It had been just two days, I had been so busy putting everything up as the haldi function was to take place today, I had been spending all my time at the garden making sure everything was perfect. In the past two days, I hadn't seen Arnav, or talking to him or anything.

When he saved his number of my phone, I hoped that he was going to call me or even text me at least and then after some time it hit me, he had saved his number on my phone but I hadn't given him my number and unless I texted him first, he wasn't going to text.

I was scared though, I mean what do you say in a first text to the guy you are crushing on? It was scary, I wished I had also given him my number, then maybe he could text me maybe.

I looked around the garden, everything was setup in the theme of yellow and white, for the haldi function, a few of the guests had already arrived and I couldn't wait for Arnav's family to arrive just so I could get to see him.

After like ten minutes, Sonali and her family arrived, of course I had met her mom, but today her dad was here too and a boy that looked so much like Sonali so I guess he was her younger brother or something.

"Hey, I love this. Everything is so perfect." Sonali said to me as soon as I walked to her.

"I'm so glad you like it, and you look so pretty by the way." I smiled at her as I looked at her from top to bottom, she was dressed in a very beautiful sharara outfit that was in yellow and white with floral designs all over. Her hair was curled and braided at the front and all her jewelry was floral, oh she looked gorgeous.

"Thank you." Sonali smiled, I left them to carry on with the guests and everything as I headed to check on the other things just to make sure nothing was going to go wrong.

I walked around for a while until Samar arrived with his family members, as soon as I learnt that they had arrived, I stopped doing whatever that I was doing and rushed immediately hoping to get a look at Arnav.

Oh God. Was I supposed to act like this? Why was I dying to see him, did everyone that have a crush on someone behave like this?

I stopped far away from the entrance and saw them, Samar was walking ahead followed by both his parents and Asha, I waited for Arnav to show up but he wasn't with them, maybe he was to come later.

I sighed and turned around so I could go sit somewhere, I was already feeling sad for not getting to see him as if he wasn't going to come at all. Chill Khushi, it's his brother's Haldi function, he isn't going to miss it.

"Looking for someone?" He smiled at me as I bumped into his as soon as I turned around.

"No." I said immediately, why was he standing behind me though?

Forget that for a moment, I mean look at the man, I was left awestruck. He looked so different than usual and so freaking hot. Okay I didn't know whether everyone out there found him hot or not, but he was hot for me, I couldn't stop staring.

He was dressed in a white Kurta with some embroidery work on it, I swear, white was so his color, it made him look hotter than he already was.

"For someone so talkative you are pretty speechless today." Arnav said as he looked at me in confusion.

"Yeah, you look good." I said, what was I even saying.

"Okay... thank you? I guess." He kept on staring at me, I wanted to say something but I was just speechless, all I wanted to do was just stand here and stare at him.

"Wait, did you mean you are speechless because I look good?" He smirked. Shit! I was making my crush so obvious, wasn't I?

"I... I have a lot of work to do, excuse me." I said as I looked down and tried to walk away immediately, what I wasn't expecting him to do was to hold my hand and pull me back, so when he did that, I was surprised.

"Khushi... it's okay, I can take compliments." He smiled.

"Okay, but I really have work to do." I was just so awkward now.

"Too bad, I was hoping you'd keep me company, but it's okay, go get your work done." He said as he stepped aside giving me way.

"Okay." I pouted as I started walking away, only if I hadn't been so awkward right now, I would actually be sitting with him somewhere watching the function.

"One more thing." He said as he turned around, I also stop walking and turned to look at him immediately.

"You should wear yellow more often." He smiled as he walked away leaving me blushing, I was actually dressed in a yellow dress today, and I had also curled my hair, you know just trying to look pretty so he could notice me, well it looks like he did.

*****

I stood in one corner and watched the Haldi function as it began, it was so fun, both Samar and Sonali seemed to be enjoying it. Arnav seemed to be enjoying it even more than the both, he was surrounded my almost six girls where he was seated, and they all were seated beside him trying to talk to him, or maybe impress him.

I mean it wasn't their fault, who would want to impress him, he was such a nice person and to top it he was freaking hot. Okay Khushi, stop being jealous.

He wasn't talking much though, he was just looking at his brother and how the function was going on, and anytime any of the girls said something to him, he would just nod or reply a bit and turn to look at Samar and Sonali once again.

I stood in my space and kept on staring at him, even if I had forever to look at him, I guess it wasn't going to be enough, he was so mesmerizing to my eyes.

Since I met Arnav, with every passing day, whatever I felt towards him, be it attraction or crush or I liked him, it just kept on getting stronger and stronger, I dint even know how I was going to deal with these feelings of mine.

I dint even know if he was single or he had someone in his life, and even if he was single, what if he never feels for me? I wouldn't expect him to like me just because I liked him right?

After a while, he stood up and walked towards Samar to apply the haldi paste on him, one of the girls around him stood up too and followed him and turn by turn the both applied the paste on him and then walked away.

They both continued walking together, smiling at each other and talking about something which really seemed to be making him smile and making me more and more jealous.

After talking for a while they both parted ways, the girl went back to where she was seated before and Arnav went inside the hotel, I kept on staring at him until he was out of sight.

After he was gone, I looked back at Samar and Sonali, they both had just started dancing as some music started to play in the background and slowly the guests joined them one by one.

"You don't want to dance? I do know you like dancing, I've seen you dancing alone a couple of times" I heard his voice once again as he stood beside me and smiled.

"No." I faked a smile, I was still jealous. Okay Khushi stop acting like his girlfriend, you aren't!

"You don't want to dance?" I asked him.

"You know I don't know how to dance." He said.

"You should tell that girl you were talking to, to teach you, she seems to be a great dancer." I said as I diverted my eyes from him to the crowd where I could see her dancing and having so much fun.

"She is actually a professional dancer." Arnav said. I just nodded and stayed silent, I dint know why I was so jealous of her, I wasn't supposed to be, they were just talking, and he wasn't even anything to me yet I felt some sort of rage building up inside me.

Why Arnav? Why were you making me feel like this?

"Are you okay?" He asked as he looked at me in concern.

"Yeah, perfectly fine, why?" I asked.

"You are not your usual self today, you are rather silent, you don't even want to dance and you look like you are irritated. Did someone say something to you?"

"No, I am just tired from all the work maybe." I shrugged. He stared at me for a moment and then looked away. I wish I could stop being so jealous, all I wanted was to be with him, and he was here, standing right beside me and I wasn't even talking to him properly. What the hell was wrong with me?

While I was still staring at the crowd and cursing myself for acting like this today, I felt his hand as he slid it into my, he held it and before I knew, he was pulling me along with him and we were in between then crowd that was dancing.

"How about you teach me how to dance? I remember getting a pretty good lesson from you a few days ago." He smiled.

"Arnav, I really don't feel like dancing." I pouted.

"Please? I know something is bothering you but maybe you can forget about it and just dance it out. Whatever that's bothering you, it's going to be okay." He said.

"Okay." I smiled as I started dancing while I taught him a few moves and he followed my steps and before I even knew it, the jealousy had vanished, my mood was back to normal and I was just having fun dancing alongside him.

*****

"That was fun." I smiled as we both sat down after we were done dancing.

"I agree." He said as he looked at the few people that were dancing, he just stared at them silently until that girl that he had been talking to walked towards us.

"Hey, I came to say goodbye." She smiled at Arnav. Just when I thought my moods were getting better. Okay I had to stop being so jealous, he wasn't my boyfriend and even if he was, he could talk to girls, it wasn't a big deal!

"You're leaving already?"

"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay." Arnav smiled as he stood up and gave her a goodbye hug.

"I saw you dancing today though, you seemed to be having fun, I like that." She said as she broke the hug and looked at him.

"Yeah, I tried." He said.

"Anyway see you tomorrow." She waved a goodbye at him and walked away as he settled down smiling, okay, she was making him smile also, who was she? I really wanted to know.

"Is she your girlfriend or something?" I asked and then bit my lips nervously, why was I being so weird today?

"Nice try." He laughed as he stood up, I saw Asha waving at him for far away so I guess he was going to her.

"What do you mean nice try?" I asked.

"You could just directly ask if I'm single or taken. But to answer your question, no, she's not my girlfriend, she's my cousin Khushi, I'm very much single." He smirked as he walked towards Asha leaving me embarrassed. Was I so transparent?

Did he know that I had a crush on him? Of course, he knew, he wouldn't say it like that otherwise. But... did he feel anything of such sort towards me? I had no freaking idea.

I saw Sonali waved at me so I walked towards her, she was standing with Samar talking to him.

"Hey... the arrangement was so good, I mean just the first function and everyone was literally talking so much about it, we did the right think picking you as our wedding planner." Sonali smiled at me.

"Well I am glad I was able to deliver what you asked for." I replied.

"More than that, you managed to make Arnav dance, that's like a miracle." Samar laughed.

"Actually he's the one that dragged me to the dance floor." I giggled.

"Seriously? Arnav? The guy that doesn't dance at all dragged you to the dance floor to dance? Weird." Samar said looking confused.

"You are such a tube light." Sonali teased him.

"Who's a tubelight?" Arnav asked as he joined us.

"Your brother. Anyway, my skin feels dry with all this dried up paste, I need to shower, I think we should get going." Sonali said as she looked at Samar who still seemed confused.

"I am not taking a shower with you." Samar joked, she rolled her eyes at him and dragged him away from us, it was like she was purposely trying to leave me and Arnav alone.

Was this some sort of ploy? The ladies of this house have really been trying to bring the both of us to spend time together.

"So?" Arnav looked at me.

So...?" I blushed, the way he was looking at me was making me blush.

"Friends?" He asked as he held out his hand forward for a handshake.

"What are we in school?" I laughed.

"I am old fashioned like that." He smiled.

"And why do you want to be friends with me?" I asked.

"Because you talk nonstop and I like listening to you. Beside I don't have many friends as you can see, and you also seem to be getting irritated when I talk to girls trying to entertain myself." He laughed.

"Hey, I never got irritated about that okay."

"Really?" He asked as he looked me into the eyes seriously, oh Arnav stop playing with my heart like this.

"Arnav, we are leaving." I heard Barkha shout.

"Coming mom." He shouted as he turned to look at her and then look back at me.

"Goodbye Miss. Khushi, see you tomorrow." He smirked as he walked away. Okay, was this guy flirting with me or was I just thinking that he was? Maybe he just wanted to be friends, I shouldn't overthink this yet.