Working on his laptop, at 9 in the night, with a cup of coffee by his side, Neil Khanna was disturbed by the ring at the door. It was late for his mother to knock at his apartment door, so it couldn't be her, then who could it be?

Thinking about who would visit him at this time, he opened the door, somewhere expecting his beloved assistant DD and his smiling face. But the person behind the door was nowhere close to DD and was the least expected.

Ananya Verma, stood at his doorstep, her eyes swollen, her kajal smudged, her nose all pink, wearing the orange dress she had worn that day, on that day when they had crossed all the boundaries. Her dishevelled state was an indidcator that she had cried a lot.

Barging into the room, as soon as his apartment door opened, she held him by his collar and started yelling at him.

She went on ranting at a clueless Neil, who was now almost pinned to the wall by the fiesty cat, his junglee billi.

A bit dazed at first, Neil kept on looking at the girl in front of him, accusing him of something. After a few minutes he held her shoulders and shaked her harshly, bringing her back to the world. He had guessed that she was not in her own senses, when she accused him, cause Ananya would have slapped him first and later accused him, he knew that much about his Junglee Billi.

As she was brought back into the reality, she hugged Neil really tight and started sobbing. She was muttering some inaudible words, but he was not able to make out what she was actually saying. So, still hugging her, he brought her to his bed and made her sit and then passed her a glass of water. She took it and drank it and when he felt that she was composed, asked

Kya hua Ananya? Why are you so angry?

Neil.... Neil I'm Pregnant.

She dropped the bomb on him finally and he was shaken to the core. It was his marriage with Rhea two weeks later, and here his Fiance's best friend was pregnant with his child.

His mind suddenly drifted back to the day it all happened and according to him it was all Rhea's fault as she was the one who had spiked their juices, well not really theirs but still had spiked the juices.

FLASHBACK

Rhea had called Neil to the Mehta Mansion that day, just to seduce him so that he won't be able to back out from marriage, a thing that her Dadi feared the most. So as per the plan, she had sent Ananya away saying that she wished to spend a few moments alone with her to-be-husband. Ananya had agreed and had left the place, but she forgot to take her phone.

Neil walked in and saw Rhea ready with two glasses of juice for them. Rhea went in for a while just to get her touch-up done. She had mixed some drug called 'love potion' in both of their drinks so that they could get intimate and Neil would be bound to marry her. But she got a bit late as she also put on a new short dress and did her hair along with applying a whole new set of creams, lipstick, et cetera on her face.

Ananya had entered to get her phone,just as Neil was halfway through his juice. As she walked in, Neil asked her to sit and offered her Rhea's juice stating that she could get one for herself. Ananya like always had refused, but he being stubborn, had made her drink the whole glass, emptying his at the same time. Highly intoxicated, both had wandered to the storeroom and in the darkness of that room, had got intimate, and had crossed all the boundaries.

It was late night when Ananya woke up from her slumber. Sensing herself lying naked over a man, she had almost screamed, but her senses were all right to stop at the right time. She was sleeping above a completely naked Neil and there was hint of blood on the floor. Her dress was tossed at a corner with his. She got up and dressed up as fast as her body could, as she was very sore from their intoxicated intense session.

Escaping from the hell, the storeroom, of her childhood was quite easy for Case 123 and so was it for Ananya Verma. She had ran away from there immediately leaving Neil all alone.

An hour later, Neil too woke up. Like Ananya he too was shocked to find himself naked. When he realized what has happened and with whom he was, he was more shocked. He never expected himself to get intimate with Ananya. But trying to remember clearly, he got to know that Ananya too was behaving strange, which meant that she too was intoxicated. He was now very angry at Rhea and decided to confront her. So after wearing his clothes and his watch, he got to know that it was late at night. Using the torch of his phone, he somehow escaped from the room, but he noticed the blood stain on the floor, which made him feel guilty as Ananya too would never have wanted this. He cursed himself for drinking the spiked juice and offering the same to Ananya.

After reaching his bachelor pad, he had thought about calling Ananya, to talk and sort things out, but she was not receiving any calls, her phone was unreachable. Unable to sleep, he drove to the cliff, which always soothed his mind and there he saw Ananya standing on the edge, like she did on their very first meet in this very place. He didn't want to scare her, so he called out to her from a bit far, he wanted to avoid what happened on their first meet.

Neil's voice came as a shock for Ananya, so she stumbled a bit and was about to fall, but Neil had rushed and immediately held her hand and pulled her up. She was about to leave the place cause she did not want to face him at all, but he forced her to stay.

He started explaining,

"Ananya mujhe pata nahi tha ki that juice was spiked. If I had known, then I would not have drank it nor offered it to you. I also don't know why Rhea did this..."

"But I know why. Woh tumhe majboor karna chahte the, use shaadi karne ke liye. She knows that if you get physical with her, then tum usse shaadi kabhi nahi todegi. It must have been Mrs. Mehta's plan to trap you."

"Trap me? But why would they do that? Why should they trap me?"

"Shayad tumhe pata nahi ho Neil, lekin tunhari shaadi ke saath jo deal sign karnewale hai, that's very profitable to the Mehta Company. They are already bankrupt and their house could also get auctioned. Yeh shaadi nahi hua to, they will loose everything, aur isliye woh tumhe majboor karna chahta tha shaadi ke liye."

"Tumhe yeh sab kaise pata chala?"

"You don't need to know that Mr. Neil Khanna. Ab mujhe jaana hoga. It's very late."

"Lekin meri baat toh pura suno jaane se pehle."

"Suna bhi toh kuch nahi badlega."

"I don't know what you mean by that. But aaj humare beech jo kuch bhi hua, there was no fault of ours. But I think I would betray Rhea, if I marry her, as we both got intimate, and you are her BEST FRIEND."

"Neil, for me, aaj ka din, ab se doesn't exist. Sab bhoolna chahti hun main. I don't want to get committed, neither with you nor with anyone else. Mujhe SHAADI aur PYAAR me vishwas hi nahi hai. I'm going."

But even before she could take astep forward, Neil held her wrist and stopped her.

"Ananya how can you pretend that nothing serious has happened between us and...."

"Aadat ho gayi hai. When life is bitter with you, you learn to forget things."

Baffled by her words, Neil let go of her wrist and taking the chance, she had left the place.

That day, he had decided that he would anyhow get to know Ananya's past and was trying to find more information about her.

The next day, Rhea woke up in her room. Scared of her Dadi's reaction, she lied that even before Neil could drink the juice, he left the place after receiving an urgent call. Dayawanti beleived it somehow and to make another oppurtunity, invited the Khanna's for dinner that day. This time Dayawanti asked Rhea to take Ananya's help, as she was smart and clever. Rhea had called Ananya in the evening and asked her to meet her, but she refused saying that she was having a small fever and was resting.

In the night, Shweta and Prakash arrived at the Mehta Mansion but Neil was a bit late due to some work. He had decided to call-off this wedding tonight.

When he entered he noticed that Ananya was nowhere to be seen. Rhea informed him that she was having a very high fever and was resting now.

Neil got restless listening to this, as he thought that it had something to do with the last nights events. So he immediately left the place saying he has some urgent work to do. And once again, Dayawanti's plan failed.

The next day onwards, Neil had started his research on Ananya Verma, but was not able to get much information about her as she truly was a mystery. He had not visited Rhea nor did he cancel his wedding, but was engrossed in finding more about The Ananya Verma.

Its all for the day.

Hope you all liked this one and the ones that are yet to come.

The previous story and its draft got deleted when I changed my phone, will write it later for sure.

Sorry for delaying the plot you suggested for a long time.

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