SS: A bet

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His world stopped. His breath halted. He stood shocked, immovable; even his eyes didn't flick, every part of his body was numb.

His head swirled, dim lit lobby was already getting blurred in front of his eyes, the white marvelled floor swirled as it was a whirlpool. He was going to fall, but didn't make any effort to save himself from falling. The truth was he couldn't. His hand touched his chest, it ached. That told him he was alive. The side of his upper arm hit the wall and he fell ultimately on the floor.

He couldn't breath. Just a moment before he blacked out, he hoped what he saw was false, what he heard was just a joke.

Hoped it was just an imagination of his mind.

But if it was the truth, and if he breathed another breath, he had to just live in a world that was fallen apart in pieces, where all his dreams were shatter to pieces as a glass upon falling on the floor.

***
"Arnav!" Khushi shouted horror. The smile on her face was gone. Her own colour face had turned into a white chalk. She rushed towards his fallen body. Fell in front of him. Held his face in her hands, patted his wet cheeks. She herself was drenched in sweat seeing him almost covered in sweat. The fear sunk her heart. The fear she was going to loose him. "Arnav, open your eyes," she begged. Making a mere try to wake him up.

She checked his pulse which was so slow as it wasn't even there.

"No, Arnav, nothing could happen to you," she said more to herself. "Arnav," she shook his body.

"Payal!"

"Payal, call the ambulance!" she shouted. Payal who upon hearing Khushi's screams had rushed out of her room that was upstairs, to see what was the matter.

"Arnav," even she herself almost screamed. She bolted down the stairs. She took out her phone and called the ambulance.

"Khushi, what happened to him!?"

Khushi was breathless.
"I don't know, Payal," she finished her sentence hurriedly and crying. "When I came out of the room, I saw him unconscious. Payal, his heartbeat is almost slow. Just call the ambulance."

"I already have, Khushi," Payal said and rushed to the kitchen to get a glass of water as she retuned back she asked.

Khushi took a glass of water from her and sprinkled water on Arnav's face. No movement.

"Khushi, did he listen us!?" Payal asked shocked.

Khushi froze. Glass of water fell from her hand on the floor, fading the silence.

Payal and Khushi looked at each other in fear.

***
@ The Hospital.

"We can't say anything at the moment," Doctor said. "It was a minor heart attack!"

Tears slipped down Khushi's eyes.
And her heart was beating furiously.

"There is no physical reason to it, Ms. Khushi. Arnav Singh Raizada is a very fit man. It's may be due to the mental pain, as real as physical pain."

Khushi took a step back in shock and her body had almost given up in her, if Payal wasn't standing beside her to lend her the support. "I think you should inform his family."

"We will!" Payal said.

"Khushi, come, and sit!" Payal said.

"Can I see him!?" Khushi asked ignoring Payal's help.

"His health is not at all stable. Next few hours are very critical for him. He will be under observation. I suggest you to meet him after we will consider he is okay."

"It's alright doctor," Payal said in understanding. "Thank-you!" she added on behalf of Khushi, who was broken and in no state to mutter anything. Worries of Arnav hovered her mind.

"Payal, what if he!?" she asked as the only question hovered her mind. Payal had no answer to that.

"Payal, I can't let anything happen to him," she said.

"If anything happened, I won't be able to forgive myself. I won't be!" she broke herself from Payal's grip. "Payal, he has to live. He said we will live together."

"Khushi, you know what are you saying!?" Payal asked. "It has happened because of us."

No matter how harsh the truth was, Payal had said.

"I can't let myself the reason of it, Payal, I can't let anything happen to him," she said as her sentence faded, and she started walking the opposite side.

"Khushi, where are you going!?" Payal asked.

"To make every wrong, right!" she said.

NOTE: This story will be a narrative, and a suspense. Chapters, I don't know yet. However, will be a short story. It will run between past and the future.

If you like the starting, do click like and leave a comment. I will only continue if I get enough likes and comments. The idea clicked my mind and I couldn't stop myself from writing it. Hopefully, you will me join in the story.

Character sketch.
Arnav Singh Raizada: A 24 year old.

Khushi Kumari Gupta: A 23 year old.

They both belong to the rich families. Both families are friends with each other. Arnav has one sister, Anjali; and three cousin brothers named: Akaash, NK, and Dhruv.

Khushi has two siblings. Payal and Karan; they both are Khushi's massi's children.

Khushi, and Arnav are friends, meet during their university days. They fall in love with each other, may be!? And their marriage is around the corner, in only two weeks after the above mentioned incident. However, the edge at which their relationship stood was a lie, and which will have it's consequences that both have to pay.