Arnav stepped out of the bathroom and put his clothes in the laundry basket. He noticed Hari Prakash had left some snacks on the coffee table; he picked up the tray along with his back pack to the pool area. He noticed Khushi was standing the far corner. He paused and placed the tray on the table along with his back pack on the seat and then he heard an, "OUCH!!" from Khushi.
Khushi stood up and waved her finger in the air "OUCH!" she said again. Arnav rushed up to her and asked, "What happened?!"
"I was touching the rose and happened to also touch the thorn," Khushi said looking back up at him. Arnav noticed that her finger was starting to bleed and the thorn was still stuck in her skin; he took her hand and led her to sit in the chair. He then went inside and got the first aid box from his cupboard.
He came back to Khushi and noticed that she was trying to remove the thorn from her finger, but was having no luck. He pulled up a seat next to her and sat down.
"Here let me do it," he said.
"No, I got it," she said but Arnav didn't listen to her and just grabbed her hand towards himself. Arnav tried removing it with his fingers, put it was too small to pull out. Arnav brought her finger to his mouth and tried to pull out the thorn. Feeling the touch of his lips on her finger made butterflies fly in her stomach. Arnav bit her finger and Khushi winced in pain.
"Sorry," he said looking back at her. He tried again and finally got the thorn out. He spit it to the side. Arnav took out a bandage from the kit and applied it on her finger to prevent the bleeding.
"There, that should do it," he said.
"Thanks," Khushi replied back. Arnav took the first aid kit and put it back. He came back outside and sat in his chair.
"Who plants all these flowers? Anjali?" Khushi asked.
"No..." Arnav replied back.
"Naniji?" she asked.
"No..." he said again.
"Oh, so then it's probably your mom, right?" Khushi said looking up at him with a smile.
"No, not her either..." Arnav said taking his books out of his back pack.
"Then who?" Khushi asked curiously at the same time thinking if there was anyone else she had missed to mention.
"Um...who...actually I garden..." Arnav said only to look up and find Khushi giggling.
"You're kidding right?" Khushi said laughing, "You garden?"
"Yea, I actually do," Arnav said in a serious tone.
"Oh, you're serious?!" Khushi asked surprised, "It's just that I've never heard about a guy who gardens before."
"Yea, usually it's girls who do it," Arnav said and Khushi just nodded.
"So, should we start on out project?" Arnav asked.
"Yea," Khushi said and took out her books. They spent the next hour working on their project and comparing their lives. They had to write a paper, so they started working on it.
"Khushi, when's your birthday?" Arnav asked while typing up her name on his laptop.
"June 25," Khushi said.
"What?! That's also my birthday," Arnav said looking up from his laptop to Khushi.
"You're birthday is also June 25?" Khushi asked.
"Yea," Arnav said.
"That's kind of cool, we have the same birthdays," Khushi said smiling.
"Hmmp," Arnav said and finished typing up their report by looking the notes they had taken. Arnav finished typing the report and saved it.
"Khushi, I've finished typing it so I'll print it out later, now we just need to find pictures to go along with it," Arnav said closing his laptop.
Khushi had brought pictures from her childhood and took them out. Arnav took out a photo album that he had home with their family pictures. They started looking through each other's pictures,
"You were so fat," Arnav said looking at her baby picture.
"Haw!!" Khushi gasped "No I wasn't!!!" she said.
"Yes you were. Do you see that fat on your cheeks here?" Arnav said picking up a picture and showing it to her. Khushi was going to say something back until she spotted a baby picture of Arnav taking a bath. She took it out and held it in her fingers.
"Well, at least I wore all of my clothes," she said with a mischievous tone and held it in front of Arnav so that he could see it.
"Excuse me?" Arnav said looking up from the pictures he was looking at and saw the picture of himself, "What the?! Khushi give me that!" Arnav said trying to snatch it away from her. But Khushi was too fast and ran away.
"Khushi come back here!" Arnav said chasing after her.
"Catch me if you can!" she said running away. Khushi ran around the pool and Arnav kept on chasing after her. He had finally trapped her in a corner.
"Where are you going to go now?" he asked slowly moving towards her. Khushi looked around to find a way to escape; she looked up and noticed that Arnav was getting closer and closer to her. She quickly dashed to the left and made her way to the terrace. She was running and didn't pay much attention to where she was going causing her to trip and fall forward. Arnav who was running behind her didn't have enough time to register the fact that she fell, so he couldn't stop and ended up falling on her.
Khushi was slightly lying on her back propped up on her elbow when she felt another weight fall on her, causing her to fall back completely. Arnav's body was completely pushing Khushi down, giving her no way to move. His face was lying in the crook of her neck in her hair. Khushi felt his breath on her neck and turned to face the other side. Arnav moved his head up and looked at her. He noticed that she had a slight pink blush on her cheeks, he didn't know why, but he felt himself smiling. She was beautiful, he thought. His thoughts went back to what NK had told him earlier. Maybe he did have a crush one her, he HAD started liking her. He moved forward and quickly pecked her left cheek. This only caused Khushi's cheek to turn darker. He sat up on the ground and so did Khushi. They didn't know for how long they sat there on the ground watching the sunset.
Arnav finally got up and dusted any dirt off himself. He offered his hand to Khushi and she took it.
"Khushi, maybe I was wrong earlier," Arnav said as they walked back to his room. Khushi picked up her backpack from the pool area on her way there.
"About what?" she asked.
"That you were fat when you were a kid," Arnav said.
"Yea, you were," Khushi said stepping out of his room.
"Do you know why?" Arnav asked closing the door behind him of his room and looked back up at Khushi.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because you still are fat," Arnav said laughing only to get a gasp from Khushi and a slap on his shoulder. Arnav ran away from her and quickly made his way down the stairs trying to run away from her.
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