FF: Temporary Insanity - Part 13

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Part 13
'No. No way. Not happening,' Arnav folded his arms and looked down at his younger brother resolutely.

'Oh come on Bhai! Why not? Don't tell me you're jealous! Seriously? Are you afraid Akash Bhai and Khushi Bhabi are going to... you know while they're in the room together?'

'Dhruv, I am not jealous!' Arnav shouted, horrified at the idea of Akash and Khushi in a bedroom together, alone. He still occasionally had nightmares of Khushi with Raizada men that weren't him including one particularly disturbing dream involving Khushi and Mamaji after which he'd been unable to look at Mamaji properly for a month.

Khushi folded her own arms defiantly, 'anyway Arnav, you can't tell me what to do. I'm going in there and that's it!'

Dhruv looked at Khushi and smirked. He'd known Khushi would never let Arnav talk her out of it.

'Oh come on Khushi, you can't be serious. Besides Akash will notice if you're not outside the room waiting for him.'

'But that's the best part Arnav! I will be outside the room!' Khushi jumped up excitedly her voice louder than usual due to the wedding guests milling around the big hall. 'Then once I've made Jeeju give me money to go into the room and see Jeeji, Dhruv will create some distraction and then while everyone's preoccupied I'll slip into the room, dress up and sit on the bed.'

Arnav sighed in defeat. They'd been married 7 months and sometimes he still found it unbelievable that he'd actually gone and married the crazy Khushi Kumari Gupta. 'You know I think I should have let you two get married. You're both just as crazy and stupid as each other.'

'Too bad your jealousy didn't let you go through with it though Bhai,' Dhruv winked at Arnav as he stood closer to Khushi.

Khushi and Dhruv both smiled and hi-fived as Arnav turned to walk back to the wedding function before he paused and looked over his shoulder. 'Dhruv, you better hope Akash doesn't try something because if he does... I'll kill you.'

'Oh come on Bhai! Akash Bhai and Payal Bhabi can barely speak more than two sentences at a time to each other, you really think they're going to jump straight into sex on the first night?'

'Actually Dhruv, Akashji just might! You know actions speak louder than words,' Khushi put her elbow on Dhruv's shoulder and raised her eyebrows at him pretending to be shocked. 'Maybe Jeeju's a doer not a talker!'

'Shut up both of you! I'm not jealous!' Arnav said before he stalked away.

'Who said you were?' Khushi called towards his retreating back with a grin.

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'Okay that's it! I'm going in!'

'No, no Bhai! You can't!' Dhruv and NK held onto Arnav's arms and pulled him away from the door that Arnav had had his ear pressed up against.

They were all standing outside waiting for Akash to realise it wasn't his new wife on his bed but his new saali instead but it had now been 10 minutes since he'd gone in and there was no sign of either of them.

'What the hell are they doing in there?! Can't he tell the difference between Khushi and Payal?! Khushi's so... and Payal's so... They're so DIFFERENT!'

Anjali patted Payal's arm and apologised wordlessly for Arnav's outburst before she and Suhani led Payal away towards Anjali's room to wait.

'Bhai calm down!' Dhruv was having trouble controlling his laughter at the sight of Arnav's red angry face, 'Akash Bhai probably hasn't even worked up the nerve to speak to her yet. He's probably still standing by the door trying to work out what to say!'

Arnav shrugged NK and Dhruv's hands off and began pacing back and forth in front of the door. 'I'm calm, I'm calm!'

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'P...Payalji... '

Khushi bit her lip to stop herself giggling when she felt Akash finally sit down on the bed after what seemed like the hundredth time he'd said Payal's name. It was another couple of minutes before his hand lightly came over hers and Khushi waited for Akash to hold her hand properly but his fingers just hovered over hers, not quite touching.

Khushi looked up through the dupatta trying to see what was wrong but Akash seemed to be frozen, staring at their hands. She put on her best imitation of Payal and spoke, 'Akashji, is something wrong? Don't you... don't you want me?'

'What?' Akash pulled back his hand quickly in shock at Payal's brazenness, he'd thought holding hands would be too much for her and so he'd paused but here she was demanding more! 'Erm... no of course I... of course I want to... actually... the thing is Payalji... I've never... I've never...'

Khushi couldn't control herself anymore and she bent over with her head on her knees laughing as tears began to stream down her face.

Akash squirmed in his seat, feeling embarrassed. He knew he should have listened to Dhruv when he'd tried to talk to him about the wedding night but he'd shrugged Dhruv off and pretended to be experienced. The thought of taking advice from his younger brother had been too humiliating and the thought of asking Arnav for advice was even more unthinkable. If Dhruv would have laughed when he learnt Akash was a virgin, Arnav probably would have probably just said 'what the...'  and looked at him in disbelief.

Khushi was finally able to breathe again and she sat back up properly before she pulled the scarf up completely.

'Khushiji?'

The relief in his voice was so obvious it had Khushi laughing once again.

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'Okay, I've had enough! I'm going in!'

Arnav managed to make it to the door before Dhruv and NK could stop him but his face fell comically as he realised the door was locked. 'What the..? Why the hell has he locked the door?!'

Dhruv looked at Arnav as if he'd gone crazy. 'Err duh Bhai, it's his wedding night, you didn't think he was going to leave it open did you?'

'But she's MY wife!' As he spoke he shoved his shoulder against the door trying to force it open.

'Bhai stop being so jealous,' Dhruv said with a sigh as the door opened suddenly and Arnav fell inside falling against Akash's chest, who was standing with Khushi at the door.

Khushi looked at Akash who was now holding onto Arnav then to Arnav who was looking at her angrily, 'what are you doing?'

Arnav pushed Akash's chest as he steadied himself, 'what are you doing Khushi? You two have been in there for half an hour!'

'We were just talking,' she said as Arnav pulled her arm and brought her to his side.

'Talking? Yeah, right.'

'Yes, we were just talking,' Akash said confidently, 'now where's Payalji? I need to get started on my wedding night.'

All of the men watched in surprise as Akash walked confidently towards Anjali's room that NK had pointed towards.

'What exactly did you two talk about?' Arnav said putting his arm around a bewildered Khushi and leading her towards their room before he called over his shoulder to Dhruv. 'And I was not jealous!'

'Oh nothing much, I was just explaining to Jeeju about sex and all, you know. Nothing special.'

'What the...?'