ARSHI FF: Na Bole Tum, Na Maine Kuch Kaha...

CHAPTER 05: Chup Chup Ke...

Khushi blushes and she too wishes to thank him, so rather than sending him a blank message she sends him a love heart instead ‘♥’. 
She immediately receives a text back with two hearts ‘♥♥’. 
She understood that he was waiting for her reply and all she could do was simply smile...












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02 DAYS LATER






Khushi was stood there excitedly waiting for the one who had designed her dress. She stood there nervously in a Mehndi color lengha with pink and white patterns. She had a matching red dupatta pinned to the side, revealing her milky stomach. Her hair was loosely French plaited to the side, with simple jewelry and simple makeup. Her eyes were frantically looking for him as she scanned the room...

Khushi's Lehenga

Payal: “Sorry Khushi, Arnav is not here. You know since it’s the Mehndi, so strictly no boys allowed” She teased as the Raizada members walk toward her, "I know how disappointed you must be...” She giggled at Khushi’s flushed face. 

Maya: “Chalo, enough teasing. Let’s get your Mehndi done” She smiled.

Payal: “This design is good”







Dadi: “No this one is better”







Maya: “Hmm yeah this one is nice” They were all selecting their Mehndi designs as the rest of the members were dancing joyfully.








Khushi sneakily stood up and placed Arnav’s design in the Mehndi designer’s hand, and quickly sat back down again. Finally they all decided on their own Mehndi design including Khushi’s when they see that Khushi’s mehndi is half way done...

Khushi's Mehndi

Payal: “Oh, this Mehndi design is better actually. Good choice, Khushi” She smiled at her.







Dadi: “What’s with all the gloomy faces? Why is there no singing and dancing?”

Buaji: “Haiiii Nandkishoreee! Chalo, what’s a Mehndi with no dancing? Titaliya, you start!” She said pointing at Khushi. Khushi had always imagined her Mehndi to be like this so there was no hesitation....

Khushi grabbed all her cousins and they stood with their back to the audience...










Khushi danced to ‘Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna’ pulling Dadi and Buaji along. By the end of the dance, even Maya and Anjali were dancing happily. They were all busy dancing when Khushi felt two pairs of eyes on her. She had a feeling ‘He’ was watching her. Her eyes scanned the whole room but couldn’t find him. Disappointed, she went and sat down staring at her Mehndi.









A few minutes later, she noticed that everyone was quiet. She looked up to see Payal dressed with a blazer on top of her sari and matching office shoes. She asked her with her eyes; asking her what she was doing and was ghastly surprised when Payal pulled her up and started singing.









Saathiya...
Saathiya...
Pagle se dil ne
Yeh kya kiya...











She pulled Khushi romantically and started acting like Arnav.










Chun liya...
Chun liya...
Tujhko devane ne
Chun liya....










She made Khushi spin and land in her arms.

Dil toh uda uda re
Aasman mein badalon ke sang
Yeh toh machal machal ke
Ga raha hai sun nahi si dhun











Khushi laughed at Payal’s acting, so she decided to help her out. She pulled Payal into a dancing position for couples, and started singing and moving romantically towards her...











Badmash dil toh thag hai bada (Badmash dil toh thag hai bada)
Badmash dil yeh tujh se juda (Badmash dil yeh tujh se juda)
Badmash dil meri sune na zid pe ada.. (Badmash dil meri sune na zid pe ada..)












Everyone laughed, and clapped them on...Ruhi ran up to her Di and also pretended to be flirting with her making Khushi smile. 












Badmash dil toh thag hai bada (Badmash dil toh thag hai bada)
Badmash dil yeh tujh se juda (Badmash dil yeh tujh se juda)
Badmash dil meri sune na zid pe ada.. (Badmash dil meri sune na zid pe ada..)











They both finished with Khushi and Payal in each other’s arms with Ruhi in the middle, laughing.






Payal: “So what if Arnav is not here? You’ve got me, na?” She laughed and winked at Khushi.






Ruhi: “Me tooo!” She said eagerly and giggled










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The function had ended with smiles. There was a lot of singing and dancing, and even eating. Garima fed Khushi with her own hands, with tears in her eyes wondering about how much she’s going to miss her when she’s gone...







Garima: “Chalo, let’s go get you changed” She said as they both walked up the stairs. “Oh! I don’t even have the keys. Khushi wait here. Let me go get the keys”








Khushi was just about to walk ahead when she realized something was stopping her from doing so. She turned around to see her dupatta stuck in the door. She realized she couldn’t even do anything, because her Mehndi was not yet dry. She then turned around and tried to pull it with her head, but fails.








She then feels a strong gush of wind behind her, as if someone was calling her. The sudden breeze brushed against her, and she felt as if ‘He’ was there. She subsequently got Goosebumps all over her, positive that he was behind her, but she had no courage to turn around.








He walked up to her and removes her dupatta carefully from the hinge of the door. He slowly but steadily walks towards her and puts his end of the dupatta over her head, and uses his fingers to trail it all the wait down to her shoulders. He sees a blush rising up through her neck as he laid his breath seductively on her neck. 

He could smell a musky floral scent all around him, as he puts his hands on her shoulders to turn her around and see her face. He readies his hands to turn her around when he hears footsteps. He quickly leaves her shoulders and disperses into the room. 







Khushi stood still with her eyes closed, breathing in his scent which was all over her...







Garima: “Khushi? What happened? Did you get scared? I mean I rushed here as soon as there was a power cut” She said anxiously. Khushi denied with her head leaving her in thoughts. Garima left Khushi in her room to change whilst she went to go find her sangeet outfit.







Khushi walks up to the mirror and starts talking to herself: “Did I imagine him? But it felt so real?” She pondered deeply but broke out in a smile when reality struck her, “Dupatta? It was real! It was real!” She jumped up realizing her dupatta was on her head. “He was there, I didn’t imagine him. He really was there” She smiled as she held her dupatta closely to her heart as she once again breathed in his scent. 







She ran to her draw, and pulled out his photo in a hurry. She stared intensely into his eyes, outlining his face with her fingers. She once again went back into the memories of minutes ago and imagines him there. She starts breathing heavily as she once again feels his fingers lingering on her shoulders. However, her chain of thoughts was interrupted by a beep on her phone.







She see’s that she has once again received a blank message from him. She shy’s away thinking about what she should reply. She then leaves her phone, too shy to text back and returns to looking at his photo.











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Arnav: “Why isn’t she texting back? Did she feel bad? What if she didn’t like me meeting her like that? Oh no!” he was walking restlessly up and down his room thinking about her reaction. He again sends her another blank message and becomes calm when she replies back with a ‘...’

He understood that she was feeling shy and so he leaves her message there. They both go back to their earlier memories as they drift off into their dreamland...














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NOTE: Hi lovely people, how are you all..? Yes yes I know I had gone missing again suddenly but what to do I had exams going which ended yesterday and I got the notice suddenly like 05 days before exam. So with so little time my Dad didn't let me use laptop until exams got over so I couldn't do anything. Anyways it has been brought to my attention that this story has resemblance with a Maaneet story and I know as the story would progress many would find resemblance with some or the other story...so I wanna make a clarification:
  




This story actually started 03 yrs or so ago but since my co-writer just went M.I.A, it was left unfinished and when I started writing decided to finish it off. The similarities are just co-incidence because we both used the cheesiest and cliques stuffs ever seen in serials and read in book. Like the take Chap 04 for e.g. I mean in every show how it is that the hero and heroine are about to meet yet they don't see one another stuff like the handkerchief idea was somewhat from a hindi movie 'Sirf tum', the hero-heroine were always around each other yet didn't recognize. In this story I used every possible cheesy clique ever seen and so if any scene or story-line is similar with that Maaneet story or any other story, then its just co-incidence, maybe they too tried to have a clique story...possibly if you read a lot then maybe you come across many other stories with similarities in different forums and all. But that doesn't mean like I'm copying them or she is copying me...it just happens when so many stories are written around. And if it was copy then my co-writer would've said something in the beginning because trust me she reads a lot...it was us both brainstorming ideas of clique and cheesy, did we came up with all these.

But still if anyone has complains then please tell me and I'll just remove this story from here because I can't do any changes in the story line or make changes in chapters till 20 because they're already written and posted. Now please don't think I'm try to throw a tantrum or offending anyone, I just don't want any problem again. So that being said, I wanna wish all Happy new year and hope this new year beings lots of happiness to all😁😁 😁😁