With a cup of black coffee in his hands, Shivaay was drowned in reading an important document that had been kept on his desk. It was early in the morning when he had woken up to come to his office, the week was going to be hectic for him. Sighing out, he realised that it was past ten am and he hadn't heard from his assistant yet. It irked him everytime when people were late, especially when his assistant was.

He had picked up the intercom on his desk to lash out on him but to his surprise, Shivaay heard a knock on his door. "Come in" He commanded in a hoarse voice, the door opening slightly. Shivaay hadn't spared a glance at his assistant before throwing out the bunch of papers to the other side of the table. "Are you always this rude to everyone here? I should have known" That certainly wasn't his assistant's voice so when he met the familiar face, he looked confused.

"What are you doing here Rudra?" His hands itching to touch his own hair and run along them but then it could spoil his perfectly made hair so he stopped himself from doing that. He certainly didn't wanted to shout on his brother but each passing second he was getting annoyed. "Can't I just visit my brother?" Rudra answered with a pout on his face, refusing to look at him now.

"Stop acting like a child Rudra" Shivaay massaged his head with his hands as his elbows rested on the table. Taking a quick glance at his small brother he found him sitting on the couch in the corner with his puppy eyes staring right at Shivaay. This made him groan, loosening his tie a bit, he opened his mouth to speak. "Tell me again why aren't you in college at this time?"

"I told you, I wanted to meet you" Shivaay frowned at him, there was no reason for Rudra to come see him so what kind of game was he playing with him exactly? Clearing his throat, he got up, dragging himself towards the couch. Sitting down next to him, he observed his face for some seconds. "Stop lying to me, I can see through you that you aren't being honest with him" Narrowing his eyes at Rudra, he folded his arms to his chest.

"You don't believe your brother? Do you?"

"If in next five seconds you won't tell me why you are here, I am kicking you out myself" Shivaay raised his index finger as he started to count the next five seconds, Rudra opened and shut his mouth several times before giving up. "Alright, stop. I will tell you why am I here. It's because of the images that was sent to Khanna by some secret agent. The image had you in it, with a girl" Shivaay couldn't help but cough out loudly at that. Getting up, he moved towards his table to grab a glass of water.

Gulping down she content down his throat, his thoughts were running at the speed of light with the possibilities of the picture being taken yesterday night. Rudra who had his eyes wide, couldn't help but wonder if his brother really was spotted with a girl. Not until now he had known that he was really into girls.

"How did you even came to know about this from Khanna?"

"I have my ways Bhaiya" Rudra winked at him making Shivaay groan yet again. Picking up his cell phone from his table, he dialed Khanna's number. Immediately his call was picked by Khanna. "Who the hell sent you that picture?" He hadn't realised that his tone had rose up when he had talked.

"Sorry Sir but it was sent to by some anonymous, we tried tracking the device but that person had probably got rid of that device till then" Sucking his breathe in, he calmed himself down. It wasn't a big deal, according to Rudra and Khanna only his face was visible and not Annika's.

"Alright, keeping searching for him" With that he threw his phone onto the ground with frustration written all over his face. Rudra who had been silently witnessing everything had his jaw hanging down. All he wanted to do was to crawl put of this mess before he was killed by his own brother. "Now Rudra, you stay" Hearing that, Rudra's eyes grew even wider. He had called a death wish upon himself.

"I am sorry Bhaiya. I will never do anything like this, I will attend the college everyday, I will get my degree. I won't even touch my PS4 from now on. I won't flirt with any girl ever. Just let me leave" Shivaay tiled his head, a frown on his face, truly his brother was the exact opposite of he was. Sighing out, he slightly hit the back of his head making Rudra look at him a pout.

"Are you an idiot? I was not going to throw you into a dungeon or something. I wanted you to meet the person in that photo" Shivaay said in a low voice, scratching the back of his neck nervously. Rudra swore that of his eyes grew more wider, he would have to go to an ophthalmologist soon. "You are telling me, you want me to meet your date?" Rudra blinked his eyes several times as he asked out.

Shivaay nodded his head at him taking him by surprise. Rudra pinched himself to see if he was dreaming but neither he found himself back in his room nor Shivaay disappered from his eyesight. "Now out before I change my mind. Meet me in the lunch time" Shivaay grabbed his arm, leading Rudra towards the door.

Giving his brother one last small smile, Shivaay pushed him out of his office as gently as he could. Rudra still had mouth wide open with his mind not at ease. This all felt so very weird to him and hard to digest right now.

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As the cold wind blew outside, the more Shivaay had increased the number to the air conditioner. As much as he loved working, sometimes he wanted to do nothing but throw away his laptop and phone away for some minutes of silence. It was several hours later when it his attention drew towards the clock on his wall. The lunch break would began in some minutes.

Sighing, he dropped his pen down, the contract lying in front of him was now full of ink marks. Running his fingers through his hair, he grabbed his phone from his pocket. There on his wall screen was her picture, it was taken by him some days ago on one of their dates. Annika had a cup of coffee in her hand, her long hair were dropped down her shoulders. A white oversized sweatshirt adoring her body.

Smiling to himself, he glanced at the time which indicated to him that it was time for him to get up. Pushing his chair back and shutting his laptop, he made his way towards the office next door. And as expected Rudra was sitting right there on his assistant's chair while he; Aryan, Shivaay's assistant was sitting on the other side of the desk.

Glaring at Rudra who was busy being in his phone, Aryan was up from his seat by noticing that his boss was standing right there. "Good afternoon Sir" Aryan greeted while Shivaay passed a nod to him along with a small smile. Hearing Aryan speak, Rudra was startled, stumbling and tripping on his own feet, clutching the arm of the seat in order to stop it from falling.

"Aryan, you can go and have lunch now" As Shivaay said, Aryan nodded at him and went away from his eyesight without saying a single word. "And you, Rudra Singh Oberoi, behave" With a glaring face, Shivaay took hold of Rudra's arm and dragged him out of his assistant's office.

It did not take them much time to get down to the parking area where Shivaay's Mercedes was parked. "Get in" Shivaay said to Rudra and without arguing he got inside, sitting on the passenger seat. Shivaay soon started to drive after they both had fixed their seatbelts in position.

Rudra had decided to keep his mouth shut throughout the drive and he sticked to his decision as he gazed outside from his window. "Her name is Annika" Shivaay said breaking the silence, fingers tapping on the steering wheel. Hearing him, Rudra turned to face him, amusement written all over his face. "And before you ask me anything else, she is my girlfriend"

When Shivaay had called her his girlfriend, he did not miss the butterflies he felt in his stomach. Rudra tried his best to grasp the information in but thinking about his brother being completely whipped wasn't a scenario he had ever imagined. All he could remember was when they were in school, he had seen his brother being chased by girls.
Never, ever, in his entire life Rudra had seen Shivaay with a girl, let alone going on a date. "Alright, you need to speak Rudra" Shivaay had been observing his face from too long and now that his patience level was rising he wanted to know what exactly was he thinking.

"I am just overwhelmed Bhaiya" Sighing out, Shivaay nodded as his foot stepped onto the break pedal. Taking his phone out, he typed his message to Annika, telling her that he was outside her office. Rudra was still silently sitting, thinking about various things.

"You are scaring me Rudra" Shivaay exclaimed, his eyes fixed on him. Maybe he knew why he was being like this, silent and awkward. It had never felt necessary to him to date, it felt more like a huge responsibility to him but seeing Annika, all the thoughts about anything flew out of the window. It felt as if she had casted a spell on him and he wasn't complaining about it either.

"I just feel, happy, I am happy that you have finally found someone who would be with you" Rudra passed Shivaay a genuine smile as he casually shrugged his shoulders. Indeed, Rudra was nothing but jubilant about the fact that finally he thought something about him rather than just his work and business.

"Well, there she is. Annika Mehra"

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I know I am updating so very soon, just was in a good mood and so I  wrote it down in a go. And also the idea about Annika's boss getting hold of the photograph of the two of them and making her write about Shivaay's mystery girlfriend was given by crazyLazyPri. Thankyou Piyali <3