she couldn't help but remember his opinion about gauri, arjun had never been wrong about people. She should not have reacted so sharply to his words, she thot as she watched gauri changing her mind every 2 mins. How many times will she rearrange those vases and cushions. If that was not it , she had called and cancelled her appointment with the beautician just 10 mins after she had fixed it, then she called another one whom she found just after she had booked that appointment. She has always been like this, arohi remembered, since childhood she never made up her mind on anything. She was even surprised that she agreed to marry rajveer, their marriage was working because rajveer was more mature and knew how to manage gauri's mood swings, or else anyone would go bonkers over her ever changing taste. Still she had this attachment to gauri and had been protective of her always. He was right about gauri she was fickle minded. May be she should have just called him before leaving from there, but he had not called her either the whole day, even after she had sent the lunch to both him and his dad. So when her mom called her and told daddu was ill, she just told dadi and had come here. Now she has to wait one whole to day to confront him again. She was hesitant to talk over phone, what if he doesn't respond properly? Or is she just postponing the talk.
She went to her room and called shefu . Shefu was her friend and jay's wife. Jay was Arjun's friend , that is where they both had met for the first time. Arjun had looked at her once and she felt like something stuck her heart hard and by the looks of it he too was smitten by her. She could not help but notice that he was not only handsome but also lively and conducted himself very well among people, he stood out among others. After few days when shefali shared her wedding pics , in few of the pics she caught arjun looking at her while she was looking away, this had caused the subdued feelings from that wedding day to rise again and as fate has it arjun's dadi had come to their house for the alliance. Within a month they were married and it was like she had known him all her life.
He was too charming to ignore. She had at times gone dizzy with all the romance. He knew exactly how to change her mood or make her laugh. He used to tell her that he can sit and just keep watching her face he wouldnot care if it was the end of the world. He could also be demanding at times , two weeks after their he had stopped her when she was abt to put some make up after glossing her lips.
She did not realize it has been an hour already until shefu arrived. She had gotten what arohi needed, a pregnancy test kit. Both of them read the instructions. This was bothering her ever since they had dinner on thrusday and came upstairs, she wanted to be sure first before anyone. Both friends were tense , even though the thought of having arjun's child had made her happy this was something unexpected for her and she was neither ready for it nor had planned it. After few minutes she was relieved to know it was a false alarm , she was sad only for a moment but then she thot this is what she wanted. Now her mind was free. It was always the case with her , whenever she got tense it took hours to again think straight and become normal. Now all she wanted was to tell arjun about all this and say sorry to have fought for a silly reason, but she wont do it over phone. She wanted to hold him tight first. She asked shefu to drop her off at her place after lunch. she was excited and elated suddenly.
Arjun had been watching raashi who was calling her friends and collegues and inviting them for a party she had organized and he too cldnot help but notice that raashi mostly agreed to whatever was being said , he thot she was like this with family members but looks like she was after all a people pleaser at work too. There is nothing wrong in it, being nice is a good quality but for collegues may be it looked like she was impressing her peers, it was a convenient thing for anyone to misunderstand her and it was more in case of people like gauri. He shouldnot have spoken about this to arohi whatever be the reason he had upset her, he even wanted to say sorry to her as soon as he came home but she had left by then. Was she so hurt that she cant talk to him about it. There must be someother reason why she was upset, she was not herself means she was tense, he should have paid more attention, she is right he was not always right if he was he would have noticed that something was bothering her. Whenever she was like this he had to coax her into telling things. He drifted into her thoughts again.
She was always sweet, first time he saw her at jay's wedding the look in her eyes had floored him. It was the first girl to have had this effect on him, which meant only one thing that she is the one. She had this amazing charm with pure eyes and smile. She had tried to act that she had not noticed him but he very well knew he had impressed her too. He got her details from jay's wife and passed them onto dadi who was surprised and happy that finally someone had got to him. And within a month they were married. It was like a dream after that, at least he did not know such sweet girl existed. she was smart but also acted childish at times which only thrilled him since that gave him a reason to tease her and then woo her. She was beautiful in every sense, was sometimes bold sometimes shy, every time he kissed she reacted like it was the first time, she knew he liked her hair left loose still she would put on a band just to tease him. When he saw her face he would forget his work tension. If he got sick she would become sad like it was her who was sick , he wanted to be better soon not for himself but for her.
Lost in her thoughts he dozed off on the couch, all dressed up to go to work at 11 in the morning. By the time he woke up it was 4 pm. He was madly hungry , he ate whatever he could and set off to Arohi's home. Kumud and rashi who saw this smiled knowingly and teased behind him that he went to get his ladli from ullu nagar and they both laughed thinking of that name.
The colony where Arohi's house was, was an old development and was named Kullu Nagar after the then famous person Kullu Ram. But over the years some prankster kids has scraped off the K in it and it stood as ullu Nagar. The First time Singhania's went to Ahluwalia's house and were returning they had noticed the board and were very much amused, but made sure they did not laugh about it in front of ahluwaliya's. Arjun however had no such qualms, he had full fun whenever he could about this.
She was dropped off by shefu at singhania's house, she told her mom she will come again next week but right now she had to go. When she entered she saw that, kumud, dadi and rashi were about to leave to rashi's house. Dadi told her arjun had gone out and they all left. She was upset again that he wasn't there. As she entered the room she saw its state and knew he was hardly in that room or else he wouldnot have left things lying arnd like this. She started to put things away imagining what all he would have done since last night. She was wearing a pretty red dress and had wantedly tied a pony and had no makeup.
As he entered ullu nagar , he smiled. He always teased arohi 'I am proud that I saved one ullu from this nagar' and he wld laugh and laugh louder when she defiantly explained the history of that name. He went into their house and greeted everyone politely while still looking for her, where was she. His inlaws were pleasantly surprised and justifying their popularity in the city smothered him with their hospitality. He finally convinced them he was not hungry and found out she had left already and was elated. He did not want to waste anymore time. It was new to him, this feeling. He had no idea a few hours away from her will make him so desparate to see her and make him act like a teenage lover who had found his lover's name.
He came back , she could hear the main door open and close, footsteps racing on the stairs and felt like her heartbeat became faster as if she was seeing him for the first time. she pretended to be doing some serious work near the wardrobe, when he entered he locked the door , reached her and put his arms around her pulling her towards him.
'I was scared that I might be pregnant' she said lowering her voice . surprised he asked
He did not know how to react, if this is what bothered her then she could have told him, may be she thot he would be disappointed if it turns out false.
'Are u disappointed'
'Me? no we did not plan it right and we have just gotten married we have plenty of time. U will start working with us too, this is the time to focus on your career.' He said smiling
'Now I am relieved' she flashed a beautiful smile
'I went to ullu nagar to get my ullu back'
She hit him on the arm
'Did u meet daddu'
'Yes'
'U hungry'
'Yes '
'Then lets go u can eat'
'Ullu, m hungry for something else'
She knew what he meant but acted innocent
'For what we can order it '
'Its right here, I ordered long back' his voice became a whisper
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