KHUSHI

Wow. The smile Arnav had on his face and the way he mentioned my name, it was beautiful, I liked the way he pronounced my name, until today I hadn't really liked my name much but the way he said it, it sounded so different so beautiful.

Suddenly I was thinking like Arohi, I was literally drooling over how handsome he looked as he stood there smiling so beautifully at me, I couldn't stop staring at him.

"Yes sir." I said trying to hide my smile, I wish he would say my name again, him pronouncing it once dint feel enough.

"Umm, I wanted to talk to you about something." He said nervously, how come Arnav Raizada out of all people was nervous, that too while talking to me?

"Okay, tell me, what is it about sir." I said as I took a few steps towards him.

"I was thinking... if you are free tonight maybe we can go have a casual dinner so you can stop calling me sir?" He asked. I looked at him in surprise.

Okay, was he asking me to go to dinner with him because he wanted for me to be comfortable working here or was there any other reason, or did he like my company? I couldn't decide but I dint care, he asked me to have dinner with him I was definitely going.

Okay chill Khushi, it's just dinner not a big deal.

"Great, I'll pick you up from your place at eight?"

"Sure." I smiled excitedly.

It was strange, now I was also excited for dinner with Arnav, what was happening to me lately? Why was Arnav making me do and feel things like this? At times he made me laugh, he made me happy, he made me blush, he scared me and now he was making me feel excited about a simple dinner with him.

He kept on standing in front of me and the both of us just kept on staring at each other awkwardly.

Both the Raizada brothers were pretty hot, I mean I found them both very hot too but that was it but now that I was working here and I was spending a lot of time with them, I don't know why but with every passing day, I felt like Arnav was just getting more and more attractive for me.

He was just a simple sorted guy, he minded his own business, was very strict when it came to work but cared about his employees too, was there any negative thing he had? Why was he so perfect?

"Can we get back to work now?" He asked.

I nodded immediately as I walked towards the desk where everything work related was placed and settled down on the chair, now he was making me nervous too. What was happening to me?

He pulled another chair from one corner of the room and sat down beside me, he sat so close to me it was making my heart run a race.

"So tell me, where do you need help?" He asked.

I did need help, it was still a bit difficult to manage all this given that I had no experience but I couldn't speak, I opened my mouth but no voice came out, all I could think of was how close he was seated to me, our arms were kind of touching and not touching, you know that in between position so every time he moved a bit and his arm would brush against mine I felt goosebumps all over my body.

"Can I ask a question sir?" I looked at him.

"Sure, ask me anything." He smiled. He was being really nice to me today, I mean ofcourse he was always nice but today it was like he was being extra nice, I was complaining, I liked it.

"Why this dinner suddenly?" I asked.

When I asked the question he looked away from me immediately, I just wanted to know because I was curious I hope I hadn't made him angry, I was always scared of making him angry.

"Like I said, because you can't stop calling me sir, so maybe if we have dinner together and hang out a bit and become friends, you would stop calling me sir and call me Arnav." He smiled as he looked back at me.

"You want to be friends with me?" I looked at him with my eyes wide open. Wow! This was like a fairytale, Arnav was a celebrity, who wouldn't want to be friends with him and given that he wanted to be friends with me was obviously a big deal for me.

"Yes." He nodded.

"Why?" I asked. I was just a normal girl, his employee and there wasn't really much impressive stuff about me, why would he want to be friend with me?

"Because you are an amazing person." He smiled.

Damn that smile. Damn you Khushi, stop thinking about his smile, he is your boss for heaven sake!

*****

In the evening, I decided to leave a bit early as I dint have much work and I also had to get ready for dinner with Arnav, it sounded all so exciting. I grabbed my things and headed out of the mansion where I met Rahat, he was seated on the bench outside the mansion listening to music I guess because he was seated alone with headphones on.

I stopped walking and just looked at him, everything about him always left me questioning a lot of things. I mean I never thought Rahat could do anything like he did today, I was left quite shocked.

I wouldn't have believed he was serious, I mean who dint know Rahat? He wasn't the kind of a guy who would have a serious relationship but after he said it to his parents, he somehow made me believe it.

No, I dint have any feelings for him, neither did I think I was going to have any. Yup I could hear Arohi screaming her lungs out already and telling me he is Rahat Raizada, who wouldn't fall for him? Well maybe me?

I wasn't really sure if I had done the right thing though, I mean it was okay to go out on a date with him, what was it going to change? It wasn't like we were together or anything. He asked for a chance, I would give him that chance then tell him very clearly that I still don't feel a thing for him and then everything would get back to like it was.

I dint want to hurt him, but I wasn't also the kind of a person who would force myself into a relationship I dint want just because a guy was crazy enough to do things like this. It was cute but still dint make me feel anything for him so it's okay.

"Hey, I dint notice you were here." Rahat smiled as he stood up and walked towards me. He had a beautiful smile too but Arnav's smile always made my heart jump, no idea why.

"Yeah, I was just heading home." I shrugged, something about being around Rahat always made me kind of uncomfortable, I guess maybe it was because we dint start of well, but he wasn't really as bad as I thought he was in the beginning.

"Come I'll drop you." He said as he held my hand and started pulling me with him.

"You don't have to, I'll go on my own." I tried to pull my hand out of his hold but he would let go.

"It's okay Khushi, I can drop you home, it's not a big deal. You can sit silently in the car no one is going to force you for anything." He said.

"Says the guy who has been kind of forcing me for a lot of stuff lately." I rolled my eyes.

"Hey, I wasn't forcing okay, I thought you said yes to go on a date with me because I made you believe my feelings were genuine." He stopped walked and looked at me like he was offended about what I just said.

"I said yes because you wouldn't stop asking me to get to know you and spend time with you Rahat, I get it you feel for me, but I don't and I don't want all of this."

"Look Khushi, I know I have always been this guy that sleeps with a call and never looks at her again, and honestly when you came for the interview that was the idea but your behavior then changed my mind. I hated that there was a girl out there that dint give a damn about me, but that's also what attracted me towards you.

All that time we spent together in Mauritius changed my thoughts and changed a lot of the stuff I believed, so all I was trying to do was to make you believe that my feelings are genuine, if you don't want to go on a date with me or try to get to know me I won't force you if that's what you feel." He said.

Wow, since when did he become this mature? It was a side of Rahat that I had never seen before.

"You are right, I don't want to go on any date with you, so would you stop bugging me about it?" I asked.

"If that's what you want, fine. Now can I drop you home?" He grabbed my hand again and pulled me along to the car.

Okay, how did Rahat go from irritating to impressive? His behavior was really confusing me. I mean until today morning he was literally doing everything he could to convince me for a date and to spend time with it and now he just agreed not to do any of that so easily? Why would he do that?

I got inside the car and he drove off, thankfully, there wasn't much traffic today so we arrived home quickly, while in the car I dint talk to him at all and neither did he until he parked his car outside my house.

"See you at work tomorrow, we have a press conference, you better be on time." he said before I stepped out of the car, I just nodded and stepped down as I walked inside while he drove off.

I was going crazy thinking about this guy and his weird behavior that kept on changing like a chameleon, why was he like this?