"Life gives you surprises and shocks equally,"  Anika feels like it was none other than it's for her, But her brain gave another name to it, Imagination. It happened mostly with the people whose so immersed with the story they heard or saw. They will feel the character as them and started to reaction, That's the basic mechanism behind, Ghost possessions. Anika read about it a lot, But Her brain denied to accept it. 

But her brain bluntly gave her the reason, It was all because she loves him and wrote the story he narrated with her name and nothing more than that. She likely wanted to connect it with her one-year memory loss. But she left that thinking, she was thinking too much. Days went, Atharv didn't slip the ring in her finger but gave it on her hand, Telling it's all her choice. He couldn't even take the thought of breaking the marriage. But he still told her, It's all her choice with a heavy heart. By then, She decided. If we didn't get what we wish, We have to accept what we are gifted with. She decided, Whatever, Wherever this relation leads to, She didn't want to start with a lie. She decided to tell him the truth. 

Atharv moved back to his guesthouse when Anika regained her consciousness. But Her heart still yearns, Whatever she imagined or dreamed won't be turned out to be true. But Still, She moved on ahead, Leaving her heart damaged and broken forever. She knew who would be her medicine, But Fate didn't leave her with an opportunity to get it repaired. She accepted everything. And called Atharv. 

"Hi..." - Anika responded as soon as he attended her call. 

"Yeah, Anika... Are you feeling good, Now?" - He responded to her through the phone. 

"Yeah, Good... Feeling better..." - She said while gazing the diamond ring which he left with her. 

"That great, I am feeling relieved..." - He said. 

"I have decided..." - Anika straightly come to the point. 

"What?" - He asked her. 

"I can't say it through the phone... First gear cafe... Tomorrow morning..." - Anika asked him. 

"Ani... I can't wait till that... You know right..." - He asked her. 

"Atharv, It's you, You are the one who should decide it after hearing to me... Marrying me or not, But before you have to listen to him completely..." - Anika said. There was no response from his side. He stayed silent. Anika stayed silent on the other hand. 

"Okay, Ani... Time?" - He asked. 

"10 AM" - She replied. 

"Will be waiting for you..." - Atharv said. Anika rested the call Before he could. Still, her mind messed up with shivaay's thought. When she made her way towards the balcony and looked outside the gate, She could see shivaay's image waiting for her leaning back in the bike. She held tried not to blink her eyes, But when she blinked, It faded away as usual. She recalled her whole dream in her mind, She could still feel his warm breath on her neck crook and His hands around her. She even thought, What will happen to her life when he comes back to her life after her marriage. She smiled at her thoughts when she found herself cheating on Atharv, which was against her moral values. But when her life came to her mind after her parents divorce. That thought dissolved. Anika didn't know how he going to react after she tells him everything. But she gave everything to her fate. 

"Shall i bring you Chicken grill sandwich with extra cheese?" - Arpita asked when she saw her blank looking at the night sky. A smile appeared in her face when she asked that. Anika turns around. 

"Nope... That won't work... Why can't we have a chat?" - Anika asked while taking a seat in the bean bag and she asked Arpita to take the seat on the swing which was nearer to her. She smilingly sat in the swing. 

"Arpita, You won't mind me if i ask you the reason behind marrying my father..." - Anika asked her. She smiled at her. It was the first time, she was asking this question to her. 

"Well, I have two reasons..." - Arpita said. 

"What are they?" - Anika asked with a smile. 

"One, My parents asked me, Second, You won't believe..." - Arpita said.

"Why i don't believe? Try me..." - Anika asked her. 

"Second reason was a girl, I saw her in her party, Before 23 years... Wearing a sparkling sky blue frock and cute little sandals... But she was crying, Staying In-between her fighting parents, Looking at them..." - She said. 

"That girl was me... Isn't it?" - Anika asked. She nodded. 

"So you became ready to be her mom..." - Anika asked, Her tone was slightly cold. 

"That was not my intension, I just wanted to be the person with whom she could share everything, More like a friend..." - Arpita said. Anika looked at her confusingly. 

"Just because you thought she couldn't survive in this earth with this much pain, You want to be her friend and show you sympathy to her so that she could believe that as true love and get disappointed at any point in life..." - She asked her with welled up eyes. Arpita stayed silent looking at her tears. 

"Arpita, You know what's the real love? The one should love you beyond limits, Not gets sympathized by their sufferings and give them a new life... That person should love you all by their heart, That one can do anything for your love... Sympathy and love are way too far... And this is sympathy..." - Anika said and moved back to her room without turning back. She had tears in her eyes, Arpita felt very bad to see her tears and the reason behind her tears was none other than her. 

Anika went back to her room and thudded on the bed throwing her phone aside. She opened her phone. Gone back to the text which that stranger sent it to her. His words have some deep meaning. But why someone hates her this much, That was the only question. She was awake for the entire, It was the third day where she couldn't able to sleep. She knew if she didn't sleep, She will end up in admitting in the hospital again. But she couldn't able to sleep. 

She witnessed the raising of the sun. But got up from her bed when the time reached 8.30. She got ready and put that ring in the sling bag and made her way towards downstairs. She saw her father, grandmom and Arpita in the dinning. Arpita offered her breakfast, But she denied it coldly. And made her way to the cafe by walk as it was in the walking distance. She took off her sweaters and let the chill air passes through her veins. She reached the restaurant within 10 minutes and saw Atharv already waiting for her. She waved her hand with a smile. Atharv stood up from his seat and greeted her with a casual hug. Both took their seat. 

"So..." - Anika asked him with a smile. 

"I ordered your mocha frappuccino..." - He said, Before he could complete his words, The waiter served them their order. 

"How do you know I have mocha frappuccino in my mind?" - Anika asked him. 

"You usually prefer to order either cappuccino with whipped cream when the climate is hot and order Mocha frappuccino when the climate is cold... I observed it... So yeah, Got my answers..."- Atharv said in a low tone, Anika was spellbound. But in the opposite, She knew nothing about him. 

"Oh... That's..."  - Anika's sentence hanged, She wanted to complete the sentence with the word IMPRESSIVE. But Anika couldn't. She took the huge drag of her coffee and afraid to meet his eyes, She had no idea, Why?

"How's it?" - He diverted her. 

"Nice...Exactly like his..." - She stopped when she noticed what she was about to say. She questioned herself about what she was about to say. None prepared cold-coffee for her.

"Okay, You were about to say something, Right..." - He came to the point straight away and again diverted her. 

"The thing is..." - She took the ring from her sling bag and placed before him. His heart started to beat fast. 

"My father's business is in a very bad state due to the City township deal, he signed. Out of sudden, That area happened to be agricultural land, And I hope you read about it..." - Anika started. 

"Yeah, That project dropped, I read about that, Raichand's went to jail..." - Atharv said. 

"But your father said, It was just a few crores of loss..." - He asked her again. 

"Nope, He invested almost everything for this deal... Now he depends on your company... If you come to know about this after marriage, There will be a chance of portraiting me as a traitor... So I confirmed everything to you... Now i think, You got it what i was meaning in the phone... It's on you, Whether to marry me or not..." - Anika said and told everything. He leaned back on his chair. He was shocked, He didn't expect this. Anika read his face and her heart slightly got relieved. She thought he will back off but something else happened. 

"How come do you think it will be the only reason behind marrying you, Ani?" - He asked her return. She was shocked. 

"Then?" - She asked. 

"It means everyone has a story..." - He said and narrated how he got impressed when she saw her in his sister's college in Melbourne. He said, Her face didn't fade away from her mind for years. Her attitude of not looking at him and her simplicity made her fall for her. When she saw her in the party, After three years, He just couldn't hold himself back from reaching her. But she only noticed him when their parents talked about their marriage. She was very shocked to hear that. Disappointment again hit her door. She had no options, But to hang on her decision, Try to live happily with what you have. 

"So... Shall i?" - He asked her while holding the ring on his one hand and holding her left palm on another hand. She felt a severe heartache in her hand. Tears escaped from her face. He thought it was because of happiness and his confrontation. But it was tears of pain. He slipped the ring in her hand. At that moment, She felt like a kite whose owner dragging her down when she planned to reach the sky. But other than her, Someone else at the same place felt the pain in the same intensity when he witnessed his eyes from the counter table. Tears escaped at the same intensity. He kept the chocolate cookie in a plate along with a note and asked the waiter to serve it to the table. He took it from his hand and moved his way towards their table. 

Atharv was very surprised when he read the note. 

"Ani... See this..." - Atharv said to Anika. She took it from his hands. 

Heartwarming wishes for your new life... ♥︎♥︎♥︎ Happiness is always knocking on your door, You just have to open it. 

"Cute..." - Athrav said to the waiter where he took the phone which was stuck under their table with the help gum.

"Happy married life, Sir... Mam..." - He said and put the phone in his pocket. Anika couldn't recognize anything because her mind was totally blank. But he was happy that she finally took the step ahead of her happiness with a heart full of pain. 

"Shivaay, Your phone..." - The waiter gave the phone to him. He took it in his hand and moved out from the backside of the direction. 

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