New York Times Part 31 Updated in Thread 2 - Page 90

I've read the last part so many times, still each time it leaves behind a tingling feeling in me. There's an ache left behind on realising that these two aren't the couple in love but according to social morals are bound with so many restrictions. They aren't in love but share a beautiful bond of friendship that runs quite deeper in spite of the little time that they've known each other.

Her whole perception of the changes in work place in respect to her (reporting to Scott & Pinky being hired in her place) her being miffed with him is quite understandable, as for her it was in a way showing her being incompetent in her work & not able to meet his work demands… she feels it's a rejection of her worth, as her professional achievement is something that builds her confidence in self. She feels he's done it as he doesn't appreciate her work, but somewhere deep she still knows him & respects & trusts his decisions only that at the moment she's just too hurt & seeing it only as something wrong. What if she didn't know him would she still be hurt with this change of person under whom she works?

She seeing him in a shirtless avatar with pyjama & removing lenses….Being human… loved it. It's a way of her to perceive that he too is someone who is quite within reach, who is affected with emotions, who wants friends…. & is not only a saviour & perfection personified (just my POV). His indirect demand for hot chocolate through Anshu was so sweet. Its his way of telling her that she's someone with whom he wants to share & experience the Hot Chocolate moments. Her comfort level while working in his kitchen & they both being aware of each other so much, was quite beautifully described.

Also her being miffed on being introduced as someone who works with him& not a friend… & his way of explaining the reasoning both why he did so as well as her perception of changes caused by him at job was so aptly done by him. Making her understand he's ready to have indirect professional relation with her (ready to help her when she needs him) but doesn't want to forgo the personal relation with her as he wants her to be the way she was with him during the weekend the free self she was with him - .. You don't tell people what they don't need to know…. You also don't tell people what you know, they won't understand…. You don't have to tell people what they already know…. – all these lines used …awesome. He's persona just seems to be complicated & complex as he's not quite expressive but if you see what he means & wants are quite simple… must be with years of self contemplation & experience.

... Partly, she decked up owing to the habit that it had become over the years, to save the best of all that she bought all year long for that day or her birthday. When there was hardly anything to look forward to, she had self-made anchors…. – people just see that she's full of life, bubbly but behind this faade of liveliness & joy there's this person who has quite deep seated pain & loneliness that she's herself not coming to terms with, but still wanting to come off it. And then in the end when he says that NY in itself is much insanity to handle… and it finally dawning upon her the hope of he being the anchor in life that she was in search of her….. loved it.