.

Complete darkness.. Pitch black everywhere.

Their eyes struggled to cope up with the sudden black out.

'Ye bijli ko achanak kya ho gaya..? '

Daya's voice echoed there.

'Pata nahi sir, mein dekhti hu. '

Rajat replied to daya and was about to move from there, but the electricity came back at the exact moment.

Everyone were standing in their previous positions.

They looked at each other to ensure everyone is fine. But their gaze unitedly got stuck on our dear senior inspector's face.

Shreya lightly hit on her bestie's shoulder and gestured towards their senior. Purvi who was busy with helping pankaj to cut the cake got alert by shreya's touch and her gaze went towards Abhijeet. Both looked at each other with a naughty, shy smile and their eyes travelled to tarika who's standing near Abhijeet.

Daya and Freddy were trying hard to suppress their laugh. Rajat, who's standing in the midway, followed daya's look and as soon as his eyes caught abhijeet's face, a naughty teasing smile appeared on his face too. Daya is laughing silently, bending his head down. Pankaj finished his cake piece and noticed everything is silent. He raised his head from his plate and gazed at purvi, who's smiling playfully at tarika. He abruptly looked at his senior cop who's standing there silently. A naughty grin appeared instantly on his face and he covered his mouth with both hands in order to hide it.

Here Abhirika completely unaware of what's happening around them, exchanged glances. Everyone has a teasing, naughty expression on their faces and they are suppressing their giggles.

'Arre.. Tum log hass kyu rahe ho? '

An irritated abhijeet questioned.

With his question, daya burst out laughing. Everyone is giggling silently.

Abhijeet got more annoyed now.

'Kyu chup gade ho sab? Batao.. Kya baat hai, sab itna has rahi ho? '

'Uhm... Kuch.. Kuch nahi. 'Daya managed to speak.

Abhijeet's suspicious eyes travelled towards tarika, who got a clear picture of the events by now.

Tarika, who keenly watched her boyfriend, discovered what's the reason behind their teasing laughs. Tarika bit her tongue and cursed her stupidity in mind. Embarrassed look is obviously seen on her face now.

Abhijeet raised his brows and silently asked her what's wrong. Tarika moved a bit closer to him and said in a feeble voice, little louder than a whisper that only he could hear:

'Abhi.. Um.. There's my lipmarks on your.. Cheeks.! '

She somehow completed the sentence and noticed that he's dying of embarrassment and blushing hard at the same time.

His right hand touched his cheeks, were two red coloured lip marks are clearly visible.

'Hmm... Mein zara.. Washroom.. '

Tarika excused herself and escaped from there, leaving an embarassed abhijeet behind.

Abhijeet looking here and there feeling uneasy abruptly took his phone from the jeans pocket. He coughed intentionally and looked at the phone,then uttered:

'Ek important call aa raha hai. Excuse me. '

He excused himself and somehow escaped from the teasing looks and giggles of his teammates.

'Lagta hai abhijeet ko ek special gift diya hai humare dr. Tarika ne'

Daya commented and everyone shared a laugh.

Here, tarika is standing in the balcony of Abhijeet's house. She's blushing, thinking about the past incidents.

How cute is she, when blushing.

Abhijeet searched tarika every where and reached balcony. He found his girlfriend is in deep thoughts.

'Tarika... ' he called her name softly.

Hearing the well known voice, she turned back and found him right behind her.

At the very next moment, Abhijeet secured her in a warm hug. Tarika who's not expecting such movements from him was really shocked. A chill passed through her spine when his body pressed on hers for the first time.

It has been many years that they are in a relationship, but this is the very first time he's showing his intimacy towards her through touch. That too, a hug. There were such times when they've nearly hugged each other, but this time it's a special feeling. She melted in his arms. Her hands wrapped around his back, embracing him tightly, closing the tiny gaps between them.

They felt losing in each other's arms.Totally unaware of the surroundings.They want to remain like that forever, in each other's arms.They love each other and want to live for each other.

'Tarika.. 'He called her without breaking the hug.

'Hmm?'

'You know, this is the most precious and best birthday gift I've received in my life. Thank you my tarikaji'

Happy birthday dear friend TheDamsellnShiningArmor.

A special thanks to Kamikaze Knight who requested me to write an ff for the b'day girl.

I know this one is not so good.

My gratitude towards all the readers and reviewers!

I'll try my best to update other stories soon.

Eagerly waiting for your reviews my dear readers..