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Shivaay and Anika went into her house and started cleaning some of the mess while waiting for the renovator to come. They swept away the shards of glasses, the filling of the sofa and the food which was everywhere on the floor.

'These people are mad!', Anika exclaimed while cleaning.

'What??? Why???', Shivaay asked her confusedly.

'Then what? Those two bastards broke-in with the intention of raping me. Instead of finding me, why did they make a mess of my house? And see I have to do the cleaning now! May the bastards rot in jail forever!', she started to blabber while cleaning. Shivaay was just smiling at her banter.

'This girl! Yaar!!! Nothing can be done to her. Kitna bolthi hai aur drama toh ek baar shuru hoti toh khatam hone ka naam hi nahi leti![She talks so much and drama, it just doesn't end]. But that's what that makes her to be like this! Cute and innocent... like a child but she's beautiful and hot at the same time. Hot? Shivaay! What's wrong with you?', he thought to himself.

'Aaahhh!', Anika screamed out all of the sudden.

'What happened? Did you get hurt or what???', Shivaay went upto her all panicked.

'Yes! I got hurt! Big time!!!', she said.

'Where??', he asked and started checking her hands.

'Not here! But here!', she said and points towards her heart.

'Huh?', Shivaay was all confused.

'Then what? Look at this na Shivaay Sir! They have spilled all my cookies!!! They're so mean!!! They wasted food!!! My food!!!', she again started her banter.

'Mad woman! I got worried for you for no reason then. I mean it's just cookies and you reacted as if you got hurt!', he shouted out being furious.

'Aawwhh!!!'

Shivaay felt weird at her reaction. He was looking at her as if she was an alien.

'What... why... I mean... what are you doing? Why are you giving this reaction?', he asked her.

'Its inappropriate right?', she asked him back smilingly.

'Yes! If you know it then why you did it?', he asked her again.

'Because I'm mad right! That's why!!! That's exactly why I did that!', she roared. Her smile a little while ago has disappeared.

'Mad??!!', Shivaay said that word quizically.

'Yeah! Just a while ago you called me mad right!!!', she rebuked.

'Yeah right! You heard only that right? You didn't hear what I said afterwards right? I got worried for you and you are stuck at the word mad!', he retaliated.

Anika was about to open her mouth to say something but what Shivaay said just hit her head. She became speechless. She didn't know how to react at what she just heard. All she could do was helplessly stare at his deep blue-green eyes. Their eye-lock were broken when they heard a knock on the door. Both of them turned to look at the door. The renovator has already arrived there.

'Hello Sir! Hello Madam! I'm Mr. Mishra. Renovator', he introduced himself.

'Hello Mr. Mishra! Come in. We were waiting for you only!', Shivaay invited him in.

Anika just greeted him with a smile. The renovator began by looking around the house and measuring the size of the house. Then, he voiced out a few suggestion to them. To which Shivika were having a little arguments here and there but somehow it was managed by Mr. Mishra.

'That sounds great! Just go ahead with it!', Shivaay told him.

'Oh hello! This is my house. I'll ne living here, so the choice would be just the way I want it to be. Not the way you like it! And what's this? Kitchen cabinet this tall? Unlike you, I accept the reality okay? Mishra Ji please lower the height of the kitchen cabinet alright?', she instructed.

Mr. Mishra nodded and started taking note.

'No way! It will spoil the entire design. It will be awfully horrible. Retain the original design and height!', Shivaay instructed.

'This is my house!', Anika roared at him.

'Yeah, but I brought this renovator and I'll be paying him. So, the renovations will be according to what I say!', Shivaay also roared back.

'You're impossible! I mean everything has to be according to you right?!', she rebuked.

'Okay stop it! The both of you! I can't take this anymore. You both husband and wife are mad! I'm not taking this order. Find someone else!', Mr. Mishra loose all his remaining patience and shouted this then left the house being super stressed out. Shivaay and Anika tried to hold him back but it was in vain. He just walked away being unable to take the arguments between Shivika. As soon as Mr. Mishra left, both Shivaay and Anika glared at each other for a while before breaking into laughter together.

'We made him mad Billu Ji!', she spit out while laughing.

'Did you just called me Billu Ji??? Huh???', he asked.

Anika bit her tongue realizing what she had just said. She was calling him Sadu and Billu Ji to herself whenever she speaks about him. Sometimes her tongue slips, but he never noticed. Suddenly today he noticed.

'PHAIL GAYA RAITA!', she thought to herself.

'No! I didn't call you anything such!', she lies.

'Then am I lying?', he rebuked.

'How would I know?', she asked while shrugging her shoulder and went out of her house.

'Where are you going?', he asked her furiously.

'Now that there's no renovator, what are we going to do here huh?', she asked him.

'Oh! Right! Looks like I'll have to find another renovator. And till then, you'll have to live in my house', he exclaimed.

'Seems like it! Now I want to go back home! I'm extremely tired!', she spits out.

'Why wouldn't you be tired. You cried for no reason the whole day after all', he commented sarcastically.

'Now! Can we stop talking about it? Let's go!', she "instructed" and left.

'Am I her boss or she's my boss??!!!', Shivaay thought to himself and went behind her.

PRECAP: Anika's misunderstanding gets cleared (finally).

-To be continued-

Guys, I'm planning a new book on Shivika. Only them! As I've been getting requests. It will be published very soon. I'm leaving a first look here. Do tell me what you guys think about it😊.

The title is "Forget Me Not..."

And now here's the first look;

P.S. Tried really hard to join them without making it look weird. This was the best I could come up with.