5 Handsome Guy
Part 5 Handsome Guy
Khushi looked at the man holding a flower. Her eyes widened as he looked damn handsome. His smile did something in her heart that never happened before. She gulped down and made herself.
She remembered Garima's stance, 'Go and notice how many boys drool over you...'
Yes, Khushi didn't recognise him because Arnav was wearing a MASK that day to hide his face from the goons. He wasn't looking handsome that day, but he was covered in blood. Most propebly, he wasn't wearing a suit but was in a simple outfit. So, she could not identify him when he was in a superior outfit.
Arnav extended the flower, raising his brows like, 'take'. He was never intended to do it any girl, but after seeing Khushi helping a girl, he liked her helping nature. It was not his nature though, but after he got affected directly, he started feeling others' pain.
"Look, Mr I like roses... especially, RED roses. It doesn't mean I will take it from anyone. Of course, you may think, I will take it from you because you are looking HANDSOME. But I won't get it from a stranger, even though he is handsome. If you want me to get it from you, you must be my friend or something. And, more than anything, I already have a flower. My Amma pinned it in my hair, near my ear, lovingly. I can't take it just because I have two ears." She blabbered nonstop.
Arnav wanted to laugh out loud.
"Oh, where is the rose your mother pinned lovingly?" he asked.
"It is..." she touched her hair and didn't find it there. She touched the other side thoughtfully. It was not there either.
She saw the man smiling at her. She nodded like, is it mine? He nodded yes, pressing his lips.
"Yup, this is the same flower your Amma pinned in your hair, near your ear, lovingly." He repeated the same.
Khushi smiled awkwardly.
"It fell. As it is so beautiful, I thought to give it to you."
"Oh... thank you..." She was supposed to take it, but Arnav pulled his hands back.
Khushi looked at him questioningly.
"But, you would not take a rose from a stranger, even though you like roses, even though he is handsome. Don't you?" he asked, smiling.
"I will take it if it is mine..." She chuckled.
Arnav gave it to her, and she took it from him, smilingly. She removed the hairpin from her hair and again pinned it. Arnav felt the rose became more beautiful than before.
"Actually, the pin was still there. That's why I didn't feel it when it fell." She said.
Arnav nodded.
"Thank God, you gave it to me, or else, my Amma would have questioned me as if I had donated our whole property..." she said with a funny expression.
That made Arnav laugh.
"By the way, how was the girl?" Arnav asked.
"Who?" she frowned.
"That you took to the hospital, three or four days ago, from the signal..."
Khushi looked at him in surprise.
"Were you there?"
"Mmm..."
"Two stitches... she had made the hospital like a battlefield with her atrocity. Don't ask me how I made the doctor stitch her wound... huff..."
"Then?"
"Then what? I needed to eat an ice cream to cool myself down."
Arnav smiled.
"I always eat ice cream when I'm upset or angry, or, tired..." she said, whispering as if it was a secret.
"That means, you need an ice cream now also... You were scolding someone and slamming the ground..."
"It was my cousin. She doesn't like me and my growth. Would anyone upset you when you were supposed to give an interview? She does. She intentionally does that. I know her motto. So that I would fail in the interview and would not get the job. That much cheap she was."
Arnav thought she was talking about the incident that happened in her life. Otherwise, he might have asked her about her interview.
"Why did you save the girl when no one did?" Arnav asked her with an expectation.
"She is my neighbour, Pinky. She will not play with me, if I had not saved her..." Khushi said casually, even though she would have done the same to anyone in pain but she didn't tell him that. After all, she was a crazy girl.
Arnav was disappointed. He expected her to say, 'I will save anyone in pain.' Yet, he liked the girl even though he didn't like those who talked nonstop.
"What will you play with her?" he asked.
"Hide and seek, hopscotch, blind man's buff, seven stones, jumping rope, everything... I will play with my neighbour's children on holidays."
He rolled her eyes smilingly.
"Don't you have friends at your age?" he asked seriously.
"Oh, yes, to get a birthday gift for her only I came. Yeah, I have to buy a gift. Bye..."
Arnav nodded.
She rushed a few metres and stopped. She looked at Arnav and said,
"Shall I say something that I never told anyone?"
"What?" he raised his left eyebrow.
"You are looking handsome..." She smiled brightly and rushed inside.
Arnav chuckled softly and nodded his head from left to right. Many girls had told him that he was handsome. He ever heeded it. In fact, he felt irritated if anyone said that, but this girl. He felt content talking to the girl. He had never met someone with so much liveliness. She looked so ORIGINAL with no pretext. The girls he met tried to present themselves as superior. She didn't come in that category. He liked her character.
Arnav stopped walking. Why didn't he ask her name? But why should he need her name? She was gone. What would he do, knowing her name? She was not there to call...!
.......
Khushi went to Preeto's birthday party. She handed the gift to her and waited for Lavanya. Preeto's mother gave her snacks.
"Thank you, aunty,"
Khushi tasted it.
"Where did you get it, aunty?"
"I prepared it, beta."
"Is it? Wow, it tastes so good..." She sighed
"What's there to be wary of?"
"What say, aunty? Gold rate is touching peaks..."
"Haan, but what's the connection between these snacks and gold rate?"
"I can't even say, I will give gold bangles to the hands that prepared these snacks..." She said sadly.
Preeto's mother laughed.
"Eat..." She kept a few more snacks on her plate.
"Thank god, you believed what I said. Or else, you would not have given me more snacks..." She said controlling her laughter.
"You are so mean, Khushi..." Preeto's mother hit her playfully.
Khushi chuckled.
She sat with the snack plate. She saw Preeto's mother keeping a few fresh roses in the vase on the table. Her hand struck as she remembered the man who gave her the fallen flower. Her face wore a smile.
Lavanya, who came there, saw that. She tapped her shoulder and asked,
"Oi... Why are you smiling? Do you know what the name of the person who smiles alone is?" She asked teasingly.
"Yeah, I know.. "
She pulled Lavanya beside her.
"I met a man. Do you know how handsome he is! Wow... His eyes, his face, his smile..." She sighed longingly.
Lavanya smiled.
"It's true, Lavi... He looked ravishingly handsome...I have never seen a man with such a physique, you know!"
"I feel bad for you..." Lavanya said feeling sad.
"Why?" Khushi asked frowning.
"If you are like this seeing a random man, what will be your condition after meeting Arnav?"
"Arnav? Who is he?"
"He is the MD of the company you applied for a job..."
"Is it? Does he look handsome?"
"You will forget the man in the blink of an eye."
"No way, Lavi. Arnav might be a handsome man. It doesn't mean the man I met is not..."
"Ok, only two days, after meeting ASR, you will realise how true my words are!"
"Ok... Let's see. But, why haven't you tried for him?" She nagged her teasingly.
"He is my brother's friend. He sees me with respect..."
"Oh... My poor, baby..." Khushi wiped Lavanya's cheek where there was nothing called tears.
Lavanya shrugged her hand.
"Not everyone can get Arnav. He is a pole star. Mind it..."
"Stop building up... I will not see him with such intention."
"Don't be in the illusion."
"Why?"
"Don't I know you?"
"What do you mean?" She clutched her collar.
"You are a girl who admires any form of beauty..." Lavanya removed her hand from her collar.
"Of course, god gave us eyes to admire the beauty on the earth..." She said like a poet.
"That's what I'm saying. You can't control your poor heart from admiring Arnav, even though he is a tough nut."
"Oh... Is he a tough nut?" She made a weird face.
"Like hell..."
"Then, I will keep my distance from him because, for Khushi, character comes first. Khushi always likes jovial people. Then, only he can score a mark from me."
"If it is so, what mark will you give a man you met?"
"Nine out of ten..."
"You just met him once and gave nine marks?"
"Yes, not just because he is handsome. He is so decent. He didn't even ask my name, even though I blabbered as usual..."
"How could you do that, Khushi? Why are you trusting people blindly?" She hit Khushi's shoulder.
"Who trusted him blindly? I just spoke with him casually. If he had done honky ponky, I would have taken pepper spray from my bag. Don't forget that."
"Why should you talk to a stranger and why take pepper spray?" She asked wearily.
"Lavi, there are a lot of nice people on the earth. How could we identify them if we don't talk to them?"
"Is it necessary?"
"Of course, if we don't know nice people still exist, we will lose trust in mankind. It's not good."
"You and your logic..." Lavanya pushed her forehead playfully.
"Relax, babe. I will be careful...See, now, I got to know the handsome man is so good. He listened to me patiently. He appreciated me for helping Pinky."
"How does he know you helped Pinky?" Lavanya asked frowning.
"He was there when I took her to the hospital."
"What if he is stalking you?" She asked nervously.
Khushi frowned.
"To get into your good book, he could have behaved gently with you..."
Khushi became thoughtful.
"But, why should he get into my good book?"
"I dying know. We can't predict anyone. Be careful with him, if you meet him again. Ok?"
"Is it? Do I have a chance to meet him again?" She was excited.
Lavanya glared at her. Khushi grinned at her.
"Ok ok... Don't glare at me. What do you want me to do?" She asked like a good girl.
"Observe him keenly..."
"I did the same last time too..." She says controlling her laughter.
Lavanya rolled her eyes.
"Ok, ok, I will keep it in my mind and will be careful. I know what I'm doing babe. Don't worry. Ok?"
"Mmm...'" Lavanya smiled.
..........
Khushi got ready for the interview.
"Amma, don't tell anyone that I'm going to give an interview. That vermin will call me to upset me. So that I will fail the interview..." She whispered.
"I won't. Give the interview confidently."
"As you said, madam..." She touched her feet, bending down.
"God bless you, beta..."
"Where is Babuji?" Khushi asked.
"I'm here..." Shashi came from outside.
Khushi rushed to him and touched his feet too.
"All the best... Rock in the interview..." He wished her.
She raised her thumb and left.
Khushi came to AR. She liked his outlook. She saw many people waiting for the interview. She sighed. It seemed she could not even see the handsome MD of the company. The candidate might be chosen even before her number came. Because, she was the last candidate who applied. She sat there.
Arnav was there with Aman. Aman wanted Arnav to choose his PA. They started the interview. Aman was stratified with one or two. Still, he continued the interview because Arnav didn't react to them.
Lastly, Khushi was called. She went inside and saw Arnav. He also saw her. Both of them were struck seeing each other.
To be continued...
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