Prologue

It was a nice day, the sun was just right and the light breeze was soothing. The car was whizzing its way back to Shantivan. The irony was, the mood inside the car was nothing as calm and soothing as the weather outside.

Khushi’s eyes were brimming with tears and Arnav’s were brimming with anger, both not finding any solace in the silence that pervaded the car.

Arnav: “Wow I knew you could act, but I did not know that you were such great actress.”

Khushi:”I’m not acting. I’m telling you the truth. Why won’t you understand me?”

The words were reverberating in both their minds, breaking both their hearts into millions of smithereens.

They walked into Shantivan together. Khushi reached out to Arnav as if to say something, make him realize the grave misunderstanding that he harbors. Arnav saw her gesture and turned around and walked away to their room.

Khushi sitting at the pool side talking to herself “Can someone hate with such vengeance? He really cannot stand the sight of me. Here I am trying saving this marriage and bring some sort of semblance to this sham of a marriage. I cannot let this be. I have to do something. I will restore his room and his life back to what is before”


Arnav walks into his room after dinner and realizes something is off, he looks up and does not see the wind chimes, looks around and does not see Salman Khan’s poster, another look and sees all the stars on top of the bed are gone.

“KHUSHI !!” he bellows.

Khushi walks in and looks at him questioningly.

Arnav looks at her with disgust and says “Khushi !! Yeh kya kar rahi ho , is room ko kyu badal diya ? Tum kya jatana chahthi ho, ke tum nirdosh ho ?”

Khushi:”Hume patha nahi that ke app humse ethni nafrat karthe hai! Agar patha hotha tho aapki ki room ko kabhi nahi badal the. Hum ne aapki room ko vapas jaisa tha vaisa bana diya”

Arnav looks at her scathingly and says ”Apni zindagi ke saath kuch tho dang ka karo !  Baar baar room badal ne se kuch hasil nahi hoga” and then he walks out of the room unable stay in the same room as her.

Khushi is shocked and pained at the anger and hate emanating from Arnav.  

She sits by the pool side and runs through all the events of the day. The accusations and justifications flying back and forth between them, they were at an impasse, there did not seem a way out of the situation.

The thing that stung Khushi was Arnav’s comment “Apni zindagi ke saath kuch tho dang ka karo” “Apni zindagi ke saath kuch tho dang ka karo” it kept repeating in her mind.

Khushi talks to herself  ”Bus ho gaya Khushi ! Yeh rona dhona sab bus ho gaya. Ab mujhe apne zindagi ke saath kuch dang ka karna padega.  Agar woh yahi chahthe hai tho wahi hoga”