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Gauri was getting ready to go for her work, for once she was happy that she was not running late and can have her breakfast.

"GAURI!!" she heard her father screaming for her.

"Coming." she replied back picking her things and walking out of her room.

"Good morning, Papa." Gauri cheerfully wished her father as she kissed him.

"Good morning, beta." Malik wishes her back.

"Gauri, this is Omkara Singh Oberoi's photo. Shivaay mailed today, if you like him then we can proceed further." Malik told her turning the monitor towards her.

Gauri started feeling nervous, last week she had told her parents that she was ready for marriage and Omkara Singh Oberoi, her brother's boss and best friend, was the first proposal for her. Her brother had arranged it. She averted her gaze to the monitor and her breath caught in her throat. The man on the photo was handsome to say the least, but it was not his handsome looks or well toned body that attracted her to him but his innocent eyes and the devilish grin on his face, which promised that life with him would be a roller coaster ride that you will never grow tired of, he was a man to be reckoned with, she really didn't understand what that praise meant, long back she had read a line in a book where the hero said something like that about the heroine "a woman to be reckoned with." she never understood what he had meant by that but she definitely understood that she could say the same for Omkara Singh Oberoi.

"So what do you think?" she heard her father.

Turning to look at her father she noticed that her mother had also joined them, and they were looking at her expectantly.

She wanted to say that she liked him but was too shy "I don't know, you both decide. I am running late. Bye." Gauri quickly replied and ran out without having her breakfast.

Gauri reached the venue fifteen minutes earlier. She worked in an event management company, and she was in charge of Mr. Kapoor's daughter's reception. It was one of the biggest events she had coordinated and she had slogged for it over the last four months. Now today the never ending functions at Mr. Kapoor's was coming to an end, and thankfully since the bride and the groom have to attend another function on the same day, the reception was held in the afternoon instead of night. Gauri put her full energy into the job at hand so everything went on perfectly till the end.

"Hey Gauri." Soumya called out cheerfully.

"Hey Soumya! Stage all set?" Gauri asks her.

"Yes, but why don't you just have a last look?"

"Sure." Gauri replies and was about to walk off when Soumya stops her.

"After today's function we all have been planning on going for a movie. We surely need the break. You interested?"

"Great! Count me in." Gauri replies with a smile, and walks towards the stage to see the arrangement.

Much later, Gauri was receiving the guests also cross checking it with the guest list provided to them, when she heard a manly voice say "Omkara Singh Oberoi."

Shocked Gauri looks up and sees the man whose photo she had seen the very morning, and the only thought that was going through her mind was this man is not photogenic, that photo didn't do even half justice to him just looking at him made her feel that she was in heaven and there really are angels.

As she gaped at him he gives her a curious look and looks down at the list she was holding and asks "Is there a problem?"

Gauri looks at him, and sees his gaze returning to her from her list and lingers there.

"Well?" he asks.

She realizes that he didn't recognize her, maybe Shivaay has still not showed him her photo, aah interesting, now she can know very well what type of a man he is, as he needn't be on his best behavior in front of her as she was just a worker here. Very interesting.

"Do you want me to check the list for you?" he asks with a devilish grin.

Recovering quickly she looks down at the list and finds his name right on the first page. "No problem. Welcome sir." Gauri says graciously and bends down to tick his name.

"Thanks sweetheart." Om says with the same devilish grin and saunters in while Gauri fumed at his back.

She was not going to marry him she will never marry a man who goes calling unknown girls sweetheart.

Even though Gauri decided not to marry Mr. Omkara-the-flirty-Oberoi, she couldn't help spying on him. He had style and attitude, he rarely talked to anyone just silently listened to people talk to him, nodding in between just to show that he is not sleeping because no one could tell whether he was sleeping or not with him wearing his sunglasses all the time. She remembers her brother saying that Om didn't talk much, and now she could see that.

"Hi babes! Nice arrangements." one man told her with a flirty smile.

Gauri loved her job a lot but this is one thing she hated the most in her work, men trying to flirt with her, and she could never be rude to them because of her job and always had to charmingly talk back towards them.

"Thank you." Gauri replies back with a polite smile.

"I'm Mukund."

"I'm Gauri Kumar Sharma." She replies as she shook his hand, and tried her best to extricate her hand from his clutch.

"How about dinner tonight?" he asks her squeezing her hand.

"Sorry, some other time maybe? I have a movie date with my girlfriend." Gauri replies.

"Girlfriend?" he asks shocked.

"Yeah. She is over there" Gauri replies and then turns to act as if she is looking for someone when she bumped into someone.

"Sorry." Gauri quickly says and looks up to see Omkara Singh Oberoi standing there with a grin on his face.

"It's okay, I just came over to talk to Mukund but he seems to be in a hurry." Om says pointing towards Mukund who was running in the opposite direction.

Gauri's heart started slamming against her chest wondering whether Om heard her talk with Mukund, she didn't want to marry this man but she didn't want him to think that she was interested in girls. "I am not a lesbian." Gauri says quickly.

Om was about to turn away when her voice hit him and he turns back to look at her with that devilish grin back on his face, "I already guessed that, sweety."

Gauri starts fuming again, how dare he go call girls sweety?

Gauri and Soumya were walking together as they went through catering bill as they turned the corner they bumped into someone, Gauri looks up and was shocked to find Omkara Singh Oberoi right in front of her.

"Sorry." Om says with a smile "Looks like we keep bumping into each other, if I didn't know better I would think you are following me."

Gauri glares at him, then remembering that she should be treating him nicely, fakes a laugh.

"What are you doing here?" Soumya asks him with a polite smile.

Turning towards Soumya, Om starts smiling "I seem to be lost, maybe you could help me."

"Sure. Third door is the hall." Soumya tells him.

"Thanks." Om says and walks off.

While Soumya started going through her bill Gauri turns back to look at Om who was standing a little away from them, Gauri starts fuming, for once he had taken off his sunglasses and he was checking out Soumya from top to bottom then bottom to top and then top to bottom then his eyes were on her, and as she tried to hide her glare he cheekily grinned at her and walked off.

Gauri had made up her mind that how much ever attractive she finds Omkara Singh Oberoi she will never marry him, that girl ogling Omkara Singh Oberoi. As she furiously shifted the gifts on the table and stopped in shock No this can't be.

She hesitantly felt her back and cursed in her mind, first her stupid shoe was killing her feet now her stupid bra. She started walking towards the restroom praying to God that the hook got unhooked and not break. As she hurried as fast as her evil shoe could make her walk towards the restroom when Mr. Kapoor came right in front of her stopping her.

"Ms. Sharma, I have been looking for you, I need you to.."

Gauri's face went pale as she realized that he had some work for her and he would expect her to do it right away, and then how was she going to adjust her bra?

Before he could say anything further Omkara Singh Oberoi appeared there out of the blue "Mr. Kapoor, I'm just floored with all these arrangements."

"Thank you, Mr. Oberoi." Mr. Kapoor turns to Om with a huge smile at the compliment from the great Omkara Singh Oberoi, the man of few words.

Om turns to look at Gauri and smiles "Sweetheart if you don't mind, will you please excuse us?"

For the first time, Gauri didn't mind him calling her sweetheart, he had saved her. "Sure sir." saying that she hurried away before Mr. Kapoor could stop her.

Gauri walked back in after hooking her bra back, and stood in one corner observing everything. People had slowly started leaving, and she wanted to scream at them to hurry up so once they leave she could take off her damn shoes, since they had the dress code she couldn't walk bare foot and get in trouble. Gauri slowly leaned on the wall and subtly removed her shoe but kept standing on her shoe so she can very quickly slip her foot back in the shoe.

"Gauri!"

Turning back to Soumya, Gauri hisses at her angrily "Do you hate me or something?"

"What happened?" Soumya asks amused.

"These shoes are killing me!" Gauri says angrily.

"Sorry hun. I thought those were beautiful sandals."

"They are, but they are killing me."

"Everyone are leaving so you can take it off in a bit. I have my sneakers with me, you can wear it then." Soumya says.

Gauri nods her head.

"Okay, looks like everyone left and only close family are here, Mr. Kapoor asked us to have our lunch and then pack up the remaining food so they can send it to some orphanage."

"Okay." Gauri replies and then slipping on the shoes again she walks with Soumya to inform their team to have the lunch.

Once they had their lunch they decided to help the crew pack up the food quickly so they can leave quickly since Mr. Kapoor said that he will settle the bill the next day and also the movie was about to start in an hour. Gauri was packing up the ice cream when she heard a voice from behind.

"Hi" turning back she saw Omkara Singh Oberoi standing there with a smile.

"Hi." She had thought he had left as he was not family, he was business acquaintance.

"Can I have ice-cream?"

"Sure." Gauri replies and quickly starts filling a bowl with vanilla ice cream.

As she turned to give him the bowl she found him checking her out. She didn't know whether it was her shoes or him checking out girls that she lost her patience and asked angrily "Is it necessary to check out every single girl?"

Om starts grinning at her "What makes you think that I check out every girl?"

"Because I saw you doing that." Gauri replies defiantly.

"You saw me? How come?" Om wonders out loudly then with a devilish grin continues "Unless you were watching me all the time."

Gauri turns red and then arrogantly lies "Of course not. Here is your ice cream."

Om chuckling takes it from her and eats a spoon and makes a puking face "God, Gauri why couldn't you stand near the kheer stall?"

"Huh?" Gauri asks confused.

"I like kheer and hate ice-cream" Om explains.

"Then why are you eating it?" Gauri asks confused.

Om simply grins at her.

"Wait a minute, how do you know my name?"

Om starts grinning even more.

"You know me!" Gauri says shocked

"You are so fast." Om teases her.

Oh god! His eyes were filled with mischief.

"What made you think that I wouldn't know my best friend's sister? The one, to whom a proposal for marriage has been sent and that too from my side." Om asks her as he took a step closer to her still grinning.

"Then why didn't you say anything?" Gauri asks shocked.

"Why didn't you?" Om asks her back.

Gauri shrugs and Om shrugs imitating her.

"You didn't even recognize me and you were not even shocked to see me here." Gauri says defending herself for believing that he didn't know her.

"Maybe because I was expecting you here."

"You knew I was going to be here?" Gauri asks shocked with her eyes wide open.

Om smiles at her lovingly "You are still so childlike."

"What?" Gauri asks confused.

"I never attend weddings, or any functions unless it is close relation." Om explains.

"Then why did you come here?" Gauri asks confused Omkara Singh Oberoi sure talked in riddles.

Hearing that Om raises one eye brows at her.

"Oh my God! You came here to meet me?" Gauri exclaims shocked.

Om just winks at her in reply.

"But how did you know that I was going to be here?" Gauri asks after she recovers from her shock and jittery feeling due to the sexy wink he gave her.

"Did you forget that your brother is my best friend?" he asks her cheekily.

"Why did you come here?" Gauri asks curiously.

"Because I wanted to see you." Om says with a face that said it should have been obvious to her.

"That is what, why do you want to meet me?"

"I have no idea." Om says shaking his head chuckling.

Gauri couldn't help smiling hearing that. Suddenly she remembered him checking out Soumya and that too in front of her!

"Then why were you ogling at Soumya?" Gauri asks with a frown.

Om starts laughing and replies "I had a blast pissing you off, sweetheart."

Gauri turns pink realizing that he knew she didn't like him calling sweetheart and also that he was not really looking at Soumya, why did that make her feel nice?

"You sure are possessive." Om says with a grin.

Gauri starts blushing hearing that, "Nothing like that. I don't even know you. I just met you. I don't think I even like you." Gauri stammers defensively.

"Of all the ogling I have been subjected to by you, I beg to differ." Om says cheekily.

Gauri gasps and before she could think she was asking him "How did you know? You were not looking at me." and then she wanted to dig up a hole and bury herself in it.

"Advantages of sunglasses sweetheart!"

there it is again that sweetheart and that wink. But why is she getting a warm feeling in a corner of her heart? And is she blushing? Oh God!

Gauri was trying to understand suddenly what was happening with her, and between Om and her. Om is talking as if he knows her and has always known her.

"You have a very expressive face." Om's voice gently hit her.

Gauri looks at him confused.

"I'll never have to wonder what you are thinking." Om replies smiling.

Suddenly, his mobile rings and Om picks it up "Hello Dad... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... no Dad, I don't want to meet Gauri." Hearing her name Gauri looks up at him and sees him watching her. "hmmm... hmmm.. I don't think there is any need for me to meet her."

okay that stung.

"hmmm...hmmm... it's a yes from my side."

Hearing that Gauri looks up at him in shock did he just say that he wants to marry her? No... That can't be... he might have been talking about something else. He didn't know her at all, how can he say that he wants to marry her?

"hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... okay." and he hung up the phone and looks at her and says as if he was reading her thoughts "I was talking about my marriage to you only and I do know you."

"What? How?" Gauri asks shocked.

"For starters, you are 24 yrs old. Birthday 28th of August, Virgo."

"Everyone knows these. Any tom, dick and harry would know all this." Gauri says rolling her eyes.

"And where have you kept your Oscar?" Om asks her.

"Huh? What Oscar?" Gauri asks confused.

"No, the way you were talking I thought you were some famous movie star." Om replies and Gauri was embarrassed beyond belief.

"Okay, you hate people calling you Gaurrr because you feel that it sounds like GRRRR. You love the belt which your best friend Soumya gifted you on your last birthday, it is red and I am assuming that you are still wearing it."

Gauri gasps hearing that. She was wearing that belt.

"How do you know that?"

"I have my sources. And just for the record, you wearing the belt were just a pure guess on my part." Om says.

"My brother told you all that." Gauri says.

"First crush, Neev Shergill in high school which lasted for two days till you realized that he was more interested in your best friend."

"Shivaay doesn't know that." Gauri says shocked.

"You hate it when I call other girls by endearments." Om says chuckling while she blushes then continues without letting her contradict him "Hates wearing heels. Aaah that shoe is killing you." Om says pointing at her shoes.

"How do you know that?"

"I saw you fidgeting with it." Om explains. Then with a wicked grin he leans towards her and whispers in her ears "You bra came off."

Gauri gapes at him and then in an angry whisper asks him "How did you know THAT? Were you..."

"Do you see this?" Om asks as he started feeling his back with a frown and then with a gasps stands more erect.

Gauri starts blushing and not able to look at Om, she turns to pack the remaining ice-cream. "Is that why, you came to talk to Mr. Kapoor?"

"Yes. Otherwise I hate talking." Om says.

Gauri turns to him and raises one eye brow like he did before.

Om starts grinning "With you I can't seem to stop talking."

Gauri starts blushing more he was making her feel very special, and then asks remembering Mukund "Mukund?"

"Hate him. I was coming to save my damsel in distress but then she was not in any distress."

Gauri shyly smiles at my damsel.

"And yes I was never lost." Om answers guessing her next question.

Gauri nods her head as she wondered why he didn't try to talk to her the whole function.

"I didn't want to disturb you at work hence I stayed away." Om replies guessing her question yet again.

Gauri was starting to believe that he knew her well.

"Is that enough or do you need more?" Om asks. "This is the fifth time we are meeting." Om says.

Gauri looks at him in shock how is that possible? She has never met him.

"And the next one is a shocker." Om says smiling ear to ear.

"What is more shocking than this?"

"That you had your very first dance with me." Om replies.

"WHAT?" Gauri looks at him shocked. When was her very first dance? Yeah! Annual day at Shivaay's company, and it was a masquerade party, and she had danced with... Om?

"Yeah, that was me! Did you really expect me to stand back and watch you dance with someone else?" Om asks her grinning.

Both the years after that? "

Me only." Om says as if he heard her question.

It was him? Her mystery dance partner? The one who had kept asking her questions about her? And she had told him about Neev and Soumya that day, and he still remembers that?

"I saw you for the very first time, you didn't see me as I was busy with a call. You had come to see Shivaay's cabin, I was standing outside Shivaay's cabin. You were 18 then, and it was my 23rd birthday. You were excitedly sitting on his chair and playing like a kid as you kept going on and on about how cool his cabin was and that is the day I fell in..." and he stops shaking his head.

"You what?" Gauri asks breathlessly realizing what he was going to say.

Om smiles at her "If you hear everything now what will we talk during dinner tonight?"

"We are going for dinner?" Gauri asks confused.

"If you insist on getting to know me better before marrying me, then yes." Om replies.

Gauri didn't know what to say to it, she didn't love him; she was attracted to him true, but then marriage? But then she had always wanted an arranged marriage, and in most arranged marriage love happens after marriage, and plus a life with Omkara Singh Oberoi looks like something to reckon with? She really needs to look up the meaning of that.

"So?" she hears Om, she was about to reply to him when his mobile went off yet again.

"It's your brother." Om says as he picked up the phone. "Yeah Shivaay...hmmm...hmmm... out with it Shivaay... hmmm... yeah!... you what? You idiotic moron!... you better sort it out... okay!" and he hangs up and sees Gauri looking at him angrily, and he knew it was because he had screamed at her brother.

"Your brother told my sister that I was here to see you."

Hearing that Gauri sighs, for a minute she had thought that Om was blasting up her brother for some work related stuff, and she was going to tell him to get lost, but looks like he was not screaming at his employee but his best friend.

"Now she is going to blackmail me for the rest of my life, you have no idea how I had made my parents believe that the whole proposal was their idea and not mine." Om explains to her.

Gauri smiles thinking how he indirectly mentioned that the proposal was his idea and he wanted to marry her.

Om starts chuckling and seeing her curious expression he explains "Shivaay is shit scared of my sister."

"What?"

"She is behind him for like two years, but he keeps running away from her."

"Really?" Gauri asks shocked.

"Yeah! He likes her too, but will never admit it as he is worried about the fact that we are richer than him." Om explains with a shrug.

"And you have no issues with that?" suddenly Gauri realized that his answer to that question will decide whether she will marry him or not.

"Money is important to live, but it is secondary in a relation. As long as there is love, respect, trust, loyalty, understanding in a relation, money is never an issue." Om replies as he looked through his mobile "Shivaay has all these qualities, and I would be too proud if he marries my sister."

And that was the moment Gauri decided that if she ever marries anyone then it will only be Omkara Singh Oberoi, a man who valued relations more than money.

"Looks like we Oberoi-s are behind you Sharma-s." Om says chuckling. "This is my sister, Anika." Om says showing her Anika's photo on his mobile.

"She is pretty." Gauri says with a big smile.

Om smiles and taking his mobile back and Gauri fleetingly saw his wallpaper and it was her photo. She smiles seeing that.

"I keep telling Shivaay to stop running away from my sister, there is no use as he will end up marrying her."

"How can you be so sure?"

"We Oberoi-s if we want something then we will get it."

"So if I say no then what will you do?"

"Sweetheart, if we do anything to get what we want, you can imagine what extend we will go to get what we need."

Oh my God! He didn't just say that he needed her rather than wanted her.

"Threatening me?" she asks unfortunately it didn't have the teasing tone she intended rather it was more breathless.

"I would never hurt you in anyway or will let anyone. I meant the romantic way." Om tells her cheekily. "So I'll pick you up from your house at say 8?" Om asks her.

"No." Gauri replies. "My parents are a little strict, so I won't be able to go for date or anything if I'm back at home."

"Then?" Om asks confused.

"I'll have to stay out till dinner time, and my friends were planning to go for a movie, and I no longer feel interested in going." Gauri says blushing as she couldn't believe she was hinting him that she wanted to spend more time with him.

"Aahaan" Om muses "How about if I take you for coffee now, then maybe a long drive and then dinner?" he asks smiling at her.

"I would love it." Gauri replies as she shyly smiled at him.

"When will you finish work?"

"Half an hour."

"I'll wait here for you." Om replies.

"But then, I need to... you know... freshen up." Gauri says.

Om rolls his eyes hearing that "I think you look just perfect."

"Give me an hour and I'll meet you at the parking lot?"

"Okay. And do change your shoes. You have an extra pair?" Om asks concerned.

"Soumya has one." Gauri replies smiling at his concern.

"Good. Okay I'll wait for you at the parking." Om says and was about to walk off when he suddenly remembered and asks her "What do I do with this?"

Laughing Gauri takes the ice-cream bowl from him.

"See you." Om says and walks away as she watched him walk off with a smile.

Suddenly she had an urge to eat his ice-cream and she did just that. As she put the spoon in her mouth she turned to look at Om walking away, but saw him watching her eat his left over ice-cream, as she blushed a beetroot red he blew her a kiss and walked off.

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