Happy Khushi

Chapter 10

"Hey! You there," a loud and screeching voice called behind khushi and she turned to look at the person.

A woman thinner than stick and bonnier than the bony fish looking at her with fiery eyes that were so covered with make-up that khushi preferred to not watch the woman's face anymore. Such painting of kilos suits no one.

"Where's Arnav?" The woman with lots of make-up asked again as khushi noticed her lack of manners and realised just how rude these models of delhi are.

Khushi remembered her time in France where every person was so sweet and perfect. She met models in one of organized event by institution and they were so beautiful with no or apparently less coloured faces. They were pretty in a unique way and didn't needed such enhancement.

"Would you stop daydreaming and answer my question, stupid servant!" Khushi again looked at the woman and was about to answer when Arnav's voice boomed in the kitchen and they looked at him standing behind the screeching woman.

Khushi nodded at him and was turning to her work when he said "khushi, can you make a coffee for me? I'd like a khushi style coffee, please?" Khushi smiled and nodded again when he moved closer to her by side stepping the woman outside.

"I want to hear your voice." Arnav said with his very manly and husky voice that khushi blushed a little and said "Sure."

"Cute." Arnav said and then let her go back to her business while his smiling face turned grim when he looked at the woman who shouted at khushi.

"Miss. Sara, is it? Well, whatever, you mind how you are talking to my family or else things don't always go the way we want. Leave." Arnav looked at the woman who scurried away and turned towards khushi who was readying his coffee and walked around her deliberately enclosing her in between his embrace as he picked a piece of cashew bread to eat while smiling a lopsided grin.

"Very nice like you." Khushi nodded at his saccharine words and said "Do you really need sugar in your coffee?"

Arnav smiled and leaned his face till his eyes were leveled with hers and said "I need lots of sugar and lots of happiness too..."

Khushi smiled and said while keeping her eyes on the coffee "You are a diabetic, remember?"

Arnav grinned a little more and said "a little sugar and lots of happiness will just make me feel a lot better." Khushi didn't argued and handled his coffee to him while saying "with lots of sugar and..."

Her eyes widened a little as she stopped in the middle and his eyes and smile both widened because even a child knows what comes ahead. Arnav looked at her and completed her words while his eyes drowning hers within. "And love, lots of it."

Khushi looked down and a cough rang around then where another stick thin figure stood and called to Arnav in a very sugary voice to which Arnav said "Move and ask what you have to do from Aman and Aakash, can't you see I am busy?!" His voice boomed around the kitchen and Aman who was always keen of his surrounding cane running from who knows where and looked at the scene when he saw the distance between Arnav and khushi. His eyes had the look that said 'voila!' and he looked at the female who stood in front of them.

"Miss. Verma, may I know what you are doing here?" Aman asked with his very business like tone and the tone affected the person it was used on.

Miss. Verma stuttered a little as she formed her sentence. "I was looking for ASR, I had some work with him." Aman's face took a very stormy look while Arnav drank his coffee as if nothing's wrong. He even held and touched her hand very softly.

"Very well, what was that work, Miss. Verma?" Aman asked as his eyes stared daggers on the woman.

"I would like to speak that with ASR only and Aman, there are outsiders here." Miss. Verma got her reasoning back a little when she saw khushi and Arnav not paying any heed to her.

"Aman." ASR looked at Aman once and the man straightened his back even more than it already was and khushi wondered just how much backache he bears everyday.

"Miss. Verma, please follow me to the practice room. I am sure, by the time we reach there, every work of yours will be through." Aman said and waited for the woman to start walking but the woman just stared at Arnav and khushi causing Aman to shout her name.

She responded to the call and walked towards the practice room with Aman following her.

Khushi looked at them when Arnav looked at her and said "Calm down, he is just seeing things through." With the line, a sound of something breaking came and khushi looked at Arnav. The woman doesn't seem normal to her. None of those women seemed normal to her.

Arnav looked at her when Anjali came running in the kitchen and Arnav tipped his glass towards khushi while nodding his head towards his sister and left the kitchen.

Anjali held her by her shoulders and pulled her along while snacking a piece of cashew bread and told her about a dress that she drew and it was selected for the showstopper and she should be the one to see it first.