When Annika Mehra is sent to take interview of the business tycoon Shivaay Singh Oberio, what she doesn't expects is that the CEO of the company to have a repulsive habit of drinking coffee, kaali coffee as she liked to call it. But what happens whe...
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It wasn't easy for any one of them to part away from each other. But they knew they were running late, after sitting for hours, losing the track of time was not normal for both of them. They had been so indulged in their conversation with two rounds of coffee, it felt like it was just some minutes ago before they arrived. Annika had tried her best to look away from him after staring at him for too long but it felt difficult, so very difficult.
They took their sweet time to admire each other and after some awkward moments, they laughed it off. They talked about everything they could in the short time period but at last they had ran out if conversation. Shivaay had offered her to take her to a ice cream parlour near by and she gladly accepted it. They had been walking under the moon one more time and this time, Annika swore it was much more better than yesterday.
"How was the coffee?"Annika chuckled at him, he was too cute. She looked at him who was already staring back at her. "What do you think after going for the second round Mr Oberoi?" Shivaay grinned ear to ear as he heard her. He felt a bit proud of himself for making her drink coffee. Annika was surprised herself when she had decided to drink one more cup of coffee.
"Here we are" Shivaay stood with his hands tucked in his pant pockets while Annika rubbed herself with her arms to save herself from the cold breeze. Shivaay caught Annika shivering beside him and without a second thought, he had taken his coat off himself, wrapping it around her. "That wasn't necessary" Annika blushed under his gaze, eventhough she had been feeling cold, she could not help but act as a women.
"Really? I guess I will take it back then" Shivaay grinned as he saw Annika shaking her head ever so slowly. It made his heart flutter, seeing her blush under his gaze was one of the most adorable thing he had ever seen. Annika raised her eyebrows at him, a teasing look had been replaced with the questioning one. "You seem to enjoy the view" She teased him further more, making his cheeks turn red.
"Let's go before the shop closes" Shivaay suggested and Annika nodded. He had grabbed her hand making her smile as she looked down at their intertwined hands, it felt surreal. Everything about him felt so different that had intrigued even more. As they walked into the shop, she did not miss the number of people looking at their way.
Annika wasn't found of attention, she would choose to be in her bed rather than getting noticed by thousands of people and bro g with Shivaay Singh Oberoi had it's perks. "Hey, relax, we will leave soon" Shivaay had been observing her face for too long to realize that she was getting uncomfortable.
After some minutes of waiting, they had ice cream cones in their hands, Annika had chocolate chip while Shivaay was carrying butterscotch flavour. He giggled as he watched Annika silently devour her ice cream, licking it like a two year old. "You keep on amazing me" He exclaimed gaining her attention, she threw him a sly smile. Annika spotted a park, she knew they were getting late but she so wanted to go inside the park.
Shivaay watched her run into the park, he ran his fingers through his hair preparing himself for the upcoming events that were to be happened. It was so dark that it was impossible to spot her, he looked around for her but he found absolutely no trace of her. It worries him a bit but little did he know that she was playing with him.
So ratter than being paranoid, he tried to find her, under the bench, behind the slide, near the water fountain, behind a tree but no success, he lastly climbed the slide into the tunnel to find her sitting there with her legs folded and a smirk playing on her lips, licking the ice cream ever so slowly. She was doing it on purpose and he was on the edge, no, he would lose his mind right now.
"Found you" Shivaay sat down next to her, his own ice cream was melted and he had no other option than to throw it away. "You had fun? Finding me?" He grunted, he absolutely did not enjoy doing it, throwing her a glare he faced away from her. Annika pouted and shifted closer to him, her head resting on his shoulder.
Two days, it only took her two days to feel so much for him and the worst thing was she could even tell what she felt for him. Infatuation? Well, she would love to call it that but she was sure it was more than that. Sighing, she sank her teeth into the ice cream which was almost finished.
"I am sorry" She whispered to him, close to his ears that he could hear her smell the chocolate from her mouth. It made it difficult for him to stay fake anger with her even more, when she was so close to him and he had wanting to do that from the time he had seen her in the parking lot.
"Shut up, I am angry" This made Annika chuckle rather than being guilty because she could understand that be wasn't really angry, just trying to be and he was miserably failing. Shivaay had now turned to face her only to meet her intoxicating brow eyes, she was so beautiful that it was driving him crazy already.
"You are beautiful" Shivaay moved his fingers and tucked a hair strand of Annika behind her ear, his fake anger long gone. She blushed under his gaze, his fingers still lingered on her cheeks, he wanted to keep them their, forever. But he was afraid that he was rushing things so he withdrew his hand making Annika sigh in reliefas she was was already red with his touch.
Annika stood up and without saying a word, she slid down the slide. Shivaay closed his eyes for brief seconds and he followed suit. "Hey let's go" Annika who was some distance away from him, shouted at him making him run towards her. Soon they were walking back to her office, they were silent, no one dared to say a word but this time the silence was awkward unlike yesterday.
Annika stood in front of her car, looking over at Shivaay who was a bit far away from her. She smiled at him and waved him bye before getting into her own car. She knew she needed to properly see him off but seeing things between then right now, she just decided to start her car.
Shivaay stood there standing, waiting for her to come to him any second but when he saw her go away it somewhat pained him to see her take off without any word. He got into his own car, his face void of any emotion. Shivaay drove in silence, an emotionless mask he always wore was on.
When after driving for minutes, he reached his not so big house, he lived with his cousins, two of them. Both of them were so very different from each other while one was silent the other was notorious. Rudra Singh Oberoi was the trouble maker and the one who was so very fond of Shivaay. Omkara Singh Oberoi was the quite one and without any doubt he always stood beside Shivaay like a pillar, like his support time.
As he entered the house, he was greeted by his personal assistant Khaana who usually stayed at his house. Shivaay moved towards the living room where he heard the chaos, his brothers were playing video games, pushing each other every second making him shake his head at them. When Rudra looked up from his game, he found Shivaay standing with his arms folded, giving him a hard look.
"Om, the boss is here" Hearing this Omkara immediately left the controller and looked up to meet his big brother's stern face. Rudra switched the television off quickly as he knew Shivaay did not like video games. "Why are you shutting it off?"
Hearing him, Omkara and Rudra both looked at each other in confusion, was he really alright? Certainly not because everytime he had caught them playing video games it did not end well. "I am playing too. Just give me a minute" Shivaay announced and he ran inside into his room. Throwing away his sweaty office suite, he threw a black T-shirt on and a pair of grey sweatpants.
Shivaay himself did not know what came over him when he told them that he would be playing video games with them. He still rememered when he was a teenager he had spent half of his day playing them but as he grew older, his responsibilities increased and so he lost his interest in playing video games.
"I am sure Shivaay Bhaiya is not ok" Rudra had a worried expression as he told to Omkara who was confused as well. This was really an unimaginable thing right now. They both snapped up when they saw Shivaay coming towards them with a small smile playing saying on his lips. "I am pretty sure he is not alright" Omkara told rudra without looking away from Shivaay.
"Let's play, come on"
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No proof read. Bear with my typos if there are any.
