New FF-2nd chance at Love-Completed-PG 81-08/08/2014 - Page 10

Kalpi was staying over at the guest house today. She was trying to sleep, but could not sleep as she had a 1000 different ideas running in her head. Neha had forced her to come and sleep for atleast an hour because she had been working like crazy the whole day. Kalpi was trying hard to sleep, but finally gave up and decided to go back to office and start work again.

She dressed up in a pair of faded jeans and a lemon yellow T-Shirt. Since she did not expect anyone to be in the office, she did not bother with any make-up. She did not realize that with her face scrubbed off all the make-up and her hair pulled up into a loose bun, she looked adorable.

She walked into the office with a cup of coffee and she was stunned to see Vihaan sitting in his cabin working furiously on his laptop. She stood there for a moment and just watched him. His look of intense concentration made him look ill-tempered, which she knew he was not. She reflected on how her feelings for Vihaan had changed from intense hatred to admiration. The first time she had met him, she thought he was a bad-tempered playboy. But over a period of time she had started understanding and appreciating his good qualities. She realized that he was one of the smartest guys she had ever met. Unknowingly she started comparing him with Raghav.

Raghav was smart, but Vihaan was different. Raghav was all about power, while Vihaan was all about charm. Both achieved results, but Raghav made enemies, while Vihaan made friends. Raghav earned respect of his employees, but Vihaan earned their love. She appreciated the fact that Vihaan made everyone around him feel very comfortable. Till she and Raghav fell in love, she had never been comfortable with expressing her ideas around him.

She smiled thinking about the day, Vihaan had cornered her in her office and apologized profusely for being distracted when she had presented her ideas to him. He then went on to appreciate her work and give her feedback about her proposal and gave her a full go-ahead for its implementation. This was the proposal that was giving her sleepless nights, but she so loved the feeling.

Vihaan had amazing leadership qualities and she realized she was lucky to have worked with so many exceptional people like Raghav, Neha, Mr.Malhotra and Vihaan.

Kalpi suddenly realized that she had been standing there for a long time staring at Vihaan. She decided to make a cup of coffee and take it to Vihaan.

She knocked his cabin door and Vihaan looked up and blinked. There was Kalpana standing there looking like an angel, holding a cup of coffee. He decided he must be hallucinating. He had been thinking about her a lot, even though he was really proud of the way he hid it from her and everyone around. He treated her as any other employee and she had started to feel comfortable with him. He had worked hard to stop being the tongue tied idiot, her presence reduced him to being. Kalpana said, " Sorry to disturb you. I brought you some coffee." Her words brought him out of his reverie. He smiled and said "What are you doing here at this time of the night?". " I could not sleep, so thought I could do some work", Kalpi replied. "Why don't you bring your laptop here and you can work from here". As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he cursed himself. Picture-perfect Kalpana and his sleep-deprived brains were not conducive to his health. He wished she would refuse to join him. But she just smiled and said she would bring her laptop and come back.

She sat in front of him and in no time got engrossed in her work. Vihaan started wondering when did he turn into Mr. India, he seemed invisible to her. He sipped the coffee she had made. It tasted amazing and he wondered if there was anything she did which was not perfect. He could observe her openly because she was not even aware of his presence. A few tendrils of her beautiful hair had escaped from the bun and were falling over her eyes and caressing her cheeks. She looked irritated, but without looking up from her computer, she tucked it behind her ears. After a short time it fell out from behind her ears and she repeated the gesture. She looked absolutely adorable and he had to use all his self-control to stop himself from taking the tendrils in his hands and tuck it for her. He had stopped working and just thought she looked so much more happier and content from the past few weeks. He wondered what was it that brought about this change in her, and wished desperately that it was not a man. Suddenly she looked up from the computer and stretched. Her T-shirt stretched over her perfect breasts and Vihaan hoped that his jaw had not dropped open and he was not drooling.