"To ab kya Karneki soch rahi hai?" Manju asked Suman. Somehow Suman just managed to put her irritation aside, saying " koi naukri... "
"Yeh Mumbai hai beta yahan naukri asani se nahin milti... "
"Manju, kya keh Rahi ho...zaroor milegi suman ko... Itni achchi hai padai mein... "
Said Sunil!
" Mile to hi achcha hai...main Sumanki maa jaisi to hoon! Boorato Nahin chahti" Manju explained, though to whom Suman couldn't understand!
" Nahin... Aaj maa bhi nahin baithegi " ..."papa aap bhi na! ..." Suman couldn't even complete the sentence... She saw everything upside down, someone pushed her and she fell out of the car...in half conscious state she saw the car has become almost an uneven shape of a big football...that truck which smashed their car itself has caught in fire...
"Suman... Suman... Beta... " Raghuvendra Dubey shouted... His granddaughter was shivering so hard as if someone had put her in a icetub!
Suman sat up...she saw her grandfather sitting in front of her, with tears in his eyes! " I came to see u beta... Don't worry San kuch thik ho jayega! "
Suman just nodded thinking... This man had lost his daughter and son in law...and he was consoling her! She stared at his wrinkled face...his wrinkled eyes... And decided she had to be strong for this man.
****
" No Ms. Tiwari you have to show us the original credentials of yours. These are only print out of the soft copies you have saved in your computer, as you said. " said one of the interviewers!
" But, sir, as I told you I have lost my certificates and marksheets at an accident! It will take just 3 months to get the originals... I have already applied for duplicate..."
"Sorry Ms Tiwari, rules are rules".
This was the seventh interview Suman went for and heard the same. She came out of that cabin with teary eyes...and sat on one of the chairs that had been provided for the candidates!
There was a light tap on her right shoulder... She hurriedly wiped her tears and saw a beautiful lady clad in Saree, was smiling at her.
*****
"What happen beta... " she asked...
For a moment Suman felt, her mother was standing in front of her.
She stood up and hugged that lady saying.. "Everything is getting out of my hand...i don't know what to do! "
" You can tell me bachcha... And first stop crying. " Suman sighed and let go of her, she felt she should say everything! And she did.
"hmmm... This are certain rules we have to maintain beta... Nothing can be done! "
" so I have to wait for 3 months to get a job?" asked Suman.
" unfortunately yes... But...mmm... I don't know how will you react, I have a job for you! "
Suman gawked at her saying "what kind of job! And may I know who am I talking to! "
"finally, I thought you are never going to ask! Hello.. I am Mrs Nirmala Malhotra, MD of this MnR company! "
Suman gasped! She had been telling her sad story to the MD itself! wow great!
" you didn't answer me... Are you interested? "
"what kind of job if I may ask... " suman asked.
"of course you may. You can say it is a post of personal assistent!" Nirmala explained!
"for you? " suman sounded hopeful! She was already liking this lady.
" No, for my son...Shravan Malhotra... "
INDEX:
Chapter 1