Tuesday 5 March 2013

Arshi FF ~FORBIDDEN DESIRE~ (UL II) Chap 09



Chap 09

Haldh Haat
(Haldi)

Knock Knock,
"Khushi bitiya? Oh Khushi bitiya! Are you there? Nani knocked khushi's door.
Khushi slowly walked towards the door, her abdomin pain was not helping him much. The more she felt the redder she became thinking what might have happened last night. The more happier she got the more nervousness cripped over her spine as to how she will be treated by Arnav.
She had managed to escape several attempts sinse morning. But she knew in this way she is welcoming his anger more.
However listen to dadi's voice she went towards the door clutching her tummy and opened it.
"arrey you are still not ready beta?" Dadi tucked her locks behind her ear.
"woh dadi actually" Khushi stammered, not able to find any word.
"Come here first" dadi held her hand and took her out of her room.
"dadi where are we going?" Khushi managed to ask her in between her cramps.
Dadi dragged her near the mandir and asked Khushi to enter.
To her surprice she was Arnav, was already there inside the mandir, folding his hands in front of the idol.
His eyes were closed and his lips were little parted. He was dressed in white kutra pjama.
"All ready to get married Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada" she felt said and batted her tears.
Composig herself he went inside the mandir and stood beside dadi to avoid any touch, any look from Arnav.
So dadi was standing in the middle.
Khushi folded her arms and prayed for everybody's happiness.
After he was done with his prayer he looked towards Khushi, who stood beside dadi closing her eyes.
Her lips were still swellen. He tried to check her partition to find his mark which he gave yesterday night but he couldnot as her locks covered her forehead to quite extent.
Her face was looking absolutely angelic her though.
And just when his eyes fell on her eyes she looked towards him.
His expression immediately mellowed down towards her. He was about to take a step towards her when she shifted uneasily and clutched dadi's hand.
Dadi picked up the bowl containing dahi (curd) and blocked arnav's tracks purposely.
Dadi being dadi knew exactly what has happened yesterday night. She even saw Khushi going to her room in the morning and slightly limping. She knew they have crossed all the limits yesterday night. And Arnav being the vulnerable one is trying to talk to her and understand his hidden feelings. But Khushi was a very strong girl, she wasnot initially but arnav's hurt and hatred and his dejecting made her strong. She still loves Arnav madly and insanely but she doensot show that anymore to him as she knows it is not worth. After she was back from abroad she kept herself away from Arnav.
"lau beta, have some curd" dadi extended the spoon towards arnav's mouth.
Arnav reluctantly took the portion. Dadi dipped the spoon once again and extended her it towards Khushi just like what she used to do before also. But this time Khushi stopped her hand and went out of the mandir. After few seconds she came back with another spoon and gave it to dadi.
Dadi and Arnav was shocked by this move of Khushi'
~FLASHBACK~
"Arrey anrav beta, you have a little bit of this curd, today you are joining office for the first time and by having curd it brings you luck and prosperity".
"Dadi I don't believe in all these please".
"Arrey arnu zid kyun kar rahe ho?" (why are you acting difficult) she chirped while sliding her arms around dadi's neck from behind and rested her chin on dadi's shoulder.
"Chalo ab muh kholo" dadi held his chin and forcefully opened his mouth.
Seeing the opertunity Khushi grabbed the spoon and fed him and then started giggling.
"What the?" he twitched his face in disgust.
Khushi scoped some more dahi and had it.
"umm mitha hai" she teased Arnav as if after he had it the sour dahi became mitha.
"Dhath pagli" dadi hit her head fondly "tu kabhi sudhre gi nahi. Kitni baar mana kiya hai tujhe, kisika jhoota nahi khaate hai". (oh god, this girl will never be change. I have asked you not to have food from someone's portion)
Arnav was about to turn and leave when Khushi said loudly "kisiki aise waise ka jhootha thodi na hai, yeh to arnu ka jhoota hai, and I love having arnu's jhoota dadi kyun ki jhoota khaane se pyaar badta hai"  (this is not of any random person's portion dadi, this is arnu's and you know na I love having his portion, you know why? Because if you have someone's portion from the same dish, your love for that person increases).
~FLASHBACK ENDS~
"kya huya dadi? Aap mujhe nahi khilaoge?" (wont you feed me?) she said in a serious tone, frowning a little bit.
Dadi looked and Arnav and Arnav gulped down his feelings.
He looked at the spoon kept in the bowl and then to the spoon which Khushi was holding. He did not know why his heart sank seeing the sight before him. Khushi Khushi had denied to have his jhootha indirectly hi sahi.
"par Khushi tu to'"
"dadi aapne hi mana kiya tha na? kisi ka jhootna nahi khatey".
"Par Arnav!"
"dadi, hum aap dono se bohot pyaar karte hai aur karte rahenge" Arnav shot a look to her when she confessed her love for him in front of devi maiya". Ya ya it was not confess confess but atleast she said that inside the mandir.
"par yeh haq sirf mera pati ka hi hona chahiye na dadi? I mean meye sirf apne pati ka hi jhootha khaa sakti hoon na?" (but this is my husband's right only. I can only have my husband's food right?)
His sadness was immediately masked by anger. "How could she say something like this? She is grown having my food. She always used to have her food in my plate after I completed my food and now'now she will do these things with samrat?" he thought. His anger slowly rising up with the fact that now Khushi will be doing everything with samrat what she used to do to Arnav. Not that he gave two hoots to those things and he always found it silly and stupid. But today when she denied he felt a sharp pain of dejection. A pain that he never wanted to feel. The pain he avoided by keep Khushi away from him. But that last night made his life upside down. He was feeling extremely possessive. He was totally messed up. He was stuck in his own wave. And his ego was worsening the situation.
Dadi fed Khushi some dahi and kept the bowl.
**
Raizada mansion was beaming with the sound of dhol. Arnav was taken to the area where he was supposed to go through the haldi rituals.
Khushi was standing at the corner, fighting her feelings seeing her arnu getting married to someone else.
On the other hand Arnav was feeling suffocated with all these rituals and chit pit of ladies.
Dadi applied haldi on his legs, hands and face followed by other ladies and elders.
Then Arnav's office people started applying him haldi. One of the staff held khushi's hand and pulled her where Arnav was sitting.
"arrey Khushi, tum nahi lagaogi arnav ko haldi?" she asked.
Arnav and Khushi exchanged an uneasy look towards each other.
Khushi was about to dip her hand in the haldi container when dadi came and stopped her hand.
Khushi looked at dadi with questioning eyes.
"Nahi Khushi, you cannot touch this haldi. Dadi said pulled Khushi's hands.
"tumhe sabse pehle samrat ke naam ka hi haldi chadiyi jayegi jaise yeh haldi sheetal ko. Being and unmarried girl you cannot touch this haldi".
(you will be applied the haldi which will come from samrat's house. Just like this haldi will go to sheetal's house. Being and unmarried you cannot touch this haldi)
Khushi looked down and stepped back. She felt horrible and that did not go unnoticed by Arnav.
"koi baat nahi Khushi, tu baad mein laga dena ussey jab teri haldi puri ho jayegi" the stuff told her.
Khushi gave a weak smile and stepped back.
"Arrey Khushi bitiya, Arnav tere liye itna kuch kar raha hi, teri puri saadi ka kharcha utha raha hai, tu kuch de rahi hai ki nahi ussey?" one of his relative asked.
(Khushi! What are you gifting Arnav on his marriage? He is done so much for you. he is bearing all the expenses of your marriage I am sure you are going to give something really good to him)
Khushi felt a little bad the way she said. Without saying anything she slowly walked towards her room.
She closed the door and slid on the floor crying madly.
**
Arnav was looking for khushi hopelessly while all the ladies were busy appling haldi. He stared towards the closed door expecting her to open it and come and join hi but she never opened.
After arranging the haldi thal and preparing it to send to Sheetal's place dadi went to her room to bring something and and that's when arnav saw khushi rushing towards dadi's room still in her sleeping suit.
**
Knock Knock
"Kaun hai?" (who is this?)
"Dadi, meye khushi!"
"arrey khushi tu puch kyun rahi hai beta? Aaja andar".
"nahi dadi woh".
Dadi caressed her cheeks and said, "khushi meye tujhe arnav se bhi zada pyaar karta hoon aur tu yeh janti hai". (you know that I love you more than arnav)
"haan dadi phir bhi, kuch der meye mein parai honewali hoon" (ya dadi I know that but after sometime I am going to be someone elses), she said almost chocking. Tears of sadness beaming out from her doe eyes.
"to kya huya? Tu mere liye hamesha woh nanhi si khushi rahegi" she kissed her forehead and said "rahegi na?"
Khushi hugged him tightly and started crying.
"Kya huya beta?"
**
Arnav was becoming impatient now. He wanted to talk to khushi. he was mad at her no doubt but still he wanted to talk. "but what?" he thought "why are you so impatient arnav?" he asked himself. "tum baat kya karna chahte ho ussey?" he thought again?
"I don't know" he thought. "I only know that I want to talk to her. I want her to be in front of me right now".
He got up and started walking towards dadi's room. Just when he was about to open the door he heard.
"dadi I need some money", khushi said and hearing his arnav's grip on the knob became hearder.
"how dare she asks for money from dadi? Why did not she ask from me? Everytime she used to take money from my wallet without even telling me and now she is asking it from dadi?" his anger reached at the point of no return.
"It will not affect me and I will make sure that it does not affect me, MR. ARNAV.SINGH RAIZADA"
"par yeh haq sirf mera pati ka hi hona chahiye na dadi? I mean meye sirf apne pati ka hi jhootha khaa sakti hoon na?"
He looked at khushi angrily, his own eyes now clouding with tears of anger.
"why are you asking sweet heart, just take the keys and get whether you want to from the cupboard" dadi said handing over the keys to khushi.
"dadi", both the ladies heard his angry voice and turned to see him standing at the door step.
"arrey arnav beta what are you doing here? You need to go and wash yourself or you want to look all peela peela (yellow) in the evening?"
"aapko neeche sab bula raha hai" he said looking straight towards khushi making her go weak on her knees spatting vemon through his eyes. (someone was looking for you)
"thik hai, par tum dono ab jaake ready ho jao aur khushi tum phataphat apna yeh uniform change karke peeli wali saare pehenlo. Samrat just called few minutes back they have left with your haldi". (ok, but you guys change fast, and specially khushi, wear that yellow saree)
Dadi left the room while arnav gave her the way.
Khushi was about to leave when arnav held her hand and pushed her inside the room.
He turned and slammed the door shut punching his fist on the door in anger.
"Let me go".
Arnav closed his eyes to gulp down his anger…
"It will not affect me and I will make sure that it does not affect me, MR. ARNAV.SINGH RAIZADA"
"par yeh haq sirf mera pati ka hi hona chahiye na dadi? I mean meye sirf apne pati ka hi jhootha khaa sakti hoon na?"
"dadi I need some money"
The last line did not help him much to control.
"paisa chahiye tumhe?" he said in a dangerous tone still not facing her.
But his voice was enough for khushi to pee in front of him.
Arnav turned himself in one swift motion and grabbed her arms digging his finger on her soft skin.
"aah!" she cried in pain. "Leave me arnav.singh.raizada".
"before you used to take it from my wallet….".
Before he could complete it khushi barked on his face
"STEAL IT… I stole money from your wallet Arnav. Singh. Raizada" that's what you told me before right?
"LIKE A THIEF I USED TO STEAL IT FROM YOU WALLET. And that's why you never failed to address me as a gold digger".
Arnav was shocked at her out burst. He did say all those things but that time he was angry and he had no control over his words when he is angry.
The little khushi knew, it was arnav who used to keep extra 200 bucks everyday in his wallet knowing that khushi used to take to have chats and golgappa's everyday. His heart sank everyday seeing those extra 200 busks intact in his wallet after she had returned from abroad. He did not know how many times he counted the note just to get pleasantly surprised seeing some notes missing. But khushi did not gave that surprise once she returned to india.
Arnav without further quarrel he dug out his wallet and gave it to khushi. "take whatever you want to".
Khushi gritted her teeth and made him hold his wallet, "I.dont.want.money.from.you.mr.raizada and I don't want to give you another chance to call me a gold digger".
Arnav laughed, "you can ask money from dadi and not me? How irony khushi kumara gupta. And from where do dadi get those money? It is me who provide her. So it is indirectly my money sweetheart".
Khushi's face fall immediately. He was right. It is his money.
She wiped her tears and was about to go when he stopped her again. Where are you going now?
"ATM. I am going to ATM"
"and you think that money belongs to you, Khushi? stop this nonsense and take the money" he gave his wallet to her.
The wallet dropped in the ground just between her foot. Her eyes blurring with her freshly formed tears.
"I cant take it arnav" she said in a chocked voice.
Arnav held her tightly by her shoulder and asked in a soft voice, "why?" while tucking her loose strands behind her ears.
She looked at him with a puppy face, "because I cannot gift my best friend something buying it out with his money. But I forget I have nothing….nothing which I can claim as mine….not even some money…I don't have sufficient fund in the ATM and I realized even those money is not mine". She covered her face with her palm and started crying bitterly.
"I cannot gift a single piece of paper to my best frined. Who has done so much for me. I cannot gift anything to my ARNU".
There she said it "ARNU" his name never sounded so melodic and khushi did not know how much this name meant to him.
Arnav held her hand and made her pick some notes from his wallet.
"they are not mine" she cried out loud.
"I have nothing…" she chocked.
"you have" he said looking in her eyes.
Khushi shot a questioning glace.
He placed his forehead on her and whispered "your drawings" he breath out.
Two drops of tears made their own way towards her neck slidding down her cheeks.
"they.belong.to.you.only" he said once again.
"give me those" he hushed
"you want….you..want my drawings?"
Arnav closed his eyes and nodded in approval.
Suddenly everything became dark in front of her eyes. She tried to remove that darkness but she couldnot.
She fainted in his arms.
**
"Khushi!" arnav panicked seeing her lifeless in his arms.
"what the hell is this khushi" he shouted at her patting her cheeks.
He touched her hand and rubbed with his. He could feel her hand, her body, her face becoming colder.
He hugged her tightly brushing his cheeks with her cheeks and pressed her body against his body. He rubbed her back vigorously to make her come back to her senses but that did not help much.
She was sinking.
She was not responding at all.
He broke the hug and made her sit on his lap. He was about to pat her cheeks once again when he saw her face filled with his haldi. He checked her palm which adored the yellow colour and her dress full of yellow patches.
**

11 comments:

  1. awesome chapter, loving this fic sooo much plz continue soon!<33

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  2. awwwwwww superb.............my favourite story..i don't know how many times i read each chapter again and again.........i luv this story very much ...ur are a brilliant writer ... all ur stories are simply superb..

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  3. there goes another rasam:-))
    so sweet tht he keep extra money for her to buy chaat
    y cant he just say sorry for once

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  4. brilliant update
    engagement now haldi
    haldi from Arnav is applied on Khushi first
    can't wait for the next update

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  5. brilliant update!!! can't get enough of this fanfic

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  6. Iam really scared nw after haldi as their sepration is near.Unimaginable wonderful update Appy plss keep thm 2gether.

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  7. lovely update!

    IF: opsyellow

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  8. ufff what’s that relative problem! Is Khushi not a daughter of the house!??!?! has she not taken care of Dadi!? DO they say the same thing to their kids(its not like they can work) so why do they make it sound like Arnav’s doing her such a big favor and without him she would be nothing?! grrrr THEY have no right to say that. I really hate extended family sometimes; they’re only good for gossiping.
    Hmmmm the money scene reminded me of the movie parinita.
    Appy! Meri jaan,you managed to make me cry, not just cry I wana ball my eyes out, but it 2:06pm here and everyone will end up walking up. The weddings coming up in the next few chapter; Please tell me that this fic wont end soon, I'm soooo addicted to this one.

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  9. They completed another Rasam. God is definitely hinting things.

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