23 Neerav was in trouble
Part 23 Neerav was in trouble
The next three days fled in a blink of an eye. Mehandi with Arnav's name had drawn on Khushi's palm. The remaining haldi that applied on Arnav decorated Khushi's cheek.
As per the wedding rule, the Groom and the Bride should not meet after the Haldi. Khushi came to her room, finishing the haldi ritual to wash her face. Before she went to the washroom, her phone rang. Taking it, she checked whose call it was. The call was from the GROOM. She thought something smiling and didn't accept the call. The phone stopped ringing. It started ringing again... as she expected. This time, she attended the call. Before she started speaking,
"Do you check whether I call you again or not?" Arnav asked, making her speechless.
"I just came inside the room, finishing haldi" she lied.
"Oh... Is that over?" He asked.
"Mmm"
"I like this ritual you know," he asked
"Oh..."
"It's so romantic... Isn't it?" He asked cheesily.
Khushi was silent. She didn't know in what sense he was telling that.
"The haldi that applied on you already touched me, Khushi..." His voice was husky when he asked that.
Khushi felt her blood boiling. Why this man is taking her breath away by talking like this?
"Will you please stop talking like this Arnav?" She sounded soft.
Arnav pressed his lips together to suppress his smile.
"Why did you call me?" Khushi asked.
Arnav was silent.
"Why are you silent now? Shall I cut the call?" she asked not so strictly.
"You said not to talk like that... What could I talk about if I called you to talk only about Haldi?" Arnav asked and Khushi sensed a smile in his voice.
"I'm disconnecting the call..." khushi said.
Arnav said nothing and waited for her to disconnect the call but she didn't.
"Don't you disconnect the call Khushi?" Arnav asked intentionally
"It's not a manner to disconnect the call while talking," she said hesitantly.
Arnav smiled.
"Good manners... Keep it up..."
"Shall I disconnect the call?"
"Ok... Will meet you in RM on our wedding day"
"Bye"
"Bye... " Arnav was about to disconnect the call,
"Arnav..." Khushi called him again,
Arnav again kept the mobile in his ear.
"What you are up to?" she asked in a confused tone.
Arnav smiled.
"I don't know what's in your mind and why you became cheesy..."
Cutting her,
"Don't you know?"
"No..."
"Do you want me to say?" his voice sparkled with joy.
Khushi sighed.
"The much I know, you are not talkative. But you talk a lot with me these days. I don't know how to react to it, Arnav. It's embarrassing..."
"This is why I'm a lot with you these days Khushi. Try to understand we are getting married and you have no need to get embarrassed. This is how our life will be... I will be cheesy with my wife... I have too... you are right, I'm not talkative. But, with my wife, I don't want to be like that. Any man on the earth will show his real side to his wife if he is truthful. I would like to be one. If I don't talk to even with my wife then with whom I will talk?"
Arnav paused for a while...
"Today, you don't want me to talk and should not make you embarrassed, being cheesy. Let's see, how long do you want me to be like this. I hope you won't complain about me for not staying at home, spending time with you, and sharing everything with you..." he listed out the possibilities for her to complain in the future.
Khushi was dumbfounded. Is he thinking so deeply about their relationship? She wondered.
"This is why you said the three magical words?" She asked.
"Do the three magical words do magic in you?" he back question her without answering her question.
"This is not an answer to my question" Khushi was not ready to back off without getting his answer.
Arnav sighed.
"No... I didn't say the three magical words just to get you out of the shell... I said that because I really do... I love you Khushi..."
Khushi smiled.
"Go and wash your face. Don't let the haldi stay on your face for long" his voice sounded like a warning.
"Why?"
"I had mixed a magic powder in it... black magic powder..." He said whispering.
"Ohh... I see" she mocked.
"Don't you believe...? Ok. If you don't wash it, you will imagine a scene in your mind that I'm caressing your haldi filled cheek with mine..." His voice creaked.Khushi's body sweated badly, running the scene in her mind.
"Do you believe my magic powder now?" he asked huskily.
She disconnected the call, mannerlessly. Arnav smiled. he knows she would have imagined the scene...
The wedding day
Arnav and Khushi were getting ready to get into the relationship... with a lot of expectations.
Khushi came to RM with Garima and Buaji. Ratna welcomed her circling thali. She was asked to wait in a room that was on the ground floor.
On the other side, Kapoors were getting ready to hit their goal... Neerav. Neerav tried his level best to get involved in the wedding preparations to get goodwill from his parents and his brother. He had no choice. After all, they were his family. He couldn't survive without them and their support. But, what going to happen was something unimaginable.
Neerav's friend Rakesh was with him since morning.
"I'm tired Neerav..." Rakesh said.
"Me too..." Neerav said.
"You have almost finished all the work assigned to you. Let's take a break" Rakesh said.
"Arrey... only a few minutes to the marriage... how could I be resting?" Neerav asked.
"Are you going to get participated in the wedding?"
"Of course, Yes..."
Rakesh sighed.
"You are a sweet guy... but no one in your family realizes it" Rakesh tried to pour oil in the fire.
"Leave it..."
"Ok... as of now, you have no work here. Let's go to the guest room."
"Guest room...? No no..."
"No one would be there... all the guests gathered in the hall for the wedding rituals... if anyone came searching for you, they can't find you because they will search you in your room but guest room. "
"No, Rakesh..."
"Arrey... we will come back soon... let's go"
Rakesh dragged Neerav to the guest room. Neerav followed him as he too wanted to be relaxing for a while. When they came to the guest room, there was no one as Rakesh said. Rakesh removed a bottle that he had been inserting in his pant belt. He sipped it.
"What's that?" Neerav asked.
"Cocktail... very tasty..."
"Have you gone mad? This is my brother's wedding and you are drinking now?"
"Arrey, who is going to drink,? I just thought to taste it. You too will not forget the taste if you taste it. My cousin brought it from the UK."
"I don't want it," Neerav said frowning.
"But why?"
"My father is already treating me like I'm a drunkard. If he sees me drinking at my brother's wedding then he will kill me"
"Who asked you to drink? Just taste it... take only one sip... come on..."
"No, Rakesh..."
Rakesh tried to make Neerav drink forcefully. He poured a little in his mouth. In that, the drinks spilled on Neerav's new sherwani too.
"What have you done, idiot" Neerav shouted.
"Oh, my god... change the dress dude..." Rakesh said with repentance.
Neerav walked towards the door to leave the room. When he opened the door, he saw many people in the corridor. He pulled his head inside and closed the door.
"What happened?" Rakesh asked.
"I can't go out. What if people see me? I'm stinking badly... they will surely think that I'm drunk" he said annoyingly.
"Ok, you wait here... I will bring your dress from your room" Rakesh said.
"The cupboard is open. Come fast" Neerav said.
Rakesh stuffed the bottle in Neerav's hand and left the room. Neerav came in and sat on the bed with the bottle. He heard a door opening sound and Laila came out of the washroom, taking bath, wrapping a towel in her body. Neerav was horrified seeing Laila in the room.
"What are you doing here?" She asked with a horrified expression.
"Please don't shout. I will just leave the room" Neerav said.
"Why the hell you came in?"
She touched her nose like smelling something unpleasant.
"Have you drunk?" She asked shockingly.
"No, the drinks spilled on me..."
"You are lying... why are you here? What's your intention?" She went to the bed to take her mobile. Her leg got tangled with a carpet under her feet and she fell on Neerav and rolled down on the bed, taking him above her.
"Leave me... leave me..." She started shouting.
Exactly at the same time, Anup and Sapna entered the room and saw the scene.
To be continued...
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