"Please drive fast Karan.." Khushi cried to Karan.

She clutched her mangalsutra with shut eyes praying for her husband to be fit and fine.

"Relax bhabhi.. I don't think it's a big accident.." Karan said staring at Khushi. It was their plan to take her out of the hotel and reach to the place where Arnav planned a surprise for her.

"Karan what are you saying? Arnav met with an accident.. He must be injured.. DM please don't let anything happen to him.. If something happens to him, I will die.." Khushi said sobbing.

Karan gulped, she was taking it too seriously. It was paining him to do this prank with her, he made such a terrible acting and still she believed in him so easily. By seeing Khushi crying and praying for Arnav, he wanted to reveal everything to her, but then he can't spoil Arnav's surprise.

"Bhabhi don't cry much.. Your make up will be spoiled.." Karan said.

"KARAN.. I don't know how Arnav is now.. And you think I will care for my make up?" she scolded him.

Karan looked ahead nodding, "Okay bhabhi sorry.."

"Please drive fast.." she whispered and broke down talking with her DM.

Karan attend the call of Arnav.

"Haan.. We're.." he said only to be stopped by Khushi, who snatched the phone from his hand.

"Karan please take me to Arnav.. You will call with the person you're talking with later.. For now please make me reach my husband as soon as possible.. Please I beg of you.." Khushi pleaded him.

Karan gulped staring at the phone, then at her.

Arnav who heard everything she said, closed his eyes in guilt. He was tormenting her now, but then he would make up for it. The surprise will be better than the pain he is giving her now.

He cut the call, and Khushi left the phone back with Karan.

Karan sighed in relief because they didn't got caught by her.

The car came to halt, Karan: Bhabhi Arnav is inside there..

Khushi looked at the place, confused: Church?

"Haan.. Woh, the people who helped him and called me took him here.." Karan came up with a lie.

"Ok.." Khushi nodded and climb down the car.

She went running in full speed inside the church.

The nave of the church was covered by red rose petals, like a carpet for her.

She walked slowly confused, no one was there.

"Arnav.." she called him looking around.

Arnav was standing at the altar, he wore a black suit and didn't forget to gel his hair. He was looking extremely handsome, not only by his looks but because he was happy from inside too!!

Khushi stare at him, she blinked her eyes. Till now she was clutching her mangalsutra praying for him, and here he was in front of her. That's all she wanted.

She didn't thought of anything at the moment, and just ran to his direction holding her heavy lehenga.

Her bone crushing hug, made him step back once, but he held her by her waist and balanced himself.

"Tum.. I was so scared.. Thank DM.. You're fine Arnav.. I thought I would lose you.. Karan told me you met an accident.. Thanks to DM, his words didn't come out true.. You're fine.. Yes you're fine.." she mumbled and broke the hug.

Then cupped his face and filled him with soft kisses all over his face.

Arnav smiled as he enjoyed this way of Khushi to show her care for him.

Khushi tightened her grip on his both shoulders by her hands to assure herself that he was fine. Nothing happened to her husband, he didn't got hurt!

"You're fine.." she smiled now in relief.."Wait.. Arnav tum thik ho and no one is here.. And these petals and candles all over the church.. You did this Arnav??.." she widened her eyes.

"Yes Jerry.. Does it take too much time to realize I'm behind all this?" Arnav smirked.

Khushi mouth shape formed a big "O".

"Arnav how dare you.. Do you know how much scared and worried I was?.. I would have died if anything happened to you.." she beat him on his chest.

Arnav placed his finger on her lips, "Don't talk about death Khushi.."

Khushi pouted and looked away, "You can fake this accident and make me worried, and I can't even talk about death.."

"I am sorry.. But it was a way I found to bring you here.." Arnav held his ear cutely to her.

Khushi smiled, "You don't need to say sorry.. But don't do this again Laddo.. And there many ways to bring me here without making me worried.. You don't use your brain na.. You always think of the most dangerous way.. After all, ASR is your name.."

Arnav chuckled, "Right.. Tom always trouble Jerry.. So how could you think here would be a different situation??"

"My fault.. I thought my Laddo isn't that Tom anymore.. I forgot being Tom is in his blood itself.." Khushi rolled her eyes.

"What the.. Let's not waste time on your bak bak.. And.." he looked around Indicating her about his surprise.

"You made this?" Khushi asked awed by the simple yet beautiful decoration.

"Nahin, I asked Aman to make the arrangements but I decided everything.." Arnav smiled.

"Laad governor.." she whispered.

"Miss Wow-man can you do this alone?" he asked sarcastically.

"Yeah I can.. Not only this I can make a decoration alone for a big wedding also.." Khushi smirked proudly.

"Okay, you will prove that to me in our wedding.." Arnav said.

"We are already married.." she looked at him "Are you forgetting about our marriage? Arnav no!! Did you lost your memory??"

"God Khushi don't eat my brain.." he groaned in frustration.

Khushi twisted her lips unpleasantly.

"Do you know why I brought you here?" he asked with a soft tone now.

"You brought me here, so you only know.. By the way, it's good that you brought me here.. I will meet DM's friend.. Jesus ji and will plead here too.. Then I will get blessings from two sides.." Khushi smiled and joined her hands.

Arnav shook his head smiling, he turned her to face him.

"I brought you here.. Because this is a silent and calm place.. No one is here to disturb us.. It's only you and me.. We didn't got married in a proper way Khushi.. We didn't made the seven vows a couple is supposed to do to concretize their marriage.. And today I want to marry you in my way.. I want to make seven promises to you that I will fulfill all my life.. He (Jesus)

and your DM will witness our marriage today Khushi.. I don't need anyone to be here.. They will be the witness of the promises we will make for each other today.." Arnav said.

Khushi smiled and nodded her head.

"I promise to you that I will live my life for you Khushi.. I will always love you the most.. No matter if we are united or separated from each other, my love for you will never fade.." Arnav said staring deeply into her hazel eyes.

"I promise that I will always love you too Arnav.. No one will take your place in my life.. I will live and die as yours.." Khushi nodded accepting his first promise.

"I promise that I will never let our sweet relationship turn into that boring husband and wife life after many years.. I promise that we will always be like we are now.. Nothing will change.. I will continue to be your Laddo, Tom, Laad governor, Mr.Stone, Dracula etc.." Arnav took his second promise.

"I promise that I will always be your Jerry to eat your brain and your Jalebi to show you how sweet love is.." she giggled, while tears of happiness escaped her eyes.

"I will share everything with you Khushi.. I know that you know everything about me because Nani told you so.. But I never told you about my past.. And also hide from you that I love you and why I never showed or confessed my love for you.. I promise I won't do that again.. You will be the first one to know everything about me and my feelings.. I will never lie to you Khushi.." Arnav said repenting for not telling her how much he loves her on that day in NGO.

"I promise that I will share everything with you Arnav.. Hereafter I won't lie to you.. You are my half better and you will know me inside and out.." Khushi promised, the smile on her face faded away as she remembered she is hiding something from him.

"I promise that I will support you always in everything.. I will always be there for you when you need me.. We will walk together no matter where destiny led us to.. We will always face it together.." he said.

"I promise that whenever you call my name.. I will be in front of you.. To stand by you.." Khushi nodded, accepting his fourth promise.

"I promise that I will trust you blindly.. We can love each other, but if there isn't trust in our relationship then we will not be able to maintain our marriage.." he promised.

"I promise that I will believe in your words only.. Anything from you is the truth, I will turn deaf for others who will try to break our trust.." Khushi smiled.

"I promise that I will always keep you happy.. I know I'm rude and arrogant and stone hearted.. But I promise I will never show you that my side.. You will always find your Laddo by your side to make you smile.." Arnav said.

"I also promise to be with you forever.." Khushi smiled.

"That's not the promise Khushi.." Arnav raised his eyebrow confused.

"I'm Khushi (Happiness).. And I'm always with you means you will be happy always na.." Khushi smirked.

Arnav shook his head, and she pouted seeing his expression.

"Last promise.. If I can live for you, then I can die also for you.. If there any situation come where I'll have to sacrifice my life to protect yours.. Then I will do that without any second thought.. I will protect you Khushi, like a father is protective of his daughter.. The same I will be for you.." Arnav said.

Khushi's eyes got moist hearing this, she touched her forehead with his, "This situation will never come.. Because we will live and die together.. Change this promise of yours now!!"

"Okay.. I promise we will live and die together.." Arnav smiled and cupped her face, wiping her tears.

She hugged him tightly and Arnav also reciprocated the hug.

After sometime he broke the hug, and knelt down.

Taking the ring out of his pocket, he showed it to her.

"Khushi.. The girl I never imagined I will be doing this for her.. But you made me bow down to you Khushi.. And you very well deserve it.. The day you entered in my life.. You only changed my life and my family's for good.. For a reason I hide my feelings for you, as I never believed in love.. But this time, Nani, DM and you were determined to make me submit myself in your life.. And I don't regret it at all.. Today I'm really thankful to Nani that she send you in my life Khushi.. You painted my black and white life with colors of love.. You're the woman whose face brings nothing but happiness and peace in my life.. I need you in every moment of my life Khushi.. You're that important in my life, like oxygen I need to breath.. You're that important in my life, that I will be extra possessive of you.. You're my life Khushi.. Today I've no fear to tell you that I Love You Khushi.. I love you so much.." he said, how much she means to him. His heart was relieved now..

"Will you marry me??" he asked and ready to put the ring on her finger.

Khushi's heart skipped a beat hearing and witnessing such a beautiful confession from him. A man of less words, pour his heart to her today.

Khushi held his shoulder, "Arnav.. before I answer to your proposal.. I need to start our relationship without breaking any of those promise we now made to each other na?"

Arnav nodded confused, "Hmm.."

"So.. I need to tell you something I hide from you.." Khushi said, nervously. How would he react now?

"Haan tell me.." Arnav said still in the same position.

"Woh.. You remember that day we got close in our NGO, where I took you to show my favorite place, Lake.. Then it started raining.. You told me that it was all a mistake and you considered me to be your friend only hain na?.." she said with shivering hands, she doesn't know what he will do, but she couldn't accept this proposal without sharing this with him. It would like betraying him.

"Haan.. I said that.. I'm sorry.." Arnav said guilty.

"No, don't be.. Actually by that time I had realized my love for you Arnav and when you said those words I thought you will never love me.. When we returned home, I had in my mind that after changing your family, I would return to my normal life.. But then it got difficult to separate myself for you, you were really weak when you got to know about Anjali's truth and I didn't want to leave you alone at that time.. I waited till you were fine and then I decided..to.. woh..di..divo..(Khushi shut her eyes tightly) divorce you.."

"What??" Arnav looked at her shocked.

"Haan.. But Arnav I did that only because you didn't love me.. How could I live with a man who only treated me as his friend when I loved him? It would be difficult for me too.. Trust me if I knew about your love I would never think of divorce.. When you confessed your love for me.. I threw those papers Arnav.." she cried.

"But.. okay.. It's my fault that I made you believe that I don't love you.. You're right.." he nodded understanding her side.

"Are you hurt with me??" she whispered.

"No.. I'm not.. Hurt I would be if you decided to leave me now when you know how much I love you.." he said "Is this the only thing you hide from me? Now answer me.."

"No.. It doesn't end here.. Ma was the only person who knew that I was going to divorce you.. You know Ma still doesn't believe you're the right man for me and that you love me.. She says you're playing with me and making me your slave and your family also.. She asked me about divorce and I said that I will not divorce you anymore because we both love each other.. What happened was misunderstanding.. But she is refusing to hear my words.. She wants me to divorce you and marry Arjun.."

"Hmm.. And you will not hear her right?" he asked, a fear crept over him by staring at her not so good expression.

"Ma said for me to choose between you and her!!" Khushi said and lowered her head.

Arnav blinked his eyes staring at nothing in particular. The ring slipped from his hand, and his eyes moistened.

Why do his loved ones leave him when he shows them his love????????

Everything is happening in the same way! The last in the list, Khushi is about to leave him too.

Both kept silent for a while. Khushi sobbed and broke the silence: Arnav..

He didn't said anything, but just buried his face on her waist hugging her tightly.

(Imagine Arshi!)

"Why this only happens with me Khushi? Isn't happiness written in my destiny? Why does everyone leaves me? .. Tum bhi.. I should never confessed my love for you.. Why did I did that? Why? See now I lost you.. It's my fault.. I knew this was going to happen only still I went on.. Why don't I learn from my past mistakes? I lost my mother, Nani, papa, Di, Nisha and now you too Khushi.. Please don't do this with me.. Don't leave me Khushi.. Everyone left me.. Ma, Ananya ma, Papa, Nani, Di, Nisha..and now you Khushi.. Am I a curse or what?.." he broke down.

Khushi ran her fingers through the back of his hair crying, "Arnav.. don't think like that.."

Arnav looked up to her, he whispered but still audible to her, "Please choose me Khushi.."

Khushi caressed his forehead, he looked like a child pleading his mother for something.

"I said that I wanted to share something I hide from you before I answer to your proposal.. If I shared this with you means I don't want to break the promise we made for each other, and if I accepted all the promises means my answer for your proposal is YES.. And that means??" she asked to him to complete.

"That you choose me??" he asked to her innocently, still not believing it.

Khushi nodded smiling while tears were flowing from her eyes.

"Yes I choose you Laddo.. The owner of my heart.." Khushi nodded.

Arnav stood for a while staring at her, then his face glowed with a smile. She won't leave him!!!!! She proved his belief wrong!!!!

"Jalebi's finger is waiting for her Laddo!!" Khushi said smiling, extending her hand.

Arnav took the ring from the floor smiling and slid it on her finger.

He kissed her her finger later.

"I am yours.." Khushi said flaunting her ring to him.

Arnav stood up and cupped her face, "I know your mother doesn't like me and it's difficult for you to choose one of us.. Still you choose me, now I promise to you that I will make your mother accept our marriage.."

"One thing is missing.." Arnav said with a naughty smile.

"What??" she asked.

He placed his finger on his lips, smirking.

"Aww you want me to kiss you in Church?? Have some shame Laddo" Khushi widened her eyes, nodding sideways.

"It's allowed when people get married na.. don't you see?? When my friends got married here, I saw that it's allowed okay..and no one is here, so nothing to get shy about Khushi" Arnav said.

"Acha.. but Jesus ji is watching us.. I can't do this.." Khushi said innocently.

Arnav cupped her face, and pecked her cheek quickly before Khushi could react or stop him.

"Happy??" he asked her.