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Chapter 8
It was her first day at the office, and above all that, the shifting of her bags and other things from Payal's home and un packing the stuff here made Khushi tired.
She went inside the house to find a closed room (not locked). She pushed it open by twisting the door knob, just to find out pink walls. She smiled looking at it, and yes, it definitely looked as if it was not used from long. She opened the balcony door of the room, and fresh cool air hit her cheeks. She closed the door immediately feeling cold. She then arranged her small things first, in the small shelf attached at the dressing table. She put the regular girls stuff there, including her basic items like – body lotion, deodorants, lip balm, comb, hair oil, ear-rings, sewing kit, sanitary napkins, kohl pencil, powder, nail paints etc. She arranged her things as per the hierarchy of her needs. She closed the shelf and there appeared the mirror (mirror was attached with the shelf door ). She sighed and looked around the room.
She went around and opened the BIG cup-board to see vacant hangers hanging inside. She ran in the drawing room and got her big luggage trolley and kept it on the master bed. She was very tired and dropped the plan to arrange her clothes for now. She sighed falling on the bed, and felt it's softness on her back. She saw the ceiling and closed her eyes. She dosed off for a while.
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Arnav was driving back, and had almost reached his Flat, when his mobile beeped. He un-locked it to find a pop-out What's App - msg. It was from Peppy. It read-
'Hey Sir, am sorry I could not inform you earlier.
I am out, but you can find your Flat keys with the security man-Mohan.
Sorry again. Am out and can't contact you at present.
-Peppy'
Arnav pulled the brakes as the msg gave him a sudden shock.
Arnav-what the eff man. Aman gave the keys to Peppy?! No wait, he was supposed to give the keys to - -
Puzzled Arnav dailed Aman's number in irritation,but it was un-reachable. He thought of calling Lavanya, as he was so damm sure that Aman would be with her. But as he was dailing Lavanya's number, he thought -
Arnav- Ok!! I guess kanta bai was running late and so she gave the keys to Peppy after doing her work. And Peppy is out so she passed the keys to Mohan to give me. Hmm, I guess that's it.
He sighed and pulled the first gear again as he started his car to cover the remaining distance and reach home soon.
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Khushi was up and she was hungry now. She had nothing to eat, she was bored to cook. She took a serving of her self made 'gajar ka halwa' (carrot sweet) and ON the t.v. of that well furnished drawing room. She settled on the big sofa and got drowned in it.
Her hands were sticky due to that which sweet she ate with bare hands, and she used the same hands to play with the remote to switch channels. She finished the halwa and lazily flipped the channels to get nothing interesting. Her hectic day really demanded her to get a hot shower and so she got up taking the empty plate of halwa with her, and went towards her room, not before putting the plate for wash in the kitchen sink. But-
She halted when she was about to enter the room in which she had started to arrange her things. She saw another room besides her room, and entered to see the Royal Grey walls with a fine texture on them. She roamed her eyes and scanned the room well. She was mesmerized by the beauty of arrangement of things, and the cleanliness maintained. She saw a medium size dressing table besides the master bed,near the balcony side corner of the room, and figured out some men's particulars placed there. She went forward and looked a pair of scissors, some after shave, deodorant, hair gel, shaving kit etc. She just shook her head and moved out thinking it must be belonging to the old tenant, but then she thought.
Khushi-why are the old tenant's things only in this room?
After a while of pondering, she snapped her fingers and grinning at her own reflection in the mirror opposite her.
Khushi-hmm, smart pants khushi. I know why are the things are only in this room. The last tenant must have treated the other room as the guest room, right?!
She patted her back and came out closing the door and moving inside her room to have a bath. But she found no washroom there. She again went in the other room to find an attached wash-room & bath-room and entered in to take a shower there.
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Arnav reached his Flat, and parked his car. He locked it and started walking at his Flat security cabin to collect his Flat keys from the security. To his hard luck, the security was sleeping. He felt pity and dint wake Mohan up. He put his hands in his pocket to find his car keys and took them out. His luck was good that his Flat spare keys were there in the car keys ring. He was glad he had taken his car. He moved up to the 7th floor. He put his keys inside the lock and twisted it to open the lock. The lock was un-locked and he opened the door to enter His Flat.
Arnav-Home At-last. *Sigh*
He put his laptop bag on the sofa and sat on the next Big sofa seat. He removed his shoes and socks and took the t.v. remote to ON the t.v. He felt the remote sticky, when his fingers held the remote. He felt yuks as he was a cleanliness freak. He smelled his fingers to smell made 'gajar ka halwa' (carrot sweet) and a big 100 watt smile covered his face. He flung up from his seat and rushed towards the kitchen to find the sweet dish near the kitchen shelf, next to the gas stove, on the kitchen slab. He happily and hurriedly took to the bowl itself in the drawing room. He ate it full, and burped up as his Final Desert was done. He watched a foot-ball match on the t.v. and OFF-ed it when he was done. The match was still to get over, but he was feeling some kind of restless.
He stood up to get rid of the extra-clothes he had above his boxers. He was loosing his tie, when he heard a female voice singing from His Room. He stood there shocked like that for a while. His mouth hanging open and his eyes popping large from his sockets. He sighed deep thinking twice if he really heard a female singing From inside His Flat or was he just Hallucinating? He resumed breathing normally as he confirmed himself that he was just hallucinating. He had removed his coat and already un-buttoned his shirt buttons, but stopped as that voice shocked him, again. No, he was not Hallucinating, someone was surely there. Who was it? Was there some thief in His Flat? A female thief? 
He made his way towards his room and was shocked to see that the guest room of his Flat was open. He never did use that pink room. It was just a spare room, which he had mentally turned into a guest room. He was sure that someone was there in his Flat except him. Some Intruder in His room. He gulped and fisted his courage to face 'whom-so-ever'.
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Khushi was done bathing, but she had forgot to take any clothes inside. How could have she taken, her bag was still un-packed. But she dint mind that, she was anyway alone in Her Flat. But she was still shy to come out NAKED. She finished her shower singing some 80's Bollywood songs, and came out draping a towel below her elbows, on her small figure, which she found on the bathroom shelf inside. Her hair wet, her body wet, her long milky legs and small arms on display. That plan, large, soft, white - towel covered her above assets properly, but her mid thighs were barely closed.
'Who Cares, am alone', she thought.
Khushi got out from Arnav's bath-room, and came infront of the dressing table mirror and took the deodorant bottle in her hands and held it as a mike. She stared on the reflection in the mirror in her front. She scanned her own figure and pouted her lips trying to look sexy. Out of no-where, she started singing and dancing.
Khushi sang-
Naino mei Sapna (Dreams in eyes),
She turned round on her feet and gave a flying kiss to her own reflecting image. She jumped on the bed and sang another line.
Sapno mei Sajna ( Lover in dreams),
She waved her wet hair air hair, which flung wet droplets all around her, and she still jumped on the bed closing her eyes and dancing likeNO BODY is WATCHING.
Sajna pe dil aagayaaa haaay.. (Heart came on Lover, oh yeah..)
She jumped down the bed and ran towards the door frame and saw Him standing there, and laughed saluting her Hallucinating ability and completed her song patting his cheeks..
Ke Sajna pe dil aa gaya.. (Oh Heart came on Lover..)
Her laughter and singing-dancing halted when she really felt his cheeks on her hands.
Arnav saw Khushi Gupta, and she saw her HIM..
Her hands burnt feeling his face, and realisation struck her dumb senses.
She was dumb-folded. Her heart raced. She had still not regained her senses to know if she was dreaming or HE was really here? She forgot what she was wearing OR NOT .. she stammered, but asked.
Khushi-are - - u- - for - - re - real?
She completed her sentence to the molten brown eyes which stared hers.
Speechless Arnav felt her hands on her cheeks and his hanging mouth nodded a 'YES' and before their eyes could lock for long, he fainted.
She was still in the same position, her hands still cupping the imaginary figure which was dropped down near her feet feeling dizzy, and her mouth still wide open. She was not able to make out if she is really dreaming to wake up next? Or is she living her Fantasy?
Wait, did she really fantasize of him that she can hallucinate about HIM being here?
NO.. That means HE is Really here!!! She got it, She was NOT HALLUCINATING!!
Khushi felt dizzy and she too fell on him, above him..
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