Happy Khushi

Chapter 13

On the stage in the dark background with just one spotlight falling on a woman wearing a dress resembling so much to flames, her eyes seared through the hearts of the audience and she whispered "Flames..."

As she whispered, she twirled and three more females with dark red eye shadows twirled around her and stopped at the front of the stage, the background voice started "We came from Flames, we will die into one. We are colored into..."

As the background voice continued, the dancers twirled and danced across the stage when everything stopped at once and a sound of steps echoed in the extremely quiet hall.

"Welcome to AR's biggest fashion show 'Flames' by ASR." As the announcement was heard, a woman entered with a dress correlating the colours of flame and made up resembling the same.

The fashion show ended with the narrator whispering "the Flames has never demanded the moth, its just the destiny that moth were entangled in Flames. Its the end of moth... of the moth for... the Flames..."

The fashion show ended and ASR walked in, his eyes on the audience and he spoke some words before smiling and shocking half the reporters off their seats. Th ASR, rude and crude bachelor smiled for the first time!!

"Today, I am introducing you all to my muse for this show and maybe for all the ones to come." Arnav said and he turned his head towards the back stage and forwarded his hand and took a name making every person to look straight towards the back stage. "Khushi Gupta."

Khushi who was at at the back stage with Anjali stood shocked and her eyes widened before Anjali gave her a push towards the stage. She could see people trying to catch a glimpse of her and Arnav's hand that was forwarded towards her.

It didn't took much to take a decision. One look at his face and she moved towards him, standing between so many people, she never had been the one in all the limelight. But it didn't make much of a difference to her, even though she is the one under the limelight, he was there and that's enough.

He was the one she was looking at. She took his hand and he smiled, a full-fledged-teeth-y-smile. She could see his white pearly teeths and this smile could have grown a little more but his face couldn't handle that much facial changes.

She too smiled when he put his hand on her waist lightly and turned towards the sea of people and their camera flashes. "This is the woman I wanted all of you to meet. My happiness and my family's."

Arnav didn't smiled much after that and looked at the woman who stood beside him, finally. He could have sworn, he died a three or four times when he forwarded his hand and didn't see her but then he did and it was heaven. She moved towards him and only him. There was no one in her eyes, only him.

How did he become this lucky? Is it okay? Is it reality and not a dream? Is the speck of past that he carried in his eyes, died? Is the burden lowered?

Or is he dreaming it all?

But something this beautiful and real can be a dream, too?

If it is, he doesn't plan on waking up at all.

He would rather sleep and dream all day and night, no matter what!

He looked at khushi and smiled at her while reporters took that great moment in their camera to their job and the next day, the fashion industry changed and so did some of their destinies.

"The fashion king is out of market!" was the heading for the newspaper and the two bases of business of AR Fashions were holed up with reporters and people looking for gossips. But that was all for tomorrow. Today, khushi and Arnav were to have a face off with their families.

Shashi Gupta kept looking at the ASR and wondered what just happened as his daughter walked towards his Malik.

He noticed his Malik's eyes shinning and the same shine was reflected by his daughter and realized that now he has to give his daughter to someone else.

His daughter who he had taken care of for twenty years.

He wondered if it would be okay for his daughter, for his brother's last token of remembrance?

Shashi looked at his daughter and his employer who were holding onto each other when his employer smiled and his worries lightened a little.

He still has to decide if this man is capable of keeping his daughter happy but for now, he can allow this moment to go on for them. He has never seen his daughter and his Arnav baba so happy before.

The past that held them and kept them from achieving happiness has lifted a little. Finally, they seem to be free from shackles and heartaches that resided in every nook and corner of their memories.

They seem to be in sinc with their lives and happiness.

Devyani looked at her grandson and knew why her grandson extended the stay for three more days. He will be taking his bride with him to delhi, to make her his and only his. She smiled as she looked at Shashi who was looking at them with complicated eyes. Good. Only the females are left to be impressed but knowing that grandson of hers, it won't take too long for them to be impressed too.

They will give him their daughter on a platter to eat... ahem... marry.