Before, reading this post, let me say that the chapter starts on post above 😳
After Pari left, Maan was free till Dadi decided to finally meet her grandson. God, he was getting furious as he thought more about the fact that she went to meet someone else first. Thus, having nothing to do, he logged into yahoo. A few minutes later, a message came in bottom saying 'Geet is now online." He smiled instantly and anger vanished lightly. He then licked on her name to send her a message. When Geet came in, she saw Maan already online. She closed the welcome dialogue box and in less than seconds, a new pop up came up. It was Maan's IM.
It read, "Hey! Good morning." It was just a greeting. Yes, but it still brought a huge smile on her face. She replied back without wasting a second. "Hi! GM. How's you?"
(Get ready for short hand messages ;) )
Replies went back to back with now pause in between.
"Just great! Where are you?"
"Office."
"Oh! Isn't ur boss gonna yell at yu 4 not doing work?" he asked innocently. She burst out laughing. Who was the boss? Of course her. It was her will to come online. Then how is the boss gonna stop her!
"Boss!," she sent, "Hahahahahaha! My boss? MK, I am the boss!" Maan was shocked to read this. It took him a couple of seconds to recover. With wide eyes, he typed back, "What! But didn't you say that you will be working under someone?"
She was quite for a second. She didn't want to hide it from him. He was becoming her another support to fight life's struggle. She felt bad lying. Then she decided It's not actually a lie. I am just hiding the facts. Right Geet? Babaji, please don't punish me for this lie. She wrote back, "I did. And I changed my mind. Why work for someone when I have a huge business on my name."
He asked out of curiosity, "Point to be noted. So what is the huge business?"
"Why so eager?" She prompted him. "Afraid it will surpass your profits?" she was now in teasing mode.
"Ha-ha. Of course not! I trust my staff to always stay on top."
"That will only be judged if we ever over cross. So what are you doing?"
"Nothing. Just chilling and waiting for Dadi to come. Can you believe it? She went straight from her flight to meet someone else rather than her own grandson!"
She laughed. He somehow knew she was laughing. He sent faking anger, "It's not funny! No need to laugh."
She controlled her laughter. "Sorry! But it's so funny!" He got mad now. No matter how nice he can be, he gets mad easily. She sensed something and stopped laughing. "Maan?" No answer came back. She buzzed him twice. Still nothing. He was seeing it all but not replying to her messages. He was mad at her after all. She started sending things such as, "Sorry!" "Please forgive me…" "You won't talk to me?" "I'm sorry na!..." and other different ways she could think of on saying sorry.
As time went, his anger calmed down seeing her messages and a small smile crept up on his face. While he smiled, she got sad. "Please talk to me Maan. I'm really sorry. Promise not to laugh again." He was enjoying her pleading. But he knew that if he didn't reply now, things might get out of control. "it's alright. How is Yash?" He asked.
Seeing it, she smiled and relaxed. Finally he forgave her. "I'm sure he's fine." Just as she sent the message, bob came in. he informed, "The clients are here. If you're ready…" she nodded and replied, "I'll be right there." He left. To Maan, she replied, "Hey have to go for a meeting. Talk to you later?"
He replied just as fast, "Ya sure. I'll be online @ night."
"Alright. See you then. Bye." And before he could reply bye she was off. He smiled and then went out to find Vicky. He wasn't in the cabin. None of them were in their cabin. (from his group of friends). In fact, they were nowhere in the office to be found. He called Vicky and then Emma. Neither of them picked it up. He got annoyed and went in his office slamming his door shut. That gave a message to all of them that he was in a bad mood and whoever dared to knock on his cabin would surely meet the worst person till date. A devil to be precise. He started working on the designs.
Geet entered the meeting room but saw no one there. She came out to find Bob and asked, "Where are they?" He replied with a low voice. "They said they wanted to have lunch first."
Geet almost shouted, "What!!" He continued in hope to calm her. "They'll be back soon. Please wait inside for a while." She demanded, "They better make it fast!" She trotted inside.
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As dadi asked for Geet, the receptionist told her that she was in a meeting and it'd be kind if she could wait. She sat down in the garden that was attached to the waiting lounge. Just then, she saw familiar figured at the end corner of the garden. She walked making no noise. They were none other than Vicky, Dan, and Pari. Emma didn't want to come and wanted to stay home with Ana. Pari was saying, "You guys better not make any mistakes!"
Dan replied, "We won't. we have gone over this a lot of times." Dadi asked, "Gone over what?" all three turned around stay rooted to their place with a firm facial expression. Vicky exclaimed, "Dadi! What are you doing here?" he hugged her to make them seem less suspenseful.
Dadi replied, "Me being here is normal. Question is what are 'you both' doing here whispering like thieves?"
Dan said nervously, "Nothing. Nothing much at all. We are just here for a meeting and we said gone over the procedure of the project."
She gave a look that said, "You seriously think I believe that!" she made them all sit down. Seeing her glare, Pari spoke up. "Dadi.. I'm Pari. Actually we are here to…" she told their plan to dadi and no lies this time. If they wanted to get out of the mess, the risk of telling their true plan will have to do. By the time she was done, dadi had a glow in her eyes. A new hope had risen in her heart. She kept that hidden from rest though. She thought, This is the perfect way! She then started laughing. "You think that's going to work!"
Vicky: "Yea, why not!" he sounded offended by dad's laugh. Dadi decided she will have to add the spice in. but hiding it from them. After thinking on what to tell them, she spoke thoughtfully, "Well, it'll work. But she might get doubtful. You'll need help. Leave the……part to me."
Pari got excited and stood up to hug dadi. "Oh dadi. You're so sweet!" she was practically chocking her. Dadi said, "Bte…" Pari then realized she was almost choking her and immediately let go. "Now you all go."
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Geet sat there growing impatient and looking at the watch every other second. She sometimes got up, walked a couple steps up and down and sat back. She repeated this several times before her patience reached its peak.
She was going out the door and just then they came in. she was surprised to Geet Pari with them. "Pari?"
She spoke with a straight face, "No Ms. Geet. Right now, I'm here as Ms. Pari on behalf of Khurana Constructions." Geet then realized she was being professional and not her best friend. At the least, she was trying to be professional, but the forced smile could be pointed out on her face. Geet too stifled a smile and said, "Oh! I see. Well, Ms. Pari, you are extremely late. Is this the way KC works? If this goes on, we might not finalize the deal." Both looked at each other seriously and giving dagger looks. They just burst out laughing after less than 5 seconds.
They looked hilarious trying to be hateful towards the other. All of them took a seat as Vicky and Dan also laughed with them. The meeting began.
Slide show of images and sketches mixed together to make a collage were shown on the presentation. Vicky and Dan spoke simultaneously explain each part of it. Why it was the way they put it and other back ground information. It did impress Geet and knew this would be a great project to start off as her first project. Surely, they wouldn't have failed to impress Geet. KC never failed to impress anyone. The deal was signed.
Geet: "So we're done here?"
Dan: "Yes."
Vicky spoke, "Umm…we have one more 'personal' request."
Geet: "Personal?" and gave a look that said 'continue'
Pari elaborated, "Yea. Um…you know the guy whom you got mad at yesterday at the mall?"
Geet exaggerated, "What about him NOW!" She was surely hearing about him a lot since yesterday.
Pari: "Geet, before you get mad. We just want to say that the company belongs to him. So you're gonna have to forgive him if we want to work together. Or else it would create problems for both the companies."
Geet was numb on hearing this. It belonged to him! Out of all the people, HIM! Then she thought, 'I can always fake it! Besides, I don't have to see his face all the time. Right? Okay. Geet, this is what you are going to do. Fake and ignore. Got it? Babaji, please support me okay? He should know the importance of people over worldly pleasures.
She smiled at the rest in order to not make them suspicious. She blinked confirming to them. "Don't worry. Our personal fight won't come in professional life. I know the difference and will keep it that way till Mr. Khurana maintains his limit. Pass that message on?"
Dan: "You got it. Now I think we should go."
Vicky seconded, "Yea he's right. Maan will be fuming by now. Pari… coming?"
Pari said, "No. I took rest of the day off. So you all have fun dealing with Maan." He then laughed at the boys misery as they left. She then told Geet, "Geet…I'll be back."
Geet stopped her by pulling her back with her elbows, "Hey, where are you going?"
Pari, "Ofo! Geet, I have to do my part for another project. So I'll just go out to the store Maan mentioned and pick up the things. You just wait and do whatever boss does." Both giggled at 'boss'.
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