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New Feelings

Moving towards the kitchen Annika realised that the servants really didn't took out the gold plate which was kind of sacred for the family and need to be present in today's veneration. Nodding her head disappointedly she looked around to find not a single soul present nearby her. She need to know where is that plate kept. Moving towards Dadi's room as she is the only one to tell her the location she reached her room and saw the old lady sitting on the armchair with an album in her hand and even at this age, her hands were stiff and fair as it would be in her early 30's. Well it's just what Annika thought as she knocked on the door.

The old lady as if being in a dream, looked up and Annika didn't failed to notice that she was crying. Kalyani on the other hand, wiped off her tears as fast as she could and smiled softly at her, "yes Annika darling, is there anything you want to know about?" She asked curious as Annika glanced at her sympathetically. Well she knows who's photo she must be looking at and crying as Khanna told her about Mr and Mrs. Shakti Oberoi but never really disclosed how the two died Beside she never got the need to ask anything as she felt she might be interfering in their personal matter. And it was just yesterday she too realised why Mr. Oberoi behaved so indifferent with her at the hospital and she felt terrible for saying that to him.


Well, she never knew about him else she wouldn't have said anything Beside he shouldn't have said that either. And it seems both of them were on the same boat. He doesn't know about her - as if he should know - and she doesn't know about him - as if she cares too - and both of them told each other whatever came to their mind due to their raging mind. But above all this he was the only one to strike that topic which involved her mother. Oh! how she wished she was there with her and haven't left them like this Even if she hated her from the deepest corner of her heart she just can't deny the fact that she was the one who gave birth to her. God! why he need to be so cruel to her where she doesn't even know whether she should be upset with her mother or whether she was her mother altogether or it was all just a mere lie? Her eyes watered at that thought but she held herself not to break down in front of the old lady. Smiling sadly at her she politely asked for the location of the plate and got to know that it was in the storeroom which was beside Shivaay's room.

Handling her the keys, Kalyani blessed her saying that she is looking beautiful and went away muttering that she is going to see how's Priyanka is doing. Annika left the room and went towards the store room. On her way towards it, her mobile rang. Glancing over it she stopped abruptly and her fingers immediately went for the receiving button.

"Hello, Nikhil?" She asked, "Where are you? No calls. No text as well no meeting up?" She was really curious to know where he could be, he just vanished in thin air.


"Oh, Annika. Chill girl" Nikhil tried to calm her down, "I have been trying to call you but there the networks weren't working properly. I told you about my new case and for that I need to go to a small village and I tried calling you earlier but it was switched off."


"Yeah, right" Annika muttered thoughtfully as she realised her mobile's state while she started walking again, "so how was the case? You won. right?"


"Of-course!" Nikhil was elated, "and you know what? I have a good news for you as well"

"What good news it could be then you winning the case huh!?" She smiled fondly at her friend cum boyfriend's achievement and took a right turn straight towards shivaay's room.

"Well, it is much more important and better" he answered and soon his voice turned a bit nervous, "I know I'm late but as I have promised earlier, I'm coming with my family at your place for the alliance"


Annika was stunned for a few seconds and gasping She faltered in her steps and closed her eyes to feel the cold ground when two unfamiliar, strong arms held her in place and she was saved. Unknown to her the speaker button got on and Lifting up her eyelashes she met soft green orbits with brown flecks staring up at her with awe and admiration. They stared at each other like there was no tomorrow until the voice on the other side of the receiver called out for her. Shivaay could hear a manly voice asking for her and the curiosity which hit him, made him restless to know who is the man she is talking to.


Her eyes widen in shock as his words took place into her mind and she gasped, "but how?" She asked bluntly as she looked at her mobile, unknowingly breaking the intense eye-lock in which she was.


"Oh god Anni" Nikhil muttered in amusement, "don't be so shocked, I only said that I'm going to come with my family for the alliance, beside we always wanted this right?"

The sooner he finished, shivaay's eyes shot to meet her's with a feeling of hurt enclosed in his orbs. Anger smerged in his eyes like wild fire, this man had the audacity to call her Anni? Then soon after, the anger turned into pure grief and He doesn't know why he felt a sharp pain pierce his heart when he heard that she was going to be married soon.

She looked at him, still trying to comprehend what really is happening to her. She is been held in the arms of this excessively handsome man - even if he is an arrogant jerk but loves his sister a lot - who in turn was looking at her like she just did something heart breaking while on the other hand the man on the call is informing her that he is coming to fix the alliance and she isn't excited just the way the actresses in the movie must be as said by Gauri else she is feeling normal, as if this was bound to happen. Well this was bound to happen. She was surely gonna be married to him. They were sure. She was sure but now it seems different. It seems like a fish is being said to live on the land, something impossible. Well when is he going to come? Was the question now as she heard that he will call her up later because he can sense that she must be still thrilled to know about this but stopped when she whispered - asked him when he was going to come.

"I'll be coming by tomorrow, or do you want me to come today itself?" 

"No! No" shivaay said in urgency much before Annika opened her mouth to say something as she looked at him with a have-you-grown-horns-on-your-head look while he doesn't know when the sentence rolled out of his tongue like silk because he had a lot of emotion ruling up his mind with which he isn't familiar to yet. He realised what blunder he made and cursed himself mentally while on the other hand, her eyes moved from the mobile towards his face and reality hit her because she just realised in what position they were in, wriggling in his hold she tried to free herself while seeing that uncomfortable look on her face surely took him out of his reverie. 

Not looking into her eyes, he made her stand properly, but didn't let his hands move away from her waist while she was too not consious about it either and switching off the speaker button, she held the mobile to her ears and told him that it was someone else who was calling out to someone when Nikhil asked who was the person who said no. After a minute discussion that she'll call him later and let him know about everything she ended the call. Even if she was talking to him, her whole attention was on Shivaay, who was in deep thoughts, sometimes frowning and sometimes confused.


He isn't able to understand why the thought of her being married to someone else is bothering him this much. She is no one to him. No one. So why this sudden relentless of asking her to not to marry? Shivaay! You need to get hold on yourself, you are getting insane day by day and this is all because of this women standing in front of him In a pink Banarasi skirt and dupatta with black Blouse, looking oh so beautiful.


On the contrary, she wasn't able to comprehend any of it and he was glad for it.

Realising what he did few seconds ago, she narrowed her eyes and looked at him straight, "What was that?" she asked as she pinched the bridge of her nose - still with his arms around her, while his palm lay unnoticed over her bare waist - "I-I actually" Shivaay fumbled for few seconds, "Yes, today is Priyanka's engagement and you need to give your full attention to the function rather then saying yes to the alliance"

Annika's eyes narrowed more and it seems she recently landed here in the mansion from China itself "When I said I'll be saying yes?" 

Shivaay visibly gulped, what the hell is he doing or rather speaking? "it seems so, beside both of you wanted it" he gritted his teeth and turned his head away from her at the mention of 'both', annika just stared confused as hell. 

"why are you so concerned about it Mr. Oberoi?" she was accusing him openly.

"Why would I?" he was fierce as he pressed his fingers more into her flesh, yanking her closer while making her stiff for a moment. 

Was he still holding her? why she never realised it? they were just an inch apart and she didn't got even a whiff of it as well?

"Mr. Oberoi" she whispered in a small voice, adrenaline running the length of her neck and cheeks. 

"Shivaay" he replied as he pressed his lips in a thin line. The word Mr. Oberoi was cringing him to no end while she gazed at him - again - with a confused look. Anxiety running in her mind, "my name is Shivaay, it's not like you aren't acknowledged to it"

"I do" it was a small inaudible whisper but the way her lips moved made him realise what she said.

"then call me Shivaay" his eyes blazed with an unknown emotion which she conclude was nearer to hurt as he lessen the distance between their body, his fingers trying to recognise that softness of hers.

She was repulsive, trying to move away as far as she could as she pushed her upper body backwards, "I can't" the red hue deepened more making her glow in the dim light.


"Why can't you?" He was irritated now, the news of her getting married had already done half the work while this lady was making it difficult for him now, "is it hard to pronounce?!" he wasn't afraid to show his eagerness to her anymore right now.

Her breath caught in her throat as she find his face just a few millimetre away from her and closed her eyes not able to take this anymore. Her every cell which embedded in her body asked her to embrace him and never let him go but that wasn't happening anywhere, anytime!

He saw the difference in her behaviour and raised an eyebrow. Why she turned so hesitant all of a sudden?

"Let me go!" she begged with quivering lips "I have work to do"

His hands immediately let go off her while he felt the warmth which surrounded him a few seconds ago vanish as she stepped backward away from him like he was fire which was ready to burn her to ashes.

Standing there, she doesn't know what to do, she totally forgotten why she came there and fidgeted with her fingers while he looked at it with a blank expression. 

"So" Shivaay started hesitatingly, "are you okay?" He asked as he refrained himself to ask something else which he dearly wanna know but dropped it. She just hummed and as a sign of nervousness, tugged a strand of her hair behind the ear. "Do you want something?" He asked looking here and there to see she had come towards his room. Lot of things happened in this few minutes least to make him conscious of their surroundings.


She fumbled a bit in the starting and then showed him the keys of the store room unable to utter anything. He looked rather confused at her, perhaps he wasn't able to put a finger on what she is doing here that too with a key which he isn't recognised to.

"I ne-need to go to the storeroom" her voice trembled while the frown which adorned his forehead deepens, "to get the golden plate for today's veneration" saying so she moved aside and walked towards the door. He simply looked at how clumsily she tried to open the iron lock with thin, trembling hands. 

Shaking his head at her antics he moved ahead and stood behind her. Snaking his arms across her waist to her trembling hands, he got hold of it making her body tensed up for the next few seconds. She suddenly realised that he is standing threateningly close to her In a comprising position - one moment her back was going to touch his chest - while his hot breath falling over her bare neck was doing nothing good as well.

Her breath got irregular while her heartbeat gained pace as she cursed herself for being affected by his proximity while his cologne was creating a mess in her system. Her hands instinctively went beside her as she fisted her skirt into her palm as he tried to open the lock which was rusted due to not been opened for decades now making him conscious of her struggle with it. The more he moved, the more she shifted ahead. her throat was tied in a tight knot and she felt her ability to talk distinctive.

He - unknown to the terrible effect he was having on her - was focused on opening the lock and didn't realise that his face was inches apart from her and if, even one of them will move, their cheeks are surely gonna touch. Finally with one forced rotation, the lock was opened and he smiled appreciatively, turning his head to the left his lips almost touched her skin, sending shivers run down both of their spine as she trembled profusely while his eyes widen in shock not knowing how this all happened. 

His breath fell over her face as he didn't moved a bit and enjoyed the feel of something soft against his lips. Slowly she turned her head towards his and their eyes met. Their lips just a few millimetre far. Her cheeks had now turned the shade of a beet root when his eyes flickered from her eyes to her lips and then again to her eyes. 

What was happening? Why can't you control your self Shivaay? This is wrong. This is utter nonsense! How can you just think to kiss her?

His mind and heart was in a war. He want to listen to his mind but his heart was demanding new, exciting things from him which he isn't capable of imagining.


God! Someone please save him from this new feeling.

Annika gulped when his hands held her by her stomach literally back hugging her and she was nothing but a shivering mess. The air around them electrified and they knew they couldn't overlook this tension between them. Anymore.

Her mind was a mess. His mind was a mess. They both were in a terrible mess.

"Shivaay" she whispered softly trying to stop whatever was going to come next.

Something flickered in his eyes and she was amused to see the green turning soft blue.

Does his eyes change colour? God! Why she didn't noticed it before?

His eyes was now fixed over her parted plump lips through which his name just escaped and he felt something burst into him. 

She called him by his name. Why it felt so different and good and heartwarming? What was he feeling?

But before he could think of anything, he found himself leaning in and their lips almost touched when suddenly his mobile rang and the spell was broken. Their eyes literally pop out of their sockets and he spank apart from her like a deadly plague. She was breathing hard and didn't turned to look at him while he ran his hand over his hair and cursed himself for going this far but the smile which adorned his lips never seized to escape it. 

Embarrassed enough to stand over there, he turned and went inside his room closing it behind him while she opened the storeroom door and entered it, without even turning she closed it behind her and pushed herself against the door trying her best not to blush. 

What was that? 

They almost kissed! 

What he/she must be thinking of him/her?

This is going to be difficult.

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Elysiannights