Chapter 29: Unexpected Meetings

"Did you forget we have a dinner to attend Mr. Raizada?" she asked looking up at him with a smile

“You do know how to ruin a romantic moment,” Arnav said resting his head against hers.

“Let’s go,” she said pulling his hand and they walked out of the garden. Arnav decided it would be better if they just left for the dinner instead of going back inside. He took out his phone and decided to give Maan a call.

“Hey,” Maan said picking up the phone from the other side, “Where are you guys?”

“We were outside, now we’re going to go straight to the dinner Mr. Kapoor invited us to, you both can leave and we’ll see you tomorrow.” he said.

“Ok, we’ll see you tomorrow then,” Maan said.

They walked to the front of the building where the car was parked.

“I hope you don’t mind going like this,I actually didn’t have an idea of this so we didn’t have time to change,” Arnav said as they sat in the car, “I’ll tell one of the assistants to send your stuff home tomorrow.”

“Yeah that’s fine,” she said.

They reached Mr. Kapoor’s house in a few minutes since it was very close, also there weren’t a lot of people present either, just a few business people. They walked in together and were greeted by a few people, some congratulating him.

“Ah Mr. Raizada glad you joined us,” Mr. Kapoor said when he spotted them and they shook hands.

He turned towards Khushi and noticed that she had on the show stoppers dress, “And you must be the showstopper?”

“Mr. Kapoor this Khushi, Khushi this is Mr. Kapoor,” ARnav said introducing them.

“Nice to meet you,” she said politely.

“Same here, loved your ramp walk today, and the dress designed by AR was splendid,” Mr. Kapoor said.

“Thank you,” she replied back.

“I would love for you to walk the ramp for my show any day,” he said.

“I actually don’t model, this was my first one and only on Arnav’s insistence,” Khushi said motioning to him.

“Oh well if you would like to take up my offer then here, take my business card,” he said handing her his business card, “And enjoy the party.”

They spent some time talking with the other people and chatting.

“I’ll go get something to drink, what do you want?” Arnav asked.

“I’ll just have some juice,” she said. He left to the corner to get it, leaving her alone where she was.

"Well well, looks who's here?" Khushi heard a familiar voice behind her and turned around to see who it was.

"Surprised to see me Ms. Khushi Kumari Gupta?" she said but Khushi didn't reply back.

"And before you ask why I am here, let me just tell you that myself," she started off but was cut off by Khushi.

"I don't really care to know why you are even here, so stop wasting your breath in explaining," she said.

"Attitude much? Well obviously you got it from your so called boyfriend," she said, but before she could continue any further, another voice joined their conversation.

“Not so called boyfriends, I am her boyfriend Natasha,” Arnav said coming to stand by Khushi and handed her the cup of juice.

“And now if you’ll excuse us, we are going to go eat,” he said and they walked away leaving an angered Natasha

The dinner had been assembled at a large dining table, so that pretty much everyone would be able to sit together. Arnav pulled out a chair for Khushi and sat down in the one next to hers.

The servants came and placed the food on the table so that they could eat. The dinner was spent eating and everyone talking amongst each other trying to catch up on their lives. The business folks talking about business, and the others just chatting away. Khushi didn’t really know anyone nor had she ever been to a business dinner before, not knowing what to say, she just remained quiet and focused on dinner.

“This must be very boring for you,” Arnav whispered tilting his head towards her.

“It’s fine,” she replied back.

After finishing their dinner, they decided to leave as it was getting late.

“Mr. Kapoor, we’ll leave now it’s getting pretty late,” Arnav said going up to him and noticed Natasha standing with him.

“Well okay then, and thanks for coming,” Mr. Kapoor said and saw that he was looking next to him where Natasha was standing.

“Do you guys know each other?” he asked between them.

“Yea, we’ve met before,” Arnav said trying to keep it brief.

“Then no introduction is needed then, but she just joined our company a few days back as a new model,” Mr. Kapoor added, “Apparently she got fired at her old job because her boss offended her and said bad things.”

“And how do you know that?” Arnav asked.

“She said so herself,” he said.

“Oh really?” Arnav asked raising an eyebrow and looking at Natasha. The nerve of this girl.

“Uhm... uhm yeah,” she said looking around.

“Well you never know Mr. Kapoor, it could be the staffs fault also,” Arnav said making Mr. Kapoor a bit confused.

“Never mind, we’ll take your leave now,” he said.

“Okay, see you then,” Mr. Kapoor said.

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The next day at breakfast everyone was seated and eating. Maan had taken a few days off work they could show them around the city. Khushi got up to go to the bathroom.

“So where do should we go first?” Maan asked Arnav.

“You guys take us to wherever you want to , I don’t really know it that well around here since I’ve only come a few times,” Arnav said.

“Let’s go to the London Eye, it gives you a view of the entire city and will be a lot of fun,” Geet said. They agreed and decided that is where they would go.

Khushi came back from the bathroom, “So where are we going?”

“The London Eye,” Arnav said.

“The big ferris wheel?” she asked.

“Yeah,” he said.

Khushi gulped, how would she tell him that she had a fear of heights?