Hlo darlings

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Nothing is more innocent in this world than a baby in a deep slumber. The innocence his face radiates is beyond words. It gives peace to an aching heart and a smile on lips that don't know what smile is. Shivaay looked like that innocent baby.

His head had a dressing with a slight red patch on it near his temple region. His right arm was plastered, his hair were messed up. But even in this messed up state she found him handsome.

With small, baby steps she approached him and sat on the small stool beside his hospital bed. Her hand found its way to his hair on its own accord. She was trying to assure herself that it wasn't a dream. She wanted to assure her restless heart that he was safe and infront of her.

"He looks so innocent while sleeping. Who would say this man makes everyone dance to his tunes." She giggled at her thoughts but she wasn't happy. Her tears were the manifestation of the pain she was enduring seeing him laying so lifeless.

She wanted him to get up and scold and shout at everyone around her. She wanted to look into his eyes and see in them the care he has for her, the useless care that led him to this hospital bed. She wanted to scold him for his stupidity. He could've died because of his foolishness, she wanted to tell him that.

"You know what ? You're looking like a baby who is sleeping without any worries. Why won't you sleep ? Afterall, I'm here to bear all the tension for you. You are doing all this for your so called revenge. It's my punishment for misunderstanding you right ?" Anika whispered as she caressed his raven locks with her fingers. She didn't realise how close she was to him with her nose almost touching his nose. She didn't realise she was crying until her tears blurred her vision of his innocent face.

"Usually you don't let anything go against your favours, then why didn't you stop me from going against you and always blabbering rubbish about you ? Why did you tolerate my nonsense behavior ?" She asked while clutching his hospital uniform's collar in her fist, but as softly as one would hold a feather.

"Why are you not answering me ? Now would you like Khanna bhaiya to answer my questions ?" She asked him with a frown on her face as if he was hearing and seeing everything. But her eyes lost the anger they had in them and her face softened.

"You look good when scolding, shouting and ruling everyone like a king, not here. I don't want to see you like this. I like to see you in you usual tadibaaz style. Please wake up." She sobbed and rested her forehead on his chest while her hands still fisting his hospital uniform.

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His eyelids felt heavy as he tried to open them. The light falling on them made it even more difficult for him to adjust his vision. His brain was asking him to close his eyes but he wanted to wake up. Although the dream he had seen a few minutes ago was beautiful but he didn't want to give false hopes to his heart so it was better to wake up.

How could she be with him and then say all those things to him when he had given her nothing but betrayal and lies ? He wanted to get up but the weight on his chest prevented him from moving.

The first thing he saw after opening his eyes were those silky black locks that were unmistakable for him. That mild but captivating fragrance he inhaled, he knew, belonged to his Sweebit. But again, how was it possible ?

As his senses became alert and the effects of anesthesia were fading, he realised that he was not dreaming. She was actually resting her head on his chest. Almost whole of her weight was on him but it made him so comfortable that he didn't want to move and break this moment.

He wanted to engulf her in his arms and without thinking he moved his arms, only to feel a sharp pain sting him in his right arm. The cast on his arm wasn't a shock for him for he had felt the impact of the fall yesterday. It was terrible. But not more than the fear of loosing her. And now when he recalled the horrible incident of yesterday, he moved his left arm and hugged Anika without caring about the consequences.

This was the day he was longing for, to feel her in his embrace. Though it was a one sided hug but it was enough for him. He was still not out of his stupor of this beautiful moment when she suddenly turned her face towards him that led to her nose touching his chin. She looked pale and tired. The tear marks on her face scared him. He felt guilty for being the reason for her tears once again. Had he not faked being Shivinder she might not have cried so much. Only if he knew she was not crying because of him but for him.

He was silently staring at her face but of course, it had to stop. He was scared of her reaction after finding herself sleeping on his chest and his arm around her, but at the same time, he didn't want to leave her. So he did what he thought was best. Pretending to be asleep.

Anika's eyes fluttered open and she found herself so close to him that her nose was touching his chin. She could feel his stubble pricking her face. But she wasn't scared of this closeness. She wanted to touch his face and feel that stubble against her palms that made him look so handsome. She observed his face so keenly for the first time and she realised, those girls who came for the interview were not at fault. He had such face that could lead any innocent heart to corruption.

"Chhee chhee Anika, how can you be such a cheapri ?" Anika whispered to herself, but unknowingly she was making someone confused with her blabbering.

She didn't know what she was thinking or doing because she couldn't move. She didn't want to move away from him even after realising that she might be hurting him with her weight.

Shivaay couldn't control himself anymore and opened his eyes, only to find her looking at him. Anika was scared of him for looking at her with such softness in his eyes but she didn't want to move either. She felt like she belonged here, to him.

Good things have to come to an end and so did there intense eye lock when the door of the ward opened revealing a nurse followed by a scared Khanna. He was trying to stop the nurse from entering, Shivaay could see, but the damage was done. Anika was already looking embarassed with her cheeks looking like strawberries. Could he kiss those beautiful cheeks ?

The nurse looked annoyed seeing Anika leaning on to him with almost whole of her weight resting on the 'handsome' poor patient.

"What the hell are you doing, girl ? Don't you know he needs rest ? Are you a kid you stupid.." her shrill voice had the capacity to pierce someone's eardrums but she still had no idea what disaster she had called for herself.

Even before she could take a step ahead towards Anika, she found a pair of hazel eyes throwing daggers at her.

"Get out of here !" The scream was so loud that Anika and Khanna felt the whole hospital might have heard and a few people might have escaped the building assuming it to be an earthquake. Anika hugged Shivaay out of fear.

The nurse was gone before anyone could fathom what had happened and Khanna didn't want to be an unwanted bone in the meat so he too left the room closing the door behind him. Anika peeped through her lashes to find his gaze still fixed upon her.

"You are bipolar." Anika said absent mindedly and Shivaay, though didn't understand what she meant by this remark, but still looked at her with innocent puppy eyes.

"A few minutes ago I thought you were innocent like a baby but... now you look like a lion on a killing spree." Anika chuckled but her smile faded when she realised what has happened to him and where they are.

"Are you okay ?" Anika asked as she tried to get up but his hand had his own mind that was resting on her waist.

"How can I not be okay ?" He replied in a barely audible voice that made her feel jittery throughout her body.

It was only when she struggled a bit that he realised he was holding her and he let her go even when he didn't want to. While getting up Anika's hand touched his casted arm causing him to yelp in pain.

Anika panicked as if she had dropped a nuclear bomb and she was, once again leaning on to him to soothe him somehow. She was examining his arm but he didn't care even if it was broken completely. All he was doing was enjoying her attention and care for him.

Unknown to him, she was dieing in guilt for being the reason for his pain. He was in hospital because of her and now she hurt his arm that was already broken. She didn't know what to do except crying.

The smile plastered on his face was wiped off with a sob that left her mouth. Her face was veiled from him due to her hair but he knew she was crying. It was intolerable for him to see her like that.

With his left hand he forced her to look at him that she did without any protests because she was not herself in those moments. She was guilty for hurting him physically as well as mentally. He wiped her tears but the fresh ones kept flowing down her cheeks.

"Stop crying, Sweebit. What happened ?" Shivaay asked as if asking a child. But it wasn't his fault, she did look like a helpless child crying for his mother.

"You don't know what happened ?" He was taken aback by her loud voice and anger in her eyes. No one could say she was the same girl who was crying a few seconds ago.

"Are you insane ? You could've died after what you did yesterday. You are not a superman who can take anything upon himself. You are mad. Completely insane. You're crazy. You are an idiot, a fool. Bagadbilla ! I hate you." Anika blabbered anything and everything that came to her mouth and she didn't realise she was beating him with her fists. Her anger shot a notch up when she saw him smiling.

"Are you deaf ? I'm calling you names and you are smiling." Anika didn't know what to do, his behavior was beyond her understanding now. Suddenly her eyes widened and she looked at him like a kind hearted girl would look at a poor puppy in rain.

"Your brain has been affected. That bull like creature hit you on your head yesterday that's why you are behaving like this. Let me tell about it to the doctor." Anika's monologue was interrupted when Shivaay coughed to gain her attention.

She looked at him with the same pitiful eyes but he smiled and his smile was converted into a deep, throaty laughter that mesmerised her.

"You are... you're so.. so cute Anika... like really ? Oh my God !" Shivaay murmured while laughing at the way she interpreted his behavior.

"I thought you've gone mad." Anika mumbled and looked at him with her lips forming a pout.

In any other situation, he might have felt like taking her in his arms and kiss her hard and passionately, not that he didn't want to do it now but at this moment he couldn't stop himself from laughing at her cuteness. He couldn't believe she was that innocent.

His laughter died in his throat when he saw her shedding tears once again. He didn't know she was that serious about his health. He cursed himself for not taking her worries seriously and he did what he thought was the best way to make her forget his previous careless behaviour.

He kissed her forehead and rubbed her tears off her cheeks. He never knew kissing her would give him so much happiness as he felt in these few seconds. She was still not happy but to his relief, she was not crying either.

"I'm fine, Anika. Nothing has happened to me. I won't lie that it's not hurting but more than that I'm feeling relieved that you're safe. Nothing matters to me more than you." Shivaay stopped to see if she had to say something but she stayed silent and stared at him.

"Will you be able to forgive me for lying to you ? Will you believe me when I say I didn't want to hurt you or I didn't mistrust you ? My sole intention was to save you." Shivaay looked at her expectantly. He wanted her to say that yes, I forgive you and that I believe you. But she stayed quiet.

"I can't forgive you. I can't trust you." She said with no expressions on her face. He felt he would die the very next moment, the heart ache was unbearable for him. So much it hurt him that he couldn't stop his tears.

"I can't forgive you for hurting yourself for me. I can't trust you that you won't do anything so reckless as you did yesterday in the future." She said as she wiped his tears.

"I can't forgive you for faking being Shivinder. Now I know it was not an ordinary, cute and sweet Shivinder Singh but this rich, arrogant and rude businessman who I thought to be my friend." She looked at him with anger in her eyes.

"I found a friend in him that I've lost now. I'm alone once again and it's all because of you. You gave me a hope and you snatched it too. I thought I have a caring friend but now I know I don't, because Shivaay Singh Oberoi won't be that friend for me ? Will he ?" Anika looked at him with expectation written all over her face but he was still in his own world full of misery and heartache.

"Anika I'm so sorry, I had no intention to hurt you but..." Shivaay started his rant again but she snubbed him and it would be a lie to say he wasn't scared of her anger.

"Who the hell in this world was such a fool who gave you the title of the best businessman of the country ?" She asked and he shrugged his shoulders telling her he didn't know.

"You... you.... you.. BILLU !!!" Anika shouted and left the ward after punching him on his chest.

Only after she left that he had the time to think clearly what she was saying and what she meant. But it was too late now. The damage was done.

He was busy in telling himself that it was a beautiful dream but when he realised it was not a dream but a reality, she was gone and he didn't know how to control the damage that his stupidity had caused.

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