PART 187 B
Friday September 21st 2012
6: 40 PM
The elevator stopped at 4th, she got in in the two sq inches of space that was available, she had to meet her insurance agent at Tata AIG on the 4th at 6. She also wanted to get home on time.
The elevator was packed, she hung on to the space she got. Some one moved to make room for her, she looked up to see her Citibank admirer. He was in casuals today, blue jeans and a dirt brown tee, he smiles "You OK? " he says "Hmmm"
He starts speaking finally "You work on this floor?"
"No!" she says
"My coworker then?"
She smiles and shakes her head
"Do I have to go through every floor now? (to guess where you work?"
" I am a architect at M&D on 11th" "Modi & Dastur?"
He looks at her more admiringly "wow!"
"Homes for people?" he asks
"Very rich people" she says and smiles
The elevator gets to the ground floor
They are waiting to step out he says "Oh! before you disappear, I am Atharv Bhatnagar I am a Risk Management Specialist at Citi" extends his hand, she shakes it
"Hi!" she says
"Can we go out for coffee sometime?"
Saturday Sep 22nd 2012
11:40 AM
Delhi Haat
She gets off the auto, wearing a tan/offwhite tiered cotton skirt and a sleeveless blouse with mirrors and embroidery in every color on the spectrum. Her thong sandals have beads of almost all the colors, winding all the way over her ankles. Her hair is tied with a tan scarf. She is carrying one o those bags that made her husband suspect shes a NGO employee, long, beaded and cottony'
Looks for change finds it and hanggles with the guy for 10 minutes'.. finally relenting.
Walks to the window buys her ticket, makes calls "Kahan ho tum dono?"
Swati lives in Punjabi Bagh and Ira in Rohini, they both tell her they can get there before 1 at the earliest. Khanak realizes shes early, she had to go get her cordless phone fixed, so she left home early''
She walks inside, a man wearing tan shorts and a navy UMASS tee, strappy sandals is on the phone, he is wearing sunglasses, his eyes light up and his heart races when she enters, her hair is a few inches shorter, the curls under her ears thicker, she looked lost, her skirt billowed as she smiled and caught it'' some DU guys paused and gawked, made comments. She pretended to know where she was going... ignored them and walked on
He walked up to her
"hey" he said
"Aaap? Yahan?" she turned a glorious red, her hand flying to her shoulder strap in a nervous action, covering her underclothes as if they were exposed...
"Waiting for some one?"
"Hmm"
"The banker?"
Her mouth opened and shut like a fish as she stared... while he happily checked her out...
Anupamaa
