TAKE 27.1 - Reflections
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TAKE 27.1 - Reflections.
Next Day - Saturday - 20th May, 2019
Chennai - India
3:00PM
At the AirBNB Studio
Khushi's POV
Guys.
Its only fair that I begin with this one statement that I want to state in all my mindfulness backed by sincere conviction of every inch off my being - as I look back at my very own reflection mirroring my face to me from the mirror upfront - right now.
What Statement?This Very One Below.
Happiness is a Freaking Drug. Or wait let's make some more adjustments to that - The State of True, Serene, and Peaceful Happiness within one's heart, mind, being is probably the most addictive drug in this whole wide world. It surely has the highest amount off power possible to zing up every freaking cell of your being/existence.
And why do I say the same with so much conviction right now? It's because - I'v come to realise the very same in deep ways after reflecting through all that I have been through - off late. And well to be honest - also because of the ways - My Radiating in Happiness Face is looking back at me right now - after I'v finished washing it during my freshen up quick spree - whilst I wait for Arnav to arrive her at my AirBnb Studio. (He's on his way right now. This time around he left the hotel at his end when I was twenty minutes away from my arrival to this AirBNB Studio that I rented for the day. It's located at a distance which is about 20-25 mins away from the Hotel - Arnav's staying at. I did try to look for a couple more options up closer around his hotel's vicinity obviously whilst I was booking it through for myself, however most of those options were sold out for the day - and this location was the best option that I could find. I just checked in here like five minutes ago.)
Gosh.
Guys.
I just can't wait for Arnav to be here.He should be here in another - five minutes I guess. Yup. He just texted me that he'd be here in seven minutes about two minutes ago - which makes it just five minutes to go - now.
Plus.
Guess What?
Even though it was a freaking long haul flight + the fact that I got on with my travel immediately after a super hectic day at work too + the fact that I did not get more than five hours of sleep on the flight too due to my happy excitement of landing in India - I literally can see no shade of tiredness/exhaustion up my face or in my frame right now in my very own reflection.All I can see - is that familiar state off the Happiness Drug having its zing affect on every angle of my being+ plus my face given the way my lips are curved into an outrageous lengthy grin with my eyes twinkling in sheer giddy euphoria.
Oh wait.
Do I have time to get into a quick shower though? I do want to step into one - but as I eye the time on my phone I don't think I have much time for the same given that Arnav might arrive in a little over four minutes and this time around I am the one whose going to have to open the door to let him in - you know because it's not his Pad.
Ugh.
Crap.
I could have used a quick hot shower. Though. Okay wait - let me check with him.
I text Arnav quickly : Baby...how much more time until you reach? Any last minute traffic?
My Phone beeps quickly.
Him : I should be there in three mins Fiore..according to google maps. Longest three mins ever...baby..can't bloody godammit..wait...why do you think I am not texting you? I am in an constant conversation with the cab guy coaxing him into getting me to you through this different short-cut off the main road...too many signals on the main road at the last stretch...I obviously wanted to duck those and the waiting time you know just incase those signals were red..coming through the short-cut only..thank god he agreed...
I chuckle as I read that.
Me : oh are you doing that now? supergood. Why? Coz.I can't freaking wait too Arnav...come supersoon...please...
Him : supersoon it is...darling..okay now let me return my attention to getting to you asap. Thank God for my Mask+ Cap in here too. The driver just seems to think off me as some freak who seems to be in a crazy rushed hurry to get to this spot.
I grin as I read that. I will get to greet him in his MaskCap Dude Version.My MaskCap Dude - Looks like I am going to be the one to not let you breathe at all - this time around.
Anyways - three minutes until he arrives which also means.No time for Shower - then surely!
I walk out the washroom attached to this room into the little hall adjoined with the small kitchen area and take my seat on the two-seater sofa in here. So this time around guys - given that it's just me - I just booked this small one bedroom studio AirBNB for myself in an apartment building.It's just got a small living room+ kitchen + dining area on the out. Nothing too fancy. But it's got a super cozy feel to it.
I quickly reply to Mum's text that tells me to have a great time with Arnav and then get to sending a similar reply in our group chat with S, M, Brian and Jack .They'v obviously been a little mischevious+ cheeky up in the group chat.
Ok.
Done with that.
Godaammit. Why did that just take a minute of my time? Two more minutes until Arnav arrives.
Hmmm.
Ill just pace by the door then? Yeah. Cool Idea. That way I can open it the very second, he rings the bell on the outside.
I pace up to the door excitedly and once again pause by that little mirror upfront on the wall in the enterance arch to just look at my very own gleeful reflection + just straighten my hand through my hair - last minute. Oh wait - I don't know why am I straightening it up though? Arnav's going to mess it up in the very first couple of minutes.
I chuckle at that Happily. And once again - as I find my eyes beaming/twinkling back at me - I take a deep breathe and lean against the wall closest to the door taking up these last couple of minutes to soak in my happy emotions - yet again.
Guys know what? I think - it's only fair - that I bring into context another deep reflection - I'v come about to realising. So that very statement I made about Happiness above? I think I want to add more context to it. What context? The context of the bit that I have also realised that probably that very power off Happiness has more voltage to its current - when as individuals we keep more off our focus/locus of control of our very own Happiness and it's derivation factors on the very essence off our intrinsic beings rather than shift weightage of it's derivation to just the externalities in our environment. I mean - ofcourse the externalities are a source of significant influence on our emotional state - but what I mean to say is - that I have come to realise that the trick is how much weightage/power you give to a particular externality and it's accessibility to the power over the state of Happiness in your Life. I have come to realise that - it's just wiser to be exclusively selective towards the spectrums/factors off external influence. Most surely keeping it exclusively reserved for our near/dear/loved ones + the moments that we as individuals hold close in our hearts/attach significance too in our lives. For then that shade off Powerful Happiness truly feels so much more accessible and within reach in our emotions and once experienced - it's just so Liberating within on another level so much so that it can make you feel like you were flying in the Soaring Sky.
I feel like that you know guys. As if - I am soaring through the Sky too. Right Now. I mean of course - it's got so much to do with Arnav and Us + everything in its usual sorted place with Mum+ my closest friends+ how much I have also been enjoying my work and everything - but what I mean is - that as I see my very own face right now I can most surely see the difference in myself from the moment I was last here in India. I mean - yes that was Mumbai and this is Chennai - but you all get the gist don't you? I just feel that difference within the Khushi who left India the last time heading to Lahore for the very first time and the Khushi that landed in here today - the one standing in front of this mirror - today.
I feel so much more liberated within. So much more - Free-er. So much more at peace within - that its only obvious that my very own Happy Reflection continues to talk to me in a significant liberated language off it's own.
Like now that I look back in retrospect and reflect - I don't even freaking have the words to express how much my Trip to Lahore helped me within on that closure(that I have been successful at coming to terms with emotionally) within with regards to Abbu.Getting to that spot was emotionally overwhelming+ vulnerable - yes - but the emotional journey through it all was empowering nonetheless. I mean now when I come across news of Abbu/Raahil/pictures off them up on Google/Media - I don't feel that shade off ache/longing haunting me within for Real. I literally smile through my natural emotions. Imagine? How huge is that??????? I literally feel my lips curve into a natural smile on it's own accord as I briefly and happily reminisce in the brief encounters with them and my heart silently just continues to wish them well for their respective Life.
So how could I not realise and reflect and cement in my being right now - that there's infinite amount off power in feeling that contentment for one'self within when you look back in reflection over some crucial stuff that one's done for one's self? When you realise that you freaking took that locus off control by it's horns and helped yourself through???
Yup.Feels freaking monumentally Liberating - indeed. On that note - maybe - it would be safe to say that Liberation within adds more to the power off the happiness drug too.
I am right on that thought when the bell rings.
Oh Yayyyyy!He's here.
My Man. Arnav.
I -Thank God - The Stars - Fate - Destiny and the works for him again in my head - before I finally open the door grinning like an excited nut and the very second my eyes take in the sight of My MaskCap Dude and our eyes lock with his eyes twinkling in excitement= emotion too - I say - " hey you...My MaskCap Dude...long time...no see...,"and for a second Arnav just stands there frozen taking the sight off me in front of him again as his eyes travel and scan my frame and before he can even answer me back - I finally offer my hand out to him happily which he takes immediately lacing his hand through mine and I pull him in and close the door shut behind us and just as he drops his backpack on the floor(in which he's probably carrying his stuff for the night)+ his Cap + Mask off and our eyes lock intensely and emotionally for an intense nanosecond - I just leap into his arms immediately and hug him hard - holding him crushingly close as I whisper his name - burying my head into the crook of his neck loving the way he's just hugged me as crushingly close just whispering my name into the crook of my neck too.
Yeah.
Right.
This is My Heaven. Him. His Arms.Right here on Planet Earth.
Guys.
I am sure you all already know this but just got to say this again.Arnav's the one human- My human- who's a vital prescribed drug ingredient within the component off Happiness within my being - obviously.
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Arnav just continued to hug and hold his Fiore closer in his arms by the door basking in the feel of her in real time. He hugged her - hardest he could have loving the way she had flung herself in his arms and was holding onto him crushingly close too and for a second he felt like he was to stunned with the volcanoes of emotion within to even say anything. All he wanted to do was - bask in the feel of her in his arms right now.
And so he didn't stop clinging onto her just like she didn't stop clinging onto him.
About five minutes after hugging onto one another in an intense potent emotional silence - Arnav finally whispers softly into her ears - " Finally...baby..finally....godammit...this feels so good....you in my arms right now...I missed you dammit....so freaking much...."
Khushi can only cling to him harder as she whispers - " I know...love..I know...freaking finally.....just hold me..this way...baby...just freaking hold me this way...I missed you too...so much...so so godammit...much....,"and she hears Arnav say instantly now- " I wouldn't have freaking budged an inch and would have just held you this way...if I wasn't being driven by the need to kiss you...so ill just keep up with doing both...now...,"and with that he finally lunges his fist into Khushi's hair messing them up in the process to his hearts content pulling her up by the head - and crushes his lips on her in a deep -hard - intense - soul shattering - kiss.
Khushi kisses him back as deep and hard matching the fervour of his kiss - in both emotions and passion as usual and their hands begin to caress each other all over in intense, urgent, passionate ways. About seven minutes into madly and wildly kissing one another by the door - Arnav begins to gesture Khushi to jump up into his arms like she usually does so that she could wrap her legs around his waist - but that gesture from him makes Khushi whisper into his lips hoarsely in between their heated kiss - " no baby...your shoulder...it's only just recovered...I don't want you pick me up..k?"
That makes Arnav bite back his chuckle and fight another surge of love and he pauses on kissing her wild and cups her face and locks his intense gaze with Khushi's instantly and he asks caressing her cheeks - " did you just freaking worry about my shoulder right now..again...Fiore???"
Khushi nods lovingly - caressing his shoulder lovingly now like she'd been dying to on video calls ever since he'd told her about it's spasm and she leans forward to kiss on his shoulder softly now, before she just hugs him hard again and whispers - " yes I did...baby....you have no idea...how relieved I am that its finally all healed...."
Arnav grins to himself mentally thanking himself over the decision of not getting into a brawl with Rob last night.And he pulls Khushi up in his arms again to make her look at him and he assures her lovingly caressing her cheeks again - " you said it yourself Fiore...my shoulder is all healed baby...and set for action....plus I most surely am fit enough to pick my woman up...,"and with that he instantly picks Khushi up by his other hand gripping her around the waist, and Khushi groans in protest as she says - " Arnav...careful...baby...ugh...why won't you listen to me...,"and she pauses as she observes no ache/flinch in Arnav's face at all , coming face with his smug side rakish grin which leads her to wrap her legs around his waist instantly as she asks to reconfirm - " you really think this hauling me up in your arms...wouldn't reignite your injury in anyway baby??"
Arnav nods grinning locking his intense gaze with hers again - " I am sure...fiore...trust me...,"and he winks to ask mischeviously - " how about you chuck the worry aside and answer a very important question of mine instead now baby??"
Khushi caresses his cheeks lovingly - drugged with the Happiness of being able to do so in real time over and over and she whispers to ask - " what question?"
Arnav raises his eyebrow at her mischeviously - " would you be up to making love by this freaking door or not fiore? For trust me...I don't think I have it in me to wait longer..I want you...I want you now...and you know that...very well...you can feel it...I know you can..."
That makes Khushi grin and admit sheepishly - " oh yes I can baby...and just for the record...I want you too as bad too..but you do need to give me just ten minutes - k? I really want to shower first and get out of my travel clothes and change...I couldn't...because I was just so excited to open the door to you...right? as in you arrived just like ten mins after me...so I could only just briefly freshen up....i'v just been on a crazy long haul flight...baby...only fair that I shower..before I get lost in you.."
That makes Arnav grin as he says with a mischevious wink - " don't bother putting on a change fiore...and the only way I am letting you step outta my arms right now is that I am momentarily completely intrigued by the idea of joining you in your shower..."
That makes Khushi chuckle as she asks raising her eyebrow - " ahaan? are you now?"
Arnav caresses her backcurves deep sensuously in a way that makes Khushi shudder and moan out a whimper and he winks - " you bet I am...that's the room? Right?,"he asks with the gesture of his head and the very second Khushi nods keeping her electric gaze locked with his - Arnav finally crushes his lips on hers in a wild kiss again as he carries her into the adjacent room and closes the door shut with his one hand behind - locks the doorknob - and walks them both straight into the washroom to the shower cabinet - holding Khushi snug in his arms all the while continuing to kiss her mad and wild.
Khushi was lost in that familiar daze and haze off passion as she continues to kiss Arnav madly - so much so that it takes the sudden spray of hot water on top of both of their frames - to make her realise that Arnav had carried her straight into the shower cabinet and opened the shower up on them - whilst they were still clothed.
She gasps into his lips a little as she pulls up and cups his cheek - whispering amused shivering under his heated gaze- " baby...why would you open the shower on us whilst we are still clothed?well..they do have a dryer that I could use later on..to dump our clothes in..."
Arnav whispers intently locking his electric gaze with he places her down on the shower cabinet floor and tucks her chin up- " you came all the way for me baby...only fair that I help you freshen up and feel relaxed..also I just opened the shower up on us..because I just realised that I'v never really undressed you under the spray of water......fiore..? and the very sight in my wild imaginations of peeling your clothes off you under the spray of water - sounds sinfully tempting...so now if you don't mind..i'd like to get on with that...,"and he leans forward to sensually kiss a dazed Khushi's deeply and briefly before he admits into her lips sincerely - " I will shift devouring you in my wild ways by a couple of minutes...fiore...right now...all I wana do is pamper you in the shower?and by that...I mean I...I want to help you soap up and wash off after..i wana massage your shoulders/back in the process too which probably are a tad bit sore from the gruelling hectic last day at work for the week and all this travel to me...baby...,"and he resumes to kiss her again briefly.
Khushi pauses on kissing Arnav at that for a second as she clutches the collar of his already soaking wet tee just like her her soaking tee and tracks under the hot water spray and she whispers sincerely looking into his eyes - " not a single muscle of my being is sore because of the long haul travel here baby...infact...I feel no exhaustion at all...only euphoria...at finally being with you in real time...I mean it...you get that..don't you??I swear to god...I could travel across the globe for hours and hours at a stretch even if its going to get me an hour with you baby....and here...I get freaking 20 hours.....you surely must know that I have no shade off exhaustion soring me at all..."
Arnav nods lovingly caressing her cheeks - the moment - hightly potent, electric and emotional between the two - "yeah...I know that baby...godammit...you..,"and he kisses Khushi all hard, deep briefly again and whispers in her lips two minutes later - "but what if I just wana savour in the moment of pampering you for a bit right now nontheless????"
Khushi grins as she pulls back beginning to get his tee off him first - "I love the sound of that Arnav..obviously..loved it at the very first go...just had to make it clear to you from the very set on...that I wouldn't want to experience you pampering me this way only because I was tired or something...because I am not...I'd just love to experience it..with the thought...that it's you loving me...in other intimate ways....because...guess what...I'd just like to do the very same too??,"she finishes chucking his tee aside finally.
Arnav grins at that lovingly and no further words were needed in between the two as he begins to undress Khushi by dragging her tee out of her first - and the two of them begin to pamper one another in the very normal act of showering - with both of them and the intense vibe in between of them cementing the vibe that there really was something deeply emotional, and soulfully intimate about these personal intense moments in the Shower. For it was just potent another moment - that reflected the bit to the other - that they both wanted to just Simply Share one's self with the other - over and over again.
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20 Minutes Later
In the Room
Khushi chuckles into Arnav's lips as he places her on the bed now in an urgent rush continuing to kiss her deep - peeling the only piece of cloth on her and himself too in the process - the towels - and chucking them aside as he pulled the duvet snug over them.She whispers into his lips hoarsely - " I wondered..how long was that towel going to last on either of our bodies when you wrapped me up in it after drying me up...I thought...maybe...a minute at the least...but I am glad I was wrong...I think we just made it to thirty seconds..maybe..,"and she continues to kiss him deep - groaning into his lips at the impact off finally feeling him all bare and close in her arms - which is why she could just pull him closer into her frame caressing his back urgently, and sensuously.
The Intense + tender emotional moments in the Shower in between of them had only added more fuel to the Fire - obviously - and all Arnav wanted was to loose himself in her. He whispers into her lips hoarsely - basking in the intimate impact of feeling her all over as his hands travelled and explored his Fiore- intimately in intimate ways - like he'd been dying to all this while - " nah...not even thirty seconds..fiore...I think it was just about 20 seconds..."
Khushi shudders in passion as she feels herself ache for him as Arnav's hands beginning to caress her intimacy tenderly now and she whispers into his lips - " Arn..av...g..os...h...p..le..ase...you know...,"and she pauses as a sensuous whimper takes over as she feels his fingers enter her slowly and gently beginning to move in her - instantly.
Arnav pauses on kissing her wild as he props up on his elbow and continues his ministrations on his Fiore loving the way her eyes were flaring and flaming up in passion and desire for him and he asks - " you mean...you want this...fiore...don't you??open your eyes to me dammit...tell me...you missed this...too? right?that you'v been craving and aching for my touch as much as I have been craving and aching for you...tell me..dammit...tell me what have you been craving...and missing...you missed this..didn't you?? you missed the way I make you feel in our passionate moments..didn't you????"
Khushi does open her eyes and she whispers hoarsely looking intently back into his - " you know...I did..baby...you know it all....I have been craving...your touch..baby..so freaking much...your hands...lips... just you on the whole...all over me...on me...in me...like everyfreaking where....."
Arnav grins sensuously at that as his hands deepen their way into her at that making her moan his name as she kept her eyes locked with his too and he states next straddling her as his one hand continues to caress her intimately and the other begins to caress her curves hard- leading Khushi to close her eyes with her head titled in pleasure backwards and Arnav whispers hoarsely leaning forward to kiss her over her heart - " love the sound of that Fiore...wana know what did I Miss??"
Khushi whimpers still all lost in the havoc Arnav's hands were creating on her - " ahaan..what did you miss?"
"This..,"whispers Arnav hoarsely as his lips finally took over his one hand and began to have their intense wild ways with her curves and taut pebbled peaks - delighted to be living the experience of having his wild ways with her in real time again - stumped yet again by the ways she was passionately writhing under him holding him closer to him with her hands all tugging on his hair and the other free one caressing his shoulder lovingly.
About ten heated minutes later - off him having his wild ways with Khushi's torso through and through whilst his other hand continued his aching passionate ministrations on the intimate her- Arnav finally leans up to kiss her wild again and he whispers into her lips hoarsely - " wana know what else did I miss Fiore?? Ask me ..baby?????"
Khushi moans into his lips caressing his back wrapping her legs around his waist unable to take more of the sweet ache his hands had lead her to get consumed in already - " wh..at..el..se...did...you mis...s...Ar..n..av..??"
Arnav admits into her lips hoarsely - " I missed devouring you intimately too baby....and that's what I am going to do now...and in an intensity...that's going to show you how much I missed doing so...I told you...I'm going to devour you bad on the call last night...baby...,"and with that he finally kisses his way down sensually down Khushi's throat, curves, her torso, and her stomach - before he finally feels her body open upto him on reflex and his lips take over his hand that had been in her intimately and claim her intimacy with his lips - and begin to deeply kiss, explore and devour Khushi intimately in the ways that were just downright outrageously and extremely intense - which only made Khushi writhe in passion under him, for him - in extremely intense ways too.
And many heated minutes later - once Arnav felt like he didn't have it in him to wait any longer too - given the way Khushi's reactions and moans for him had pushed him off the brink of sanity yet again - he finally kissed his way up his Fiore's body and dawned protection quickly - and the very second he felt Khushi's body adjust itself to welcome him by wrapping her leg around his waist and pulling herself up - he entered her swiftly and urgently - and began making wild, deep love to her in the exact outrageously intense rhythms with which his lips had devoured her - which lead Khushi upto the brink off insanity too as she eventually began to take as much charge in their intense love making rhythyms.And as they continued to look into each other's eyes intensely as they made love - Arnav finally whispers lacing one of his hands with hers tight - " I also...missed this feeling of being in you...fiore....feeling as close to you as humanly possible...yeah...I godammit...missed this too...."
And Khushi could only whimper the same back to him through her moans wrapped up in his name - as their intense love- making in this moment of time - continued to flare up each of their beings - in a familiar fire /Lava - that exactly reflected and mirrored the state off the Passionate, Raw, Vulnerable Intense, Soulful Volcano - that their Love indeed - Was!
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A Couple of Hours Later
Nearing 5:40 PM
Khushi snuggled closer into Arnav's arms as she just kissed him over his heart now - basking in his serene vibe. They'd spent the last two hours - making raw and vulnerable love to each other - over and over again - taking just a few minutes break in the middle on and off to talk and catch up in real time - snuggled all close into one another. None of them wanted to even shift from the other's frame.
Arnav brushes his fiore's head lovingly briefly kissing on it hugging her close as he asks momentarily concerned - " are you sure you don't want to catch up on a little power nap right now Fiore???"
Khushi looks up at him sideways at that and places a kiss on his nose leaning forward - " are you crazy baby? I have limited hours with you alright? I do not want to use those up for sleeping at this time of the day...ill catch up on sleep later..and when I am supposed too...which would be in the night..or maybe...wee hours off the early morning...,"she finishes with a playful wink.
That makes Arnav chuckle a little as he tucks her chin up lovingly and asks to reconfirm - " sure??? doubly sure???"
Khushi nods moved emotionally by the concern up his face right now and she states - " you worry to much for me baby...I told you...I am not exhausted at all...plus..,"she adds with another wink - " you very well know that making love to you never really drains me out..it just fulfils me instead on a very deep intense emotional level....leading me to experience a contentment within that I really cannot word out through words...I guess ..."
That leads to Arnav feeling his heart gush up with love again as he kisses her head again and he whispers locking his gaze with hers - " you are my Happy Drug...Fiore...My Happy place..and I am sure you know that my emotions with regards to our love-making mirror your's exactly..."
Khushi nods at that happily and kisses his cheek and as her eyes fall on the clock up the wall she asks - "okay..baby...its going to be 5:45Pm...do you wana have some coffee? The kitchenette here is stocked with the basic stuff...plus I surely have some cookies in my handbag...and some protein bars that I stocked up for you at the airport...for a snack too..."
Arnav grins at that. He didn't know - if he'd ever stop falling in love with his Fiore over these subtle little gestures of her's that lit up his world. He admits the same to her hugging her close and adds in momentary dismay - " but does this mean that I am going to have to let you put your clothes on...as you wade out the room baby?bummer...I thought this time around..I wouldn't let you get a thing once I had you bare with me..."
That earns him a playful kiss from Khushi on his cheek as she asks - "really? not even one of your tee's?"
Arnav grins at that - " alrighty...just my tee would do..Fiore...,"and with that they share a warm chuckle and get off each other's arms with Khushi beginning to get into one of Arnav's tee from her cabin bag - after which she quickly helps Arnav with his backpack which was still out near the doorway and he gets just his tracks on before they finally head out into the hallway - to make themselves a cup of their evening coffee's hand in hand.
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Ten Minutes Later
BY The Kitchenette
Khushi was happily sipping on her piping hot coffee just like Arnav was as they talked about everything that was going on amidst their respective friend circles - as they sat on the two seater sofa facing one another - with their free hands laced together. And for a second - Khushi thought that she spotted Arnav zoning out into a happy daze right in front off his eyes at just listening to her talk right now - just like she had spotted him zoning out into that familiar happy daze while they made their coffee-s a while ago.
She asks now clutching on his hand - playful excitement evident in her voice as she finishes taking a sip of her coffee- " okay...what????????? baby??? There's that look again on your face right now...why are you zoning out into a happy daze this way???and I know it isn't because we are together in real time..that look of yours is different from this one..."
Arnav grins at that as he finishes taking his sip too and shifts in closer into her frame - to wipe the little coffee broth that had settled around the corner of her lips lovingly. Ofcourse - His Fiore was right in her observations. He had been zoning out into a Happy Daze at just seeing her upfront in front of him in real time for another vital reason. He admits the reason now to her sincerely caressing her right cheek sincerly- " maybe...because...even though I have been observing this up on videocall...in all these days...Fiore...but...still...I can't help but feel this Happy Daze consume me within at seeing you in real time and feeling this vibe off yours in my presence...the vibe that tells me in real time that...you look/feel so much more happy and relaxed to my eye baby...like a lot lighter version of yourself...free-er too...I just always want to see you this happy..my love...which is why...you just caught me zoning in glee....given that I am finally experiencing in reality what I have anyway been observing on videocalls...I am the happiest at seeing you wade through your angst in the ways you have Fiore...I am so proud of you baby..."
Khushi's eyes well up a little at that happily and she admits brushing his hand over her cheek - " thanks Arnav...and well to be honest...this was exactly what I was thinking /perhaps reflecting to myself before you came in baby...I mean when I looked myself in the mirror...I could see my reflection talking back to me telling me that there's surely a huge difference within in the Khushi that last left India /or your side and the Khushi that sits in front of you here today....I mean yeah...in my very essence within it's the same me I guess...but yup..I really am not shackled up into chains off heavy angst anymore...Arnav...,"and she kisses on his hand lovingly - " I surely wouldn't have been able to get there..if it wasn't for you...too....thank you baby...for everything...,"and she pauses as she hugs Arnav hard at that - sideways.
Arnav hugs onto Khushi hard too sideways and kisses her head and admits sincerely - " if only I could have been there with you...through all that youv been through...in real time too...baby...I really wanted to hold you closer and tight this way in support....especially when you were in Lahore...."
Khushi looks up at him at that and cups his cheek - " and you were there baby...in every sense...it really felt like you were...you made sure off that through our kickass virtual connection....that could surely put any superfast 4g mobile network to shame...you know....i take great pride in the bit that we surely communicate more faster than how these telecommunication signals/wires connect to one other....our connection is much more stronger/potent...than that...because of the ways we are connected to one another in our souls, hearts, and beings....don't you think so?? Like just how do you like the sound of that??,"she finishes with a happy chuckle.
That makes Arnav admit with a smug playful wink - " superlove the sound of that fiore...I take great pride...in the bit that we totally put all these modern day telecom network to shame...."
They share a warm chuckle at that and Khushi says playfully and dramatically after taking another sip of her coffee - " okay baby...how about we don't shame these telecom networks too much...we rely on their services for our connection in virtual time..now don't we??"
Arnav nods at that kissing on her hand - lovingly and for a second he felt like he didn't have it in his heart to bring up the topic of Rob from last night. He was loving the sight of his Fiore - so carefree and happy this way. He didn't want to bring up anything that could shorten her smile right now and yet he also knew he couldn't keep it from her - longer as well. He takes a sip of his coffee now to hide his momentary conflict.
That attempt to mask up his thought - did not escape Khushi's eyes as she observed Arnav and she asks now narrowing her eyes at him - " okay...baby...you know I can see right through you too..right? you tally just tried to cover up something with that sip off coffee...,"and she pauses as she remembers - " and wait..wait...you also covered up on something last night over the phone right? you said...that you'd talk about it like in person...baby..so come on..tell me..now...out with it...."
Arnav bites back his groan at that and he says dunking down another of his coffee - " how about we talk about this later...fiore?"
Khushi narrows her eyes at him further - taking sip of her beverage - " no baby..the fact that you are shifting this..tells me that we probably need to talk about it like...right very now...."
Arnav sighs and it is also right very then that Khushi's phone beeps in the center of the sofa in between of them and Khushi would have ignored looking at her phone at all in the middle of the conversation with Arnav - if her eyes hadn't accidently fallen on the screen already. She looks at Arnav puzzled as she states picking up her phone scanning it through- " why is Rob's texting me again? what's his problem?"
That development does not surprise Arnav at all as he remembers the conversation he had heard last night. Oh it seems that you couldn't rfrain yourself from texting My Fiore until you were back in London - Wilson. Seems like your very own words haunted you all night - after. Probably? He thinks to himsels silently.
Khushi goes through the message in her phone from Rob - extremely puzzled yet again and begins to read it out to Arnav and then she pauses handing him her phone - " actually...why don't you read it yourself baby..."
Arnav does.
He reads the text from Rob to his Fiore that reads : Khushi..i'll be back to London on Monday. I was wondering if we could catch up/meet up just once. One last time - perhaps? I wana discuss something important. Don't cut me off before thinking this through- please?for old times sake? I mean - for the sake of good times that we had?meet me once when I am back?
She could sense it. Khushi could sense the discomfort that Arnav was trying to mask up his face right now whilst reading that text for her from Rob. She knew that look of his well. The look he used to mask up his bubbling anger that anyway was a seldom visitor for the elements in his Mood. She says sincerely clutching on Arnav's hand as his knuckles paled a little as he clutched her phone tight - " I am sorry...baby..so sorry...I am not going to reply or meet him obviously...but I just had to show you this...right? I couldn't not...you know I haven't been in touch with him at all...since the last...I text him that I have moved on...I have no clue what is this even about...right now..."
Arnav sighs as he hands her phone back to his Fiore and just kisses on her hand with a sincere nod. And it seemed as fate would have it - he couldn't push this bit out like he wanted too - prior to Rob's incoming text. He admits now - " I have a clue baby...I know what this is about..."
That surprises Khushi momentarily as she asks gaping at him - " huh?? What do you mean??"
Arnav explains - " so last night over the call..when you sensed that I was covering up something...this was what it was about too...Rob...I kind off overheard him talking to Brad..about you...or maybe eavesdrop would be the better word..fiore...I couldn't help it..there I was about to jet away with your long island ice tea in my hand when I overhear him order the same for himself....and something in my gut told me that he was probably going to talk about you...which he most surely did....in quite detail.....the bottom line is...fiore...that he was pinning for you...he wants you back...in his arms...by his side...he realises. He misses you........"
Khushi asks shocked and furious with Rob already for even saying this out loud and more so with Fate for having Arnav overhear it - " what are you saying baby??????????????????,"and she groans momentarily embarrassed clutching on his hand - " gosh...how must you have felt Arnav in the moment...I am sorry..baby...so sorry...will you tell me about it all...please? now?"
Arnav nods and begins to fill Khushi in and about ten mins later once he is done he admits clutching on her hand - " so yup...now...you now fiore...the only reason I did not beat the crap out of him..last night..was you...I know you'd cry...if I injured myself in a brawl with your ex..."
Khushi leaps into Arnav's arms at that hugging him close and hard as she says instantly - " thank Christ...you didn't get into a brawl love...I can't see you injured dammit...even if it's a minute thing...,"and in that moment on reflex she just knew how she wanted to handle this right very now. She was going to take the Locus Of Control by the horns and help her through this - right very now.
Khushi pulls back from Arnav's hug her resolve strengthening and cups Arnav's cheek possesively and locks her intense gaze with his and Arnav is happily stumped to see her eyes flaring up with deep love for just Him yet again as he hears her whisper sincerely - " I hate that..the shades of my past..keep coming up this way..baby....i hate that he freaking thinks/hopes that I texted him what I did to get him off my back or something....this is so not fair to you, or me...or us...know what? I am going to freaking handle this...once and for all...like now....right very now..."
Arnav asks puzzled caressing her cheek- " what do you mean Fiore????"
Khushi answers sincerely - " I just freaking realised that the only reason why I perhaps feel jittery before or now everytime he texts is because maybe...from within..i'v just been wondering how to get the truth about us out to him? like I just want to tell him - it's you - that its us now...and get this whole thing off my chest too baby....you tell me...are you up for it like now?? right very now? ill text him...ill call him here...lets just tell him...dammit...and get it over with...he'll finally get his reality check that he wants too..right????????"
That from Khushi makes Arnav grin - immediately. Hell Yeah. He'd love to shove a Reality Check in Wilson's face in this moment off time. But he asks to reconfirm - " Khushi...are you sure baby???? You want to do this now? hell yeah...I am up for it...ofcourse...but are you? are you sure you wana do this today? We have no idea how he might react though??"
Khushi sighs but her resolves strengthens even more now as she sidehugs Arnav- " I know...Arnav...I have no idea how he might react...but you know what? I do not want to overthink the speculatory assumptions at his end anymore...I am sure that I just want to get this done and dealt with like right very now...you are here...I am here...all we need to do is call him...from where I see it..perfect timing...plus all I care is that you are with me in this baby...in real time....I'd rather do this with you by my side...like right very now...I love you dammit...I am going to scream that out loud to the whole universe one day...why not start with Rob...,"and she looks up at him sideways to reconfirm - " should I text him then??"
Arnav observes his Fiore's face for any nervousness or anxiety right now but when he only comes face to face with her determined resolved eyes about how deeply she loved him - he finally nods and answers kissing Khushi's head - " go on then...text him Fiore...as much as my gut tells me....he'd be here as soon as he can be..."
Khushi nods and she quickly picks up her phone and texts Rob sidehugging Arnav so that he could also totally read what she was writing.
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A Shortwhile off About 30 Minutes Later
Rob patted his feet impatiently in front of the elevator of this apartment building that was going to take him up to the AirBnB Studio that Khushi was at right now. Even through the impatience - he couldn't help but smile a little though - for he felt like he had hit a total jackpot in here the very second Khushi's text came to him about thirty minutes ago - texting him that she landed in Chennai this afternoon and she preferred that whatever this conversation was about that he wanted to discuss - happen right very now instead of later.
He had been surprised and shocked at learning that she had arrived in Chennai today. He had asked her the same too - but given that she'd just mentioned she'd come in for some important work - he just figured that maybe it had something to do with her Job assigment or something. They had enough common acquaintances in between of them through her Mum/her medical team/people on the admin team who knew Khushi - to him to know from - that Khushi had rejoined her previous workplace off late.
Either ways - he was just glad that he didn't have to wait out a couple of days to see her and talk this through with her once. Especially after last night - when he'd only got sleep after he'd deeply reflected over everything he was feeling within for her once again. Every bit off what he had admitted to Brad was indeed true in its potency and significance - which was why he felt like he had wanted to take every bit of this chance to see her immediately too - which was why he left the hotel and got into this cab to head to the location she had shared with him - as soon as possible.
Finally - the Elevator door opens up and he steps in - glad to find it occupied with just two old ladies who were busy in their constant chatter - probably taking the elevator car up from the Basement.
And as the elevator finally lunged up taking him to the floor - momentarily he felt shades of nervousness return. He hadn't seen Khushi ever since the end of the England tour - and everything he had felt haunt him in the time after within - had completely changed the context in the lens of his emotions for her. He wanted to know so much. He wanted to ask her so much. Not just about the one she was seeing or if she really was in Love with him/or if she said that just to have him off her back - but he also wanted to ask her about her time in Lahore. Ask her about how she was dealing on the angles with regards to her Dad in real time too. He knew he had tried to ask her the same virtually on text and she had admitted that she wasn't comfortable talking to him about it - but now that he was minutes away from seeing her - he felt like he wanted to start with that too.
Get a Grip - Wilson. Why are you nervous? He orders himself. Thankfully for him the elevator pings open on the floor of his designated arrival and he finally steps out - making his way to the apartment number Khushi had mentioned him and rings the bell.
Within thirty seconds- the door finally flips open - and the very second Rob spots Khushi standing in front off him with a formal polite smile up her lips - he feels himself freeze to the spot he was standing at in front off her - as everything that he had been feeling within for her comes back to hit him like a BullDozer within - over and over. The Ache/Vaccum for Her - Returns too continuing to cloud his mind and take over his heart along with deep shades of Regret.
And just like that - he finally instantly knew - what all this ache/longing/pent up feelings were about. Just like that he knew - the answer to the question that had been puzzling those bylanes of his mind that had made him succumb to his mindgames prior. Just like that as he finally saw her upront in reality right now - he knew - that the only reason why he hadn't been able to get Khushi Jones out of his system completely was - that He was in Love with Her.He probably had been all along.
Even through the frozen state as the realisation finally hits him - he couldn't help but send out a curse for himself within.How could he Not?He probably had been the douchebag of the freaking millenia to hurt the one he had been in love with in the vulnerable ways he had. He probably was the Freaking Fool of the Millenia - to push the one he had probably been in Love with all along - away - with his very own hands.
Yup.
He wanted to take his very own freaking Bat and Smash himself - over and over as his heart desperately hoped and clinged on to the shades off Hope - nonetheless.
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Khushi continued to look at Rob puzzled. For some reason she couldn't comprehend as to why was he standing there at the door - frozen to his spot - paling in his face as he took in the sight of her. It had been an odd and awkward couple of minutes for her holding the door open for him waiting for him to step in - knowing that Arnav was waiting impatiently in the bedroom - awaiting her signal of coming out to join her as per their plan.
She asks now puzzled - " Rob...????hey....are you going to stand frozen there..or are you going to come in now??? I do want to get this conversation done with as soon as possible...please..."
Rob nods now and composes his inner turmoil and shoots Khushi a polite smile as he says stepping in - " hey...Khushi...sorry...about that...good to see you...its been quite a while...how'v you been?"
Khushi nods as she closes the door shut and answers casually - "good...or ther... never been better..would be more appropriate...," and then walks past him gesturing him to come into the little hall and she asks politely picking up one of the extra mini packed bottle of water on the counter - " you want some water??"
Rob nods - " yeah.some water..would be kool..,"and he instantly catches the mini bottle she flung in the air towards him and takes a couple of gulps to compose his raging emotions within.He asks now after taking a sip - " so how's the job going? You resumed again? I just figured you are here for some work then???" Even though she seemed totally casual and indifferent right now as she stood across - he seemed to have no control what he was feeling for her within - right now. He was still in the middle of comprehending the fact that he had just realised he was in Love with her. The casual - indifferent - unaffected frame of hers told him that it really was too late - perhaps? But he knew one thing for sure - that he wouldn't know the answer to that - if he wouldn't begin talking. But how could he probe further? When she still hadn't given him a reply to the bit he had just asked?
Khushi casually shrugs picking up another bottle upfront from her and she asks- " you know I resumed work again? how? Last I checked...we'v been out of touch Robert.."
Rob answers now instantly - " don't call me Robert..please...K...I am Rob to you..always will be..I hate it when you call me that...and yeah...I know you resumed work..given that we have enough common acquaintances...K.."
Khushi sighs as she states honestly after gulping down another sip - " do not call me - K...please? Robert? I do not like it when you address me as that anymore...I hate it infact...,"and she begins to sip on the bottle of water again with the resolve to take this conversation ahead through after this sip and the minute she is about to say something as she turns to keep the empty bottle away in the kitchen sink behind - she hears him say all of a sudden outta the blue with his voice echoing loud in the room - " I am in love with you Khushi....I love you...I freaking just realised it...the very second I saw you...right now....which is why I froze in my state momentarily...you say now that you hate the fact that I call you K now - but as crazy as it is, seems like I had to just get this off my chest to you - because I couldn't take that from you in words....not after I'v just realised I am in love with you...."
That from Rob infuriates Khushi to another level now as she spins around shocked- gaping at him in immense fury. She was also sure that Arnav had heard this bit - very clearly. Her heart twisted in pain - imagining the look on the love of her life's face in the room right now.
Rob takes in the sight of Khushi gaping at him furiously right now and for a second he felt like he had never seen her this furious/angry like ever before and just as he is about to say a word on that - he sees her raise her hand upfront in a stern gesture to stop him from speaking as she states furious every inch of her frame reflecting shdes of anger he'd never seen before- " Stop...Robert...Godammit...Stop...you cannot just say this out loud to me dammit...don't you freaking understand....how inappropriate this is from you??????? I have moved on...dammit...I am in love with someone else...I deeply respect him...he's freaking sacred to me..our relationship is freaking sacred to me...and the only reason why I called you here right now...was so that you could probably see for yourself...that yeah what I mentioned on text was true...that I have moved on...for he is right here with me...I told you I am here for some work right? yeah..that work's exclusively personal...I came to visit the one I love..dammit...and I can't believe you just freaking embarrassed me this way in front of him right now....godammit...he's surely heard every bit of what you just said...yeah so you hear this now......I hate it when you call me K dammit in the present now..for even the subtle inference to that from you in the present referring to what was in between us - feels like a deep disrespect towards the one I love...in the present today..dammit....I can't freaking believe what you just said...how dare you? it was way out of line.....you can't just admit that you are in love with me when u have a potential heads up from me that I have moved on you can't just say that.. ...not that it makes an iota of a difference to me anyway...but it's just so freaking...disrespectful towards the one I love...downright..disrespectful...which is why I am not even going to acknowledge that I heard that bit from you...right now or freaking ever.....,"she finishes trembling in rage and fury - and spots Rob gape at her in a dazed shock all stunned - probably because of the furious avatar her trebling in anger tone tone and frame - Reflected.
Meanwhile - simulatenously - in the room - Arnav could obviously hear it all. He had heard it all.He had heard every bit of what Rob had said and he had just heard his Fiore's reply to him. Yeah ofcourse he felt like a momentary volcano within the very second he heard Rob confess his love to his Fiore - fighting the urge and twich to just beat the crap out of him again - but the very second his Fiore's answer had fallen into his ears in that furious tone of hers - he knew - even though this was not how they had planned to go about revealing the truth to Rob - the moment had to be now. He'd never heard Khushi's tone tremble in so much anger ever before and he'd be dammed - if he didn't walk out to hold her close and calm her through her embarrassment right now. First.Fiore. Don't you worry baby.I know this is not your fault. Neither of us saw this coming. I am okay. I will be more than just okay in about a second from now too - he adds in his head silently.
Arnav finally takes a deep breathe to control and calm his urge of punching Wilson yet again only for his Fiore's sake and finally walks out the room into the hall area as he says in a calm, composed and determined voice out loud - " you say that you love her Wilson... and I say m- that I love her too...too bad for you buddy...you had your chance...and you freaking ruined it....that ship with your chance written on it has sailed away permanently mate...and its about time you accept that...once and for all...because fortunately - Khushi feels the same way for me...she's in love with me just like I am deeply in love with her too and there's just about anything that you or anyone else on this freaking planet....can ever do to change that....equation in between of us....,"and with that he finally comes to stand upfront in front of Rob Wilson - gesturing Khushi to just come into his arms from the side too.
To say that in that very moment Rob felt a tsunami of shock reel through his being was an understatement ofcourse. He stood - frozen in stunned sheer shock this time around as he took in the sight of the man walking out the room to stand upfront in front off him and as the words from him registered within his ears again - for a moment Rob felt like his senses were deceiving him. He couldn't freaking believe it. He couldn't believe his eyes - first. He couldn't freaking believe - that it was Raizada he was seeing stand up and close in front off him right now. He couldn't believe his ears - that they'd just heard the declaration of Love come out off Raizada's mouth - for Khushi. He couldn't believe that the one Khushi was seeing now - and loved with such deep intensity - was - HIM. Arnav Singh Raizada. He had no other option but to stand dazed and stunned in shock - because he just realised that his arch nemesis from the cricket ground - had just seemed to leap out of the 22 yards to stand up close as his rival(yet again) - in situation - that was just so deeply personal.
And as Rob took in the sight off - Khushi walking up to just hug Arnav sideways burying her face in the crook of his neck as she whispered into him kissing his cheek and neck lovingly - " I am so sorry...baby...I am so so sorry for this...you didn't have to hear this...I had no idea this was what Rob would say...I couldn't have imagined it..ever...I am just so freaking embarrassed right now...you okay? Love??please just...say something...please....,"and as Rob hears Khushi pause at that and sees Arnav just engulfing Khushi into his frame in a crushingly close hug assuring her first that she didn't have anything to worry about that he was okay...that this was not her fault...that all he needed was for her to feel better through her furiously disturbed state...first....which was why he walked out over the situation in the ways he did - feeling that desperate need to just hug her close --------- Rob Knew. He knew that even though his mind didn't want to register in the possibility off what was happening in front of him right now - he had no other option but to digest the reality through.
For one look at Arnav and Khushi in one frame and the intense vibe in between of them as they held onto one another - as if they were completely oblivious to him standing there for a moment - caring only about comforting one another in the moment ------- was enough to cement the unfortunate truth that Rob had just come to face with.
They were in Love - Indeed.The very vibe in between of them right now was by far the most freaking intense vibe he had ever observed in any romantically inclined couple around Him.
He just knew that - He had lost - Khushi for good. He had most surely lost the one he had been unknowingly in love with all this while.And the twisted aching irony of it all was - that he had lost her to the man - he freaking even hated losing his wicket too - in the games - professionally.
And so it could be rightly said that as Robert Wilson stood their frozen to his spot still - digesting it all through - his frame totally Reflected that off a person's - whose trying to reel and save his way through an potentional earthquake/and its tremors - as the ground shakes and sometimes disappers from underneath their feet.Because from what he was feeling in his emotions right now - it totally felt like the ground most surely had just shaken itself with an earthquake that was super high on it's emotional intensity leaving him with nothing but that familiar ache/vaccum-within- Indeed.
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TADAAAAAA!!
How was That Guysssssssss?????????? Haha! No shoes at me for stopping at that Cliffhanger please!! Just had to ya for the dramatic affect of it all ya..winks...😜😜😉😉😉.
What do you all think off the moments through the Update? The former ones and the romantic one's and the one that the update ended with obviously? Did you all feel that my words were able to do justice to Rob's reaction???? Do let me knowwwww in the comments belowwww! Would simply love to hear you all.
Next Update: Saturday Night Mostly.(Will try my bestest for Friday. Incase not up by Friday - then surely - Saturday night)
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