Prem walked towards them and stood opposite Khushi looking at him seriously, Khushi was already shivering from fear, she thought she could go on with this for a while but it looked like her secret was out already.

"Who do you like Khushi?" Prem asked seriously.

"We were just talking about this new serial that started airing recently, the actor is so hot, she was talking about him." Krystle said.

"Oh...You and your stupid actors" Prem said as he headed inside the mansion leaving Khushi and Krystle alone.

"Oh My God! Thank you so much for saving me, I thought today either Arnav or I were going to get murdered." Khushi hugged Krystle happily.

"Just be careful with this okay? Anyway I'm getting late I'll see you some other time." Krystle bid her a goodbye and walked away as Khushi headed inside the mansion, she was glad that Prem hadn't heard their entire conversation otherwise there would have been a lot of drama right now.

She found Rudra and Arjun seated in the hall, Prem had gone upstairs to his room so she walked towards them both and joined them.

"Nowadays Krystle is coming here a lot isn't she?" Khushi smirked as she looked at Arjun who was already frowning and Rudra who was smiling about it.

"I know I mean why don't other people that work for us come home so much?" Rudra looked at Arjun.

"Okay stop it you two, she's just a good friend of mine plus also she works for me, it's no big deal stop making everything so big." Arjun rolled his eyes.

"Oh, so you don't like her?" Khushi asked.

"No." Arjun replied.

"How is she your friend if you don't like her?"

"Okay fine I like her as a friend, she's a good person that's it. Now I'll leave before you two start making up stories." Arjun rolled his eyes as he stood up ready to leave.

"Yeah then it's good bro won't get hurt, I think Krystle has a boyfriend." Khushi said to Rudra.

"Who?" Arjun turned to look at her immediately, now he dint look like he was irritated, he looked a bit angry.

"Why do you care, isn't she just your friend?" Rudra smirked to which Khushi ended up laughing to loud. She always had fun teasing his brothers, especially if it was about girls, the expressions on their faces were hilarious.

"It's okay bro he is Krystle's friend he deserves to know, I don't know who it is but I just saw some guy picking him up from here, he was pretty hot, uff." Khushi said as she pretended to blow herself some air with her hands.

"You are not allowed to look at boys." Arjun said.

"Nope, I am not allowed to talk to them or date them, but I am definitely allowed to look at them and admire them especially if they are hot and trust me, Krystle's boyfriend is really hot." She said trying to look really serious but all the while she really wanted to laugh at the expressions Arjun had on his face.

"Well it's good then I guess. She's pretty and good, why would she have a boyfriend." He said sadly as he headed upstairs.

"He totally likes her and not just as a friend." Khushi said to Rudra.

"You like playing these games, don't you? With Prem and now with Arjun." Rudra said.

"Hey, I am not allowed to fall in love doesn't mean I deny my brother's the love, they are just idiots who need a little bit pushing and I am doing just exactly that." Khushi giggled.

"Sometimes I just forget how fast you're growing up." Rudra smiled.

"Exactly, only if you three realized that I am grown up, I'm going to college now and I'm mature enough to make my own decisions." Khushi sighed. Rudra dint say anything to that, he just looked away from her.

*****

Khushi sat down on her bed and pulled out her phone from the pocket, she saw a notification on her screen about a new post on Arnav's page. Since she started talking to him, she had turn on post notifications for his page so every time he would post something she would know, he just wrote so beautifully, she dint want to miss anything he wrote.

She opened her Instagram account and read the short poem Arnav had posted like a few minutes ago. She lied down on her bed and started reading it immediately.

It was such a beautiful poem describing how falling in love felt like, she had a huge smile o her face throughout until she was done reading the poem.

"Looks like someone is falling in love Mr. Writer. Who is the lucky girl?" She giggled as she typed the message and pressed the send button.

"There's this girl I went on a date with today, she's so pretty, so perfect." A reply popped up immediately as if all this while he had just been waiting for her to text. Khushi blushed deep red as she read his text, he was so flirty.

"So have you told her how you feel for her?"

"I have a couple of times, she doesn't seem to be taking me seriously, what do you advice I should do next Talkative girl?"

"I'm sure you're clever enough to come up with an idea on your own."

"That I will. Anyway, can we stop talking like strangers now, we've met and we know each other now."

"Sure, I don't mind." She smiled.

"So how did you like the date? Was it okay?"

"It was perfect, imagine I've had my first two dates with you, you should consider yourself lucky." She giggled. She couldn't just stop giggling, there was just this happiness she felt, she wanted to dance and tell everyone about Arnav and how happy she was.

"I do. Don't worry, I'll try to make sure our third date is way better than the first two though." He sent the text with a few wink emojis.

"So there's going to be a third date?"

"Pretty soon, that's if you don't mind of course."

"Why would I mind, I'd love to go on another date with you Arnav."

"Great, I'll plan something soon then. I'll also see you at college on Monday. Is it weird if I say I miss you already?"

"Not really, I kind of feel like wanting to be around you more and more." She replied.

"I like feeling this way about you."

"So do I."

Someone knocked at the door of her room so she placed her phone under her pillow quickly to be safe and covered herself with a blanket just to make it look like she was taking a nap.

"Come in." She shouted, the door pushed open as Prem walked in.

"How was your day at Suman's house today?" He asked as he sat down beside her and looked at her nervously, it was very rare of Prem to be nervous and if he was nervous there had to be a big reason behind it.

"It was good."

"How is she doing? I mean..."

"Oh so now you suddenly care about her? Look Prem, you made your decision, you told her about it and that was it so why are you trying to complicate things? I don't want my best friend to keep getting hurt like this."

"Do you think it's easy for me Khushi?" He looked at her angrily.

"You are the one that's making it hard on yourself, I told you since the beginning, I get it, you guys have some stupid rule for me but it doesn't apply to you and I am okay if you want to date Suman, I wont complain so why are you hurting yourself life this.

I mean look at you, you look like you'll start crying right now. It's high time bro, go tell her you want her in your life otherwise one day someone else is going to come and tell her that and she's not going to wait around for you."

"It won't be the right thing to do." Prem shrugged.

"So hurting yourself and hurting her would be right?"

"I don't want to hurt her either. Do you think I wanted to fall in love with her? If anything I tried all I could to stay away from her so I wouldn't but it just happened and now I'm here feeling like shit, since when did I become so weak Khushi?" He looked at me sadly.

"Falling in love doesn't make you weak bro."

"I'll leave... I just felt like talking to someone and I couldn't talk about this to Arjun or Rudra... please don't tell them about this."

"On one condition. If you go tell Suman right now what you feel for her and stop punishing her and yourself."

"I don't think I have the strength to do that." He sighed as he walked away. Now this was really making Khushi mad, Prem literally confessed to her that he was in love with Suman and he also knew Suman felt the same way about her, but he dint want to do anything about it. Why?

What was it that made her brothers like this? She really had to find out. She was so done with this mystery and stupid rules, she needed to know why they had these stupid rules for her and for themselves. What was it that made them like this.

It was time for detective Khushi to come out and find things out, she was going to do everything possible to find out everything about it.