ARNAV

I don't know how she manages to make me do things I never thought I'd do in my life, like she doesn't even need to convince me, I'll just do anything for her, its crazy how much I'm willing to do for her and she has no idea about it.

For example this, me sitting at the same table with my family and having dinner with them just because she wanted to eat homemade food, something I wouldn't have ever done no matter how much anyone convinced me, the amount of dislike I had for a lot of people in this family was enough for me to never sit here with them, but see here I was.

I just kept on looking at her, hoping that she was comfortable, I dint want to create drama and make her uncomfortable because my family was really dramatic, trust me on this, but at times it just got out of hand.

"You need anything else?" I asked, she nodded negatively and continued eating, I was glad that she was a bit comfortable if not much.

Diya kept on looking at me and then at Khushi as she kept on smirking at me, I ignored her expressions, I knew my behavior was so obvious the entire family must have learnt what I felt for this girl who was so oblivious to it.

The only people I really cared about in this family were Diya, Ishani and Dhruv, they were the only sensible people in this family, the rest of the people acted like they still lived in the nineties but despite it all, I loved them all.

I might have issues with them, I might really disliked them and all but at the end of the day, they were my family, and although I dint sit with them every night to have dinner with them, I still loved them. There was just this connection, everyone had it with their family, no matter how terrible they are, you can't stop loving them, but yes you can stop showing it to them.

Once we finished dinner, we all headed back to the hall, I made sure to sit beside Khushi because my family had a very great talent of making people feel awkward and I dint want her to feel that way.

They all kept on asking her random questions and she answered them very politely, that's what I liked about this girl, you wouldn't even know she was the top most model, she was very down to earth.

Diya suddenly walked towards me out of nowhere grabbed my hand and pulled me away saying she had something important to show me, she took me to the kitchen hen Dhruv and Ishani were waiting already.

"What?" I asked as the three of them kept on looking at me seriously.

"You've grown so distance from us too that you don't tell us things nowadays, the only person you tell things is Aman." Ishani pouted.

"What dint I tell you?" I raised my eyebrow and pretend not to know what they were talking about.

"It's all over your face Arnav come on, you like this girl so much, you can't stop looking at her." Ishani said.

"She's so freaking gorgeous, I wouldn't stop looking at her either." Dhruv giggled, I gave him a look so he stop giggling.

"There's nothing like that, you're just over analyzing things, besides she already has a boyfriend now let me go back, I can't leave her alone with those people." I said as I tried to walk away but Diya wouldn't just let me walk away.

"She has a boyfriend but it doesn't change what you feel for her. It's the first time I've seen you bring a girl home bro, or even have dinner with us. It's the first time I'm seeing you seated with the entire family, why? It never happened before, I know it happened because of her, and it only happened because she means something to you.

The three of us have been convincing you to have dinner with us since ages, you've never agreed not even for our sake, so how did you change your mind suddenly?" Diya asked.

"You think a lot more than your age don't you?" I asked.

"Stop changing the topic Arnav, we won't eat you up, come on tell us the truth." Ishani said.

"Okay fine, yes I like her, and it's driving me so crazy, it's driving me crazy that she has a boyfriend and I can't keep hoping that they would break up, I can't stop looking at her or caring about her, I can't stop wanting to see her or a lot of things. I dint even know it was possible to feel this way about someone until I met her, but since I met her, everything has changed.

I've never yearned for anything in my entire life as much as yearn for her, and she doesn't even know about it, I wish I could tell her how I feel but I can't because I'm scared if she would understand me or not, so I just keep hoping that maybe one day she would break up with her boyfriend and look at me differently, so all I can do is wait even when every feeling inside me seems to be exploding, imagine how terrible that is." I said it all in one breath and then inhales a deep breath, I looked at the three of them in surprise as they looked back at me in surprise, I hadn't admitted this much to Aman even, not even to myself but today suddenly I realized everything I felt for her kept on getting strong and stronger with each and every passing day..

I escaped them in a hurry before they could say anything and joined Khushi back, she looked at me and smiled.

"It's late, I think I should drop you back home, we have a shoot tomorrow." I suggested. She nodded as she stood up and bid everyone a goodbye and then we walked out of the house, I felt so light once we walked out, I don't know why it was so uncomfortable to be home.

Home was where everyone would want to be, as for me I always looked for excuses not to come here, I'd even prefer sleeping at Aman's place that coming here because that place felt more like home than this place ever did.

We both got into the car as I drove her back home but she wouldn't stop staring at me, I could notice that she wanted to say something or ask something but she was battling with herself whether to speak or not.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked.

"Just wondering." She shrugged.

"About?"

"You have such a beautiful family, why do you dislike them so much? I would die for a family like this." She said.

"You haven't seen them like I have Khushi." I sighed, gladly she dint say anything after that, I dint like talking about my family, and I wouldn't want to ignore her either.

I parked the car outside her house as the both of us stepped out, she smiled at me happily.

"Thank you, it was so good to eat homemade food after so long, I loved meeting you family too." She smiled at me as she walked closer and suddenly hugged me.

I knew it was normal, so many people bid each other goodbye like this of greeted each other like this, but with Khushi, it hadn't ever happened, we had always been formal but now she was being friendly.

I felt like I was going to stop breathing, all I could think of was her arms around me and how ticklish they made me feel, how suddenly every part of my body was trembling, how I had goosebumps from a single hug from her, how I wanted for her to keep on holding me like this, but she pulled apart immediately and it felt like something inside me was breaking.

"So I'll see you work tomorrow, have a goodnight Arnav." She smiled as she headed inside her house, she opened the door and turned to look at me, waving a goodbye she walked in while I was stuck where I was, I couldn't even move.

My mind kept on playing that hug on repeat mode, it was driving me crazy, I wanted to run behind her, pull her back and hug her once again, or even kiss her, I wanted to kiss her so badly, I'd never wanted to kiss any other girl so badly.

But I knew she wouldn't want to kiss me back, because she had a damn boyfriend and she was a loyal girl, but I wanted her, so badly I was going to do whatever it takes to make her mine.

That Aditya had to get out of her life, even if it meant I had to throw him out myself, I was going to do that, because after today nothing was going to stop me.

I got inside my car and drove back home, avoided everyone that had been waiting to question me about Khushi and why I brought her home, I was least interested in answering them anyway so I headed straight to my room and locked myself inside. They knew better not to disturb me otherwise they'd face my wrath.

I promised myself not to fall asleep until I found something about Aditya that might separate them, something terrible he did that might make him look bad or something, and incase I dint find anything bad about him, maybe he was actually the good guy he was showing to be, then I was going to find an idea to make him look bad to Khushi, but that guy was no more staying with her.

Khushi was going to be mine, only MINE.