Chapter 4

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Arnav steadied Khushi up to a standing position. Khushi balanced herself up and fixed her sari,

"Let's go back to the party," she said looking up at him. He nodded, put an arm around her waist and they strode out of the kitchen to join everyone else in the party. Everyone was enjoying the party and guests kept on arriving. Arnav introduced his business associates to Khushi and talked with them.

They were walking when Arnav received a call on his cell phone, he excused himself and went to the poolside in order to receive the call. But he wasn't the only one that went up there, someone else also followed. Aman had called Arnav to remind him of an important meeting that was the next day and Arnav had felt someone else enter the room. He was still on the phone when footsteps approached him ,he was sure that it wasn't Khushi because he could always feel her presence when she was nearby. He got off the phone when Aman had cut the call and turned around, Arnav came face to face with a girl he had met early, he didn't remember her clearly but was sure he had seen her before.

"Um, have we met before?" he asked her.

"Yea we did earlier, I'm Anita, my dad is a businessman," she said.

"Mr. Kapoor's daughter...?" he said.

"Yes," she replied taking a step towards him.

"But what are you doing here? The party is downstairs," Arnav said as she stepped closer, this didn't look good to him.

"Actually I wanted to meet you," Anita replied back.

"We've already met earlier," he replied back in a fierce voice.

"That was just a casual meeting, how about a personal one," she said tilting her head.

"Sorry, but it's best if you leave at this instant. I don't need your help or want to know you any better," he said, anger starting to become visible in his eyes.

"The better thing is how I can help you," Anita said standing directly in front of him and about to put her hands on his shoulders. Before she could even make contact with him, she felt a pain jolt through her arms. It was too fast for her to understand, but she found her arms in a tight grip behind her back and a dangerously angry man glaring down at her.

Before he could utter anything to her, he saw someone fall down from the corner of his eyes.

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Khushi was looking around and realized that Arnav still hadn't come down from taking his call, maybe it was really important, she thought to herself.

"Khushiji, where is Chotte?" Anjali asked coming up to her.

"He went upstairs to receive a call from Aman, but still hasn't come down," Khushi said.

"Why don't you go call him, it's time to have dinner," Anjali said.

"Okay Di," Khushi replied back to her. She made her way through the crowd and went up the stairs. She saw someone else up there also, no one from there family. Weren't all the guests suppose to be downstairs, she thought to herself. Khushi was going to call out to her, but that girl ended up entering the side door to the poolside. Why was she going there? Khushi wondered. She entered her room and saw that Arnav wasn't in there, she was about to leave when she heard him talking. Looking out the open door to the poolside, Khushi saw Arnav talking on the phone, and then another figure approaching him, the same one she had seen earlier.

She stood in her room watching the actions of the girl and listening to what she was saying. To Khushi, she just looked like one of those models who caked herself up with makeup and was very fake. The way the girl was approaching Arnav made Khushi's blood boil, what did that girl think of herself?

While being able to slightly listen to what they were saying, Khushi felt her head getting heavy. Her vision started blurring and she held the cupboard near her for support. Before she knew it, her entire vision blurred and she felt her knees go weak.

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Arnav had seen someone fall from the corner of his eyes, he looked to that way again and saw a puddle of a sari.

"Khushi!" he gasped and left Anita while he ran over to her. He quickly got down by her side and pulled her head up on his lap.

"Khushi...khushi...," he said patting her head trying to wake her up, "...baby please open your eyes...khushi...can you hear me?"

He quickly picked her up and settled her on their bed. Anjali who had been waiting for Khushi to bring Arnav down realized that neither of them had come yet, so she decided to go upstairs to call them down. Thinking that they were probably with each other and secretly romancing, but she was surprised by the sight she saw when she entered their room. Khushi was lying on the bed and Arnav was sitting on the edge trying to make cer conscious.

"Chotte what happened?!" she exclaimed entering the room.

"Di...Di...Khushi's not waking up..she just fainted," he told her.

'Hold on, I'll call the doctor right away," Anjali said. She pulled out her cell phone and immediately called the family doctor. She said that she would be here anytime soon. Anjali then told Om Prakash to bring some water.

Arnav was getting worried, what had happened to her that would cause her to faint. His thoughts went back to what had happened at the poolside, that girl. Had Khushi happened to see them together and assumed something wrong? No, his Khushi wasn't like that, she trusted him completely and would never doubt their relationship.

The thought of the girl made his anger boil, he looked back outside and found that she was still standing their, only closer to the door. He quickly went up to her, anger evident in his flaring eyes, his hands turning into fists.

"You!" he said, "Get out of here before I do something that I will regret later!"

"But'," she started off.

"SECURITY!!" Arnav yelled out loud, "SECURITY!"

The guards quickly came to their room, and so did the family members that had heard his loud voice. Arnav told the guards to take the girl away and make sure that they never saw her face here again.

He turned around to his room and saw that the doctor had arrived.

"What happened Chotte? Khushi bitiya ko kya hua?" Nani asked seeing Khushi lying on the bed.

"I don't know Nani, I found her fainted in the room," Arnav told her.

"Did you call the doctor?" Akash asked.

"Yea, she said she would be on her way'," Anjali said, "'oh look she's here."

That doctor was standing at the door and walked inside. She asked everyone to leave while she would examine the patient. They all left the room and stood outside. Arnav was pacing the hallway worried about her, the few minutes turned into five, then ten. But for him, it felt like hours. The doctor finally came out of the room and Arnav rushed up to her.

"Doctor how is she? Is she fine?" he asked with concern.

"Yes everything is fine with her," the doctor replied.

"But why did she faint?" he asked.

"It happens in these kind of situations," the doctor said.

"These kind of situation? What kind of situations?" he asked confused.

"Oh I guess you probably don't know yet since it's only been a few weeks," the doctor said.

"Few weeks of what?" Arnav asked.

"Congratulations Mr. Raizada, your wife is pregnant," the doctor said.

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