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Part 40:

"Khushi I Love you..."

She bent her eyes to the floor. He can see the shyness in her eyes and face. But what he heard next left him overwhelmed "I Love you too Arnav Ji..."

"Khushi..." he couldn't say more than her name. She nodded her head in approval. He bent to kiss her. He started it a bit hesitatingly, thinking she may get scared with his approach. But when he got no objection or rejection, he didn't feel any need to hesitate. So, the kiss turned into a passionate one.

"Ahhh.... Arnav... Jiiiiiiiiiiiiii.... Ahhh.... hmmmmm" she threw her head back to give him more access to her neck.

He is kissing her neck senselessly. He is becoming crazier with her response. His hands travelled through her feminine parts.

"I never thought you will be this much responsive Khushi. You are making me crazy. I couldn't control myself. Khushi I want you... I need you... Now..."

"Who said you to control Arnav Ji? I'm all yours. Take me... pleasure me... I want you too, as much you wanted me. Make me yours Arnav Ji. I love you..."

His heart swelled in happiness with her confession and her surrendering. He looked at her lovingly and whispered in her eyes "I love you too Khushi... thanks for accepting me in your life" he paused for few moments looking into her eyes intently "I promise you Khushi... whenever you are in need I will be there for you... always... till my last breath; and whenever I need you, I want you to beside me till my last breathe... Khushi... I want you as mine... mine in all ways... Only mine... I mean..." his words stopped in middle with her response "I know Arnav Ji... I'm all yours...," saying this she kissed his lips, giving him the permission for what he is waiting for. With her permission, he captured her lips with much passion with closed eyes.

"AHHHH... Arnav Ji..." she screamed in sudden pain in her lower parts with the intrusion of him.

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Arnav opened his eyes with her scream. He is panting heavily. His heart is beating in high speed. "Khushi?" he called for her, looking around to get no response. He looked at his fully dressed form. He ran his hand in his hair with a frustrated sigh. "Not again..." he cursed himself under his breath.

"What's wrong with you Arnav? You are dreaming about Khushi in such a way? How could you do that?" he pulled his hair with frustration while pacing around the room. His trance broke with the loud knock on the door

"Arnav?" Aman is at the door.

Arnav sighed deeply before opening the door. But for his surprise he saw all his family members in front of his door including his and Aman's parents.

"Um... what's wrong? Why are you all here? Is everything ok?" asked Arnav.

"Actually we heard a shout from your room Chote... We are tensed and want to check with you. Are you ok Chote?" asked Akshaya, his mother.

"Um... yeah Mom... I am fine. Perfectly fine... actually I'm watching a movie..." he left his sentence in a meaningful way feeling embarrassed.

"Oh... we felt tensed when we heard some shout from your room. Are you sure you are fine?" asked Saritha – Aman's mother.

Arnav nodded his head assuring them that he is indeed fine.

"Fine then... everybody let's go to sleep. Good night Arnav." said Suraj, Aman's father.

"Good Night Mamu" Arnav tried to close the door. He got surprised to see irritated Aman entering his room.

"What the... Aman... I want to sleep now. Why are you here?"

"Yeah... sleeping and dreaming... other than this what we can do..."

"Aman... if you want to say anything, say straight. Don't beat around the bush"

"Did you kiss Khushi today?"

Arnav was shocked to hear the straight question. But he couldn't hide the answer from Aman, when he is hell serious mode. He nodded his head in agree

"How could you Arnav? How could you do that in college? What if anyone sees you both? What if anyone tries to spoil Khushi's image?"

"What? What are you saying Aman?"

"I'm just..." Aman remembered his promise to Khushi about not telling anything to Arnav. "I'm just worried about Khushi. What if anybody tries to spoil her image, because, you chose Khushi in whole college? What if anybody tries to hurt her?"

"Aman... Why am I having this feeling, that you are hiding something from me?"

"Hmm..." he sighed deeply and continued "Today, when I went to library, I saw Choti sitting there in a bad mood" Aman informed

"May be she doesn't have class that time" Arnav guessed the reason

"No... She missed her class purposefully. I confirmed that" Aman told the truth

"What? She bunked the class?" Arnav surprised to hear "She never does that"

"That's the thing, which is bothering me Arnav. I asked her about this. But as usual she refused to tell me. May be you should ask her"

"But why didn't she want to tell us?"

"Maybe she is avoiding taking help from us. Maybe she is trying to 'take care of herself'"

"Has she gone mad? I said sorry about that and requested her to forget whatever I said. Then..."

"You said sorry to her?"

"Yes, Aman... I cleared everything between us. I said sorry for whatever I said. I asked her to be comfortable with me. I don't want her to face any problems. I asked her to be with me. I said to her that I need her in my life. I needed her support in my life."

"You PROPOSED her? I mean did you say you love her? What did she say? Did she love you?" asked astonished Aman.

"She didn't say anything but I know she loves me."

"How can you be that sure?"

"For god sake we kissed each other two damn good times Aman. Who will kiss a man without loving him?"

"What? Ok... first tell me, did you use 'I love you' to her?"

"Yes, I mean NO... I didn't say. But what's the need to say? Can't she understand – after whatever we shared – that I love her? Is it really necessary to word it?" asked Arnav confusedly.

"Without saying that you love her, you kissed her two damn good times? What if she thinks that you kissed her with some other feeling, like lust?"

Arnav looked Aman with shocking expression.

"Don't look at me with that expression. It's a simple thing Arnav. Without expressing our feelings nobody can understand us fully. Somewhat they may misunderstand us. And she still is avoiding us in the matter of her safety. She took your words seriously Arnav. You have to make her understand that you will be there for her all the time, whatever happened. Propose her Arnav... make her think she is not alone here. Make her trust the reality that she has you. You need to... don't be late Arnav... don't lose her... don't let anyone to destroy YOUR or HER life. Please... please Arnav... be serious about her" he almost begged Arnav, remembering Rahul's words.

"Of course Aman... I'm serious about her. Why are you looking so tensed? Is there anything I should know? Today, Khushi was very upset and you are looking so tense! What's wrong with you two?" asked Arnav.

"Nothing... I'm worried about Khushi..."

"Khushi?" Arnav raised his eyebrow. "I see..." he paused few seconds observing Aman's face and continued "you are mentioning your CHOTI as KHUSHI... it means something serious happened in my absence. Fine, don't tell me. But remember one thing Aman, I'm ASR... I can find out the truth in my own way. Let me warn you and your Choti that if I find anything myself, which I should know by you two people, which you are not telling me, then I won't spare you both. I won't spare any nonsense in Khushi's matter. Ok?"

"Thanks Arnav..."

"And don't worry... I will propose Khushi soon. Just relax..." he is looking intently in Aman's eyes not missing at least a blink.

"Ok then... I will leave now... it's already late" saying this, Aman left the room not looking into Arnav.

"Late!? When 11 at night became late for Aman? Something is really wrong with him. I need to find out"

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She is pacing in her room with tension. She doesn't know what to do now. Rahul's words are ringing and again. "Anything like spoiling your image in college or something else related to in her mind again your Arnav Ji" she can't let anything happened to Arnav. She closed her eyes in fear to lose her relation with Arnav. She couldn't understand what to do. When, she opened her eyes, she saw Devi Mayya's smiling face.

'What should I do Devi Mayya? I do not understand anything. I'm scared Devi Mayya. I knew very well about Arnav Ji's anger. If he knows about Rahul's threat to me, then he will either kill me for not telling him about this or will kill Rahul for threatening me. Who knows, he may kill both of us. But what if something happened to him, when he fixes this mess? I don't want him to get hurt Devi Mayya. I want him to be safe and sound. I couldn't tell him about this at the same time, I can't stop myself from telling him. Not that he asked me to take care of myself, but I'm scared of hurting him. Help me Devi Mayya. What should I do..." her personal talk with her DM got disturbed by her phone ring. She sighed and answered the call seeing the screen displaying 'Arnav Ji'

"Hello Arnav Ji..."

"Hi Khushi... how are you? You looked upset when I left you at hostel. Is everything ok? Is anything I should know?"

"Wo... Um..."

"What is it Khushi?"

"Nothing... I'm just worried about Rahul. What if he comes back and..."

"I already said that I will take care of him. You have to trust me Khushi. You have to trust me that I will be always with you. I won't let anything happened to you. Just tell me what's wrong?"

"I'm not worried about myself Arnav Ji. I'm worried about you" she whispered

"What? Khushi did you say something?"

"No... Nothing"

"Khushi... let me clear one thing before we drop this call. I already said this to Aman, now I'm telling you. Remember Khushi, I'm ASR... I can find out the truth in my own way. Let me warn you as I did to your brother Aman, that, if I find anything myself, which I should know by you two people, which you are not telling me, then I won't spare you both."

Khushi kept quite as now, she very well know that Arnav is in angry mode.

"Are you listening?"

"Hmm..."

"I may leave Aman... but not you. Yaad rakhna..."

"Ji"

"Fine... I will drop the call now. See you tomorrow" with that he dropped the call.

'Soch lo Khushi... agar Arnav Ji ne kehdiya to... (Think Khushi, if Arnav ji said...) he will do that for sure. Before he kills you its better you should say him about Rahul and his threat. Otherwise, wo tume zinda nahi chodega (Otherwise, he will not leave you alive)' thought Khushi. 'Kya karoon? (What should I do?)' after thinking for some good moments she dialled his number. The call answered in first ring itself.

"Yeah Khushi... Why did you call me? Just now we talked. What's wrong?"

"Arnav Ji... I want to say something to you"

"So, you care about yourself and your brother. Good... tell me"

"Of course I care... but not about me..." she paused for some time and continued "about Aman Bhai and... And... About you"

'It's surely a new thing to know' thought Arnav. "About me? How?" asked Arnav.

"Did you remember I got a call in the morning and I stayed back to answer?"

"So?", curiosity is clear in his voice.

"That call was from Rahul" she said calmly, expecting the shout from other side. And as expected here comes the shout

"WHAT? That Idiot called YOU and you are telling me NOW? How dare you?"

"Arnav Ji... I'm scared" she said in low voice

"Scared of what? Scared of me?" asked Arnav with little soft voice

"..."

"Come on Khushi tell me... what did he say?"

"Wo... Um... Wo... Arnav Ji... he... told... he told me..." she is praying to DM to control his anger

"I'm waiting Khushi... tell me damn it" he shouted

"He told me that, if I won't ask him for forgiveness he will... he will spoil... my... and... your image in college" she said

"I want to hear in full detail Khushi" Arnav ordered

She closed her eyes and told him everything about her and Rahul's argument. She can easily guess the anger rising in him.

"So, what did you think to do?" he asked controlling his anger

"Wo... I thought to ask..." she couldn't complete her words with the shout on the other side.

"Are you mad Khushi? How can you ask forgiveness from that Idiot, when you are not at fault? How can you think like that? I never expected this from you Khushi. I thought you are a brave girl. But... but..."

"Arnav Ji... can you please listen to me what I'm saying first? If you think I did wrong then shout at me, scold me. But not before listening to my words" her request turned into an aggressive order when she comes to ending. Arnav was taken aback with her aggressive tone. He controlled his anger somewhat and got ready to listen to hear her

"Listen to me carefully Mr. Raizada. I never ever ask forgiveness if I'm not at fault. When will you learn to control you anger? Why can't you listen to others words completely without getting angry on them? Now listen, I don't want to say sorry to that idiot. I just thought to ask some suggestion from Aman Bhai about what to do or not. That is the reason I told everything to him about my argument with Rahul. And let me clear you one thing, before you accuse me about not telling you – I don't want Rahul to hurt you. I don't want you to take any risk in your anger. You are so bad at your anger Mr. Raizada. Fine... I'm dropping the call now... good night" she disconnected the call after shouting at him.

He looked at the mobile screen to understand what had happened 'What the hell happened now? Did she shout at me? How dare she?' thought Arnav. He called her immediately to ask about her dare the call was disconnected by the receiver.

"What the!!!" he sighed deeply "This girl will make me crazy one day" he gritted his teeth. He threw his mobile on bed and lay on bed to sleep. But sleep is far away now. "I don't want Rahul to hurt you. I don't want you to take any risk in your anger. You are so bad at your anger Mr. Raizada" her words kept ringing in his ears. A small smile appeared on his face. Thinking about their heated conversation, he drifted into sleep.

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"Hello..." he answered his mobile with sleepy voice

"Hello Lad Governor... Good Morning... How are you?"

He looked at the mobile screen. It showed 'Sneha" and turned his face to the wall clock which is showing 5 in the morning. He left a weak sigh and got ready to listen to his new crazy friend's blabber.

...to be continued