ARNAV

It was a strange feeling, not like I really had anything important back home but I was sort of excited to go back home, and then finally from there we head back to India, we needed to get back to work.

The house seemed pretty silent when I arrived so I guessed Rahat must have gone out and Khushi must be reading. I left the servants to handle my luggage as I rushed inside, I don't know why but I had this urge to see Khushi, it was strange.

As I walked in, I found her seated in the hall, as expected engrossed in reading. This girl was going to be really successful one day given how much effort she was putting into studying even when she was working for us, I liked how ambitious she was, it was beautiful.

She had a pen in between her lips, and a few strands of hair falling on her face every now and then which she kept on blowing off with her mouth or tucking it behind her ear and I just stood there, staring at her and admiring her while she dint even notice I was there.

Then suddenly, Rahat came out of the kitchen, slowly tip toeing with a bowl in his hand, it was a plastic bowl which was opaque so I couldn't really see the content inside it.

He gestured to me to be quiet as he walked closer to Khushi and in no time, he poured some water on top of her.

She opened her mouth wide in shock as she immediately turned to look at him, she stood up and started running behind him so she could beat him up and here I was, still standing the in the same position admiring everything about this girl.

How she made faces as she ran behind Rahat, how she kept on pouting every time she would nearly get hold of him but then miss and how sweet her voice sounded as she kept on shouting his name.

What was wrong with me? Why was I noticing each and every detail about her and why was all of it so attractive?

"Bro, save me from this girl." Rahat laughed as he came and hid himself behind me.

"Sir, move away please, I'm going to get my revenge." Khushi said as she tried to get hold of him but Rahat kept on pushing me towards her.

"Okay can you two both stop it now?" I said.

"He started it." Khushi said like a kid.

"Look I am not your father Rahat, neither am I yours Khushi, so it's not my job to stop you two from behaving like kids." I said as I looked at the both of them seriously.

"What happened bro, you seem in a mood." Rahat asked.

"Nothing, it was the only way I could stop you two, by pretending to be angry." I smiled.

"Nope, I'm not stopping until I get my revenge, be prepared Rahat." She said as she quickly rushed to the kitchen while I turned to look at Rahat.

"And since when did you two become friends? I can see you've started playing pranks on each other?" I asked Rahat.

"While you were gone, I realized you were right, she isn't bad." Rahat smiled.

"You see I told you, you always misjudge people." I shrugged.

"Okay sir, move aside." Khushi said as she walked in with a jug of water, I tried to move aside but Rahat got hold of me and pulled me back and by then Khushi had already splashed the water which came on me.

"Oh shit." She bit her lips nervously.

"You couldn't get me, too bad." Rahat laughed at her as he ran away before Khushi could beat him up, she looked really angry on him anyway.

"I am sorry sir, I dint mean to..." She said as she rushed towards me and started cleaning my coat as if it had dust over it.

It was cute how nervous she was, all I could do was stare at her and admire everything about her.

"You should change otherwise you might catch a cold." She said.

"So should you Khushi." I said.

"Yeah I'll go change, you change too." She said to me as she quickly rushed to her room as I rushed to mine but instead of changing, I stood in front of the mirror looking at my wet shirt.

I don't know why I was feeling this way suddenly, why I was admiring everything about her or why I was even getting attracted to her, it was really strange for me, I had never felt this kind of feelings before so I dint even know what they were.

I brushed off the thoughts as I unbuttoned my shirt and pulled it off as I threw it on the floor, before I could unzip my pants, the door opened and Khushi walked in.

"Sir I just got a call..." She stopped as she realized she had walked in while I was changing and more specifically shirtless.

"Shit, I am sorry I forgot to knock." She put her hands on her face shutting her eyes.

"Okay now I am offended." I smiled as I walked closer to her.

"Why are you offended sir?" she asked with her hands still over her eyes.

"I dint think I had such a terrible body that a girl would look at it and shut her eyes immediately." I tried to hide my giggle, was I try to flirt? If I was, it was a terrible way to flirt, and why the hell was I even flirting in the first place?

"No sir, you actually..." She said as she took her hands off and looked at me once again, staring at my bare chest with her eyes wide open and she was speechless.

"What happened?" I smirked.

"You have an amazing body, those abs." She blushed as she turned the other way.

"Khushi, are you shy of seeing a man shirtless?" I laughed, it was fun teasing her.

"No sir, it's not that. Actually I have seen a lot of yours and Rahat's images in the magazines that were shirtless but..."

"But what?"

"I don't know, it's just different seeing it in real, but you do have an amazing body and those abs too, my friend Arohi keeps talking about them always, she's so crazy she keeps saying she wants to touch them in real." She laughed.

"I see, I dint know girls out there have such weird fantasies." I laughed, it was funny, why would any girl want to touch my abs? Would I even want anyone to touch them? Maybe Khushi.

Okay Arnav. Stop it. Whatever you're thinking about her or feeling about her, just stop it. She is your manager, and that's what she should be.

"Anyway I'll leave you to get dressed, I'm waiting for you outside, I'll discuss this with you there." She said, I nodded as she walked out.

I dint like this new feelings I was having, especially towards Khushi, but they were so beautiful and whenever I would see her I would feel happy for no reason and I dint want to stop feeling them either, I was literally trapped.

*****

I sat down opposite her once I had changed, and waited for her to tell me whatever it was that she wanted to.

"Okay so there's a call I received from someone, they wanted to organize a concert with you and Rahat, just in India and they needed to know the dates you would be free and if you could meet up with them to discuss the rest of the things regarding it.

So I told them I'll talk to you and get back to them given that we were still in Mauritius, so that's what I wanted to talk to you about." She said.

"It's okay, we are leaving for India tomorrow, we can get there and then I will let you know when you can arrange the meeting." I said. She looked at me in surprise, I don't know what she was surprised about.

"We are leaving already?" she asked sounding a bit sad.

"Yes, you dint want to leave yet?" I asked.

"No, I mean it had just been a good time here, I'll miss it but I miss my family too and I can't wait to get back home. I never knew that on this trip I would bond with you and Rahat so much that I would no more feel like an employee but a friend." She smiled.

"I know, but don't worry, we keep having such kind of trips to a lot of places every now and then, there will come a time when you will be tired of it." I smiled.

She smiled back as she started writing something in a tiny note book she was holding, I dint say anything after that, neither did she, once she was done writing she picked up her book and started reading while I pulled out my phone pretending to be busy on it while all I could do was just stare at her.