KHUSHI

"Khushi!" I heard Arnav shout my name as he rushed behind me but honestly I dint even want to talk to him regarding this, I just needed to be alone to process in my mind the images I had seen of Shrey literally cheating on me, and here I was thinking that I had the best ever husband who was so much in love with me, little did I know that he had already found someone else with whom he was cheating on me.

I locked myself in my room and settled down on the bed, my tears had dried up already I mean seriously who was I lying to? Since the moment I saw the girl on the video call, I knew this was going to happen dint I?

"Khushi please open the door and talk to me!" Arnav shouted as he knocked at the door of my room worried for me.

"Leave me alone Arnav!" I shouted back at him, right now i just needed to be alone so I could come to terms with the fact that the husband I loved and trusted so much was actually cheating on me.

"Please don't believe anything until you talk to Shrey, he will be back in a day or two, just wait for him to be back please." Arnav begged me, seriously right now I dint understand him, he still wanted me to talk to Shrey even after all this? he was just going to lie to me, he would never tell me that he was cheating on me.

"I don't need any more explanations Arnav and for heaven sake leave me alone, I know he's your best friend and you think he can't do this but he's already done it and nothing else can prove otherwise so just leave me alone!" I shouted back angrily, i was so hurt and so freaking angry, how could Shrey do this to me?

I could hear him retreating is footsteps and I was glad he had decided to leave me alone, but honestly I dint know what I was going to do here in my room.

Cry for the man who had cheated on me? Seriously I wasn't that weak, yes I was hurt and I was done crying, it was time for him to cry.

If he had found someone to replace me with, I was going to find someone else to replace him with, there was no way he was going to get away with cheating on me, because if I loved him enough to trust him blindly, right now I hated him enough to punish him.

I wiped off my tears and stormed out of the room, Arnav was seated in the hall staring at the beach, that had been his favorite thing to do whenever he was here.

"Where are you going?" He asked as he stood up and followed me to the door.

"Wherever your so called best friend and my husband is with that girl he's cheating on me." I said as I looked at him angrily.

"So you think you'll go to the airport get a ticket, sit on a flight and go wherever he is, this isnt a movie Khushi, things like that don't happen, you need to get a visa too." He said as he looked me like I was the stupidest person on earth.

"I don't care, I'll do anything but I'll go there and slap him on his damn face!" I said angrily as I walked out while Arnav rushed behind me like I was a baby and he was baby sitting me.

Was that why Shrey left him here with me? To baby sit me and make sure I never found out about him cheating on me?

"You knew it right? You knew it since the beginning that he was cheating on me yet you never told me about it?" I asked as I got inside the elevator and he followed me again.

"Why would you even think that?" he looked at me like I was accusing him wrongly, maybe I was but right now I dint know a damn thing to do, my mind was messed up.

"Because you are his damn best friend!" I shouted back at him.

"I am his best friend but you know I was also cheated on Khushi, that's the thing I hate the most, how did you even think that I would let Shrey do that to you and sit here trying to hide it from you?" He shouted at me angrily.

"Because maybe he's your best friend still and you'd do anything for him."

"Yes he is my best friend and as much I could do anything for him and I wouldn't do it if it hurt you, I would never do any damn thing to hurt you because you're so damn special!" he said as he looked me into the eyes and just then the door of the elevator opened, he walked outside and disappeared in a few seconds while I was left standing there in shock.

Whatever he just said before leaving, although it was indirect it hit me directly and I knew what he exactly meant by it, he had started liking me!

I pressed the button as the lift took me upstairs back into my house, I couldn't believe how messed up everything was in my life right now.

I mean there was a moment when everything was perfect, I had a house opposite the beach, my husband loved me so much, I had a perfect life with no problems at all but then with time everything changed, Shrey met someone else and cheated on me and now his best friend felt something which he shouldn't towards me and he just admitted that to me.

I walked to the hall settled down on the couch as I looked at the ocean, it was so calm when my life was like a hurricane at the moment.

"Because you're so damn special!" his words kept on ringing in my mind and I dint know what to feel about them, honestly I dint know how to feel when my husband's best friend felt that way about me.

Right now there was so much going on in my mind I couldn't figure what was right and what wasn't, I just sat there still trying to calm my mind and I dint know how long I had sat there until Arnav came back home.

He walked inside looking nervous as I stared at him.

"I am sorry for what I said earlier, I dint mean It." he shrugged.

"Are you sure you dint mean it Arnav?" I raised an eyebrow as I looked at him seriously, he looked at me for a moment, he tried to open his mouth a couple of times trying to answer me but it looked like he wasn't sure on what to say.

"I am sorry Khushi, I don't know how it happened, I don't know how spending this little time with you changed my feeling towards you and I know that you're my best friend's wife and I am not supposed to feel that way for you and trust me since it began I've been trying not to feel that way but it just kept on growing and it came out today but don't you worry, you don't have to even think about it.

Forget whatever I said and forget I even said it, just erase that part of me from your mind and everything will get back to normal, I am so sorry." He said as he headed to his room and locked himself inside while I sat there with tears in my eyes.

What was a girl like me supposed to do in this kind of a situation?

What was I supposed to do when I needed love and was getting it from somewhere where it wasn't supposed to come from? Was I supposed to accept it or was I supposed to keep myself from it?

A few more tears rolled down my eyes as the same questions kept on repeating themselves in my mind every time with a different answer.

Yes I agree Shrey had cheated on me and as much as he deserved to be punished for it dint mean I had to cheat on him with his own best friend to punish him.

I dint know what I felt towards Arnav because I was always busy loving Shrey, but everything had changed and maybe I had started looking at him in a different way and although I dint know what that feeling was at the moment, I knew one thing, and that was that I respected him a lot.

I stood up as I walked to my room, Arnav was right maybe all I had to do was to forget all that he said to me and believe that he was nothing but my husband's best friend and that he only looked at me that way and there were no feelings involved at all.

But hey, who was I lying to? The damage was done!

I sat on my bed with my phone in my hand, maybe Arnav was right, I needed to talk to Shrey and clarify things because no matter what I had seen, I still trusted him and somewhere deep inside my mind I still believed that he wouldn't do anything like that with me.

Maybe I was just angry and I thought it was the end of it all but now that I had my mind calmed, I wanted to work things out, maybe just talk to him once and get the truth.

Not that I was planning to stay with him if he was actually cheating on me, but maybe if he wasn't, it would save our relationship.

I dialed his number and pressed the phone close to my ears, I waited for a while until the call got disconnected because he wouldn't pick it up but I dint give up on him so easily, I tried once more, twice more and maybe ten times more but he still wouldn't pick up my calls and maybe that gave me the answers I was looking for.

I walked towards the wardrobe and pulled out all my clothes as I stuffed them inside a suitcase, I dint want to spend even a minute more in this house.

"Because you're so damn special!" And it started again, all those words started ringing in my mind once again and I was so angry and irritated, I shut both my ears with both my hands but they wouldn't just stop ringing.

I let out a loud scream feeling frustrated about every damn thing, wasn't my life messed up already with my husband cheating on me, that now his best friend had to say things to make it more difficult!

Why Arnav? Only if he hadn't said those words, things would have been a lot easier for me, what was I supposed to do now?