Arhi OS: Locked for one day

'Oh! Just shut up, will you? Atleast I am trying!'

'That doesn't make sense to make; it's all your fault. This is the second time you did this , I am counting the numbers, beware.'

'WHAT!! This is not done by me! I don't know how it all happened. Maybe one of the servants did this by mistake. I don't know what happened to them, after you came. Wait, why am I giving you explanations by the way?'

'What the hell am I supposed to know why you are giving me explanations? God knows, maybe you told the servants to do like this.' She added with worried expressions.

'WHAT? You are just impossible Khusi. This is the maximum I can tolerate. Now you think I told the servants to lock us in a storeroom. Gosh! I think God has forgotten to put brains in you. For my sake, please take some from others. You badly need it.'

'What do you think of yourself? And who are you to tell whether I have brains or not. And by the way, if you have brains, why aren't you calling someone to open door.' 'He thinks he is the best or what!' She muttered under her breath.

'I am trying but you know that everybody has gone to attend some stupid party, and the house phone  isn't working, damn!'

'Just like your brain,' she laughed

He shot her a deadly look and she kept quiet.

'For how many hours do we stay like this'. He was now sitting on a box with Khusi sitting on the ground near his leg.

'How am I supposed to know?'

'Oops, sorry I forgot that you don't have brains.'

'I will bang your head now if you say that twice.'

'Khusi doesn't have brains.'he called out loud.' What will you do'let me see!'

'You'!' And she got up to beat him but tripped and fell on Arnav and unable to take the load of their weight, the box crumpled and both fell into it.

'You are so heavy'.'

'This is too much now ' and she started to beat him then and there.

'Hey stop stop stop, are you crazy or what, first try to get out of this, you mad women'.

'She would try to get up but ending up falling on him,'

And Arnav was busy staring at her'''''..

'Why are you staring at me, haven't you seen me before?'

'Excuse me! I am not staring, I am just wondering how fat can you be even if you look so thin, 'he laughed hard. 

'I will kill you , you demon, can't you help me out.'

'yeh, I would have, but madam you are on the top, I am helpless.' He said with a grin.

'Ugh...you are just impossible..'

After a long time of struggle they finally could make their way out of the box.

'Phew...'she said wiping her sweat.

'Just look at her, I had to carry her weight and she is acting as if she did a lot of work.'

'Oh hello! Locked in a room with you is enough.'

'You need brains...seriously', he said tapping her forehead.

She was exhausted enough, so she just simply sat on the ground and and rested her head against the wall.

In their fight, Khusi's hair had slightly loosened and finally her hair was all loose, and ASR was in  his dreamland staring at her.

But realizing his situation, he quickly corrected himself and said

'Khusi what material are you made of, here we are locked and you are resting.'

No answer from her. 

he now slowly bent to the ground and realized she had fallen asleep.

he slowly touched her hair. She indeed looked like a little princess.' How can anyone get angry on her?'

In addition the lights suddenly went off. Khusi screamed out'...HELP!'

'Woh! easy easy, '

'Oh! the demon is still there.'

'Excuse me'

'Excused.'

'ugh!!!' and and he went near the window and tried to call on the cell.

'Can you order something to eat, I am really very hungry.'

'Yeh sure, what should I order?' and he was going to dial a number, but suddenly stopped.

'Umm, if I could call to order your food, why should not call someone to unlock the door, 'he looked confused.

Khusi turned around quickly, embarrassed.

'Silly girl. '

'But I am really very hungry'

'I thought you satisfied your hunger by eating my brains all this time.'

'It was tasteless.'

He gave her disgusting look and tried the cell, but no use.

'Di, when will you be home?' He was sitting on the floor instead to avoid the accident last time.

he was thinking of something when he suddenly felt something on his shoulders.

Khusi was resting her head on his shoulder and was sleeping peacefully.

Arnav couldn't help but smile. He would have shaken her off, but somehow his hands didn't allow him.

In a while, the lights came. 

Khusi looked up.

'Did you have a good sleep?'

'yeh'

he was shocked beyond imagination when he saw that she did not react to her resting her head on his shoulder.

She was now feeling fresh, but was very tried. Teaching Lavanya then being locked up in a storeroom with a demon was not easy at all!

'What's the time?'

'It's 10.30'

'I should be awarded for spending  so many hours with you till now.When is Anjali ji coming?' 

'I don't know.'

 'As always.'  

he didn't react. After all he was tired too.

He was slowly dozing off.

'Laad Governor...wake up!' she shouted at the top of her voice.

'Yeh, what happened..' he suddenly woke up with a jerk and he looked every where puzzled what was the reason of this scream.

'Mike testing 1,2,3' and she pretended to hold a mike in front of her , pacing the room up and down, looking as she didn't know the reason behind the scream

'Did anyone scream' He asked innocently

'Really, I didn't hear anything'

He looked at her suspiciously .

'What? I didn't do anything...'she tried to reason.

He was still looking suspiciously at her.

'Listen, I don’t have time to shout at you and destroy your beauty sleep, I have other works to do.'

'What work', he said mockingly.

'Like to think how to get out from here, since you have put your brain in sleeping mode.'

'Woh man! I didn’t know people can think without their brains.'

She was now intending to throw things at him.

She controlled her self, and went by the window and and looked outside.

Suddenly he heard him shout.

'What Di, you are not coming tonight but why, how, when, what happened?'

After some time, he kept the phone and banged his head to the nearby wall,' Shit!'

Khusi after realizing the situation sat down and started to say out loud,

'That’s all because of you, because you did the fashion show, I had to come there, you insulted me, I had to leave Lucknow, because of you I had to join the office,  leave the office, join  as a trainer and then this'.

Ignoring the last word, Arnav said, 'You didn’t want to leave the office?'

Khusi suddenly looked up, 'Damn it! What did I tell?' she thought.

'No , actually I didn't mean that……..'

'Well, then what did you mean?' Arnav was in a no mood to leave.
'Well, if I didn’t have to quit the office, then I didn’t  have to be locked up with you', she didn’t sound convincing even to herself.

Arnav looked outside, it was 12 o’clock at night. The moon was at it’s full bloom.

Khusi stood quietly at the other end of the room.

Arnav looked at her. Her eyes glistened in the moon light.She was looking at the moon.

Arnav was lost in her. She waved at her hand in front of him. 'Seriously, what’s wrong with you today?'

He smiled at her.

HEART ATACK!

He was looking lovingly at her. Khusi was standing close to him, her hair flying cause of  the gentle breeze .

'I am sorry for what I did .'

HEART ATTACK!

'Err…..what?'

He was smiling again.

'Pardoned……'she giggled a bit.

'Thank you…….'he whispered in her ears, And crossed her to stand by the wall.

'Did I just laugh, he said sorry, and I said pardoned?'

She had a

HEART ATTACK yet  again.

She rubbed her eyes, went up to him and asked

'Did you say sorry?'

'Really, I didn’t say.'

She looked at him suspiciously

'What, I didn’t say,' and he tried to reason.

'You are actually greedy.' She said after a lot of thinking.

'And a miser,' she added.

'Just look around, who will say that this is the Storeroom of Angry Young Raizada?'

'Oye hello, doesn't mean that it's my storeroom that I will decorate it , storeroom is storeroom, and you're brainless, ha, me and miser, seriously knock some brains in you.'

'It's called effect of companionship. I am helpless.'

He smirked. She had an effect on him indeed.

'Who's angry young raizada?'

She looked confused. She blabbered that out. He kept on staring at her. She open hair enhanced her beauty. Her light baby pink suit complimented her skin tone. She was looking like an angel.

It was half past two. 'Payal would so worried. What should I tell her.' Suddenly there was a noise outside.

'Wha…….what was that?' She sounded a bit frightened.

Arnav went by the window and tried to look outside. Heck, the trees were guarding the view.

They heard footsteps . Khusi moved by his side. She felt a bit secured. Suddenly there was a loud bang.

'Ah……'she was going to shout. He closed her mouth quickly, 'Shhh…….let me see.'

He peeped through the crack of the door. 'I can't see anything.'

She moved a bit closer. She was praying silently, eyes closed.

He looked at her. 'Don't worry,' he assured.

There was a loud crash, it seemed like a metallic object fell on the ground.

Khusi tightly clutched Arnav, 'is that Anjali?'

'Does she play football in the house?'

She gave an annoyed look, 'I am asking!'

'Absolutely not!'

'We have to wait for someone , I guess it's not an intruder.'

'Your guards are like you, hopeless.'

This time he didn't pay any heed. He tried to peep through the crack..

Khusi at the same time tried to look, and they banged their head.

They were going to shout, but they covered each others mouth and heaved a sign of relief.

'Stand at the corner and let me look, get that!'

'It's so scary.' She made an innocent face

'I thought I was the scariest demon you have come across, then?'

She had no answer, she slowly walked up to the corner, leaned against the wall.

He laughed quietly to himself, then tried to look outside.

After a lot of such bangs and crashes, he finally returned to her side, 'the crack is very small.'

'Like your head,' she muttered to herself.

'I heard that.'

'Oh really?'

'Is it a thief?'

'Maybe, I don't know.'

They heard a knock on the door.

She swiftly moved to his side, and hid her face , tightly clutching him.

He moved to the door, and slightly knocked it.

There were two knocks in return.

'We are in trouble.'

They slowly moved to the farthest corner of the room, behind some boxes and slowly sat down. 'What should we do know?'

'Wait.'

'What if he comes inside?'

'We will be able to get out from here, silly!'

'What if he holds a gun and asks for money, and threatens to kill us if he doesn't get that?'

It was the limit. Arnav started to bang his head to the near by wall.

She quickly slid her hand in between the wall and his head and he banged on her hand instead.

They stared at each other for some time. 'What kind of a joke is this, I am getting frightened and you are banging your head.'

'You are totally filmy psycho! We are in a house, that too guarded. My one call will sent him to jail. You are making a cinema from this. Complete madness.'

They kept quite for couple of minutes. Her touch on his head kept on whirling in his mind. He stared at her. She was completely drained off. She was sitting close to him.

The knock grew louder. 'Is he going to………'

She stopped mid way, he feared Arnav's angry look to the core.

He stood up, and went by the door and carefully listened.

The door felt loose. Seemed like some of the bolts have been tampered.

'Khusi,' he called out softly.

She looked up and walked to the door.

He moved a little backwards, and then gave the door a hard kick.

The door flung open.

She stared at him in disbelief. He gave her a smirk, and went out. She followed him.

It was 3.30 in the morning. They looked around the house. Darkness prevailed everywhere. Khusi murmured, 'Is this the same house where I came today?'

'Where's the thief?' He asked.

'Effect of companionship, I don't know.'

They heard some footsteps in the kitchen . Arnav moved towards the kitchen, while Khusi closely followed.

And there he was, bent down and picking something from the fridge. Arnav stared , a slight frown appeared and the man turned.

With lots  of food stuffed in his mouth and a juice can held in his hand, a man wearing a black mask , with eyes and nose peeping out, and the mask was folded up to his mouth. He gave a nervous smile at them.

'Who are you?' Arnav gave a disgusting look.

Err…….my brother is …….well I came here to……….. and before he told his history, like an express train he sprinted out of the kitchen and ran away. Arnav quickly followed, dialed a number and told the guards to catch him.

Finally relieved that they were out of the room, Arnav suddenly felt something.' Where was Khusi?'

He walked back to the kitchen and there she was, with a huge bowl of cereals and stuffing them as fast as she could.

'Can't you keep something better than this', she pointed towards the cereal box.

'What   are you doing?'

'Wanna have breakfast?'

Yeh , I am pretty hungry! An they settled on the huge table, gobbling the cereals.

Three weeks later.

'I am just tired of this Lavanya. She is just uff……..'

Khusi opened the door of the storeroom. Lavanya was to learn how to prepare a pooja thali.. nani told her to bring the ingredients from the storeroom. She was busy looking for the things, when suddenly her eyes fell on a crumpled box.

She smiled to herself.