To say I was restless would be an understatement, quite honestly, I dint have a word to describe what I was feeling at the moment, I was confused, I was happy, I felt butterflies, I was overwhelmed, let's just say I was feeling everything.

Yesterday Arnav had been acting all cute and flirty with me and I dint really know what to make out of it, was he actually flirting, or was he just being nice and I was misunderstanding things? I wish he could tell me clearly what he was up to.

I sighed as I looked around feeling tired, it was still pretty early in the morning and I felt tired already. Yesterday, for the haldi function, the whole decoration was in the theme of yellow and white, today it was supposed to be all colorful, so that's what I was currently working on.

Sonali was going to arrive soon and soon the guests too would start arriving so I had to make sure everything was done on time, and instead of concentrating a hundred percent on my work, all I could think about was Arnav and the hint he was or wasn't giving me.

Why couldn't he just directly tell me something like, hey Khushi, I like you so I'm going to flirt with you, at least then I wouldn't have to wonder whether he was actually flirting or just being nice and friendly.

A few ladies passed by me holding big plates that had henna cones arranged in them, they smelled so good, I loved the smell of henna, I loved applying it and I thought it was beautiful how they wrote the husband's name on the bride's hand with it, it was so cute.

I looked at my palms and just imagined how beautiful they would look with henna applied all over and somewhere in between the designs, would be Arnav's name.

Okay, I accept it, I am officially screwed, I've known this guy for a couple of weeks now and I can't stop obsessing about him, I am always thinking of him and yearning to see him, and now I'm even imagining his name written on my hand with henna, like seriously? What sort of magic was he doing on me?

"Miss Khushi." He waved his palm in front of my face, I smiled as I looked at him, now I was even dreaming about him, I was going crazier by the day. God help me.

I turned around and started walking away hoping I would actually put my mind to work so I wouldn't imagine impossible scenarios that involved him in my neither and neither would I day dream about it. I took like two steps when I heard him again. Okay Khushi, now you really have to do something about this.

"Hey, now you're ignoring me?" He asked.

Wait. Was it really him? I thought I was day dreaming. I turned around immediately and looked at him, yes he was right there, standing in front of me all dressed up for the function, and I still wasn't sure whether he was actually here or just in my mind.

He was dressed in a pastel pink kurta, it was a pretty light pink, it almost looked white, basically white with a tint of pink, he was almost matching with me today as I had also worn pink, just that my outfit was a bit darker pink than his.

How did he manage to look so good in everything he wore? Sometimes he was dressed in basic outfits and he still managed to leave me mesmerized, he had to be a magician to be able to perform such kind of magic on me.

"I am sorry, I thought I was dreaming." I said as I walked back to him still trying to make sure I wasn't actually dreaming.

"Wait, let me get this right, you have been dreaming about me?" He smirked. Why did his hotness level go from a hundred to infinity any time he smirked? What was my heart supposed to do at such moments?

Seriously! What the hell was wrong with me? Since yesterday I had been acting so obvious in front of him and just saying things out loud to him which I should have been saying in my mind to myself. I was just embarrassing myself and he was having fun.

"No, I mean it's too early for the function, even Sonali hasn't arrived, so I wasn't expecting you to be actually here, that too this early. You don't seem like someone that will be so excited about weddings that he would arrive even before the bride or the groom." I giggled as I tried to explain.

"I am definitely not a wedding person, but you are the one that called me here." He looked at me in confusion.

"When did I?" I asked in surprise, I mean if I had called him I would remember right? I wasn't gone that crazy that I wouldn't remember something like that.

"Asha said... oh shit!" He said as realization dawned upon him, sometimes he was too naïve and both Asha and Barkha ended up manipulating him. I bit my lips so I wouldn't end up laughing at him, he had this funny but cute expressions on his face right now.

"I should have known better, she has put me into this many times, I just dint think. I was getting ready and she came to my room and said that you had called and you said they should send me here urgently so I came rushing." He tried to explain.

"And you dint even ask why I needed you here?" I really wanted to laugh at him, I was just trying hard not to. Those ladies were really messing up with him, poor Arnav.

"I just got excited and... I mean I thought something went wrong and I wanted to make sure nothing went wrong for my brother's wedding you know." And now he was suddenly nervous. Most of the times, he was silent but he would always look confident, I hadn't really seen him being nervous.

"Is that so?" I smirked, the whole of yesterday he was teasing me, today was my turn, turns out, I wasn't the only one saying things out loud, it was like a genie or something had cursed us both, so instead of saying things to ourselves we were saying them out loud.

He just shrugged as he looked around at everything else but me, I was sure he was feeling a bit awkward knowing he had been set up by Asha once again, both Asha and Barkha were really setting us up, I knew because they had done this more than once and I wasn't that stupid that I couldn't realize what they were up to.

It was like you know when you watch a movie or read a book and you ship two people, it looked like Asha and Barkha shipped us, I dint know if we shipped each other though.

Did that even make sense?

"Well, I guess I should just go back then, since you dint call for me." He said.

"Or you could stay. Everyone would be here in like an hour anyway." I bit my lips nervously hoping he was going to agree.

"Okay, if you want me to stay." He smiled, we both started walking together and headed right to the garden and sat down on the chairs that had been arranged for the function.

I had instructed everyone on the work that had to be done so I dint have much to do, which was good, because I could now sit here with Arnav and just stare at him. Oh this handsome man!

He kept on looking around, at the decorations, at the sky and everything else, it looked like he had gone silent once again. Well I wouldn't expect him to talk nonstop like me, it was even a big thing that he was talking so much with me, because according to everyone else, he was usually silent.

"So... why did you address me as Miss. Khushi? I thought we were just calling each other by names." I Said.

"We were. But you dint accept my friendship proposal, so I went back to being formal." He pouted and then smirked as he looked away. He really knew how to mess with me didn't he?

"Is that so?" I giggled, he just nodded and dint say anything else, he was so cute. I got my phone out of my bag and typed something on it, as soon as I pressed the send button, I heard his phone beep, which he pulled out of his pocket and stared at it for a moment.

"Friends." He read it as he turned to look at me and smiled, at least this way now he also had my number and maybe I could expect him to call me or at least text me. I was so smart I tell you.

After that little conversation, we went silent again, we would look around and then look at each other and smile awkwardly and look around once again. Even people that meet like this for arranged marriages had more things to talk about than us.

"So... now that we are friends, tell me something about yourself so I can get to know you more than I do now." He spoke.

"Like what?"

"I don't know... anything... about yourself, or your other friends apart from me or a boyfriend maybe."

"Nice try, you could also ask me directly whether I have a boyfriend or not." I laughed.

"Stop using my lines on me, find something new."

"You are the one that started this whole teasing thing yesterday, today is my day for revenge." I smirked, he just smiled and went silent once again.

Wow, I don't know why there was this awkward silence between us, like it was awkward but comfortable at the same time, you get me?

This time we stayed silent for quite long until I just started humming Pehli mohabbat, my obsession with that song was never going to end.

"Which song is that?" he asked.

"Pehli Mohabbat." I replied.

"That reminds me, you dint answer my question about your boyfriend." He smirked and the raised his eyebrows, seriously guys knew how to just look hot in front of girls, all they had to do was smirk or raise their eyebrows and damn.

"You never asked." I smirked.

"Okay Khushi, do you have other friends apart from me or a boyfriend?" He rolled his eyes and then looked at me seriously, wow, I would have never had the courage to ask him if he had a girlfriend, directly like this.

"Friends, I do... I have a roommate that lives with me but currently she's gone to visit her parents, she's going to be back in a day or two, and about a boyfriend, nope, I am just as single as you are." I smiled.

I remember all this while I was so busy with the wedding planning, and crushing over Arnav I hadn't even thought of Manvi, she was my roommate and my only friend, I mean of course I had other friends but we rarely even met, Manvi and I lived together so we were always hanging out together and most of the times she would also come help me with the wedding planning when she wasn't busy. She said it was her way of paying me rent because I dint ask for rent from her. I mean I had a good house, I was earning well I dint really need money, I needed good company and she was that.

I made a note in my mind to give her a call and find out if everything is okay back home, she hadn't also called me all these days, I hoped everything was okay.

"Good to know." He said as he looked at the floor avoiding looking at me so he could hide his smile but I could still see it. If I was thinking properly, he was happy that I dint have a boyfriend, right? Of course, Khushi, stop being dumb, it's not like he knows Manvi that he would be happy that she's my friend.

All this while I was questioning myself if he was attracted to me or if he felt even one percent of what I felt for him, today I had the answer. There was definitely something we both were feeling, he was somehow acting the same way I was acting so it had to mean something.

"I should take a round and check if everything is done, everyone would be arriving soon." I said as I stood up.

"I will accompany you." He said as he stood up and started walking beside me, we walked around as I checked on every detail in every corner making sure the work had been done, all the while he just kept walking beside me silently, he would stare at me and anytime I caught him staring, he would look away.

"You know I know that you are staring." I said.

"What can I do, you look beautiful, yesterday I said you should wear yellow more, now I think you should wear any color, they all look good on you." He smiled genuinely, wow... I couldn't believe this was real, or it was actually happening. I couldn't believe this was the same silent guy I met, that was so formal to me, even when I started getting attracted towards him, he was always so formal, and then Asha and Barkha set us up on that event and since then he had been acting quite differently.

I don't know what changed, but I was happy that things were different between us now.

We stopped at one point when suddenly our hands brushed while we were walking, we both looked at each other nervously, I couldn't believe how that felt, it gave me an adrenaline rush, I wondered if it felt the same to him.

*****

In the next fifteen minutes, the whole place was crowded, the guests were here, the bride and the groom were here and the function was about to start.

Arnav and I were just standing in a corner when Asha approached us smiling brightly.

"Hey Arnav, I hope you helped Khushi out with the work." She smirked at him.

"I am cancelling your flowers; you aren't going to get any flowers from me anymore." Arnav frowned at her. That reminded me of the time we had met at the florist and he was trying hard to find those specific flowers which I thought were for his girlfriend then, but they were for Asha. It just looked like she meant a lot to him.

"Arnav! Here you are, I've been looking for you, come on, my friends are dying to see you." His cousin came up from nowhere, the one that I thought was his girlfriend yesterday.

"Not again!" Arnav frowned as she grabbed his arm and pulled him away from me.

"I know what you're doing." I said to Asha.

"I am glad you do, I also know what you are feeling." She smirked as she walked away, okay she was too much!

After Asha walked away, I stood there alone staring at Arnav who was again crowded by the girls from yesterday when some guy stood beside me.

"Hey." He smiled at me.

"Hey." I replied, I dint even know who he was, also I hadn't seen him in the haldi function yesterday. Was he here attending the wedding or he was just someone random visiting this place?

"Not to sound creepy or cheesy, but are you so beautiful, since I came, I've just been looking at you." He smiled. Okay he dint look creepy or anything, and this was the usual with me at weddings, I wasn't boasting but any wedding I would plan, guys were always trying to talk to me or something.

He was cute though, he was almost as tall as Arnav but quite different, he was dressed in a casual black jean and black tee with white shoes and he was wearing rectangular glasses, he had the whole nerd look, but he looked really cute.

"Thanks, I guess?" I giggled.

"I am NK by the way, I am Arnav's cousin. You see that girl and came and grabbed Arnav? I am her brother." He introduced himself as he held his hand out for a handshake.

"NK, what is the full form of that?" I asked as I shook hands with him.

"Nandkishore. Please don't laugh, I don't know what tempted my parents to name me that." He laughed.

"Nice to meet you Nandkishore." I laughed and he frowned, he had told me not to laugh and that's what I did. I looked towards Arnav once again and found him looking at the both of us with some really serious expressions on his face.