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This OS is based on the after separation track, about Shivika and Pari. It was requested by dnyanada16

Points to be remembered :-

No Vikram and Ragimi drama, no engagement.
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“Sometimes, you get to see two sides of a person. One side, that you have not only seen but also lived with. That side, which you relished everyday, the side that you loved deep from your heart. And then, there is another side that you got to see only once, for a few minutes and then vanished. That side, which you never got to see after those few minutes.” These words, said to him by Om are still haunting him.

“It clearly means that the person is not like the way he behaved in the second time and never behaved that way again.” Om had said it to him, when he was sitting at the poolside, lost in his Anika’s thoughts.

Why could he never think the way Om could ? If he could think like Om, may be he could save himself from the pain of separation of these three months. He could save himself from those sleepless nights when he missed her warmth, her fragrance and kept thinking why she just broke his heart by accusing his brother of being illegitimate and tried to distance him from his family.

Now, when he saw this girl, Anika, looking after Pari as her own child, he felt how could she be what she showed to be three months ago. Pari was not blood related to her, nor she was Anika's own child but still she was looking after that little girl as if she was her own.

“Anika, you sleep for sometime. I'm here with Pari. She's sleeping anyway.” He said to Anika who was looking tired. Pari had fever and that's why she was clinging to Anika for the whole day. Not even for a minute she left Anika and had her tiny arms wrapped around Anika's neck. Anika couldn't rest even for a minute.

“I'm fine” was all she replied and took Pari with her to the guest room. This was strange but she had suddenly started responding in this way, short and simple replies, and no arguments. How much he tries to deny but it hurts him. He likes everything about her even those baseless arguments.

The day Anika got to know about Pari, she kept scolding him for hiding about this matter. Om and Gauri were in bareily as Gauri's mother wasn't well. Bhavya was out of the town for her work for a month and Rudra’s exam also couldn't be cancelled. So he was the only one who had to handle Pari, whom they assumed to be a boy.

Nobody was at home except for him and Anika. He thought he would have a tough time in staying away from Anika's detective mode. But surprisingly Anika didn't try anything, infact she stayed in her room whole day.

When Pari started crying, he tried everything to stop her crying but nothimg worked. She was not hungry so he sang, danced and did everything for her entertainment but in vain. In a hurry he had forgotten to close the door and Anika directly came inside his room.

She was confused when she found him holding the little baby in his arms. He expected her to ask him numerous questions about the baby but she did not. Instead, she took the baby from his arms and started playing with her and whispering sweet nothings to the baby.

The baby stopped crying in minutes. Anika kept rocking the baby in her arms and making cute faces. The baby also laughed and cooed in her arms. Once the baby started playing with Anika's hair and was distracted, she looked at him, for an explanation Ofcourse.

“Actually we found the baby at the doorstep and we had no clue about the baby. We couldn't think anything so we decided to hide the matter until we get to know who he (The baby ) is.” He told her everything and she just nodded. He hated that, it hurted him. He was dying to hear something from her mouth, anything.

Later that day Anika told him that the baby was actually a girl. As she played with her, she called her Pari and they started calling her pari only.

Both of them played with her and danced for her. Actually he danced for her and the little Pari just kept clinging to Anika and watched him doing one or the other steps.

His state was messed up and he even fell down on the floor as his foot stuck in the carpet and Anika started laughing on him. He felt happy that he fell down, as he got to see her smile and laugh freely, after so many days. The day she had entered here, she smiled but he knew her better and could guess that it was a fake smile, to let others know that she is fine.

“Oo no no... oul (our) pali (pari) is good baby.. no cly cly ( cry ). Now we'll change pali's (Pari's) dress ok. Come, pali will wear pinky pinky dless ( Dress ) like a princhess...” Anika changed pari's cloths and Pari didn't show any tantrums also. He just admired Anika's cute ways to handle the little girl.

“Thank you Anika, for taking care of Pari so well. I...” He thanked her for helping him in handling Pari but Anika stopped him in middle.

“No need to be formal like this. I'm not doing it for you. I don't know who left Pari here, but I only know that no child deserves to be abandoned by his/her parents. I know how it feels to be alone, without a mother and father, without a family. Till I’m here, I'll take care of her. I'll TAKE CARE OF MY BABY. NO MATTER WHAT, BUT I'LL ALWAYS PROTECT MY BABY.” She said to him with pain dipping from her voice. She tried to hide that little tear that rolled down her cheeks but he noticed it, his heart cried too but he was at loss of words.

They started playing with Pari again and didn't realise how close they both were. As Pari was lying on the bed, Anika and him sat on either side of her, talking to her in god knows which language.

A tiny, sparkling thing hanging in Anika's neck caught Pari’s attention and she started playing with it. That's when he noticed that Anika was still wearing the nuptial chain of his name. But why ? Why does she still wear it and keep it hidden ?

As her eyes met his, they realised their proximity. Their noses were touching and her hair tickling his face. The other thing that he noticed was the pain in her eyes, the redness and puffiness that proved that she cried.

She broke the eyelock and started talking with Pari in a childish voice. But he wasn't a fool, he knew she just tried to ignore him.

That day onwards, it was difficult to say Anika loved Pari more or Pari loved Anika more. No matter what he or the others do, but Pari would be happy when she would be in Anika's arms. Once she started crying, it means they need to take her to Anika.

Om's words had put some sense in his brain. The doubts were there in his mind but his stupid ego didn't let him admit and he stuck with belief that what she did was truth and had no reasons.

Her words that she said to him while taking care of pari hit him hard. He felt, he committed a big mistake three months ago. This girl, who every minute cries and wishes for a family, who always sacrificed for the sake of his family, why would she try to distance him from his family ?

Now he was adamant to know the truth so he called khanna to get to the truth. But khanna stood there with his head bowed down. It didn't take a minute for him to understand that khanna, his most loyal employee also know the reason of Anika's behaviour but he didn't tell him.

“why didn't you tell me ?” asked Shivaay and his voice seemed like the calmness preceding a storm.

“Anika mam gave her swear to me, not to tell you anything. She calls me bhaiya, and I couldn't deny her wish. If you want you could fire me for this.” Khanna said making Shivaay shocked because first time khanna didn't stammer or got scared from Shivaay.

So now his brothers and his employee are with Anika which means he is the only person who doesn't know anything, he thought and sighed deeply.

“khanna, just tell me what was the reason of all the drama that Anika did ? Just tell me...” Shivaay shouted in frustration.

“Sorry sir, I won't. I'm bound by mam's swear. I can't. But..” khanna again said, determined not to spill the beans.

“But I can help you to find what's the matter. ( Giving the tab to him ) Just go through these CCTV footages of three months ago. You'll find the truth.” Khanna said and left from there.

At evening,

Shivaay asked all the family members to come down as he wants to show something to them. Pinky was not at home. When she arrived, she wanted to talk to him but Shivaay didn't listen to her and played a video.

“Why don't you understand ? Do you want me to tell this truth to Shivaay ? Do you want him to die out of shame ? The day shivaay will get to know that he is ILLEGITIMATE, he will die out of shame. Do you want that ?” Pinky spoke spitting venom from her mouth in form of words.

Anika didn't reply and kept looking at pinky.

“Don't stare me like that. I told you yesterday also, and I'm telling you again. Just leave this house, do something that makes him hate you. If you didn't do this, I'll tell him everything.” Said pinky and tried to leave from there.

“HE IS NOT ILLEGITIMATE, pinky aunty.” Anika said, just staring at pinky with a blank expression and pinky looked at her, clearly horrified.

“Wh...What nonsense ?” Pinky tried not to look scared.

“I know it. You are just lying, so that I leave this house. I will, don't worry but, how could you stoop so low ? How could you use such a shameful plan to oust me from his life ?” Anika asked, crying by then and pinky was baffled.

“Where did I fail ? Didn't I give you the place of a mother ? What is my fault, being an orphan and a middle class girl ?” Asked Anika while crying.

“I'm orphan, middle class but also a self made girl and I'm proud of that. If I want I can go and tell him everything what you tried to do. But I won't. I won't do it because I know the importance of a mother. I will die, but I won't be able to see him hating his mother because of me. I will leave tomorrow, infact, he will himself throw me out, don’t worry, but just take care of him.” Said Anika and left from there, without sparing a glace at pinky who was crying and realised her biggest mistake.

“I didn't know that y...you love me this much, Mrs. Pinky Oberoi, I really had no idea. Well done.” Shivaay said with a fake smile and clearly mocking pinky. He was hiding his tears behind this facade of rudeness.

“Shivaay...” pinky cried and tried to touch his face but he stopped her.

“You call yourself a mother ? When you couldn't even see your son happy. Couldn't you see th...that first time in my life I was genuinely happy, because I had no burdens on me. I had Anika, to support me and share my pains. But you snatched her from me in the most cruel way, by ca...calling me I.. lle..illegitimate. how could you ?” He shouted at her and she was silently crying.

“I...won't give you any explanations as I know I'm wrong. I realised it that day only when...When Anika showed me the mirror to reality, when she proved that her love for you is pure and true and mine, is pure selfishness. She respected me more than a real daughter would respect her mother, but I never tried to admit it.” said Pinky.

“Anika made me realise my mistake that day itself. But I couldn't do anything. Suddenly I felt numb, I f..felt disgusted at myself and I had no courage to face her.” She said, regretting every bit of her deeds.

“I saw you suffering in these three months. I couldn't take it and again I became selfish, but this time I genuinely wanted to bring her back to this house, give her what she deserves. So I met her and asked her to come to this house and Om and Rudra helped me in this, only for your and her happiness. But.. I failed. I failed as a mother...” she cried as she fell on her knees.

“I won't hate you, I can't but I also can't forgive you. Just for your sake, my Anika left me, She wanted me not to hate you right ? Fine. I won't hate you but you will have to shed twice of the tears she must have shed because of you. The day she forgives you, I'll forgive you.” Shivaay said with his face devoid of any emotions.

All the happenings had affected him very badly but his trace broke when he heard Pari crying in Rudra's arms. Rudra was trying to stop her crying but every attempt was failing. Shivaay took her in his arms and tried to calm her down.

“call Anika, Pari won't get calm without her. Wh.. ( He realised he didn't saw Anika during this whole revelation fiasco) where is she ?” he asked from Rudra.

“s..she left.” Rudra gave a short and simple answer making Shivaay go numb. He looked at Pari who had stopped crying but definitely had tears in her eyes.

“Don't worry Pari, your Anika mumma will come here soon, I'll bring her back, okay ?” he said to Pari who smiled a little listening Anika's name as if she understood what he said.

Shivaay gave Pari to Rudra and asked him to handle her till he comes back with Anika. He left from there towards Anika's house. His car broke down in the middle of the road but he didn't want to waste his time on waiting for another car so he started walking, in the heavy rain.

Anika was staring at the clouds that were not ready to stop. The loud thundering didn't scare her anymore, she had encountered more scary storms in her life. She was startled by a knock on the door and looked at the clock that shows half past 10.

She opened the door and felt as if her heart stopped beating when she saw him standing there, drenched in rain. The cold, stormy wind made her shudder.

“What are you doing here in such a stormy weather. And... o God Shivaay ! You are completely drenched. How can you be so careless. Don't you know your condition, such weather is not...” she started scolding him, but after a few minutes she realised that she lost these rights three months ago and she stopped blabbering. She looked away to hide her tears.

“May I come in ?” he asked and she just nodded.

He entered and she closed the door. When she turned around, she found him sitting on the floor on his knees. She felt scared because she was seeing him so devasted, for the first time.

“sh..ivaay..” she could only utter his name and he looked at her with his red, puffy eyes.

“Do you hate me?” He asked and she gasped hearing this.

“What are you saying Shivaay j...just get up. You will catch cold Just get..” she sat infront of him and tried to make him stand but he stopped her.

“I'm asking You something, do you hate me ?” He again said, a little loudly this time.

“What has happened to you ? Why are you behaving like this and why are you here, at this time?” she again tried to talk to him.

“I ASKING SOMETHING, CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT ? JUST ANSWER ME..” He shouted at her.

"Are you here to talk about these nonsense things, at this hour of the night ?" Anika asked, trying to change the topic.

"After destroying OUR life, after taking the decisions of OUR life all by yourself, you are now not even ready to answer one simple question of mine miss. Anika. How selfish, you are so selfish." He shouted when he couldn't think of anything else.

"Sh.." Anika tried to speak but he held her tightly by her shoulders and pulled her towards him.

"You don't care about anything else, you and your decisions are everything. You used to accuse me, that I take decisions all by myself. What you did ? You just decided that you will leave me and I'll be fine. HOW DARE YOU ? HOW. DARE YOU ?" Shivaay shouted and pushed her away from himself.

Anika was shocked as she understood, that he knows everything that she never wanted him to know.

"What you wanted to proof, that you are great, selfless ? You are not. You...You are selfish because you didn't for once thought about me. You don't care. You just don't care about my Life, my love. You don't care if I live or Di..." He was speaking in a senseless way but the next second he felt his cheeks burning.

Anika slapped him hard. He looked at her with moist eyes and the mask he was wearing for so long, faded with her one look.

He threw himself in her arms and cried. No words, no arguments, just silence. She also started crying seeing him like that. Once he stopped crying, she spoke her feelings out.

"I'm not selfish, Shivaay. It's just, life has taught me so much. But the only thing it could never teach me was, how to live without a mother, how to live without a father. I tried but always failed. I never wanted you to be like me." She didn't cry while saying all this, because her tears had stopped spilling out over the same thing again and again.

Shivaay pulled himself out of her hug and embraced her.

"Then why did you leave Pari ? She is also abandoned, by her own parents. She found her mother in you, but you left her. why ? Did you want her to cry whole her life while learning to live without a mother ?" He asked as she sobbed in his embrace.

"N..no..never. I can't even imagine seeing her suffering like me. I know I've done a mistake." Anika looked at him and he smiled a little.

"Not a mistake, but a big mistake. You didn't only try to snatch her mother, but also tried to leave her father. You tried to leave me, again. You tried to make the same mistake as you did three months ago." He looked at her with a little anger and hurt.

"What about you ? Did you trust me ?" Anika asked with anger dipping from her voice. She was not entirely to be blamed, was she ?

"I know. That's why...You should have come and slapped me, punished me. But you left me when you know that I'm a complete storage house of mistakes and blunders." He said and made a puppy face.

"Yo..you.." she tried to argue back but got nothing to say. A smile made its way to her lips as she saw him making that face.

"You can't make a face as cute as I and Rudra can do, you are just a..Bagad billa." She laughed at him. Her face turned to a shocked one as he pulled her towards himself.

"Yes. I can't be cute because I'm hot..." He whispered in her ear and kissed her earlobe.

"Yo..You are n..not.." she tried to come out of his hold but he didn't let her move away. He neared his face to hers and tried to kiss her but.... "ahchhoooooo....." He sneezed.

Anika got concerned and went to bring a towel. She rubbed his hair and gave him clothes to change. She made a hot tomato soup for him and made him have it with her own hands.

"Shivaay just stop it ok, no more arguments. First you came here in this heavy rain, that too without your car. And now you are adamant on not sleeping. Just sleep ok." She forcefully made him lay down and pulled the duvet over him.

"But I want my teddy bear also." Shivaay said like a three years old kid.

"Are you mad Shivaay, what teddy..ahhh..." Anika was scolding Shivaay but he ignored and pulled her over him.

"Now I'll sleep peacefully" he said and grinned like a Cheshire cat.

"Shivaay I'm not a teddy bear." Anika said with a sweet pout.

"I know, ( His eyes got moist ) I missed you. I never slept peacefully in these three months, because I missed your presence in my embrace. I missed everything about you." He said and hugged her as she hugged him back with equal longing.

"And what you think, why are your clothes here ? It's because I brought them here. I used to sleep hugging them to feel your presence." She said and tightened the hug.

After that they didn't talk at all and slept peacefully in each others' warmth. Next day, their sleep was disturbed by a knock on the door. It was not a knock, infact, it seemed like someone was trying to break the door by knocking it so desperately.

Both of them got up and went to see who came there in early morning. Anika opened the door and found Rudra with a crying Pari in his arms.

Anika immediately took Pari in her arms and tried to stop her crying. She was feeling really guilty for leaving the little Pari alone when she very well know that pari loves her. Pari's face was red because of crying so much.

Feeling Anika's warmth, she snuggled more into her and hid herself in her dupatta. Anika felt her love increase ten folds for this little soul and she kissed her teeny hands.

"I'm shooo shorry bacha, for leaving you alone. Pleashhh forgive me. I promish I won't do this again..." Anika talked with Pari when she stopped crying and gave a toothless smile.

"Not fair bhabi, you forgot me.." Rudra whined as Pari got all the attention.

"Shutup, always doing drama.. come here." Anika chided him and called him for a side hug, Pari still being in her arms.

"By the way bhaiya, you said you are going to bring bhabi back... and what were you doing here whole night ?" Rudra looked at Shivika teasingly and Pari cooed as she touched Anika's blushing cheeks with her teeny hands.

"Shutup Rudra. And couldn't you handle Pari for one day, just came here early morning." Shivaay scolded Rudra, basically annoyed because Rudra spoiled their peaceful sleep.

"12:30 pm isn't early morning bhaiya..." Rudra grinned seeing Shivaay looking here and there in embarrassment. After a few more teasings Rudra, Pari and Shivika went to Oberoi mansion.

A few months later

"Mu...mma oupp (soup)" little Pari clapped her teeny hands and Anika smiled and kissed her pinky cheeks. Shivaay sat beside Anika and forwarded the spoon towards her mouth to make her drink it.

"Sh...shivaay please..." Anika made a face, requesting Shivaay not to force her to drink this tasteless thing.

"Anika please, at least for baby's sake, have it." Shivaay requested lovingly.

"M..mma baii elthy ( mumma bhau healthy ).." Pari kept her hand on Anika's 7 month baby bump and asked her to drink soup in her childish language.

"Only for my princess and her bhai, ok" Anika smiled to Pari and drank the soup silently.

"Now my Pari will kiss mumma and then sleep, ok" Shivaay picked Pari up and Anika kissed her chubby cheeks and Pari also kissed her mumma and her bhai ( Anika's baby bump ).

"shleep no.. paa, ory ( sleep no papa, story )" Pari demanded to hear a story from Shivaay and he sighed in defeat. How much ever he tries but Pari never forgets her bed time story.

Before Anika's pregnancy, Anika used to tell her stories as he didn't know any fairy tales to tell his doll. But now as Anika was seven months pregnant, she gets tired and sleeps early so it has become his duty to fulfil pari's demand. But it's really difficult for him to find new stories for her everyday. Whenever he tries to repeat, Pari stops him. Even if he changes the wording, she gets to know it.

He sat on the other side of the bed with Pari in the middle of both of them and started narrating a fairy tale.

"Once upon a time there was a very sweet girl who was troubled by her evil aunt and.." He had just started the story but Pari stopped him.

"Thishh old, pali ants eww shtory ( This is old, Pari wants new story )" Pari again got to know that her papa was telling an old story again.

Anika, who was lying beside them and silently observing them, started laughing seeing Shivaay's face and Pari also laughed seeing her mumma laughing.

"Mumma paa add ( mumma papa mad )" Pari said and laughed more with Anika.

"Haww... I won't talk to Pari, papa angry" Shivaay said showing fake anger. Pari crawled towards him and sat in his lap. She encircled her little arms around his neck and kissed his cheeks.

"Paa anglyy noo ( Papa angry no )" Pari said to him and he immediately kissed her cheeks and she giggled when she felt his stubble tickling her soft cheeks.

"Today mumma will tell a story to Pari" Anika said to Pari and she clapped happily. Shivaay went close to Anika and hugged her to his chest with his other hand.

"Once upon a time, there was a very sweet and Khidkitod girl and..." Anika started telling a story Pari being super excited, stopped her in middle.

"Shweet ike mumma ( sweet like mumma)" Pari asked from Shivaay and he nodded while smiling.

"And there was also a very angry and stupid boy, just like a wild cat with blue eyes..." Anika continued her story, only to be stopped by Pari, again.

"Upid oyy paa (stupid boy papa )" Pari giggled and Anika laughed seeing Shivaay's face.

"Anika atleast don't insult me infront of my doll" he whined and Pari giggled more.

"Ok. Now concentrate on story. So, the stupid boy ( Shivaay glared her and she changed the word ) the blue eyed boy ( Shivaay again glared her but Anika ignored this time) he used to trouble the girl sooo much. He used to fight with her always and..." Anika was narrating the story to a very interested Pari but this time Shivaay stopped her.

"Not only boy but that annoying girl also used to fight ok." Shivaay defended the 'blue eyed' boy.

"The girl wasn't annoying ok, she was sweet and Khidkitod" Anika defended the 'Khidkitod' girl.

And then they started their bickering and Pari kept turning her head from left to right and right to left, giggling and enjoying the live fairy tale of her lovey dovey parents.

After so many arguments, Anika's mood swings and Shivaay's trials to cool down her anger, they realised that pari was also there. But then they saw that their little angel was fast asleep, keeping her teeny hands on Anika's bump or to say hugging her little brother. They looked at each other and smiled.

"She is an angel, she made our bond even more strong." Anika said as she caressed her daughter's hair.

"Yes, she has filled our life with so much of happiness. I often think why would someone leave a blessing like our Pari." Shivaay kissed pari's head and hugged her protectively. He had tears in his eyes when he thought about the consequences if Pari was left with someone else other than them.

"They didn't abandon Pari, Shivaay. They abandoned a blessing of God. And we had decided not to discuss this matter ever, right ? Pari is out daughter and that's the only truth. Everyone love her, She is Pari Shivaay Singh Oberoi and that's what the truth is." Anika said and Shivaay nodded kissing her forhead.

The End
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Hope you all liked it darlings.

dnyanada16 dear I know you wanted Shivika's moments with Pari, but I think I failed in doing that. Hope you forgive me.

Lots of love to those who give their time and love to this book and my nonsense ideas.
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