Annika was sitting on a chair waiting for Mallika and the lawyer. She was relieved that finally Mallika found a lawyer but she didn't know whom her friend consulted.
Shivaay entered the room and when their gazes met, his and hers, the glue holding their heart pieces together disappeared and the the pieces shattered. Their heartbeats increased and a thin layer of tears formed in their eyes , threatening to fall.
I don't want to be with you anymore.
Don't do this please. Don't spoil this relationship.
I am done with you.
They were once lovers! They were unconditionally and irrevocably in Love with each other. They are now too. They still Love each other. They wouldn't have ever break up if one of them wasn't that selfish. The way they were looking at each other, his eyes not leaving hers, the expressions of their faces, anyone could tell how deeply they are in love with each other.
Mallika tapped on Shivaay's arm and he tore his gaze away from Annika to her. They both walked to Annika and sat across the table on the chairs.
"Mallika I told you to bring me a Lawyer."
"That's what I did Annika."
"Not him. I told you. Didn't I?"
Annika talked to Mallika as if Shivaay wasn't present in the room when she could feel his gaze on her. The gaze wasn't that of Love, it wasn't the gaze he used to see her with when they were together, the gaze she was in Love with. He gazed her with hurt, a lot of hurt.
"How are you Annika?" He asked looking at his hands on the table.
"I am fine, as you can see." She told and took her lower lip between her teeth to control herself from crying.
"Aditya will be here any minute with the bail papers. I am sorry, it won't be a permanent bail. The case has reached the court. The charges on you are very big and I am sure they must be having proofs too. The hearing is after 3 days." He completed and Aditya arrived with the papers.
*
Mallika, Annika, Shivaay and Aditya entered their small apartment and Mallika asked the three of them to sit while she prepared coffee for them. The three settled on the couches with Aditya and Shivaay on one and Annika on the adjacent to theirs.
"You need to tell me what happened. Each and everything Annika." Shivaay demanded and Annika looked at Aditya.
"Will you take my case from Shivaay Singh Oberoi? Aditya?" She asked and Shivaay took a deep breath.
"I have taken this case and I don't leave my cases in between without solving them. Now speak up." He said in a stern voice and smiled at Mallika taking the coffee from her.
"I need a shower first Mallika." She went inside while Mallika settled on the couch Annika was sitting previously on.
"I am sorry Shivaay. She asked me not to call you but I didn't have any choice left. I know she's being harsh and she is gonna be harsh. I..." He didn't let her complete and nodded.
"It's okay." He said and took a sip from his coffee sinking into the couch as the memories on it came with the speed of light.
*
Mallika is an employee in the Oberoi Industries who works in the finance department. It was a Saturday night and Annika was watching a movie while Mallika was working on a file when Mallika's phone rang. It was from her boss, Shakti Singh Oberoi, Shivaay's father. It was a mail.
Evening Mallika,
The Mehrotra's file that you have, I want it urgently, right now. You don't have to come to office, I am not there and my house is an hour long drive from yours. My son is around your area, coordinate with him and he'll come to pick it up. His cell number is 79364***
She replied to her boss and arranging the file she was working on, picked her phone to dial her boss's son. She told him the address and he said he'd arrive in 5 minutes. Mallika came out of her room and when she looked around, she sighed seeing her messy friend lying on the couch with her laptop on her stomach, pizza, chips and soft drink cans on the table.
"Get up and wear something a little less revealing." Annika's always like this on Saturdays and Sundays, a messy and carefree girl. She was wearing an orange tank top and shorts, her hair were tied in a messy bun and her mouth stuffed with popcorn. She was watching an action movie with full volume.
"Why Mallika? Is someone coming to see me? It's 1 am." She asked and paused as the movie ended.
"Shut up! My boss's son is coming to fetch a file." She told and the bell rang.
"Clean this." Mallika walked to open the door while Annika made no effort in cleaning the table.
She came inside with a man who was quite handsome wearing black pants hugging his legs, a white T'shirt and a bomber jacket. His hair were perfectly jelled.
"Take a seat please. Annika will give you company till I get the file." She emphasized on 'Annika' and went inside glaring her. Annika sat on the couch and kept the laptop beside her.
"Mallika never told me she has such a handsome boyfriend." She said with a naughty expression.
"No, no no..." He tensed and she started laughing.
"Just kidding."
"I am Annika btw." She forwarded her hand.
"I am Shivaay." He shook her hand.
"Did I tell you how addicting your eyes are Shivaay?"
"And did I tell you how beautiful you are?"
They both started laughing and when they stopped, silence filled the room as Mallika was finding the file inside the room which she kept somewhere ad forgot. Annika took her laptop and started going through a list of movies.
"What you doing?" He asked curious.
"Finding a movie to watch." She answered still looking at the laptop. "So, 'Suicide Squad is up." She looked at him with a smile.
"Would you like to join?" She asked.
"I would Love to." He joined her on the couch as she played the movie.
Mallika came out of the room with a file in her hand after whole 15 minutes. She kept the file under a book and stupid her, looked for it in the whole room. The sight was quite shocking for her. After all, her boss's son was sitting with her bestfriend on the couch watching a movie.
"Mr. Oberoi, file." She forwarded the file and he, taking it, kept it on the table.
"Mr. Oberoi?" She called again and Annika glared her.
"Don't disturb Mallika." Annika said and Mallika, sighing, went inside her room to get sleep leaving a mail to her boss.
"Evening Sir,
Your son came here and while I was finding the file, he became friends with my friend and is now watching a movie with him. Thought to inform you."
The first meeting of theirs was the most unexpected but one thing was clear that this meeting was gonna take them very far.
***
In the next update, Annika is gonna tell what she did that brought her a lot of trouble.
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FantasíaHe is her ex but when she needs him, he's always there even when she was the reason of destruction of their relationship. Characters: 1) Shivaay Singh Oberoi: He is just 28 but an excellent lawyer who has succeeded in almost every case he was fight...
