We don't know which way it's gonna go
*
After a particularly exhausting few hours spent trying to negotiate a deal with the Lance corp. lawyers, Shivaay was grateful to be home. Taking some shampoo into his hands he started to massage his hair and let his mind wander. He thought of how harrowing this entire deal had been with the lance corp. and how he hadn't been able to stop himself from staring at his partner, the entire duration of the meeting. His frustratingly attractive, cute as hell and annoying partner. He thought back to the day he had first seen her. She had been moving in the apartment across the hall from his. It wasn't her raven black hair or the entrancingly chocolate brown eyes or her curves that he had noticed first. Nope, the first thing he noticed about Annika was the fact that she was sitting in the middle of the hallway with a giant Labrador mix dog her lap. And she was talking to the dog or rather singing to it, moreover the dog seemed to be totally enchanted by his owner. After that he didn't know exactly what had happened because he had gone up to her and introduced himself and they had been making small talk when the dog decided that he had been ignored long enough, and decided to jump into conversation by literally trying to climb up Shivaay's body and licking the hell out of him.
From then on an easy friendship had blossomed between them and he had been thrilled, when he had learned that she was also a lawyer and that she would be working with him in the Raizada Corp. But then as the months progressed on he started falling for her and the worst part about that was she seemed to be oblivious to his feelings for her. To make matters even worse she agreed to go on a date with some guy from accounting. He had been so angry with himself for not asking her out sooner. He just knew that this fool was going to be enchanted with her and then they would probably go on some more dates and just like that he would lose her. The thought of never having the chance to be with her and to lose her scared the shit out of him, and due to this fear and his irrational jealousy he did something he never thought himself capable of. He sabotaged her date and of course the genius that she was, she figured it out and from then it was WW 3 between them. They didn't talk like they used to before the sabotage spectacle. Now insults were hurled in every conversation and they sabotaged each other's plans. But, honestly ? He wasn't complaining, because of this animosity between them he had all her attention.
He had just finished washing his hair, when he noticed that his hands were colored green and that the water running down the drain was also bright green. Quickly turning off the water he wrapped a towel around his middle and stepped out to see himself in the mirror. His hair, oh my god, his hair was a startlingly bright green color. With every second he felt his temper rising. With this white hot anger riding him he stood in front of Annika's door out in the hallway.
"Annika, open the door right now!" When still there was no response he raised his voice even more
"Ann-i-ka!".
He heard a quiet little giggle which was quickly muffled from the other side of the door. Just when he was about to shout again the door opened and there stood the minx in her pajamas, the one with cute little pigs all over them, and then before he could realize what his happening she snapped a picture of him and closed the door in his face. And then there he was standing in the hallway, barefoot with just a towel around his middle and ghastly green colored hair, with sounds of her howling with laughter from the other side of the door. Ms.Annika had just started a war and it was time hit where it hurt her the most.
*
The next morning Annika was in a very good mood. Her plan had been quite successful . She was mildly irritated by the fact she still hadn't figured out how Shivaay managed to add salt daily to her morning coffee. But she ignored that, and focused on her good mood. She was running a bit late for office today but she didn't even let this put a damper on her good mood. She had a pretty good record of always being on time so this unusual tardiness would most definitely be excused by her boss. Today was going to be amazing, she could feel it in her bones. Humming a peppy and cheerful tune she entered the parking lot and headed towards her precious Mini Cooper. Annika loved this car, more than one should love an inanimate object. But this was the car that she had bought with her very first salary and for that reason it was extra special to her.
Rounding the corner something pink caught her eye. As she moved closer she realised that whatever it was, it was in the lot where she parked her car. She had just reached the lot when her brain processed the fact that it was her car, that it was her precious blue mini cooper that was covered in pink sticky notes. The entirety of her car was covered in 'pink sticky notes' . She couldn't believe what she was seeing. And what was worse? Over the those damned pink sticky notes the entire car was wrapped in saran wrap. She knew Shivaay was going to retaliate against her for green hair prank but for the life of her she hadn't imagined that he would do such a horrible thing to her car. Her poor car. She was just wondering how she was going to remove all the saran wrap and sticky notes when the devil himself sauntered up to her. The idiot looked handsome even with horrible green colored hair. She was so worked up that she wanted to do something to him. At this moment she could murder him and not regret it. She would happily go to jail for getting rid of this annoyingly handsome devil incarnate. And he had the nerve to smirk at her.
"So..Ms.Annika I see you have seen my masterpiece."
"You..you..bumbling idiot how-"
"Yes, well this bumbling idiot didn't like his hair being colored green.You know how particular I am about my hair and you still did this-" He said gesturing to green hair "- so what I did to you was only fair."
She knew that Shivaay was very vain where his hair were concerned and so she had deliberately added hair dye to his shampoo. She really, really wanted to wipe that smirk off his face and murder him. He made her so violent.
Chuckling Shivaay leaned against her car and said,"Having murderous thoughts Felicity ?"
She refused to give him an answer and stood quietly thinking how she would get to office now. Where before she would only have ten minutes late; now she would most definitely be an hour late if she was lucky.
She started to walk away from him when called out her name. Ignoring him she kept on moving forward determined to get away from him. She had just reached the end of her lot when she was forcefully tugged back into solid arms. Her breath left her when she stared up at those baby blue eyes. Her hands fisted in his shirt, she could feel the solid muscle below her hands. His hand on her waist electrified her. Her eyes darted to his lips and then quickly back to his eyes to notice that he was staring back at her with thinly veiled interest and something more deeper. Something that both alarmed and thrilled her. Shivaay was going to kiss her,she knew it instinctively; just as she knew that when he kissed her she would reciprocate and something would change between them. Change terrified her, thinking so she pulled free from him and he let her.
Clearing his throat Shivaay spoke,
"I'll give you a ride to office today." Saying so walked away presumably to his car.
For a moment Annika took a deep breath and gathered her thoughts. She had no choice but to accept his offer.
