Hlo darlings

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Trust an innocent mind to come up with the most devilish ideas. Had Om been aware of the devil living in his innocent sister-in-law to be, he wouldn't have come infront of her. But now he was helpless. His brother was behaving extremely crazy to fulfil one wish of his girl and making him, the bait.

"Shivaay have you gone mad ? Atleast think before you speak." Omkara 'tried' to put some sense in the stubborn man's brain and glared Rudra to make him shut his mouth and stop laughing that obviously Rudra didn't do.

"O, you can't do such a small thing for Shivaay bhaiya and Anika bhabi ?" Rudra asked innocently and suppressed his laughter bout.

"Shutup, Rudra. Mai maar dalunga tujhe." Om rubbed his forehead with his fingers to stop the twitching nerve.

"Om, if you can help me in living with Anika under one roof than what is the problem ? I promise I'll do whatever you'll say." Shivaay pleaded infront of his brother, he did something that he thought he would never do unless it is his Sweebit infront of him. Alas, it's fate !

"Whatever I'll say ? Okay walk through the whole city in your boxers." Om said and looked at Shivaay with 'you're-kidding me-dude ?' look.

"Other than that."

"Teach Rudra three digit addition." Om's condition shook Rudra's entire being as he started praying to all the gods already so that Shivaay says no.

"That's impossible for the almighty himself. Other than that ?" Shivaay's words were, for Rudra, like the first rain droplet on the deserted land.

"Be friends with Sidharth Rana." Om was not going to let it go, Shivaay was sure.

"Other than that too."

"Find a good match other than you for Anika bhabi." Om crossed his boundary, that he realised only after the damage was done.

"I DON'T WANT TO KILL YOU, OM." Shivaay's dangerous voice had put an end to Om's argumets and he couldn't come up with another silly things for Shivaay to do.

"Om, I've told Anika that you agreed and she's already started to make arrangements for me and you in her house." Shivaay pleaded with the most vulnerable look adorning his handsome face that melted the already soft hearted Omkara Singh Oberoi.

"What do you mean by you and me, bhaiya ? What about me ? I'll also live with you both in bhabi's house." Rudra jumped in and Om's melted heart froze again.

"Rudra Singh Oberoi ! Return all my credit cards back to me." Shivaay played his ace card and Rudra sat in the furthest corner that he could find in the tiny house.

"I can take Anika to Oberoi Mansion, or anywhere else I want but I want to live here and see her life through her perspective. I want to experience the joy of living with her under everyone's nose. I want to do these silly, illogical things and only you can help me. Om, don't force me to say the courteous word with the initial letter P. That's reserved for your bhabi." Shivaay had turned all serious that left Om speechless but the usual 'I'm Shivaay Singh Oberoi' attitude at last refused to leave him.

"FINE !" Om yelled in frustration but the little smile on his face was telling another story. Shivaay smiled widely and hugged his long haired brother with all his might.

"Obro hug without me ? Hey Bhagwaan mere bhai papaya dhan ho gaye." Rudra cried as he forcefully inserted himself in the hug between Shivaay and Omkara who couldn't do anything but give him space to enter.

"Papaya nahi duffer, it's paraya dhan." Om slapped Rudra's head a little too harshly while Shivaay lovingly caressed the area where Om slapped. Two weird older brothers they were ! They would hurt and scold Rudra and then they will pamper and spoil him too.

"I'm sorry. I should've knocked. I'll come later." They broke the hug after hearing Anika's voice who looked guilty for breaking the famous Obro moment.

"No no bhabi, it's fine. Knocking would be our duty after bhaiya gets married to you." Rudra said, surprising both his brothers. Was he the same Rudra who would never want to break the hug ? But what he said was so stupid that it confirmed he was Rudra indeed.

Anika's heart leapt hearing what Rudra said. Her heart loved it but her mind scolded her for dreaming high. But it was definitely a dream worth dying to fulfil. It was tempting to be in a room with... no !

"Actually Anika Om has agreed to implement your plan so we were just happy." Shivaay changed the topic before Anika could think about Rudra's words.

"But Om agreed earlier itself ? Then why are you telling it to me again ?" Anika

"Oh ! oh yes he did but now he agreed again. He's really excited that's why he told me that he's ready and I.. we celebrated again." Shivaay's words seemed to be as senseless as a silly captcha test on internet site. Nobody could decipher that these words were said by the one who commands thousands of employees.

"I've made arrangements in my house. There are two rooms and you both have to adjust in one room. Hope it's..." Anika was snubbed by Rudra.

"Yeah yeah it's fine. I and O can adjust and you and bhaiya can adjust." Rudra blabbered as always but Om who was standing behind him, pinched his bum making him yell.

"Sorry ?" Anika didn't understand anything so she wanted Rudra to repeat, who was looking at Shivaay who was standing behind Anika and silently daring Rudra to speak while showing the order cancellation email typed in his phone.

"I was saying we three brothers really like to stay together so we'll adjust." Rudra spoke like an obedient kid and Shivaay pocketed his phone.

"You'll live here too ?" Anika asked to clear if she had heard it right. Om was a part of the plan so it was sensible but why would Rudra stay in such a small house, without any luxuries when he could stay in Oberoi Mansion in his comfortable room that might be bigger than her whole house ?

"Don't think that way, Anika. We might be Oberois brothers but before that we're just 'brothers'. We can live even on the road if we are together. We are enough for each other to be happy and comfortable." Om was as always, the sensible and poetic one.

"And Shivaay bhaiya throws tantrums most often so we both can easily manage if bhaiya did." Rudra knew he could loose his car but who cares ? The irritation he caused to his Shivaay's bhaiya is priceless and he wouldn't trade it for anything in this world.

"Yeah ! It's me who was telling a few days ago that I might have caught dengue just because a mosquito sat on my arm when actually I was wearing a dull sleeved T-shirt. Right, Rudy ?" Shivaay was not going to give Rudra this satisfaction of having irritated him. Anything from his limitless credit card to a brand new car but not this satisfaction.

"That was just... to make you smile bhaiya. I was just trying to get you out of your Devdas mode."

"I'd like to ignore you, Rudra. My limit of tolerating stupidity is getting over." Shivaay ignored Rudra who pouted and smiled at Anika who was laughing seeing Rudra's pouty face.

"Om, take these things and get ready, we'll shift today itself." Shivaay said to Om whose smile vanished but he nodded in a yes and took the packet that Shivaay was holding.

A few minutes later, Om walked out of the room he had gone to get ready, leaving everyone's mouth agape. Looking at Om's face anyone could say he was uncomfortable but the love for his brother in his heart was all he cared about. Anika was the only one who was not laughing at Om as she thought he was such a lovely brother who agreed to dress up like a 50 year old woman to help his elder brother. The other two spectators were busy guffawing and whistling.

"Aunty Jj ! Aunty ji ! Get up and dance." Rudra sang and hid his face in the stole of the red banarasi saree Om was wearing. Due to his long, silky hair and clean shaved face Om exactly looked like a typical Indian woman. His saree was poorly draped and he was not able to handle it was another matter. Internet can't teach you everything afterall !

"Rudra Singh Oberoi, I'll kill you." Om shouted at Rudra and pushed him away like he was infected with some dangerous virus and he himself looked like a bull with two imaginary horns on his head but Rudra didn't stop laughing. Om looked at Shivaay who was trying to control his laughter.

"Shivaay do you want me to do this ?" Om looked at Shivaay threateningly. Shivaay knew he was going overboard now so he dragged Rudra away because stopping this silly laughter was impossible.

"I'm so sorry for doing this to you, I think we should think of something else." Anika's sweet voice was full of guilt and kindness that Om's anger cooled down in a minute. Not only for his brother's love and his love life he was doing all of this, he was also doing it for his innocent sister in law-to-be, for her happiness. They had given her a lot of pain then why back off when it was about making her smile.

"Not at all. It's fine. I might be uncomfortable but this is actually fun. There'll be something in future for me to recall and laugh when I'll get bored." Om smiled his usual smile and Anika smiled in relief.

Finally Shivaay packed his belongings and Rudra helped him with nothing, as expected. They left the house from the same window at the back of the house and reached Anika's house.

The whole idea of staying under one roof would've been a complete disaster without a woman staying with them. They couldn't obviously lie to everyone that Shivaay was Anika's brother or something. This idea did come to Anika's mind and, eventually to Shivaay's mind too but it was puke worthy to even think about. So it was pushed into the imaginary dustbin.

Anika knew better that she could manage anyone in her colony but the one and only Lata aunty or to say, Lata didi as the old lady prefers to be addressed as, was impossible to double cross. That lady was irritating as hell but she was one smart woman, she would never use her smartness in something good was another matter. It was like breakfast lunch and dinner for her to visit every house of the colony and gather gossip for her back bitching group consisting four other annoying ladies.

It had not been even an hour to the whole shifting thing, when the famous lady in talk entered Anika's house. Shivaay who was sitting in the living room, trying to concentrate on his work and ignore Rudra as much as he could, was startled to see the unknown yet known lady. He never met her personally but he definitely knew this gossip queen. Oh how disgusting he found to use the word queen for this lady !

"Who are you both ?" The first thing she spoke was not a hello but the question that sounded no less than a brick thrown at a street dog.

"I.. we are..." Shivaay fumbled as he didn't know what to say and Rudra stood there silently, mentally comparing the fat lady to an oily burger prepared on a roadside stall, to a cheap makeup kit, and not to forget, a cheap lady ghost in a C grade movie.

"Lata aun... didi, please come in. How are you ?" Anika came out just at the moment Lata was about to start using her own brain to guess who these two, very good looking men were.

"I'm fine but who are these two ?" Shivaay furrowed his eyebrows in annoyance because this lady was exactly like those cheap TV serial vamps who don't care about pleasantries or the thing named courtesy but only about defaming and troubling others. His miniscule sized patience had already started fading bit by bit.

"They... they are Gauri's distant cousin bothers. This is Shivaay and that's Rudra." Anika said what she had decided to tell anyone who would ask and introduced Shivaay and Rudra to Lata.

"Gauri's brothers ? But she is an orphan." Lata was sure she wasn't going without full investigation.

"She's not an orphan, first of all. I'm her family as much as she's mine. And these two are relatives of Gauri's foster parents. So they are Gauri's family too." Anika was a bit enraged because she hates when someone calls Gauri orphan. She is her best friend and little sister and she's definitely not an orphan until Anika is alive.

"Oh I didn't mean to say it like that. Ofcourse you're Gauri's family and these two are your brothers too." Lata smiled a creepy smile in order to hide her embarassment.

"NO ! I.. I'm not their brother." Shivaay shouted all of a sudden and Rudra chuckled, already knowing the reason of such a reaction.

"But Anika said you're her brother." Lata counter attacked.

"I'm Gauri's brother, not HERS."Shivaay clarified but it confused Lata more.

"One and the same thing." Lata said when she couldn't understand anything, Anika was thankful she didn't understand what Shivaay meant but she herself was definitely blushing seeing Shivaay's reaction.

"It's not one and the same thing." Shivaay’s voice wasn't loud but his facial expressions clearly gave away the fact that he was angry to the point of throttling this fat vamp.

Anika couldn't let Shivaay ruin the perfect plan they had made so she signalled Rudra to take Shivaay in his room. Rudra was only too glad to do that because he wanted to laugh so bad that his lips hurt because of being pressed together so hard.

"Anika, I'm just like your elder sister. That's why I would like to suggest you not to stay with two men like this. You might be seeing them as your brothers but who knows what they hold in their hearts ? You should be careful." Lata expressed her fake concern that Anika hated so much. She was boiling like lava at the mere thought of considering Shivaay like her brother, to top that off, this lady was bad mouthing about those three people who would do anything to protect her from any harm. She had known about Shivaay long ago but Om and Rudra gave her a sense of security that a brother would give hus sister and her Khanna bhaiya gives her.

"You don't have to worry about that. I'm here to take care of her." Anika heard an unknown voice and looked behind to see Om looking at Lata with a fake smile. She was surprised to see Om acting like a woman so perfectly. Till an hour ago, she was scared that these three brothers might laugh when confronted by anyone. Om was definitely a good actor.

"I'm Shivaay and Rudra's mother, Urmila." Anika came out of her thoughts hearing Om's... sorry, Urmila's voice.

"I... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say anything bad about your sons. I was just worried about Anika. Please forgive me." Lata apologised to Urmila,though it didn't look like an apology but a compulsion out of fear of being beaten. Urmila nodded with a tight smile and to Anika’s horror, Lata hugged Urmila.

"It's okay." Urmila could say only that much because she.. he.. or whatever ! was uncomfortable in the tight hug. Even better to say, the Om within Urmila was super uncomfortable.

"I should leave now. I'll come tomorrow and we'll have a nice cup of tea for sure, Urmila ji." Lata said to Urmila even when no one invuted her for eben water and left making Anika sigh in relief.

"Just to be sure, is she a woman ? Her grip was like she's The Undertaker's pupil." Om huffed as he rubbed his arms and sat on the sofa being tired of that annoying saree. Hats off to woman who wear sarees !

Anika stared at Om for a moment and Om stared back before they started laughing like kids. Anika knew, at that moment, that these few days with these three brothers were going to be the best days of her life.

Meanwhile, in the room Shivaay was still cursing that 'vamp' as he had started calling her and Rudra was enjoying an apple while watching the free of ticket movie.

"Come on, bhaiya, now don't behave as if that witch asked bhabi to tie rakhi on your wrist." Rudra tried to lighten Shivaay's mood but ended up annoying him more.

"Don't even say such words, Rudra. I've heard Goddess Lakshmi sits on our tongue once in a day and what you say during that time it comes true. You may never know when it is. So just shhh." Shivaay blabbered and said something he used to call stupid during his teenage and that too wrong.

"For the first time I'm the one correctimg you, isn't this belief about goddess Saraswati ? And, do you even hear yourself, bhaiya ?" Rudra said after controlling himself as he had chocked listening to his Shivaay bhaiya's words.

"It's because that lady has messed up my mind. Did you even hear what she said ? She called me my Anika's brother !" Shivaay spoke as if someone had tried to kill him, as if all the avengers had become evil all of a sudden, as if there had been a role reversal of Cindrella and her stepmother.

"But bhaiya, it's not that you agreed or Anika bhabi called you bhaiya. Did she ?" Rudra said, trying to sound as serious as he could but that smile after seeing the stupid side of his sensible elder brother was not ready to disappear.

"It's not funny, Rudra." Shivaay banged his palm with the wall and Rudra put his finger on his lips nodding his head in a yes.

"Okay, bhaiya. I understand your feelings. But don't spoil your mood because of a nobody. You're going to stay under one roof with your Sweebit, with my bhabi. Concentrate on that." Rudra hit the perfect cord and the frown on Shivaay's forehead vanished and he sat on the bed smiling widely.

"Yes. I should ignore that vamp. I may be.. Actually I'm Gauri's brother but not my Anika's brother." Shivaay chanted the same thing but this time he wasn't angry which was a relief for Rudra.

"Yes bhaiya. You're not anyone's brother." Rudra assured.

"What rubbish are you talking, Rudra ? I'm your brother, Om's brother, Priyanka's brother, and Gauri's brother too but not HERS. Not my Anika's brother." Shivaay chanted like a mad man and went to restroom, leaving a confused and tired Rudra behind.

"Just to be sure, whose brother am I ?" A confused Rudra asked noone in particular and took a bite of his apple.

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