Arshi FF ~FORBIDDEN DESIRE~ (UL II) Chap 06

Chap 06
The Ring Ceremony

"Namaste Nahi ji!" a very handsome man of 28 years touched the old lady's foot out of respect.

"Joog Joog Jiyu Samrat beyta" (May you live long) nani touched his cheecks and reciprocated his gesture.

Samrat scanned the entire hall, it was looking abosolutely marvelous' the blue and the white flowers making a unique merge of love and piece.

What stood out in the decoration was the way they played with the blend of two colours in the entire hall.

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Two sleek arms hugged dadi from behind.

Dadi smiled and without looking at the person she said "Sheetal Bitiya!"

Sheetal kissed dadi from side ways and then came to touch her feet.

Dadi tucked her lips and hugged her. She brushed her hand on her back.

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It was almost 30 mins that samrat and sheetal has arrived but there was no trace of the other two on the floor.

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Suddenly hall way lights were dimmed and the two spot lights were focused on the two amazingly stunning looking man and a woman.

The prince and the princess, that's what came in everyone's mind seeing them standing together near the stair about to take a step down.

When the light went of Khushi's arms inveriabily went around his strong-arms due to fear of darkness. Arnav feeling her arms around his biceps looked at her. And their was an eye lock. Forgetting where they are standing, forgetting what is going on, forgetting everything, they looked at each other.

"beautiful" is the only world that he could come up with.

And looking at them the entire crowd was going gaga over making their respective partners unsecured.

Arnav unconsciously touched her fingers, which cling to him and started descending the stairs still maintaining the eye lock.

The couple was flooded with flashes immediately.

Some guys started saying "haye! Yeh dono ka saadi kyun hai huya ek saath? Kitna sona lagta hai yeh munda iske saath"

"we always thought they will end up getting married to each other. But destiny!"

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After decending the final step Khushi felt another strong arms trying to hold her right palm and that's when reality hit her. She turned her head to see Samrat standing beside her. She quickly checked her left arm which snaked arnav's right hand and then looked up to see Arnav, still looking at her.

Slowly she released her grip on Arnav and took two steps sideways.

Feeling the lose of her touch Arnav instantly came back to his senses. He looked at samrat holding khushi's other hand and gazed his bicep, which was not devoid of her touch. More than his hand he felt the emptiness in his heart.

"Hi! ASR"

Arnav turned to his left to find his bride standing wearing a blue lehenga designed by AR.

Hearing Sheetel's shrilled voice Khushi turned towards her only to get hurt seeing her in Arnav's favourite colour.

"He designed a blue lehenga for her?" she thought gulping her sorrows. Her heart swelled up and eye ready to spill. But somehow she controlled it.

"Blue? Why on the earth is she wearing this? This material I chose for Khushi" Arnav thought and became frustrated to the blunder committed by his employees.

He did not know why he just wanted to clarify to Khushi that, the material was for her. He was about to speak to her when he saw her slightly teary tears and her gulping. He closed his eyes in frustration and before he could approach Khushi and tell her the truth, he saw samrat going down his knees holding her right hand and looking up at Khushi.

"Shall We?" he asked her before pecking her knuckles'

Khushi gave a half-hearted smile and nodded in approval. She did not dare to look at the other man who stood rooted beside her. She could easily sense sudden rise of temperature and she started feeling suffocated.

Samrat stood up and pulled Khushi along with him giving a smile to Arnav.

The lose that Arnav felt when she released his hand was nothing compared to what he was feeling at that moment. Someone just came and took Khushi from his side. His Khushi? And he did not do anything about it? And she? So easily went to the other man? Leaving behind her Arnu?

The emotional tumoil what he was going though was unexplainable. Even he himself did not know what he wanted.

Wasnot he the one who wanted to get Khushi married?

Wasn't he the man who wanted Khushi out of his life?

Wasnot he the man who insulted her god knows how many times?

Wasnot he the one who blamed her for his parent's death?

Wasnot he the man who sent her abroad so that he doesnot have to see her face?

Then'.

Why did he slid his mothers ring in her finger and felt the warmth spread across his heart? Why he felt as if his parents witness their special moment? Why he felt they blessed him and showered him with love when the ring finally touched her finger and fitted her finger exactly the way it should be?

Why despite of wanting her out of his life, he long for her when she was not around and seeing her he felt relaxed?

Why he felt a sharp pain whenever he insulted her? If was as if he was insulting himself. And why always after every fight he wanted to take her in his arms? Hug her? Kiss her?

Why he always felt he was wrong when he insulted her for his parents death?

Why his lif became miserable when he forcefully send her abroad? Why he became more arrogant after that? why he shut himself off from everything around him? Why he counted every single day till she was back in his house after two years?

Why his Khushi (happiness) was out of his life for two long years?

His inner soul could only took one name "Khushi!" the word slipped from his lips as a melodious whisper.

And that moment Khushi turned and looked at him.

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Feeling as if Arnav was calling her she turned and saw directly in his eyes' and she saw something, which she aways wanted to see in that hidden mask' the pain.

The pain that she felt everytime he pushed her away from him

The pain she felt everytime he insulted her

The pain when he forced her to go abroad.

The pain she felt each and every day feeling dejected and rejected.

The pain she gone thought when he agreed to get married.

The pain she felt when he did not acknowledge their secret engagement.

The pain she felt when he kissed her and did not gave her a scope to talk to him.

The pain she felt when each time he blamed him for his parents death.

It was the same pain she saw in his eyes. The same helplessness which she has gone thought almost 16 years now.

The pain that only see could see and only she could feel.

he felt a soft palm caressing his rough stubbles. He broke the eye lock with Khushi as saw his fianc standing beside him. "what happened baby? You look upset? Is everything ok?" sheetal asked stealing glances of Khushi.

Arnav removed her hand from his cheek and was about to walk when sheetel slid her arms around his biceps and flushed herself with him.

It was the same position how Arnav and Khushi was few minutes back, but it felt so different. He saw Khushi once after glancing over sheetal's arms and started walking towards Khushi and samrat.

Khushi just couldnot bear any more. She was absolutely disturbed seen another woman beside him. Not that she never witnessed sheetal beside Arnav, but after their kiss and that accidental engagement Khushi was not about to think straight anymore. An unknown possessiveness started brewing up the atmosphere between the two.

Watching khushi's entwined finger with samrat he just wanted to rip apart the guy and Khushi. "how could she let him touch her" was the first question came in his mind.

Seeing sheetal's arms around arnav's, the first thing which came in her mind was "maybe he likes to be touched by her unlike me".

In the process Khushi dug her nails in samrat's hand.

Samrat was looking at Arnav and sheetal when they were approaching them. Feeling her nails, he looked at her and said, "wait for few more hours sweetheart. Its just a matter of one day".

Hearing this the reality hit her badly. "he will touch her" she felt like dieing even thinking of those words forget about what will happen with it will actually happen. She in samrat's arms…

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"did he just say that? DID HE JUST SAY THAT?" he thought…

His blood started boiling immediately. The thought of Khushi in his arms and nude… he shot and angry look towards both of them… he fisted his finger and was ready to punch that man. "He just cannot touch my Khushi" he thought. "he just cannot"… "she is mine"… "and he dare not touch her"… "how dare he think so cheaply"… and Khushi?

He saw her all nervous but still holding samrat's hand. He felt disgusted. He was about to spat out when he heard dadi announcing about their ring ceremony.

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the two brides were guided by the two handsome grooms on stage. Arnav and Khushi stole glances at each other. Did not know how to react to this uneasy situation.

Dadi handed over the rings to Arnav and Khushi.

After a brief moment it was khsuhi's turn to slid the ring in samrat's finger and make him his fianc. With heavy heart she put the ring in his finger, looking down not wanting to look at him. Arnav felt a tug inside his stomach when he saw the ring being slid in samrat's finger by non other than Khushi. But inside he did not know why he was a little happy that samrat was not the first person to whom she slid the ring.

His chain of thoughts broke a samrat's voice, "khushi! Yeh kya? Tumne to pehle se hi ek ring pehni hui hai".

Arnav gazed his mother's ring in her finger and felt happy that now samrat cannot slid his ring in her ring finger as he knew that the ring is too tight to come out.

Khushi remained quite, still looking down.

"Koi baat nahi beta us angoothi ko kholke pehna do" nani said (no problem son, open that ring and make her wear your ring)

Khushi suddenly felt nervous. She did not want to open that ring at any cost and definitely not by samrat. Without looking at samrat she looked at anrav who was standing behind samrat.

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Samrat held the ring and struggled to open it. But it was just too tight to come out. When it did not come out, he tried to pull it harder…

"aah!" Khushi cried in pain.

If the situation permitted arnv would have killed samrat for forcing like that on Khushi.

"Please leave me samrat. This is not coming out. Aur kitna dard do ge?"

Arnav was about to walk towards samrat and grab his collar seeing a tiny tear which formed at the corner of her eyes, when he heard "then why did you wear it in that finger Khushi?

"Its here choice what she wants to wear and were she wants to wear Mr. Sehgal. Waise bhi I don't think sliding it in the other finger will reduce her love for you".

Khushi shot a look towards Arnav, "did he just say reduce my love for him? Cant he just see how much I love him (Arnav)? How can he say that in front of the entire guest? He is very well aware of that I don't like samrat and I feel nothing about samrat then why? Why all the time he doesnot leave a scope to make things difficult for me?"

"It was a mistake sammy. I am sorry" Khushi said exchanging her left palm with the right palm and shot an angry look to Arnav.

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"did she just say it was a mistake? Mistake? Me sliding the ring in her finger was a mistake? Really Khushi kumari gupta? Fine. Now just wait and watch.

With that he started opening his plaster.

In the meantime samrat slid the ring in her right hand's ring finger.

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It was now Arnav's turn. He held sheetal's hand and slid the ring. The crowd brust out clapping and cheering ASR's fianc. Khushi just looked away not able to see Arnav and sheetal standing hand in hand. And the very fact was that he just made sheetal his official fianc.

"ASR! Give me your hand".

Arnav gave her his left hand and sheetal almost screamed.

She was about to faint when Arnav held her in his arms.

Khushi came running hearing her scream and held her.

"what happened sheetal are you ok?"

"khhhushi….ASR….is hurt". She said pointed her finger.

Khushi saw the open wound and questioned Arnav through her eyes.

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Arnav steadied sheetal and ordered her to slid the ring in that finger only. He was just desperate now. He anyhow wanted sheetal to slid the ring in his left hand finger.

"I cant ASR. I cant hurt you more"

"Listen to me sheetal, just do as I say".

"I have given the right to you only to put the ring"

"but ASR"

"Sheetal just do it. I want this ring to cover this ugly wound".

Khushi was shocked…"ugly wound?" she just couldnot hold back her tears and ran towards samrat and hugged him infront of the whole crowd.

While arnav's eye traveled towards her running figure he was too shocked to see Khushi in Samrat's arms.

"SLID IT NOW" Arnav ordered sheetal

Khushi cluteched samrat all the more hearing the authoritive voice which she thought was only for her. But now everything related to him will be only for sheetal.

"I cant ASR. Sheetal started sobbing badly".

Dadi exactly knew that it was time for her to intervene now.

"Arnav beta koi baat nahi, let he slid it in your right finger. Waise bhi it hardly matters no? few minutes back you only explained.

"Dadi par?"

"I am sure sheetal will love you the most. And exchanging ring is just for making it official that the girl is now booked by you. just like Khushi is now Samrat's.

Hearing the very line "Khushi is not samrat's" anrav did not protest much. Everything was coming to an end as if. He gave his right arm to let sheetal slid the ring.

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Precap

Kissing Compition between the couple.