Hlo darlings

I had written this OS for a competition. Now the competition is over so I posted it here. Hope who haven't read this yet, would enjoy it as much as those who have read it earlier.

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Love ! A feeling that can make you powerful enough to touch the sky or, to make you so weak that you would feel worthless.

It's difficult to see your love leaving you, to see her getting married to another man. But Shivaay has to do it, for his friendship, for the love of his life.

He was a 10 year old kid, when he had seen an eight year old Anika for the first time. She was the daughter of her mother's friend. She became his best friend, his crime partner and his reason to smile and laugh.

Everything about her was unique and mesmerizing, be it her naughty antics to irritate him, her sweet and cute gestures, her weird faces that she used to make to make him smile when he was sad. She was so stubborn that she wouldn't leave him alone until he tells her the reason of his sadness.

He fell in love with her long time back, but never knew what she holds in her heart for him. He didn't know whether her care and gestures were out of friendship or love. He feared to tell her about his feelings, because he didn't want her to break their friendship too.

When twenty years of his life, his love for her became stronger. Her one glimpse always made him crazy but, his fear of losing her always stopped him from confessing his feelings.

He had a special love for poetry and she had always been his inspiration. His heart would whisper the words, only when her picture would be revolving in his mind. Anything and everything he ever wrote, was for her and because of her.

Then there was a day when he penned down something, imagining her sitting infront of him in a corner of their college library. Had it not been the librarian who came there to close the library, he would have been lost in his land. He forgot to take that little piece of paper with him which was the witness of his crazy imagination.

"Shiv ! Look what I've got. Somebody gave it to me. Oh god ! It's so so sooooo beautiful, so soulful and full of love." She chirped like a little bird, showing him a piece of paper.

I fail,
I fail miserably when I try to define the beauty of your pure heart...

I fail,
I fail badly when I try to define the innocence of your brown orbs...

I fail,
I fail so badly when I try to tell you the feelings my heart holds for you...

She repeated those lines He had written for her. He wandered who gave this paper to her. He thought, may be she got it from the library where he was sitting. Her happiness made him so happy that he forgot everything else. What mattered to him was that she was happy because of the words he had written for her.

It continued, he would write for her and she would smile reading it. He never told her that it was him who wrote these poetries for her.

She fell for him, for his words, for the feelings this unknown person poured out in form of words. Don't know why, but these words always reminded her of HIM. But her mind always told her that it can't be HIM, it can't be her Shivaay. She thought, her Shivaay thought her as his friend and nothing more than that. It was somewhere disheartening for her.

He felt like someone stabbed him in his heart and twisted the dagger. He felt his small world crashing down infront his eyes, and he couldn't do anything. His own best friend betrayed him.

"I love you Anika, will you marry me ?" Vikram asked from Anika and her smile was the silent answer to vikram's questions.

Anika nodded in a yes, but looked at Shivaay whose face had lost the charm it had. She was not able to understand his reaction.

"Finally ! I confessed my feelings for you, I'm so happy today. Till now I was only trying to say my feelings through those poetries, but today I directly said everything." Vikram said to Anika who was still looking at Shivaay.

Shivaay's hands curled into fists when Vikram hugged Her. His anger and pain flowed down his cheeks in the form of tears as he realised that it was Vikram, his best buddy who gave those poetries to Anika. Mere in a few seconds, he lost his love and got to know that his best buddy was the reason . His friend back stabbed him. He turned around and left from there to hide his tears.

She said yes to this marriage, but her heart wasn't ready. She felt like she was dying, she felt someone was chocking her to death. She felt like she was missing something important, as if she was losing something precious.

He stood infront of the mirror in his room, getting ready to attend the wedding of his best friend as well his love. He never thought that Vikram would do something like that. Vikram knew that Shivaay loves Anika, then how could he ? Shivaay didn't feel bad that Vikram proposed Anika and she said yes. But he felt bad that Vikram tagged his (Shivaay's) love that Shivaay had poured out in the form of poetries, as his own.

Today was Anika's marriage, and he was going to attend it as her best friend. His heart cried in pain. He wanted to shout "Don't marry him", but he was helpless. He couldn't do that. She was happy with Vikram, she loves him and that's enough for him to keep quite, to kill his own happiness.

There she was, his love looking no less than a fairy. She looked at him as he stepped inside the venue. She ran towards him and hugged him tightly. He was Anika's Shivaay and the way she hugged him, told him that she wasn't well.

"What happened, Ani ?" He asked as he looked at her face.

"I...I don't know, Shiv. I feel that...something is wrong. I'm feeling that I'm missing something, something very precious. Am I doing something wrong ?" She asked from him, with same innocence as she used to do in childhood, whenever she was sad.

"I..it's nothing like that. You're just nervous, it's normal. Don't worry and smile, you don't look good when you make this grumpy face." He said to her to cheer her up, but nobody knows how much he cried within himself. He cried when he couldn't say to her, "Don't marry him".

Shivaay left the main hall and went to the terrace to hide his tears but he didn't know that he will get the biggest shock of his life. Vikram was kissing another girl and what he said to her was more shocking.

"Baby, it's just a matter of a few days. Raichands are our rivals, I just want to destroy that Raichand by destroying his daughter's life. Once I'll marry her, I'll ask him to give thus property to me and once the property is mine, Anika will be out of my Life and may be, this world too."

Shivaay couldn't believe that his friend vikram could stoop so low. He didn't say anything when Vikram snatched his love from him but he was trying to betray Anika and Anika's Shivaay won't let this happen. For Shivaay, Anika's happiness comes first. He will do anything and everything safeguard her future. As he turned to leave, he was shocked to see another person standing there with tears in his eyes.

The guests started to leave the venue as they were here to attend the wedding and bless the couple. Nobody knew something like this could happen. Media also left as they got the hottest news about the children of two most influential families.

"Shivaay Singh Oberoi, the only heir of Oberoi industries got married to Anika Raichand, the daughter of Mr. Sunil Raichand. According to the sources, Anika raichand was about to get married to Vikram Chauhan. What's the real matter, it's not known to anyone yet. Stay tuned for more updates." The news channels were filled with such news.

Anika didn't move an inch from her place. She stood there numb as her best friend married her when actually she was going to get married to some one else.

"Anika, he was always jealous of me. He was obsessed with you, he just wanted to snatch you from me." Vikram's words were still ringing in her ears but her heart didn't want to believe.

"Please my dear, Shivaay is the best person you would have ever come across. Please, don't judge him from what happened." She remembered her father's words. Don't know why, but he asked her to accept this marriage and to accept Shivaay as her husband.

"If papa didn't want me to get married to Vikram, he should have told me, he should have said, "Don't marry him". Why didn't he stop me. My love wasn't more than my Papa's wish" thought Anika.

Her thoughts came to a halt when the car stopped infront of Oberoi Mansion. She has visited here many times, infact, it was her own house as Tej and Janvi were like her own parents to her as well as for them she was a daughter.

She and Shivaay didn't share even a word after it was revealed that the groom was not Vikram but Shivaay. Shivaay had expected an outburst but she keot quite and it hurt him a lot.

Tej and Janvi welcomed her in the mansion as their lovely daughter in law. They didn't want to trouble her much as the marriage wasn't a normal marriage. They wanted to give her some time.

Janvi took Anika to her room. She didn't want to take Anika to Shivaay's as for the time being, it was better for both of them. Shivaay and Anika need to talk first, and Janvi understood it very well.

Anika couldn't sleep. Her thoughts had messed up mind and she wanted to clear every thing.

"Hello" Anika called her father to know why he accepted this marriage so easily, how he could accept the person because of whom there reputation was at stake.

"Because He saved your life, Ani. Vikram never loves you, he just wanted to marry you that he could blackmail me to give my property to him. He wanted to destroy your life to destroy me. I don't care about myself but I couldn't let him destroy you life, princess. Me and Shivaay heard Vikram talking to another girl and revealing his dirty intentions. Then
I asked Shivaay to marry you. I always knew that he is the best for you. Somewhere in your heart you also love Shivaay, not Vikram. Please give a chance to this marriage, please." She cried pressing her lips together to stop herself from shouting. She felt betrayed, not by Vikram but Shivaay. They had promises each other, to never hide anything from each other and he did.
She wiped her tears and went towards Shivaay's room. She opened the door with a bang, not caring about the time. Being his best friend she never cared about time or anything else.

Shivaay was startled by the sudden commotion in his room and the photographs and paper slipped from his hands. Seeing Anika infront of him, his started feeling tensed. He tried to pick up the photos and those papers but Anika picked them up.

Shocked ! It wouldn't describe Anika's feelings. The photographs were hers and those papers had...poetries. those poetries which Vikram used to write for him. But, why were these here ?

"Anika listen to..." Shivaay tried to make her understand but Anika had already understood everything. Every single thing started making sense to her.

The smile she saw on Shivaay's face when she told him about that paper she received for the first time, at that time she thought he was happy for her
But he was actually happy because... She liked what HE wrote for her.

She remembered the times when she used ask Vikram to say something infront of her and he denied. He never wrote something for her infront of her but always handed her over a paper. Though the handwriting was of Vikram but words were of... Shivaay.

She sat on the floor with a thud, her tears flowed down her cheeks. She was happy, angry, sad and what not. She looked at Shivaay who was standing back facing her.

She got up and back hugged him with all her might. Both of them cried until they were satisfied, until their pain didn't stop stabbing their heart.

"Anika I was..." Shivaay couldn't speak more as he felt a slap landing on his cheek. He looked at Anika who was looking like a hungry lioness. After that, one more slap, then the other. What followed was Anika's soft punches on his hard chest, she hugged him and cried.

"Why ?" She held his collar in her soft fists. "Why didn't you tell me that it wasn't Vikram but you whom u loved. You knew it damn it..... you knew that I don't love the person who proposed me infront of everyone but the one who secretly scribbled his feelings on a piece of paper." She said and jerked him away.

"Ani..." He tried to speak but all what he received was a slap, again. "Don't call me that, only my Shiv has the right to call me Ani. And you, are not my Shiv. My Shiv had promised to me, to be truthful. He had promised to not hide anything from me." Anika said looking at him with anger.

"You are not my Shiv. My Shiv always knew what I want, when I'm happy, when I'm confused, when I'm upset. He knows everything but you don't. You knew that I love you. You only had to say, "Don't marry him". But what you did ? You let me walk on the path that would have destroyed me and my love. I hate you, I hate you, I...." Anika started crying once she vented out her anger.

Shivaay hugged her tightly and cried. He broke the hug and cupped her face. "But I love you, more than you hate me, more than anyone would have loved someone. I love you, Ani. You don't even know how was my heart being crushed when I thought you will leave me and go with someone else. But...But I couldn't break your heart by telling you that the person whom you love, is lying to you." He confessed, he finally did and told her whatever was there in his heart.

He kissed her with all the love he had in his heart for her, she kissed him back letting him to conquer her heart. What more could be asked by two soulmates other than this, that they met the one to when they belonged ?

The End
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abz18699 I remember about your OS request. I will try to compkete it soon. My exams r there so I'm a bit busy. Hope U would understand me as always 😊

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