I know that you guys are very much interested in knowing what Anika messed up this time. Don't worry, I'll reveal it in this chapter. It's not a very huge raita, but I guess you'll enjoy it and you guys know where to let me know about it 😉. Okay... enough of my nonsense, now let's get to the chapter.

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The next morning, Anika got up earlier than Gauri and rushed to her room being all ready.

'Gauri! Gauri! Wake up!', Anika shouts out as she enters her room.

'What happened???!!! Ani???!!! You're here??? So early??? That too all ready to go to work??? Did the Sun rise from west today??? What happened???!!', she woke up startled.

'Gauri go and get ready quickly! I've to reach office earlier today. Maine raita phailaya hai wahanpar [I've made a mess there]. I have to set it right before that Sadu finds out about it. Quickly go and get ready', she instructed Gauri.

'Calm down! Tell me what happened first, would you? Already I slept really late last night talking to OmkaraJi and now you woke me up with such a huge tantrum. So I deserve to know. What raita did you spread this time?', she asked demandingly.

'Woh...', Anika started.

Shivaay was early to office that morning. He has some important presentation hence he came to prepare for it. Anika peeped into his cabin without knocking with a hope that he wouldn't be in there. She was shocked to see him working and pulled closed the door.

'Phail gaya raita! Now what should I do???', she said to herself.

Anika calms herself down and was about to knock the door when Shivaay opened it all of the sudden. He got frighten to see her standing right infront of his door like that. He held his heart and spilled 'Fhat the wuck is wrong with you Anika?'.

'I'm so sorry Sir! I didn't mean to frighten you. I was about to knock the door but you opened it before. Technically I'm the one who should be frighten', she blurted out.

'Oh really?', he asked sarcastically. 'By the way, what are you doing here so early? And how's your ankle now?', he asked while looking down at her leg.

'It's fine now Sir! I'm good! My ankle is good. I'll take my leave then. By the way, are you going anywhere?', she asked sheepishly.

'Good to know that you're ankle is fine. And its not just me alone but you're also coming with me. We were supposed... I mean me and Ms.Chanda were supposed to go for an important presentation in a while but this morning she called-in her sick leave. Since you're here, you should come with me. In fact, you should do the presentation. It will be very helpfull for your future. Besides, that's what this internship is all about right?', he told her.

'It's good that he's going out. At least he'll be away from my homework. And to add to this, he's ordering me to join him. I can keep an eye on him while Gauri can sneak into his cabin and set it right.', she thought to herself.

Shivaay snapped his fingers in front of her face, 'Where are your thoughts swaying?'

'Nowhere! Shall we go now?', she asked happily.

'Yeah, this way.', he led her towards the car park. As soon as they entered the car, Anika texted Gauri to fix her mess.

She was calmly listening to music in the car when Gauri's message kicked in her inbox. She opened it and saw 'I couldn't find it anywhere, sorry Anika!'. She started to get nervous and get sunk in her wave of negative thoughts. Due to tension and nervousness, she started feeling uncomfortable and was fidgeting.

Shivaay noticed this and held her hand. She immediately turned to look at him when he held her hand.

'I can understand that you're nervous as this is your first presentation. You'll be fine if you do it just well. Don't stress yourself unnecessarily', he encouraged her with a smile them let go of her hand.

'This stupid Sadu Singh Oberoi! He thinks I'm getting nervous about presentation. When in reality I'm worried about something else. Where on earth did you put my homework pile', she cursed him mentally.

While Anika as cursing him, they had already arrived at the venue of meeting and Shivaay gave his keys to the valet parking. Anika was still seating inside the car cursing her Sadu. Shivaay got a little annoyed and opened her door making her come out of the web of thoughts she was stucked in.

'Do I have to send you invitation to get down of the car and enter?', he asked sarcastically.

She nodded then realized his question and immediately shook her head.

'Whatever, just follow me', he said and walked ahead while she followed him.

They reached the meeting hall and greeted the clients. Shivaay introduced Anika to the clients and they were quite surprised that Shivaay has ordered an intern to do the presentation.

'Alright Anika! This is a huge thing. Don't blow this up thinking of your homework. That's just a homework. Shrug it off! Shake it off! You got this. Worry about that later!', she self-motivated herself and went infront to do her presentation. Once she's infront, she looked at Shivaay, he nodded his head asking her to proceed.

The lights were turned off and the projector was started. Anika got the shock of her life when she saw the title of the presentation. It was AHAANA AUTHENTHICS' AUTUMN COLLECTION. She shrug her thoughts off thinking that her skectches will not be there and started the presentation. Initially she was struggling a little in explaining things, but soon she caught up with the pace.

'And now, for the show stopper's outfit! Here we go', she said and clicked the slide.

'PHAIL GAYA RAITA', she told herself and looked at Shivaay who just smiled a little and signed her to continue.

You guessed it right! It's her sketch that appeared. She stammered as she was about to explain the looks of her own sketch. Shivaay understood that she was in a shock and got up to help her.

'Ladies and gentlemen, this sketch was made by our very own Miss Anika de Cruz who's presenting right now. She didn't know that her sketch will be included in our Autumn collection. That's why she's stammering like this. Allow me to explain this finale look', and he went on explaining.

The clients loved the presentation especially the finale look and asked them to proceed with it. They shook hands with them and left.

'You got surprised when you saw that sketch of yours appeared right?', Shivaay asked her.

She was in a deep shock. The piece, the only piece that has a mistake was put up as the finale look. She can't shrug it off and pretend like it didn't happen even if she desperately want to do so.

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Flashback:

That day when she has to submit her homework by 5, after Ms.Chanda informed her that Shivaay called her into his cabin [the thank you card and termination letter confusion scene], Anika went through her sketches one last time. One of her sketches' choice I fabric has gone missing and she hadn't had enough time to look for it. She looked around and concluded that she has misplaced it. She sat down with despair when she saw a scarf in her handbag. She immediately took it off, ripped a small amount of it and attached it on the sketch.

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'Anika! What happened?', he called her out.

'Shivaay Sir! I need to tell you something. Please don't get angry, there's been a mistake. But don't worry, I'll rectify it.', she reassured him before spilling the beans.

Shivaay was a little worried now but still he listened to her very intuitively.

With much difficulty, Anika finally revealed about the raita she kept on talking about. Shivaay got furious at her actions. He was holding only his phone at that time. His face began to turn red due to anger and peng! Another phone became a victim of his anger. The smashing sound of the phone and his angry got Anika all scared.

PRECAP: Shivika in Dehradun.

-To be continued-