Part 3 Love Hating Girl

Khushi was horrified knowing who the lady she saved was. She was Arnav Singh Riazada's Nani and Chotte was none other than Arnav Singh Raizada. So, what? she helped his Nani who was helpless. She was just there to drop Nani home. Arnav was so busy he could not even attend his Nani's call. then why should she be scared?

Khushi took Nani to her room. She made her sit on the bed comfortably.

"Do you want something Naniji?"

"I feel to drink hot water. Could you call Hari Prakash?" Nani said.

"Who is he?"

"He is our servant"

"Ok... wait, I will call him"

"The kitchen is on the left side"

"Ok"

Khushi came out, looking for Hari Prakash.

"Hari Prkashji..."

HP peeped from the kitchen.

"Are you Hari Prakash?"

"Jee"

"Naniji wants hot water"

"You?"

"I'm Khushi... Nani's friend"

"Oh... I will bring hot water" HP smiled.

Khushi walked back to Nani's room. She stopped seeing ASR entering home like a cyclone. No need to say he became furious seeing the same girl who broke his car mirror. How dare she stand in front of him, that too in his house.!

"You...? What the hell are you doing here? How did you enter my premise? Who allowed you in? Don't you have any other work than following me? Won't you let me be at peace?"

"You are talking too much Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada..."

"Shut up... you have no right to talk to me. I don't have time to talk to a cheap-minded woman like you"

"Cheap? Me?"

"Then what? how dare you break my car mirror?"

"You hit my cycle. What about that?"

"I do not owe to answer you. Get out of my house..."

"Whaaat?"

"I said get outttt" he shirked making her jerk.

Without any second thought, Khushi left RM without wasting a single minute. She felt humiliated. How dare he shout at her? Was Arnav Singh Raizada that haughty-headed man? She gritted her teeth. The man who provided beautiful music to the world had a heart full of poison. He was nothing but a bitter guard. Khushi left the place with teary eyes.

Arnav took a step towards Nani's room and stopped seeing Nani rushing out, calling,

"Khushi bitiya..."

Arnav looked at Nani and then the gate that was already closed by Khushi.

"What did you do Chotte? Can't you control your anger for a while?"

"Nani, she broke my car mirror"

Nani got stuck.

"Khushi, broke your car mirror?"

"Yes..."

"Tell me the full scenario... what happened before that?"

Arnav was silent.

"You should have done something that should have made her do that"

"Nani, I came to meet you hearing that you are admitted to the hospital and you are fighting with me for a useless girl"

"Oh... you came hearing my illness? When Chotte? After I got discharged from the hospital... and for your kind information, she is not a useless girl. She was the one who admitted me to the hospital... she stayed with me for the whole night... took care of me... paid the hospital bill. Until she comes here, she didn't know who am I. You have hurt a selfless soul, Chotte."

Arnav was horrified. Was she the one who talked to him on phone? He thought she was a nurse who belonged to the hospital.

"This is why people are not minding anyone who faints in front of them because their services are not getting recognized. Poor girl... I didn't even give them the money she spent for me. Before that, you insulted her shouting unnecessarily"

"What's the big deal, tell me her address. I will send her money back"

"This is not a matter of money, Chotte. Her intention was pure. I fainted in the temple. I don't even know how she took me to the hospital. She didn't even tell me anything about her. then how do I give the money back?"

"Relax, Nani... you take rest... you are already weak"

"I was weak. Because of Khushi, I'm fine now. The way she got treated in our house makes me guilty, Chotte..." she went to her room.

Arnav felt bad for shouting at Khushi. How did he know she was the one who took care of his Nani? Nani was the only relation he had. But he failed to give her a helping hand at the right time. More than that, he scolded the person who helped his Nani being in his place. He wanted to meet the girl. Not to apologize for his previous behavior but to thank her for saving his Nani.

But... it didn't happen that easily. He could not meet the girl. How could he meet her without having any details about her location?

Nani looked rigid toward Arnav. That was enough to make Arnav bothered but he didn't know what to do. He knew he did wrong. So, he kept silent. But he didn't stop searching for the girl. His eyes wandered around, wherever he went which he never did before.

On the other side, Nani was also searching for Khushi but not like Arnav did. She had her own way to do that. She went to the same temple every day expecting Khushi there. She didn't know Khushi visited the temple only on Fridays. So Nani had to wait for one week to meet Khushi. Her expectation didn't go in vain. Khushi came to the temple that week also. Nani was delighted to see Khushi in the temple.

Khushi prayed to close her eyes. She opened her eyes feeling a soft touch on her shoulder. She turned around and saw Nani standing.

"Naniji... you...?" she became excited.

"Don't worry, I won't faint again" Nani smiled.

"Even though you faint I won't call your Chotte and definitely won't come to your home"

Nani's face lost its charm.

"I'm sorry bitiya..."

Cutting her,

"You don't have to be sorry, Naniji. Everyone knows about your Chotte. Just leave him..."

"I can't leave him, bitiya... because he has no one other than me. If I leave him, he will break down into pieces"

Khushi got stuck hearing her talking about Arnav emotionally.

"You said everyone knows about him. No... no one knows about him. No one knows what he went through in his life. Usually, we won't share it with anyone but I feel to tell you because you are not like others."

Khushi was looking at her without interrupting her.

"People always loved to be loved and love to love but my Chotte fears of love."

Khushi frowned.

"Fears of love?"

"Yes... what would he do if he had gained only pain and wound from his loved ones?"

"Whom you are talking about? Did he love someone?"

"No... I'm talking about Chotte's parents"

"Where are they?"

"They are in Delhi only but with their respective partners"

"Whaaaat?"

"Yes... when Arnav was ten years old, they got divorced and married to someone..."

"Arnavjiiii...?"

"He was left alone. They left him in the hostel. Whenever I called him, he cried. His parents almost have forgotten him. After one year, I brought him to my house. At that time, he was not the same Arnav who I knew. He was a changed boy, completely. He stopped interacting with anyone and stopped having friends. Only a few guys consider him as their friend." He let out a painful chuckle.

"He had seen nothing but his parent's fight always. Whenever they got angry, Chotte was the one who became their punching bag. he was too small to even oppose them. What could a small boy do going against his parents? I wanted to bring him to my house. But I thought his parents are together only for Arnav but I was wrong. his father got committed with another woman and my daughter found someone for herself."

Khushi gulped down hard.

"He was not a bad guy, bitiya. He loses his temper swiftly. He fails to control himself... but he is a nice guy, Bitiya..."

Khushi nodded ok.

"I will be happy if you come to our house"

Khushi looked at her hesitatingly.

"Chotte won't get angry with you... I'm sure about it. please come..."

"What if he fights with me?"

"I will give you full rights to fight with him back"

"Then your Chotte will run away from your house" Khushi laughed.

"He won't," she said confidently.

"Let's see..."

"Will you come?"

Khushi nodded ok.

"Thank you, bitiya"

The next day

Khushi came to Raizada Mansion. To her surprise, the security allowed her in without a single question. She got rooted at the same place, seeing Arnav descending the stairs. She walked to Nani's room without giving him heed even though she was well prepared to handle Arnav.

"Hey, you..." Arnav called her.

She looked at him shrinking her eyes.

"I don't know you are the one who saved my Nani. I thought..."

"That's ok..." she smiled and again took a step.

"Thank you so much for your timing help," Arnav said.

"You are most welcome" Khushi smiled pleasantly.

"Why are you smiling too much? Just because I thanked you don't have any OTHER ideas and float in dreams... this is not a place to have romantic ideas... mind it..." Arnav said rigidly and was above to go,

"One minute Mr. Raizada..." she stopped him with a harsh tone.

Arnav looked at her turning his face.

"What do you think of yourself? Just because you have good features, do you think anyone will fall for you?"

Arnav got stuck.

"I just smiled at you for a simple courtesy. You take it wrongly. I think according to you, smiling is CRIME. Whatever, keep your ideas within you. I am not here with any romantic ideas and definitely will not think of you."

Arnav was about to say something, she started walking while talking to herself,

"Why people are always ending up with DAMN love... don't know why people fall in love and die for love. Completely a waste of time...silly people... Neither I'm ready to love nor do I ready to die" she went to Nani's room smiling inwardly.

Arnav stood frowning. Did she hate love... just like he did? That was the first time he heard a girl talking like that, that too in front of him. he had always seen cheesy and clingy girls. *Love hating girl* was someone he never met. It seemed she was HIS type. He wanted to check because he could not believe it. He waited in the living room for Khushi.

After a while, Khushi took leave from Nani and came out. She walked out without reacting to Arnav's presence. She passed the living room ignoring him. Of course, she knew he was there. Arnav was thunderstruck. No girl on the earth ever ignored him as Khushi did.

He rushed out and look at Khushi who was riding her bicycle that he banged with his car the other day.

To be continued...