Chapter 36
Shivaay was cooking with a stern, Stone Singh Oberoi face. He was not paying attention to Anika who is staring at him from a little ago.
'Look at his face! A little while ago he was smiling and now it's like... leave it... how do I set his mood right?? What should I do??', she wonders.
'Anika, can you please pass me the pepper?', he asked while still cooking. This made Anika to snap out of her thoughts and she went ahead looking for pepper. She was looking for it high and low. Finally, she found it in the top-shelf. She tries to reach out for it, but she couldn't reach it.
'Anika, pepper??', Shivaay shouted out being agitated a little.
'I'm trying to reach it, wait!', she shouted back. Shivaay got a little angered and went ahead to get it himself. He reached out to it by standing next to her. Anika realized their proximity when his hand was on her waist for support. Even he had to tip-toe to get the pepper down. She was frozen for a minute. She turned to look at him. He looks at her confusedly.
'What?', he asked casually.
'Your hand', she hardly managed to whisper because of their closeness.
'What???', he asked.
'Your hand', she whispered a little louder this around.
Shivaay saw his hand still being around her waist. He pulled away immediately saying sorry.
'You shouldn't be sorry', Anika blurt out.
'What??!!!', Shivaay asked being surprised by her answer.
'In fact, you should make the person responsible feel sorry. How stupid the are', she vented out.
'Who?', he asked confusedly.
'The designer and builder of your kitchen. See they've made this top shelf this high. Now you have difficulty reaching it everytime', she explained.
'What are you trying to say exactly? Would you say it clearly?? Dont beat around the bush!', he asked again.
'Actually, they should have considered your height first before building this right? They should have made it lower', she spoke her mind out.
'Are you trying to say that I'm short??', he retaliated.
'Why are you getting miffed over this? I told the truth only right?', she replied smilingly and tries to hide her laughter as she didn't know that it was a sensitive topic to him.
'Very funny, huh?', he asked her sarcastically.
She shook her head while surpressing her laughter with a smile.
'Arrey, it's okay. Why are you being tensed up? It's normal. You''re not enough tall (he was getting furious a little) so you had to tip-toe to get stuffs from the top-shelf. And for support you held my waist.. so there's...', she realized what she just had uttered.
Shivaay smirked at what she just said and played along being innocent.
'So there's??? Come on, continue Anika, I'm listening', he said naughtily.
'There's..., there's... ', she hides her blushing face by looking down.
'Why are you looking down? I'm up here! Hello', he snapped finger in front of her face, but in vain. She was blushing even more.
'Anika??? Are you blushing???', he exclaimed surprisingly.
'No! I'm not!', she denied and walks away while Shivaay was smilling at her.
'Chalo! At least his mood is fine now!', she thought to herself.
Just then, they smelt something burning. They were so engrossed with each other that they forgot the food.
'PHAIL GAYA RAITA!', they said in unison. Shivaay rushed to save his masterpiece meanwhile Anika was just standing there while closing her nose with her hand. She couldn't take the smell of the burnt food. Due to the smoke from the burnt food, the fire alarm got activated.
'Great! This is the only missing thing right now!', Shivaay commented sarcastically.
Just then, Jhanvi Aunty and Dadi rushed there fearing for Shivika.
'What's going on here? How did the food gets burnt???', they asked in unison.
Shivaay and Anika blamed each other without looking at one another.
'His/Her fault!'
'It wasn't my fault!', they said now looking at each other.
Dadi sensed the tension building between these two. She didn't want them to fight again. But, too bad! Shivika being Shivika started arguing.
'It was your fault as you distracted me from cooking', he put the blame on her.
'What? I distracted you? You were the one who came and touched me then started talking nonsense', she said trying hid the touchy part.
'Oh! So now you're saying that the food got burnt because I touched you waist. It means you agree that you distracted me right? Thank you for proving me correct', he burst out.
Anika was embarassed and angry as he told the touchy part in front of Jhanvi Aunty and Dadi. They were shocked and closed their mouth with their hand. She got further annoyed when he didn't apologize and was showing attitude while cleaning the burnt food of the pan.
She picked up a glass of water and 'SPLASH' on his face. Then she gave the glass to him and left the kitchen. Jhanvi Aunty and Dadi were further shocked. Shivaay excused himself and went behind Anika.
'Mummy Ji!! What's all of this?? Who is that girl?? I can't believe she just did that to Shivaay! And Shivaay also didn't say anything! I can't understand anything', Jhanvi Aunty lamented.
'But I can. My eyes might get weaker but not my sight. Billu is changing and that too because of her. There's love spark between them. Let's see if it ignites into flames. Time will tell everything. Now let's prepare something to eat. If we wait for Billu, then we won't be getting breakfast today', Dadi said.
Jhanvi Aunty nodded and went along with Dadi into the kitchen.
Anika entered her room and closed the door on Shivaay's face.
'Anika! I need to talk to you! Open the door', he shouted out while knocking.
'I'm very angry right now! I don't want to talk to you. In fact, I don't even want to see your face!', she shouted out angrily.
'Okay fine!!! Stay in there! Even I dont want to see your face!', he exclaimed and walks away.
This conversation of theirs was heard by Dadi and Jhanvi Aunty who were in the kitchen. In fact, they spoke loud enough for the entire street to hear them.
'Mummy Ji, you were saying something about sparks developing into flame. But, here I think the spark has been watered and there wouldn't be any flame. These two dont even want to look at each others face!', Jhanvi Aunty spoke her mind.
'Ishq aur jung main sab kuch jaayaz hai! Aur yeh tho ishq ki jung hai! (Everything is fair in love and war. And this is love war)'.
Jhanvi Aunty looked at Dadi as if she's an alien.
'I don't understand!', she blurted out.
'Their spark just developed! Let's ignite them!', Dadi said with a mischevious smile.
Jhanvi Aunty looked at Dadi still unable to understand her.
'What are you going to do??', Jhanvi Aunty asked worriedly.
'Nothing much!', Dadi replied with a huge smile this time.
-To be continued-
P.S. There's no precap again! Go on guessing. And yeah, Happy Reading!
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