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She
was sitting on her bed with crossed legs, constantly patting the pen
she was holding between her fingers on the palm of another hand trying
to think of a solution to get out from this mess, created by her
parents. Thankfully. She thought with sarcasm. Hearing her cell phone
ring, she looked at the caller's ID with a pout on her lips but seeing
his name, she quickly grabbed it and picking the call, whine taking his
name.
"Arjun..." She said helplessly that made Arjun smiled on the other side.
"Yes my LOVE..." he tried to irritate her.
"Forget
my LOVE...what should we do to get out from this mess now" She said
holding her pillow and throwing it away on the floor to put out her
anger totally irritated.
"What
mess?? I can't seem to find anything messy around myself" Arjun
replied in a serious tone, trying to hold back his giggle.
"Arjun...If you don't want me to come down and strangle you right away...then just tell me the solution" She said warning him
"OK OK...Peace" He draw a line to there teasing session and started with a serious point. "Look, the solution is pretty easy"
"What??" Arohi asked excitedly.
"We have to get engaged" He replied totally expecting her yelling voice as she did.
"HELL NO" She shout..."THERE IS NO WAY I AM GETTING ENGAGED TO YOU EVER, Arjun Singhania" She said in pure anger.
"Calm down tiger...just listen to me first then you can give your verdict" Arjun's
proposal attract her so she get silent and Arjun sigh... "Making her
agree to something is really a huge task" he mumbled to himself
"What are you saying???" Arohi asked hearing his alien words
"Nothing..."He
shrugged his shoulders "OK, so what i was saying that we want to go
abroad for our studies, You for MBA, and i wanna have some diplomas and
as per our parents, we are only allowed to go if we get
engaged...right" He explained all the facts to her before continuing.
"Yeah" Arohi agreed
"So
we will get engage...We will accept there terms and conditions
but...just for the time, we are here" Arjun said with a wicked smile,
exactly knowing that his point is hitting her
"And then...?" She asked sounding dumb
"Duffer...As far as we are in america...Who
cares then...we will spend 2 years there, finishing our studies and
after getting back, we can smoothly call our engagement off saying that
we had a huge argument over something and then..." Arjun explained his
plan that made Arohi smirk..
"WE WILL BE FREE BIRDS" Arohi yelled with happiness as she was jumping on the bed now.
"Stupid...don't yell or you will reveal our plan even before its gonna start" Arjun said in an irritating tone
"OK Ok...Sorry Sorry Sorry...But can't help na" Arjun laughed thinking how he will change his plan later on😉
"Waise,
You are getting smart day by day...You are learning something from me"
Arohi said blowing at her nails with a smile, remembering how many
pranks she had played in childhood with him
"Yeah... Whatever..." Arjun said and hearing the knock on the door, bid bye to her.
He
marched to the door and open it to find his parents standing on the
threshold with a serious look. They seem to be just returning from the
party they went on
"Mom, Dad..." Arjun moved away to let them come inside but they stopped
"No
Arjun...we just came to ask you...What do you think about our
proposal?" They both look at him with expecting eyes as he gave a
side-loped smile and ruffled his hairs with a hand
"Do
i really had the option to say NO" and realizing the meaning of his
words, Both of his parents hug him at once, truly happy with his
answer.
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Arohi
was successful in faking a happy face as she told her parents that she
agreed with the proposal. Both the families exchanged sweets and after
a small ceremony of Roka, there engagement date got decided.
Arjun wearing a black sherwani that was just having a lil gold work on its collar, with a gold stole over it was standing in the door with his parents, muskaan and a few relatives while Smriti did his arti.
Taking blessings from her, he get inside to hug his to-be father in
law who patted his back with a warm smile. He was carefully escorted to
the lil stage made in a corner of the house. Due to Arjun and Arohi's
wish, the engagement ceremony was kept to the level of just family and
friends.
All gazes got fixed on Arohi as she emerged from her room with her friends. The light gold strap blouse and gold lehnga
with a hint of light blue on the borders was doing wonders to her
skin. Her hairs were gracefully placed on her one shoulder making her
bare back visible. Matching stole was beautifully arranged on the back
coming forward and was settled on her both hands. The light make up
was enhancing her beauty and the kohl in her eyes, making them more
deep. She was just wearing the matching bangles and ear-rings leaving
her long swan like neck bare. Arjun was having a hard time keeping his
eyes off her, even Muskaan
nudge didn't seem to work. Arohi herself felt conscious feeling his
intense gaze on herself and look away, not knowing why her cheeks
feeling burned up. Finally Juhi came and stand between them both,
blocking his view when he realize his act and looked away only to hear
everyone laughing.
Soon
the time came and both of them exchanged the rings grinning at
eachother while at the back, there parents too were grinning and gives a
thumbs up to each other. Where the parents grin thinking that they
have trapped there children and made them agree to what they want, Arohi
grinned thinking how smartly she had fooled her parents and there
Arjun grinned wickedly thinking how the planned they made will back
fired Arohi. All clapped and blessed this made for eachother couple.
Soon just after a week of the engagement, they were standing at the airport hugging there parents, bidding bye.
"Do take care of yourself and eachother too" Juhi said cupping Arjun's cheek and moving forward kissed his forehead.
"Arohi, don't fight with him ok...he
is your fiance now and future husband, show him respect...I don't
wanna hear you misbehaved with him...Clear" Smriti warned Arohi as made
a non-so-interested face and look at Arjun helplessly. Thankfully the
passengers were called for boarding and holding Arohi hand, Arjun
rushed inside pushing there luggage trolley forward.
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"Awww...Finally
HOME and ALL ALONE" Arohi shout with happiness, welcoming herself in
there home with open arms. Arjun dreamily smiled looking at her while
leaning against door sill with crossed arms. She rushed in directly to
what he assumed was her room. He followed her looking around the house
witnessing the dust and spider's net all around the hiuse. No wonder the place was closed from last 10 years.
Arjun
reached her room to found her hugging a huge white piano, placed at a
corner. "Oh i missed you so much baby" She kissed the piano making
Arjun giggle.
"Eeeks...even
don't even spare a piano from your torture" Arjun said playfully while
Arohi just removed the sheets from her bed and move it over the keys
of piano to remove the dust with a smile.
"I think, it will took us whole two days to clean up this place" Arjun said looking around.
"Don't
worry...we can call a cleaning department to do the chores...All we
need to do is just unpack our bags" Arohi said moving in her room,
removing all the draped sheets from the furniture around and throw them
in a corner.
And
as said was done. Three people from cleaning department came and made
the house spotless while Arjun and Arohi chilled in the rooms after
getting them cleaned first. Kitchen was totally deserted so Arjun and
Arohi planned to go out to shop for grocery tomorrow. For then, they
ordered pizza and had a nice time watching the movie "Cocktail" in the
dim lights of their living room, stretched lazily on the couches and
they don't even realize when they went to sleep.
Arohi
woke up the next morning finding herself laying on the couch while
Arjun was laying down on the carpeted floor next to her couch, sleeping
holding her hanging hand. She smiled seeing him and went up to get
fresh. Later on she came out in small light green shorts those were
barely covering her thighs and a loose white shirt with a light green
sleeveless shirt underneath. Arjun was not in his place on the floor
beside the couch so that means he was in the shower. Arohi warmed up
the left over pizza from last night and sit down with a pen and paper
to make a list of essential things for the house. She was half way done
with her list when the door bell rings.
Arohi
opened the door to find a fat wrinkled face black woman standing in
front of her with a bright smile. She was wearing a long white skirt
with a front button up shirt. Arohi gave her a confused look.
"ummm...who are you?" she asked only to see the woman smiling naughtily
"Oh dear...sorry to disturb you at such a morning but just wanna ask...Do you have some sugar for your Aunty Mary?" The confused look of Rddhima got replaced by the exciting one as the next instant, she moved forward and was hugging Aunt Mary tightly...
"OMG OMG...!!!!!" she broke the hug, looked at her aunt and again hugged her.
"You still stay here...I thought you guys must have moved" Arohi asked inviting her neighbour Aunt inside.
"Oh
dear...no we couldn't move away..." She explained and turned to look
at Arohi once again and cupping her face said. "We miss you"
Arohi felt too touched with the affection of her Aunt...
"I missed you guys too..." she kissed her cheek and then ask with a naughty grin.
"So how is MY MIGHTY MIKE" Arohi asked as Aunt Mary giggled at her.
"He
is fine...Still finding his lucky stone in the backyard that you hide
years ago" Arohi laughed with Aunt Mary as she remember that incident
"Who is it Arohi?" Arjun asked coming out in grey trousers and vest, rubbing his hairs with the towel. Aunt Mary's gaze quickly turn to him and then back at Arohi.
"Aunt Mary...thats
my best friend from India, Arjun...He is here for studies just like
me and he is gonna stay with me" Arohi explained with a smile...and
turned to Arjun.
"Arjun...thats
Aunt Mary...Our neighbor...In childhood, I use to spend so much time
at her place...If i wasn't at home, Mom surly knew it where to find
me..." Arohi cherished her old memories. Arjun smiled seeing her dreamy
face
"Why don't you eat something and in the mean time, i go catch up on Mike...then we can go to market, fine?"
"Yeah...i guess soo..." Arjun replied abruptly.
"Mike can give you a ride to the market" Aunt Mary said as she and Arohi moved to the door and Arohi agreed.
Arjun look at the ladies backs and throw the towel on the sofa. He
moved towards the kitchen to have some left over food from last night
but then his head shoot up with a thought, and next moment he was
walking towards the door. He look around to spot Arohi and her squeal
got his attention and he found her twirling in the arms of a black
gigantic man...It was almost like, he was crushing her in his
embrace...Arjun moved to help Arohi but her giggles stop him as that
black man leave the girl and moved forward to kiss her cheek.
"OH...Man...I missed you Girl" He said sweetly.
"Missed you too Mighty Mike...God, You are so grown up" Arohi said touching one of his biceps, poking with her fingers.
"They are tough?" The man asked with a lil proudy tone
"Very" Arohi replied with a grin.
"wanna say Hi to Granny??" Mike asked her with a raise brow but before
answering, she was running inside the house as Mike followed her.
Arjun saw the whole scene and felt a little insecure. No matter how
much he love her, he never had to share her best friend before and he
will not dare let it happen now.
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Edited by cool_SK - 11 years ago