Shades of our Love

Truth Serum...

"STOP! STOP! Where are you going?" Annika yelled at Kulfi, who kept taking wrong turns. "Oh ji...It's this stupid map! It keeps changing!" Kulfi smirked. "It's rerouting because you keep missing the exit! Just stop the car here I will take a taxi!" She tried to get off the car. "Oh Ji...it's not safe for you to get off in the middle of nowhere!"

"I am sending the live location to Karim Chacha he will come and get me! STOP HERE!" She ordered. They stopped the car in the middle of nowhere. She got off the car annoyed and started walking around looking for signal. "Damn it NO network!"

"Annika Ji...wait... where are you going?" Shivaay was concerned, as she was walking on the rough terrain in heels. She was focusing on the phone network, she didn't pay attention to where she was walking. Whatever...stubborn woman...Do whatever the hell you want..I don't care! S.S.O decided that he was not going to help her. She was wearing a saree, and trodding about on a two inch heel. If she falls and breaks her back it's on her. He got off the car and leaned back on the window. "Oh..Annika Ji...I think we'll have to go a bit further for network! Come get in..Sit down, I'll take you up the hill!"

"ARRRRRGH!" It was Annika. She had like an idiot gone into the woods, following the signal, and he got panicked not able to locate her. "ANNIKA....ANNIKA? WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU" Shivaay screamed.

"KULFI....I am here! HELLO!" She called out and he found her sitting under a tree. Or did she just had a fall? She had leaves stuck all over her hair.

"Oh ji...are you okay Ji?"

"Do I look okay to you? C'mon help me up!" S.S.O was laughing in his head, but lend her a hand to get up. Annika had broken her heel and lost her balance. She was persevering and though it was proving to be difficult, she tried to balance on a broken shoe, it irritated the hell out of him. She almost fell again and he caught her on time. "Oh Ji...I told you I'll drive a bit further up, and you'll get network! Why did you come inside here what were you trying to do? Climb a tree?" Annika looked down at her feet. She really was going to climb the tree. Kulfi rolled his eyes in awe, and blurted "In these monstrosities?". She nodded laughing at her own stupidity, and they both broke out in laughter. Annika couldn't remember the last time she laughed, this light heartedly. Perhaps it was a time she was with Shivaay. They both felt like carefree children with each other. She stopped to catch her breath. He tried to suppress his laughter and failed. She took a closer look at him. His eyebrows, the shape of his nose, the lines on his forehead, reminded her so much of Shivaay. No it can't be. Nevertheless, she couldn't shake the thought that he felt familiar. "Oh ji...please don't stare at me... I am very shy...My mom says to be careful of girls with big eyes like yours!"

"Whatever..." She laughed again. Kulfi was a funny guy! She tried to compose herself and walk back up to the car, when her shoes gave up for good. She took her heels off, and started to walk bare feet, when Kulfi stopped her. "Oh Ji...Na...Na...Stay put...you will get hurt..." He removed his shoes off and gestured her to where them. "Errr...what are you gonna wear Kulfi? Don't be Silly I am fine!"

"Oh yellow Ji...Keep your ego aside, and just wear these, you don't want to go for your mocktail...cocktail...with bleeding feet do you now? I am fine! I got these!" He wiggled his toes through his socks. A melancholic grateful smile dawned upon her face, as she reminisced her time in London with S.S.O. "Oh Yellow Ji...you look like you remembered someone?" He winked.

"Kulfi...you are mad...you are totally mad!" Now you are stealing my lines also! He thought, finding her rather cute. "Oh Annika Ji...It's this way! The main road is this way!" He tried to direct her back, when she stubbornly, followed her own instincts. "You are horrible at navigating...follow me!" She took the lead. Kulfi Rolled his eyes as the atmosphere started to change. Thunder and lighting dawned upon the skies, and the first rains of the monsoons were about to fall upon them. "Oh Annika Ji...I remember where I came from...this way! It's going to rain...you are going the wrong way!" He warned, and Annika simply ignored. Rain started pouring down.