Chapter 31: Uncertain Plans

Uncertain Plans

(Chapter 31)

1 Month Later

Khushi walked into her house, looking around she saw that nobody was home; so she went up to her room. She checked her phone to see if she had gotten any missed calls and there were none. She then went into the bathroom to get changed out of her work clothes. After changing, she heard her phone ringing and quickly went to grab it.

Before the person on the other line could even say anything, she started bombarding him with her questions, "You were suppose to call me 2 hours ago? Where the heck were you?"

"Khushi listen I'm sorry...," Arnav started off but was interrupted by her.

"Don't Khushi" me ok!" she said, "I'm not talking to you."

"Well you're stuck with me for the rest of your life, so you will have to listen to me," Arnav replied.

"We will just see about that Mr. Raizada," she retorted.

*flashback*

Khushi was slightly bored at the New Years Party as she didn't know anyone or had ever met them before. It had been a bit over an hour since they had come down to the party, and now Arnav was talking with a few colleagues so she had left him alone. Looking up at the clock, she saw that it was almost midnight. Khushi walked outside through the doors that were located in the back of Maan and Geet's house to get some fresh air. A lot had changed since Arnav and her had come for this business trip. They had gotten to know each other a bit more than before.

Standing looking up at the moon, she heard the door behind her open then footprints approaching her. Khushi looked over and saw that it was Arnav, who came and stood beside her. They stood there in silence, just watching the night's sky, only to be broken out of there thoughts from the loud noise inside that had begun; the countdown till the new year.

Arnav took Khushi's and turned her around to face him, and looked up at her face that held a confused look.

"Khushi I know this is a bit too early for us to decide anything about the future, and I usually don't believe in these kinds of things, but it wouldn't hurt to try. We barely know each other, and we can change that in the future," he said but she just scrunched her eyebrows.

"About what Geet said she read in the newspaper that if you see someone else at exactly at midnight, then you'll spend the rest of your life with them.," he continued then cupped her face. He leaned in till his lips met hers and slowly kissed her. Khushi felt her heartbeat pick up pace as his lips moved along hers, taking the breath out of her lungs. She heard the faint final countdown till the New Years "5!...4!...3!..." Arnav broke the kiss and rested her forehead against hers, "Happy New Years," he whispered as the abrupt cheers from inside could be heard.

*flashback ends*

"Yeah we will," he told her, "But for now let me tell you that there was no network so I couldn't call you, and I just called Di before you."

"I have to go for meeting now, will call you tonight," he said.

"Bye," she replied hanging up the phone then threw it onto her bed.

Last night, Arnav had left for Sydney because the AR branch there was having some problems. He had told her that he probably be back till a couple weeks and left her to help Aman, as he was always given the job to handle the office whenever Arnav left.

In the past month since they got back from London, they had been on multiple dates; out for dinner, to the park, the cafe across from AR during their breaks and many others. They were now becoming more and more comfortable with each other's presence around one another, and able to talk about anything. Also helping Akash and Payal with the wedding preparations as the date was soon approaching.

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"Khushi can you go put these reports in the filing room with the rest of them," Aman said handing her a stack of the recent balance statements.

"Sure," she said grabbing them.

"And then you can leave for the day," he said looking up at the clock.

Khushi went over to the filing room, which was located in the back of the office. She turned on the lights then went to place the records in the correct files. It took her awhile to find the correct one as there were so many of them. Grabbing the nearby stool, she placed it in front of the shelf then got on top if to reach them. While doing all this she didn't notice a pair of eyes that were watching her from only a few feet away.

She filed the reports then held onto the shelf for support as she tried to get off the stool. Nut before she could even place one foot on the ground, the stool tilted to one side making her lose her balance and her hand let go of the shelf.

Khushi let out a yelp as she fell backward and closed her eyes tightly anticipating the fall on the ground; but that didn't happen. Not feeling herself hit the ground, she opened her eyes slightly and looked around, and met her gaze with a pair of honey brown eyes.

"Arnav you?!" she said placing her hand on his shoulder to make sure she wasn't hallucinating.

"Yeah me, did you expect someone else," he asked placing her on the ground.

"But you weren't suppose to come till tomorrow night," she replied.

"Do you want me to go back then?" he said smirking but was slapped in the shoulder and then engulfed in a hug by her.

"No but really, how come you're here early," she said her arms still around him.

"My work got finished early so I got my flight moved," he said moving out of the hug.

"How did it go here for you?" he asked.

"You've asked me that same question almost everyday on the phone," she replied smiling.

"I have?" he said and she nodded.

"Ok then let's get out of here," he replied taking her hand but Khushi quickly came out of its grasp. And this was one thing that just annoyed him too much; she wanted for them to not show public affection in the office because she didn't want for the employees to think that he's favoring her over them.

Arnav headed over to the elevator that was located near his cabin, they both got in and took it down to the ground level. Majority of the staff had already left, so there weren't many eyes on them.

"Where are we going?" Khushi asked as they got into his car.

"It's a surprise," he replied.

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