Okay so here is the promised first one shot out of the series. This one I felt was not so good because this has no drama I guess.😛 But I had this idea floating in my head so I wrote this down. also I had promised Angelariya that this would be her birthday gift. Well now it is a belated birthday gift.😆 So here it goes.
Prior stories.
Aftermath: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/ishqbaaaz/4670848/aftermath-obbros-os-an-on-page-3
Meet Me Halfway: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/ishqbaaaz/4672792/meet-me-halfway-anshi-two-shot-an-on-page-14
Say yes to me.
It was five minutes to eight in the morning and every person who worked on the seventeenth floor of the Oberoi tower was already present in the office. Reason being that their boss hated tardiness. But since the said boss had not yet come to the office himself all of them were relaxing, some happily chatting in the coffee room. After all once their boss would enter through those huge glass doors none of them would even have time to breath. Though this was a dream job, once you were under a workaholic person it did tire you out. That was the only flaw of being under Shivay Singh Oberoi.
The sudden tense atmosphere alerted everyone to the fact that Shivay Singh Oberoi had entered the building. Immediately everyone scattered to their places like mice. As soon as everyone had taken their seats he entered. All got up in unison to greet him. all had expected him to just walk past like he usually did ignoring their presence. But to their utter surprise for the first time in the history of this Oberoi tower, the great Shivay Singh himself greeted them back. The effect was immediate. There were people who almost lost their footing, jaws that hit the floor and so on.
Shivay was flabbergasted by the reaction his mere good morning had got him. he looked at his employees weirdly wondering what was so wrong with what he did that they had all paled. Shaking his head he walked in to his cabin and called his secretary to get him his morning coffee and his day's schedule.
Tej had purposely given Shivay the floor below him when he first joined the business to make sure that he could keep an eye on him. literally at that. his cabin on the eighteenth floor was so constructed that he could see the entire office on the floor below from his cabin's right hand side wall which was made up of one way glass.
He had done so out of pure concern for his nephew and his business. He had wanted to see for himself how well Shivay handled the office and work. But later on he realised that Shivay was not someone to be concerned about. In fact he could even say that Shivay was the next big thing to happen to the Oberoi empire after himself. seeing him crack every deal and project from up here had slowly started to make him concerned for his son's future instead. His first born Omkara, who he wanted to be the inheritor of all of this. And seeing Shivay from up here scared him even.
The amount of control Shivay held in that office was scary itself. He knew exactly what could bring out the best in his employees and yet he never pushed them too far. After all he wanted them to be productive too.
So when he saw Shivay who till now had not made any personal interaction with any of his staff from the day he had joined here, greet them back he almost choked on his coffee and died. Well almost. Svetlana came in time to thump him on his back.
Shivay was sitting in the conference room, watching the presentation for the next day's meeting when his phone vibrated. He looked at the screen which flashed Rudra's name. he smiled almost out of habit. His youngest brother and his antics. He picked up the phone and opened the message.
The four members of the human resources team were just about to wrap up the presentation when to their shock their boss shot out of his chair with a what in the world?' and was out of the door the very next second. They watched dumbstruck staring at the door and then at each other wondering what in the world had they done.
Shivay was in his car driving at an unimaginable speed towards a place he'd only visited a couple of times. Anika's house. and as usual his car got stuck in the narrow lane again. he cursed. He was going to kill Rudra. He picked up his phone and again checked the picture Rudra had sent him. it was of Anika's house with a caption, a day with my to be bhabhi.' Shivay flung his phone out of the window.
What was Rudra even doing there? He hadn't talked to Anika after the whole court incident and he was sure she was seething with anger planning ways of killing him. and now Rudra had gone there and he was sure that this would end on a bad note.
Screw it he said to himself, got out of the car.and immediately stepped into a puddle. What had his life come to? He sighed and made his way to her house wondering just how many buckets of water will be waiting for him today.
As Shivay stood in front of her house he quietly tried to listen to the sounds coming from the house. there were none. He relaxed. That meant Rudra hadn't screwed up. yet. or Anika had killed him and dumped his body in the garbage. he shivered. He took a deep breath and rang the bell.
As soon as Anika opened the door she almost shut it back. First his family had come here talking about their 'wedding' and asking her which colour she wanted in their bedroom and now it was the owner of the said bedroom himself standing in front of her. she saw him put his leg in to stop the door and she battled with her desire to shut that door anyway.
Shivay felt her intentions and immediately pulled his leg out but pushed the door to enter in at the same time.
"now what are you doing here?" she asked irritated.
"well, I thought my brother Rudra was here." He said trying to come in further since the door was currently obstructing his view to her sofa.
"right her bhai. Welcome home." he heard Rudra's cheery voice.
"this is not his home Rudra." That was Omkara. Shivay's eyes widened. He was here too.
"Anika puttar, let him come in atleast." And that was his dadi. He looked back at Anika and she just shrugged.
"well now that you are here, might as well let you in. why should I be the only one suffering here?" He heard her say. He looked at her confused. What did she mean by suffering?
When he came in view the first thing he saw was Rudra happily waving at him. When there was no response from Omkara Rudra nudged him and Omkara too reluctantly waved at him. shivay glared at Rudra which immediately made him lose his smile and he pointed towards Omkara saying that this was his idea. Omkara turned to Rudra shocked.
"this was dadi's idea" he clarified to Shivay and hit Rudra from behind.
"Sorry. Just came out of my mouth. habit." Rudra said scratching his head.
"but good that you came. Now we can get both your opinions on this." Said dadi happily.
"opinions on what?" Shivay asked as he took a seat.
"on where you want to go for your honeymoon." Rudra said with enthusiasm.
"what!?" Shivay almost screamed. He looked at Rudra like he had grown two heads and then looked at Anika. She was glaring at him so furiously that he was glad that looks couldn't kill.
He tried to calm down. he couldn't exactly tell his family that he had announced his marriage to an unwilling wife. He had to get her consent first. But before that he had to get these three out of here. Before the lioness in Anika woke up and shredded him to pieces.
"um...dadi, I think you are going too fast right now." Shivay said a bit absentmindedly.
"oh are we?" Omkara asked innocently. "sorry. It's just that we were worried that like the marriage was announced on tv we would have to see your wedding on the tv too."
Shivay was about to retort when he felt her thrust a glass of water in his vision. He instinctively flinched and looked up at her. she gave him a fake smile and said, "do you wish for anything more."
"no thanks" he said and hastily took the glass from here hand and placed it away.
"is there something wrong?" Dadi asked.
"nothing, I just need to talk to Anika for a moment." he said.
"ohhh..." Rudra sang and shut up the moment he saw Shivay glare at him.
"Anika, Let them say whatever and then leave. We'll talk after that."
Anika narrowed her eyes.
"I know what you are trying to do." She said, her tone accusing.
Shivay looked at her confused, "what am I trying to do?"
"you are trying to do emotional attyachar on me so that I marry you."
"I am doing what?" he asked totally thrown off.
"tortutre, mental torture. Blackmailing." Anika said confident in her logic.
"by bringing my family here?" Shivay asked almost rolling his eyes. he had no idea where this had come from but he was sure she was going to use some weird logic again.
"you are going to make me feel comfortable with your family and make me fall in love with them that way I will marry you willingly."
His mouth fell open. The hell was this. Fall in love with his family?
"I think the one you are marrying is me, not my family." He said calmly.
"but I am not marrying you." Anika said with emphasis on each word.
This again Shivay thought. That was the whole point. He had to get her to agree to marry him. he liked her. and he was confident that he could make her like him back. But before that he had to also take care of the problem outside.
Think Shivay think, he said to himself. He was not so successful just because of his name. no. he had the knack to always find a way. And now he had to use his brain here too. And suddenly it hit him. he could make this work even now.
Anika watched him closely as he was lost in thought and then suddenly he was back. A smirk grazed his handsome face and Anika narrowed her eyes. he had come up with a plan.
"Anika." He said slowly. He saw her tilt her head slightly.
"I have a proposal for you." When he saw that she was interested in listening he continued, "give me a month. A month of your time. in that time if I get your consent you will be my bride willingly."
"and what if I say no this?"
"then nothing." Shivay said without a care in the world. But inside he was nervous. Nervous that she might take this option and he would have to let her go.
would you?' asked his inner voice.
may be not' he answered back.
so you are obsessed with her.' taunted the voice.
may be' he said, not certain.
"what happens if I say no after a month?" he heard her say and his focus was again on her.
"I will break the marriage. I will publicly take the whole blame for it and you can keep Sahil's custody." He said, observing her face to guage her mood.
"are you serious?" Anika asked totally shocked. He had no gain in this. Why would a shrewd businessman like him offer such a deal?
"totally."
"Deal!" she said.
"deal." He smiled.
So with this I end it here. I hope you'll like it. Please let me know how it was since i have never written anything so plain without any drama😛
The RealisationLove what you cook: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/135473500
Did I love you not?: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/ishqbaaaz/4666107/did-i-love-you-not-ff
Drunken Shots: https://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4683445&PID=135947376&#p135947376
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