Location: Dance School

"Annika, are you okay?" Shivaay asked her.

"Yeah."

"I think we might have to stay here the whole night." Shivaay said. Annika just ignored him and looked away. "Annika....how long will you ignore me? I know that you are very angry with me but-"

"You dont know anything Shivaay. What if I had done this with you? What if I hadnt trusted you and your love?" Annika replied, "Svetlana...Shivaay....you trusted Svetlana, our biggest enemy over your own wife. And now that you know the truth you expect me to forgive you?"

"Don't you think, Ive already been punished enough? Its been 25 years...you know I cant live without you-"

"And yet your still alive right? All of this....its just for saying. I cant live without you, I'll die without you....all lies. When in reality, life keeps going. Shivaay you had the whole family, your brothers, even my sister...my chutki was with you. I had noone, I was all alone....just Saahil &-" Annika stopped herself before she said anything else, taking a deep breath she continued. "You have no idea how I lived these 25 years, the pain I went through."

As Annika started to walk away, Shivaay pulled her back and pinned her against the wall. "What do you think? I had the whole family so I wasnt alone? You're talking about your pain....everyone told me that you...that you died. I never believed it. Your bodies couldnt be found....there was no news about you and you think I wasnt living in pain? You're right, life keeps going....but all these years I sent without you....its not called living either."

"Dont....Please, I've moved on." Annika whispered.

"Really? You've moved on?" Shivaay asked stepping even closer to her.

"Y...Yes." Annika replied trying to look away.

"Lie." Shivaay smirked, "If you moved on then it wouldnt bother you that im so close to you."

"Its....Its not bothering me." Annika replied.

"Another lie." Shivaay smiled, "Fine, I'll stop bothering you for now. Just remember, I am Shivaay Singh Oberoi...I wont admit defeat so easily. Until you forgive me, until Shivaay and Annika become one again....I'll keep trying."

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Location: Oberoi Mansion

"Om...Rudra? Where is Shivaay?" Tej asked as he sat down at the dinner table.

"Wasnt he with you?" Om asked. Dev looked at Meera panicked while Meera just motioned for him to relax and took Shivaay's phone under the table so nobody could see.

"No, he left right after work. I thought he came-" Tej was interuppted by his phone which went off as he recieved a msg. "Oh Shivaay sent a txt."

"What did he say, bhaisaab?" Shakti asked.

"Sorry Bade Papa I forgot to tell you, but I came outside of Mumbi for some important work. Ill be back tomorrow." Tej read out.

"What are you doing? When Bade Papa comes tomorrow everyone will know he didnt senf the txt." Dev whispered in Meera's ears.

"I know, but at least for now nobody will look for him." Meera whispered back.

"What work?" Pinky asked.

"I dont know, He never told me anything about it." Tej replied confused. While the elders were talking about this, Jai was watching Dev who was looking very nervous from across the table.

"Dev is hiding something." Jai whispered to Sona who was sitting beside him.

"What? Why do you think that?" Sona asked.

"He is my brother...I know him. He has been acting weird for a few days....and did you see his face when everyone was talking about Shivaay Mamu? He looked so nervous."

"You think Dev knows something?"

"Yeah maybe...Ill talk to him after dinner."

After dinner, everyone went to there respective rooms while Sona & Jai went to Dev's room.

"Jai, Sona...you two here?" Dev asked as he saw his brother & Sona standing at the door.

"Yeah...we just came to talk...." Jai replied, "Btw, why do you think Shivaay Mamu not tell Nanu that he is leaving the city?"

"...I...H..how w..would I know?" Dev stammered looking away from Jai.

"Right...how would you know. but if you really dont know....then what are you afraid of?"

"Seriously Jai...you are thinking too much...its...its nothing like that." Dev nervously laughed.

"You know what Dev, now even I can tell you are lying." Sona said.

"Dev...we are brothers. We never hid anything from eachother, never lied to eachother. I know there is def something....tell me."

"I...I..."

"I'll tell you." A voice said from the door. Everyone turned around and saw Alia standing there.

"Alia...don't...Meera."

"I talked to Meera....she knows its hard for you to hide things from Jai and we dont like hiding things from Sona....so she decided we can tell them" Alia replied, "anyways....you are terrible at lying. Jai and Sona would have found everything out anyways."

"What? What would we have found out?" Sona asked.

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Meanwhile....

Kabir was walking down the stairs carefully when his foot slipped and he was about to fall forward. A hand reached forward and grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"Kabir!" Meera exclaimed, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah..." Kabir smiled at her concern, "thanks."

"Why...why did you leave your room?" Meera asked in stern but soft tone nervous about how close Kabir was standing to her.

"The water jug is empty....I was thirsty." Kabir replied.

"Ill get it....you go rest in your room."

"Okay."

"Okay...." Meera & Kabir stood there for a minute staring into eachothers eyes.

"Meera." Kabir chuckled.

"Hmmm."

"How will I go to my room if you wont let go of my hand?" Kabir said. Meera looked down and her eyes widened as she realised she was still holding Kabir's hand tightly.

"Sorry....I...I...Ill go get the water jug." Meera let go of his hand and quickly went down to the kitchen. After awhile, Meera came back with a filled water jug and placed it on the side table. Seeing that Kabir were bleeding through his shirt again Meera glared at him.

"Kabir! How irresponsible can you be? You didnt cahnge the bandages again?"

"Oh..." Kabir looked down at his shirt and shrugged, "Oops."

"Oops? Whats oops supposed to mean? I swear...you're impossible." Meera shook her head and took out the first aid box.

"Meera...I can do it. Its not hurting as much anymore."

"Leave it, I saw ....how much you can do it."

"You know you're very bossy." Kabir said. Meera stopped what she was doing and looked at him a bit hurt. Kabir just smiled and leaned closer to her face, "I like that about you."

"What? That Im bossy? Why?" Meera asked confused.

"Honestly? I have no idea, if it were anyone else I would have never put up with it...infact, usually people wouldnt dare boss around Rockstar K.K..." Kabir slowly brought his hand to Meera's face and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. As his hand brushed her cheek, Meera felt tingles run through her and she held her breath," ....but you're different and for some reason.....I really like that."

"Meera!" A voice boomed from the door startling Kabir & Meera.

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Note: Hey readers! Sorry for the wait. I do also work full time so sometimes I may not get to update. Anyways I hope you like this chapter. Let me know what you guys think.