Shivika SS: 3 Months Later (Forced Marriage Track) Completed - Page 35

Omg !! it actually felt like the end !!

Hii i am a new fan of anshi

aww i am in my dreamland

Originally posted by: sally_b95

such a cute ending dear 👏👏
i just read the last two chapter in one 😆
I love the bond between Arhaan and Anika even i want such a bro cum friend
in Chapter 9 just loved the scene where rudra made ACP realise what he would have gone through if shivaaye had to go to jail 😆😆

I appreciate you for your amazing story i would love if something like that happens in Ishqbaaz 😭😆

Thank you once again for the story which you chose to share with us ⭐️👏👏

Originally posted by: pritzz

I did not want this to end 😭

What a beautiful ending ❤️

I am gonna re read again when ever I will miss this...

Aasthi wonderful girl.. wonderful 👏

Originally posted by: rinku95

When is last chapter coming?

Originally posted by: Illuminati07

Wen Tia announces that she is pregnant.. Trust me we will need therapy then🤣

For sure that to for longer time 😉 😆

Flashbacks in Italics

Last Chapter: The Journey To A Happily Ever After

3 months later

ShivIka Wedding

The mirror reflected an exquisitely beautiful bride dressed in a red and gold banarasi saree. An intricately embroidered chiffon dupatta was draped on her forehead leaving the maang teeka clearly visible. There was mehandi on her hands upto her elbows and her wrists were adorned with heavyset gold bangles. Her face was perfectly made up and she looked happy and radiant. The mirror did nothing but reflect that perfection.

The mirror lied because the bride was nowhere close to radiant

The bride had cold feet.

Saumya dabbed a tissue on Anika's forehead wiping a bit of perspiration and lowered the temperature of the AC. She was about to say something when Prinku and Ranveer knocked on the door.

"There is a green coloured bag in here, have you seen it?" Priyanka asked hurriedly, shuffling through some of the gifts and jewellery sets that were strewn around

"There are several, which one are you talking about?" Saumya asked but Priyanka entered the room and started looking through the numerous bags that were lined up.

"Never mind, Ranveer and I will search for it. Saumya you should go get dressed, the ceremony will start soon." She told the other girl who was busy folding Anika's clothes.

"Saumya we are from the bride's side. We cannot afford to be late. You okay there Anika?" asked the observant Ranveer Singh Randhava

Anika nodded, breathing deep trying to calm her racing heart. She got a feeling as if she was on her way to answer an exam and the jittery feeling in her stomach was making her sick. She knew her fears were unfounded but she couldn't help them. At first, when the wedding date was coming closer, Anika worried endlessly that there wasn't anyone other than Sahil and Arhaan-Nidhi from the bride's side. But Saumya and her mother had included themselves in the group and Saumya's mother had looked after the arrangements as if she (Anika) was her own daughter. Ranveer Singh Randhawa too decided to join the bride's side but Anika had a feeling that her husband had something to do behind that decision.

Some husband, Anika murmured angrily

When the others went out, Anika was left alone. Lifting her heavy saree, she went towards the end of the room and opened a window at the corner. If she stepped out and ran away, it would be a while before they found her, she thought.

But Anika wasn't a coward. She didn't run away from situations, she faced them. She couldn't ruin the Oberoi family name by running away nor could she hurt Shivaay.

Because that arrogant, stupid, jerk of a husband loved her.

Uncaring about crumpling the folds of her saree, Anika sat on the floor, her back to the wall. She thought about the reason for her fears- an incident that happened four days ago.

OmRu had thrown a bachelors party for Shivaay and if the loud music and the shouts were any indication, all of them were very, very drunk. Anika and Saumya were watching a late night horror movie in her room but their ears were glued at the commotion going on in the corridors where an even tempered Priyanka was shouting at a slightly tipsy Ranveer Singh Randhawa who was trying to reason with her.

It was then that a very drunk Rudra, stumbled towards them and sat near Saumya's feet

"I want to confess something" he said slurring "I love you- like the forever wala- ishq wala love. I never had the guts to tell you but since I'm drunk and you won't remember this in the morning, I can say it."

Anika, who was aware of Saumya's feelings for Rudra, laughed

"Dumbell Singh Oberoi, you are drunk and you won't remember it but I will." Saumya chided but her eyes shone with tenderness

"That is what I said Sumo, you won't remember it. And I'm not dumb. We boys are very smart and you girls are dumb or at least one of you would have figured Shivaay bhaiyya's plan out but bhaiyya got away."

Anika looked at him with a raised eyebrow. Even Saumya became a little tense

"And what exactly did your bhaiyya do?" Anika asked icily

"You won't remember this in the morning, will you?" he asked in return, his voice unsteady

"No" said Anika exaggeratedly

"Shivaay bhaiyya never divorced you. He was too scared that you might find someone else. He let you think that the divorce was through but he had torn the divorce papers long ago"

Saumya cast a horrified glance at Anika who sat there frozen. She then made Rudra stand up and unceremoniously pushed him out of the room. When Prinku saw her pushing Rudra, she pushed her ACP as well.

But both the men were as high as a kite and they never realized that the girls were indeed angry. Putting an arm around each other, they stumbled towards the poolside where the party was being held, both singing

"Rehne do chhodo bhi jaane do yaar Hum na karenge pyaar"

**

Anika looked at Shivaay's name on her palm written in the dark shade of her mehandi and sighed. She had tried talking to him about this issue from the past four days but he had been terribly busy with business and she hadn't wanted to unload a fresh set of troubles on his head. At that time she hadn't realized that it would be difficult for her to go through the ceremony with the burden of his deception on her head.

Why hadn't he trusted her enough to tell the truth? Why hadn't he trusted her enough to let her go? Her mind travelled back to another incident, far early in their relationship when they had their first fight.

It had been a week since she had stopped being Shivaay Singh Oberoi's wife and became his girlfriend instead and that news had spread like wildfire. The Oberoi status gave her a different position in the hospital. Her colleagues hesitated to talk to her not wanting to offend her in case they had to suffer Shivays wrath and when they talked to her, they were overly polite.

Nidhi had become a very good friend and she spent most of her free time with Anika when Arhaan was busy. With the exception of Arhaan and Nidhi, the only person who treated her normally was Dr Viraat Bhatnagar, a neurosurgeon, who according to Arhaan had a crush on her.

Anika brushed off his words as rubbish until one day he joined her for coffee. Anika had skipped her post lunch walk in the garden and had gone to the cafeteria for coffee. She had been sitting alone on the table when Dr Viraat joined her and instantly started telling her funny anecdotes about his internship days making Anika laugh heartily.

That was how Shivaay had caught them when he surprisingly "happened" to enter the hospital cafeteria. Shivaay had walked in with a smile making Dr Bhatnagar's smile fade, he had given a surprised Anika a peck on her lips, making the doctor look away in embarrassment and then he had slid his hand around Anika's waist and given the doctor the famous SSO glare, making him stand up nervously, excuse himself and run for cover.

And Anika saw right through Shivaay

She dragged him down the fire escape to a store room that housed all the case files and patient records. Closing the door, she looked at him, her eyes spitting fire

"Shivaay if you can't trust me, we should call it quits now"

Shivaay felt his temper shoot up and he held her wrists and pinned her to the door

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" he asked, his voice a dangerous whisper

"Don't you think people wouldn't notice? For parties, you hardly leave me alone for a minute; when you do, you make sure Rudra is with me and when another man talks to me for more than five minutes, you come barrelling down and smoothly stand beside me. Right now I was having a pleasant conversation with doc but you don't trust me enough to be on friendly terms with someone else, do you?"

He sighed and lowered his head till it rested on her shoulder. Her hands were still pinned to the wall by his, their bodies touching

"It is not like that Anika" he whispered

"Then what is it like?"

"You know how I was a rigid believer that blood, lineage mattered and I was engaged to such a person and yet I fell for you and didn't care about anything not even the fact that I was engaged to be married"

"What has that got to do with anything?" she asked watching him as he let her go and turned away from her

"I'm scared that you might find someone and fall for him the way I fell for you. Someone who would treat you right and make you wonder why you are with a person who hurt you so much"

Anika felt her eyes prick knowing how hard it was for him to confess that.

"I'm with you because I love you Shivaay. You are the only person I have ever been in love with. It is not something I take lightly." She reassured him

She then crept up and slid her arms around him, hugging his rigid back

"You know, I thought I would be the insecure one in this relationship"

He turned around and hugged her properly

"Why? Your husband loves you to distraction." he said simply

"Boyfriend" she corrected

"What?" he asked distractedly

"You are my boyfriend. Not my husband"

He stood so still, he could have been a statue

"Not yet" he replied

Even at that moment, Shivaay addressing himself as her husband had struck her as a bit odd but she had brushed it off. But it was stupid of her to think that SSO would unconsciously make such a wayward statement unless it was the truth.

She should have known.

**

Shivaay paced around waiting for Anika. His family called him for a dance but his eyes were on the doorway. For some reason, this wedding was giving him a sense of dj vu. He started to walk towards the dressing room with the intention of bringing Anika down himself, but his mother and dadi stopped him and made Arhaan and Nidhi bring her down

Though the location was different from his previous wedding, the setting was nearly the same. The mandap was expensively decorated and was in the middle of a freshly mowed lawn. There was a hotel at a distance which housed the dressing room on the ground floor that Anika was in.

It had been nearly five days since he had properly spoken to her. He had been busy lately trying to wrap up most of his work at the offices to take a fifteen day long uninterrupted honeymoon. The last time they spoke was when Rudra had arranged a late night private movie screening session of a recently released movie at home.

Oberoi mansion had a special room for such occasions. The room had recliners big enough for two people and everyone in the family were seated in pairs.

Everyone who sat in pairs were a couple except for Rudra and Saumya. Even Ranveer was invited and was given the liberty to sit with Priyanka

Dadi sat alone while Omkara opted to stay out.

The movie was one of the most boring Bollywood romantic flicks that was nearly putting Shivaay to sleep. Anika lay beside him with her head on his chest and he was positive that she was dozing off. He had to call her twice to get her attention.

"You are falling asleep" he told her with amusement as she looked up at him

"No" she stated, trying hard to sound convincing

"I had to call out to you twice before you responded"

"I was deep into the movie"

"Liar"

"SSShhh" said an irked Jhanvi, looking at them through dark

"The movie is boring" Anika told him softly

"The rest of them are enjoying it"

"It is not the movie, it's the sitting arrangement."

Shivaay chuckled. Anika never failed to make him laugh. And truly, his parents were the only ones who were seated normally, keeping a safe distance. Bade papa and badi maa were seated in a similar position as he and Anika, Ranveer too had his arm around Prinku.

"I can't argue with that." He whispered caressing her bare arm "I bet dadi finds the movie boring"

Anika laughed and slapped his arm away in the don't-speak-about-dadi gesture but their murmuring had his mother look at them with annoyance.

"Shivaay Anika both of you go to the bedroom and talk. We are trying to watch the movie here"

They sat quietly as Shivaay played with her hair and then pulled her closer to him

"I think Rudra likes Saumya" she whispered in his ear

"I think so too" he said watching his brother and Saumya sitting together, their heads close

"Do you know Saumya is love angel? Priyanka told me"

Those words jolted him into a sitting position and Anika would have fallen had he not held her

"WHATTT?" he shouted during a particularly emotional scene, making all the heads turn

Anika closed her hand over her eyes in embarrassment while there were several chuckles but it was bade papa who eventually said,

"Shivaay if you don't want to watch the movie, get out. It is not a compulsion"

"You are ruining their moment" Anika told him after they all got back to watching the movie but Shivaay's mind was stuck on what she had just said

"You mean our Saumya is love angel?" he asked

"That's what I said"

Shivaay was horrified. He remembered telling Saumya about sleeping with his head in Anika's lap. What if she realized that the Cat was him? He had told her that he had Kanji ankhein as well. And worse, what if she told Rudra about that? Their teasing would never cease

Anika looked at him, waiting for him to say something

But "Fhat The Wuck" was all he said

**

Anika knew that if she didn't go down someone would surely come for her but she couldn't bring herself to get up. Her heart was beating so loudly she was afraid it would burst. She banged the back of her head to the wall and closed her eyes.

That was the way Arhaan and Nidhi found her when he came to bring her down. One look at her told him that something was wrong and he and his girlfriend slid down on the floor beside her

"Okay, spill" he said

She told him about Shivaay's deception only for Arhaan to tell her that it was his idea but Anika didn't care whose idea it was because it was the man she trusted who executed it.

"How can I marry him when he doesn't trust me an inch?" she asked, remembering despite of herself, Daksh's accusations that Shivaay had once swallowed

"Anika, you need to understand that Shivaay is a person who has always had a lot of money and with that, comes a lot of power. He looks at the world from a different way than we do because he is used to manipulating things to his wishes. Why do you think people at work are worried to offend you? Do you think they will extend the same consideration to Nidhi?" he asked giving a swift glance towards Nidhi who was fixing Anika's make up

" No Anika." He said answering his own question "They know that Shivaay, unlike me, can not only buy our hospital from his petty cash but also bring anyone he wishes on the streets. They also know that if they are unfair to you, he will not hesitate to do so."

"But that doesn't make it right" Anika told him

"It will be your job to tell him that, to bring a balance in his life." Arhaan explained as Rudra, Saumya and Omkara entered.

Omkara wordlessly asked Arhaan what had happened to which he said

"Anika knows Shivaay didn't divorce her"

"How could you do that Arhaan Bhaiyya?" said a very outraged Rudra to which Saumya slapped her forehead in frustration

"This is my cue of saying I-told-you-not-to-lie" said Omkara and he too went to sit beside Arhaan. Rudra sat next to him while Saumya sat next to Nidhi on Anika's right

"Om, tell me how do you expect me to marry him when he doesn't trust me?" Anika asked Omkara.

Omkara contemplated her question for a minute and said

"Anika, Shivaay appointed a bodyguard who discretely trails you all the time and I bet you don't even know that. He didn't tell you because he didn't want you to be conscious about it. It is not because he doesn't trust you, it is for your safety. Not giving you divorce is not because he doesn't trust you enough. It is because he loves you far too much"

"Anika there are times when even I don't approve of Shivaay's ways of dealing with things but his love crosses the borders where right and wrong ceases to matter in front of his family's happiness." Omkara added

"Yes Anika didi, we call him the great wall of Shivaay for a reason. But you are the foundation that holds the wall together, now. Without you it will collapse" said Rudra as a very impressed Saumya looked on.

On a cue, the closed door opened with a bang and Ranveer Singh Randhawa stood there, once again making his dramatic entry yelling, "Who collapsed?"

Priyanka, with whom Anika had confided the whole matter, understood the reason for Anika's tears, walked towards Anika in a huff and sat down

"All men are insensitive jerks" she said much to her brothers' surprise

Ranveer Singh Randhawa, who was once an unbending ACP, sat on the floor beside his girlfriend and asked

"What did I do now?"

And that was how Shivaay Singh Oberoi found each and every person who he had sent up in turns to his wife's dressing room which had suspiciously turned into a Bermuda triangle.

**

Shivaay walked up to the dressing room, his heart beating with fear. What if Anika decided that he wasn't good enough for her? What if she came to a conclusion that she deserved someone better? When Arhaan and Nidhi failed to bring Anika down, he sent his brothers. When they too didn't turn up, his mother stopped him from checking on them and sent Ranveer and Prinku but when they too didn't come down, Shivaay knew something was wrong.

As he opened the door to the dressing room, he stopped short at the sight that greeted him

"What is it? What is wrong?" he asked looking at all of them who were seated in one line on the floor with their backs facing the wall. Shivaay's eyes were on Anika as he went forward and kneeled down in front of her, his eyes questioning

"You never divorced me, did you?" she asked quietly as he held her hands

Shivaay's eyes widened. Whatever he had expected, it hadn't been this. He signalled the others to leave and they promptly stood up and left the room, closing the door behind them but Shivaay was confident that more than one ear was glued to the door.

"It would have served you right if I ran away from this wedding" she said angrily

"Then why didn't you?" he asked quietly

"I couldn't do that to the family. Or to some other Richa or Anika you would be replacing me with"

"I have done that once and my replaced bride became pretty much irreplaceable. I would have followed you, you know."

"To where?"

"To the ends of the earth, if necessary"

A tear slipped out, then another and Anika was weeping silently. Shivaay pulled her in his arms, kissed her forehead and then whispered softly

"I'm sorry."

She didn't say a word but she stopped crying and her arms curled around him and then tightened

And he knew he was forgiven

Suddenly the door opened and Rudra stumbled inside accidently, making both Shivaay and Anika laugh. Saumya took one look at the dried tears on Anika's face and was horrified. She and Nidhi quickly grabbed the make-up and made her sit and began working on her face while the others looked on.

Once she was ready, she stood beside Shivaay and Rudra called everyone for a group hug. It was a very bitter- sweet moment which was rudely interrupted by Tej and Shakti Singh Oberoi

"What the hell is happening in here?" he shouted "The family is waiting for you, guests are speculating that Anika has run away, the media is there down and you people having fun here. How immature is that?"

Shakti too looked very annoyed. He looked at his son and said

"I want all of you down in the next 3 minutes"

Shivaay entwined his fingers in Anika's and gave her a wink enjoying to see the pretty blush that stained her cheeks. He then looked at his brothers who promptly stood beside him and held his other hand. Shivaay felt a rush of happiness as he stood with the three people he couldn't live without, knowing he could take on the whole world with them by his side.

Rudra gave him a silent wink, stepped behind and took Saumya's hand, Omkara slapped him on the back and stood next to Rudra. Arhaan and Nidhi stood beside them and Ranveer and Prinku were at the back. Shivaay and Anika gave one swift glance at their family and then looked at each other, with love shining from their eyes

"Come on Mrs Oberoi" said Shivaay with a confident smile "We have a wedding to attend"

And together they walked towards the Mandap to begin their first day in the journey to a happily ever after

THE END

Ah, finally!