Arnav Singh Raizada didn't want to get married ever and he made that perfectly clear so many times and yet she was a fool to hope until now .

But not anymore, not when he would so carelessly announce it to everyone she agreed to marry him as if the declaration meant nothing to him except an way to keep her as his girlfriend for long, in his tiny brain he didn't comprehend how upset their family would be when they find out that the marriage wont happen, he didn't think about Khushi sister or how her marriage maybe affected if Khushi had said no to his stupid proposal in front of them as she wanted too, she held on to her silence for her sister happiness .

" Listen to me, we are done ,  I am no more your girlfriend than you are my boyfriend, but until my sister marriage happens, I go along with your lie for her sake and then you can explain to your family that marriage wont happen because I refuse to let my sister face any trouble over my actions ever again" Khushi spoke up and walked away from him that day and she ignored his calls and texts after that but when they were around their family, she pretended to smile at their teasing as if it didn't hurt her to look at him.

And he played the same role perfectly as well, not once he had told his family to stop when they began their teasing but she never missed the sign of stress in his face at the mere mention of Marriage. She always knew he hated Marriage and yet she never knew how insurmountable the task would be until then, and today the pretense will finally be over. Once her sister and her brother in law leave for the honeymoon tomorrow, she will tell her parents and he had to tell his family. 

And everything will be over between then in truth as well as their fake engagement. Maybe that was the reason her eyes misted with tears which she concealed as happy tears when her sister came to hug her, Khushi was happy for her sister that she married a man who loved her so much and so she endured her new brother in law teasing for a while about her being engaged to his cousin with a smile ,she perfected over the days.