5: Arrived

" So for today this temple is done , this one was a smaller one , whenever you are free next , can show you the rest of the three small ones and the main one. Okay?" Khushi asked. It was almost noon now .Arnav had taken many measurements and notes of the small temple .

"So..let's proceed to home now.."

"Wait... that makes the number of the temple edifices only five .....what happened to the sixth one?"Arnav asked.

"H...H..how do you know there was a sixth one ?" Khushi questioned him. It had been so many years since that edifice had burnt in a mishap and that one was a private temple about which only some old locals knew . How did this foreigner know about this?

" I had asked that tea stall person near the gates about the temple that old fellow told me that there were 6 edifices .Did he get mistaken ?" he shrugged pretending to not know anything.

"There used to be a sixth edifice , almost ten years ago it was destroyed by mistake ." Khushi said turning elsewhere , not looking towards him.

"Whose mistake ?" his eyes turned red as pain and passion clashed in his mind. He clenched his fists to control himself. She turned to look into his eyes.

At that time one temple official interrupted them

"Khushi ji the pandits wanted to have a talk with you."

"Ya sure , I am coming ....um bye ASR." saying this she went away taking a long breath.

Arnav looked at her retreating self with bloodshot eyes.

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6pm,Khushi s POV:

I went straight to my room tired from today's work at the office , the temple mahotsav's preparation had already started making me busier than ever. The pandits wanted to talk to me about the havan they would like to conduct in the temple premises before the mahotsav so that it proceeds peacefully. They decided the date of day after tomorrow for the hawan.Icompletely agreed with them . I didn't want anything bad to happen this time like it had with the Kashyap family about 15 years ago.

I went and directly slumped on my bed , after removing my chappals . I had requested Maa and Babuji to go to lucknow to meet the chief minister so as to invite him for the temple mahotsav. So they left by car today around two hours ago. Ira and Esha were having some fest in their college , so they were busy in that only .

Mama- mami ji could care less about whether I am at home or not . They are busy with their own stuff..... their drowning business!

I removed my laptop from under my table. i had hidden it from the world and bought it ever so secretly after selling a pair of earrings one of my fiancé had given to me long ago. I cant even remember his name, I laughed.

I hummed the tune of my favourite song and opened my facebook account to look at the updates from my friends. A new friend request ? Who is it?

Arnav Singh Raizada.?

He created his account a day ago . no other friends except all major tycoons in the world. Shivaay Singh Oberoi , Mark Zuckerberg , Dwayne Johnson, barack Obama,Narendra modi  and who not..........How can I come in this list? So I declined his friend request.

" Why did you decline my friend request?" Arnav said as he burst into my room hitting my doors harshly . I turned on my bed so as to cover myself with a bed sheet as I had removed my saree pallu.

"What are you doing in my house , in my room?" I shrieked.

" The room adjacent to yours is mine now , I have paid 10 lakhs for it." He simply shrugged .

My mouth opened wide along with my eyes. 10 lakhs for a room?

"Aapke paas kya paison ka ped hai?( do you have a tree on which money grows.) ten lakhs for that room !"I said.

" Why ? I liked it so , I bought it for myself , I wanted to buy the whole house, but then what would I do of such a huge property in prayagraj when I would be here only for sometime . I wanted to study the architecture of this house also , while my colleagues are studying the architecture of some nearby ancient cities like Varanasi and lucknow."

"But that room is burnt!"

"I know that, I saw all the rooms in the house and I made my choice , I liked it's dark walls.. your mother gave me the keys to that room."

"Aren't you going to get it renovated?"

"I just told ms. Khushi , I liked its dark walls. I wont get those burns removed."

"Oh ...you are so weird , I mean who likes to live in a burned place."

"None of your business." he gritted his teeth.

"Then why I deleted your friend request is also none of your business."I replied shrugging my shoulders." How did you come to know that I denied your request?"

"I hacked your account simple." He said as he came and sat on my bed.

"I thought English men are polite and graceful and gentlemen, you toh are invading my privacy openly! Entering my room and my facebook account!" I shrieked at him making him close his ears.

"Shut up! I want to talk to you .

I heard there is some havan day after tomorrow?"

"Yes there is , so that the mahotsav goes on peacefully this time , unlike last time when everything was a huge mess." I said as I managed to make my saree proper and stood up.

"What happened last time.?"

I stood rooted on my place as I saw his expression changing into a deadly , notorious one.I gulped the lump which formed in my throat.

"Hello hi bye bye! Raizada saab , what are you doing in Khushi bitiya's room?" mami barged in staring at the unfolded sheets on the bed along with Arnav sitting at its corner.

I looked at arnav in shock.

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Long timeee na!
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