"Maa?" Gauri comes running out from the room with the mobile phone.

Anika and shivaay stay petrified cause they dont wanna witness another disastrous pulao now.

"That's not fair maa!" Gauri whines.
Anika wiggles Gauri's shoulders and signals a 'what?!'. While gauri just jerks away and stands all sighing out disheartened.

She cuts the call and puts her chin down.

"Hey.. is everything fine?" Shivaay asks as he strokes Gauri's hair.

"Mom wants me back there in Mumbai. Tomorrow" she says and sits thud on the sofa.

Anika just stands hopeless and slowly kneels beside her.

"You know na.. she hates to let us out alone. You've made three days away from her. Good for you!" Anika shrugged.

"Btw, my results are out" Gauri mummbles.

"And....?" Anika asks with a raised eyebrow.

"Two more arrears!" She mutters.

"Can you please raise your volume?!" Anika states irritated.

"I failed in Two more Subjects!! Okay?!?" She yells embarresed and picks up the nearby grapes basket and starts feding herself.

Anika bites her upper lip and tried controlling her laughter.

Shivaay breaks first. He starts laughing hysterically followed by Anika.

Gauri just stands rolling her eyes.

"Wait!! You just have 2 MORE arrears. So that makes.. 12 plus two.. FOURTEEN???" Anika asks inbetween her uncontrollable laughter.

"You could tell. You cleared your 17 in your last year" Gauri taunts.

"You had seventeen?" Shivaay jaw drops.

"Hey! I cleared them" Anika justifies. "Now it's her, whom we should tease and not me. So behave Mr.Billu." she adds and turns to Gauri.

It was 'Billu' again, that popped out her lips and made shivaay singh oberoi pissed.

"Fine. So dont you wanna clear em off soon. Like.. you cant just let 14 more backlogs tag along !" Shivaay shakes his head.

"I'll clear em soon bhaiya. It's as easy beezy for me!" Gauri shrugs and gives Shivaay the grapes.

"Well if you remember.. you said the same words last semester!" Anika taunts back. While shivaay kept swallowing each grapes with a 'these-girls-are-unbelievable' kind of smile.

Giving her a fake smile, Gauri walked straight to the room. "Ill start packing my stuff" she voices from inside.

"Better soon" Anika replies back with a smile and starts moving to the kitchen. When shivaay just grabs her hips and pulls her closer.

"Kya kar rahe ho tum Shivaay?.. Gauri is here!" She tries wiggling away.

"Ive told you many times not to call me billu. Daadi and rudra na.. Grrr.. If you call me billu one more time.." he growls still having the grapes in his mouth and is cut in middle by anika.

"Aur kya?? What will you possibly do?" Anika whispers yells and starts walking towards him.

Shivaay takes a step back as she walks to him. But quickly leans down and pecks her lips. She stands stunned.

Turning off with a kiss was her strategy and now that he has reached the extreme level she just couldnt breath a gust of air. Totally frozen she stood there without moving a muscle.

A minute later, Gauri comes back that side to pick up her toothbrush from the closet but finds a startled Anika and an as usual cool shivaay, leaning by thr couch with a smile. 

Gauri was curious to know what happened that made Her Non-stop-express-sister's mouth shut.

Anika jerks and comes back to reality. She was munching the grapes now.

Gauri notices Grapes in Anika's mouth and understands the situation. "Bhaiya.. ill be taking a morning walk with Hiccups which would lend you more time" Gauri suggests with a naughty smile.

Anika was still not out of the shock. And was not contemplating what both her boyfriend and sister was discussing about.

"Boww" hiccups squeals as he loved his morning walks and Gauri gets him out of cage.

"See. Even Hiccups would love to go on a walk. So we'll return back... slowly" Gauri winks to Shivaay and walks out only after giving hiccups his food.

"So you now know what will be the consequence if you call me billu" he pulls his collars up with a teasing smile.

He then gives Anika a "what happened to her " kind of look.

Then he slowly makes her sit on the couch. He eyes her and slowly pulls his cellphone out.

He opens the gallery and smiles to a picture.

"There again. You can cross out another wish of yours" he thinks.

*Unexpected kiss from my guy* was the wish. He still hasnt forgotten about her list. He still wanted to strikes each and every wish of hers. He just couldnt stop blushing to what a lover boy he has turned into.

He looks at Anika and she was blushing all red.

"You can relax. You'll get used to this" he says and smirks more. While Anika turns even more red.

A while later Shivaay was busy tying his tie and getting ready for work. When Anika was scratching her head and calculating something.

"What are you calculating 17-Arrear-Rani" shivaay walks in and Anika rolls her eyes.

"We've been spending more on Groceries recently. So im calculating about how we can reduce our expenses in that" Anika states and continues calculating.

"So.. shall we stop eating and starve to death? Will that help?" Shivaay suggests with a tight smile.

Anika sighs. "Can we be serious here?" She complains.

Shivaay sits on the couch and starts rummaging through his papers for the meeting he had in office.

Anika comes totally worried and disturbed. And sits on his lap without prior notice and starts explaining him the problem.

"Shivaay we've been spending a lot on Milk every month but dont you see ? You take sairabanu and i have my green tea. Considering the amount of sairabanu you consume.. we can actually reduce the amount we buy.." she keeps ranting and all the while Shivaay was adoring her with a smile.

"Yeh Pepsodent Ad nayi hai.. so please zip your mouth and help me with the crisis" Anika states as she was deserving a solution.

"Number 1: Americano. It's Americano(he sighs). Number 2: We'll definitely solve this issue today. But please will you let your boyfriend look through his papers, so that he doesnt suck at his meeting today??" Shivaay requests with a cute smile.

"Err.. okay! Sorry" Anika says as she tugs some hair behind her ears.

Shivaay looks at her and Anika just shrugs. "Prepare for the meeting. Your data isnt on my face" She mutters.

"Well, having you on my laps aint a problem for me. But my employees might not want their boss romancing his Girlfriend in the meeting?" Shivaay says with an almost cracking laugh.

Anika realises the position and quickly gets up with a blush.

Main door creaks open and both Anika and shivaay look at the person.

"You'll never grown up. Go to hell!" Anika screams to Shivaay and rushes in.

"Well. Same to you! I never wanna see your face!"  Shivaay screams back to Anika and gives the person a angry look.

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