Hlo darlings

This OS is a product of my silly imagination. Let's peep into it.

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Soothing drops of rain would never pour until the earth is thirsty. One would not see a rainbow until it doesn't rain. One won't be able to cherish your happiness until you've suffered the pain. One won't see the stars until the sky is dark. In simple words, nothing happens without a reason.

Shivaay was never really a lover of Holi. For him it was a messy festival that drives people crazy and unhygienic. He would have never stepped out of his house on this day if his little brother Rudra had not requested him and he just can't deny any of his wishes.

Rudra, along with his friends drove through the whole Mumbai crazily and occasionally threw colours at the passersby despite being chided by him and Om. Whole day passed by and it was evening when the sun set.

Rudra insisted on celebrating holi by having 'bhaang' in the middle of the road, as if, the whole day wasn't enough for them. Shivaay denied to let them get inebriated by having too much of this drink.

Shivaay moved aside to take an important call and Om followed him. They were busy in sharing their thoughts on this kidding behavior of their brother when suddenly they heard Rudra and his friends laughing. They ran towards them and saw that they threw colour at some girl.

Shivaay and Om knew it was just harmless fun for these 'kids' but not for the poor girl who had covered her face with one hand and the bag she had in her hand fell on the road as the medicines scattered near her bare feet. Shivaay marched towards the girl whereas Om went towards Rudra and his friends to knock some sense into their brains.

Shivaay stood in his tracks like a statue, lost in those brown orbs which were looking at him with innocence and fear. The colour that was thrown at her, covered her white dress and one side of her face despite the fact that she kept her hands on her face.

She bent down to pick up those medicines and he sat equal to her to help her. Who he was kidding ? It was just an attempt to look at her face and stare into her orbs once again. She looked at the medicine in his hand but not at him, making him frown, he didn't know why ?

She wanted to leave from there as soon as possible so she snatched the medicine from him, causing a scratch on his hand by her nail. He winced in pain and she trembled out of fear. That was unintentional but she thought he will scold her so she walked past him as fast as she could.

He ran behind her and tried to stop her. But she was scared, not knowing that his only intention was to apologise on behalf of his brother and his friends and he himself was unknown to the fact that deep down his heart, his purpose was not only to apologise to her but to see her for a little longer.

"Please humein jaane deejiye, humne jaan boojh kar aapko naakhoon nahi mara, galti se ho gaya." She finally spoke while her gaze was still fixed to the ground. She was scared because she thought him to be one of those rich spoilt brats who love to tease girls.

Her voice felt too sweet to him but he didn't like that fear in it. He likes when people are scared from him because it becomes easy to keep them in control. But this girl, in a few seconds made his mind and heart upside down. He usually likes when people keep their gaze down infront of him while talking to him but in this case he felt restless.

Before he could clear her confusion and make her calm, an old lady came towards them and he could clearly see that she was angry.

"Ya Allah ! Yeh kya kiya ? Dalwa liya rang apne upar. Sharam haya pata nahi kahan chali gayi hai. Kaha tha ke sambhal kar jana par nahi, ghar se bahar nili nahi ki par nikal gaye honge. Pata bhi hai ki tumhare upar rang girna kitna bada gunah hai ? Tumhare jaisi manhoos se baat karne ka koi faayda hi nahi hai. Ek kaam nahi hota dhang se, dawa khareedne ke liye itna waqt ? Kisi din tumhari manhoosiyat humein le doobegi. Abb khade khade humari shaql mat nihaaro. Chalo yahaan se." The lady spoke rudely, as if she was trying to kill the poor girl with her venomous words.

The girl tried hard to control herself but a tear betrayed her eyes and fell on her rosy cheeks. Shivaay felt a thousand pangs in his heart because of that one tear drop in her eyes as his hands curled up into a tight fist. He could only stare at her as she nodded at the lady's order and left behind her.

He kept looking at her until she was out of his sight. Then he turned to see Rudra and his silly friends looking in the same direction. A few seconds ago he wanted to give an earful of scoldings to Rudra for doing all of this but he decided not to as he saw them guilty. May be they saw whatever had happened.

They returned back to the Mansion. He directly left towards his room and denied to have dinner as his thoughts were occupied by that girl. That night as well as the following ones were sleepless for him.

His whole being was just engulfed by that one encounter with the girl about whom he wanted to know more, to meet her more and to stare her more. His mind was just flooded with the memory of that one tear drop that narrated the story of an unsaid pain. God knows how many phones did he break ? How many dishes did he burn ? How many employees did he fire ? All he knew was he wanted to meet her somehow.

He was in the kitchen with his brothers making breakfast for the family. But his mind was not there. He felt goosebumps as they heard someone's voice from the hall. Om and Rudra were still pondering over who it could be but Shivaay already rushed towards the hall to see who the person was.

He never felt so weird. His body started shaking and he felt goosebumps all over his body. The feeling was weird but something more weird was, it was the same feeling that he felt in the presence of the girl who was the reason of all the blunders he did these days. The man who was always perfect in everything, be it in kindergarten, in academics or sports, during college and be it doing business, was making mistakes. Strange !

The glow on his face that he had lost after not being able to find that girl returned as soon as he saw her standing on the entrance of Oberoi Mansion, looking in all the directions with her innocent eyes to find someone.

Before he himself could go and meet her, the thing for which he was excited the most, Khanna, his trustworthy bodyguard came and asked her to go back as the person she came to meet was not there. He felt as if he would throttle Khanna for saying that to her as he could see the disappointment on her face.

"Khanna ! What the hell are you doing ?" Yelled Shivaay while going towards the entrance, making her as well as Khanna tremble in fear. He cared the least about Khanna but he definitely didn't like when she stepped backwards as he stood infront of her.

"I'm sorry sir. Actually this girl was saying that Dadi called her here. I was just telling her to go." Khanna thought that the presence of this unknown girl was the reason of his boss' anger and tried to justify, not knowing that he was calling trouble for himself.

"Get out of here, Khanna before I smash your head." Shivaay yelled at Khanna and the poor fellow ran from there as fast as he could.

She looked at him and averted her gaze almost instantly. Her one look calmed his nerves as if he was never angry at all. She clutched the file she had in her hands and hugged it to her chest.

"Dadi... humara matlab hai Kalyani mam ne humein yahan bulaya tha. H..humein unse milna hai." She said meekly and he couldn't help smiling like a fool. He mentally thanked his lovely Dadi who knowingly or unknowingly solved his problem as usual.

"Dadi has gone to the temple. She must be coming back. You can wait. Please come inside." Shivaay said as politely as he could, something he had never done for anyone.

She just nodded her head politely and took a step ahead but she missed one step of the three stairs that lead to the hall. She thought she was going to fall on the ground but unknown to her, her saviour was right there. He was definitely not going to let her fall, never ever in her life.

The toran that was tied on the door, broke and fell on both if of them, entangling them as if they were one. The main idea behind decorating the homes with toran is to please and attract the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. His Dadi used to tell him this when he was a child and at this moment something in him said, "The Lakshmi of your house is finally here, Shivaay."

He chuckled when she opened an eye to see who saved her. She was scared but she looked so adorable that it took him everything in him to stop himself from pulling her cheeks.

Shivaay didn't want to let go of her but they parted as they heard someone's voice. Om and Rudra were observing the two from last few minutes as their brother was staring at someone, precisely a girl for a little too longer.

Before they could start with their question answer session, Dadi, Pinky and Janvi came back home and Dadi was elated to see Anika there.

"She's Anika. I met her two months ago in the temple. After that we used to meet everyday. I feel so good when I talk to her, that's why I used to visit the temple everyday." Dadi told them and caressed Anika's hair as Anika smiled unknown to the fact that someone was lost in her smile.

"Dadi aapne humein yahaan kyun bulaya ?" Asked Anika as she wanted to go and search for a job but couldn't tell the same to Dadi. She didn't want to dishearten the old, loving woman who has become as dear to her as one's own breath.

"Humare yahan har saal ek pooja hoti hai, Ganesh ji ki maha aarti ki jati hai. Mai chahti hun uski tayariyan tu kare. Aur uske baad Oberoi Industies ke 40 saal pure hone ki khushi mein ek party bhi tujhe arrange karni. Tujhe naukri chahiye thi or mujhe event planner, toh iss se hum donon ka kaam ban jaayega." Dadi said to Anika who was in a dilemmas whether to accept the job or not.

"Don't think that I'm doing any favour on you. You are capable of handling everything, that's why I've selected you." Dadi spoke as she already knew how much her self respect mattered to Anika.

Shivaay prayed to God as well as crossed his fingers so that she says yes. He was biting his lips in nervousness. Soon his lips curved up into a wide smile as she said yes for the job. He couldn't hold his excitement at the thought of being able to see her everyday.

Once Dadi, Pinky and Janvi left from there, Rudra jumped infront of Anika and smiled cutely. Om shook his head in disbelief as he saw Rudra's antics.

"Hi Didi. I'm the dashing, handsome am hot Rudra Singh Oberoi, you can call me Rudy." Rudra tried to start up a conversation with Anika but he still couldn't hide his guilt. Anika whispered "Hi" and smiled a little.

"I didn't want to hurt anyone that day, Didi. I was just trying to do some fun. But because of me that old aunty scolded you so much. I'm sorry, Didi." Rudra apologised, making Anika and Om smiled at his sweet gesture.

"Koi baat nahi. Aapki galti nahi thi, humein hi dekh kar chalna chahiye tha." Anika said to Rudra and he felt she was so innocent then him, even more than a child. He threw colour at her and she got scoldings for that but here she was saying it was her fault and not his.

"You're not angry with me, right ?" Asked Rudra and Anika nodded positively.

"Hi, I'm Omkara. You can call me Om." Om introduced himself and Anika smiled at their sweet gestures and nature. But she was not able to focus on anything as she could feel someone's gaze on her. She made some excuse and left from there as it seemed to be the only way out of here, away from a certain blue eyed man who was haunting her dreams since the day she saw him.

Shivaay kept looking towards the door from where she left. He didn't notice that Om and Rudra were standing just beside him abd staring at him, rubbing their chin with their forefinger.

"Bhaiya, she has left. Will you come back to the reality or are you planning to drop her home in your dreams ?" Rudra spoke, breaking Shivaay's trance and making Om laugh.

"I was just... the toran feel down. I was just.. looking at it and thinking how to fix it." Shivaay tried to change the topic but the excuse he came up with was quite pathetic.

Om and Rudra looked at each other and then shook their head at Shivaay's lame excuse. Shivaay knew their questions weren't over yet but who cares ? He had many things to do, thinking about his girl being the most important of them all.

Shivaay tried to leave from there, only if Om and Rudra were ready to let him go. They blocked his way and Om asked without any formalities, "What's going on ?"

"We are observing you from the day you met Anika didi. You behave different." Rudra talked seriously and Shivaay sighed defeated.

"Fine. It's just.. I like her." Shivaay admitted his feelings for Anika but may be, he was interpreting his too intense feelings to be mere attraction. But whatever it was, it was genuine because he had never felt this for any woman in his life.

"Finally we are going to have someone whom we will call as bhabi." Rudra danced happily and Om hugged Shivaay, followed by Rudra.

"I'm so happy for you." Om said and Shivaay smiled. "But how will I talk to her ? When I see her I get totally blank. Jab bhi uski aankhon mein dekhta hun toh kho sa jata hun. I just don't understand anything." Shivaay spoke to Om as if he was a doctor he himself was a patient. Indeed, he was a patient of love.

"Do you think you just 'like' her ?" Om asked and smiled when Shivaay shrugged it off.

"I won't try to make you realise anything. The day her absence will create havoc in your heart, the day her tears will start troubling you, the day you will be ready to lay your life for her happiness, you will understand that you don't like her but love her." Said Om and Shivaay chose to stay quiet because in all these matters noone could win against him.

That night too, he couldn't sleep but this time the reason was different. He was busy in revising how he will start up a conversation with Anika, especially when she tries to stay away from him as if he is a jailer.

To be continued...
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