"Did he find out? Was he mad?" Khushi asked nervously.

"Very, he and Arjun even went out to look for you. You my dear are in trouble." Suman said.

Khushi walked towards her as she settled down on the bed nervously, she then turned to look at Suman and slapped her on the arms.

"You think you can fool me? I know my brothers better than anyone, if they had found out I wasn't around, they would have actually found me already."

"Jeez, why did you have to hit me so hard, I was just messing around." Suman pouted.

"That's why I hit you. Idiot. For a moment you got me so scared and all I wanted was to be happy about my first date."

"So how was it?" Suman asked as she looked at her excitedly.

"Perfect, he is such a great guy. Damn I wish we had a chance to meet again, go for another date, but well even this one date was so perfect." Khushi said as all the things replayed in her mind, somehow she couldn't just take Arnav's face off her mind, and she couldn't stop smiling like an idiot.

"I need details." Suman said, Khushi nodded as she started explaining each and every thing in details to her.

*****

Khushi looked at Suman who was deep asleep now, as for her, she couldn't sleep, she couldn't stop thinking about the date and about Arnav, it was the excitement and everything that wouldn't just let her sleep.

She picked up her phone and started scrolling through Instagram when she saw a text she had from Mr. Writer.

'Hey Talkative girl, where are you busy, you haven't texted in a while.'

'Are you missing me?' Khushi giggled as she typed the reply.

'Maybe I am.'

'Is that why you aren't asleep yet?'

'You wish. I just couldn't sleep so thought I'd text you, seems like you are missing me that's why you can't sleep.

'Duh. I don't miss people I've never met.' Khushi rolled her eyes as if she was talking to him face to face.

'Then meet me.'

'Yes so you can kidnap me or worse, kill me and harvest my organs. No way Mr. Writer!'

'I see you have trust issues. What if someday you end up falling in love with me?' The text was accompanied by a wink emoji.

'I know you wrote that kind of a story but things like that don't happen in real life.'

'Well maybe you are right. So anyway tell me something, what did you do today?'

'I told you I was travelling yeah, so just going around and having fun. Holidays are great.'

'Not mine, I'm just at home, went out with friends for a while but that was it.'

'Is that what you are worrying about which isn't letting you sleep?'

'Nope. I met a girl and I think I like her too much, that's what's worrying me.'

'Why is that something to worry about? Tell her how much you like her, problem solved.'

'I can't.'

'Why not?'

'It's complicated.'

'Well then try to uncomplicated it. I think I need to sleep for now, I have sightseeing to do tomorrow and I don't want to be sleepy.'

'Do you just want to sleep or are you jealous I like a girl?' Another wink emoji.

'If you just said all that to see if it would make me jealous or not, sorry to tell you it dint work.'

'Damn it!'

'Goodnight Mr. Writer.' Khushi giggled to herself, this guy was really funny.

'Goodnight talkative girl.'

*****

"So, what are we doing today?" Khushi asked excitedly, she had this smile on her face that wouldn't just go away. All of them were currently having their breakfast in some restaurant and after that they were to go explore the town.

"We planned to start with mall road for some shopping and then later we can go see the Gorton castle, I know you like such castle kind of things, anyway we hired a tour guide so he will take us places for today and tomorrow, we don't have to worry about anything." Rudra said.

"Yayy, I'm so excited." Khushi said happily.

"Aren't you a little too much excited? You have this stupid smile on your face that isn't going away." Prem said as he looked at Khushi seriously.

Suman nudged her silently as Khushi gave her a look, only they both knew the reason behind the smile and she dint want to die early by telling her brothers the reason.

"I'm just happy and excited, this place is fun." Khushi said.

"Stop acting too strict Prem, she's just smiling." Arjun came to her defense.

"You see this is why you are my favorite brother." Khushi smirked at Arjun.

"Hey." Rudra lifted his hands up in the air.

"You too. Chill bro, you all are my favorite." She laughed and then turned to look at Krystle who was silently eating without saying much.

"How was your night Krystle?" Khushi asked.

"Good." She blushed. Obviously the blush gave away some hints to Khushi regarding which she was definitely going to talk to her in private. She hoped her little cupid thing was working.

Once they were done with the breakfast, they all headed back to the car, got inside and headed for shopping like Rudra had said.

"I love shopping, I'm going to make sure all your pockets are empty by the time we leave." Khushi said to her three brothers.

"Sure, we earn all this money for you." Rudra smiled as he pulled her cheeks lovingly. In no time, they arrived at the mall road, so they made two groups, boys and girls so they could shop for their stuff and get done with it without wasting much time.

Khushi Suman and Krystle headed inside the first shop, Suman immediately saw a top she liked and decided to try it on while Krystle and Khushi looked around for other things.

"So, what happened last night?" Khushi asked Krystle.

"Nothing." Krystle smiled, the blush still on her face.

"Oh Come on! That blush gives it away, plus you know you can tell me anything, I won't tell anyone."

"Okay fine. I mean I do notice the efforts you put in bring Arjun and me closer, so you definitely know things more than you should.

Anyway, last night I couldn't sleep alone in my room, I'm just not used to, even at home, mom and I sleep in the same room, I'm just scared of sleeping alone.

So instead of sleeping I decided to head out and roam for a while, once I was done I head back to my room and bumped into Arjun on the way, he asked me why I wasn't sleeping and I explained my situation to him." She continued blushing, her face was all red by now.

"What next, don't stop at the interesting part?"

"He offered to sleep in my room or I sleep in his room and he would sleep on the couch. Your brother is such a gentleman."

"That he is. I can't believe you slept in the same room, it's so unlike of him."

"I know, I mean until today I was just his secretary, we dint know much about each other, but yesterday, we talked about a lot of things and I think we're becoming friends."

"I love that." I smiled at her, I was the happiest person to know that at least they had gotten to the friendship stage.

"How's it?" Suman asked flaunting the top as she walked out of the changing room.

"Lose, try a smaller size." Khushi said, Suman nodded as she headed to get a smaller size.

"What about you. I'm sure there's something with this smile that doesn't just go away." Krystle asked.

"It's nothing." Khushi looked away from her.

"Oh come on, you can tell me, I also told you things I shouldn't."

"Well that's because I'm not going to tell anyone, you might end up telling Arjun."

"I promise I won't. Come on girl talk."

"Okay fine, I sneaked out last night and went on a date. He was a good guy, I had met him before in Mumbai so yeah, it was fun, I just can't stop thinking about it." Khushi smiled.

"Wait, don't your brothers want you to stay away from boys?"

"Exactly why I had to sneak out. You can't tell anyone, you promised."

"Okay I won't but... sneaking out. Wow. That must have been scary and adventurous."

"I tell you." Khushi smiled.

"Khushi?" She heard a familiar voice, she turned around immediately and saw Arnav standing at the entrance of the shop.

Kitne door door ho... unn dono ke raaste...
Miljate hai jo bane... Ek duje ke vaaste...

"Arnav!" Khushi looked at him in surprise wondering whether this was just a coincidence or what.