Rabba Ishq Naa Hove - Season 3 - Part 34

 

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Chapter 34


Arnav’s POV


I can’t believe I am staying in the same house with Khushi tonight. Though we both retired to our respective rooms an hour back, I still can’t get any sleep. The mere thought of Khushi undergoing the same kind of pain which I suffered without her, makes me cringe. I cannot even imagine how she would have coped up to stabilize her life that she had finally to speak to a psychologist? She too is taking antidepressants? I know it’s not going to be good for both of us in longer run.

I toss on the bed, staring at the wall that separates our room. This is a silly idea that Khushi suggested we act upon tonight. Only sleeping under the same roof is not going to heal us. I know we need each other more than that. I can feel it. And for a change, this time I know Khushi has realized that too but she needs her own time to accept it completely. She isn’t ready to move on with anyone else. That gives me hope for us. For our future.

I exhale and sit on the bed, with my head bowed down. Sleep is the last thing in my mind right now. I can’t wait to know how will Khushi and I behave from tomorrow? How does this change our equation from now on with each other? Are we getting back together? Are we doing this only to heal each other or is this more from her end too? F*ck! I can’t sleep tonight. Not even tonight. These thoughts keep poking my head and I need a break. There’s this sudden urge to check on Khushi and see if she is sleeping peacefully or not. If she has slept peacefully, which according to her she doesn't recently will mean my presence around her is not going to be toxic for her anymore. That she needs me as much as I do. And I can’t wait to know.


I rise to my feet and opening the door take a step out, only to bump with Khushi. She loses her balance in the process. I slide my arm around her slender waist and haul her to my body. She’s too delicate… too precious. Khushi gasps in shock as she too hadn’t thought we would bump into each other like this. Her arms automatically grip my biceps to support her body. With her eyes looking at me so intently, our bodies are close enough that an uncontrollable heat radiates off between us.

“what… what were you doing outside my room?” I ask, without letting her go off my arms.

She too doesn't show any hurry to leave.

“I… I was… I wasn’t… getting sleep..”

“And you thought of sneaking into my room? To check if I was asleep?”

She nods honestly. I smile and slowly help her get back on her foot and stand without my support.


“Same pinch.” I pinch her arm and she yelps.

“Oucchh.” She rubs the spot while I chuckle. “So what does it supposed to mean?” she asks.

“I don't know,” I shrug. “You are the navigator of this ship this time, so you know it better that just sleeping for one night under the same roof is not going to change what we both are suffering from, Khushi.”

“What are we suffering from, Arnav?” she innocently asks and how I want to actually show her in actions rather than words.

But nope. I wouldn’t. Taking a step closer, I once again invade her private space.

“We are suffering from loneliness and a loveless life, Khushi.”


She swallows. That's the reality, isn’t it? We did exactly what Khushi wanted in the last few months. We stayed away but it gave us solitude, and sleepless nights, nothing else.

“What do you suggest we do to recover from this?” she innocently queries.

“Coffee…” I reply.

“Uhh?”

I smile seeing her pouty lips. She is absolutely confused.

“I need coffee to think straight.”

“No..” she denies. “Caffeine at this hour of the night will kill our sleep completely.”

She is right.

“Then what should we do?” I debate.

“Talk. Or maybe just… sit together and don’t talk. One of us will feel sleepy and seeing someone dozing before you is highly contagious.”

Is it?

“The other person will get sleepy too and thats how we spend the night,” she adds.

That's her solution? Fine!! I agree blankly. We head to the sofa and sit on it again, looking ahead. It’s a crazy dead silence between us for the first few minutes.

“You are really leaving back to India in a week?” she probes.

I turn to her.

“Yes,” I nod. She tries her best to feel normal about it but fails. “I don't see a reason why I should stay here for more time.”

She shakes her head in disappointment.

“You are such a sadist, Mr Raizada. Just some time back you said we are suffering from loneliness and loveless life. And now when you have a chance to overcome that, you don’t see a reason to stay back here?”

“No,” I admit confidently. She clenches her jaw and is about to get down the couch but I hold her hand and pull her closer to me. “I am afraid whatever solution we opt for to recover from this situation, wouldn’t be permanent from your end. You might need me now, Khushi. You might like staying together with me now.. but tomorrow.. I can’t guarantee you will want the same and I told you, this time, I am accepting nothing until its for eternity.”


A lone tear breaks loose from her eye as she gazes in my eyes.

“Will you not want to take a chance again and give me one to see where this leads us?” she painfully queries.

I am blank but she continues.

“Arnav, there are so many secrets you have kept from me. Relationship is about transparency and we always lacked it in ours. If this is what you think will still lead us to a permanent future, you are highly mistaken. A husband-wife needs to know each and everything about each other. Both physically and emotionally. Until I know you completely, how would I trust you again? How would I give my hundred percent to a relationship when I don't even know what made you the man you are today?”


She is making sense to me this time. There are a few things I have kept from her. Her palm is still on my cheek but she has stopped stroking my face now. I grab her wrist and kiss the inside of her palm, an action which makes her shudder.

“What do you want to know?” I ask keeping my hold over her wrist. I need this touch. This connect between our bodies. I know she wants the same.

“Everything..”

I sigh.

“A night… wont be enough to learn everything about me, Khushi.”

“Then we have six more nights to do so.” She snaps. “for God’s sake just give me something I can hold on to, and start making sense to my heart that it’s beating this time for the right reasons. I don't want a man who keeps all secrets from me, Arnav. Open up.. I want you to open up all your pain and fears to me.”


Out of all her words, I catch the most important ones and query her back.

“You are proposing me to stay with you here for the whole week?”

She shrugs her arm from my hold and hits me gently over my chest.

“That's all you heard and understood from what I said??” she scoffs trying to hit me again when I hold her hand and pull her to me.

Her desperation to know everything I am hiding from her, was always there from the time we married, but her desire to make things work between us, her decision to want me in her life and make me stay here with her in this house for the next one week is enough to make me want to kiss her till we forget who we are…

“You want to know everything?” I ask, and she shakes her head in agreement. “Then I’ll tell you all of that but not tonight. As you said, we have six more days to share it. For now, all I want us to get is some sleep..”

She is okay with that too but a bit confused how would that be possible considering we both tried getting some by retiring to our respective rooms but failed.

“How?” she queries.

I think of something and look in her eyes again.

“I have a plan but I want you to trust me with that. Will you?”


She takes a few seconds to think before agreeing to it. The moment she gives me her approval, I get down and make my way to the bedroom.


Khushi’s POV


I don't know what Arnav has in his mind but I shared what I wanted from him. I really had every right to know things that transpired in the past between him and my father and Arnav’s family which changed his entire personality and lifestyle. But of course, tonight a bit of peaceful sleep which we both have been deprived off, will have a priority over everything else.

Arnav comes out with a thick white comforter. What does he intend to do? He reaches back on the couch and sits next to me draping it over his upper body.

“Come,” he insists, keeping the ends of the quilt open for me.


My cheeks heat as I realize what he wants me to do. Though the comforter is enough to keep us both warm, how can I just hug him? And here? On this couch? Arnav reads the confusion in my head.

“I thought we are taking baby steps towards each other, aren’t we?” he asks.

Without another doubt, I move close to him and in his embrace, pulling my legs up on the couch. He is warm and the moment I snuggle him, Arnav wraps the quilt around us to cover us both. We are half seated, half reclined on the couch, which thankfully has that button to recline. With my head on his chest, I can hear his heart thudding loudly or probably its my heart too. They are in sync tonight. Arnav has wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me to his body. He presses a gentle kiss on my head as I look up at him to know what next.

“Now close your eyes and stop thinking.” He whispers.

With darkness enveloping us, and our bodies gently warming up to each other’s touch, I decide to live into this moment and go as per Arnav’s instructions tonight. I close my eyes and breathe normally. Soon our bodies relax and the comfort increases. Arnav keeps stroking my back while I keep tugging to his shirt, my fingers feeling up his chest where his heart beats… For me!! Yes, it does. Only for me. It always has beat for me and I don't need any proof to know that me desiring it or not, I have always owned this heart of Arnav Singh Raizada. It is me it belongs to. The mere thought of this belonging, makes me smile. I might achieve the biggest success in my career, but this little piece of Arnav’s body which beats for me makes me feel on top of the world tonight. With that thought running in the back of my head, I don't even realize when I fall asleep in his embrace.


To be Continued.

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