Chapter 43

Aditi

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Part ~ 24

Armaan’s POV:

The very next day when I entered to my cabin I ordered to the peon while marching towards my cabin, “Prasad! Please send Shilpa to my cabin”

“Par sir, Shilpa madam is on holiday”, I was being unrealizable of her in-existence in the office closed my eyes and stopped when these words reaches to my ears.

I stopped immediately and took a deep breath, “yeah. Shilpa madam is on holiday”, I murmured and adjusting my blazer, entered to my cabin and get seated and ordered him again, “Ah! Prasad, please send of coffee to me”

“Ok sir”, and replying this he departed.

I did not know why it was awkward for me to live without her presence in that cabin. It felt that something was missing, empty. The space wasn’t the only thing which was empty but the feelings and vibes I was getting were also hollow.

I rolled my eyes and decided to engrossed with my work schedule and called the receptionist with intercom, “Mary, when is the appointment with Shilpa’s”

“Shilpa’s? sorry sir”, I got the riddle back in the form of reply.

I bit my lower lip and stuttered, “Sorry, I meant—umm… Mehra’s”

“Oh! At 3 p.m sir”, she replied and it was seemed from here only that she was enjoying the silent laughter.

“Okay”, I immediately snapped and disconnected when I heard a laughing out loud sound and already guessed without looking that it can only be her, Riddhima Gupta, my so called villainous friend.

“Ho gaya tumhara?”, I smile fake at which she, while grabbing an apple from my fruit basket laughingly sat down on the chair and munched a bite, “Nahin”, and kept laughing.

“Thik hai ho jata hai, itna kyu hasna hai”, I asked strictly.

She gulped down her bite and bent towards me, “watchman,lift man, peon, and now receptionist aur kisey Shilpa bulane ka irada hai?”, shepulled my cheeks as I was a chubby kid of 5 and took a deep breath while settling her back on the back of chair, “Shukar hai mera naam yaad hai”

“Yaad hai ke nahi?”, she laughed again when I was retorting her back when I heard a knock on the door and I who was engrossed in verbal spat with Riddhima did not even bother to look at the person and replied, “come in”

“Sir your coffee”, the peon forwarded the coffee mug towards me and sipped it. But the same time almost spit it but realized that Ridzi was sitting in front of me.

I clenched my jaw and looked at the peon who was almost gone and called him from back, “Hey, prasad what the hell is this? Which sort of coffee is this?”

“Sir jaisi aap humesha peete hain wahi hai”, he replied lowering his eyes.

“No that’s different, ye black coffee hai… no sugar aisi coffee kaun peeta hai”, I argued with him when Riddhima jumped in between,“Tum.”, and giggled.

“what? Nahi”

“Yes. Tum to aisi hi boring coffee peete ho”, Riddhima put forwarded the fact.

“To roz mujhe kaunsi coffee milti hai?”, I asked curtly to the peon, at which he immediately replied, “wo to Shilpa madam banati hain aapke liye”

Riddhima’s POV

I was keenly observing the whole fiasco going on in front of my eyes and enjoying it a lot. Sometimes I used to interrupt as well but when I was thinking that what the f**k is going on, I realized Armaan said, “Accha Shilpa madam banati hain”, firstly he didn’t what he had said but when did he realized he retorted back, “Aur Shilpa madam kyun banati hain?”

“ab wo to wahi jane sir”, the peon replied looking into his eyes at which I bit my lower lip to control the dose of laughter.

“ok jao tum aur waisi hi banana coffee, I mean add some milk and sugar”, he instructed and the peon understood it well and left.

I munched the little bite of apple while saying, “Kya baat hai, Shilpa ne tumhe kam se kam normal coffee peena to sikha diya”

“Ek to ye na tum khate khate bolne ki aadat chod do Shilpa its really anno—“, before he could complete himself he realized what blunder he has done and smacked his head while I remained saying, “Mera bhi naam bhul gaye, poor me”, I pouted a little and was leaving the cabin when he apologized to me but I smiled back and replied, “Hota hai, isme aisa hi hota hai”

“Isme kisme”, he asked while dotting the answer of my riddle.

“You have to figure it out”, and winked while leaving and remained him with questions.

“Ye kya paheliya chalti hain tumhari”, I overheard him from the door.

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Shilpa’s POV:

I was playing with the ring which has taken a new name of relationship in my life a day back. Indeed, Sid has promised me that nothing will be changed so as everyone has tried to behave as they were before to me but I something has changed, which was not a change in them, then what it was.

I was passing through the convoy of thoughts which was nothing nowadays, and in these deep thoughts an unexpected call disturbed me.

“Hello!”, I softly spoke.

But the person on the second side was quiet, he, Mr. Armaan Mallik didn’t even utter a single word. I greeted again, “Hello Sir!”, but he again didn’t replied and finally the bridge of my patience has broken, “Aapko kuch kehna hai ya galati se phone laga tha?”

“Um!! Sorry”, he apologized from the other side.

 “Aaj Mehra’s ke sath meeting hai, where is Mehra’s and G an M’s file? I wanted to read it out once again”, he asked finally.

I licked my lips and thought, “toh official hai…mujhse baat nahi karni thi”, thinking this I rolled my eyes and instructed him, “Second row, third file”

“Thanks”, and before I could say anything he immediately disconnected the phone call and I remained speechless.

I twisted my lips, “What does he think of himself? Khadoos”,I cursed him with different names and suddenly in a minute of second a thought came to my mind.

“By the way, why am I expecting that he will talk to me after all he is my boss, not friend”, I questioned myself and immediately I smacked my head and someone shrugged me from the back which put me in the condition of a little shock, “Ah!”

“Oh!! Hello it’s me”, the person turned me around and show his face and then I was relaxed, it was Sid.

After seeing him I took a deep relaxed breath, “pagal”, I murmured.

“Aye pagal nahi kehna haan tera hone wala pati hoon”, and his fake tease shrunk my smile and I pressed my lips.

I carefully tried to hammer a nail, but Sid snatched the hammer from my hand put it aside on a table and hold my shoulders, “Sorry Shona! Tujhe pata hai na majak karte time sahi galat yaad hi nahi rehta”

I smiled a little and replied, “No problem”, at which I witnessed a shine in his eyes.

Sid’s POV:

“Waise tune bade din baad mujhe Shona kaha kya baat hai”,She teased me and again took the hammer in hand, which I again snatched from her hand and snap her forehead, “tujhe bachpan se ladko wale kaam karne ka kitna shauk hai”

“Isme ladke or ladki kya hai, ek nail hi to lagani hai”, she argued.

I tickled her nose and mocked, “Itni nazuk hai mere papa kidoll hath diwar pe hammer kar liya to ma papa dono se main maar khaunga, tunahi”

At which she opened her mouth in a perfect O shape, but I kept continuing, “Ms. Delicate darling”, and this time I got a little smack on my hand and said she, “Chup haan Armaan”

And this suddenly stopped me from laughing, “Oh madam!Office mein hi dimag hai kya abhi bhi, mein Sid hoon”, I tilted my collar up.

She licked her lips and stuttered, “nahi wo unki di hui painting laga rahi thi naa to wahi naam yaad reh gaya”

“Safai de rahi hai?”, I asked seriously

“Nahi”, she was nervous.

I laughed, “Crack pot pata hai mujhe tu office mein hi apni files ke andar dimag rakhkar aati hai”, at which she smiled a little andhammered the nail and hung the painting but the same time it slipped down and broke into pieces as the glass has become powder.

She turned back and noticed this, “Ah! What the hell Sid pagal hai tu”, she screamed out loud.

“tujhe pata bhi hai wo kiska gift tha, Armaan ka, sirf painting nahi thi wo, it was it was priceless for me”, she screamed in one breath and so loud that even ma papa came to the room and I was aghast because it was the first time when she screamed at me for something and did not care about me, as a piece of glass has also inserted in my palm, which stained my hand with blood.

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A/N: I know people are missing from IF but i have to complete this stuff in this week otherwise i will not be able to update so if i would not be updating it I am sorry in advance, I have my own personal reason

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Aditi