After dinner, Arnav came with me till the parking lot to say goodbye, we both stood near my car just looking at each other for a while, whenever I was around him, I just felt some kind of happy and safe, I never wanted to leave.

"I hope this helped?" He looked at me nervously.

"It did a bit. It's just... your love for her, it's like this sort of unconditional love you read about in novels, or watch in movies, or have heard about, and I've always wanted a love like that, and then I look at you and I feel like it's possible but then I also remember that you felt that for Sona and it makes me wonder if you can feel that way again for someone else, if it can ever get that deep.

All I am looking for is your love Arnav, no pressure here, let it take however long it takes, but that's all I need, love, limitless, the unconditional one, the one like you had for Sona and sometimes I'm just worried it might not happen." I pouted.

He moved a bit closer to me holding my hands as he looked me into the eyes, his smile slowly faded off and he looked a bit more serious now.

"Why won't it happen Khushi? I mean look at me, I was so lost before you, I had forgotten how to be happy, since I met you, I've become a different person, I've become happier and that should already tell you what you mean to me already, imagine if you mean this much to me right now, imagine what you'll mean to me in a year, in five years.

Even right now if I try to close my eyes and imagine my life without you, it scares the hell out of me, so please don't think that I won't love you, I know it hasn't happened yet, but when it will happen, it will be the kind of love you want, I promise I'll love you more than you've ever imagined, all I am asking for is time, and trust and a little confidence in me and most of all, communication.

I just need you to trust me okay? I am not playing any games here, I really like you, a lot and I really want us to be together, I'll put in all the efforts needed, I'll do everything to make us work, just please don't ever keep anything that bothers you to yourself.

We've communicated about everything so far and it has helped us get here, please keep that going and everything will be great with us, and I'm sure in some time, your worries too will fade." He finally smiled again, letting go off my hands as he cupped my face.

"Okay." I nodded.

"That's like my girl." He smirked as he pulled me into a hug, I wrapped my arms around him blushing so stupidly, I loved how he said those word, I'm his girl, it made me feel so giddy.

"Aww, what's making you blush?" He asked as he noticed the blush on my face after we broke the hug, apparently it was still there, my stupid unpredictable face.

"Nothing." I said as I buried my face in his chest once again trying to make the blush disappear, he wrapped his arms around me once again and held on to me, I didn't want to leave at all now, I just wanted to stay here, in his arms... it felt so good.

"Okay bye." I said as I broke the hug and immediately rushed into my car, I knew if I slowed down or anything, I wouldn't want to leave at all, it was getting too romantic already.

I got inside the car and turned it on as I waved goodbye at Arnav, he waved back at me as I drove off.

A few minutes into the drive, I passed by the route where the advertisement was, the one with Sona's picture, I don't know why I did it, but I parked my car aside, made sure all the doors were locked and just stopped there for a moment, staring at the huge board in front of me.

She was so perfect, so beautiful, her hair was beautiful, everything about her was so beautiful and somewhere I found myself wondering if I was as pretty as her.

Did Arnav ever sit down and wonder if I was as pretty as Sona? If I was as perfect as she was? What if the answer was no? the thought of it scared me.

Okay, my obsession with Sona was becoming too much, calm the hell down Khushi! This is an advertisement poster, it must have been taken with professional camera, by a professional with perfect lighting and everything else must have been photoshopped to look so perfect, why was I seriously obsessing over such stupid things?

Because I knew very well this wasn't me, I never compared myself to anyone else, I had always been happy with whatever I had in life, then why was I becoming like this? I knew the answer though, it was because I was in love with Arnav, and he was still at liking me, and somewhere I was scared that I might lose him and it was making me all sorts of crazy.

He had done so much to make me sure, to make me trust him, and I should do that, I had no reasons to doubt him, Sona was even going to come back, it's not like the broke up and she went somewhere, she was gone for good, so why was I even overthinking everything?

I promised to myself that this was the last time I was going to be worried about anything related to Sona, she was a part of Arnav's family that they lost, of course they were going to mention her, of course they were going to miss her and talk about her, and that was okay, because that's what people do, and I was going to be okay with it because she was the past, and the past doesn't return.

I sighed as I drove off and headed straight home deciding anytime such worries crossed my minds, I would shove them at the back of my head and not worry at all, whatever that was between Arnav and I was too beautiful to ruin with overthinking about things that won't ever happen.

From today onwards, I was going to concentrate on just us, and nothing else, no Sona, no past, nothing! I was going to be patient and give him time like he had said and I was going to hope that someday he was finally going to fall in love with me, as deeply and as madly as I wanted to be loved.

*****

I groaned as I heard the sound of the doorbell, I turned to my left and grabbed my phone to look at the time, it was seven o'clock in the morning! I had planned to wake up late today as I dint have much work planned for today, but someone had to wake me up!

"Good morning Sunshine." Manvi smirked at me from the sofa, while sipping her coffee.

"Idiot, you can't even open the door." I rolled my eyes at her leaving her giggling while I opened the door.

There was someone at the door holding a huge bouquet of flowers mixed with chocolates that it was even hiding their face.

"Hello, these are for miss. Khushi" He spoke up trying to look at me through the tiny spaces in between.

"That's me." I said as I took them from him, holy hell, they were so big and heavy, all red roses with different kind of chocolates stuffed in between in the empty spaces made it a lot heavier than it looked.

"Have a nice day ma'am." The guy smiled at me as he walked away before I could even ask him who they were from, but I had a guess obviously, I mean who else apart from Arnav would send me flowers right?

I might be angry about having to wake up early but damn, this made me smile happily, I loved surprises like these.

I placed the flowers on the coffee table and bent down to find a note or something, I found one stuck with a dairy milk chocolate that came with a heart shape in between, he really thought this out. I pulled the card out and opened it to read it.

'Sending these just for that gorgeous smile you have right now. Missing you already. – Arnav'

I blushed and smiled at the same time, oh this is why there was so much hype about love, the way it made you feel, it was a feeling you can't describe, but if you've been in love, I'm sure you know it.

"Looks like love is already in the air." Manvi said as she walked towards me eyeing the bouquet, I was sure she had plans of stealing some chocolates.

"Oh, I hope so." I smiled at her, she giggled as she sat down beside me and took the card from me as she read it.

"Aww, how cute. I'm jealous of you now, when will anyone send me such cute notes ever? You should get this framed." She suggested making me laugh, sometimes she could get so cheesy.

Now I had this stupid smile on my face that wouldn't just go away, who knew I would start off my morning this happily, I was just so happy he did this for me, it was proof that he was putting efforts, and I needed to put them too and everything would be perfect right?

I rushed back to my room to get my phone so I could thank him for the flowers, I dialed his number and pressed the phone to my ear waiting for him to receive the call.

"Hello." I heard his voice, oh how it soothed my heart.

"Hey... thank you so much for the flowers, now I can't stop smiling stupidly." I giggled.

"That was the intention." He said, I imagined he was smiling too?

"And I miss you too already." I blushed, thank God he wasn't here to see me blushing otherwise he would tease me about it.

"We'll meet for a date soon, I've just got some busy couple days, no time to breathe, Imagine I'm at the office already, but I promise we'll meet soon, meanwhile miss me and keep on with the smile."

"Sure, I'll talk to you later."

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye." I disconnected the call as I headed back to the hall the smile still there, I found Manvi already munching on the chocolate which made me smile even more.

"Hey, I saved you the heart, because his heart only belongs to you." She said as she winked at me while holding out the heart shaped piece up, I laughed out so loud at her cheesy joke, I swear even my neighbors must have heard it.

Who would believe that just yesterday I was so stressed and worried if Arnav was ever going to be in love with me and today I had no worried whatsoever but just this unlimited smiles and giggles.

I sat down beside Manvi and just hugged her so tight because I was happy and I didn't know how else to express this happiness of mine.

"Okay, I get it, you're in love. Stop rubbing it off on me now, I'm still single here." Manvi said still letting me hug her though.

"Someday you'll be in love too and you'll need me to hug too, so better let me do it otherwise I'll revenge." I laughed.

"I'll find a way to revenge on your revenge huh, don't play with me."

"Shut up and let me hug you, you'll also find someone soon."

"I know, but when?" She pouted.

"When the time is right." I smiled.

"So... I figure everything if perfectly fine between you two now?" She asked.

"Yes, we talked it out, and worked on things and everything is perfect, just like a fairytale." I smiled.

"And I pray you always have this fairytale, I'm so happy for you, and this already shows me how much effort he's already putting in, I officially approve him for you." She laughed.

"Thank you your honor." I laughed too.