Charan sat in his office rolling the marble paperweight around. He was slightly distracted and lost in his head.

He hadn't seen Shreya since that day at her hotel. It's been one whole week. She hadn't even come to sleep over since that day. One day in between, Shreya had come in to see Akira and left before he could ask her anything. That was the only time he saw her all week. And from that day even Akira for some reason stopped nagging him about Shreya. He tried calling, she would answer but always got monotone answers no matter what his questions were. After a while, he will get fed up and hang up on her.

Charan could see she was avoiding him but for the love of God he couldn't figure out why.. She spent time in his house that day up until Akira was around. But as soon as Akira retired to bed, Shreya sprinted away like a scared little rabbit before he could even extend his hands to catch.

But the problem was more than being scared, she seemed more stressed and tired. Up close, her sloppy makeup trying to conceal the dark circles were completely very obvious. Even Akira could sense she was not right and asked Charan to look out for Shreya.

With all the dwelling he was doing, he did not even realize the time.

"Hey.. Aren't you going home yet?? Did your mom not call you yet??" Ajay asked bringing him out of his head.

That is when he saw that it was past time. Thankfully it was weekend and Akira would have been taken home by his parents or else he would have gotten an earful from his own daughter. He scrambled from his place immediately and was out of the office in no time. But as soon as he settled down in the driver seat, he did not actually start the car. Instead, he sat there contemplating for a second there. But then he decisively called his mom and told her that he wouldn't be home tonight. Then he drove straight to Shreya's office building. For some reason, he had a hunch that she was going to be there and not her apartment.

His shoes echoed through the empty corridor. Thankfully the security guard let him in without much protest. He went straight to the private elevator and reached the floor Shreya's office was located.

As soon as he pushed the doors open, he was encountered with a sleeping Shreya and extremely loud music booming all around making the walls vibrate. Charan shut his ears instinctively and looked around. He found a remote on her table. He took and waved it around not knowing where the music was actually coming from.

After several tries, somehow the music stopped. Charan, finally, took away his hands from his ears relieved. He then turned to look at Shreya.

Shreya was lying down on the couch. But she was sprawled out in such a way that one small turn she would fall face-first on the floor. Charan went near and adjusted her better on the couch. That's when he noticed the cold sweet over her forehead and the frowned brows.

Charan ran a hand over her head in the hope of giving her some comfort. But somehow it seemed it was not working since Shreya shook her head restlessly and mumbled something under her breath. And before Charan could even move his hands to wake her up, Shreya wailed and shot out of the couch with a start. She sat straight up panting for heavily. She did not even realize Charan's presence as she strived to get back her breathing in order. Her eyes were dark, unfocused and haunted but other than that her whole face remained expressionless and pale.

Chara extended his hands and caressed from behind her and asked, "Hey.. are you okay??" His voice was gentle and sweet like honey but it still rang loud in that empty room, startling her.

"Oh, Charan!! You scared me!!" Shreya said clutching her chests and turning back to look at him. Since Charan had originally sat beside her head, as she woke, his position was invariably behind her outside her line of sight. And she was not expecting him either.

"Sorry.. Are you okay??" Charan apologized moving closer to her and asked her again wiping her sweat off of her forehead on his shirt sleeves.

For a second in surprise and confusion of seeing him, she forgot everything else.

"Hey.. don't do that. That's your office shirt!!" Shreya said instinctively moving back.

But Charan did not heed to her. He just gave her a look and held her head in place and continued wiping away her sweat.

"Are you okay now??" He asked stroking her hairs gently.

Only when he asked, Shreya remembered that she had been sleeping and was actually in her office. So instead of answering him, she asked, "What are you doing here?? How did you get in??"

Seeing as she was fine, Charan sat on the couch beside her and answered, "I came to check up on you and thanks to you, I have one of the highest security clearance within this building. The security guy was very co-operative.."

Shreya just nodded and said a, "Ohh.."

When Charan looked back at her, her eyes went back to being unfocused all over again. He scooped her against himself and stoke on her hair as gently as he could. He just kept her company without really prying into why she woke up so suddenly or why she was sleeping in her office.

Shreya on the other hand just sat there for a long while without saying anything.

"You had dinner??" Charan asked finally breaking the silence between them.

But before Shreya could even answer, her stomach growled as if pleading her to feed it. Shreya blushed and gave him a sheepish smile.

Charan shook his head and took out the pizza box he had bought on the way.

Shreya's eyes widened in excitement as she eagerly dug in to feed her crying stomach.