'Stars can't shine without darkness'

—Anonymous

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Shivaay checked his phone to see a text from Tia asking him on a date and Shivaay stood their helpless as Anika snatched it and read it.

"What!!! That stupid Tia, I hate her so much, she just asked you on a date, an actual date! Okay, this is actually unreal!" Anika shouted and pouted cutely.

Shivaay smirked and said, "I think i am sensing jealousy..."

Anika turned around to face him in style and said, "Ha, who are you kidding! Me? Jealous?! Godd"

"Fine, I don't care then, I will go on a date with Tia, anyways it is in a luxurious 5 star hotel's restaurant..I can't wait!" he said firmly looking at Anika.

"Fine!" she shouted back and turned around.

"Fine, I am going on my way right now!" Shivaay said angrily and started walking on the pavement.

Arnav and Khushi, pulled Anika with them and muttered, "Oh my God, these two are being so childish!"

"Shivaay!" Khushi called him as he was walking quite quickly.

Shivaay turned around and Arnav said quite firmly, "Me and Khushi have to go this way to choose the dresses for us so can you look after Anika and so take her with you and after the date, take her home!"

"WHAT!!" Anika and Shivaay looked at each other unbelievingly.

"I don't even have any transport to go on, the Shivaay Singh Oberoi has to WALK to this hotel and on top of that you are planning to give me some monkey to look after as well!" Shivaay said looking at Arnav.

"I am not a monkey and I don't want to go anywhere with you either!" Anika retaliated.

Khushi said, "We are not hearing any no, okay, look there" she said pointing at a bus stop, "Get on a bus and you can go there quickly, we will call you later okay?!"

Shivaay and Anika groaned and after saying bye to Arnav and Khushi,  Shivaay walked to the bus stop moaning about his status and him going on a BUS.

Anika dragged herself behind him and they waited at the bus stop with quite an awkward silence for a long time until the bus came and they both got on and then realised how crowdy it was with around a hundred people on an eighty seat bus.

"Fhat the wuck!" Shivaay muttered audible to Anika who chuckled.

There didn't seem to be any space for Shivaay so he stood up holding on to the pole while Anika sat on the window seat quite happily with no-one sitting next to her and Shivaay with his ego decided not to sit there.

The bus driver was about to move when a man with a five chains around his neck and three rings on his fingers hopped in and sat smirking next to Anika.

"Aren't I lucky to be sitting next to a gorgeous lady?!" He said putting his arm around Anika who shifted quite uncomfortably.

"Well beautiful, do you wanna spend a day at mine...?!" He said smiling foolishly and Anika who was so angry just stomped on his foot.

Shivaay who was watching said, "Excuse me! She's taken I'm afraid, she's with me and I would appreciate it if no one flirts with my girl!" He blabbered not knowing what to say.

Feeling quite awkward, the man got off and sat somewhere else whilst Shivaay sat next to Anika who was glaring at him, "Seriously! Your going on a date with Tia and you just called me your girl?! Wow!"

"Well it's not like you didn't do that to me before!" Shivaay said back and Anika rolled her eyes and they started arguing again for some time until Shivaay called her an idiot and waited for her to say something back but didn't hear anything and he felt a weight in his shoulder to see Anika cutely sleeping.

Shivaay chuckled softly not wanting to wake her up and they finally reached their destination.

"Anika! Anika" he called out quietly to wake her up.

Anika slowly opened her eyes and then got out of the bus to avoid it being even more awkward.

Tia was waiting for Shivaay and called out "Shivaay baby!" with her fake smile as Shivaay entered the hotel restaurant and slowly Anika entered behind him and Tia's said disgusted, "Why is Anika here, baby?!"

Anika slouched on the couch in the distance and put her headphones in not wanting to hear heir nonsense whilst Shivaay firmly said, "She will be there only, okay?! And also don't call me, baby!"

Tia said, "Fine, Shivaayy, lets order some food, okay?! I want vegetarian lasagne with grated cheddar cheese sprinkled with an exquisite strawberry gateau with sprite and maybe red wine as well later! Actually I'm on a diet anyways, what do you want?"

Shivaay said, "Aloo Poori only" smiling to himself and they started talking or should I say just Tia whilst Shivaay wanted to get this over and done with occasionally looking at Anika to see if she is jealous but she was just listening to her music.

After finishing their food and it was time to pay the bill, Tia ran out saying, "Oh I think someone is calling me!" It was the lamest excuse where Shivaay nor the waiter were convinced and Shivaay paid for all the food using his credit card and went to Anika.

"How was your date, with drop dead gorgeous Tia?!" Anika said sarcastically hiding a smile, taking her headphones out of her ears.

"It was amazing!" Shivaay said with a fake smile trying to be as convincing as possible.

Anika said, "Right, because I totally believe that!"

Well in actual fact, Anika wasn't listening to music, she was eavesdropping on what these two were saying and looked at her phone every time Shivaay looked in her direction. She found it funny when Tia ran away not wanting to pay the bill😂.

"Okay do you know what, I don't even care, Think what you want!" Shivaay said turning to a side, "Let's go!" He walked to the exit and Anika was following him.

"WHAT THE HELL!!" He shouted making Anika scared. "What happened Shivaay?" She asked clutching his hand.

Anika slowly peeped outside to see the area fully flooded as there was heavy rain with the water hiding the vehicles. Her eyes widened in shock.

"Fhat the Wuck! We can't go outside like that! We are gonna have to book space in the hotel here for the night!" Shivaay said holding his head.

"No way!!" Anika shouted and Shivaay replied, "Fine, YOU walk through that but I am not coming with you!"

Anika looked outside slowly and decided not to go.

"On second thoughts, Fine we can stay one night only because of how it is outside!" She said looking everywhere but at Shivaay.

"Because surely, I am so lucky to be in this situation spending the night in this hotel!" He said sarcastically

"Fine just shut up!" Anika said rolling their eyes, both of them went to the receptionist.

"Hi, Mr and Mrs..." The receptionist said smiling.

"We are not married!" Shivaay and Anika said in unison firmly.

"Oh I'm sorry, do you guys want to spend the night here because of the flood?!" The receptionist said looking at them.

"Yes, that would be much appreciated thank you. Can we have two rooms please?!" Anika asked the receptionist.

"I'm sorry but there's only one big room left... so you two will have to adjust and stay in that one room together for the night." the receptionist said and Shivaay and Anika were so shocked.

"Fhat the Wuck!" They both shouted in unison looking at each other.