I headed to carry on with my work, anytime I overheard anyone's conversation with Arnav, it just ended up making me uncomfortable, and I didn't even know why it affected me so much, like I wasn't supposed to bother about it but I was, and I hated that I was so curious about it.

Someone would always bring up Sona, and I had no idea who Sona was, if she was so important then why wasn't she here? Where was she? Who was she? How was she related to Arnav and everyone else?

I was so curious at this point, I really wanted to find out who she was, I guess maybe some google work was going to help, but I left that for later, right now I had to concentrate on the function and make sure nothing went wrong.

The function had began and currently there was a group dancing on the stage, I stood in one corner and watched silently, I looked around trying to find Arnav and I spotted him seated beside Samar watching the dance.

"I was looking for you." NK said as he joined me.

"Why?"

"Because I was bored, and I like your company." He winked at me to which I giggled.

"Are you trying to flirt with me or something?" I asked.

"You can call it that, only an idiot wouldn't flirt with you, I mean have you looked at yourself, you are so beautiful." He said as he held both my hands and made me face him and then he looked at me in a very admirable way.

"Thanks." I blushed as I looked at the floor.

"Very hot." He said as he fanned himself with his hands making me laugh, he was really flirty and funny. I got back into my position and turned to look towards the stage when I saw Arnav standing a few feet away from us, he was just staring at us silently, but when I looked at him, he looked away and then walked away.

There were a few more dances by different people which I watched while standing in this same position, NK too gave me company and he kept on telling me random stuff which I just kept on listening to silently.

The last dance was by Samar and Sonali of course and they performed it on the song Perfect by Ed Sheeran. That song was literally like a love anthem for every couples out there, somehow everyone did related to it, even though not fully, but a part of it was always relatable. It was such a beautiful song, I loved it too and I always had this scenario in my head where I was going to be slow dancing on it, outside in the rain with the guy I was going to be in love with.

Before, the guy in my head never had a face, but today when the song played and Sonali and Samar started dancing, and I imagined the scenario in my head like I always did, I saw him, I saw Arnav and I dancing together.

Was it possible to fall for someone so fast? I wouldn't say that I was head over heels in love with him, but I definitely liked him, a lot, I just wanted to talk to him, to be around him and to spend time with him.

"Excuse me, I need to go check up on the food, everyone will be heading to eat after the dance so..." I said to NK who nodded so I left immediately, it was just an excuse though, I had confirmed earlier that everything was okay.

It was just after listening to this music and seeing Sonali and Samar, I just had this urge of wanting to talk to Arnav, so I decided to go look for him.

I looked for him in so many places but I couldn't find him anywhere, I wondered where he had gone. I was almost giving up when I spotted him seated far away on a bench, it was too dark over there so it wasn't easy to even see him.

I walked towards him and sat down beside him silently, he dint even look at me. Was he trying to avoid me or something? If he was, maybe I should just leave him alone. Maybe all these stupid scenarios in my head that had his face were going to disappear one day, I dint want to force myself to talk to him if he was trying to avoid me.

"You okay?" I looked at him curiously just trying to make sure if he was actually avoiding me or it was just in my head.

"Yeah, just needed some air." He smiled faintly and then looked back at the ground, everything felt so awkward suddenly.

I wish I could read his mind and know what he was thinking, it would be easier to decide on what to do.

"Okay, I'll leave you to it then." I said as I stood up and walked away leaving him alone, he dint try to stop me and that was my confirmation. He was avoiding me, so I wasn't going to act stupid and stay around him when he clearly dint want to talk to me.

I should have been careful, I should have known from the beginning that these feelings I was getting towards him were stupid, nothing was ever going to happen between us, I should have kept my distance from him from the beginning itself.

Oh man, this hurt, but why did it hurt so freaking much?

*****

After the sangeet function was over, I headed home, I just wasn't feeling okay, I had this sad feeling in my chest I wished I could get rid of.

I just wanted to get home and sleep and wake up happy as usually tomorrow morning, get back to work and make the final arrangements for the wedding day and be done with it.

I should have never got attached in the first place, like what was I even thinking!

I turned my car on and the music on the radio started playing, it was as if even Darshan Raval knew I was going to feel this way someday so he sang a song to fit perfectly into this situation and it had to play at this exact time.

The "Asal Mein tum nahi ho mere" (Actually you are not mine) lyrics hit so hard, I felt each and every word of the song so deep. How do you do it Darshan? How do you understand the pain like that?

I had replayed the song twice by the time I got home, I parked my car and headed straight to my room, If these clothes weren't so heavy and uncomfortable, I would have just gone to sleep like that, I just wanted to sleep and stop feeling this way.

I changed quickly and then headed straight to bed hoping I was going to wake up tomorrow morning and this pain was going to disappear.

*****

I woke up to the smell of fresh coffee. I stretched my arms and headed out of my room to check where it was coming from when I saw Manvi, she was in the kitchen brewing coffee.

"Manvi!" I rushed towards her and pulled her into a tight hug immediately. I was so glad she was back, I had missed her, I missed talking to her and just having someone.

"You really missed me huh?" She smirked as she broke the hug.

"I did, let me take a quick shower and then we can sit together and talk about your visit." I smiled as I rushed back to my room and headed straight into the bathroom. I stood underneath the shower as the water fell on my body, I shut my eyes as the pain came back slowly.

Damn it! I thought it was gone. Did crushes hurt so much?

I got out of the shower and put on a blue washed jean and a white floral top with white floral top and headed out. Manvi had our coffee in the cups while she sat in front of the TV switching through channels finding something to watch.

"I thought you were going to be back by evening." I said as I sat down beside her.

"I took a night bus, I just wanted to be back as soon as I could, I was frustrated back there." He giggled.

"I dint hear you coming in, I must have been deep asleep." I said as I grabbed the cup of coffee.

"I tried to be as silent as I could." She smiled as she took a sip of her coffee, for the next few minutes we both just stared at the TV silently.

"You don't have to go to work today?" She asked.

"I actually have to, the wedding is tomorrow, I have to change the entire decoration for tomorrow's theme, I feel tired about it already and I haven't even started with it." I pouted.

"How about I accompany you? I don't have much to do, I can come along and help you, it will be a good time pass for me too."

"Sure, that would be fun." I smiled excitedly, I knew I was going to feel way better if she was going to be with me, she was definitely going to keep my mind distracted.

"Great, I'll change after I finish my coffee and then we can get going." She smiled, I nodded as I took a sip of mine.

*****

As soon as Manvi and I arrived at the garden, we got started on the work, by the time I arrived, the decorations from last night had been dismantled, so I started instructing everyone on the decorations of today and everything.

Today everything was supposed to be done extra, I mean more than it was for the previous functions, it had to look like it was a big fat Indian wedding.

The flowers hadn't been delivered yet so I called up the florist to make sure they got here in time, we had so much work to do in such a short time.

"Wow, this wedding already looks huge to me even before the decorations have been done." Manvi laughed.

"It is." I nodded.

"I would love to attend such a wedding someday, because I cant obviously have one like this." She said.

"Why would you? I am a wedding planner, I would love to plan such a wedding for you darling."

"All that's great but where will the money come from?"

"Don't worry we'll earn it by then."

"You see you say things like these which make me doubt your intentions, do you love me Khushi?" Manvi smirked.

"Go get some work done." I rolled my eyes as I pushed her and turned around and I bumped into someone.

I was left with my eyes wide open when I saw who that someone was, of course it was Arnav, it was just a bit unexpected, today there weren't any functions or anything so I dint know why he was here.

"Miss Khushi." I heard his voice, but what I also heard, was the word 'miss' before my name, so we were gone back to being formal to each other?

"I'm sorry, I dint know you were behind me." I apologized.

"It's okay, mom sent me to give you these, she said they must be put besides the four poles of the altar." He said as he handed me a box, I nodded as I took from him and place it aside.

We just stood there, in front of each other silently looking at each other.

"Was that all?" I asked.

"Yeah, I should get going then. Goodbye." He said as he turned around and walked away. Oh the awkwardness between us, I dint even know what had changed suddenly, but I definitely knew it was to do with whatever conversation he had with Samar that day.

"Was it just me or there was some tension there?" Manvi asked.

"I told you to do some work!" I looked at her angrily.

"Who was he?"

"The brother of the groom, anyway it doesn't matter, he just came to give some things and now he's gone, can we get back to work?"

I walked away from her angrily, I hated this, I hated feeling this way, I hated that everything between us was different suddenly, at one point it was all cute and now it was just awkward. Since the first day we met, this was the first time where we dint talk at all, he just came, gave me the stuff and left and to make it worse, he addressed me as Miss. Khushi when he was the one that told me to stop being formal in the first place. Urgghhh, I was so mad!

I knew what this meant, I wasn't going to see him the rest of today, I was going to see him tomorrow at the wedding of course but I knew he wasn't going to talk to me or anything and once the wedding was done, we were basically going to be strangers, even though we had each other's number I knew we weren't going to talk ever again, and that broke my heart a little bit.

I had really started hoping there was going to be something, with all the flirting the past couple of days, I had my hopes so freaking high and right now, I had no hope left.

Was it too soon to cry? Because I wanted to cry, I mean how could someone I knew for less than a month manage to make me feel this hurt? How?