"Because I love you dammit !" there..he had finally said it ! finally he had confessed what he had in his heart to the one that his heart belonged to.
As the five letters left his mouth he felt a soft punch on his chest and heard khushi almost shout " you idiot !"
Well whatever reaction he expected for her when he would confess his love for her this definitely wasn't that...he was truly surprised.
The next thing he knew was the feeling of her soft body against his own hard one..two thin milky white arms wrapped around his waist and her face digging in the crook of his neck.
He was even more surprised.
"I love you too" he heard her say as a soft whisper placing her lips near his ear.
He felt a slight shiver run down his spine when he finally heard what he longed to hear since so long.
They stayed in silence for a while enjoying and savoring the feel of being in each other's arms.
But the silence was short lived as he felt soft pushes and punches on his chest as khushi pulled back from their embrace.
"why couldn't you say it earlier ...you made me wait so much ...you..you idiot"
She said but tears of happiness were brimming in her eyes.
She kept repeating the same called him idiot ..monkey stupid and god knows what telling him how much she felt bad when she heard about lavanaya and NK ..how she felt jealous ..how she waited and waited for him to confess his feeling..
He shook his heading thinking yeh..khushi hai afterall'
He had to stop her by pulling her back him his arms, resting her head on his head and telling he to calm down and stop. When she was silent again sobbing as a smile lingered on her lips. He softly kissed the top of her head and said "I am sorry I made you wait so long but I wanted the moment to be perfect but I couldn't find a perfect way to confess nor I could find the courage to and hence I kept my feelings to myself till now..i remember you saying you wanted the best proposal ever from your man..the one that you dreamed of ...I want to be you man and so wanted to give your dream proposal to you...but look my plan flopped..i couldn't even hear about you being with someone else forgot bear that happening and so I couldn't stop myself from telling you my feelings."
"you remembered that but you forgot when I said to you love is love it doesn't matter how it is said its needed to be said..words give the assurance and conforms what the heart feels..i needed the assurance so badly arnav."
"I said am sorry jaan"
"jaan ?" she asked softly with a chuckle..it felt just different to be called like that from him.
"YES ! jaan ! you are my life khushi..i love you" he whispered the last part ever so softly in her ear.
Khushi pulled back from the hug but arnav still held her by the waist in fact pulled her even closer to him...so much that it may be difficult for even air to pass through the gap between their bodies. Slowly he bend his head down and landed his lips on her.
It was a kiss of pure love.
A kiss of promises.
A kiss full of feelings
A kiss of confession conveying all that heart held.
It was slow but passionate. Soft and alluring.
~||~
They felt small dribs of water when they broke apart and both looked up together to find it was raining..
A bright and excited smile lit up on khushi's face as she turned back to arnav and asked while pulling her hand forward "dance with me" ...he eyes glimmered like a little kid.
"wha..at" arnav said startled.
"I said dance with me" khushi explained like she was talking to a little kid.
"but in the rain...and here in a parking lot"
"yeah" khushi replied like it was the most obvious and common thing in the world
"there is no music too" arnav tried to reason
"so what..the words are in our hearts and the tune is in this rain"
Khushi said and she ran a little further away from arnav and twirled around with her arms spread wide and head up facing the clouds.
Arnav looked at her as she twirled and jumped around in the rain and felt his heart swell with love for this beautiful innocent and crazy girl.
He smiled and moved towards her. He grabbed her wrist just before she could spin again and pulled her towards his... her came in contact with his chest as he wrapped his arms around her.
"you are beautiful"
He let the words whisper out of his mouth as he moved her along to dance with his he slowly turned her towards him and started to sway around as he pulled her arms to wrap around his neck and placed his palms on the sides of her waist. Her hands moved to tangle in his black tresses.
They danced to the rhythm of their hearts for what felt like a really long time. Their eyes locked to one another.
Their hearts leaping in joy now that the confessions of their hearts were disclosed to each other.
~||~
While their drive back towards khushi's house, she spotted an ice cream cart and immediately forced arnav to park the car on the side and get her and himself and her ice creams.
"no khushi we are already wet because of the rain...you shouldn't stay like this for long. We should go home and change otherwise we'll fall sick..." was his reply
But khushi is khushi and she always got her way...well at least with arnav and so he found his running towards the ice cream cart to bring ice creams.
He returned to the car with a plastic bag containing a butterscotch ice cream for khushi and plain vanilla for himself.
Khushi smiled widely as she attacked her ice cream with glee that resembled one of a four year old.
They both had their ice cream in silence until arnav stopped mid bite and frowned "who were you talking about ..the one you got proposal from"
He asked.
Khushi slowly stopped eating and looked at him with a teasing grin plastered on her face
"you idiot"
"WHA..AT"
"I mean..i got your proposal...uncle and aunty came to me to ask my hand for marrige with you and I agreed but told them not to tell anything to you till you yourself confess that you love me"
"you knew I loved you didn't you" he said it more like a statement.
She knew he loved her just like he knew she loved him. But they just didn't want to confess.
~||~
Epilogue
"MOMMY !"
"what happened sweetheart ?"
"That IDIOT !...aayush said he HATED ME ! hated me mom !"
"baby.."
"STUPID ! he said I am stupid ...HE ! he is the one who is stupid !"
She paced around the distance from door to bed again and again but during her fifth round collided with her father who was entering the room looking at his phone and not paying attention to the chaos around him.
Arnav stopped and looked down at his angry twelve years old daughter.
Her face so much like her mother's.
He still remembered the first time he saw her...her tiny figure wrapped in a pink fluffy blanket her eyes crying...cheek a shade of rosy pink...the warmth he felt as he first held her and she stopped crying opened her eyes and looked at him with that sparkle in her eyes that had him head over heels in love with his little girl.
"..how dare he..he say I am stupid" he was brought out of his thoughts by her voice.
It took him a second to process who she was talking about and then he looked up at his wife while shaking his head..his eyes communicated with khushi saying again ?'
Khushi shook her head in affirmation
By now they were quite used to this happening
Aayush their next door neighbor and their daughter Ashi had formed an unusual friendship in the past two years that they have been living in this new house.
They fought a lot like they were enemies ...argued almost on everything thing but were always there for each other
After each fight one of them would run away in anger and the other would follow ...ask him/her to play a game and they will get busy playing, the fight totally forgotten for the time being...they never apologized to each other.
Arnav and khushi looked at each other and smiled...communicating without words ...they knew they had the same thing in mind.
Their relationship reminded them of their own childhood. Their friendship a lot like aayush and ashi's.
They wondered if their relationship will take a similar path.
They could just hope aaysh and ashi confess what is in their hearts sooner than they did.
THE END
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