'Let's do this together!', Anika uttered.

'Pinky promise?', Shivaay very much innocently pointed his Pinky finger towards Anika. She was a little baffled at this, nevertheless, she locked her Pinky finger with his and said, 'Pinky promise!'.

Shivaay smiled at her reply. Just then, Om cleared his throat making the both of them realize that Om and Gauri were standing by the door. Om with Shivaay's medicine box and Gauri with extra clothes for Anika. Shivaay got up and walked away bringing Om after handing the medicines to Gauri.

'What's going on Ani?', Gauri asked her.

'I don't know! But whatever that is happening, it feels good', Anika replied with a smile. And then, she sneezed again.

'Offo! Get changed first then take this medicines!', Gauri instructed.

Anika made a disgusted face looking at the medicines and then turned to look at a glaring Gauri. She then simply went off to change her clothes.

Shivaay and Om were in Shivaay's cabin.

'Shivaay, what's going on between you and Anika? What were you guys talking about doing it together? Huh?', Om asked.

'It's nothing Om. We were just talking about the show launch and finale piece. That's all. You go and get ready to go to Paris. By the way, what time is your flight tomorrow?', he asked avoiding the topic.

'Fine! Don't tell. You're always like this! Whenever it's someone else's problem, you sense it before we could talk to you. But now when you're under some stress, you aren't saying anything. I thought I could help, but how am I supposed to do it without you talking about it?', Om questioned.

'Om please! Please let's drop that and focus on this project first. I'll tell you everything about it once I myself understand the situation. And I'll definitely seek your help if I need it. I promise!', Shivaay genuinely spoke his mind out.

Om agreed with a nod and placed his hand on Shivaay's shoulder to show him that he's always with his brother no matter what.

Anika was then called into Shivaay's cabin. She went in quite nervously. Shivaay began asking about the finale piece and behaved very normally with her. She was puzzled. Actually, she was confused about this man.

'Ajeeb admi hai yeh! [Such a strange person he is] He changed his behaviour just like a chameleon changes it's skin colour. Sadu!', she cursed him in her mind.

Just then, they heard a knock on the door. It was Khanna.

'Come in, Khanna!', Shivaay invited him in.

'Did you get what I had instructed you to?', he asked as soon as Khanna was inside his cabin.

'Yes, Sir!', he replied with a little tremble in his voice.

'What's going on?', Anika asked confusedly.

'I had asked Khanna to find out who leaked the video of us. Now we'll get to know the culprit', Shivaay roared.

'This is the CCTV footage that day Sir', Khanna gave him the IPad being hesitant a bit that Shivaay has to pull it forcefully from his hand. Khanna looked at them worriedly as they were focused on the CCTV footage.

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Footage Plays (with no sound):

First Shivaay walked quickly from the elevator into his cabin. Then, he was followed by Anika in a while. Right behind Anika, a woman was recording a video on her phone and walked right behind them. Her face couldn't be seen clearly. Then, she was seen standing by Shivaay's cabin's door taking a video of the incident. She then rushed away before Anika comes out.

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'What is this Khanna???!!! We couldn't even see this woman's face!!!', Shivaay shouted out in anger. 'Couldn't you get her face from another angle???'

'Woh Sir, it's in the next video', he uttered.

And they saw the face of the woman!

'Mallika???!!!', Shivaay exclaimed and looked at Khanna.

Khanna plainly nodded.

'You know her?', Anika asked.

'Of course he does!', a voice replied from his door. And there she was. With a wide smile in an off-shoulder light-blue dress.

'Hi Shivaay!', she said waving.

'Oh bete ki! Toh tumne yeh saara raita phail laya? [So you caused this mess] ', Anika asked surprisingly.

'Raita? What's that? Anyways, its good to finally meet you girl! Whoa! What a brave person you are! You splashed water on the Shivaay Singh Oberoi's face!!! That was epic!!!', she exclaimed and hugged Anika.

Shivaay was trying to control the overwhelmness in the room but in vain. Anika went on with her self-appreciation talk or should I say tadi. After finally being done with her tadi, she asked,'By the way, who are you?', to Mallika.

They both looked at Shivaay for a proper introduction between the two of them.

'I thought you both don't need an introduction. Just a little while ago you were talking as if you knew each other since ages', he commented sarcastically which made both Anika and Mallika to glare him.

'Anyways, Anika, this is Mallika, one of the best models of Ahaana Authentics and...', before he could finish it.

'And... a good friend of his! Actually I wanted to be his girlfriend. But too bad, I got friendzoned, you see! Sometimes his behaviour makes me think ki agar mada ladla bigadgaya!', she interrupted and laughed her heart out. Her last sentence made Khanna and Anika laugh along as well. This was making our Sensitive Singh Oberoi even more furious.

'Done?', Shivaay asked Mallika with a little sarcasm. Mallika plainly nodded.

'And Mallika, this is Anika! My intern and... urrmm... she's under my team. She'll be doing the finale piece which you will be wearing as the show stopper', he said.

'It would be exciting to work with you Anika!', Mallika exclaimed.

'I also feel the same!', Anika replied and the girls gave each other a Hi-5. Then they went into a hug.

'And I can feel the effect of you too being together already', Shivaay thought to himself.

'But I can only be here for just another hour. I'm going with Om to Paris you see. So we'll meet only after a week!', Mallika said sadly.

'No problem! We'll work together after that! I'll just take your measurements today', Anika said while tapping her shoulder.

'But I don't understand one thing!', Shivaay interrupted the girls' talk.

'What?', both asked in unison.

'Why did you made the video viral?', Shivaay asked with a confused face.

Anika and Khanna were also confused. They all looked at Mallika for an answer while she was lost at words.

PRECAP: Shivaay getting a call from Anika in the middle of night.

-To be continued-

P.S. So how was it guys? You all thought it was Khanna right? 😂