"Arjun you robbed me blind tonight." Romit said looking at his empty wallet. "It's called strategy my friend." Arjun said hitting Romit on the back. "Right!" Romit said as the other guys laughed. "Though you were on a role tonight." Rick said getting up. "I had some lady luck today." Arjun said smiling. His lady's luck. Speaking of which, where was Arohi? As far he knew Rashi and her were just going for dinner, maybe they went out to a lounge or something afterwards. Shrugging he turned his attention back to his friends. "Okay guys I'm going to get going" Rick said. One by one all the guys left, promising to get their money back from Arjun at the next poker night. As Arjun was about to shut the door Rashi walked in. Smiling at her he let her in and then looking behind her his brows furrowed. "Where's Arohi?" he asked. "Bhabhi cancelled on me tonight." "So I went out with some friends instead." Rashi answered. "I thought she would be at home." Arjun stared at her. "What?" "That makes no sense." he said. "It's after 1:00." "Where could she be?" He had just picked up his phone to call her when Arohi walked into the house. "Babe, where have you been?" Arjun asked walking to Arohi. "Out!" she answered turning away from him, and to Rashi. "Rash, I'm sorry for cancelling last minute." "It's okay." Rashi said smiling. "I'm going to head up to bed. "Good night" "Good night" Arjun said not taking his eyes off Arohi. Something was wrong, he thought as he looked at her rigid back. Not turning back around Arohi ran up the stairs and into their room. Arjun watched from the bottom of the stairs. Everything was fine when she left the office this afternoon. Maybe something happened at the Empress, he thought as he walked upstairs. Walking into their room, he saw Arohi rummaging through the closet. He walked over and wrapped his arms around her. Arohi stiffened and pushed him away.

"What's wrong?" he asked. Arohi stared at him. "What could be wrong?" she asked. "I don't know Arohi" Arjun responded. "I know we didn't have a fight." "Everything was fine, so you tell me what happened." Arohi glared at him. "I saw Megha today." Arjun stared at her and then swore, raking his hand through his hair. "I can explain that" he began. "Don't bother!" Arohi said. "The time for explanations is over." "Arohi, come on don't be like that." Arjun said grabbing her arm. "Let go!" she said glaring at him. "And how would you like me to be?" "I can't believe you would hide something like that from me." Arohi said furiously. "I wasn't trying to hide it." "It's just that the timing was bad." Arjun said. "Timing was bad!" "That's your excuse!" "It's not an excuse." "When it happened, I was going to tell you." "I even came to Chandigarh early during our wedding so I could tell you." "But you were so stressed I just didn't want to throw that at you." "Then the wedding festivities and wedding, and then our honeymoon." "Honestly by the time we came back home, I myself had forgotten about the incident." Arjun said. "Nice, very nice." Arohi said sarcastically. "Would you have a problem if some guy kissed me and I conveniently forgot to tell you about it?" "Arohi!' Arjun snapped. "No, seriously?!" "Would you have a problem with that?" she asked him. "I would kill him." Arjun said angrily. "Yeah, and how would you feel about me keeping it from you?" Arohi asked. Arjun stared at her and then cautiously answered. "I would be upset but I would listen to you and try to understand that you did it to protect me." "You're full of it!" Arohi said pushing Arjun aside. "Come on Arohi." "It was a mistake made by Megha." "I didn't even participate in the kiss." "Once I knew her intentions I told her right away that I was not interested, and that I only love you, and that I couldn't continue working with her either."

Arohi stared back at him. "I know you love me!" She said. "I have no doubt about that." "I also know you have no feelings for Megha." "That is not what I'm mad about." "I'm mad because you didn't trust me enough to tell me." "I'm not a fragile doll that might break under the pressure of knowing someone else likes my husband." "If you had told me I would have been mad, mad at Megha and maybe even a little sad for her because like I've told you before she really likes you." "I can't blame her for that." "But I can blame her for acting on it." "But you, who I tell every little thing to, didn't tell me something so important." Do you know how stupid I felt when Megha assumed that I knew." "Why wouldn't she assume it, we are after all husband and wife." It's not her fault that she thinks that trust should be important between a husband and wife. Arohi said furiously. "Arohi, you're reading way too much into this." "This has nothing to do with trust." "I was trying to protect you." "RIGHT!" she snapped. "Come on Arohi, don't be one of those of wives." Arohi's eyes widened and instantly Arjun knew he'd gone too far. But what could he do, this had nothing to do with trust. Arohi was making it out to be something it wasn't. "One of those wives huh?" "And exactly what does that entail. "Should I be one of the those wives that looks the other way when her husband does something wrong." "Maybe I should be one of those wives that only speaks when spoken too, the one that waits for her husband to eat before she herself can eat. "Is that what you wanted?" Arohi asked in a cold voice. "Arohi, that is not what I meant!" "I don't care what you meant." "You're not sleeping in here tonight." she said picking up his pillow and shoving it at him. "What?" "You want me to sleep in another room?" "Come on Arohi." Arjun said trying to pull her to him. "I'm sorry babe, I shouldn't have said all that." " I didn't mean it." "I'm sure you didn't." Arohi said pulling away from Arjun and then pushing him towards the door. "OUT!" "Right Now" "Arohi, come on, I can't sleep without you." "Well I guess you're going to have to learn." she said slamming the door on his face. Arjun stood staring at the closed door. Damn you Megha! he muttered to himself. So much for it being a lucky night for him. And if he knew Arohi he knew when it came to her he wouldn't be getting lucky any time soon.

"Good morning babe." Arjun said walking into the dining room and leaning down to kiss Arohi's cheek. Arohi moved out of the way leaving Arjun to kiss the air. He frowned as he looked at her. The gussa was just as bad as it had been last night. No calming it yet. Sitting down at the table next to Arohi he said, "I was thinking maybe I'd take my beautiful wife out for a special dinner tonight." "We could check out that new restaurant you wanted to try out." Arohi glared at him, and got up, walking to the other end of the table and sitting down. "Hmm." Arjun said staring at Arohi. "Forget dinner, we could go see that new hindi movie you wanted to see." "I'm busy!" she snapped. "Busy doing what?" "Busy washing my hair, busy doing my nails., busy scrubbing the floor since I'm one of those types of wives." Arjun stared at her like she's lost her mind. " Arohi, come on sweetie I love you so much and I miss you." "I just want my old Arohi back." "Really?" she said snidely. "Well I want my old Arjun back, the one that didn't hide things from me, the one that was an open book." "Can you give him back to me?" "Arohi you're anger is justified I just need to know when you'll be feeling a little less...vicious and little more forgiving." Arohi stared at him and then a smile started to appear on her face. Arjun seeing the smile felt his hopes begin to rise. "WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!" she suddenly yelled. With that she grabbed her bag and left the room. "You are so screwed Arjun." He thought to himself. "How was he going to get himself out of this one.

"Um, bhabhi is everything okay?" Rashi asked as she watched Arohi paint a wall in her room. "Everything is fine." Arohi said stepping back to look at her handy work. "Um, then why are you painting?" "I thought you'd hired painters to do that" "Oh I have, but they're coming next week and I just wanted to start work on my new pink room right away." "Yeah, about that...don't you think it's a little too pink." "I mean bhai might not like it." Arohi glared at Rashi. "I'm counting on the fact that your bhai won't like it." she snapped picking up her paint brush again. "Okay" Rashi said slowly walking backwards out of the room. Bhai was in the doghouse big time and she really doubted that bhabhi was going to let him out anytime soon.

Arjun walked into his house and looked around for his wife. "Rashi where's Arohi?" he asked. "You don't want to know." she said as she flipped channels. "And those roses you're holding." "They aren't going to get you anywhere." "I don't know what you've done but simple roses aren't going to help you." Rashi said shaking her head in pity at him. Arjun stared at his sister. "Arohi, loves roses." "And roses always do the trick...and this time I bought chocolates too." he said pulling out a red velvet box. "You know how much she loves chocolate." "She won't even remember why she was mad at me after I give her these." Rashi shook her head. Her brother was in for quite a wake up call. "Bhabhi's upstairs...in her room." "I'll come up and watch you win her over." Rashi said climbing the stairs with her brother. "Arohi's had time to think about things and I'm sure she's thought things through rationally and now understands where I was coming from." Arjun turned towards their room and suddenly stopped. He stood at the door of his suddenly very pink room. "What are you doing?" Arohi he asked with a shocked expression on his face." "Are you blind?!" "Can't you see I'm painting!" "Remember you said I could paint the room any color I wanted...even pink." "You didn't care." "That was because I didn't think you'd actually paint it pink!" he snapped as he walked around his room. "I can't live in a pink room." "You won't have to." she said. "What do you mean?" "Are you changing it back?" he asked hopefully. "No, you won't be living in a pink room, you'll be living in another room altogether." "WHAT?!" he yelled. Rashi stood behind him and shook her head. "Poor bhai." "So smart in so many things, yet so very dumb in the areas that matter...like what to do when you piss off your wife." "Arohi, I am not moving out of our room." he said angrily. "Oh don't worry, since I'm one of those kind of wives I've taken care of the move for you." "WHAT?" Arjun asked. "I've shifted your clothes and some other necessities over." "Are you kidding me?" He asked in a shocked voice. "What do you think?" she asked dryly. For how long?" "I'm not sure, it all depends on when I'm in forgiving mood." "It could take 3 days or 30 or 300 or 3000 or I may not forgive you at all." Arjun stared at her with shock. Rashi who was watching everything from the door, walked in and nudged her brother. "Flowers, chocolate." she said reminding him. "Oh yeah." "Babe this is for you." "Your favorite chocolates, and roses, I know how much you love them." Arohi stared at the roses and chocolates. "Rashi I'm suddenly allergic to roses, can you please get rid of these." "As for the chocolates...I'll take those." she said snatching the box out of Arjun's hands. "Allergic?" "Since when!" He asked with a confused expression on his face. "Since you walked into the room with them!" Arohi snapped. Arjun threw his hands up the air. I can't win he thought glancing over at Rashi. "I told you the chocolates and flowers wouldn't work this time." she whispered. Arjun glared back at her. "Now if you'll excuse me." Arohi said putting down the paint brush. "I need to go shopping for some accessories for my pink room." "Maybe some pretty Chocolate brown and pink drapes." she said with a smile as she looked at Rashi. Her smile vanished when she turned back to Arjun. Rolling her eyes at him and a flip of her hair she walked into the bathroom. Arjun stared at the closed door. "What was he going to do now?!

Arohi giggled as she flipped through pictures on her laptop. "What's so funny?" Rashi asked from the sofa. It had been a week since Arohi had kicked Arjun out of their room. Arjun had spent the whole week trying to pacify his wife. Gifts, flirting, apologizing, coming home early. Anything and Everything. But Arohi was in no mood to give in. Now Rashi and Arohi were sitting in the family room after dinner. A dinner where Arjun tried his very best to get Arohi to forgive him and Arohi did her very best at ignoring him. "I'm looking at some pics an old highschool friend posted on facebook. Brings back memories. Rashi got up and sat next to Arohi. "Let me see." Flipping through the pictures Rashi stopped on one particular one. "Who is he?" she asked. "That's the friend I was talking about, Sahil." "He's so good looking" Rashi said not taking her eyes off his picture. Arohi looked at his picture. "Yeah, I guess he is." "And he's a super nice guy too." "We were really good friends in highschool." "He was even my date for prom." Arohi said. "You two dated?" Rashi asked. "No, we never dated other then prom." "But that would barely be considered a date." "I know people thought that we were together, but no we were just good friends." "After highschool, he went to the States for University and we kept in touch for a little while but as time went by we lost touch." Now through facebook we reconnected. "Now he's an architect in New York." "And he facebooked me telling me he's coming to India next week for 2 weeks and wants to meet Arjun and I for dinner." "Meeting an old friend of yours would be fun." "Invite him over for dinner." "It'll be more informal." Arohi glanced back at Arjun who stood at the entrance of the family room. "This is a private conversation." "And I have no plans of introducing him to you." "Why not?" Arjun asked sitting down next to her. Arohi got up and moved to a different chair. "Because I don't want to." "Wow, that's mature" Arjun muttered. "What did you say?" Arohi asked glaring at Arjun. "I'm going to leave." Rashi said getting up. "Good idea" Arjun said not taking his eyes off Arohi. "No, you're not going anywhere!" Arohi responded. "GO!" Arjun said. Rashi looked helplessly at both Arohi and Arjun. And then finally decided it was best to leave. Let them sort things out themselves.

Arohi glared at Rashi's retreating back. TRAITOR she thought. Getting up herself she took a step to also leave when Arjun got up and grabbed her. "Let go!" she said struggling as he pushed her back against a wall, standing pressed against her. "NO!" "Not until you listen to me." Arjun said. Arohi glared at him. "I know I was wrong." "But if you for one second put yourself in my shoes and think about it you might see where I was coming from." "You were so stressed with the wedding preparations." "I didn't want to add to that stress." "And later on it just felt like it was too late to bring it up." "I dealt with the situation, telling Megha I wasn't interested and that we shouldn't work together." "I knew she'd never be a part of our life again." "We were just married, and so happy I didn't want a black cloud over our happiness." "You know how much I love you." "I would never intentionally do anything to jeopardize us." Arohi stared at him. "I can forgive you but what if I can't trust you?" she asked. Arjun pulled away. "That's not an option." "This incident was never about trust." "I've never given you a reason to distrust me." "Even when you found out about Megha, one thing you should know without any doubt is that I would never have done anything with her." "You should have that trust in me." "You had that trust in me right?" he asked. "Yes, I do." she said finally. "I trust you." "I know you would never hurt me like that but at the same time I still can't get over the fact that you didn't tell me." "I don't understand why?" "I"m starting to sound like a broken record." "I've apologized a 1000 times." "I've reasoned with you." "I've begged you." "But you just want to keep holding this over me, don't you?" Arjun said angrily. "Excuse me!" "Don't try to change this around and make it about me!" " I didn't kiss someone and not tell you about it!" Arjun's eyes widened. Gritting his teeth he said "I DIDN'T KISS HER!" "Whatever!" Arohi said turning around, her arms folded across her chest. "You know, I've had enough of begging you." "You know the facts!" "When you're mature enough to deal with them, let me know!" Arohi turned around with a surprised expression on her face she watched Arjun stomp out of the family room. "How dare he!" she thought. He was in the wrong, and he turned it around on her. "If he wanted to be that way, then that's fine." "Arohi Singhania wasn't about to give in either!

Arjun stood looking out at the rain. A drink in his hand. It had been 2 days since his and Arohi's big fight. 2 days since he'd talked to her. He missed her. Atleast earlier when they were fighting they were still speaking. Even though it had been him speaking and her yelling. It was still contact of some sort. Now neither one was budging. But why should he. He'd done everything he could, and she was taking things way out of proportion. He loved her. Only her. He'd not even looked at another girl since he'd realized he had feelings for her. And he hadn't hidden those feelings either. She knew from day one how he felt so why now after everything would she even doubt him. Taking a drink from his glass he glanced back at his new lonely bed. It had been ages since him and Arohi had made love, hell even kissed. Didn't she miss him?!

Arohi sat on her window ledge staring out at the same rain. It was gloomy, which was fine because it matched her mood perfectly. She missed Arjun. She'd had a couple days to think about it and yes maybe she had gone over board with her anger. But hearing that someone else had kissed her Arjun had just made her crazy. Arjun was hers. She loved him so much. But now that she thought abut it she had been so stressed during the wedding and if he had told her at that time she would have obsessed over it wasting energy on being mad at Megha. Which in turn would have ruined the wedding festivities for her. BUT she didn't like how Arjun had sneakily turned things around and suddenly made himself the injured party. She had every right to be angry and he should spend as much time as necessary trying to get back into her good books. Pouting she looked around the pink room. "EEW" Pink was not a calming color she thought wincing. Then as she directed her attention back to the rain she thought about how long it had been since she'd felt Arjun's arms around her, or his lips against hers. Didn't he miss her?!