Chapter 23 - Few Civlized Conversations

Busy in his ŀȧptop, replying to the emails, Vihaan ask the person to enter when he heard the knock on the door.

Entering his bedroom for the very first time, Shana with a tray in her hands, look around the Blue dominated room, with a massive landscape painting at the back of the king-sized bed.

To the left of it lay a classic and antique brown wood drawer on the top of which several things, which Shaya ȧssumed to be his, were placed.

Shanyaa observed even though the room was occupied by the bed, sofa set, two comfy chairs, oval glass table and, the wall opposite the bed was taken by the Panasonic TV, the medals and awards he had received, the room seemed spacious and neat and clear to her surprise.

She had always thought no boys room could be clean after watching Vansh and her brother Siddharth's room, but Vihaan had proved her wrong.

She diverts her attention to the man noticing her, sitting in front of her on the sofa chair beside his bed when she heard someone clearing throat. She noticed he had changed the formal dress with the white T-shirt and slim fit petrol blue night pants.

She was witnessing him with eyeglasses for the first time and, he was looking his usual hot and, she thought to herself she would have complimented him for sure if they would have been friends. .

Moving further, avoiding eye contact with him, she reached closer to him and signalled him by lifting her brows"Where should I put this?"

Looking at her, standing in front of him in a teel green satin top and denim jeans, with her hair in a messy bun, she looked fresh and beautiful.

"You look beautiful" words were eager to come on his tongue, but considering the bond they had, he thought opposite of it.

Moving his hand forward, he gestured her to give in his hands and put it down on the table when she handed it to him.

"Thank you" murmuring, he looks at her and, spoke with a fast pace when he saw she had not sat down "Oh, I am so sorry, please have a seat."

Sitting down to the left of him, leaving some space between them, roaming her eyes, she asked:" Where are others?"

"Why? Afraid of being alone in a tiger's den?" with his legs crossed, eyes on the armrest, he looks directly in her eyes.

The intensity of his eyes caused something in her heart, but, without breaking the eye contact, she spoke calmly and softly" I am not afraid of Tigers."

She was not ready for the outcome and was shocked deeply when the sound of his laugh echoed in the room. She had not seen him smiling for the last one week she had been there.

Laughing, Vihaan spoke in between" I was kidding. I won't do anything, so remain seated without any fear."

"No, it was not like that. I asked casually" pressing palms together, looking, here and there, Shana answered him back immediately.

Noticing the awkwardness surrounding her, Vihaan needed no extra element to know the reason behind it and, he knew what to do.

Breaking the silence, he spoke," We have not introduced ourself."

Turning her head in his direction, she looked at him to understand the depth of his sentence, but, when she found no wicked intentions, she spoke: "Yes, our circumstances led to it."

Passing a friendly smile, Vihaan forwards his right hand toward her and introduced himself" Hi, I am Vihaan Singh Rathore, CEO of Rathore's Corporation."

Ignoring the sensation in her heart when shaking hands with him, Shana spoke:" Hello, Myself Shanaya Malhotra, CEO of Grace designing."

Passing a welcoming smile, Vihaan continued" Welcome to our home".

"Wow, it took a week for you to welcome me" bringing her gaze down to her hands, playing with her rings, thinking to herself, she thought not to give voice to her thoughts.

She lifts her eyes, but, they got arrested by the chocolate cubes placed in front of her on the table.

Five minutes earlier, when she was coming to his room after dinner, she passed through the kitchen and saw Mrs Chaya making something.

On enquiring, she came to know the habit of Vihaaan of eating hand made chocolates every day after dinner, and she was surprised, to know they shared something similar.

She was so mad for the chocolates everyone around her would joke how she will die if she did not get to eat chocolates for a single day.

Her eyes trace the movement of Vihaan's right hand, which reached to the table to pick up the cube and within a second it was in his mouth.

"How rude he is! He can't even offer me. It's not that I will finish all of it" badmouthing him, Shana tried to divert her attention and asked rudely" What was it that you wish to speak to me".

Confused with the changes in her mood, Vihaan looked at her to see her face turned in another direction, hidden from his eyes. He was about to turn his eyes when he saw her turning her face and looking at him. She seemed normal to him, but he knew something had gone wrong.

After a minute or two, he chuckled to himself when he saw her stealing looks at the cubes, leaning forward, he picked up the plate full of chocolates, move it toward Shana and spoke:" Want some?

Too happy to have them, Shana did not notice the glint of mischief in his eyes and had lifted her right hand from the sofa chair to pick one when her mind strike something and, she diverts her attention to him, to see him hiding his smile.

"Are you sure? They are quite delicious" tempting her to take the offer, Vihaan spoke with a tone of a tease but friendliness, when Shana declined him.

"I know they are yummy, you evil" speaking within her mouth, eyes focused on him, Shana passed a tight smile and answered him with a tone full of politeness, "Thank you, but I do not like chocolates".



Vihaan sensed the hidden meaning behind her diabetic and full of poisonous- sweet tone and murmured to himself " You play well, Shanaya".

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A minute or two to twenty passed in discussing the plans and Shana was surprised to know the other side of Vihaan. The side she was witnessing was playful, kind and happy.

She could not believe to herself, the Vihaan who was casually flirting with her, playing jokes with her, explaining to her the details like a teacher was the same Vihaan she had encountered on her arrival.

She felt happy, and felt unknown happiness in interacting with him bu,t too uncomfortable with the position she was, with the table too far from her, she stood up and sat down on her ŀȧp, near the table, adjacent to Vihaan on left of him.

"Any problem?" watching her sitting, Vihaan stop in between and enquired.

"Oh no, the table was too far and, I like sitting on the floor" passing a smile, She busies herself in the rough flow diagram of the party drawn by them on a paper, kept on the table.

She was explaining all the details when Vihaan's hand reached to the pen in her hand at some point and, their fingers collide. The sting they felt was hard to ignore, but they could not risk the newly formed bonding and, they did not react.

In fact, they did not react at all!

Shana's gaze kept on burning the paper in front of her and, Vihaan's hair became messier with passing seconds.

Erasing the awkwardness, grabbing the pen from the middle of her fingers, Vihaan cleared his throat, made something on the paper kept in front of Shana from behind her and spoke:" I think we should exchange these two events with each other".

Keeping his gaze on her to know about her opinion, who was deep in thinking about the changes made, he raised his brow when he saw her lifting her head in his direction, passing a smile and saying " I think this would be good".

Vihaan felt something good in his heart, as if her opinion, her praises matters to him. His mind might not have accepted it, but his heart knew the feelings he was experiencing.

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