"How are you stupid?" Kirti screamed and ran close to Anika, Shivay smiled on hearing Anika being called stupid.

"I am good you lune, why are you here huh?" Anika replied back hugging her friend tightly.

"Ufff you still remember this name?" Anika gave a nod with a smile and waited for next part of the answer.

"Me and my husband are off to honeymoon, tomorrow morning we have flight to go to Singapore" Anika's face saddened listening to this. Kirti was one of her close friend back in schoold and they were still in touch through phone calls at least once in a month but she didn't know about this honeymoon plan of her dear friend.

"Heya... what happened to you? Aren't you happy that I am off to honeymoon?" Kirti jerked Anika.

"Actually I was to send invitation to you tomorrow about my marriage and today I am getting to know that you are going for honeymoon, so got a bit sad. Well... enjoy. By the way where is your hubby darling?" Anika tried to cheer her own mood up.

"Hey Anu, don't be sad... wait a second... your marriage means? You are going to marry? Oh my god, my Anu is going to marry... I just can't believe... yaayyy... my Anu is going to marry" Kirti jumped up and down and again up and down. Anika blushed hard looking at her friend's excitement and eyed Shivay. Shivay was grinning and smiled.

"You remember how you used to make faces at the name of marriage and now you are going to marry... oh my my god... yaayyy" Kirti lost her balance while jumping and loosing her balance she fell over Shivay.

Shivay immediately held her and made her stand.

"You are alright?" Shivay asked holding Kirti by her shoulder lightly.

"Yeah I am, thank you Mr. handsome, well Anika... don't tell me that this Mr. handsome is your fiance, or else I will die... I will get heart attack in my brain... my breathing is dropping... Anika... Anika" dramatically Kirti acted of getting fainted and Anika hit her arm lightly.

"Stop flirting with my would be, bare mushkil se mila hai... ab tu usko bhaga mat... It was really tough to get him and he will definitely leave me and go if he gets to know about my lune aka lunatic friends" Anika warned pushing Kirti away from Shivay and standing close to him, let's be precise... she stood between Shivay and Kirti.

"Ohh madam over possessive, I am married" Kirti answered back.

"I won't mind marrying you again Mrs. Kirti" Shivay entered with his mastered sentence in between.

"Ohhh Mr. Handsome, anytime I am ready to divorce my husband... just fix the date of our marriage" Kirti replied going close to Shivay.

"Had hai" Anika said and three of them smiled.

"What is his name by the way?" Kirti asked.

"Ooppss... he is Shivay Si..." Anika was to introduce him as the great industrialist knowing that Kirti was and is never interested in knowing business and business men's name but got cut in middle as Shivay again interrupted in middle.

"I am Shivay, Anika's Shivay" he said smiling romantically.

"Ohhoo... so much love huh?" Kirti taunted sarcastically and Anika blushed.

"Where is your mister madam?" Anika looked here and there to see her friend's husband who bears her friend.

"Akash... Akash..." Kirti called aloud eyeing everywhere and suddenly a man popped up from distance.

"Here I am" he walked close to them and they greeted each other.

Akash was a bit stunned and happy seeing Shivay standing in front of him and at last he told Kirti that Shivay is a big industrialist. Kirti made another fainting expression and Anika muttered a "lune" looking at her.

"Achcha Aakash, our honeymoon is canceled" Kirti said eyeing Akash super excitedly.

"Why? What happened now? Don't do this Kirti" Akash said making faces.

"I will do this, there is another important work, actually a much more important work as compared to your honeymoon sweetheart" Kirti sensually walked towards Anika and pressed Anika's body to her.

"What's going on?" the poor husband of Kirti asked looking at his wife, whose antenna probably has caught a different signal.

"It is my Anu's wedding baby, and that is super important. Yaar wedding is just one time investment and I don't want to miss it" Kirti now requested. Akash faintly smiled and muttered impossible under his breath.

"Okay fine" Akash agreed, though irritatingly.

At last the already married couple left the to be married couple and Shivay Anika moved to go to their respective homes.

"All your friends are like this?" Shivay asked smiling.

"Yeah, you gonna have a tough time Bub" Anika replied.

"I also know how to flirt" a readable smirk got spread over Shivay's face and a readable shock over Anika's.

They walked down the street to Anika's house while discussing about their first meeting, then the second one and how their story progressed. Anika held Shivay's left arm and placed her head over his shoulder. Anika's house came in next few minutes.

"Bye, will meet you soon" lady said leaving the man's arm.

"Yeah sure, bye" the man replied and turned to go, this side Anika too turned to go inside.

"Anika" Shivay suddenly called and in a jiffy he went close to her, she turned back and received the kiss over her cheek. Her cheeks grew warm and red.

"You will require these good night kisses to stay apart from me from now" he said and ran away from there like a teenager and she blushed like one.

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"I have not seen anything that happened down" Ishana said setting her dresses inside the wardrobe and acted like she is all goody goody.

"What? Nothing happened, and you were staring at us? You bad girl" Anika melted over her bed all exhausted and said the words reminiscing the kiss and placed her hand over her cheek.

"Okay okay... but di, you are so lucky... see na Shivay bhaiya loves you so much" Ishana said sitting beside Anika.

"Nothing like that, it was a friendly kiss" Anika blushed and tried to hide it as hard as she could but hiding blush, that too warm red cheeks are not easily possible.

"Di... never let Shivay bhaiya go away, or else..." a lone tear escaped from the younger sister's eye.

"Ishu... hey Ishu, don't cry... everything will be fine between you and Om, just go and talk to him once... Ishu bachcha... don't cry" Anika placed Ishu's head over her chest and stroked Ishu's back and tried to soothe her.

"Always be happy with bhaiya. Okay?" Ishu asked to which Anika gave a nod with a smile.

"Thank you so much Ishu for bringing Shivay into my life" Anika kissed over Ishu's head and thanked her from the deepest core.

"Yeah... at first you were not even interested to meet him and now see, you can't live without speaking to him" Ishu wiped away her tears and sat straight.

"So... I thought Shivay will also be like other boys but he seemed different to me. Arre I am feeling hungry let's go and have something" Anika went to washroom to get freshened up.

"1 number hungry monster you are, come soon... I am waiting for you on the table" Ishu left the room and asked her mother to serve food for them.

Sahil came running and occupied the seat beside Ishana's. Mother Mukherjee too took her seat and started to serve. Father Mukherjee joined them soon. Anika too joined them after few minutes and the family started discussing their day with each other. Ishana teased Anika more for Shivay's kiss and laughed aloud while no one else understood the reason of her laughs and the indirect code words. As a result Ishu got a light smack behind her head from her mother and Sahil got the chance to tease Ishana over this. This time Anika started to laugh and the family had a happy dinner and descended back to their room.

"Shivay bhaiya won't come here right?" Ishu asked lying down.

"Of course not, you go and sleep" Anika denied with the same blush because she never know when Mr. Shivay Singh Oberoi jumps through her window.

Well one part of her heart wished him to do that while the other part wished not to remembering the last time incident. She went out to the balcony as her desires to see him ruled over her. She looked back and found Ishana sleeping. She sighed feeling relieved cause she can't bear anymore teasings for that day and if Shivay come then teasing part will start again, so she requested to sleep god that Ishana should sleep very very deep that night, although Ishana is not a deep sleeper.

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The dinner was over in Oberoi house too. Shivay went to his room and called Rudra along. Om too accompanied them while Priyanka went to her room as she was very tired because of making the cards and printing them all by alone.

"Bhaiya why are we here in your room? You need a plan to surprise bhabhi? Or you need a plan to impress bhabhi?" Rudra's eyebrows danced over his forehead. And he scanned Om's expressions through the corner of his eye.

"Don't make faces O... bhaiya also knows that I am the best advise giver in case of impressing girls" invisible collar of Rudra raised high while the two other personalities looked straight to his face and their expression read 'nothing can happen to this fellow'

"Okay stop blabbering and listen to me" Shivay sounded serious and Rudra tried to be.

"Rudy, call Soumya and ask her to meet me tomorrow or day after but not after that" Shivay disclosed the main matter now.

"Why bhaiya? You can tell me what you want to know from her... I will personally go and talk to her, actually she can't come" Rudra informed getting a bit sad.

"Why? She is alright right? And how is her daughter?" Shivay sat up making the backbone straight.

"Actually her daughter is admitted in hospital as she is suffering from high fever since two days and she is taking her care" Rudra bent his head down feeling sad. Om went close and held Rudra's shoulder and gave it a light squeeze.

"Why didn't you say this to us?" Shivay was shocked that their brother has started to hide things from them.

"Actually everyone was happy and I never wanted to create another emotional atmosphere after all the happenings, so I kept mum. Moreover Soumya has asked me not to share anything to you both, because she knows how much you care about her" Shivay thought to give a tight slap over Rudra's face for hiding the matter but he held back his anger and asked in which hospital Soumya's daughter is. Rudra answered a name and Shivay immediately searched the name on internet and the rating. He then called Soumya from Rudra's phone and luckily she picked up the call.

"Soumya will manage time and will come to meet us tomorrow" Shivay informed after cutting the call.

"How is her daughter?" Om asked.

"She is doing good and the hospital will discharge her tomorrow" Shivay informed.

"Was anything serious?" Om asked inching close slowly.

"Not exactly, but the fever was due to some genetic problem. Soumya didn't disclose much but she said that her daughter is doing fine" Shivay eyes Rudra who was sitting with a bent head.

"Dare you hide anything from us again. Don't ever forget that we are your elder brother and you are still a kiddo for us" Shivay sat beside Rudra and vented out his anger, let's say care like this.

"Love you bhaiya" Rudra hugged Shivay tight and Om joined in the hug too.

After everything OmRu went to their room and Shivay sat back alone

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Anika's phone vibrated and she was still awake thinking about the kiss.

"Pick up the phone di, or else Shivay bhaiya won't let me sleep too" Ishana murmured in sleep.

And as soon Anika took the phone in her hand, Ishana's words became the truth. It was Shivay himself who has called Anika at the midnight hour of the night.

"How did you guess that it was him?" Anika jerked Ishana a bit but by then Ishana was asleep again. Or maybe acted like that to avoid Anika's questions.

"Why are you calling me at this hour?" Anika asked.

"Because we are going to get engaged day after tomorrow" the major shock and the bride's face opened in the biggest O shape.

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At last included Soumya. Now I wanna confess that, personally I don't want Rudra-Soumya's love story to be the normal one. So let's include few misunderstandings and fights... hehehehe... and yeah... Shivay-Anika's late night conversation is on hold, let's see what they talk. You all can also decide their conversation. And tell me about the episode too.

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-NILANJANA