ArSh *Asli True Love* #3 new link pg 1

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PART 14

TICK TALK TICK

Since their weird encounter in the washroom, her head had been full of confusions. Not that she doubted his intentions, not one bit. But then, this new found close proximity was surely putting her in some kind of thoughts, and those were profusely deep thoughts..her life had not taught her to trust people that easily, she did that though, since she always wanted to experiment with life, and trusting people was the biggest chance, the biggest risk according to her, that one could take in life. And she trusted him too..but then again, just a week, oh not even a week..and then what keisha had said was still not out of her senses, all of it scared her so much. She wasn't ready to be betrayed. Her heart trusted armaan completely, and she knew the word 'betrayal' was nowhere around where she and armaan were together, but then again, you can never question the anxities of a girl..and now, to add to her troubles was his text! 'my room, dinner :P' they had been having all their meals together these days, but why was he calling her in his room? Dinner could be done anywhere..what was the need to call her to his room?

As she reached upstairs to his room, to her surprise he wasn't even there. *sneeze* But what caught her attention were the flowers and candles and beautiful velvet cloth placed on the bed.. what the fcuk was going on in this man's mind? She couldn't help her mind but think in all the wrong directions..armaan clearly wanted to have some good 'good' time here! With her, candles, flowers, this velvelt bed sheet like cloth...did he really want to take their relationship to the next physical level? So soon? *sneeze* Yeah obviously, if you'd look around the things, they clearly indicate the same, maybe he wanted to take the next step with her tonight. That is why that naughty seeming text..already he was so upset when he learnt about the next being her last day in india and then he woul be going to NY at least after a fifteen days or so at his new hospital...yeah, maybe the distance was too much for him to bear and he wanted to make her his before she leaves! She shudered at that thought. It was possible that she was herself wrong in letting him know so clearly about her feelings and being so open about their relation, to him and to everyone. After all it was india. It wasn't her NY where people slept around with each other and then forget faces too. *sneeze* But what if armaan considered her to be just another new york girl? What if he thought the same about her? If at all he did, she would have to be the bold one and clearly tell her what she feels. She wasn't going to do anything until they weren't sure. Until they weren't married. She sat down on the corner of his bed, her eyes a little teary. This was not what she wanted..things were not supposed to get compliacted now.. they were supposed to bid each other a happy farewell and then meet again at the end of the month when he visits her. Not...not this! What her own father had done with her mother, was quite enough for her to deal with in life, she didn't want anything like that. Though she trusted armaan, she could never trust herself. She knew at heart, she wasn't a strong girl, she was a kid..but she needed to take care of that kid..*sneeze*

"shilpa?" armaan entered with a plate of food and if he was sure, he saw a crying-cum-sneezing shilpa sitting quitely at the corner of his bed..

"ye kya hai?" she stood up surprised to see a plate in his hand..so..when he had said dinner...he actually meant dinner!

"ye kya hai?" armaan stood surprised to her henna laiden hand...so..when she had asked him...she actually meant it!

"what?" they both sopke, looking at their own hands, wondering what was confusing the other..

"vo i thought.." they started together again, but chuckled nervously, awkwardly..

"uh..you say.." shilpa spoke up..

"i thought you were allergic to it..you're still sneezing..but fir bhi ye mehndi?"

"ye? Acha haan...arre vo toh coz you said na you'd want to see me having it.." she had almost forgotten about it..

and he did notice that unclear tone in her answer.. "what were you thinking? And were you just crying?" he had planned on asking her everything, of talking to her..but if she was already crying he wouldn't even touch the topic, he mentaly resolved..

"vo..i thought.." she looked down gultily..what the hell had she been thinking! He actually wanted them to have dinner together..and she! Huh!

"what?" he kept the plate on the bed and moved to her, comforting her with his hand on her waist, and the other on her cheek..

"vo.." she looked in his eyes and tried to speak..

"haan?"

gathering courage, she finally blurted out.."i thought you wanted to have sex with me."

"what?" he almost laughed at that, but checked himself after she smacked his shoulder..

"arre mehndi kharab ho jayegi, mat maaro.."

"mehndi sirf ek hath me hai...doosre se maar sakti hoon!" she smacked him again and went and sat on his bed..he kneeled down before her and took her hands in his, careful enough not to spoil her mehndi..

"so...you thought i wanted to hav-"

"no..don't say it now or i'll run away.." she interrupted him before he could complete..she was already so embarrased by her thoughts and now him repeating those words would have made her even more uncomfortable..he couldn't refrain back from chuckling at that though..she just seemed to get sweeter and cuter and better each moment! And she looked cute now, with those pouted lips and frowning forehead..it was as if she was having a fight with herself..inable to decide what she wanted to say or do..shy and embarrased as a kid..

"okay fine..i won't say a word about it..but..uh...just to make things clear..did you want to..?" he started again with his smug remarks..how could he leave a chance to tease that innocent girl in front of him!

"armaan!" she raised her hand to smack him, it was the henna wala hand, he held it maidway but before he could say anytyhing..she sneezed again..
"and here we go again!" he laughed and kissed her hand lightly..just brushing his lips over it so it didn't spoil the design on her hand..

"thank you.." he murmured against her hand and looked into her gleaming and blushing eyes..how much ever strong or bold she told herself to be, his touch always had an intoxicating effect on her..a little carress..a slght brush of hands..a small peck..it all seemed to touch her deep down to the soul..who could believe this ever so strong shilpa malhotra hadn't been able to talk to him for a whole day after their first kiss!

"thank you kis liye?" she knew he was thanking her for the gesture she had done for him, despite her allergy..she knewit meant a lot for him..that look in his eyes when he watched abhimaunyu trying to find his name in nikita's mehndi had said it all...and her sneezes could never get in between..

"just..for being you..i love the way you are.." he winked at her..

"oh! Toh dr. Devdaas mallik dr. Dialogbaaz mallik ban rahe hain!" she teased him,trying to take her hands out of his hold so he could settle properly on teh ebd, but he held her hand just in place not letting her go..

"i told you not to call me that ms. Bracelet! I told you never to call me devdaas again!" he arched his back a little, coming to the level of her face and bit her ear..

"you get your punishment.." he wshispered huskily near her ear before kissing the spot.. she smiled at that..a kiss after punishment was such an alluring offer to live with for at least a lifetime..

and giggling out of his hold, she presented her hand in front of him.. "acha now, find your name in it..and pehle tell me, do you think i should've got it done on both hands? That girl who put this on my hand was saying so..but then i though how'd i wipe my nose when i sneeze if i do it on both hands.." she told him with all the genuinity in her eyes and voice and looking at her, right then and there..he felt like falling in love with her once more..

"i could have done that for you...tum chheenkti rehti aur main tumhare peech peeche hanky leke ghoomta rehta!"

"very smart...ab bina topic change kiye hue please look into it and find your name.."

"yeah okay..let's do that.." he looked into her hands and he found his name at the first glance, after all how difficult would it be to read it on her diagonal design from her palm to her pointer finger..but he tried to play it games.. she was curiously looking at his face while his expressions changed..how she felt satisfied in that one moment..that desire and the sense of unfullfilment that she had observed in his eyes back when he was looking at abhi and niks was now replaced with a sheet of satisfaction and proud..she felt good for doing something for him..she felt proud of herself looking at his bright eyes..

"i can't find it.." he looked up at her and frowned in fake confusion.. and her smile disapperaed right then too.. "how can you not find it armaan! Its right there! I am looking at it.." she pointed with her eyes and wanted him to follow it but all he kept staring at were her eyes..her big eyes veiled wit her long lashes.. "yeah?" he too faked curiosity and looked at her henad again, staring at his name.. and her eyes went back from her own hand to his eyes..it seemed so much fun..looking back to four days ago, when he had refused to even acknowledge her with a 'hello' in the car back from teh train station..to now, when all his conversations started and ended with her..she felt glad in herself..not for making the akdu man love..but for seeing him so loving..

"oh here you are...'armaan'" he gazed into her eyes, bringing her hand closer to his lips and maintaing their eye lock..he lightly carresed his lips over his name on her hand..he smiled feeling the shiver in her body and kissed her hand..

"i.." he checked himself before completing the sentence..he was about to slip an 'i love you' and no..that wasn't the plan..when he had planned on a beautiful date for the next day only so he could confess his love to her, saying it now would just spoil it..

"i?" she scrunched her brows..

"i found myself in you!" he smartly replied making her smile..

"ahaan! You found your name on my hand you mean mister! Don't try and get oversmart with me!" she fakely admonished and settled in the middle of the bed inviting him.. "dinner kare? All this henna and naach gaana has made me ravenous..and besides, i can't eat with a single hand and also i have to * sneeze * ah, wipe my nose like this..so i sit and you feed me!" she almost ordered wiping her nose again while he just stood there trying to comprehend her levels of cuteness..

"kahan jaa rahe ho aap?" she called out when he didn't respond to her orders and instead started walking in the opposite direction.. still not answering her, he leaned towards a drawer and returned to her with a medicine tablet..

"what?" she looked at him in confusion when he offered the tablet to her.. "armaan main dawai nahi khaati...maine bataya tha na..headache,fever ke liye bhi nahi..and this allergy wil also go away in a day.." she tried to protest but he just shut her up with his glare and handed her the tablet..

"armaaannn" she whined again while he bent to the side table to get her a glass of water..

"chup chaap isko muh me daalo aur ye paani piyo.."he told her, trying his best not to let his smile slip else she would not take the medicine and keep sneezing all night..while he was eternally glad that she put the mehndi for him, despite her allergy..he was equally worried about her health and didn't want to take any chances..

"no.." she looked straight into his eyes and replied with conviction..

"arre! Kyun?" he was iritated now..they were supposed to talk tonight..he was supposed to know about her..not waste time over this!

"because i don't like it..its...bitter.." she looked a little embarresed..all her life she had been saying she didn't take these allopathic medicines coxz they have side effects..and here was admitting she couldn't take them for they tasted so bitter! They were hard to take in!

"arre par you don't have to chew it na..just swallow it with the water..here.." supressing his chuckle at the cutest girl in the world, he tried to give her the glass of water..

"nahi hota armaan...please...i'll be fine..and besides bua has told me to have haldi wala milkshake raat ko..that'll work i'm sure.."

"its not 'milkshake' ms. New york!..and plus, you can take both..the milk later and this now..and now open your mouth i don't wanna listen to anything more."

with the tablet in one hand, the other having a green-brown shade of the henna, his hand holding the glass for her, she sighed and sighed deeply for she knew there was no way out of this..

"what if i puke?" she asked him, hoping he will let it go..

"puke all over me..puke all over the room..puke all you want..but take this in.." his eyes determined..just as they looked when she called him 'devdaas' each time..

"i haven't even called you devdaas now.." she blurted looking into his blue orbs bore into hers..

"what?"

"kuch nahi.." she sighed again..

"shona..baby..ek medicine hi hai na...and its fine if you puke..i won't say a word..but just try..please..ek baar?" he tried to convince he taking the soft road now..he knew the kid she was, she'd surely melt by this..

she sighed for the third time in that one moment..took a deep breath..holding it in she threw that devil of a tablet at the back of her mouth and snatched the galss of water from his hand, gulping it down her throat in a single go..

she sneezed just as she put the glass down and glared at him.. "dekha..ab bhi cheenk rahi hoon..koi fayda nahi hua aapki dawai ka!"

"ek minute me kaam nahi karti dawai DOCTOR bracelet! You should know it!" he kept the glass on the bedside toubret and settled propely taking the forgotten dinner plate in his hand..

"you should know it.." she mocked his words iritatedly..

The dinner went simple..he fed them both and she sneezed after almost every second bite..

"so what are these for,then?" she asked referring to the velevt cloths and candles and flowers and all the stuff that was primarily responsible for putting those not so innocent ideas in her head in the first place..if not for them, she would have still doubted his text message to be decent..these things on the corner of the bed had only put her into her darned suspicion..

they had been settled on armaan's bed after dinner..armaan sat with his back to the bed post with an as always hyper active and sneezing shilpa in his lap while she laid her head on his shoulder..he teasingly removed the now dry henna from her hand while they talked about anything and everything around..

"arre these are for tomorrow..if they were for..you know what you thought...toh i would have decorated the room na..aise side pe thodi rakhta.."

"for tomorrow? Why, you're in the catering team for niks' wedding?" she asked teasing him..

"very funny.." he tried not to respond o her question and only concentrate on the mazaak..in no way was he going to reveal his plans for the special night..

"of course i'm funny! Dad says i'm the funniest and the cutest girl ever!" she told him with a genuine joy..and he caught it! The only thing he was waiting for in their conversation was the topic of her dad to come up somehow so he could know her better...not that he didn't enjoy rest of the conversation with her, he did..watching her speak in itself was a relaxation..but he needed to break that ice coating and get to know the real shilpa..the one who didn't take medicines coz they'r bitter..he had seen enough of the strong,bold, don't-call-me-sensitive shilpa..

"your dad..hmm..what else does he say?" he tried to sound nonchalant..

"what else would he say?" she frowned at his illogical question..

"no..uh.i mean..he loves you a lot na?" he formed some coherence..how he wished he could straightaway ask her why was she so casual about her dad having a deadly disease and get it done with..but then, he feared the consequences..

"hmm...he loves me the most in the world!" she took his hand that was playing with her mehndi and put it round her wait as she nestled in his neck and left a small peck there, unintentionally diverting him from the conversation..

"don't be so sure when i'm around..we have a long way to go, at least enough for you to change your ideas about the man that loves you the most!" he whispered in her ear making her giggle and look up at him with a smart reply, only to be interrupted by her own sneeze.. "ah! There we go again.." he remarked wiping her nose with his hanky..

"thanks.." she settled back and started her ramble again...armaan wanted to know about her life in new york and her relationship with her father..when he hinted at that, she gladly told him about her hospital, cunningly skipping the name of her hospital..she had already decided not to slip that out so she could surprise him when he later comes to new york to join her hospital..

she told him about how she wasn't this bubbly at work..and was super professional and strict with her interns..when he refused to believe how she could be rude..she even showed him a picture in her phone that her best friend had clicked while she scolded away an innocent intern..

but among all the descriptions..teasing and conversations..he realized he did not wish to know about her parents or her dad anymore..he discovered such innocent genuinity in her words and talks that he almost accused himself of trying to talk to her in a way to let her secrets out..he didn't want to know anything anymore..she would obviously tell him everything when the right time comes..and he was happy to believe that they had a long long time with themselves ahead in the future..sure she would return back to her nation after a day, but ki fark penda h..vo bhi saat samundar paar uske peeche peeche jaane wala tha! So he didn't try anymore..instead, he juts enjoyed listening her talk about nothing in particular..taking her in..reeling her presence...imagining how her face would be lit up the next day when he confesses his feelings for her..

he was narrating her a funny incident about something that happened at his hospital a few days ago..regarding his image of a strict gabbar himself..but when he didn't get any response..he looked down only to see a peacefully asleep ms. Braceet in his arms.. he took time watching her sleep..putting some stubborn strands of hair back and softly playing with her long lashes before he decided to take her back to her room and make her lie down comfortably..and he didn't miss to leave a kiss on his name on her hand and her forehead and her cheek and her nose and to make sure his hanky was still near her while she slept smiling before stealthily tip toeing to his own room...

Lying in bed that night, he had a weird feeling..a weird kind of satisfaction that told him nothing could go wrong as long as he was with this angel..he had set his life stright in juts five days..what would it be like for a whole lifetime! She had brought him out of his i-hate-basket shell..she had made him have fun again..forget all that, she had in fact helped him forgive his parents..he gave it a thought now..he looked at his phone and thought of calling his mother telling he didn't hate her for anything..telling that all the rudeness he had towards his parents was just his frustration and that he wasn't frustrated anymore..he wanted to tell his mom about shilpa.. but considering the time in the night, he just resolved to keep his agreement with shilpa literally..he wouldn't call his parents like a little kid but would definitely tallk to them whenever they decide to call him next..

and as far as mission 'knowing shilpa' was concerned, that could take a back seat at least till mission 'confess feelings' was accomplished..anyhow, he didn't need to know her anymore to love her..plus to think of it..he found it a little sweet to get to know each other step by step and still be sure of the love you have for each other..all the talks he had with her today just made him yet more sure of his feelings..

his eyes fell on the alarm clock beside his bed and he waited for the sun to rise so he could look forward to another day with her, what if it was going to be their last day together for now..but the clock seemed to be teasing him..telling him that he had to wait for another good seven to eight hours to see her with open eyes, if not in his dreams, to tell her how much he loved her..and on the same time, consoling that he still had good seven to eight hours before he spends his last day with her.. the clock went on with a teasingly stable tick tock tick...

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Originally posted by: KaShforever06

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Originally posted by: KaranSGRules

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