You before Me

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It's been one week since Khushi had that small accident and she can't wait for her hand to heal. First of all, she hated not being able to sleep properly or more like improperly as she usually sleeps. Then, she hated the fact that she is dependent on people for every little thing from eating to bathing to dressing. Her tutor has been asked to take a leave for a week and though Khushi liked it a little bit, she didn't like being free with no work, so she went back to watching old Salman Khan movies and the same old saas-bahu cliché serials, but the look Arnav gave when he found her watching one rather impractical serial where heroine 'accidentally' puts the the edge of her saree on the burner while cooking made her say those three words Arnav never completes.

Shutting down the Tv and throwing the remote across the bed, Khushi whined.

"You ruined them for me.", she yelled at Arnav who was taking off his socks.

"Excuse me?", Arnav asked bewildered. This time he didn't even make any comments even though now nastily absurd he found the whole drama to be.

"You looked like that.", she said making a face.

"I didn't.", he lied.

"You did.", she argued back.

"So what if I did. My face my wish.", he said taking his shoes and keeping them in the shoe rack on the poolside.

"You made yucky face.", Khushi glared.

"So what if I did.", Arnav yelled back now filling the watering can.

"You can't make that face at the things I watch. I never objected to the movies that you watch full of naked women and men with guns and all..", Khushi said leaping out of the bed and running to the poolside.

"And neither did I object even though I so wanted to do..", Arnav said tending to his plants and watering them."

"But you made yucky face.", Khushi said.

"Stop calling it yucky face. What is the matter with you Khushi? You watch what you watch and what face I make shouldn't matter to you. You like what you like and the same goes with me and for the final time, it is not a yucky face, it is my cringe face and seriously I cringe at those bullshit shows, no content nothing, the story doesn't even move ahead, oh, sorry, let me rephrase that, there is no plot at all, to begin with ...its been one week and Rashi is still planning to kill Gopi. If she really wants to kill her, just kill her and get done with it, and guess what apparently Gopi and Rashi are sisters and why Rashi wants to kill Gopi is because of jealousy, like seriously?!", Arnav sighed exasperated and went back to the room to have a bath.

"Wait....how do you know all this ..?", Khushi ran behind him.

"Comm'on, anyone who watched that for 5 minutes a day can understand what is happening. I don't know how you even watch those..", he said from the washroom and Khushi couldn't help but nod and sigh. It is true actually, even she didn't like watching them anymore. She wanted something new.

The next day on her call with Payal she expressed her sadness over the same and her anger at Arnav for running dramas for her. All his pragmatism and practicality were rubbing on her too.

"Those English series and movies are no different Khushi..They have all these fights and guns and shooting each other and all, when does all that happen in real life anyway, but some movies are good you know...", Payal told her. She had recently gone out for some movies with some Indian ladies she became with friends there at the US.

"I can't watch all that nudity and all Jiji..", Khushi whispered, embarrassed.

"Who said movies are full of that ... Pagal.", Payal giggled.