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He slowly peeked into the room only to see her standing in front of her Teddy bears and talking to them.

She noticed him and quickly moved back closing her eyes tightly.

“Teddy bears?” He asked walking inside the room with a cheeky smile.

“You were talking to papa right? How did you come here?” She asked and he shrugged.

“I finished talking, so I came here. Any problem?”

“Ya, you found out my secret” She told with a pout.

He chuckled and sat on the bed looking at the teddy bears.

“Wait a second this——” He told with a realisation and she smiled widely.

“Happy realisation! This one, you gifted me on my tenth birthday, this one on twelfth birthday with a boquet of roses and huge box of chocolates. This one on my sixteenth birthday with that floral dress which I wore hell lot of times till it tore. This one I guess, last birthday along with that harry potter collection” She told excited as she pointed at each teddy bear and he smiled.

“So only I gifted you teddy bears?” He asked and she shrugged.

“Many people gifted me but I always loved your selection. See this pink one is my all time favourite. And you gave me customized ones with happy birthday Anika, written on it” She told with a wide smile and he chuckled.

“What happened?” She asked confused seeing him laughing.

“Sit here” He told patting the space near him and she sat there confused.

“Do you know why I gifted you all these Teddy bears?” He asked keeping his hand around her neck from behind and she looked confused at him.

“Because you know I love teddy bears”

“Because you were always a small kid for me. Otherwise who will gift a teddy bear on twenty fourth birthday?” He asked and she looked at him with a frown.

“Oh as if you're so much grown up. You're just five years elder than me” She told with a frown.

He was silent for a while and she turned to him confused.

“What happened?”

“Do you still have that brotherly feeling towards me?” He asked turning to her and she looked down.

“It's just a week that I started seeing you otherwise. It'll take time but I'm trying to change it” She told sadly.

“What about you?” She asked after sometime and he sighed.

“I don't know I'm trying but you're too adorable that I keep forgetting that you're my wife and not just Arnav's sister” He told and she hit his chest.

“How did our family even get the notion that we like each other? I mean you used to call me Bhaiyya right? How did they?” He asked confused and she nodded.

“Right, what if they thought we're acting like that to hide our liking from the them? But how did they get the hin——Oh my God!!! Bhaiyya!!” Anika told with wide eyes as she stood up from the bed and he turned to her with a frown.

“Don't call me that Anika” He told with a frown.

“I didn't call you! I called my own bhaiyya” She told with a frown and he looked at her embarassed.

“What if Bhaiyya and bhabhi did this? You know Jhanvi aunty told bhabhi can't marry before you and they just made the family believe that there was something between us?” She asked and he widened his eyes.

“That's possible but where were we when they introduced this to the family?” He asked confused and she frowned.

“Remember you pulled me into your room saying let's watch joker while they finalise everything? Understood the trap?” She told with hands on her hip and shivaay looked at her with wide eyes.

“Shit!! I didn't know that those backstabbers will do this. You told me you wanted to watch joker and I just took you without thinking much. I didn't know this was going on in their devil brains”

“Ya ya, many times you grabbed my hand and walked away with so much authority which confirmed to them that we like each other” She told with a sigh.

“And they saw us many times sitting close to each other. Remember that day we were fighting about what should be the theme, they might have thought we were doing something else” He told and she frowned.

“Then bhabhi came to me and told that if I don't marry you, then aunty and uncle will postpone their marriage. I fell for that” She told and he widened his eyes.

“Even Arnav did the same thing to me” He told and she sat on the bed with a frown.

“And those two didn't allow us to even talk properly during any pre wedding functions. I so want to kill them” Anika told angrily and Shivaay looked at her startled. That was the first time he saw her angry.

“Anika calm down” He told holding her arm and she turned to him.

“Do you realise what they made us do? They're so cruel. They didn't even think about our emotions” She told as tears rolled down her eyes and he hugged her as she cried against his chest.

“We thought about them but did they think about us? Both of them knew how we both saw each other. How did they even think that we both——” She told as she sobbed.

“Come with me” Anika told suddenly, holding his hand making him confused.

“Where?”

“To bhaiyya's room. If I don't do anything to him, I won't get peace of mind. I want to atleast burn his favourite shirt” She told angrily and he made her sit back.

“Will burning his shirt solve the problem? Ok they did this but see the brighter side. Anyway you'll marry someone. Some stranger but now you married me. You know everything about me and I know everything about you. At some point of life, didn't you feel something more about me. Say the truth” He asked and she bit her lower lip as her cheeks turned warm.

“So that's a yes. When you felt that, you must have reprimanded yourself saying I should be like your brother right?” He asked and she nodded slowly.

“That was when I was fifteen years old” She blurted out but closed her eyes embarrassed making him smile.

“Whatever! If you had that feeling once, it is not so hard for that feeling to return back” He told in a teasing voice and she hid her face in his chest blushing.

“Why am I even saying all these to you?” She asked and he chuckled.

“Because you my girl, is my wife now” He told and her face turned more warm and butterflies created havoc in her tummy.

“If you still want to burn his shirt then——” shivaay told softly and she raised her head with a naughty smile.

“Let's go” She told chuckling and he got up excited as they rushed to Arnav's room.

“Let's mess up the bed?” She asked excited and he shook his head.

“He shouldn't know we did this. You just take his favourite shirt, we'll burn it and keep it back as if nothing happened” He told and she beamed.

“Great!” She told and tried to open the wardrobe but it was locked. With a pout she turned to him and he winked at her before taking the key from under the mattress. Perks of being best friend!

He gave the key to her and she opened the wardrobe. Slowly, taking a blue shirt, she rushed to the iron box and switched it on, then kept the box on the shirt with an evil smirk.

“Open the window, otherwise smell will stay in the room” She told and he did surprised.

“Did you do this before also?”

“He didn't tell you? I burnt his shirt many times. Just that he used to be home when I did that so I don't know where he keeps the wardrobe key” She told chuckling.

“Then he'll understand, you did this right?” He asked keeping the iron box straight.

“He should understand I did this. That is the whole point” She told shrugging.

“No he shouldn't. Let's mix paint in his shampoo” Shivaay told and Anika bit her lower lip.

“But it is about bhaiyya's hair. He'll murder me if anything happens to his hair” Anika told and shivaay shrugged.

“I'm here with you right? He won't do anything” He told and she held his hand.

“No need. We'll burn his shirt. I don't want to hurt him” She told softly and Shivaay smiled.

“What about the hurt he gave you?”

“He loves me a lot. He knows you very well and he also knows that his sister is safest with you. He trusts you a lot. May be that is why he did all these. I don't want to hurt bhaiyya” She told softly and he smiled before hugging her.

“I won't ever spare him for hurting you” He told as he kissed her head while she parted from the hug and looked at him with wide eyes.

“I won't hurt your Bhaiyya” He told caressing her cheek and she smiled.

“Now let's burn this shirt” She told and kept the iron box on the shirt making him chuckle.

After successfully burning the shirt, she scrapped the iron box and he looked at her with wide eyes as she did it like a pro.

She folded the shirt and kept it back neatly as if nothing happened and then closed the windows and wardrobe before turning to him.

“Let's go! I'm hungry” She told happily and he chuckled before following her out of the room.

••|To Be Continued|••

A/N: is the story getting better or worse?