He never felt being a popular face so annoying as when he was caught by a crowd of people while running away from the reality that she didn't love him anymore. Moreover, she thinks that he doesn't love her. How on earth is it possible when he spends every passing second in fear of his condition after she leaves him? Is that not love? What's love, then?

"Please!" - He tried to cover his face and started walking away from them when they constantly clicked images and videos instead of thinking about his condition. He found it very difficult to breathe in the suffocation; people didn't even let him have time to breathe. And finally, he ended up fainting out of breath in the street, surrounded by people who only wanted to click pictures of him, not help him. Closing his eyes, he could only imagine her at this moment and ask her again to come back to him. Soon he felt a rescued from the same person whom he yelled at and threatened for letting him into the party: her manager.

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It became too late for Anika to recognize that she had been crying for so long after he ran away after hearing her request. He had to go; now everything between them ended on a very bad note. She didn't want that; she didn't want it to end. But how long could she survive, knowing that whatever she does in the future will create nothing but fear and insecurity in his heart?

She tried being his support and tried to change him with her love, knowing all his fears and insecurities, but everything has an endpoint. She must have gone back to him on that same day when she decided to leave him out of breath. If her parents' accident news hadn't reached her, she might have still hidden and forgiven him if she hadn't had a reality check in the form of her parents' absence in her life, forever. And she didn't make them proud with the first decision of her life, MOVING INTO KOLKATTA, where meeting him and getting along with him came next in the chain.

It might have been refreshing for him, but it was toxic for her to be with a person who promised to be with her at every point in time. She cried, the loudest weep deep from her stomach, just to let her feelings out, which was crashing her to the core. Then, without asking permission from her, her mind started to recall her words which she spoke against him. Did she ask him to die?

"Oh my. My phone." - She started searching for her phone, getting up from the corner where she was sitting and crying for a long time. She moved towards the tea table and took the phone out of the bag and called her manager, even though her vision blurred due to continuous crying.

"Chakravarty." - She tried to talk to him in a calm note, but her throat didn't cooperate.

"Yes, Mam." - He replied.

"Shivaay, I mean the singer, Shivaay. Just left. Without any security. Please help him out." - She said, calming herself while mentioning his name again and again, which ached her to the core. Her brain got tired of preaching to her heart that everything is over between them.

"Yes, Mam." - He replied.

"And don't. Don't let him know that I have sent you." - She said and cut the call. The next second, she packed all her stuff very quickly; all she wanted was to leave this place, which was haunting her by going to her past again and again. Her feelings for him were getting stronger and stronger with each passing second.

When she moved towards her wardrobe to take her clothes, something sharp stuck into her foot, and it started to bleed. Surprisingly, that didn't hurt her much. His bracelet was stuck in her foot, and it eventually started to bleed. It was a slight cut, but seeing that bracelet, her body got tired from running away. It was a bracelet that she took from the temple when he was not well. She asked him a promise over that time, and he broke that promise too.

"Why?" - She whispered helplessly when her body didn't cooperate with her brain for the second time in her life. But she had to go; she wasn't supposed to stick up in her life with the responsibility of her sisters. They needed her, even though she was being grumpy and strict with them. They needed her at the end of the day. She's their only family who they can trust wholeheartedly.

"Anika, be strong. You're not supposed to get weak again. Ria and Sia need you; you have to be strong, at least for them. Don't think about anything." - She said, taking that bracelet from her foot and keeping it in her handbag. She stood up.

"Be strong, Anika." - She murmured to herself and checked out from the hotel. She was all ready to leave the city and leave him. And she boarded her private jet after getting a message that he's safe from her manager.

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How much her manager tells him that he came on his own for his, He knew it, She would be the only person who sends him to Shivaay for helping him. Whatever happens, she resists herself from helping him, but still, he hurt her. And the pain he created in her heart is clearly visible in her eyes and in her trembling speech. He was in the hospital elite ward, staring at the ceiling and trying to gather up what had happened in his life and what had gone wrong. Every time he recalls, he couldn't stop himself from crying.

She was there at his every point in time, and she was convincing herself when he gave up on everything. But with the same heart, she asked him to die. And that heart was in a very bad state, just like his heart right now. Whatever she spoke was true, even if he denies it. He tried to cover up his every mistake by blaming his past and never felt that he had a beautiful present with him at that time. He could have changed his life for the better with her. And now, he was simply blaming himself for killing her innocence with his insecurities and fear instead of living in the moment. Om reached the hospital while opening the door wider.

"Shivaay," - He called his name when he lost himself in his thoughts. He least responded. But he came and sat next to him.

"What happened?" - He further asked him.

"I lost her, that is what happened. And I don't want to live without her forever." - He said to him in a low tone, yet he was too determined.

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AFTER 7 DAYS

Anika was trying to cope up with that incident that happened in Bangalore. She was behaving fine with her sisters after realizing how much she's hurting them by transmitting her frustration to them. Ria seemed to be fine and happy with her changed behavior, but Sia still felt annoyed when she interrupted her happiness, especially after banning her from mentioning Shivaay's name and his songs because of their upcoming board exams. They were in their 10th grade, and their exams were approaching. Anika was always on track with their academic status. For Sia, Anika felt like her strict version of her mom, but at last, she's like her momma, and she loves her to the core.

"Sia, I heard something from your social science teacher." - Anika initiated the conversation when Sia walked past her while Anika was working with her laptop in the drawing-room. Sia stopped walking and looked at her in reaction.

"Come, sit here, See-Saw." - Anika said with a smile, pointing to the left-out space next to her. See-Saw was Sia's nickname given by Anika from the moment she got her first period after experiencing her weird mood swings, which were always up and down.

"See-Saw. It's weird to hear it from you after a long time." - She said, taking a seat next to her and also taking her cappuccino from the tea-table, which Anika had specially prepared for her. Always being a foodie sister, Sia took a large sip and closed her eyes in relaxation. Anika patted her back to bring her back to her senses.

"She said, You're improving in history and economics, but what happened to geography?" - Anika asked her when Sia was busy finishing Anika's coffee.

"I got 16 out of 25; last time, it was 10. I think I am improving, Akka. You should appreciate that instead of asking me questions." - She said, turning towards her.

"That's why I am talking to you. Okay, let's make a deal. If you score good marks, I promise you both that I will take you on a Europe trip for the whole month of May, and there you can start your travel vlogging." - Anika said to her. Sia spilt her coffee in sudden surprise upon hearing her sister's words.

"Eww." - Anika said and wiped off her lips with her palm.

"Serious?" - Sia asked her.

"You have my word, Darling. But I want you to score good marks in pre-boards, not just in boards. Anyway, the result will come in mid-May. By then, we should be on our holidays." - Anika said to her. Sia still couldn't believe her words, and Anika badly wanted to rectify the mistakes that happened with her sister in the last two years. A long holiday would help in getting back to them.

"Why? Akka." - Sia asked her teary-eyed.

"Because I realized my mistakes. I have really been a bitch in recent days, especially with you. So, I'm making it up." - Anika said with a smile, even though she had no energy to smile.

"You were not a bitch, Akka. You know who's the real 'bitch'?" - Sia got comfortable with her seconds, the main reason why she calls her by the name 'See-Saw'.

"Who?" - Anika asked her.

"Shivaay's girlfriend," - Anika's eyes slightly widened, but she was not ready to open up to her. She felt so offended, like her, how many of them still curse her?

"It told me, Hate is blind, Sissy." - Sia confronted. While then, Ria rushed inside her house looking at her phone. She was so stressed and sad looking at the phone.

"Sia, Shivaay was found unconscious in his house." - Ria told Sia. Both Anika and Sia were shocked to an extent. Anika couldn't recall anything other than her words, "GO AND DIE."

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