KHUSHI

I was in my room seated all alone just staring outside my window when Ananya walked in suddenly, she was holding a newspaper in her hand which she threw at me.

"Congrats, you're almost losing the guy that you might actually have a chance of falling in love with." Ananya said, she looked really pissed.

I looked at the newspaper and read it, there was news about Arnav, the hottest bachelor in town and how his royal family had come to decision to get him married in the old fashioned ways, they were going to hold a ceremony which was going to be attended by so many girls that came from the royal families and Arnav was going to choose one of them to get married to.

"What the hell!" I said in shock. I mean arranged marriage was okay, but this? It still happened? Let that me, he was here just yesterday claiming to be in love with me and now overnight he had decided to get married too?

"why are you angry now?" Ananya asked.

"Because he was here yesterday claiming to be in love with me and he's already having this ceremony or whatever." I shrugged.

"So what did you want him to do? Sit outside your house and beg you for love? Come on Khushi, you are the one that rejected him."

"Yes because I dint want to hurt him."

"So why do you have a problem with this now, it's his life, if you can't be with him it doesn't mean anyone else shouldn't be."

"I know... it's just that I feel... I don't know, sad maybe." I was confused, I had no idea what I was feeling at the moment.

I mean of course I did like Arnav, but I dint know if this feelings could ever grow and now learning that there were no possibilities, it kind of hurt.

Ananya sighed as she walked towards me and sat down beside me looking at me seriously.

"Look Khushi, I know it's been hard after what happened with Aditya, but you and Arnav, it's different, I mean I can see it myself, you are different around him, you've never been like that before and I really think one day you might fall for him, but for that to happen you have to give him a chance, date him, get to know him, you cant just push him away and expect him to wait around for you.

It's either you be with him or let him move on in his life, I know you don't want to hurt him, but maybe you wouldn't, and maybe this is the actual chance of you falling in love with that, do you really want to lose on that chance because of some stupid reasons?"

"No, I do want to love him like he loves me, but I'm not sure if I can."

"You not liking the idea of him moving on is a sign that it can happen Khushi, so for once you need to listen to your best friend and stop being stubborn."

"But I'm scared Ananya." I pouted.

"Seriously Khushi, what are you scared of? You've achieved so much in life alone and now you're scared of Arnav? That's not the Khushi I know." Ananya looked at me in disbelief.

"So do you really think I should try this?"

"Yes, I can't force you but I can give you my advice, now it's upon you to make the decision."

"But isn't it too late now? I mean the ceremony is already planned and all."

"It's not like he's already married Khushi, as far as I've known him, all you have to do is tell him you're willing to be with him and he would stop the ceremony right now, you are the one that needs to make the first move though."

"Okay." I said.

"Think and act accordingly, I'll let you make the decision, just know if you lose him, I don't know if you'll ever find a better guy than him." she said as she walked out of the room leaving me to make the decision.

Obviously I knew there was something between Arnav and I, maybe it was lust, maybe it wasn't, the only way to be sure was by taking this chance, I wasn't going to find out what I really felt unless I took the chance.

I hated to admit it but maybe, Ananya was right, I was just being stubborn and stupid and I dint want to be that, so I stood up, grabbed my phone and headed straight to the car as I told the driver to take me to Arnav's office.

I sat in the car impatiently, gladly there wasn't any traffic otherwise I could get really pissed, we arrived at his office in like twenty minutes and the minute the driver stopped the car, I rushed out and headed to take the elevator straight to his office.

I just hoped he was around, I dint want to go find him at his house, it would be way weird.

"Please be there Arnav, please be there." I kept murmuring as the elevator took me up, once the door opened I walked out nervously and headed towards his cabin.

I could see him in there, he was standing beside the window with a file in his hand as he read through it, I dint even bother to knock, I just barged in and walked straight up to him as he turned to look at me.

Before he could even say a work, I smashed my lips against his, he seemed surprised and shocked for a moment but that dint stop him from kissing me back.

He pushed me towards the wall beside the window, pressed me against it and kissed me passionately until we both had to break apart because of lack of breath.

He smiled as he looked at me while trying to catch a breath and now I was suddenly nervous, what was I supposed to say to him.

"Looks like you changed your mind." He smirked.

"I did, I dint want to lose on the possibility of being with you. I might not love you right now but maybe someday I will and I dint want to lose that." I said.

"And what made you realize that?"

"As if you wouldn't know, that article in the newspaper today, about your family holding some ceremony where you'd choose a girl to marry." I said as I punched his arm lightly.

"What?" He looked at me like he dint know a thing.

"Haven't you read the newspaper today? Or are you just trying to pretend that nothing like that is happening? I mean of course you might feel awkward knowing yesterday you were saying you were in love with me and today suddenly you were going to see other girls, where did that love go though?"

"You might have read a newspaper that dint exist." He smiled as he walked towards his table, grabbed the newspaper as he handed it to me, I flipped through all the pages and none of them has the page that Ananya had shown me.

"I'm going to kill Ananya for this." I said as I put the newspaper aside.

"I don't know what she told you but I'm glad it brought you here." Arnav laughed.

"She told me you were going to choose a girl to get married to." I pouted.

"Oh, so did that make you jealous?" He raised his eyebrow and looked at me keenly.

"Kind of. There's no lying that I like you, so I did get jealous." I blushed.

"I like jealous Khushi, come here." He said as he put his arm around my waist and pulled me closer, I crashed on his chest as I looked him into the eye, he had this killing smile on his face that showed how happy he was about me showing up here.

He tucked my hair behind my ear and kept on staring at me for forever and then suddenly stepped backwards.

"So, umm can I take you on an official date?" He asked.

"I'd love to go on a date with you." I blushed, why was he making me blush so much?

"Great, go home be ready, I'll pick you up in the evening? We'll talk about everything at the date" she smiled

"Okay." I nodded as I waved him a goodbye and walked towards the door.

"By the way, tell Ananya I said thank you for whatever she did, it brought you to me, I'll forever be grateful for that." He said.

"Sure, only after I've punched her enough for lying to me." I giggled as I headed back to my car.

I don't even know how she did it, created a fake newspaper overnight to make me realize this but I was glad I had her as my friend, because if she hadn't done this, I wouldn't have agreed to be with Arnav.

All I hoped was that like she said, maybe I was going to fall in love with him someday, I really wanted to, but love was something you couldn't force, it had to happen on it's own so I really hoped it was going to happen.