Part 38:

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"Hey... your Angel is beautiful. Nice selection" he read the message and automatically a smile appeared on his lips

"Thanks... but where are you these days? I mean it's already long time we chat?" he replied

"Hmm... Actually I'm depressed. I think you knew the reason. I never faced any rejection in any matter. You are the first one to reject me. But it's ok... I'm fine now"

"Hmm... sorry for that... I didn't mean to hurt you... I was just. I mean... I can't think anybody in that place except my Angel"

"Yeah... now I know that clearly... and don't worry I'm fine now..."

"By the way... how you know her? Did you? Wait... Are you the girl on the terrace today?"

"Hahahah... I knew it... you will catch... but be in control Mr. Lad Governor... don't scare her much..."

"Hmm... little difficult I think... how can I control myself without kissing her?"

"Need to go for now... will chat with you later... good night... take care" she bid a quick bye with him unable to control her blush after reading his shameless message..

"Hay... don't go... after a long time we are chatting. Come on let's talk for some time. Ok fine... sorry... I will try to control myself... ok... I know may be you felt discomfort when I said those words... sorry... friends?"

"Copy cat Raizada kahike..."

"What the!!! Copy cat?"

"Then? You copied my invitation. If anybody says or do same as others, they will be called as copy cat, right? And you are asking me now to be friends. So that's why I said that. But what made you think that I will accept your invitation immediately?

"Oh... revenge? You know nobody rejects ASR's offer. Think nobody gets this chance that easily... if you reject, you may not get this chance again. Hmm...? fine... Now accept my friendship. Come on..."

"Attitude... Ah... Arrogant Singh Raizada..."

"That's I'm..."

"For your information I am always ready to be your friend... but you are the person who said, I should be on my own... Ok... fine... friends..." she gave a hint of their conversation about her taking care of herself.

He felt little confused after seeing her message. He thought for some time that what made her to say that. Then he remembered when he said her to forget him, after his confession about Khushi. He sighed and replied to her comment...

"Sorry for that... but you know... I can't be with you, leaving my Angel... Khushi... I love her... I can't live without her... she is my life... my Angel... I just can't..." he confessed without knowing with whom he is chatting.

She is on cloud nine now. He confessed his love towards her. She closed the room door, as she doesn't want anybody to see her happiness. She hugged and kissed the mobile. She is smiling like a crazy. "Thank you Arnav Ji..." she said to phone.

"Oh... Wow... great to hear that the mighty ASR can't live without his Angel. This is the news, everyone should know in the college. Tomorrow only I will go to Khushi and will tell her all these. Wow... I got news to you Khushi..." she typed.

"I will kill you if you do that... I swear Sneha..." he threatened her

"Oh really... then let me see how you will find me" she challenged

"Don't challenge me. I can do and I will do" he announced

"I don't think so... if you find me by tomorrow evening then I won't say anything to your Angel. If not, then consider that your secret is out" she ignited

"What the... you are blackmailing me? ME? Fine... then I will find you... by tomorrow evening. Get ready to face ASR" he declared

"Fine then... will see who wins. Till then, bye... Good night..."

"Good Night" both bid their bye to others.

After some time, Arnav's mobile beeped once again with another message from her.

"Sorry to disturb you... I just forgot to say 'take care'. That's why I'm here again... bye dear friend... Please take care of yourself... Good Night..." she sent message with a cute smiley

He smiled seeing that message.

"You too take care my friend... Good Night... SEE you soon..." with a smirk on his face he replied, which in return he got a smiling smiley

Both of them drifted into sleep thinking about each others.

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At the same time, at some other place

"Why aren't telling me that girl's name? Just tell me what had happened in your college and yeah... I want to know everything from the starting. Don't dare to skip anything" barked Mohini

"Mom... please leave it... I don't want to talk about it" Rahul tried to skip the topic.

"I asked you something... Rahul... just tell me without wasting my time"

Sighing deeply Rahul said everything to his mother about Khushi from the day he met her in her classroom, when Akash forced him to go out and to the day when and why he ended up in hospital.

"How dare she? How dare she reject my son, MY son's need? How dare she? I won't leave her like that. I will surely teach her a lesson."

"She has the strong support in college mom... the Raizada-s and Mathur-s are with her. They really are taking very good care for her. They never left her out of their eyes. Mainly, that Aman Mathur. He is treating her like his own sister. Nobody has guts to face his wrath. He is not the man he looks like."

"Oh... Raizadas and Mathurs? No problem... still I can teach her a lesson. But for that, you need to tell me each and everything about her. Her likes, dislikes, her family where she lives, etc. Whatever you know you have to tell me. From tomorrow onwards you are going to spy on her and tell me whatever you see. Don't act like you regret you deeds. No need for that. Do you understand?"

"Yeah mom... I understood. I will tell you everything. Thanks for supporting mom. I just want to see her helpless, to see her broken, to see her lost everything. I want her to feel living hell. I want to make her alone. I just hate her."

"You will... you have my word. Tell me does she have any lover or boyfriend?"

"Of course she has. Arnav Singh Raizada. I heard her saying this to her brother and she also asked her brother to not to meet that Arnav"

"So, her brother knows that she loves Arnav. But he doesn't know who Arnav is, right?"

"Yes mom..."

"Fine... you sleep now... I will think something. Take care" she kissed his forehead and left from the room

"You will be finished Khushi Gupta. If my mom wants to teach lesson, then she will make sure that she will do. Good Night dear. Sleep well..." he said out loud with a wicked smile, before he slept.

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"Are you sure Pam? Did you see what you are saying now?"

"Of course Sims... I saw this with my own eyes. But before they notice me, I ran from there. Trust me Sheena... ASR is very eager to kiss that Khushi... if I didn't make any sound he would have kissed her on her lips. She also was enjoying her closeness with him. I think you should drop this idea of getting ASR. As we know, if he commits for something, he never goes back. If he knows, you are trying to separate them that too when he loves her, then he won't leave you. You better to back off from this for your own good"

"I think Pam is correct Sheena. Don't take any risk. He is a powerful man. He will and can do anything for his happiness."

"That is the reason dears. That is the only reason I'm clinging to him. He is powerful and rich. Leave it. I will think something about this" with this they ended their conference call in their mobile and drifted into sleep.

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"OH MY GOD... Khushi... he confessed his love?"

"Shh... Payal... don't shout. Lower your voice."

"leave it... just tell me is it true?"

"Yes... he confessed that he loves Khushi..."

"Woooo... Oh my god... I can't believe this. Then what did you say... tell me what did you say?"

"Oho... Payal... I didn't call him as Khushi. I called him as Sneha... remember what we decided. So, I couldn't respond to him," saying this she told everything about her conversation with Arnav about his confession, his threat to her, her tease and how her tease turn into challenge, how he was determined to find her.

"What are you saying Khushi? You challenged him? Do you lose your mind? Don't you know how sharp his brain is? What if he catches you?"

"What to do Payal... when he tried to threaten me, I couldn't control myself from challenging him" she pouted.

"Stop it. Don't pout now. Whatever you did that's enough for me to lose my mind. Please don't make that face; otherwise I will lose the ability of thinking. I think you spoiled everything Khushi."

"Don't say that Payal... please help me... I just wanted to tease him. That's all... I don't want him to catch me... please Payal... please..."

"Hmm... I'm not sure Khushi... whether I can support you or not. I'm confused right now..."

"Why are you confused Payal?" asked NK

Both Khushi and Payal looked at him and smiled. He came to Khushi side and hugged her by her side.

"Hi bhabhi... how are you?" said NK

"NK... shh... don't shout... koi sun lega..." said Khushi with a blush on her cheeks and looked around to see any of their friends.

"Hayee... Hayee... My bhabhi blushing..." he teased gaining a smack on his shoulder from his bhabhi.

"Stop it NK Ji..."

"Nope... not JI... just NK... you are going to be my bhabhi and also you are older than to me. So no Ji... ok? And bhabhi... before you continue searching for my Bhai... let me tell you... I came little early as I'm not getting time to talk with you – my bhabhi"

"Oh ok... Fine... only NK..." she released disappointed sigh.

"Ok then... tell me what's going on here? And what's about Bhai? How is he?"

Payal told NK whatever she heard from Khushi. She told everything including Arnav's confession and Khushi's challenge.

"What?? Bhabhi... app"

"Stop there NK... don't start again... till now this Payal is scaring me about this. Now you please don't start"

"But bhabhi... challenging Bhai is not a good thing... don't you know how he is? He will do anything to win the challenge."

"I knew NK. But don't you think that we think about what will be done? Please I need your and Payal's help in implementing my plan. Without your help it will be difficult for me"

"Hmm... sure bhabhi... I will help you... tell me what you decided? What's your plan?"

"I want to tease him" she pouted

"What? But how?" asked NK

"With the phone calls, as Sneha" said Payal.

"Hmm... so, whenever you are before Bhai... we have to message him through your Sneha mobile. You will do your job here, right?"

"Exactly..."

"But bhabhi... Do you think it's a good idea? I mean... not telling him about Sneha's true identity. It may create misunderstandings or it may create problems. Think once bhabhi. I don't want any problem in your relation with Bhai."

"No... NK... I won't take long time. I will definitely tell him about me and Sneha. Trust me, I won't take more time. In fact I can't take more time. I just want to know about him. I want to know, how he thinks about me. Of course he confessed his love. But I want to know where he dislikes me. I want to know, how he wants me to be. I want our relation to be strong. Just few days NK. Please help me." she requested.

"Sure Khushi... we will surely help you. Whenever you need us we will be there for you. Don't worry... everything will be fine"

"What happened?" the trio turned to see the person of their topic.

"Bhai..." "Arnav Ji..." trio said in a tensed tone.

"What's happened Khushi? Why are you looking so tensed? Is everything fine?"

"Wo... Wo... I..."

"What Choti... why are you looking so tensed? And what help you need form NK and Payal?"

"Nothing Bhai... she is thinking about Rahul. She is little tensed about him. She is asking us to be with her all the time" said NK hurriedly, taping his shoulder mentally.

Both Khushi and Payal looked at NK thankfully, who nodded his head in an assuring way.

"Don't worry Choti... I will take care of him" said Aman.

"What's wrong with you Khushi? It's a very important time to think about your career and life. You should concentrate on that. You just concentrate on your studies and the movie chances. Don't think about any rubbish things. Aman said he will take care of him, right? Then, you just relax..." said Arnav.

"Ji..." said Khushi.

"Fine... let's have a coffee, and then we can go to classes" said Akash.

Everybody took their seats.

"Bhai... you come here. Come sit beside me" Akash made sure that Arnav sat opposite to Khushi, not knowing Arnav's plans of sitting next to Khushi.

Arnav looked at Khushi, who is looking at him along with others. NK and Payal sat either side to her. He sighed inwardly and sat beside Akash. He doesn't want to scare Khushi. He just wants to keep Khushi out from that Sneha. 'If I stay close to Khushi, then Sneha can say nothing to my Angel' he thought. 'Woh bilkul pagal hai. There won't be any surprise if she tells Khushi everything. Pagal ladki'

"Who is pagal Arnav?" asked Aman

"Did I say that aloud?" question Arnav, watching the surprised faces around him.

"Yes... you are" said all

"Oh... nothing... nobody... I'm talking about my friend. She is really crazy. Yesterday when I talk with her, she said and challenged me for something. I just want to prove her wrong. I am thinking about that" he looked at Khushi, who is looking at him without any expression

Whatever she heard from him saying, she felt all the emotions at the same time – tension, happiness, fear and excitement. But she took care not to show those in her face. She looked at NK and Payal who is observing her face. She pressed their hands with hers, as asking their support. They assured her with a slight nod. She took out her mobile from bag, held it on her lap and started typing. Everybody checked their mobiles with a beep sound.

"Mine... I got a message... it's my phone" said Arnav showing his mobile in his hand, with a slight irritation. Everybody looked at Arnav, and continued their talks with each other.

"Oh... so... you want to stay with her all the time? And do you really think you can stop me letting Khushi know about your feelings. Nope... LG... You can't" he looked around him. His mobile again beeped

"Na... don't look around. You can't recognise me. I'm in front of you... but u can't"

Arnav immediately looked at Khushi, who is whispering something to NK and Payal while giggling. 'Why am I thinking like this about Khushi? Is there any chance for Sneha to be Khushi? But Khushi's mobile is here only' he thought.

"Khushi do you have two mobiles?" suddenly he asked

"Ji?"

"I'm asking do you to have two mobiles?" asked Arnav.

"No..."

"Let me check your bag." He stood up from his seat and went to Khushi side. He checked her bag very carefully while Khushi is heart pacing in a jet speed. If he looked at Khushi at that time, he could have catch Sneha. But he didn't find any. He sighed deeply and went to his side. But what he missed there with the trio is NK grabbing the phone from Khushi, before Arnav comes to their side.

"What's happened Arnav... why are you behaving like this? What's wrong with you?" asked Aman with an irritation in his tone.

Arnav looked at Khushi and said "I'm sorry Khushi. I don't want to hurt you, but I just want to clear some things. I'm sorry."

Everybody looked at him surprised.

"It's ok Arnav Ji... no problem... I didn't feel bad" she said

Everybody sat there for some time and went to their classes. When they are moving from there, Khushi took her mobile from NK to message. She quickly gave mobile to NK after finishing message.

Arnav looked at his mobile which beeped with Sneha's message.

"Why are you bothering that poor girl? There is nothing to do with her. Don't bother her much LG. Otherwise you may lose her."

This is enough for Arnav to lose his temper. He quickly messaged back

"Look Sneha, I accepted you as my friend. But that doesn't mean you can say whatever you want. Watch your tongue before you talk anything about my Angel. Otherwise I won't spare you. Don't ever dare to say those words again. I won't accept it"

When mobile beeped, NK shoved Khushi for letting her know about message. Before she took the mobile and read the message, they saw Arnav turning back and looking at them. Before he say something, Khushi's mobile, which is with her, started ringing. She excused herself and went little far from others and answered the call.

"Hello"

"Hi Khushi... how are you?" a male voice asked

"Who is this?"

"Answering my question with another question? Don't say that you didn't recognise my voice"

"Sorry, but I didn't" she said

"Oh really? Sad to hear that. No problem, just look at your front at the big tree. You will find me there" the man said.

When she looked at that angle which he said, she froze at her place.

...to be continued