THE OBEROI ISHQBAAZI by Anagha EPISODE 8

” shivaay Singh oberoi here” said shivaay with great pride when his mobile which has a short life span ringed up. There was a huge chaos from the other side ; suddenly the dialer spoke up ” Mr.oberoi , we are reporting from the accident department of poilce from Mumbai, we have found a business file which has been identified as the belonging of oberoi industries from the accident spot. Should we send it over to you or will you pick it up from the accident spot , since you’ve got to complete some formalities” . Shivaay was confused, he didn’t send any of his employees at this time for business works, shivaay asked the inspector to hold on and started checking which file is being missing. With great shock he found out that the file regarding the merger with the mehta’s is not being found anywhere. Shivaay stressed his memory to figure out where he had kept his file , a sudden flash of memory suddenly striked him ! ” Of course ! My file got exchanged with anika when we bumped onto each other. Does that mean she .. no it can’t be anika ” Shivaay stormed out of his room . He didn’t bother for his driver to catch up, with great speed shivaay reached the accident spot. The place was a complete mess , covered with blood and the remains of the red scooter which has been crushed to the core by an over speedy picket van. ” My red scooter.. her name is champa.. my red scooter champa .. red scooter..” the words said by anika echoed in shivaay’s ears. He couldn’t believe his eyes . “” Inspector.. what happened.. was it a girl ?.. where is she ?. ” Stammered shivaay. ” Yes Mr.obeori it was a girl indeed , don’t know weather she will be able to make up to the hospital or not ” said the inspector in his strained voice . “” How dare you say that.. she will be okay !now tell me which hospital she has been taken into ” shivaay couldn’t control his rage , the inspector managed to choke out the hospital name with shivaay having a rough hold on his collar. Shivaay turned around and ran towards his car, suddenly his anika meter beeped on. He stood confused and looked around to see weather she was really here. His blue orbs suddenly got a glimpse of a girl in her blue faded jeans and bell cut blouse, enjoying her cotton candy and busy chatting with the street vendors! ” Anika ” his heart murmured with great relief. “” ANIKA “” bursted shivaay. Shivaay scooped anika up into his arms . Anika could feel that shivaay was shaking with fear of loss and separation. For a moment, anika couldn’t stop hugging shivaay back. Anika pressed her head tightly against his neck and she was completely caged in the hard strength of his shoulder. “” Anika.. your okay, I thought I lost you.. Iv been such an idiot. I shouldn’t have let you go alone at this time of night. Please forgive me”” shivaay buried his finger’s in her hair. It took a lot of strength for anika to pull herself away from shivaay. “” Sshhh. .. shivaay iam perfectly okay. And what made you appear over here at this point! Look at you.. what happened?”” Asked a concerned Anika. Shivaay explained how he misunderstood the entire situation. Anika’s face flushed with guilty , she didn’t want anyone to get disturbed because of her , but in the inner core of her heart she felt immense pleasure that someone was there who cares for her, who wants her to be fit and fine. She threw her arms around shivaay. ” Shivaay…” anika was close to tears. ” Well.. there was an accident, but it took place hours before I left from the oberoi mansion. The other girl having a red scooter is just a coincidence, my champa is here along with me, and about the file..mm.. I guess it fell off from bholu .. nowadays everything falls off from the mouth of bholu..” anika gave the entire explanation. “” Bholu?”” Shivaay’s eyes widened. “” Oh. Bholu my bag.. see.. this is bholu. And this is Chameli ” said anika as she pointed out her bag and her chappal. “” I guess Iv met Chameli before”” said shivaay awkwardly. “” Then you wouldn’t have met Chamki, ” anika pulled her hair back and took her earrings. ” This is Chamki ” shivaay couldn’t help himself staring at the weirdness of anika , inside he was relieved that nothing unwanted happened. her small small imperfections makes her stand aside from the rest , she was one young chirpy joyful girl ,she was anika , his anika. Shivaay was busy in his thoughts. “” Billuji.. billuji.. haawww.. your staring at my Chamki, I know she is pretty but that doesn’t mean you have to keep on staring and mind it, I won’t give her to you ” .. “” I don’t want Chamki.. I want something else ” said shivaay unknowingly. ” I know what you want ” said anika with great excitement. ” You do?.. ” shivaay was more excited. “” Yes.. I know that you wanted budiya ki Baal. But what to do , the vendor left. We’ll have pani Puri ..okay ?””. Shivaay just couldn’t control it, he started laughing. Anika was mesmerised by his chuckle. He didn’t look churlish while he laughed. He was different, and Anika liked this shade of billuji. “” Anika.. you are just .. oh my god..soo cute ” shivaay managed to pull her cheeks in between his laughter. Anika’s cheek went pink.. she slightly tilted her head so that shivaay doesn’t notice. Suddenly two ice creams where pointed towards them, shivaay and anika looked up to see the ice cream uncle stretching the ice creams towards them and was giving an ear to ear smile. “” Kaka.. we didn’t order it.” Said anika . “” Haaa.. but when I saw you both enjoying a lot, I thought of adding some more sweetness to it ” anika side hugged the old kaka and said ” thank you” she turned around to see shivaay sitting over there with a great NO written over his face. “” What?.. you don’t eat ice creams?. You are an ajibooo jijiboo prani ” said anika with great shock. ” What the.. ajibooo and.. what ?. . Erhhh anika.. you and your language” said shivaay annoyingly. Anika sat next to shivaay and started enjoying her ice cream . She offered shivaay his share but he refused. Anika was in her own world , enjoying every bite of her ice cream. While shivaay sat over there, watching anika as her face glowed in the moonlight . “” What’s happening to me “” wondered shivaay.