Chapter 4
She approached the counter guy at the canteen and asked for a regular coffee. He smiled at her and then got her order. Then she quickly handed over the money to him and picked up coffee at table. As she is about to turn, she bumps in to someone. Oh shit!
"I am so sorry. I mean. Damn!" she feels so embarrass to see she has spilled mr khan's hot coffee at someone. She quickly turns and gets some tissues to wipe his white formal shirt. Its surely going to have a stain and tough time to clean it.
"I ..i am so sorry." She looks around and finds everyone staring at her. she feel herself embarrassed more and she tries wipe his shirt again in panic.
"hey..hey..hey.. its okay! Please." The guy with brown eyes says , raising his both hands in air to stop zoya from rubbing the tissue on him.
Zoya looks up and he nods a no with a smile, his smile is more like a sweet child which instantly makes zoya to hold her panic act.
"yes. Stop. Its okay miss." He says cheerily and moves to counter.
Zoya looks at the used tissue in her hand and then eyes on floor where she had made a mini pool of used papers. She quickly kneels down and picks everything and dumps it in dustbin. Zoya moves to the washbasin and washes her hands. As she is about to turn again she bumps in to someone and by luck the dj vu which likely happened a minute back changes. The guy is now with coffee and he has successfully dodges zoya from spilling the coffee once more.
"hey I am so sorry." She panics again but this time the boy chuckles at her while she feel herself getting more embarrassed under his beautiful light.
"I got that one." He replies with a small laugh and she turns to see the coffe still in his hand. The guy hands over the coffee to zoya with a small smile.
"take this." He says softly.
Zoya stares at the coffee and then at the boy. Oh..
"I am sorry." She says again absent mindedly.
"uh...its okay. " he laughs then gets his hand for a formal handshake. "I am kabeer."
Zoya takes his hand in her and smiles, " I am zoya." She says sweetly.
"new here?" he asks roaming his eyes everywhere.
"yeah! First day." She says softly, pulling her gaze on every irrelevant thing around.
"Come lets me introduce you to my friends. They will be happy to meet you." he says and without waiting for her reply he calls out his friends. Soon zoya finds some man's and women around her.
"hey..i am zoya." Zoya breaks the ice first and she gives a nods to every one. "I am into computer techniques." She says proudly.
After a few seconds of eyes exchanges, someone broke the silence for her. "hi zoya. Nice to meet you! Welcome to the Dilshad's construction.." a guy with super straight hair approached her, " hey. I am Edwin. But you can call me ED. I am in to documentation" he says offering his hand to shake which zoya readily takes it. "yeah. Hi Edwin." She says smiling at him.
"I am Johnny." Soon a very handsome guy from the group moved towards zoya. " I am responsible for accounts here." He says wearing a beautiful genuine smile. zoya shook her hands with him and smiled.
"hey Rizvi here." Another hunk stepped forward and zoya smiled to him. "I take care of visitors here. No not security." He laughed on his joke while zoya felt herself forced smiling at it. dignity of labour haven't he heard anytime about it? later there wer few more names like asha, purab, and simar. Who came forward to introduce theirselves. Zoya happily wished them morning and shook their hand.
Suddenly zoya realized the poor cup of coffee waiting t be butcher by this arrogant idiot man called her boss in his cabin. "uh..excuse me. I need to go to mr khan's cabin now." she points at the cup and the colleagues gives a sad look to her.
"he is an ass hole." Rizvi spat form nowhere.
"Yeah you should hurry before he explodes." Kabeer joked and everybody caught up their conversation with this line. Seeking the opportunity zoya escaped them and went straight to Mr. khan's cabin.
"May I come in." she knocked and waited. She turned the knob once she heard his voice calling her in.
Zoya waits with the coffee in her hand next to the table. She looks at asad who is sitting like he is least interested of her presence in his cabin. Few more minutes passed and zoya starts to have bad feeling in her guts, damn why is he not saying anything? She asked herself.
"what?"Suddenly asad's voice echoed the room.
"coffee." she tried to gain her posture with confidence despite of shaking horribly.
Asad nods his head in yes and zoya arranges the coffee cup on table. She is just about to leave his cabin when she hears him loud and clear.
"I want you to get all the blue folders that's in the room right at the end of the corridor for me now.." he ordered and she nods her head in yes before walking out of the cabin.
She walks to the end of the corridor, passing store room. Hey! Why is this corridor so long? She wondered.
Blue folders... she chanted under her breathe looking here and there on her way.
Oh yes. Here are they." Zoya SAID In a chirpy voice.
Then her attention went on the other blues bunches arranged on above other. "damn! Mr khan"she cursed asad loud enough to hear the wall.
"ya allah! Why? Why I am bearing this?" she kept on asking as she tried to pick every single file she could see on floor. She however managed to get it all trying to not drop any and carried it back to asad's office.
Zoya could see other employees eyes on her including the peon of the office who is suppose to do this work , some showed empathy to her some just ignored her. zoya still kept walking to asad's cabin avoiding any contact with any employee. Very soon she found herself standing right infront of asad's cabin.
Zoya taking a deep breath knocks the door," come in."
She pushes the heavy glass door and walks with the file juggling in her hand. She walked in her nose direction and is about to keep the files on his table when asad stopped her.
"I don't want those files on my desk, put it somewhere else." He looks from the red file he is reading and again dips himself back in it.
Zoya bites her lips in order to stop herself from giving a good on his face , taking a deep breath she walks to the near by coffee table to put the files but again he stops.
"I don't want to see them there either. They will spoil the table." He said with poker face once again.
"ugh! And I don't want to see you!" she cried inwardly. Desperately wishing to knock asad down with her one karathe moves. Zoya tried to suppress the killer desire in her and took several deep breaths . the folders were not exactly light weight they were 20 of them which made them more heavier. If soon she didn't keep the files back she will surely throw them right then and there.
Suddenly she got an idea and she smiles looking at asad. It was the moment when she clearly knew that even though this man was pretending to read those papers in his hand but the fact is he has all his attention only on her move. He is playing? Lets play it two. With the determination she walks back to his desk, constantly looking at asad from corner of her eyes. she caught his sudden facial change while she walked to his desk. Zoya knowing his eyes on her, she smirked and went behind his desk. She stopped and smirked more brightly seeing asad's confused eyes on her. she bents down and keeps all the files on the floor just below the table.
Then she gets up dusting the mud of her hands, " the files are not on your desk and neither they are on the table. They are at the place where you wont be disturbed and you will have access to them easily when you want to check them." She faked him a smile.
Asad looked a little surprise but quickly gained his composure and turned his eyes back on his file..
The winning smile on her face kept intact as she proudly with her head held high walked out of his cabin. This time asad khan didn't had anything to say.
Zoya flopped on her chair finally having an horrible encounter with her boss. "jerk!" she said as loud as she could making all the heads turn to her.
Zoya looked here and there to her colleagues saying a quick sorry to them she rested her head on her folded hand over table.
"hey!" she hears the most familiar voice but this time she is not in a great mood.
"hey!" she says in most indifferent voice.
"hey what happened? You don't seem to be in a good mood. Let me guess!" kabeer continued his chirpy energetic tone while she continued to just stare at him. " a no nonsense expression!
"mr devil said something?" he eyed zoya with an understanding look. And instantly zoya's face turned sour.
"ugh! Please don't start me on this!" she says rolling her eyes at him.
"uh huh! I am all here to listen." He leaned a little turning his face sideways. " my ears are all your." He said making zoya smile.
"nothing! I don't know what his problem is. You know he on purpose made me carry those heavy files to his cabin. Made me go all dancing with them there and then meanly asked me to carry them back . after a while he again and again asked me to get the same file one by one. How mean he is! Ass hole!" zoya cursed hitting his palm on the desk angrily. Once again all eyes in the room went on her, kabeer with his wide eyes looked around and apologized everyone on behalf on her.
Then he again looked back to her, " I can understand. He surely is very mean to some employees here. Especially to those who he absolutely detest!" he said making a bitter face at the end.
Zoya instantly looked at him like a gawking fish! " what? Do you want to say he hates me!" she looked so sadly surprised which made kabeer to hold his tongue in his teeth.
"umh! No.. I didn't mean that. I mean there must be something in his mind." he tried to cover up what he said before but it didn't help.
Zoya's shocked expression washed away with a narrow look, " you know what? I don't care. If he thinks he can do this and I would get scared and leave this job. Then I wont. He clearly don't know me. if he is mr ass hole khan, then my name is zoya. I will fight back to him." she said giving a speech like some freedom fighter standing on the table. Zoya was so engrossed in the emotion that she didn't notice what she was doing and soon all the eyes in the room were back on with sweats on their temple and a shock expression.
Zoya opened her eyes with a flushed face as she noticed everyone around her. oh no!
I am regretting this job!Allah...help me... She said inwardly.
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