My Blessing From Heaven!

The beautiful pair of small finches with red peaks and soft bushy feathers caught her attention. As soon as she saw the birds in the huge cage, she started clapping her hands in excitement.

"Two birdie" she exclaimed looking at the cage.

Shivay smiled at how overwhelmed she grew watching those little birds who were chattering in the cage.

She was busy admiring the birds and he was busy admiring her cute expressions which changed from curiosity to happiness to confusion to happiness again.

She wanted a bird but Shivay arranged for two. A beautiful pair of birds. May be he somehow hoped that a pair of two birds, playing and chattering with each other might bring back her memories of them together. The way both of them use to be together always, the way they use to talk all the time, the way they use to pull each other's leg. They were indeed like the two birds who were just busy playing with each other in the cage.

The innocent sound of her claps brought him back to the his real senses.

"Annika, come here have some soup" Shivay said taking the bowl in his hands.

From last 15 minutes he was trying to make her eat the soup but she was just busy playing around with the birds.

"No!!! Birdieeee" she said jumping near the cage.

"Annikaa! Please have this soup, just a little bit" he tried convincing her but no use.

"No SSO, birdie" she said. The way she called him SSO reminded him of the times when she used to get angry from him and out of anger always called him SSO.

This was a hint that she was not in a mood to have soup. Shivay knew how stubborn she was, his tadibaaz Annika was really a challenge at times.
He got an idea in his mind. He took a small container and put some bird food in that container, after that he went towards the cage and opening it slightly, he kept the container in the cage. The birds ran towards the container, trying to eat it.

Annika was just looking at what he was doing. As soon as he covered the cage again, she saw the birds jumping on the container and eating the food.

"See how your birdies are eating thier food, don't you want to eat some?" Shivay asked looking at her confused face.

"Food" she said curiously looking at the bowl in Shivay's hand. She now wanted to have food because her birds were having their food. Shivay thanked his stars and smiled under his breaths. At least his plan was working.

Keeping the bowl next to her, He came towards her and tied a small cloth against her neck. After that he started feeding her the soup. The faces she made while eating the soup made Shivay love her cuteness. It was clear that she didn't liked the soup much but she was only eating it because her birds were also having their food. Shivay smiled at her innocence but somewhere something pinched his heart too.

Once the soup was finished, Shivay untied the cloth that was tied round her neck. A small drop of soup smeared near the corner of her lips. He bent forward to clean it. The moment he touched the side of her lips, he felt himself freezing. There were some loving memories of their close moments which started revolving around his mind.

He remembered once such night when they were out to eat ice cream, Annika and her late night ice cream obsession!!! It was time to go home but because both of them had late night shift in the hospital, Shivay made sure that he drops her home. One such day they were going back, the weather was serene and beautiful, Annika wanted to have ice cream and like always they went to have it from the same vendor on the roadside. He brought two chocolate cornetto cones. Annika just loved ice creams, and like always she finished hers within seconds and asked for another. As it was the last cornetto cone the vendor had, Shivay offered his ice cream to her. They shared the ice cream, lovingly. Once it was finished Shivay could see her mouth all smeared with it. He leaned a bit on her to clean it from the tissue, the environment grew more romantic and dark, they felt their breaths mingling and fighting with each other, he felt a sudden urge to kiss her creamy lips, she felt the same. And finally he pasted his lips on hers. It was their first lip kiss, intense and beautiful. After kissing each other for some minutes they broke it. Annika was all red out of blush while Shivay just adored her pinkish red face. He teased her saying that she was looking like a tomato while she just looked out of the window of the car, hitting him lightly on his chest.