Three and three
The flowers greeted her when she walked in, in fact as she turned into her row heading towards her cube she inhaled the scent of roses
"Someone is wearing crushed roses all over their body" she texted Akka
"Yenn dee nakkala?" "Last night u rolled on a bed of rose petals?" (why are u mocking me?)
II floated for a few steps, thinking of all those things that were applied on her body in the last three years
She paused outside her cube
A GIANT vase with atleast 50? roses sat on her work desk
"AYYO" she whipsred
She didnt have to look at it she knew who it was from
As usual the note was unsigned, except for a scanned HAND WRITTEN line "Not sure what ur fave color is"
She quickly tucked the note into her purse
The cube had a glorious scent not to mention the tall stems appearing richly colorful
Self conscious color crept up all over her face
She could feel the color crawling up her scalp
He was asleep when she woke this morning, his legs laced between hers like they were ropes
She fell on him headlong trying to untangle herself
RAKSHASANEY
She told Sofia sternly that she couldnt take any time off
She had "orientation" at the consulting team this morning
She still had a few weeks left on this job
Coworkers passed by winking and smiling appreciatively at the flowers
UMMM WELL IF YOUR HUSBAND BITES YOUR HEAD OFF WHEN U EXPRESS YOUR INSECURITY
THEN U GET THESE THE NEXT DAY
NO BIGGIE
She wondered if she should take it upstairs before Ritu spots it
She didnt want to see her reaction or hear her reaction
By assigning full credit of the broken boss-subordinate relationship to her R&B had made it worse
She picked it up and took the elevator upstairs
AYYYOOO
Walked directly into him
Mrs Sagar smiled joyously
"what a surprise" she said aloud
He dug his fists into his BR hoodie, he wore jeans she noticed
II tried not to look at him
"Arent u cold?" he dragged her into the conversation "Do u need a jacket?" he asked as he unzipped his hoodie 1/3rd
She was wearing a gorgeous saree in aqua blue with sleeveless blouse in a square-ish pattern he noticed
"Nooo" she was incredulous
"Ofcoursenot!" he hissed to himself
"No wonder she doesnt call me during her work day anymore" he chuckled derisively in his mind
He made a mental note to himself to find out where exactly she was going to be working in her new role
"Its October" he riled her
"Doesnt feel like it" she snapped back
"Inside?" he prodded with some satisfaction... at the remote fact that he was making her heat up
"OUTSIDE" she hissed wearily
"Huh"
I HAVE A SWEATER AT MY DESK
I TOOK IT OFF BEFORE I CAME UP
DONT STARE
ITS RUDE
"well I cant help myself... your curves look stunning. Ive been gone three months, Ive been home three days... and I hope to get laid soon" he thought to himself
"Is that too bad to wish? I think not!" he grit his teeth
There was a careless sexuality about her, like she had no clue what turned him on
He wondered if she was faking the not knowing thing
But no...
On a day like today he was sure..
She walked around the house with an errant curl on her cheek, or her oily knot,
lifted her arms high up to reach for a pot or pan, or bend down biting her lower lip as she read her tamil mag, blushed when she spotted Sooriya's shirtless picture
"He seems like he is FIVE feet tall" he mocked while love making
"Thats absolutely fine... that has no bearing on his "size" she lashed as he wud grind against her
"U think so... or how would u know?" he nipped her ear lobe
"I like him... hes hottt" she moaned "Ayyyo"
"U like men on steroids?" he hissed on her neck
"I like HOT TAMIL ACTORS" she whimpered thrashing on the bed
He shut her up finally sealing her lips with his...
"Those flowers dont seem like they are for me" Mrs Sagar broke the frozen stare between the couple
"Umm... sorry Mrs Sagar, mujhe aaj yeh mila" II mumbled
"MUJHE kabhi itne sundar phool nahi milte on the sidewalk" she smiled
II smiled weakly
"Not on the sidewalk" she said
"I was teasing what can I do u for you love?" she asked
"Yeh aapke paas rakh doon?" she asked
She didnt ask any Qs, she knew who it was from she ordered it yesterday
"Go in I am calling for ur fave Daily Perk coffee with whipped cream" she ordered
"I cant I have a 10 O Clock" she said not looking at him
"We can have the coffee together Mrs Sagar before we meet the new Sales manager from Maruti?" he nodded
Mrs Sagar smiled sadly
"It wont be the same" she teased
II felt a sense of emptiness when he let her go like that
She returned to her desk, attended her 10 AM the orientation and slogged through three hours of "status of the status" report with Bally andRitu
"Which markets did we fail the most"
"Which section of the codes fail the most"
"What was our turnaround when we had to fix bugs"
"Compared to first deployment how smooth was the last one she managed"
By the time the meeting was done II literally and psychologically didnt want anything to do with SW ever again
THREE YEARS TOO MANY IN THIS ROLE
SHITTT!!
"I loved ur dinner" Ritu smiled
II nodded
THANKS TO MY STUPIDITY I TOOK YOUR BAIT AND ASKED MY HUSBAND IF HE DATED YOU
ITS BEEN THREE STINKIN DAYS AND WE HAVENT MADE OUT
HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY
"U have a great family" Ritu sighed
II got up silkily, literally, her chiffon sliding off the chair
Collecting her stuff
"Thanks for inviting me" she said lingering
"U are welcome"
II didnt ask here how she knows the dude or for how long, or who was their mutual acquaintance
"YESSS" she hissed to herself on the way back to her cube
It was almost 7 she went up
Mrs Sagar was gone, she had left
She picked up her flowers, his door was shut she didnt want to hazard a guess if he was in there
"II" he she heard him call
AYYYO
HMMM
DONT TURN JUST WALK AWAY
She turned
"I am heading home" she said
"Can u come in for a second please? I have a Q" he said
His expression was very professional
She nodded and went in after setting the flowers and the tiny box with one cup cake on Mrs Sagar's counter
The Maruti Sales GM was in there with Ranjan's Lajpat Nagar workshop Manager
R&B introduced the new Maruti employee it was woman, Mrs Rajhani
II explained she was no longer the official SW sales person to the workshop manager
It was a new employee as well, a guy by the name Kunal something II couldnt catch the last name
It didnt seem like the Maruti Sales person was involved in II's issue she was just finishing up her meeting with R&B
"Ur wife is pretty Mrs Rajhani said
R&B smiled
"I am just tall thats all" II claimed
"I better go I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old back home" she chuckled
II nodded "I have a almost 2 year old" she said
"He was showing me her pictures from this morning, he had recorded her singing" she said
REALLY?
LIKE YOU COULDNT SEND IT TO ME?
II pretended not to care
When the woman left she sat down
An assistant brought chai with her fave cookies from across the street
She didnt touch the cookies
"Maam waise hamey appointment lena chahiye, we discovered this failure in TransPro-Works the workshop module of the software" he began
II nodded
AYYYO
THIS JOB IS GOING TO SWALLOW ME
The guy explained how the part pricing for the same part was OFF between just two weeks, for a alternator wire and how the service history
look up part of the software had consistently failed in the last two weeks so they couldnt check the same part was priced at Rs. 1068 two weeks ago was now showing as Rs. 068 now
AYYYOOO
"Hamare Lajpat Nagar workshop mein 1000 gaadiyan fix hoti hain har hafte
AYYYOOO
II listened carefully
"Kisi ne alternator ka price over write kiya kya?" "Sab price lists to locked and loaded rehti hain, we made sure Maruti supplied us all the tables" II went on the defensive
"I dont think so Ma'am" he said
SIGH
SHITTT
He showed her a bunch of back room accounting stuff and how the whole thing came to light
It was almost 8:30 now
"I can talk to my boss and talk to the one person I have on my team, we can look at your repair history and see where it failed?" she offered
He smiled happily
THIS COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED AT A WORSE TIME
SHITTT
The guy ate two cookies
Dude was on his laptop
"I am done" II nodded getting up
"I dont think I am" he said
The repair guy excused himself
"Ritu chali gayi we can look at it tomorrow" she said nervously
He nodded "thanks" he muttered
"Can we talk about us?" he demanded
"I am going home" she said
"U want to talk abt it there?" he insisted
"I dont want to talk" she said
"Just pretend?" he lashed
"No... we said stuff... I know where I stand" she said quietly
"I" he began
"I know my sucky relationship with my boss is all my fault" she said
"Will u let me finish?" he was upset
Ranjan showed up at the door with a shocked look..
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