ARNAV'S POV

As I lied down on my bed and reminisced all the memories I had with Khushi, I couldn't believe how fast I went from hating her so much to falling for her, it all happened in a matter of seconds, the more time I spent with her, the more I understood why she was like she was.

I couldn't really point a finger on which exact moment my feelings changed for her, because it dint happen all at once, it was slowly, with each and every moment I spent with her.

I rem the first time I felt different about her, it was the night when I first kissed her, I couldn't believe this girl had never been kissed before, because the way I felt while kissing her was extra ordinary, it was a strange feeling I had.

I was totally flabbergasted until she just decided to walk away suddenly and I was left wondering if I was a horrible kisser, since the all I did was to find excuses to kiss her again, to be around her again, I dint know that one kiss would change my hatred for her. I mean I really hated this girl until I bet with Damon to take her to my bed, all I wanted was to continue hating her the same way when I was done with my bet, but just one kiss and I was starting to feel things I shouldn't.

I mean it had affected me so much that I went back to her place to talk to her about it, and when she said it was a mistake, I felt so angry about it. It was the most beautiful kiss I'd ever had and she was calling it a mistake. Why was this girl up to driving me insane? At that time I dint even know why I felt angry about it, because clearly for me it was a bet and I shouldn't have felt anything about it but I did.

Falling in love happens in the strangest possible way, I mean there was this time I couldn't tolerate Khushi then there came a time when I couldn't tolerate anyone with Khushi.

I still remember that night when she went on a date with Stefan and for the first time in my life I felt like I hated my own friend, I was so freaking jealous.

I hated that she called the kiss between us a mistake and here she was going on dates with Stefan, I mean why? Why was this girl making me so angry and why despite it all I was feeling this weird feelings for her?

I just kept on looking for answers, not knowing what this new feelings were because after what happened to my sister, I had stayed away from relationships, I had no idea what falling in love was like, and here I was falling for her, slowly but deeply.

And then the day came, the day where I realized that whatever that was happening between Khushi and I wasn't just a bet anymore, I knew this was more and I wanted to stop myself but I couldn't.

I don't really remember how she stayed at my place that night, all I can remember is that I was drunk as hell when I met her and then she decided to drop me home, I mean it wasn't like I couldn't remember everything but it was sort of blurry, but the thing I remember well was that I slept peacefully, since my sister passed away, maybe it was the first time I slept without waking up at all in the middle of the night.

Anyway the next morning was the most beautiful one, because I woke up next to her, I couldn't believe how gorgeous she looked and I couldn't stop staring at her, and then she was dressed in my white t-shirt which was see through and she had no idea about it, nor did she know how sexy she looked in it and how crazy it was driving me.

Since I met her, she had been driving me crazy one way or the other, at first I hated her and that drove me crazy and now suddenly I had started admiring her and that too was driving me crazy.

It was strange how thinking about each and every memory about us was making me feel happy when right now I should be sad because Khushi dint even want to see my face. I had ruined everything between us.

I mean who could believe that the girl that hated boys, the one that hated me like nothing and was always running away from me could actually confess her feelings to me? I was surprise too, that day when I went to meet her at the echo point and she finally told me that she did have feelings for me, but to make it worse, Damon had to interrupt, it wasn't really worse though because he told me he had leads on where we could find Zion, the guy because of whom I lost my sister.

The reason why I even shifted to Mystic falls at the first place, so that I could find him and punish him for what he did to my sister, little did I know that he would turn out to be Khushi's best friend. Life is so cruel isn't it?

So all that while, I kept on battling with myself, I mean I was no more even making efforts to win the bet, everything was just happening on it's own, I even took her for a movie date, sat under the sky with her and told her that she made my life beautiful, it was the first time I realize that this was no more just a bet.

But it was supposed to be just a bet, and I was trying to battle with the new feelings I was having for her, since my sister passed away, I had promised myself never to be too attached to anyone and then Khushi came into my life and now I was getting attached and I hated it, I dint want that and I was going to do everything I could to stop feeling anything for her.

All I wanted was to hate her like before and just get down with this bet, but now feelings had got involved and the best way I thought to get out of those feelings was to get laid, and that was what I was trying to do when she saw me kissing that girl.

The pain I saw in her eyes that night was unbearable, but I wish I could tell her how I was battling with myself to keep the promise I had made to myself. Why did things have to get so complicated?

I tried all I could but I couldn't just stay away from her neither could I stop myself from feeling things for her.

And then the day came when I realized that I was in love with her. That day when I went to meet her at the echo point once again, when I told her about my sister. I had never trusted anyone so much to share such a huge part of my life with, but I knew I trusted her and that made be believe that whatever I felt for her now was no more a bet, nor lust but love.

I was in love with this girl that I was trying to take to my bed so I could win a bet, I mean how messed up could things really get?

I dint tell her about my feelings then though, because I thought it was stupid and it couldn't be real, maybe I was just making a big deal out of it because I was drunk, but I really wanted to be with her.

I swear there wouldn't have been a confused person as me at that moment, I wanted to be with Khushi but I dint want to be with her too.

So anyway that days he took me home once again, and the next morning when I woke up, I woke up sober, with the realization that even when I was sober I felt the same way I did when I was drunk and now that I had come to terms with the fact that I was in love with this girl I really wanted to try this relationship thing, the one I never thought I would.

And that's what I did, I talked to her and asked her to be my girlfriend and when she said yes, I was the happiest person on earth and for the next few days after that, I even forgot I ever had a bet with Damon, I was just happy being in love with her and spending time with her.

And then the jealous started, I don't know why but every time I'd see her with Stefan, something inside me would burn like hell. Of course Stefan was my friend, I knew he would never do anything to hurt me, but I couldn't deny that he too had feelings for Khushi.

As if God wasn't done with playing games with me, he brought Zion back, when I saw him at Khushi's house I wanted to murder him, but I tried to remain calm when Khushi told me he was her best friend.

I should really be deeply in love to not kill him because he was Khushi's best friend, while all this while I had been hunting for him like crazy and now suddenly I was changing my mind, just for this girl.

At that time I was literally battling with myself and the feelings I had, they were so overwhelming. At first there was Zion whom I wanted to kill but I was trying to remain calm because he was Khushi's boyfriend, and then there was this close friendship between Khushi and Stefan which kind of irked me, yes I get it he was my friend and Khushi was now my girlfriend but the only problem was Stefan's feelings, they kind of scared me.

I mean of course Stefan was the better man, you could ask anyone and they would say that Stefan was the better man for Khushi than I was so I was scared, that maybe someday she was going to realize it too and leave me.

Then to make it worse, I walk into my house that day and find the both of them into each other's arms, I couldn't even tell how much that broke me, at that time I thought that I had really lost her, that she had actually realized that Stefan was the better one for her.

Let's not even talk about the horrible things that I said to her and hurt her, I literally broke her heart, I just wish I could tell her how mine was broken too.

I was always going to be insecure of Stefan, because he was the kind of a guy girls would want to be with.

For a while I was pissed on him too, I mean he was my friend how could he hug my girlfriend? How could he try to take her away from me? But then when he explained what had happened, I realized what I had done.

Why was I always doing stupid things and hurting Khushi? After Stefan and I talked, I went to talk to her and apologize to her, but she wanted to break up with me, I know I deserved it, I had always been a jerk to her yet she tolerated me, but what I did that day was horrible, but I just wished she would give me one last chance and the only way I knew I could get that chance was telling her the truth about my feelings, that I just dint like her, but I was in love with her and that's what I did.

I finally confessed my true feelings to her, hoping she would forgive me, and she did. She was always called the bad girl but she really wasn't, she had a soft heart, that always melted for me.

And then I remember when she told me about what happened to her when she was a kid, and that really broke my heart, I wanted to punish the man that did that to her, which I tried to but he had already gotten his punishment.

Slowly things between Khushi and I got better, we had started trusting each other, everything was great between us, I had completely forgotten about the bet until that day, when everything changed and I made the worse decision of my life.