The spirit took slow steps to get out of the house. Anika tailed behind the spirit maintaining a safe distance from it. As soon as it crossed the front door, she rushed out to the door.

When Anika was outside, there was no clue of Shivaay. But how was that possible? She knew that she heard him. She could never fail to recognise his voice. Her heart skipped a beat when she realized that that girl in white had also suddenly disappeared.

With a heavy heart, she took few steps and called out to Shivaay. What if the spirit has harmed him by the time she came out?

"Shi... Shivaay" she called his name.

But there was no reply. The only sound existed there was the gushing of the wind which blew some dried leaves along.She called his name again but it was all in vain.

Just then, she felt as if someone tapped on her shoulder, impulsively she turned behind, only to have her heart sunk down.

"Ahhh" she screamed. Her fear took over whatever courage that remained in her. She got scared after seeing that same girl, placing her hand on her shoulder.

"Who... "

"Who are you???" Anika asked after gathering some remaining courage.

She laughed evilly.

"Who... Who are you??? "She repeated her questions. Anika was on the verge of crying. Her mind said that she could handle this but her fear was convincing her mind otherwise.

The girl laughed again.

"I'm the one who's supposed to be asking this question to you.  This is my house and I'm living here for the last 5 years. So tell me who are you and what are you doing here, in my house that too with my Shivaay??? Huh?" she asked. Rage was clearly visible in her voice. She was really angry and didn't like Anika's presence in the house.

Anika became hell shocked after hearing those words from the spirit. Who wouldn't be? She just got married and was about to begin a new life with her husband but an obstacle in the form of some evil spirit is here in their house. And to add to this, it was questioning Anika. As Anika was battling with her fear, the spirit began laughing at her plight. That's exactly what it wanted.

Her house

Her Shivaay

What exactly does this spirit wants?

"I'm Anika... Shivaay's wife... "Anika replied, stammering. She knew that the only way to get the spirit to open her mouth was to reveal about herself. The spirit must know that Shivaay wasn't its but he belongs to Anika. And why not? They were bonded by the most sacred tie in the world, marriage.

She stopped her laughter and glared Anika dangerously. Her eyes were becoming more bloodshot. It was anger. Real anger.

"Where... Where's Shivaay??? "Anika asked.

"I heard his voice from here" She added upon getting no reply from her.

"It wasn't Shivaay. It was me. Leave my house and Shivaay otherwise it can turn into real. And I can do anything. Anything and I mean it... He's mine, his everything is mine... You better stay away or else... "She said as she looked at Anika's feet and again started laughing.

That's when Anika looked at her clothes from top to bottom, it was all red because of blood. The fear that she was holding behind began to engulf her wholly. Her heartbeat was increasing. She tried to call out for help but there was a huge lump in her throat which made her speechless. Tears began to betray her eyes as fear completely destroyed every tiny bit of her remaining courage.

Just then, she heard some voice from behind and she looked back right away. No one was behind her. And when she turned back, there was no one there.

Where had she gone within a blink of the eye???!!!

Her mind was creating a thousand possibilities. She was exhausted with all these happenings. She just wanted it to stop. She couldn't pull the 'I'm strong and brave enough to go through this' facade anymore. She really needed Shivaay. She wanted to talk to him. She wanted to make sure that he was fine.

She immediately called him. She couldn't take the risk of assuming that he would be fine. She wanted to sure. Especially after the deadly warning from the spirit.

Shivaay felt a vibration in his front pocket. He picked up his phone to check who it was. When he saw Anika's name flashing through the screen,

"Yes baby, what happened???" Shivaay asked her softly as soon as he picked up the phone.

"Shivaay, where are you?" she asked him, concerned but managed to hid the panic in her voice.

"In meeting baby. I told you about it right. Do you need anything??? Is there anything wrong?" he asked.

"Are you alright???" she asked sustaining the tears in her eyes.

"Yeah. Why? What will happen to me?" he asked confusedly. Here he was worried about what had happened to her but she was asking the question he was supposed to ask her.

"Urrrmmm. Nothing. Just come soon, I need to talk to you." she said as she didn't want to add up to his worry.

"I'll baby. Love you!" he assured her.

Her heart fluttered a little when she heard those words despite being afraid. That was the words she longed from him ever since she realized that she was in love with him. Even if she knew that his 'love you' was more towards the friendly one yet, she felt blissful enough to hear that. That one word from him made her forgot the problem she was stuck in for a few minutes.

"Love you too!" she replied truthfully as a long tear escaped her eyes.

She stayed outside for a while. She thought about how far they have came through. They both suffered the loss of their family. And have struggled a lot without their parents these past few months. They were each other's support. Somewhat, after hearing the 'love you' from Shivaay, all her destroyed courage magically reappeared. She prepared herself mentally to face whatever that lies ahead of her.

She went inside the house, being all ready to face anything. When she entered the hall,  everything was messed up there. Their wedding photo was broken, lying on the floor. The frame was broken and the glass was shattered completely. Their camera was dismantled into tiny pieces and each of the piece was broken. The sofa's filling was all over the floor. The pretty vases that was perfectly displayed on the shelf was on the ground. In short, everything was broken.

Then her eyes got stuck on the big mirror in front of her eyes. It was the only thing in tact in the whole house. Just because it carried a message; a warning for her.

"Leave this house
Leave Shivaay
Everything is mine!
Or else.... "

That too in blood.

She got scared and ran out of the house crashing against almost every thing in her way in the hall. She started sobbing and shivering out of fear. Everyone has one ultimate fear in their life. Her's was the fear towards the unknown, unexplainable supernatural forces.

Then she saw Shivaay's car and ran towards it. He panicked upon finding her all dishelved like that. She was crying incoherently.

As soon as he came out of the car, she immediately engulfed him in a tight hug and cried her heart out. He hugged her back and caressed her hair slowly.

"Hey, baby... Are you alright?
What happened?" Shivaay asked her while caressing her hair.

And after few more sobs, she narrated the whole story to him. Every thing, from what had happened ever since he left her in the mansion all alone.

"What!!!???"

"Are you sure??? I mean... You could have had a bad dream like as in nightmare???" Shivaay asked. He knew that she feared this kind of things the most. It was possible that she dreamt about it. It wasn't the first time. She even had several nightmare back then which she at times mistaken as a reality.

"No! I'm not lying Shivaay. All this really happened with me. If it was a dream, or nightmare, I would realize it in a few minutes. Come I'll show you everything. Our photo. That huge mirror. Blood.Everything." she said as she dragged him in by his hand.

"What's this??? How is this even possible???" Anika exclaimed upon finding everything was fine. There was not even a tiny shred of glass on the floor.

"See baby, there was nothing. Nothing wrong as you said. And see our photo is also perfectly hanging on the wall. How can it might be broken? Huh ? And see our camera. Our all pictures are still here. The vases. Everything is fine Anika. And the mirror...how can a mirror be here in the hall??? As far as I remember, we had no mirror in the hall. So the blood and the writing all is just impossible. Anika, baby, it must have been your nightmare. Like how it always was" Shivaay explained everything to her patiently.

She was still in the trance upon finding everything just fine. Shivaay felt guilty for leaving her behind like that. He engulfed her in a tight hug.

"But... Shivaay..." She tried to explain.

"Sssshhhh" Shivaay stopped her.

"It was nothing but a nightmare Anika. Relax! Okay?" he soothed her down.

Now Anika herself was confused. Was it all just a dream or it did really happened to her?

Just then, some servants came in. Shivaay instructed Anika to get some rest and monitered all the cleaning himself.

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So who's she???

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Will Shivaay able to understand Anika or it'll be always lie for him!

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Lots of Love.

-PriNiv.