Morning came in like it always did and the light hit Arnav’s face harshly. He squinted his eyes shut, trying to block the sunlight out. He turned to his side and opened his eyes slowly to see the blurred vision of a sleeping Khushi. Arnav opened his eyes fully and saw her. She was still sleeping peacefully. They had, had a good night. They had kept each other awake for hours asking and wanting more. But at 5am, both were worn out and fell asleep in each other’s arms. She was such an innocent soul. His world revolved around his Khushi. Without her life was incomplete. People told Arnav that after about a year of marriage it gets boring. Nothing new happens and love making was more of a duty than a desire. However Arnav didn’t feel like that. He never had and still he didn’t get the feeling that he had to make love to Khushi, he simply wanted to.
Khushi began to stir and Arnav moved over her and began kissing her face. Khushi smiled and slowly opened her eyes.
“Good morning beautiful.”
“Why, good morning handsome.”
“What do you want to do today?”
“Oh, anything you want to do Mr Raizada.”
“I think you know what I have in mind!”
Khushi blushed and pulled Arnav towards her. He moved in, his lips slanted, ready to take hers. But then suddenly Khushi pushed Arnav off of herself and sat up, covering her body with the covers and pushing her hair away from her face.
“What are you playing at woman?”
“Get ready! We have to go shopping!”
“What? Why?”
“So that I can buy you a present!”
“Khushi, there really isn’t any need for that!”
“Yes there is! Arnav I must buy you something!”
“Fine! But, we’ll go later.”
“No, now! The sooner we go, the sooner we can come back and make the most of the day after our anniversary!”
“Oh, is someone craving for something?”
Khushi looked at Arnav and blushed, clearly answering his question. Arnav smirk and then shook his head.
“Go and get ready then! I want to be back as soon as possible!”
Khushi hugged Arnav happily and reached out for her dressing gown. She slipped it on and then got out of bed. Arnav lay back down, smiling to himself.
Khushi rushed out of the bathroom, fully dressed 20 minutes later and smiled to Arnav. But then her expression changed and she looked at him sternly.
“Are you planning on staying in bed or something?”
“There wasn’t any point me getting out of bed if you were in the bathroom.”
“Well, I’m out now, so hurry up!”
“Alright, alright! I’m going. Gosh women!”
Khushi laughed and watched Arnav made his way into the bathroom.
About 15 minutes later Arnav walked out of the bathroom dressed and ready to go.
“We’ll get breakfast from somewhere. Lets go now.”
“Ok.”
Arnav and Khushi left and noticed that the house was still quiet meaning everyone was still sleeping.
*****
“I’m buying you this!”
“Khushi, you’ve said that about 50 different things now!”
“Now this is the one!”
“Ok, lets pay and go!”
Khushi had chosen a perfume set for Arnav. She knew that he would be happy with whatever she presented to him, but she wanted it to be something nice. Arnav loved Khushi. She was trying to hard to impress him. But she didn’t realise he didn’t want anything like this from her. What he wanted was her to be by his side all the time and he had that. He didn’t want anything else.
Khushi paid and then they left the store and went to the next, which was a coffee shop. They sat down and had something to eat.
“You do like it right?”
“Khushi, its lovely. I’ve been wanting to by that perfume for a while now, but just haven’t got round to it yet.”
Khushi smiled happily and sipped her tea.
“Can we go to the park?”
“Sure.”
Arnav and Khushi finished their breakfast and left the mall and made there way to the car park. They were almost at the car when Khushi dropped her purse. Arnav leaned down but Khushi stopped him.
”Its, ok. I’ll get it.”
Arnav nodded and moved and Khushi went to pick her purse up and found that some of the items had fallen out. She began picking the pieces up when a car came towards her. Before Khushi noticed, Arnav did and shouted for her to look out. Khushi looked up and saw the car and panicked, however before she could do anything the car hit her.
*****
“Sir, please move away, we need to get your wife into the theatre as soon as possible.”
“She will be ok right?”
“We will try our best.”
“No! You will make sure nothing happens to her, do you get me!”
“Sir, please. Move!”
Arnav moved and watched the paramedics take Khushi away. He sat down on the seats outside the operation theatre and held his face in his hands. This couldn’t be happening.
He called his family and they all arrived in no time.
“Chote what happened?”
“Di, its all my fault. If I hadn’t listened to her and grabbed her purse for her, she would have been safe!”
“No chote, its not your fault. Whatever happened was meant to happy and don’t worry, Khushi will be fine!”
Arnav looked away and placed his hands over his face.
A little while later a doctor came out.
“The patient is fine. We have stopped any bleeding and she is recovering quickly. She has some head injuries but we don’t know how that will affect her until she regain consciousness. However we are pretty sure that there will be no long term affects.”
Arnav got up and hugged the doctor.
“Thank you, thank you so much!”
“We are simply doing our duty Mr Raizada.”
the doctor went back into the room and then the nurses came out pushing Khushi’s bed.
“What’s happening?”
“We are moving her to another room.”
Arnav nodded and followed them.
*****
It was about 2 hours later and Khushi was finally coming round. Anjali, Payal and Arnav were with her. Khushi slowly opened her eyes and Arnav rushed to her side. He smiled down at Khushi.
“Jiji…”
Payal waddled to Khushi sides and Arnav moved away to make space for her.
“Khushi, take it easy.”
“Jiji.”
“Shh, I’m here. Its ok.”
“What happened to me?”
“You got hit by a car.”
“What?”
“Shh, its ok, your ok now. Don’t worry Khushi.”
“Jiji, my head hurts.”
“Take it easy.”
“I want to talk to you alone Jiji!”
Payal turned to Arnav and Anjali, who nodded and left.
“Jiji, why are you so fat?”
Payal looked at Khushi curiously, not understanding what she was saying.
“Khushi, I’m pregnant. You know that.”
“What! Pregnant? How can you be pregnant?”
“Khushi! I’m not going to explain the process!”
“No I know how. But, HOW? I mean, who?”
“Khushi, you’re being silly now. I know you’ve hurt your head, but this is silly.”
“Jiji, I really can’t remember. And who were those people in the room with us?”
Payal looked at Khushi and then her eyes widened.
“That was Arnav ji and Anjali di.”
“Was that guy your husband then?”
“No, Khushi what was your…”
Just then the door opened and the doctor came in.
“Ma’am can you leave for a minute, I wish to speak to your entire family and my nurse needs to do the patients check up.”
“Ok.”
Payal left the room.
“Is Khushi ok? Payal did she say anything? Is she ok?”
“Arnav ji, I think there’s something wrong with her, she forgot that I was pregnant and was asking weird questions and then was asking who you and di were!”
“What?”
“Excuse me. After looking at the head scans we did of the patient we found that there has been some internal damage but its nothing major.
“Doctor, I think she’s lost her memory!”
“What? Ok, fine we’ll do a few more tests and then ask her a few questions and then we’ll get back to you.”
The doctor entered Khushi room.
“What is your name?”
“Khushi.”
“Where are you from?”
“Lucknow.”
“The girl that was here before, who is she to you?”
“She’s my older sister.”
“What’s the date today?”
“It’s the 26th of July 2010.”
The doctor looked at Khushi and then nodded and left.
*****
“After doing all the tests and asking her all the questions we have found that the patient has lost some of her memory. We have worked out that she can’t remember anything which has happened in the last 2 and a half years.”
“2 and a half years!”
“Yes, sir. 2 and a half years.”
“That means she doesn’t know me, or the fact that we’re married!”
Forgotten Love ~ Part 4
Morning came in like it always did and the light hit Arnav’s face harshly. He squinted his eyes shut, trying to block the sunlight out. He turned to his side and opened his eyes slowly to see the blurred vision of a sleeping Khushi. Arnav opened his eyes fully and saw her. She was still sleeping peacefully. They had, had a good night. They had kept each other awake for hours asking and wanting more. But at 5am, both were worn out and fell asleep in each other’s arms. She was such an innocent soul. His world revolved around his Khushi. Without her life was incomplete. People told Arnav that after about a year of marriage it gets boring. Nothing new happens and love making was more of a duty than a desire. However Arnav didn’t feel like that. He never had and still he didn’t get the feeling that he had to make love to Khushi, he simply wanted to.
Khushi began to stir and Arnav moved over her and began kissing her face. Khushi smiled and slowly opened her eyes.
“Good morning beautiful.”
“Why, good morning handsome.”
“What do you want to do today?”
“Oh, anything you want to do Mr Raizada.”
“I think you know what I have in mind!”
Khushi blushed and pulled Arnav towards her. He moved in, his lips slanted, ready to take hers. But then suddenly Khushi pushed Arnav off of herself and sat up, covering her body with the covers and pushing her hair away from her face.
“What are you playing at woman?”
“Get ready! We have to go shopping!”
“What? Why?”
“So that I can buy you a present!”
“Khushi, there really isn’t any need for that!”
“Yes there is! Arnav I must buy you something!”
“Fine! But, we’ll go later.”
“No, now! The sooner we go, the sooner we can come back and make the most of the day after our anniversary!”
“Oh, is someone craving for something?”
Khushi looked at Arnav and blushed, clearly answering his question. Arnav smirk and then shook his head.
“Go and get ready then! I want to be back as soon as possible!”
Khushi hugged Arnav happily and reached out for her dressing gown. She slipped it on and then got out of bed. Arnav lay back down, smiling to himself.
Khushi rushed out of the bathroom, fully dressed 20 minutes later and smiled to Arnav. But then her expression changed and she looked at him sternly.
“Are you planning on staying in bed or something?”
“There wasn’t any point me getting out of bed if you were in the bathroom.”
“Well, I’m out now, so hurry up!”
“Alright, alright! I’m going. Gosh women!”
Khushi laughed and watched Arnav made his way into the bathroom.
About 15 minutes later Arnav walked out of the bathroom dressed and ready to go.
“We’ll get breakfast from somewhere. Lets go now.”
“Ok.”
Arnav and Khushi left and noticed that the house was still quiet meaning everyone was still sleeping.
*****
“I’m buying you this!”
“Khushi, you’ve said that about 50 different things now!”
“Now this is the one!”
“Ok, lets pay and go!”
Khushi had chosen a perfume set for Arnav. She knew that he would be happy with whatever she presented to him, but she wanted it to be something nice. Arnav loved Khushi. She was trying to hard to impress him. But she didn’t realise he didn’t want anything like this from her. What he wanted was her to be by his side all the time and he had that. He didn’t want anything else.
Khushi paid and then they left the store and went to the next, which was a coffee shop. They sat down and had something to eat.
“You do like it right?”
“Khushi, its lovely. I’ve been wanting to by that perfume for a while now, but just haven’t got round to it yet.”
Khushi smiled happily and sipped her tea.
“Can we go to the park?”
“Sure.”
Arnav and Khushi finished their breakfast and left the mall and made there way to the car park. They were almost at the car when Khushi dropped her purse. Arnav leaned down but Khushi stopped him.
”Its, ok. I’ll get it.”
Arnav nodded and moved and Khushi went to pick her purse up and found that some of the items had fallen out. She began picking the pieces up when a car came towards her. Before Khushi noticed, Arnav did and shouted for her to look out. Khushi looked up and saw the car and panicked, however before she could do anything the car hit her.
*****
“Sir, please move away, we need to get your wife into the theatre as soon as possible.”
“She will be ok right?”
“We will try our best.”
“No! You will make sure nothing happens to her, do you get me!”
“Sir, please. Move!”
Arnav moved and watched the paramedics take Khushi away. He sat down on the seats outside the operation theatre and held his face in his hands. This couldn’t be happening.
He called his family and they all arrived in no time.
“Chote what happened?”
“Di, its all my fault. If I hadn’t listened to her and grabbed her purse for her, she would have been safe!”
“No chote, its not your fault. Whatever happened was meant to happy and don’t worry, Khushi will be fine!”
Arnav looked away and placed his hands over his face.
A little while later a doctor came out.
“The patient is fine. We have stopped any bleeding and she is recovering quickly. She has some head injuries but we don’t know how that will affect her until she regain consciousness. However we are pretty sure that there will be no long term affects.”
Arnav got up and hugged the doctor.
“Thank you, thank you so much!”
“We are simply doing our duty Mr Raizada.”
the doctor went back into the room and then the nurses came out pushing Khushi’s bed.
“What’s happening?”
“We are moving her to another room.”
Arnav nodded and followed them.
*****
It was about 2 hours later and Khushi was finally coming round. Anjali, Payal and Arnav were with her. Khushi slowly opened her eyes and Arnav rushed to her side. He smiled down at Khushi.
“Jiji…”
Payal waddled to Khushi sides and Arnav moved away to make space for her.
“Khushi, take it easy.”
“Jiji.”
“Shh, I’m here. Its ok.”
“What happened to me?”
“You got hit by a car.”
“What?”
“Shh, its ok, your ok now. Don’t worry Khushi.”
“Jiji, my head hurts.”
“Take it easy.”
“I want to talk to you alone Jiji!”
Payal turned to Arnav and Anjali, who nodded and left.
“Jiji, why are you so fat?”
Payal looked at Khushi curiously, not understanding what she was saying.
“Khushi, I’m pregnant. You know that.”
“What! Pregnant? How can you be pregnant?”
“Khushi! I’m not going to explain the process!”
“No I know how. But, HOW? I mean, who?”
“Khushi, you’re being silly now. I know you’ve hurt your head, but this is silly.”
“Jiji, I really can’t remember. And who were those people in the room with us?”
Payal looked at Khushi and then her eyes widened.
“That was Arnav ji and Anjali di.”
“Was that guy your husband then?”
“No, Khushi what was your…”
Just then the door opened and the doctor came in.
“Ma’am can you leave for a minute, I wish to speak to your entire family and my nurse needs to do the patients check up.”
“Ok.”
Payal left the room.
“Is Khushi ok? Payal did she say anything? Is she ok?”
“Arnav ji, I think there’s something wrong with her, she forgot that I was pregnant and was asking weird questions and then was asking who you and di were!”
“What?”
“Excuse me. After looking at the head scans we did of the patient we found that there has been some internal damage but its nothing major.
“Doctor, I think she’s lost her memory!”
“What? Ok, fine we’ll do a few more tests and then ask her a few questions and then we’ll get back to you.”
The doctor entered Khushi room.
“What is your name?”
“Khushi.”
“Where are you from?”
“Lucknow.”
“The girl that was here before, who is she to you?”
“She’s my older sister.”
“What’s the date today?”
“It’s the 26th of July 2010.”
The doctor looked at Khushi and then nodded and left.
*****
“After doing all the tests and asking her all the questions we have found that the patient has lost some of her memory. We have worked out that she can’t remember anything which has happened in the last 2 and a half years.”
“2 and a half years!”
“Yes, sir. 2 and a half years.”
“That means she doesn’t know me, or the fact that we’re married!”
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