I followed Stefan to the secret basement he told me that existed in this house, only the four of them knew about it, no one else did, It was kind of hidden.

We stopped in front of a huge painting and I kept on staring at him as he pushed it aside and that opened up a path to the secret basement. I was shocked. Why would some random bad boys have such a secret basement? What activities did they carry out here?

"After you." Stefan said, I walked inside nervously, hoping and praying Arnav dint have anything to do with Zion's disappearance, because I dint know if I was ever going to be able to forgive him for that.

My fears came true as I walked in and found Zion there, tied to a chair and the three boy were standing in front of him questioning him about something, Arnav also had a knife in his hand, was he really going to kill Zion with it? That thought scared the hell out of me.

"Arnav." I whispered his name in shock, the three of them turned around and looked at Stefan and I in shock too, and obviously they weren't expecting to see us here.

"You kidnapped my best friend?" I looked at him in disbelief, he was the last person I expected to do this to me, why would he kidnap Zion? Why did he want to kill him?

"Khushi, I can explain." He said, I ignored him and rushed towards Zion as I started untying him, seriously, where did I go wrong? Why would my own boyfriend kidnap my best friend? Was he jealous, did he have another reason behind it? I had no idea.

"Are you okay?" I cupped Zion's face worriedly, he nodded positively so I held his hand and pulled him aside.

"Khushi, listen to us." Karthik tried to speak.

"I don't want to listen to a word! I could for once even think maybe Damon could do this because we clearly don't like each other much, but you both! Karthik, after I helped you with Bonnie I thought you were a good person, how could you kidnap someone and try to kill them?And Arnav, I have no words for you. You clearly took advantage of me, you used advantage of me allowing you to stay at my place and kidnap my own best friend, how could you do this to me? I freaking trusted you!

Until today I just thought you were a jerk but today you proved you are worse than that, and I regret even being with you Arnav." I looked at him angrily.

"I dint use you Khushi, I was going to find this guy anyhow, be it he lived in your house or someone else's, the only reason I even came here in mystic falls was to find him!" Arnav said.

"I don't care Arnav, I don't care why you came here or anything, what I care about is how you used me to get to him, I promised him I would keep him safe and my own boyfriend was actually going to kill him! Since when did you become a monster Arnav? I knew you were a bad boy, but I dint think you were a murderer." I was really hurt, it was like even after all this time, I had no idea who he really was.

"Khushi I can explain."

"I am in no moods for any explanation Arnav, I don't know how many times you're going to break my heart and I have no idea how many times I'm going to let you." I looked at him sadly, he had no idea how much he had hurt me by doing this, I just grabbed Zion's hand and pulled him away with me.

"Seriously guys, what the hell were you thinking?" I heard Stefan asked them, but I was in no mood to listen to their conversation so I walked away with my best friend.

*****

"I am so sorry Zion, I dint know Arnav would do this." I apologized to him as soon as we arrived home.

"Hey, don't apologize for anything Khushi, you did keep your promise, you did keep me safe and even right now, you saved me before he could kill me. I was actually scared, he looked angry as hell, I was sure he would have killed me if you dint come." Zion said.

"I don't get this, why does he hate you so much that he would want to kill you?" I looked at Zion worriedly, I had lost him once, if I lost him again that too because I wasn't able to take care of him, I wouldn't have ever been able to forgive myself.

Zion just kept on staring at me silently without giving me any explanation, I started pacing around the room wondering what I had done to bring my boyfriend hate my best friend so much that he was really to kill him.

The door opened up suddenly and Arnav walked in, right now I felt like punching him, I dint even want to see his face, why was he even here now?

"Khushi, please let me explain myself first before you take any decision." He said.

"I don't want to talk to you regarding anything Arnav, all I can think of right now is that you used me, and broke my trust." I said.

"Please Khushi, listen to me just once, I promise I'll explain everything and then you can take whatever decision you want but for once, please let me explain." He begged.

"You should talk to him Khushi." Zion said.

"Are you the one saying this Zion? He tried to kill you!" I looked at him in disbelief.

"And he had his reasons, I don't want to be the reason why you both separate, please talk to him and listen to him Khushi." Zion said, I had no other option, obviously I wanted to know why Arnav did whatever he did and if Zion was telling me to listen to him, I was going to.

"Fine, but you stay here." I said to Zion as I walked out of his room and headed to my room as Arnav followed me.

I sat down on my bed and looked at him, I tried to calm myself down as he walked towards me and sat beside me, he tried to hold my hand and I pulled it off.

"Remember what I told you about my sister Khushi?" He asked, I remembered it obviously, very well, it was the first time he had told me something really deep about his life, I remembered each and everything about it.

"I don't want to beat around the bush so I'll come straight to the point, Zion was the guy my sister was in love with, and then he left her and I lost my sister, he is the reason why my sister isn't here with me today.

I've been looking for him since ages, I even came to mystic falls for him, because I was trying to find him, and then I met you and things changed.

You know why I used to be out of town every now and then? Because I was always trying to find him, with the help of some other people, I had at least one person in all the towns around this places looking out for him, and anytime Zion was spotted around, they would inform me and I would go to look for him but somehow he always managed to escape, until you brought him back here.

When I saw him with you for the first time, I was so angry but I tried to remain calm, for you, because he was your best friend, and I thought maybe I would have to let my revenge go because he was really important to you, and trust me I really wanted to do that.

But every time I came here, I would see him and he would remind me of my sister and why I lost him and the anger I had kept on bottling up until I could no more control it, so I made a plan with Karthik and Damon to kidnap him.

I dint want to hurt you Khushi, neither did I use you, trust me, I tried all I could, but he was the guy because of whom I lost my sister, I was angry and hurt, please understand me." He looked at me with moist eyes.

I dint even know what to say at this moment or how to react, I obviously knew he loved his sister a lot, and it was shocking too that Zion was the guy his sister loved, so this was the thing Zion dint want to tell me about.

"I am sorry Khushi, this time I just couldn't control my anger, but I promise you, for you I won't ever touch him again, I'll try to calm myself down every time I look at him and remind myself that he's your best friend and he means a lot to you. I am sorry for what I did, and if you're thinking of breaking up with me because of this please don't, I promise I won't touch him ever again, I am really sorry Khushi.

Please just try to understand that I was trapped in between loving my sister so much that I wanted to punish whoever pushed her to death, to loving you so much that I tried to control my thirst for revenge and my emotions just took control over me. Believe me when I say my intentions were never to hurt you." He explained.

"Arnav, because I know about your sister, I can somehow understand why you did this, but the other truth is that you hurt me too. Because instead of doing all this behind my back, you should have talked to me, you should have told me the truth too and maybe then you wouldn't have had to do all this.

I know it's not your fault completely, Zion is at fault too but right now I can't understand a thing. Look, I am not breaking up with you, but I need a break for now. I need to understand things, so please give me some space, once I feel fine, I'll come talk to you myself, until then just stay away from me please."

"I'll do whatever you say Khushi, just don't leave me please." He looked at me hopefully.

"I won't leave you Arnav, relax." I assured him, he nodded as he stood up and walked away and I headed back to Zion's room to hear his side of story.