MaNan FF 'THE GREEK GOD' by Alohomora Chap 62 Pg 144 - Page 14

~ CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~

At top speed and forty minutes later, the girls were past two hundred and fifty cheques. But there was still a lot more to go! And that was just filling the cheques. They still had to enter the information into the system, make copies and get it signed from the concerned authorities.

"Oh no," Dean said in a hushed voice and began to rummage through her drawers, "I think that we're out of cheques."

"What? So what do we do now?" whispered Nandini.

"Hashmi's going to kill me," moaned Dean faintly. "How could I miss out on this? Damn."

Nandini glanced over at Hashmi. He seemed to be drowned in a heap of complicated sheets over his desk. The throbbing muscles in his tight jaw indicated that it wasn't probably a good idea to approach him either. She took a quick glance at her watch. There was hardly fifteen minutes to the deadline.

"I am supposed to submit this in the next fifteen minutes," she said in a low voice.

"Fifteen minutes?" Dean looked flabbergasted, "you can't be serious. That's five hundred cheques."

"But that's what he asked me to do," replied Nandini.

"Who? Manik sir?" asked Dean.

"Yeah," sighed Nandini.

"He's nuts!" she snapped in a hoarse whisper.

Nuts! Once again, Nandini is reminded of that ill-fated incident which landed her up in all this mess! Why do I have to be so bloody clumsy for God's sake? Oof!

"Are you girls done? What's it with all the whispering?" Hashmi's blare out of the blue startled the ghosts out of the girls.

"N-nothing sir," replied Dean and prepared to get up. "I'll be right back," she said to Nandini.

"Where are you going?" There was fear plastered over Nandini's face. Almost as if she was a goat that was going to be turned in to the butcher.

"I'll go talk to Trilok sir in the accounts department," she replied, "They'll have spare cheques with them."

"No!" Nandini grabbed hold of Dean's arm, "you can't leave me alone in here with this monster!" She shot a glance towards Hashmi who was still engaged in his work.

Dean smothered the involuntary snorts that escaped from her. "He's not as monstrous as he looks! And I'll be back soon darling. So don't worry!"

"I'll go and meet Trilok," Nandini offered, "I'll go get the cheques."

"You can do that?" asked Dean.

"Yes, pukka."

~ Moments later ~

Nandini walked into the Accounts department - a larger room for the executives and a special cabin for the seniors. She moved into the cabin, an average sized room with a two seater workstation and found it occupied by two middle aged men.

One of the men had an unusually long and pointed nose, but nevertheless looked friendlier than the other sinister looking guy who was engaged on the phone.

"Hi," Nandini was visibly nervous as she started off. She secretly wished that Trilok was the friendly looking, long nosed guy she was speaking to. "I'm looking for Mr. Trilok."

The long nosed guy, Raghav, looked up and smiled. "That's him," he said and pointed to the shorter guy with a grim expression. He had been glaring at her with a nasty smirk all this while.

Before Nandini could utter another word, Trilok spoke up. "I know," he said in a contemptuous tone through pursed lips, "Dean sent me a mail. Unfortunately, we just have fifty cheques at the moment. So we'll need to get more from the bank."

Nandini was so lost now. What the hell was she going to tell Manik now?

"Is it possible to get it today?" she asked frantically, "like now?"

"There's no one around to pick it up at the moment," Trilok snapped sternly, "we can get it earliest by this evening."

"Evening!!?" Nandini was dumbfounded. "But can't the bank..."

Trilok cut her off. "Moreover, the cheques were already issued last week. Five hundred of them! What about them? What happened to that?"

Smitten by Trilok's rude and outspoken demeanour, Nandini's entire being began to withdraw deep into her shell. She began to speak up, but Trilok gestured her to stop immediately with a quick flourish of his hand. "You just have to wait now. Don't know what you people are up to in your department. Seriously. Irresponsible lot. Ask Manik to meet me as soon as he can. I don't know what you guys are thinking! You can't expect everything to be around as per your whims and fancies."

Nandini's eyeballs and sockets began to ache as she struggled to hold back the embarrassed tears that had been stinging for a while.

"Now if you please," Trilok sighed and returned to the spreadsheets on his computer, "I'm really hard pressed for time as you can see. Got lots to do."

Nandini seemed to be thinking hard as she stood rooted to her spot. She seemed to be debating on whether to take that different step to achieve what she had to.

"What if I go and pick it up?" she asked out of the blue.

Note: Hang around guys, I'm a bit engaged with other stuff at the moment. But I'll be back with the next update in an hour or two ;) So stay tuned.

Stay tuned ... Gal I am just addicted to it ... Since morn looking for ur updates hahaha
Waiting for the next update ...

Poor girl, she needs a break

nice update

This is brilliant!! Loving this FF

Ohhh It seems like all the boss's r rude

she needs a break...poor girl

I need another update soon BTW; )

Amazing update

Sorry guys. Got really stuck last night. By the time I was done, it was too late and I had to crash. Will try and give more updates today ;) For now, enjoy the next chapter :P

~ CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~

Today, Nandini's worst nightmare seemed to have come true. In any other situation, she would have simply found a way out of it. But now, she had no choice. She was helpless. Doomed!

She was stupefied as she stood before the grey, matted escalator, crawling forever to its respective destinations - upstairs or downstairs. She looked around the mall frantically, but no, not a single elevator in sight. Not even a normal, traditional staircase! When she had enquired earlier, she was told that there were no elevators or stairs in this mall. Just escalators! That's just plain stupid!

"So what about those who can't use an escalator?" she had asked that man, "like someone who can't walk or stand?"

So that person had replied rather sarcastically, "but you can stand and walk, right?"

At that time, she was really tempted to drive her fist into the bugger's guts with such force that his eyeballs would have popped out of his skull, but somehow she restrained herself!

She had always hated an escalator... to the core! The last time she had used one was during her college days. She had gone out for shopping with her friends, so needless to say that she had a bumbling accident in front of everyone! She could never forget that incident. Ever since, she always took the stairs, even if it meant that she had to climb hundred floors!

Riding on an escalator gave her that dizzy feeling of the earth being swept away from under her feet! She would feel like her muscles had lost control. Like a wobbly jelly. In short, she hated this ridiculous contraption from the bottom of her heart! "Hey Aiyappa," she muttered to herself, "I wonder which idiot invented this piece of shit. If this dumb bank wasn't here in this stupid mall, I wouldn't even have come here in the first place. Why the hell did they keep the bank in this mall?!!?"

But what to do! She had to get the job done! And for that, she had to face her worst nightmare! She had to butt into it head on!

She clenched her hands into a tight fist and screwed her eyes shut. "Aiyappa, give me the strength. Help me out here! Help me! Help me! Help me!" she chanted under her breath.

Meanwhile, unnoticed by her, someone was prowling around on the top floor - Manik. He had a hand stuffed into his pocket whilst he laughed and talked on the phone. "Just came out for a bite," he said into the phone, "yeah, late breakfast. Was engaged. You tell me, what's up?"

As he passed by the escalator, he noticed a familiar someone from the corner of his eyes - Nandini. He screeched to a halt, squinted his eyes and craned his neck to get a better look.

Manik's point of view - Nandini had her clenched fists twiddling before her face. She seemed to be muttering something through gritted teeth and her eyes were screwed shut.

"B-babes," he quickly said into the phone, "I'll just call you back. Yeah, I'll just call you back."

He hung up and moved towards the escalator and stood there. He could see other confident people walk past her and board the escalator with a smirk.

"Need help?" someone asked her, to which she nodded in the negative.

Now what circus is this girl up to, thought Manik. Whatever it is, I want to find out.

Manik couldn't help but break into a broad, toothy grin. He crossed his arms and stood there. Watching. Waiting. It was almost as if he was waiting for a bomb to go off any minute.

Some of them, amused by Nandini's tactics, started to capture her video on their cell phones. "This is going to make a great YouTube upload," said one of them.

Manik's smile faded a bit when he noticed this. But then, his smile was completely wiped out when...

... Nandini leapt onto the escalator with a loud SHRIEK and flailed her arms wildly as she struggled to maintain balance.

Manik's hand involuntarily shot out to stop her from falling. But of course, she was too far to reach.

She gritted her teeth and clutched the sliding railings hard. Her eyes were so round and about to pop out of its sockets! "Eee!!!! Ammmaaa!!!"

That terrifying feeling was back again! That feeling of standing in the water and having the sand swept off from under the feet! That feeling of the entire world spinning round and round! That feeling where her muscles felt like melted rubber.

God, this girl is going to have a nasty accident if she doesn't stand still. Manik was highly distressed.

Nandini's next surprising move - she quickly spun around and plopped onto the escalator steps, still clutching onto the railings with her dear life!

People who had boarded the escalator after her burst out into peals of laughter.

"It's not funny!" she wailed and looked over her shoulder. The escalator was climbing higher, higher, higher... it was reaching the top floor. Any moment it will be up!

"Shit! Now how do I get the hell down!!?" she whimpered.

Slowly, she got onto her feet and whirled around, balancing herself with utter precision, like an expert tight-rope walker. The escalator was closing in to the top floor. Closing in... closing in...

From the corner of her eyes, she could make out the legs of someone standing at the top. "Just watch out! Watch out! Watch ouuuttt!!!" In spite of her warnings, the guy didn't move.

The guy, Manik, stood on with his arms at the ready. Ready to brace her fall. He wasn't even sure where this was all headed to! God, this girl is seriously crazy, he thought as his eyes grew wider by the second. Why does she remind me of footballer Zinedine Zidane? From the way she's closing in, she could get me seriously hurt! She's got her head stuck out like a charging bull! But if I move aside, she's gonna get hurt! What am I supposed to do?

Nandini quickly closed in on the top landing platform! How do I get off - how do I get off - how do I get off!!??? Timing! Keep the rhythm! The timing! One... Two...

On the count of threee, she leapt off the escalator and landed like a sack of potatoes right over Manik.

In spite of having his arms held out to brace her fall, Manik couldn't keep himself upright from the wallop he just got! He stumbled a few feet back before toppling down along with Nandini in his arms and her luscious lips locked onto his.

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Awsm!!!!!
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