FF - Plot twist

Chapter 4 - I cannot

"Oh man! I missed this point. He will kill me for sure," thought NK. 

"Maybe you are right. Anyway, I'm feeling very sleepy. Good night," saying that he galloped from there to his room.

"Such a kid, he is!" said Nani, smiling and Anjali nodded, agreeing with her.

Opening the door, they found Arnav sitting in his recliner, typing something furiously on his laptop. They both didn't expect to find him like that right after his brother's marriage and his happy love realization but thought he would be in his dreamland with Khushi. But again, he was ASR.

"Chote, what are you doing?" asked Anjali, astonished.

Looking up at their astounded faces, he replied, nonchalantly, "I am preparing the presentation for tomorrow. This is the last one. I must get home tomorrow early in the evening for the reception. As Akash won't be coming to the office for the next two weeks, we better get over with this deal---"

"Chote, are you even normal? Your brother got married just an hour ago and you demanded to get married to Khushiji 2 hours ago, and unknown to everyone except us, you stole Khushiji for 20 minutes in the middle of a ritual, kept us all waiting and now here you are stuck with this laptop!" 

Anjali was annoyed, so was Nani.

"So?" he said, still typing.

Shutting his laptop down, Anjali asked, "What happened in the terrace, Chote?" he tried getting up but Anjali forced him to remain seated and asked again, "Tell us what happened!" 

This time she demanded.

Taking a deep sigh, "She came to get the shoes..."

"Hmm," Nani and Anjali both said in unison.

"I cornered herm hiding the shoes."

"Hmm."

"She asked me to give them back."

"Hmm."

"I asked her something."

"Hmm!" they sounded excited.

"She asked what."

"HMM!" this time impatience.

"I asked her to marry me."

"WHAT!"

"Hmm," he said.

"And?!"

"She said, no," he scorned.

"But why, Chote?" they sounded disappointed.

He asked, irritated, "'Why' means? How would I know?"

Anjali said, "I mean, we know that she also likes you, Chote. Then why would she have said no?"

"I don't know. Maybe her brain's screw got loosened up," he mocked, disdainfully.

Nani said, "Chote, tell us what exactly happened there without missing any detail."

Then he said everything that had happened there except for his romance details. In the end, he got frustrated and a tiny bit emotional.

"I don't know why but I have a feeling that she is hiding something, that there is something that's stopping her. I very well damn know that she also feels the same that I feel for her. I saw some helplessness on her face. I would have pressurized her to open up if not for that idiot, NK!" his last line was rather violent.

"But... but..." Anjali came for NK's rescue.

"But, Chote you didn't really tell her what you feel for her, that you love her. You almost demanded her! What we feared has happened. You used your ASR mannerism," reproved Nani.

"Women like to be told what their partners exactly feel for them. You should have been a little bit soft---"

"Di, even if I confessed my real feelings, there was no guarantee that Khushi would consent. As I said before, she is hiding something."

"You are just overreacting. Anyone would have felt shocked by the unexpected marriage proposal and that too, it is Khushiji on the other side."

"But---"

"Enough, Chote! Just give her some time. This is all we want to request you," commanded Nani, knowing about her grandson's impatience.

Sighing, he agreed to them. Caressing and ruffling his hair, they both left to their rooms saying good night.

Unable to concentrate on his presentation anymore he shut his laptop, putting it aside, he came and laid on the bed.

"As Nani said, I will give you some space to think, Khushi. I really have no idea what is going on that crazy mind of your's *Chuckling* But I will make you mine."

"And I'm truly sorry for saying all those hurtful things to you in the past. Trust me it pained me more than it pained you when I said those things to you..."

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"You have so much courage..." 

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"You are an angel who belongs..."

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"*Smirking* That astounded look on your face when I kissed you..." 

Arnav kept on saying inwardly all those things which he must have said to Khushi out loud and didn't realize when he dozed off with a boyish grin on his face, dreaming about his crazy girl.

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