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Chapter 5 [1000]
Advait was pissed off. They haven't progressed any further since the last meeting. He had a deadline to meet, and the team was not progressing anywhere. He made sure he gave enough time but damn, nothing moved. He controlled his rage. He needed answers. He wants them to be answerable to each damn penny he was paying.
He looked at his assistant and signaled him to come close.
"I want them all out for an hour and arrange a one to one with Sharath," with that he got up and walked to the attached personal room, feeling the rush to smoke.
His life felt miserable. He felt lonely and irritated all the time. It was not like he didn't acknowledge his sister's love. Watching her sister made him feel even more aloof. He didn't realize when things started slipping away from his hands.
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Khushi watched her head spinning at the speed of light. She was giggling at the tingle and tuck in her stomach. As a challenge, she got onto the ferries wheel with Arnav. He seemed to be calm all through the ride and she looked at him baffled. As they finally got down she looked at him suspiciously and his face lit with an almost what looked like a grin.
"What?" his calm demeanor intensified her look even more.
"You are sure a human. Aren't you?" he looked at her incredulously
and shook his head and started walking.
"Some HUMANS are resistant," he stated as a matter of fact.
She grinned as she jogged behind him to catch up.
"So, what's our next stop," she asked him curiously to which he extended his palm in the forward direction asking her to follow.
Arnav picked Khushi from her apartment and as promised had been a very good tour guide so far. They watched setting sun on the Hudson and went to the amusement park, to her surprise, she had so much fun. They sat down with pizza on a bench and Khushi felt the silence enough to vigor a sense of relief. She felt lively around him, happy to put in an apt category.
Arnav has life in him, the joyous and witty kind. She could call him a nice friend now and laugh at how they met in the first place. How different was the image, the typical three-piece suit to these casual jeans and shirt with a hoodie? She gazed at him closely as he was looking ahead, maybe watching the stars or the innumerable lights the shone in the starry night. She could not put a finger on it.
"Are you going to keep staring at me like that?" he turned towards her with a lopsided boyish grin making her blush.
"Umm...no...I was estimating the amounts of expression you are processing per minute, cognitive science," she covered.
He chuckled as he placed the slice of his pizza and turned towards her and kept looking at her. She could feel the heat rush into her cheeks again. She tried to cover up the blush and diverted her attention to the nearby lamppost, where the light was blinking. She had had enough of the staring session and turned her gaze towards him, who looked on with an impassive face.
"Okay, fine. Stop, that's creeping me out to no limits,"
"Don't bring cognitive science into this, you like me," he told her, a smile forming his face.
"What?" she felt like a deer caught in a headlight.
"As a friend," she added as if that would cover the damages.
"Guilty," he added as he flicked her nose and she felt an instant shiver down her body.
"Come on, that was not even a proper argument," she whined.
"For starters, let's establish you like me," he added and before she said anything, he added, "as a friend," almost emulating her. She smiled, a smile she couldn't stop forming her face all through that evening.
"So, how do you know Raghbir?"
"Raghbir?" he asked surprised.
"I mean the MD, Raghbir, you referred me to," she asked him casually, steering the topic.
"No, I never met that guy, I referred you to Olivia,"
"Olivia?"
"Yes, she is a friend and board member at RA Co."
"Oh," Khushi started mentally forming images of Olivia, how does she look? Was she married? Was she old or sexy? Damn, she tried to stop the chain of thoughts as Arnav waved a hand in front of her.
"Huh?"
"Where are you lost?" he asked her confused at the way she was daydreaming.
"Nothing. What were you doing at the party then, in Mumbai?" She said the first thing that popped from her head.
"Oh, I was taking up a project with AR. Also, I was tagging along with Olivia to the party. Her date ditched her at the last minute, and she was the one who referred me to Raghbir, he is the brother in law of Mr. Advait, and hey, it was all worth it," he told her with a smirk.
Now she really wanted to see who this Olivia is, maybe she can excuse herself to the restroom somewhere and do an expensive search on the internet. She shunned her thoughts and looked at him. Well, if he was dating Olivia, he wouldn't be here. She convinced herself with that story and eschewed all thoughts of a certain girl that he might be dating and decided to enjoy the evening.
"You know, ever since we met, all we eat is pizza," she told him with a chuckle.
"Oh, yes, let's keep that in mind for the next plan," she was surprised at the level of ease he decided there would be the next time. Well, she could not deny herself, and she would go out with him at the drop of a hat. It turned out to be a very fun night and they decided to meet up soon to go out, strike that, hang out. With that, she retired into a happy slumber.
Edited by coolie001 - 6 years ago
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