ARNAV'S POV-II

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ARNAV

"Arnav?" I woke up at the familiar sound of voice and when I parted my eyelids, I saw Anaya looking at me.

"Hm." I quickly get up.

"I don't remember what happened last night. I went to this bar then had drinks then I don't remember anything." She said, frowning.

Rubbing my face, I rested my head against the bed post and chuckled. "You asked me to dance then said that you're hungry and want to eat Chinese while watching movie but you fell asleep on way back home."

"My head's fucked up. I'm never going to drink again. It hurts." She complained.

I took out Aspirin from the side table and gave her along with the water. "Take this. I'll cook something warm for you to cure your hangover."

She nodded, pressing fingers over her forehead. I stood up to walk downstairs to the kitchen and she followed me. She sat on the kitchen's counter and started dangling her feet.

I remembered how she demanded to carry her on my back and she kept on dangling her feet.

I started preparing chicken soup for her with rice noodles and all she did was to look at me. I raised my eyebrows and in reply she just shrugged her shoulders. "I like seeing you when you cook. It's such a serotonin boost for me."

I ignored her comment which undoubtedly made something weird to happen in my stomach. A happy feeling indeed.

Once done with cooking, I served her the soup on table. She sat on chair and started eating. "Ah, this is such a heaven."

I crossed my arms over my chest and chuckled at her reaction.

Her phone inside her pocket was buzzing with notification from so long and finally when she had enough of it, she took out her phone and checked it. Her eyes widened in shock and she looked at me. "Don't tell me I made you do this. God! This is so embarrassing."

She showed me her phone and there was picture on some magazine cover of us from the last night when I was carrying her on my back. It has the headline which says- "Mr. Arnav Khurrana spotted carrying his wife on his back when returning from the club. Are they still in the dating face? Couldn't we agree that the national heartthrob is super romantic in his personal life?"

I burst out laughing at her funny reaction and also the headline. I knew something like this would going to happen.

She covered her face with her palms and puts her head down on the table. "That must be so embarrassing for you. I'm so sorry that I tainted your reputation."

I licked my lips and suddenly my laughter died down. Pushing saliva down my throat, I sat on my knees in front of her and took her hands in mine. She turned to me and was about to get up from the chair but I gestured her not to.

"Anaya, there's absolutely nothing for me in this whole world that's more important than you. I would never be embarrassed of something like this. And what's there to be embarrassed about it? In fact, it was pleasure to carry you on my back. I'm going to ask for high resolution pic from the company who printed this magazine. You look adorable in it." I said with a smile.

The frown from her face replaced with a shy smile and all of sudden leaned closer to peck on my lips.

My heart started hammering louder against my chest and unconsciously I touched my lips to remind myself that it wasn't a dream. It was real.

She stood from the chair and sat in front of me on the floor in Indian style. I also get comfortable and prepared myself to hear what she was going to say because it was clear from her expressions that she has a lot to say.

"Arnav, when I came back from the woods after we kissed, I went straight to my house and locked myself in the room because I just wanted a good cry. And then I realised a strange feeling building up inside me whenever I think of you. At first it was all dreamy and exciting, I was thrilled to go back to that place and meet you again. Whole night I kept of thinking about it. The thought of you gave me butterflies and it was the first time when I had that kind of feeling for someone. It took me no long to realize that I have developed a crush on you and that realization frightened me. I remembered the promise that I gave to my mother and I decided not go back to that place so that I never run into you ever again. It hurt me so much to know that I would never be able to meet the guy who saved me. I thought of you every single day and as I grew old, I hated it to admit that you were my first love. I never planned to fall in love with someone not until I found the reason from my mother behind that promise of hers. After I married you, I won't lie that I hated you because of everything you put me through but when Ishaan told me that Disha was killed because of me, I made up my mind to stay with you to redeem my mistake and take care of you even if you put me all the tortures in this world. But as we spent time, somewhere along the line, I started developing feelings for you. At that time, I wasn't sure how to name them but I was pretty sure that it wasn't out of guilt only. And when you told me that you love me, I'm sorry that I didn't give you any reply. At that time my feelings for you were fighting against the promise I gave to my mother that's why I asked you to take me to her. When she told me that the promise, I hold onto from so long was nothing but a lie, I couldn't stop myself from accepting my feelings. I realised that the feelings I was fighting for was nothing but love. I'm really in love with you, Arnav. I love you." She spoke with a smile that can light up the whole room.

I stilled and all of sudden, my heart started beating louder. I stared at her, not believing what I just heard.

She loves me?

My mouth ran dry and I shook my head in denial even though it felt as if I've finally found a shore that I was searching from so long in the water. My heart wanted to hear her say 'I love you' over and over again.

"H-How can you love someone like me?" I asked.

She scoots closer to me and rested her forehead against mine. My breath hitched up and it took all strength in me to not kiss her.

"There's no one there out in this world for me. You were the guy I had feelings for when I was young and heartbroken. And now my mother also said to me that she wants nothing to do with me. You see, I've no where to go but there's this person who's like a home to me. If I don't go to him then my heart would never be able to feel happy again because this time, I don't want to let go of the person whom I love. This time, I want to hold onto him and tell him that how much I love him. I already had enough in my life and right now, I just want to live with you. So, let's love each other and start everything from the scratch. Let's live." She said, placing a kiss on my cheeks.

Emotions build up inside me and my eyes get moistened but my heart was finally happy.

"Anaya, for living with you, I need to do something first.”


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