My Destination: Cafe Coffee Day- Chapter 13 by Jerry

“Di, di, di…I am very happy today.” Omkara swirled Tia around the room. Tia started balancing herself. She was prone to giddy sensations and also she was pregnant. “Om, stop. Tell me what happened !” She replied huffing and puffing. Om instantly realised what he has done and made Tia lie down comfortably. “Voh, di I am sorry I forgot. You okay ?” “Hmm, now tell me what happened, why are you so happy.” Tia spoke. Om started shying. “Oh my God, let me look at you, you are shying, what happened” tia asked well aware of his state of mind. He took a deep breath, relaxed his overthinking mind and said “I proposed Gauri and she accepted !!” “Wow, a great news, so tell me how it happened ?” She spoke hugging him tightly. “Yesterday I went to tell her about Prinku’s marriage. When I went to the park, there was a red rose lying over there. I picked it up and suddenly Gauri appeared from nowhere. She took the rose from me and said Om you brought it for me, you are so sweet. You know she also pulled my cheeks.” He once again blushed. “And then…” Tia said eager to know the story. “Then what, I was flattened by her gesture, she is the best, na. So without thinking anything, I proposed her and she accepted.” Om spoke beaming and smiling. She kept a hand on his shoulder and spoke “Om I know all the three of you and I know you three are very secretive personalities. You don’t express yourself freely. I know something must have triggered you. So tell me.” “You know me very well, na ?” Om spoke giving a hint of curve on his lips. “Any doubt ?” She spoke self praising. “Voh, actually day before yesterday, I saw her talking to Kushagra, laughing and smiling. You know he also kept his hand on My Gauri.” Now Om was a little bit angry. “So this is the work of highly possessive and jealous Om, well done. But still really happy for you. When you’re gonna tell your family about it ?” Tia spoke. “I will tell them today itself.” Om spoke lost in her thoughts.

Shivaay’s pov
Its been a week since she has left. Everything is going fine in my life. Om is happy with his relationship, to be truthful very happy. I am also delighted that they both decided to take their bonding to the next level. My family is busy in preparations of Prinku’s wedding. But I am not feeling complete. Something inside me is missing. And now I am accepting the fact that I am missing her terribly. Everything about her. I have so many emotions inside me, gosh I am not able to decipher this feeling myself. What is this. Her eyes which always portray innocence, those beautiful ones with mascara for which I can die for but her heart, so pure and clean for which I want to live for. I still remember that kiss on her forehead that I marked her, the feeling which I got at that time was not anything less than awesomeness, pure bliss. Her smile, which can play mayhem with my senses, so cute. Whenever she smiles, it feels that, that no one has the best smile, only she has. Her hair, which always smell of something good, like lavender, in them I am always lost. Someday I want to play with her hair. And the way she tucks the strand of her hair behind her ear, shyly. Super duper cute. The way she keeps her hand on her waist and pout being angry, hayee…and wait a minute what I am seeing, her shadow, I wish I could hug her, but I know she has gone, gone away from me. Am I in love with her..?

“Mr Oberoi, Mr Oberoi” someone was shaking me. “Can you tell me if I like the shadow of someone, am I in truly in love with her ?” I spoke absent mindedly. “What ? Mr Oberoi, we all are waiting for the presentation !” The voice again spoke and I turned around to witness that I was in a meeting with Saraswati Steels with many other members. Some were gaping at me, with a perfect o shape and some were smiling. I stood there flushed, embarrassed, what not. I was day dreaming about her in the office too. I tried to speak something but my throat also ditched me. “Mr Oberoi its okay, we can continue the presentation tomorrow, I think you need rest. It was nice meeting you.” Mr Malhotra spoke and I mentally thanked him for saving me from this situation. Also I made a note to finalize the deal with them.

Everyone left the room one by one, not before congratulating me. I didn’t know what to do. I stood there. After all left, Mr Malhotra came towards me and spoke “Yes.You are in love Mr Oberoi.” “What ?” I spoke. “You asked me na if you like someone’s shadow too, are you in love. So the answer is yes. Truly, absolutely and whole heartedly, you love that someone. And I am happy for you.” He handshaked me and left. I stood there numb for sometime remembering every damn thing about her. There must be a confusion. I then thought about the things that I don’t like her and then, I fell in love with her imperfections.And I spoke to myself, I love her, yes, I love her a lot. And then I shouted in the empty room, aloud I love you Anika, I love you immensely. Now I didn’t care about anyone listening to me. The echo of my voice came back to me, I suddenly felt my heart at peace, maybe from the time I met her there was a deep void going inside me, my mind and my heart and now both of them have agreed. I am feeling so, so happy that I don’t know what to do. God, I love her. I once gain shouted.
End of Shivaay’s pov

He reached home, looking happy, glowing from inside and then repeating the thing which he was saying from the time he realised it- I love you. He was deeply and madly in love with her, her everything.

“Bhaiya let’s eat dinner. Its quite late now.” Rudra spoke. “Voh, actually my tummy is full.” Shivaay stuttered. “Shivaay beta what have you eaten, you toh never eat anything from outside.” He was going to speak when he sneezed. “I ate..achuu… a lot of….achuu.. ice creams today…achuu from the stall…achuu” he managed to speak. Everyone saw him as they have seen a ghost.

“Bhaiya ate..”
“Ice cream..”
“From a stall..”
“That too which he considers unhygienic.”

Spoke all the youngsters gaping him while the elders still in shock. Shivaay ran to his room blushing. They didn’t know why he ate. He was missing her so much that he ate ice creams, not that he ate 1, 2, 4, 6…he ate 15 ice creams. He too couldn’t believe how could he eat so much. They were the symptoms of love, I believe.

Rudra was going to sleep when his phone rang “Hello who is this ?” “Hello Rudy, I am Anika.” The line spoke. “Anika di….” Rudra almost shouted and everyone gathered in the hall listening to the commotion. And then what, everyone was busy talking to her. The youngsters were snatching the phone from each other and running and shouting, while the elders were trying to stop them. At last everyone was satisfied and the phone went to Dadi. A quick scolding from Janhvi was enough to make them cling to their beds and sleep. Nobody noticed that there was another person who was desperately waiting for a chance to communicate with Anika except Dadi. He was roming everywhere the phone was. Dadi spoke “Anika puttar, its very nice of you that you called us. I am sorry on the behalf of children. How are you doing then, everything fine..?” “Namaste Dadi. And you don’t need to be sorry I loved to talk to them, all of you are so sweet and I am happy for Om. I have met Gauri, they both will make a nice pair. And I am sorry I couldn’t call to you as I was very busy with the work. Today only I got time so I called Sahil and then you. My work is going ekdum khidkitod.” Anika spoke from the other side. Their conversation lasted only a few minutes when Dadi called “Billu..” Shivaay who was hiding behind the pillar instantly came out and said “I was going to fetch water.” Innocently. “Hmm, I know now take this phone. Anika is on the line.” She spoke. “Oh ! Anika. Okay you sleep, good night. I will give the phone to Rudra.” He waved at the old figure as she descended to her room. “Hello” he spoke. “Billu ji…..”

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Heya cuties !! I am back again with the next chapter. I hope you enjoyed. I will be waiting for your reviews. Do comment everyone, along with silent readers.
Happy birthday Sumitha di. This is on the special requests of yours. I hope you liked the chapter.
And Zainab, I have included Rikara’s confession and I hope you like it too. Their love will soon blossom.
And Anya now the moment has came- Billu ji. That You were asking for, the next chapter will be having the teasing session.
Thank you for reading❤