KHUSHI

He helped stand up as I stared at him for what seemed like forever waiting for him to tell me the truth, he stared back at me looking shocked, he tried to speak for a couple of times but ended up saying nothing making me more worried.

I fell down on my knees once again breaking down completely, maybe his silence told me what I dint want to hear, maybe Shrey was really cheating on me, why else would Arnav be silent? I still couldn't believe it, i mean how was it possible, he couldn't cheat on me could he?

Shrey and I had known each other for so long, we had been in a relationship before we got married and as much as I had known him, I knew he wasn't the kind of a person to cheat on me, but as much as I dint want to believe that Shrey could do something like this to me, I couldn't deny the facts, I had seen a girl in his room, what was that supposed to mean?

"Khushi!" I heard Arnav say my name and the next moment I saw him kneeling down next to me, looking at me worriedly.

"Tell me the truth Arnav, you know what it's like to be cheated on so for the sake of it please tell me the truth." I begged him.

I kept on staring at him hoping for an answer but he remained quiet, he just kept on staring at me, trying to calm me down but how was I supposed to calm down after knowing this? and why wasn't he telling me anything? he was making me angry but staying silent like this.

"Don't try to console me if you aren't going to tell me the truth, after all this I thought at least you would understand what I might be going through Arnav!" I shouted at him.

I pushed him away from me and stood up to leave but he got hold of my hand and pulled me back, he held me in his arms and hugged me tight leaving me surprised.

"I am sorry Khushi, I wish I could give you answers but I can't say something I'm not sure of, yes I also think he is cheating on you because of some things that have happened recently but I'm not sure and I dint want to tell you about it until I was sure."

I broke the hug and stared at him completely shocked, he knew it! He knew about it all this while and dint find it important to tell me? Just a recently he was telling me how he was cheated on and he let it happen to me. I know it wasn't his fault or anything but he should have at least told me about it.

"I am sorry Khushi, I just saw him with that girl twice so I wasn't sure, and then recently I found out that they had gone together and I wanted to call him and confront him but that's when you called me and I came here, but please believe me when I say I'm not sure." he tried to explain, but how could i believe him, what if he was lying for his best friend? but then he had gone through something similar, i'm sure he wouldn't want me or anyone else to go through it. I dint even know how to feel about all this anymore.

"Really Arnav, what else do you need to be sure? He went out of country with a girl, I saw them in the same room together, what else do I need to believe the facts?" I broke the hug and looked at him, he looked defeated, like he dint have any explanation to it.

"That doesn't prove that he's cheating on you, I know my best friend, he wouldn't do that to you, he loves you so much!" he shouted at me, seriously? he was shouting at me when he hid things from me, things I should have known sooner.

I took a few steps backwards looking at him in confusion, was he the one saying this? The one who had trusted his wife as much as he trusts his best friend and in the end what did she do to him? Dint she cheat on him?

"So you think I want to believe this? I have known him Arnav, I love him and as much as I don't want to believe that he's cheating on me I can't deny what I saw, you also know it but you're just trying to deny the truth aren't you?"

"Fine if you think so we can do one thing, let's call him and ask him about it." He suggested.

I laughed sarcastically at him, why was Arnav so innocent? The first time I met him, if someone had told me that this man would be so innocent I wouldn't have believed it but after spending some time with him and getting to know him, I knew he was.

"As if he's going to tell me the truth, I'm not calling him Arnav!"

"Fine then I will." He said as he pulled out his phone from the pocket and started dialing Shrey's number, I walked towards him and took the phone away from him.

"I'll talk to him myself once he's back here, until then you aren't telling him anything, I want to look him into the face and see if he's going to tell me the truth or lie to me."

"So until then you'll believe that he's cheating on you? That's how much you trust him?"

"You also loved your wife dint you? You were together for five years and what did she do? Dint she cheat on you?" I shouted at him angrily, honestly at the moment all I knew was that he was cheating on me and nothing was going to make me believe otherwise.

"People are different Khushi, just because I was cheated on doesn't mean the same has to happen to you." he looked angry, like I had offended him by saying what I had just said.

At the moment I dint care what he was going to think of me or hate me for what I said, I had more things to worry about.

What was I supposed to think of my husband going abroad with a girl without telling me that he was going with a girl, what was I supposed to think when I spotted a girl in his bedroom, weren't all those signs of cheating?

If he went there with a girl it was fine, but why share the same room? Couldn't they have had a separate room? I dint even need to confront him on this, everything right now was saying only one thing, and that was that my husband was cheating on me!

"Listen to me once Khushi, please don't believe what you see, just for the sake of your love and your marriage, call him once and then I'll support you in whatever you decide, I promise." Arnav looked at me hoping I would listen to him.

"Let me just call him once and talk to him, if you don't want to talk to him then it's fine but let me, I am just trying to solve things please." He begged.

I looked at him for a moment and then nodded positively, maybe I should give it a chance before coming to a conclusion, maybe there was an explanation for all of this and maybe there was a chance that despite everything that I saw, Shrey still wasn't cheating on me.

He smiled at me faintly and then dialed Shrey's number, he put the phone on speaker and looked at me nervously, I was sure he was hoping the same things as I was, that maybe, maybe Shrey wasn't cheating on me.

"Yes Arnav." Shrey's voice came, I moved a bit closer to listen to the conversation keenly.

"I don't want to beat around the bush so I'll come to the point, why did you go with Aria? How come I have no idea about it? I saw both your tickets so don't even try to lie to me." Arnav said in a serious tone.

There was a short silence before Shrey spoke, his voice sounded so nervous and I knew it sounded like that when he was lying.

"Aria is not with me Arnav." He said, although I dint know who Aria was, I knew it must be the girl I saw in his room.

"I saw your tickets Shrey, you even had your seats together so please just tell me why. Does Khushi even know you've gone with her? What will happen if she finds out." Arnav asked.

"Nothing would happen because she doesn't need to know, yes I am here with Aria but I promise I'll explain everything to you when I come back but please don't tell Khushi anything about it." Shrey said.

I looked at Arnav feeling like breaking down, if he wasn't doing anything wrong, why did he have to hide it from me? Why would he tell his best friend not to tell me about it? dint that mean that there was actually something wrong?

"She needs to know Shrey, I can't hide this from her, whatever it is that you are doing, you know I cant support you in it if it's going to hurt her." Arnav said.

"Please Arnav, I'll explain everything when I come back, but please don't tell her anything, I promise i'm not doing anything wrong and you also know that I would never hurt Khushi." Shrey said. He sounded so nervous and scared, I couldn't understand him, if he said he wasn't going anything wrong, what was the point of hiding it? If he dint want to hurt me, why was he lying to me? why was he going on a trip with a girl and sharing the same room and then hiding it all from me, if there was nothing wrong he should have told me about it!

"Fine!" Arnav said as he disconnected the call and looked at me, honestly now I dint even know how to react, my husband had gone abroad with a girl and he was telling his best friend not to tell me about it, to say I was broken was an understatement, I wasn't broken, I was shattered, into uncountable pieces.

I rushed to my room and locked myself inside, Arnav followed me but he was a bit late so he remained outside at the door knocking at it trying to talk to me, but how was he going to explain all this now? When I had heard everything with my own ears?

"Khushi! Please listen to me, don't just make any assumptions before he comes back, let him explain." Arnav tried to convince me.

"There's no way he can explain this Arnav, he is cheating on me and everything proves that, I don't know what I am going to do about this but for now just leave me alone." I shouted angrily, i felt angry and hurt at the same time and it was so damn terrible.

"I cant leave you alone Khushi, not like this!" he shouted back.

"I don't care, just leave!" I shouted at the top of my voice and after that he dint say a thing, I heard his footsteps and I knew he was going to his room, he better did because right now I wasn't in moods of talking to anyone.