Stars - they are billions in the sky but when we look at them, we can just see thousands of them, a part of them.

Ocean - it is too deep to even measure but we know the depth eventually, yet we can just look at a part of it.

Maybe, just like stars and oceans, the truth behind a person may be a part of the entire truth.

Marriage - it's a part of the entire truth behind the whole chaos, well the onlookers can only see NK & Khushi's runway marriage just like they are refrained to see billions of stars or ocean.

Khushi stood looking at the stars, expecting a solace from the stars - her parents, expecting them to wipe away her tears as tears rolled down her cheeks, but there was none.

Stars cannot come and wipe away her tears, can they?

Even after knowing this, she stood like an idiot in expectation of solace.

She is a happy go lucky girl, a girl who loves in living with sharing the synonym of her name, with everyone around her.

She is a girl who carries a positive aura around her.

Nevertheless, whenever a positive aura is sensed, there will be definitely a negative aura presenting its existence, magnifying the properties of a magnet.

The negative force was Arnav Singh Raizada before, and it's NK now.

There's no difference in having a property of magnet. It's just that while Arnav Singh Raizada affected her in a good way with her heart, she doesn't have any idea of NK err... well new NK.

She couldn't make any assumptions with the new NK. He's totally strange as if he's not the one who's best friend with her. As if he's not the one who has taken her help in mending his broken Hindi. As if he's not the one who made her laugh. As if he's not the one who's gentle and innocent with her. Or maybe she just overlooked everything past him, only future can tell her.

She is too hurt with NK.

She just hopes she can share everything with someone, precisely him.

Arnav Singh Raizada.

He's an altogether different matter, she has seen something different in his eyes today after her sudden marriage when her eyes met his, and after that second she didn't dare to look at him, let alone meet his orbs.

She's feeling vulnerable, more than vulnerable if the fact to be analysed.

She harbours feelings towards him, and she did hope the same from him and have seen a small amount of it in his otherwise masked orbs.

It didn't matter if he harbours feelings towards her, but she's guilty that she betrayed her love, her feelings towards him, even though she's not sure about his feelings towards her.

It doesn't matter at a point to consider her feelings, she did betray her love, her heart which started beating for the one she thought she considered him the list as last one.

She's jerked away with a thud sound behind her and turned towards NK to see.

He's in his sherwani and is looking furious. She won't know what is the step she has to take now.

"Nanhe Ji? " she whispered with tears rolling down her eyes. She is hurt by his cruel and unreasonable step. She is too hurt with the person he turned out to be.

NK threw a look at her. His orbs scream disgust at her, along with maybe something else which she couldn't name it as 'something'.

" Why did you marry me, Nanhe Ji? " she wanted to scream at him, but it came as a whisper, as her lips are quivering, it made her voice more hoarse.

" You owe no reason from me. Just get out of my sight," he spat at her, rudely. His eyes emitting fire at her.

" What.. What happened to you? " her quivering lips managed to pronounce the words.

" You! " he cursed.

" What? " she was confused with his unreasonable answer.

" Don't you have ears or have you turned deaf? " his anger was at a peak as he threw a disgusting look at her, again.

" Nanhe Ji? " it's unbelievable for her. His behaviour, his words, his looks, everything. Nandhakishore is totally a different man, now. A few hours changed him into a Monster, or maybe he was portraying himself as a humble man till now.

" Don't you dare take that name from your mouth, again! Do you understand? " he screamed at her and Khushi shivered at his intense voice. A Voice which screams of Hate and Disgust.

She is crying hard listening to him and his hard tone did nothing to help her but to suffer from pain and agony.

" Listen, we are nothing but strangers in this bedroom. We will be a lovey-dovey couple outside this room, in front of Raizada's? Do you get it? " his harsh voice got into her head. She was helpless.

" And yeah, don't show me your face. It's better if you get out of my sight. I just can't see your disgusting face! " here again, he threw his harsh words at her.

"But, where.. Where would I sleep? " she wiped away her tears not wanting to be a weak woman in front of him. But, her tears too betrayed her as it fell down from her now-red hazel orbs more.

"I don't care, sleep on the floor, " he spat at her as tears rolled down her cheeks.

Kushi's PoV

"I don't care, sleep on the floor," he spat at me as tears rolled down my cheeks.

" NK, I —" I was going to plead him but my words were cut off by him as he threw a blanket at my face.

When did he become this cruel? , as I thought about it, more tears rolled down my cheeks. I wiped them away and took the blanket he threw at me and went to poolside to sleep at the temperature of 16° C outside.

"I hope I can tell you everything!", her heart whispered as more tears rolled down her cheeks, she cupped her mouth to avoid escaping a sob, blame her hope, there's no chance of hope as the beast who's sleeping inside haven't given her any.

It's very cold here.

But, it's my fate. I can't do anything. I'm helpless. If I do anything, it will affect my sister's life.

Devimayya, why me?

I took up the blanket he threw at my face and snuggled to it as I just can't bear this chilly atmosphere. I hope someone can save me from this hell.

"Mom, Dad! Please save me, I can't.. do it.. " I choked away my words, gulping down my pain, as my eyes closed on its to embrace the darkness which I'm afraid of.

****

Arnav's PoV

"We are married."

I closed my eyes to erase the scene, but can't help to remember it again and again.

When I thought I'll be having a woman in my life who'll be the only mother of my children, it has to shatter in a cruel way. Why? Why couldn't I get my love?

She's my only love. My only woman, but, but now, I don't have any right to call her as my woman.

I hate this feeling! I hate it!
More than that, I hate her tears, her pain.

Why do I feel that whatever happened is wrong? I know it's wrong, but I just want any proof, a verbal proof. I can see her pain when her eyes met mine for a second. Only, if she could look in to my eyes for a second more. Alas!

I just need a verbal proof.

" I hope you can tell me everything Khushi, I'll do everything to save you from the pain," his heart whispered as if he heard his loves plead.

He's standing at the poolside, time to time wiping away his tears which are flowing down his cheeks.

" Mom, she told me that you can hear me, show me a way to know the truth maa. I love her, and I know she harbours feelings towards me, I can feel she abhor NK. Help me in any way if you are hearing me, " he said looking at the star which is twinkling just beside the other two stars.

****

Morning
RM

" Knushi Ji? " Anjali knocked up the door which made NK awake from his peaceful sleep on his cosy bed.

He immediately looked towards the poolside. In a second, he was in front of a sleeping Khushi.

" Khushi?" he shook her up and Khushi woke up with the harsh touch of his.

As soon as she woke up, she heard the knock on the door and Anjali's voice. She remembered she has to act.

*

" Ji Anjali li? "

"This is the Saree. As today is your first day, you have to cook for the family, nonetheless. Wear this Saree," Anjali said with a straight face.

Khushi nodded at her.

She dreamt of this day in a grand way. And what she got shattered her dreams. A tear rolled down her cheeks as she wiped away her tears.

*

She entered into the kitchen to cook, where Payal is already present.

" Jiji, " Khushi whispered after her sister who turned away her face looking at a Khushi who is entering into the Kitchen.

Payal ignored Khushi as she tried to talk to her.

" Jiji, listen to me, please! " Khushi pleaded holding her hand. Payal jerked away her sister's hand and turned away to continue her work, totally ignoring the hissy sound she heard from her sister.

" Don't do anymore Drama's Khushi. Enough now. I don't care what you want to say," Payal spat at Khushi who burnt her hand while Payal jerked away from her hand.

Khushi stood crying looking at her sister's retreating back.

Meanwhile, she started wiping away her tears. She started to cook when out of nowhere, Manorama came into the kitchen. She fumed at Khushi who's going to touch the ingredients to cook food.

" Stop. Don't you dare touch anything with that disgusting hand of yours, " Manorama spat at Khushi yanking her away.

" But the Ritual?" Khushi whispered.

" To hell with your Ritual! Don't you dare cook anything with this disgusting hand of yours, everyone will loathe the food you cook? It's better if you don't enter the dining table, hunger will die looking at your face!" Manorama spat her venom at Khushi who's already in pain with tears rolling down her cheeks as she burnt her hand, along with her heart.

Arnav who looked at this, gritted his teeth, clenching and Unclenching his fist not minding the pain he's getting as the nails pierced his palms. He wants to just grab his mami's neck and kill her at the venom she's spitting at Khushi. Alas, blame his right, he doesn't have any right, after all.

Soon everyone started having breakfast along with NK who is silent all the time. Only Khushi was absent the whole time. Nobody cared to ask about her whereabouts.

This made Arnav's hunger die out of disgust towards his family. He went to his room without having any breakfast.

The thought that his love is dying out of hunger killed his hunger too.

NK's Room

She's sitting alone in NK's room crying over her fate, hunger is killing her, being a big foodie, she couldn't able to live more with hunger. She's crying, for her pain, for her hunger, for her unlucky fate.

She sat on the floor, clutching her stomach as her hunger is killing her, she just want to go and grab anything to eat even though her heart isn't strong enough to let her throat swallow a morsel, but she's a human, she can't survive her pain when everything altogether pushed on to her.

She stopped crying when she heard a creaking sound as if someone opened the door.

*

She is eating her food from the hands of the person who's sitting in front of her, feeding her, tears rolled down her eyes as she's happy that at least someone is worried for her, and that someone is the one who's the least assumption in her list, even though her heart knows that he's the only one in her list.

" Khushi, do you want to eat more?" Arnav asked after finishing feeding her.

Khushi nodded her head as no. Only if.. Alas!

They heard footsteps approaching them. Khushi became afraid.

"Arnav Ji, What if someone sees you? Go from here." Khushi started to push him away.

" Let them come, Khushi."

Precap

"NK, your wife hasn't eaten anything from Morning. Do you really love her?" Arnav asked NK who is sitting on his chair having his dinner.

NK stumbled for a minute.

" Yes, I do love her. She is just not hungry."

*

A slap landed on her cheek. She tried to soothe her pain by rubbing her cheek.

To be continued..,