I tossed left and right on the bed. I couldn't sleep at all even though I was sleep deprived. I was so used to Parth's arms and his warm embrace and the sound of his beating heart in my ears that I couldn't sleep without him. I looked at my phone, it was 12.30am. "Huh, kya karoon!!" I tossed and turned wanting to find a comfortable position but I couldn't. Not that the bed was uncomfortable, I wanted Parth's arms to sleep in. That guy had literally left me incapable of doing anything without him, spoiling me in every best way that he could.

After a few more rounds of tossing and turning I got up from the bed and left the room. I dashed straight into Parth's bedroom. He had left the door open. "Ye dekho janab ghode bech kar so rahein hai" I saw him sleeping peacefully, with his arms spread wide open. I closed the door behind me and crept in the bed. I lay next to him, my head on his arm and arms wrapping his body. I felt him moving, I woke him up.

"Niti, what are you doing here?" He hadn't even opened his eyes and yet he knew it was me. Obviously, who else would it be.

"I couldn't sleep there alone." I said.

"Huh? Why? Isn't the bed comfortable for you?" He finally opened his eyes and asked me.

"Nooo! No bed is comfortable for me now without you in it. Thanks for spoiling me Mr. Parth Samthaan!" I gave him a sarcastic smile. He instantly wrapped his arms around me pushing me close to his chest just like he did always.

Suddenly I didn't want to sleep anymore. "Parthhhh don't sleep na!" I shook him when I found him sleeping again.

"Yaar let me sleep I'm tired!" He turned to his other side removing his arms from me.

"PARTH!" I sat up shouting and crossed my arms. He saw me do that and pulled my arm and again placed me where I loved to be. I removed my face from his chest and looked at him, he was already looking at me.

"Parth.. Tumse ek baat poochu?" I don't know how many times I might have stammered while I completed that sentence.

"Haan poocho" he said as his fingers caressed my cheeks.

"Parth.. Kya hua tha.. Past mein tumhare sath? I mean.. Is there something I should know? Was there someone I should know about?" I gathered so much of courage before asking this to him. The words of his mother echoed in my head that how broken and miserable he was. I had thought of not asking him about this but then I wanted to know what had caused him so much pain! Or maybe.. Who had caused him so much pain that was clearly visible in his mother's eyes as she spoke of it.

The colour of his face suddenly changed from normal to red. He was angry, I could sense it. "I don't want to talk about this Niti please. Just go back to sleep." He pushed me away from him opening his arms and moving me out of them. "Please just go and sleep in your room, we have to leave early tomorrow."saying this he again turned to his other side. His back faced my front.

"Accha sorry, I'm sorry, I won't ever ask you about this again. I'm sorry Parth." I put my hand on his shoulder and spoke in an apologetic tone. I shouldn't have asked him. Aunty told me how much pain it caused him. How could I give him pain all over again just because I wanted to know about it. I felt miserable about myself. "Parth I'm sorry na pleaseeee, please look at me varna how will I sleep you know I need you!" I tried to make him feel a little better.
He finally turned around and looked at me. "Niti I know mom talked about it to you when I was inside my room. I saw her wiping her tears when I came out. That was my past Niti. I don't want it to think about it, let alone talking. Please. I know you think you should know about it and I think that too but just right now, I don't want to talk about HER. For now all you should know is that I LOVE YOU. And nothing that happened in the past or nothing that will happen in the future will change it." He looked at my face for an answer. He loved me and that's all I should be caring about. If he says he will tell me once he's ready then I know he will. He has been a man of his words and now I had to be patient enough to his past.

"Okay." I said in child-like tone. "Does that mean that you'll kiss me now? Please?" I made that puppy dog face which he used to use on me and it worked. He smiled wide and reached for my lips with his. I curled up in his arms and placed my hands around his back pulling him closer.

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"Mom! Jaldi! We're getting late!" Parth called for his mom who was in the kitchen packing food for us.

"Haan aayi! Ruko beta.." She replied. In another 2 minutes we saw her coming out with a bad in her hand.

"Mom humne abhi toh breakfast kiya hai, nahi lagegi bhook and lagi bhi toh there are so many eating joints in our way back." Parth said.

"Ek saal se bahar ka khaana kha raha hai, yaad nahi aati mom ke hath ke khaane ki?" She looked disappointed when her son didn't happily accept the food.

"Aunty.. Isko chodho, lekin I have missed mom ka khaana bahut zyadaa! Aap mujhe dedo ye bag and I assure you we'll empty it." I smiled at her and stood next to her leaving Mr.Eiffel Tower alone.

"Haan very good mom you gang up with her against me! Main aapka beta hoon, if you remember." He said looking all grumpy and cuteeee! Aunty and I laughed at his cute expressions making him grumpier.

"Accha chalo jao dono, late ho raha hai na tumhein.. And Parth call up your sister once before you leave.."she shifted her attention from his son to me and held my hand in hers patting them lightly "Niti is duffer ka khayal rakhna acchse se and apna bhi.." She gave us both a warm smile and hugged his son and then me. He touched her feet to take her blessings and she blessed him again. We soon left his big beautiful apartment and drove off to Mumbai.

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"Niti! Where the hell were you!" I was suddenly hugged by a tall figure. It was Tushar. He had been waiting for me outside our apartment. Parth and I had just reached Mumbai and as I approached to unlock the door, this happened. I looked at Parth getting angry. I lightly pushed Tushh away.

"She was with me." Parth stepped in between us blocking Tushh's sight. He couldn't see me behind the tall man standing in front of me.

"Niti where were you?" He asked again moving aside to get me in view again. But my tall man blocked his view yet again.

"I said she was with me, isn't that enough for you 'cheeku'?" I could feel his tone getting harsher and angrier. I put my hand on his arm to calm him down but he shrugged it away.

"Dude, no offence to you, but I am talking to her!" Tushar was getting pissed with this irrational behavior of Parth. I myself didn't know why he got so annoyed with Tushh. I mean, I had many more guy friends but it was Tushar who specifically annoyed him. I didn't know how to calm Parth down. His temper rose with every word he spoke.

"Parth, please..." I tried to calm him down but he turned a deaf ear to me.

"Don't you get it you moron!?" Parth grabbed Tushar by his collar as he tried to move closer to me.

"Parth! Parth! Leave him.. What are you doing!?" I jumped in and held the hand that was already holding Tushar's collar. "Parth leave him I said!" I shouted in anger not realizing that we were still in the corridor. He finally freed his collar and let him go.. Parth was stronger than Tushar. Tushar was a lean guy while Parth was a fit, muscular, tall man. "Go inside Parth!" I ordered him in the strictest tone I could.
Next I checked whether the poor guy was fine or not.. "Tushh, I'm sorry I don't know what his problem is. Please just go for now and I'm sorry for what he did." Tushar looked at me not wanting to leave.

"Where were you?" He asked me again.

"I was with him dammit! He just told you! Please go before he comes out again." I pushed him to leave. He left after a few seconds.

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" I shouted as I walked in. "Why do turn into an uncontrollable animal near him Parth! He could have got hurt!"

"Did he? No right? Plus how can you even ask me that!? Didn't you see the way he hugged you!? Niti please for god's sake STAY AWAY FROM HIM."saying that he walked into the room and slammed the door hard.

"You cannot walk out on me Parth!" I followed him into the room. "He is my best friend! I hadn't picked his calls he might have got worried!"

"And what worry did he still have when I said you were with me!? Wasn't that enough for that douchebag!?" We were shouting on the top of our voices.

"Parth just please! You really need to justify your actions here.. What is your problem with him?" I needed to know what specific problem he had with Tushar. Tushar had always been protective about me, even before he had left for U.S.

"I don't think so that I need to justify anything. I'm hungry."

"Oh! So you're hungry and you were going to eat that poor guy up!?" He couldn't escape this time. I needed answers.

"Can't you see or you don't want to see? Niti are so naive?"he burst out on me again.

"See what! Parth stop thinking that he is interested me or anything. He is not. You need to get that clear in your head. Please! For god's sake! Stop behaving like a 3 year old!" He had pissed me off big time now. "And I want no more discussions on this! Period." I gave him my 'you have annoyed me' look and I knew he knew that too. He had calmed down a bit, I don't know how but I for sure was angry as hell!

"Did I get angry at you or start hitting your friend when she hugged you!? Kya naam tha.. Vo Akanksha haan.. Did I grab her collar and threaten her!?" I remembered how she had stuck to him the entire time while she was there, I had felt a little jealous but I didn't hit her!

"Like seriously now, usko beech mein mat lao, that's a different thing." He said.

"And how if I may ask?"

"That's because you obviously trust me." He said in a plain tone.

His words hit me like ice. Like how could just say that.. "You mean you don't trust me around him?" I said and I didn't realize when a tear rolled down my cheek.

"No no no no no no no.. Don't do that Niti seriously! Maine aisa kuch nahi bola hai, I said you trust me! Niti please.." He came closer and cupped my face in his palms and wiped of my tears with his thumb. "I didn't at all mean to say that.. Please ab tum ro mat please!" He tried to calm me down. But my tears were unstoppable, what else could he mean by that? I didn't say anything but just stood there. "Niti listen, sorry.. Please I am sorry sorry sorry please. Its not you, its him that I don't trust even a bit."

"Why Parth? Why don't you? Usne tumhe kabhi kuch nahi bola, kabhi kuch bura nahi kiya then why?" I didn't have the strength to shout and fight anymore. Tears still rolled down my cheeks.

"Niti, bus I don't. I can feel it when he's around you.. Bus." I didn't stop shedding tears and he kept wiping them off. "Accha bus na sorry ab don't cry please! I trust you and I love you, I'm sorry if what I said came out to you that way. Please?" He was genuinely sorry for what he said and I had no more power to fight with him so I let this go. He hugged me tight and it felt nice. I didn't like fighting with him. But he had to repent what he said.

I broke the hug and moved away from him and walked towards the door "I am not cooking for you. Feed yourself."saying that I left our room.

The day passed and night set it.. He kept on saying sorry again and again and I kept on telling him that I wasn't angry anymore. I actually wasn't. I knew what he didn't mean to hurt me, but it did. Anyways, I had forgiven him for that. He ordered food that night because I still wasn't in a mood to cook for him. He didn't force me either. He knew I was upset.

It was around 10 that we went to bed because we had an early morning shoot the next day. Vacation over, now back to slogging all day long. I still slept in his arms because that was the only place I could fall asleep in and the only place I found my peace, in him, with him. No matter how much we fought, no matter what we say to each other at the end of the day he and I both knew that we belonged together.