CHAPTER 26 – WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA - 'LOVE'- AND MY BURJ KHALIFA

FIVE MONTHS + ONE WEEK LATER

(Same Year - November 17th - )

Khushi's POV

730 AM

MAGIC.

He is Magic!!!!!!

THIS MAN IS PURE 'MAGIC'.

I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN.

THIS HOODIE GUY – THAT I LOVE IRREVOCABLY – IS A WIZARD.

TOTALLY.

AND NOW AFTER BEING IN AN OFFICIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM FOR LIKE FIVE MONTHS AND TWO WEEKS( I MEAN – I AM OBVIOUSLY INCLUDING THE AMAZING ALMOST A WEEK WE SPENT TOGETHER WHEN HE WAS LAST IN CAPE TOWN) , AND KNOWING HIM FOR A GOOD THREE AND A HALF MONTHS BEFORE THAT – WHILE 'WE' WERE BREWING UP INTO THE STRONGEST FLAVOR OF THE WORLDS BEST COFFEE BEANS FUSED TOGETHER – FROM ACROSS THE WORLD – BY SOME INNOVATIVE AND EXPERIMENTIAL BARISTA WHO WANTED TO KNOW HOW THE TASTE OF THAT AMAZING CUP OF COFFEE WOULD BE – I AM ABSOLUTELY SURE OF THAT STATEMENT ABOVE THAT I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED IN BOLD.

GUYS, I MEAN IT.

I AM TELLING YOU – IV KNOWN THIS MAN CLOSELY FOR ALMOST NINE MONTHS NOW OK?

AND HE IS NOT A MUGGLE(NON WIZARDING NORMAL HUMANS ARE CALLED MUGGLES IN THE HARRY POTTER WORLD – YES THAT'S WHAT IT IS – YOU CAN ASK GOOGLE TOO)

ANYWAY

I THINK I CAN EVEN SEND OUT A OFFICIAL STAMPED LETTERS TO EVERYONE IN THE WORLD STATING THAT – ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA – THE VICE CAPTAIN OF THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM WAS A DEFINITE WIZARD IN DISGUISE – AND THAT IS WHY HE IS ABLE TO UNLEASH THAT KIND OFF CARNAGE OF HIS BAT IN THE STADIUM TOO.(MY HEART DOES GO OUT TO THOSE BOWLERS ON THE OTHER END)

AND

HE ISNT JUST ANY WIZARD OK?

HE IS LIKE A SUPER POWERFUL ONE.

NOW THAT I AM THINKING OF IT – WHILE SIPPING MY MORNING CUP OF COFFEE – I THINK HOODIE GUY IS KIND OF MORE POWERFUL THAN DUMBLEDORE TOO.(DUMBLEDORE WAS THE MOST POWERFUL GOOD GUY WIZARD IN THE WIZARD WORLD OF HARRY POTTER – THERE WAS A COUNTLES SNUMBER OF MAGICAL SPEELS THAT ONLY HE COULD PULL OFF SMOOTHLY )

YES.

AND THIS GUY – BEATS HIM.

TOTALLY.

THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I CAN CONJURE IN MY HEAD AS A JUSTIFICATION TO ALL THE HAPPINESS I HAVE BEEN FEELING WITHIN – FOR ALL THESE MONTHS.

HE HAS CAST ME UNDER A POWERFUL SPELL – THIS MAN.

A MAGICAL SPELL OF HIS INTOXICATING POTION OFSPELL-BINDING LOVE.

So please excuse me for another reference from the Harry Potter World – but those are the only references that are coming to my head right right now that I can probably use as a tool to explain to you all what exactly I have been feeling.

Lets get to a spell in reference.

WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA – It's a Levitation Charm that is taught to the first years students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is one of the first spells learnt by any young witch or wizard – for it is a charm used to make objects fly or levitate.(Apparently this spell is a test of your magical skills, wand control and above all , patience)

So – Now You Will All Know where I am getting with this.

Remember how I once said – that He is my Burj Khalifa and I was kind of tempted to jump onto that elevator that would take me right up to the top floor of that magnificient skyscraper?

Yes So – Apparently for My Hoodie Guy – Elevator is Old School.

Because ever since I have been with him in these last five and half months officially – I don't feel that lurch in my stomach as if I am in an Elevator going that High Up.

I FEEL LIKE – I HAVE BEEN – FREAKING WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA-D (BEING FLOWN UP)TO NOT JUST THE TOP FLOOR OF THE BURJ KHALIFA.

I FEEL LIKE THIS MAGICAL WIZARD HAS WITH THAT EXCELLENT CONTROL ON HIS MAGICAL SPELLS AND WAND AND PATIENCE – TAKEN ME STRAIGHT BEYOND THAT SKYSCRAPER INTO THIS HAPPY SPACE IN BETWEEN OF MAGICAL CLOUDS – TOTALLY FLOATING MY WAY AROUND HAPPILY BEYOND THE USUAL 'CLOUD NINE'S' TOWARDS THE MOST MAGNIFICIENT AND MAGICAL CLOUD IN ALL OF THE SKIES.

THAT BEING - CLOUD ARNAV.

YES!!!!!!

THAT'S WHAT I FEEL.

See what this Wizard has done to me.

And to think – I used to think I cant get any Crazier!!!

Blame Him.

I Shall Blame it All on Him.

He makes me so Happy.

So.

So.

Sooo

Happy.

Ok – so now that I am done with giving you all a glimpse into the happy state of my being – I shall start with talking about giving you all a brief glimpse of all that has happened in these last five months plus one week.

Well on my side of the world – just the usual stuff has happened, you know as in my full time college in the mornings in between 9 to 3pm and then my café shifts and then my studying and my Uber,and my big bus on Saturdays and my private taxi's on Sundays – pretty much the same for me until last ten days – for I have had my Face in the books(pun intended) in every sense – as I was now giving my chartered accountancy final group of exams.

I am done and finished with Three most difficult Papers.

I have the Final One Today – Starting at 10:00 am.

And then – I was going to be Done with my Chartered Accountancy.

(This was one of my Daddy's dream to see me have my CA – I know he is watching over me from up there, and he and mom will probably be partying up there in Heaven today in the happiness)

And yes – I know you will all be wondering – how am I sounding so relaxed before my last paper – well two reasons – one being that I have already prepped very well for the same and second – well – that's Hoodie Guy ofcourse.

He's been just fabulously supportive and encouraging and all that magical happiness he makes me feel has obviously transcended into all the other aspects of My life.

So much So – that the Grin I have up on my face since the last five months – gave me away to literally everyone around me –and they wouldn't stop asking me if I now had someone special someone in my Life.

Well- my Love was true..and I obviously didn't want to Lie about it right but I also couldn't reveal about Arnav to his crazy mad fandom around me yet – because they would emotionally blackmail me into god knows what not and I did not want to overwhelm Arnav – I know he wouldn't mind- but dude just because someone loves you insanely and is a supercool guy – I cannot take undue advnatge of that fact. I will not..well because I know how crazy these people are about His Game.

Anyways but I had to tell them Something right - so then my goofy brain came up with a perfect solution.So I had finally made Rahul, Diya, Uncle, Aunty, Varun, Jack, Stacey all sit in one round table conference down in between the doors of Chai and Coffee about three months ago- and I had stated to them – that I had met someone Online coincidentally and that all I could tell about him to them for now was that I called him – Hoodie Guy and that he was an amazing guy, and that we clicked so well that it was impossible to ignore and that we were now in constant touch over chat, voice calls, video calls, etc getting to know each other and nurturing this virtual connection in between of us, until we would think that it was time to meet in person – since we did live in countries across the globe.

Rahul and Diya were stunned to another level – and Rahul looked at me amused as he stated – that yes he could believe that only someone as weird as me in this day and age would be ok to kind of head towards an online romance(which would be like the most part of the relationship because of the geographical distance).

But I asked them to just Trust me on this – and I told them that I would make Them all meet My Hoodie Guy – when I felt the time was right.

Uncle and aunty were a little worried and sceptical too, but when I assured them that My Hoodie Guy does really care for me in the ways I cant really start to explain – they saw the happiness in my eyes and were comfortable about it.

Varun, Jack and Stacey were amused too and Varun specially he was like look at all those Rahul's friends who have a crush on you – poor them , when they will know that theyv lost out their chance to a virtual HOODIE GUY.

( well see guys, all of this as I mentioned above in my explanations to my close ones – is kind of the truth too right – I mean all of it is the truth – expect for the fact that I have not revelead the identity of My Hoodie Guy yet – And ofcourse My Hoodie Guy is aware of This – as you all know I tell him everything – like down to the minutest detail – yes those crazy rants of mine are still prevailing – btu I don't know how and why he loves them so much)

Anyway so when I told My Hoodie Guy about the above – he did tell me that his sister Anjali does know about us too and apart from her he also talks about me to Cap and Ravi.

Oh and Guys – all of the same above information about my online romance status with My Hoodie Guy – I have also conveyed to Zara(whom I meet once week almost ever since her move to Cape town on Fridays for Lunch – and ofcourse I have meet Zain too on and off because of her – and in these last Five months – I have also met Asher for like about five to ten minutes only on the occasions he and Zain have come to pick up Zara after our lunches, or on the one occasion recently two weeks ago when Zara asked me to drop her to her house, which was obviously close to Ashers and I had been surprised to see Asher and Zain in the Villa on a Friday afternoon, rather than at work.Anyways the point is that – I have had only five to ten minute polite and normal friendly conversations with Asher like around a total of ten times in these past five months – and ofcourse My Hoodie Guy knows every detail about everything as and when it happens and every word that I say to Asher- its important for me to have him know it all always – You all already know that)

Oh on that Note – a very important development – Rahul and Diya are married now.

They tied the knot last month in a three day wedding functions that went on over the weekend with close family friends and relatives.

Let me not even talk about how much Jalebi , I indulged in ok??

I was really Happy for them ya!

And let me not even start talking about how crazy and shameless Hoodie Guy was on those video calls when I was dressed into an Anarkali suit for the Sangeet and then that mustard colour saree with a red contrast sweetheart necklined cropped top which was also off shoulder and a little bit of sleeves length covering my mid arms - that I chose to wear for the wedding.

Hed asked me to send him a Hundreds of my pictures to him that Day!

And Dude.

Guys.

Actually He does that everyday for months now.

I have to send him a good morning message with a picture of mine first thing as I wake up everyday! And the same goes for the goodnight message that I drop him.

He says – that's what energizes and boosts the rest of his day – no matter in which corner of the world or time standards his Life was running in.

And Like we Always do – we chat and talk all the time in every free time that we get our hands on – and the common time that we are able to take out – we get on video calls or voice calls as time and surrounding permits and then sometimes because of his travelling to different time zones – if theres too much difference – then we leave each other messages as usual for the other to read about our days as per their time and day rise.

We both have put our Heart and Soul and Time into Nurturing Our Love that as you all know is CARNAGE on Another Level.

He Makes my Heart Glow Ya.

So yes.

Everything in between of us has now kind off grown intensely closer in these last five months(even though we have not been able to meet again yet), that hasn't been an hindrance in between of us at all – we both know that this Long distance is not a problem for us – ofcourse there are times when we miss each other crazily and wish for that teleportal in those vulnerable moments – but that is only normal and we both make sure to talk to each other through it –and make sure that both of us are settled and secured through it.

So yes – everything is going Great in between us – Hence My Happy Floating towards Cloud Arnav.

Ok.Then

So on that Note.

Coming to My Hoodie Guy.

He has been super duper busy with all his cricketing schedule ever since he left – and hes been playing non stop continuously in every match without a single break ever since Australia's Tour to India in end June- which went on till July end.(Austraila won the test series and India won the T20 series – and it was a tie to them in the ODI – since oen of matches was washed out due to weather constraints)

After that they have travelled to England after just a week break in – for a month long tour for a series of 5 test matches, 5 one day internationals and 5 t20 matches,(and India had won the test series and the ODi series this time around and England had backed the T20 series) – and only returned to India by 1st week of September, and then they only had a week of break again and Bangladesh came to Tour India for a three week tour of ODI's and Tests Matches (India had clinched both the series)

Starting October – Zimbabwe had visited India for another two week of T20 and ODI's matches(Which India had clinched again) and then ever since a week after the Indian Cricket Team had left for Australia for a two weeks for a series of Test Matches, (Which Australia won again)and once that was over last week of October – The Indian Team was now in New Zealand for a three week tour of 3 Tests – 5ODI's and 3 T20's.The tests series were over – India had clinched this and today was the 4th ODI going on right now In Wellington, and then the team was to travel to Auckland where the last odi and the rest of the three t20's were to be held.(The tour was almost half way through and infact the last t20 match was scheduled on my bday – 26th November)

So My Hoodie Guy was in New Zealand right now and New Zealand is like 11 hours ahead of Us..so like now its 8 am right now for me – Its 7pm right now for My Hoodie guy in there – and he is in a middle of a ODI.

Ok So Yes.

He has been having a brilliant year in terms of cricket as he is breaking his very own records in all the three formats, and not just that he has been brilliant in the field too with all those crazy catches and then the Cap has also used him for bowling in various matches in which he wants to surprise the batsmen with his line and length.

So yes – I had gotten around to Downloading Cricbuzz about three months ago after I had told everyone about my online romance with my hoodie guy, and it gave me the updates of the matches of India and all those interviews my hoodie guy gave – after having a brilliant game or receiving a man of the match.

I was kind of reading the updates on my Cricbuzz as and when they popped into my screen,and I had admitted to Hoodie guy that my heart had gotten around to that – I just probably needed some more time until I got to watching the matches for real – that was something I was still working on.

But he was beyond exhilarated when I told him that I had downloaded Cricbuzz and would now see the updates of the matches and read about his interviews etc – he'd said if he had that damm teleportal – he would have jumped right through – and probably kissed me so hard for hours that he wouldn't have let me catch on a breath too in between.

I was happy – that he was Happy about it – ofcourse.

I finally instruct myself to get my head out of Cloud Arnav and I walk to my basin now and put in my cup and plate of toast into it and I start to clean up and once I am done, I start to get ready to leave for my exam.

And on reflex as I am about to walk down – I pick out my phone and I open my whtsapp to our conversations and read the string of messages he had left for me before he locked his phone up in the locker for the game – again.

Actually I was reading it for the Third Time Now.

Him (according to his 1 pm which was my 2 am) : My Sunshine,so yes we just got off our little video call an hour ago, and know that I wanted to talk to you more, but then I also needed you to finish up with your revision and sleep on time,and that is why I hung up ten minutes earlier...And i know you are probably into a deep slumber now, and I want you to sleep well ok?? Because you have the last and final paper tomorrow for your Chartered Accountancy and know that I am so so so proud of you, sunshine!! I am sure just like all your other three papers – this one is going to go great too and then you are just weeks away from your result – which i already know though- you are going to be amongst the best chartered accountants in all of SA ok??i am about to head for a quick lunch with the guys now and then we are heading to the Stadium by 230 Pm, the game starts at 330 pm for us, which will be your 430 am and you will be in your sleep..and hence I am going to leave you some texts until I finally switch off my phone for the next 8 hours of the odi duration.you know since we one the first odi and the NZ won the second and then we won the third – so the score now is like we are 2 and NZ at 1 – if we win today we clinch the series anyway, and incase we don't win it will be 2-2 and then its going to go down to the final odi game in Auckland, quite excited to play today actually – well when am I not.You know how it is for me..i absolutely love the adrenaline rush that takes over me when I am on the pitch..Ok am heading down to Lunch now.i shall text you from the bus.I love you, Sunshine.My Carnage Kisses to You – until I meet you in person to redeem my stock for the same, in person,and well because I know you blushed to that tomato puree shade.God I love you.and I miss you.

I grin to myself as I read the next message.

Him (at his 2:15PM NZ Time my 3:15am): Ok Sunshine, I am getting into the team bus now.I had an amazing chicken steak with stir fried veges that I love ,and oh yes, I got chatting with Cap over lunch about you – he says hello, and honestly he was asking me about how we both must be glad that all this social media craze about me and Aisha Khanna had fizzled down over the last couple of months!And dude..i started grinning like an idiot as I admitted to him that both of us were beyond just glad.I told him honestly that I was exhilarated that the media is now shifting its focus back to talking about my game and not my personal life.And you know what to be honest – I think I have been playing exceptionally well ever since you wrote down that secret coded wish on my bat, and I wrote them down on all my other bats.Seriously khushi – I cant thank you enough for that.It truly feels like you are with me all throughout the game...and do you know, I often rotate my bat often in between over or hold it in between a start of a super stressful over and I read what youv written and it kind of energies me to another level and relaxes me at the same time.And you call me a magician – you are one Too.i love you Khushi.

Ok so yes.

I was exhilarated that the social media fizzle about him and Aisha Khanaa had died down, but to be honest – like really honest – I am in a very secured space in my heart now all because of Arnav, and the way he loves me – so its like my emotional contingent liability reserve is like on full power now because of the secured feeling Arnavs kind of nurtured in me over these five months, and I think we are now in a space that no social media articles, or news or any