I stared at the ceiling silently trying to come up with ideas in my mind, but nothing seemed to be good enough. I had to find a way to convince Aditi about Arnav, there was no way I was going to choose between either of them, I needed them both of them in my life.

Arnav and I were in such a great place, we had started trusting each other, we were in love, the romance was just brewing, it was time for us to take a step forward in our relationship but I couldn't do it with all this tension between Aditi and I.

I wanted my best friend to be there for me, so I could tell her everything and she could tell me about everything happening in her life, but how was I supposed to get Aditi to listen to me, she was pretty mad at me.

"Hey you lazy bum, you don't want to go to college?" Jai said as he walked into my room.

"I don't feel like." I pouted as I sat up and looked at him.

"Why?" he sat down beside me and looked at me curiously.

"Well I told her about Arnav and I being together and she got mad and left me to choose between her and Arnav, how can I choose Jay seriously? Why can't she understand me?"

"And why is she mad about you dating Arnav, does she like him also or something?"

"No... it's a long story."

"Then tell me, maybe I can help." He smiled, maybe this was the only option I was left with, maybe Jai could help me with some advice on how to handle this situation.

"Okay." I sighed as I started explaining everything to him.

*****

"Wow, Arnav doesn't look someone to be scared at all, the way he's be terrorizing literally everyone." Jai said once I was done explaining everything to him.

"Seriously, that's all you got from what I told you?" I frowned.

"You know it's not Aditi's fault actually Khushi, anyone would be mad about this." Jai said.

"I know... and I understand her, she has all the right to hate him or dislike him, but at least she can understand that I love him and if she makes me choose between him and her, it isn't fair to me either." I understood her very well but I wished she could try and understand me a bit also.

"So basically your love for him is stronger than our friendship? Got it!" I heard Aditi, I looked towards the door of my room and found her standing there. Oh God no! Everything was so messed up already, I dint want her to get angry on me again.

"No Aditi, if he was more important to me, I would have chosen him." I said as I stood up and walked towards her.

"But if I was important to you, you would have chosen me, which you haven't either." She said.

"That's the problem you see, I don't want to choose, why should it be either you or him, why cant it be the both of you. I get it you don't like him but at least consider the fact that I am in love with him."

"Khushi you make me so angry! Do you even know why I am here despite being so mad at you? Because you are my best friend and I care for you and I don't want you to go through what Sakshi went through. Someday he's going to leave you also when you need him the most and I can't see one more person that I love get hurt by him.

He is going to hurt you Khushi, just like he had hurt my sister, he is going to leave you when you need him the most, why is that so hard for you to understand?" Aditi looked at me like I was crazy, well maybe I was.

"I can see that Aditi, and you know why I still choose to be with him, because he's told me all that, he dint hide it from me and he is willing to do everything it takes to make us work.

You know why I'm fighting so hard with you for him? Because I love him Aditi, I really do. I have never loved anyone ever, apart from my parents and you, well I lost my mother long back, my dad and I are never going to be on good terms ever since everything that happened, I only have you left in my life and him and believe me when I say this, I cant lose the either of you so please, don't make me choose.

You are right maybe I am crazy because I am willing to take the risks that come with being with him, but love is all about taking risks, and just because I am scared that he would hurt me doesn't mean I wouldn't take a chance.

Please Aditi, just for once put yourself in my position and tell me if you wouldn't do the same things that I am doing." I hoped she was going to try and understand me.

"I can't forgive him Khushi, I can't." She said.

"Then don't, I will be okay with it, just don't make me choose between you two. If you want to hate him, it's okay, I'll understand, if you don't want to hang out with me when he is around, I would understand just don't let our friendship loose so easily please."

"What about Sakshi and what he did with her?"

"They were best friends Aditi, I am sure she would understand him way better than either of us do, and she would forgive him if she was alive today."

"I don't know what she would have done Khushi, but I am not like Arnav and that is only why I am trying to stick to our friendship, because it is way too important than some stupid boy you are stupidly in love with." She rolled her eyes at me.

"Thank you, thank you so much. All I want is for you and I to be friends forever." I smiled as I rushed to hug her.

"But don't expect me to be best friends with him or something, I can maybe tolerate him for you."

"That's all I ask, I promise I wont ever force you to talk to him or anything even."

"Fine, then I can think of forgiving you." She smiled as she pulled me into a hug.

"Hey guys, I am still here." Jai said as he waved at us.

"Seriously what has happened to your taste in boys?" Aditi rolled her eyes at me making me laugh.

"Come on he's a good guy." I said as I looked at Jai and then back at Aditi.

"Whatever, I need to go right now, but I'll talk to you later? We'll discuss how all this is going to work." She said as she bid us goodbye and then left, while I turned back at Jai.

"I'm glad everything is sorted between you two." He smiled at me.

"Yeah, it just doesn't make sense how Aditi showed up here, yesterday she was so mad at me." I said, I thought she wouldn't even want to talk to me if I tried leave alone her coming here to talk to me.

"Well I might have had something to do with that." Jai smirked.

"What?" I looked at him in confusion.

"Umm last night, Arnav called me. I was actually so terrified as to why he was calling me but he asked if we could meet and I agreed, he said I was the only friend you had to whom he could talk to.

So we met up he explained all this to me and told me to convince Aditi to come see you, and create a situation where she listens to what you have to say without you two starting to argue immediately. So I went to see Aditi, although she doesn't like me much, I kind of managed to convince her to come here.

And all that about me pretending not to know a thing, was just so you could let your feelings out raw and honest and she could hear them, that was the only way she could maybe understand you and well it looked like it worked." He smiled.

"It was all Arnav's plan?" I looked at him in surprise, I mean yesterday he was ready to break up and now he also came up with a way to solve this, why did he even think about breaking up then. That idiot!

"Thank you Jai, for doing all this, I don't think Aditi would have ever listened to me otherwise."

"Yeah well what are friends for, anyway I'll leave, I'm sure Arnav is on his way here and I don't want to be the third wheel, I'll see you later?"

"Sure, thanks once again." I smiled at him as he walked away and at the same time Arnav walked in.

"You idiot! I love you so much!" I smiled as I ran towards him and hugged him tightly.

"I love you too, but how am I an idiot?" He asked still holding me into his arms.

"Because you dint tell me about this plan of yours."

"Well if I would tell you, it would all be scripted, it wouldn't come from your heart and I don't think that would have convince Aditi." He smiled.

"You are right, I am so happy that finally everything is okay now, there is nothing more to worry about." I smiled excitedly.

"Well there is one thing." He said.

"What?"

"That I keep falling deeper and deeper in love with you everyday." He smirked making me laugh once again.