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Chapter 2

Next morning Geet woke up at the smell of freshly brewed coffee. She rubbed her eyes and saw Vicky with two mugs in his hands.

"Good morning Miss." He smiled and sat down opposite. Geet looked around and realised she was still in the office.

"Morning Vicky." She got up, took a small bag with her and left the cabin. After ten minutes she returned, wearing new clothes and with wet hair.

"You showered in the office?" Vicky asked a little shocked.

"I sometimes don't have time to go back home, so I always keep a change of clothes with me. Thanks for the coffee." It was cold now but this is just how she drank it.

"Ok, have a look at this, is this correct?" Geet showed Vicky some papers she had been working on last night. Vicky was impressed. This girl who didn't know a thing yesterday managed so much over night.

"Everything is perfect. I think we should now check old client files. Most of them have left us because..." He stopped but Geet understood.

"Well, there may be a couple that will still like to work with us, you know for old time's sake and so on." Geet nodded. She called Romeo and asked him to get the list.

"Miss, don't mind me if I ask but don't you want some breakfast? I mean you just got up and now doing work.." Vicky asked concerned. He could never do a thing without eating first.

"Call me Geet. And no, I don't need breakfast. I usually eat when I feel like, not when I am hungry. It saves me quite some time." Geet got back to work and Vicky helped.

Some days later Adi rushed in with some good news. One of the old clients wanted to work with them. A major reason had been that the previous company cancelled their deal on a very short notice and they desperately needed some one to fill in.

"This is our change Geet. We need one client to start off with and show them that this time we mean business. If they like our work we can then they will recommend us to other people." Vicky was excited. Since he had joined Geet, her mission had become his and that was to pull MC back up. He had learned quite a lot and was very keen in putting his ideas into action and Geet gave him a lot of freedom to do so.

A client meeting was called. Geet was nervous but Adi reassured her. It was a little problematic at first because many of the old staff had left but Vicky managed to convince them. They got the deal even if not for reasons Geet had wished to but she didn't complaint. One client was better than none.

"Geet, I think we should hire some more people. Being short staffed can get us into trouble at some point." Adi suggested.

"I would love to have people working here and money is not an issue, but who would like to work in this company?" Geet said.

"We can put out ads, we might find some" Geet thought for a minute. She agreed.

"Adi and Vicky, I want you to take the interviews. You two of all know best what sort of people we need." Geet left the cabin and looked for Romeo.

"Romeo, can I please have..." she looked at the piece of paper Romeo was scribbling on. He got up and said:

"Yes ma'am, what do you need?" Geet kept looking. She took the piece of paper and pulled Romeo to her cabin where Adi and Vicky were working.

"Look at this." She held the paper in front of both.

"Such a marvellous drawing. Who did this?" Geet pointed at Romeo who had no clue at to what was going on.

"Romeo, did you learn to draw, I mean professionally?"

"No not really, I just love to make sketches on pieces of paper."

"Can we give him work as a creative? I mean he clearly has potential." Geet asked Adi. Adi looked at Romeo.

"If he can do these for our models, blue prints and presentations it will be fantastic."

Geet was happy but said in her usual emotionless tone:

"Romeo, from today you are promoted to a creative. When clients come I want you present and make sketches according to clients' demands. Then you will aid in making blue prints and make a model accordingly." Romeo's jaw dropped open. He had only studied till 12^th class and worked as a boy for everything in this company. Now he got promoted to a creative?

"But ma'am, I am not even properly qualified."

"I believe in ability, not qualification. So do you want the job?" Romeo agreed.

"One hidden talent, maybe there are more in MC?" Geet asked Adi and Vicky.

"We should ask them. Maybe we can find more?"

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Chapter 3

Work went on much better now. Geet got a grip on most of the matters but was still dependant on Vicky and Adi. They had, as a matter of fact, found some more people who were good at this or that and proved to be an asset to the firm. Their client was amazed. They had never thought that MC would yet again be able to show such high quality of work. Geet thanked everyone with a little gift. Romeo was to start evening classes at a professional drawing school where he would learn everything he needed for his job. Vicky and Adi were offered a permanent post in MC as Executive Directors. Adi accepted immediately but Vicky hesitated. He gave in though after Geet's multiple requests. The others had got a little bonus to their salary. Everyone's confidence was boosted and they put in more effort. Slowly slowly more clients came to them and every time MC managed to give their best.

The growing popularity of MC also attracted jobseekers and the gaps which had been created by the old staff were filling in.

Geet was even busier now. She had decided that going home was of no use to her. The place just haunted her with old memories. She had ordered for MC to be renovated and the top floor was to be transformed into an apartment, where she shifted to. She regularly checked on Riya and Armaan. She felt bad for having shoved them off to boarding school so soon but with all the office work she wouldn't have managed to keep an eye on both. At least this way they would be distracted from their sorrow. Geet wished she had some distraction, too. Living in MC meant she could work none stop but it also took its tall.

Dev cursed. Mishra Constructions was all over the paper. Khurana Constructions was the best but if things continued like this MC might soon take over.

This is silly' he thought. As long as he and his brother were here, no one could beat them. But where was his brother?

"Sir, Mr Chopra is here." Dev came out of his thoughts.

"Send him to our conference room. Did you prepare the files?" Tasha looked scared. Oops, she had forgotten.

"Sorry sir, I'll do it right now." Tasha ran off before Dev could say a word. Dev wondered what sort of people his brother had employed. Since Maan was gone not even one person did his or her work properly. Sasha and Tasha kept on drooling over him; for goodness sake he was happily married. Meera was the only one who did her work to satisfaction but the amount of work that she was responsible for just introduced chances for errors.

"Mr Chopra, so nice to see you." Dev shook hands with his client. Tasha had just gotten the files and the meeting started. To add to Dev's misery Tasha had proven even more incompetent. The files were not that of Chopra project but that of Sharma project. Not wanting to create a drama in front of his clients he pulled Tasha outside.

"Tasha, I told you to copy Mr Chopra's project file, why did you copy Mr. Sharma's file?"

"Sir, I couldn't find Chopra project file..."

"So you thought better any file than none?" She nodded. Dev closed his eyes with his hands. This girl had a bloody degree in architecture and yet lacked brains for such a simple task. Mr Chopra was not at all glad about the mishap. KC was known for its professionalism and now they couldn't even manage to get a simple file copied. He conveyed his displeasure to Dev and left.

"If things go on like this we will have to close down in a few days" Dev muttered.

Maan was camping. He was successful businessman, rich, handsome, had a loving family and yet he was lonely. Many people said that he preferred loneliness but that wasn't true. It was just that he had no one with whom he could share his feeling, problems or happiness. It had become a routine for him to celebrate any happy occasion with a party, friends and a drink. Not that he felt very happy. A girl had left him heart broken and he let out his frustration on others. He had even fired his best and closest friend from his own company for a silly reason. He wondered if would ever be able to change.

Mr Chopra was sitting in MC and was listening to the ideas.

"I must say Miss Geet, I like the level of work you are offering. But is all this possible in the budget, I mean these changes are all nice but we can't go over board."

"I assure you Mr Chopra. Our finance department had a close look at all the expenses and have given me a guarantee that we are within the budget." Geet said with confidence.

"In that case I will sign the deal right now." The papers were brought and both signed. After Mr Chopra left everyone cheered. This client had not been easy. He had high demands but Romeo and Yash had done an amazing job. For the first time since Geet joined MC they actually saw a trace of a smile on her face. They all left and Geet felt a little light headed. She walked a couple of steps and collapsed clutching onto her stomach tightly. Vicky rushed to her and they called an ambulance as she moaned in pain.