Chapter 27- Frozen hearts...will they nearby Deepti
Chapter 27
Feeling his breath which was lingering on her right cheek, Kushi’s brain stopped functioning. She was able to hear the pounding of her heart and was expecting it to burst any moment now.
“Do you really want to know”, he whispered in her right ear.
She opened her mouth but as no sound escaped her dry throat she simply nodded her head.
“Right now?”, he asked, for which she nodded again.
He smiled staring at her tightly shut eyes and those red cheeks which took a more deeper shade with each passing second.
“Nah…not right now”, said Arnav, moving his head away from hers.
Kushi shot open her eyes not understanding what he meant by that and on finding a smile on his face she was utterly confused. “Why is he smiling?“, she wondered. Was there any hidden meaning behind those words? She had no idea. Did he think that she was expecting something? Was she?? God!! What is she even thinking. She stared at him blankly not understanding how to react.
As he raised his eye brows with the smile still lingering on his face, she dropped her eyelids and looked at the floor as something stopped her from looking him in the eye. She wasn’t like this. Then what’s happening to her?
” You should do whatever I ask you to do without questioning me. We will discuss about that task later. So do we have a deal?”, asked Arnav.
“But what will you ask me to do???”, asked Kushi who finally found her voice.
“I will tell you when I FEEL LIKE TELLING”, replied Arnav arrogantly.
“Grumpy fellow!!Look at his attitude!Now what will he make me do?”, wondered Kushi.
“As of now what you need to know is I’ll do what you want me to do. Will act a…s “, he paused smirking at her.” And you should do exactly what I want you to do”, he continued with a slight warning in his tone.
” Right now getting rid of that Abhay is more important to me. Once my work is done, I don’t have to do anything which he wants me to do. Moreover, I’m not going to sign any legal documents. So there is nothing which I have to be worried about. It’s a safe bet. Just go ahead and say YES”, thought Kushi convincing herself.
As Arnav observed her, he was able to figure out what scheme was going on in her head. “ I know that once I help you out, you won’t even talk about this deal. Don’t even dream about it. I know how to get things done”, thought Arnav.
“Okay! Deal”, replied Kushi.
“Great!”, said Arnav extending his right hand for a handshake while his left hand was still on the wall.
Hesitatingly, Kushi too extended her hand . Though it was a mere handshake both felt something alien stir inside them as his hand enveloped hers. She was waiting for him to release her hand but he seemed to be reluctant to do that. As he was immersed in feeling the softness of her palm, Kushi looked at him incredulously which made him to regain his senses. He released her hand and removing his other hand from the wall, he moved away from her, setting her free from his trap. Not wasting even a second, Kushi sped like a deer and ran out of his room, leaving a smiling Arnav behind.
She banged on her door until it was opened.”Are you planning to break the door. Why are you banging it like that”, asked Preeti as soon as she opened the door.
“I feel like breaking your head for giving me all dumb ideas”, replied Kushi barging into her room.
“What took you so long? Did you ask him. Did he agree?”, asked Pragya shooting her questions.
“You were there for a while. Did you go there to ask him to act as your lover or to make him your lover”, teased Preeti winking at Kushi.
Though she threw a pillow at Preeti in response, the way he stood close to her, trapping her between his arms flashed in front of her eyes and her heart started pounding again.
“What were you both doing inside? I came once to check on you but found the door closed. What happened behind that closed door.Will you care to explain?”, asked Nisha without hiding her curiosity.
“Nothing happened”, replied Kushi as she picked up a water bottle from the table. She emptied the entire bottle to calm herself but found it useless. The effect was still alive.
“And what happened to your cheeks? They weren’t like this when you left from here”, said Preeti looking suspiciously at Kushi.
Kushi checked herself in the mirror and touched her cheeks which were red in color. As she felt his breath still lingering there, the color on her cheeks deepened.
“I don’t know”, she merely whispered in response to her friends, while she herself found no answer for it.
“Did he?”, paused Preeti waiting for Kushi to fill in the blank.
“What?”, asked a confused Kushi.
“Did he kiss you??”, asked Preeti hesitantly.
“WHAT!!KISS!! Kushi, did you just get kissed???Oh my God!!”, reacted Pragya placing her hands on her cheeks.
“Come on Pragya! Nothing of that sought happened. Stop paying attention to her nonsense”, said Kushi putting a break to her friends imagination.
As the conversation seeded a new thought in her head, “How would it be to be kissed by him“, wondered Kushi checking her cheeks. She slapped herself for getting that thought muttering, ” What am I even thinking? Have I gone insane? HE and ME?? Where am I getting all these ideas from?”
“Then why don’t you tell us what exactly happened between you two. If you stay tight-lipped we will be forced to imagine things”, warned Preeti.
“Okay!! So this is what happened… I explained the entire situation to him and asked him to help. Though he initially disapproved, he finally accepted to help. Enough!!”, said Kushi without sharing the details to her friends.
“That’s it? And it took you almost half an hour for this?”, asked Nisha raising her doubt.
“It took me that long to convince him, my dear. Now will you stop interrogating me and leave me alone”, said Kushi addressing Nisha.
“Indirectly she is asking us to get lost from here. Now that her problem is solved, we don’t have to break our heads. Let’s go girls”, said Preeti picking up her stuff.
“MR.G is in and we are OUT”, she added winking at Kushi.
“You will get from me”, warned Kushi.
“See you tomorrow and don’t forget about the seminar we have”, said Preeti without paying any heed to Kushi’s warning.
As Kushi nodded her head, ” And ya.. don’t forget to tell me your dreams tomorrow”, teased Preeti as she stepped out of Kushi’s room. The other two girls followed her bidding a farewell to Kushi.
When she was called for dinner, giving an excuse of headache, Kushi got fed by her mom in her very own room as she was not yet ready to face Arnav. And when she tried to sleep, her recent encounter with him drove her crazy. ” I don’t want to think about him…I don’t want to think about him. Oh God!! Can you please get him off my head. I want to sleep”, she said pleading her Gods as she tossed and turned on her bed. As her prayers were answered, she soon dozed off.
For the next three days their paths didn’t cross as Arnav was too busy with his work and Kushi with her college. While she left early in the morning, he come home late in the night thereby avoiding all the possible encounters.
It was on the fourth day after that encounter, that Kushi received a call on her cell phone from an unknown number.
As she answered the call, ” Hello, Kushi”, said a male voice from the other side of the line.
“Ya. Who is this”, asked Kushi, who was not able to recognize that voice.
“It’s me Abhay”, came the response.
“Oh Abhay”, she said, though she wondered where he got her number from.
“Actually I got your number from Karan. Hope you don’t mind me calling on your cell”, said Abhay.
“No not at all …what’s there to mind”,replied Kushi though she banged her phone on her forehead thinking, “I wish I never had a cell phone“.
“What’s that sound”, asked Abhay.
“It’s nothing. So what made you call”, asked Kushi trying to divert the topic.
“Actually I called to remind you about our meeting.Did you talk to him?”, inquired Abhay.
” Talk to whom??”, asked Kushi as his question didn’t ring a bell in her head.
“Your lover. Sounds like you totally forgot about him”, said Abhay in a very suspicious tone.
Kushi bit her tongue and said, “How can I forget him.Of course I spoke to him”, confidently.
“Good…so is he okay with this meeting of us”, asked Abhay.
“Ya.. he is”, replied Kushi.
“Okay..then why the delay. Let’s meet day after tomorrow at The Imperial. Is 5 pm okay for you both”, asked Abhay.
“Day after tomorrow is Saturday and I have no college on that day. Sounds perfect to me”, replied Kushi. It didn’t strike her at that moment that she needs someone else’s consent too to commit for that meeting. In a rush to end the conversation she waved the green flag and said, ” See you on Saturday then. Bye for now!”
Ending the call, she said, ” All my problems will be solved on Saturday. Bye bye Abhay Kapoor”, waving her hand to her image in the mirror.
And that was the moment she realized that she never took Arnav’s consent for the time and date.
“Oh my God!! I totally forgot to check with this guy if Saturday works for him. Gave my word to that Abhay. Now what if his Saturday is all packed?”, she asked herself.
“Why am I breaking my head when I can simply go and check with him about the same”, thought Kushi after a while.
She took a step towards the door and as her previous encounter with him flashed in front of her eyes, she stopped in her tracks.
“No way!! I will never enter his room. That’s the most unsafest zone in this house”, declared Kushi as she walked back towards her bed and collapsed on it.
“Now, how will I talk to him? Can’t discuss this topic in front of the others, can’t go to his room. Then how? Moreover, I haven’t even seen him for the past three days. Is he in town?”, she questioned herself.
She got an instant reply for all her questions as her eyes landed on the phone in her hand. She unlocked it and rolled her eyes on realizing something.
“Silly girl! How will you give him a call when you don’t even know his number”, she said knocking her phone on the side of her head.
” Look at my fate.Did I ever dream that I would need HIS number. Now I have to get it from Di or Rishi. Hope they don’t drill me with their questions”, mumbled Kushi as she walked out of her room.
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