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"I can't sulk like this... just because of a girl.. I can't waste my precious time. I have a company to run. One of the top fashion houses of the nation.. I need to shed off her thoughts..." he convinced himself and got up.
Manik came out of his office and went straight to the elevator. Kathy followed him almost running after him.
"Mr Malhotra... can you please brief me for the interviews, so that I can take care of it... people will be start coming..." they stopped in front of the elevator.
"I'll let you know when I come back..." he answered in a hurry and entered the elevator.
"Why do I have to be in the worst position always..." Kathy murmurs to herself.
"I totally forgot about the interviews today.." Manik thought hurrying out of the elevator going outside. But got surprised to see Dhruv entering the building.
"Dhruv, what are you doing here...I thought you were planning to go to the pent house to sleep. ..." he asked.
Despite of staying awake all night he looked fresh and active.
"I can live for next three to four hours bhai... I got a call from MS... she said today chicks are coming for the interviews... right... " he winked at Manik, his eyes shine with excitement thinking about the girls.
"How could I missed the golden opportunity..," he said mischievously.
A smile shine on Manik's face too hearing him.
"When will you grow up Dhruv.., don't you get tired of all these messing around... and I have to do something about this...
MS... she is spoiling you more than granny..." he said.
"One older brother is enough for the family right now big bro... let it be like that... and dad said he is on his way to the office with mom and asked me to be here..." he said whistling.
"Don't blame MS... she is the loveliest person I've ever met. Even at her age she is so lively that she can take you to the heights of enjoyment..." Dhruv said praising their head designer Melanie Singh MS for short, who is around 30 plus age still unmarried and enjoys life to the fullest.
A mixture of Punjab and America. Her mother is an American and her father is a pure Sikh. And she turned out to be a very lively and full of life human being.
It's not that she doesn't want to get marry but. She thinks that she didn't find true love yet.
She treats Manik and Dhruv like her younger brothers. She is with the Malhotra fashion house since it is started ten years ago.
"Anyways. Where are you heading to..." Dhruv asked.
"I forgot to get the coffee due to granny's talk in the manor...getting Starbucks you want some..."
"Yup I'll come with you...". Dhruv walked with him to the Starbucks coffee that's around the corner.
Manik received a call from Mr. Senior Malhotra. He takes the call and after speaking to him for few minutes he hang up.
His face turned serious.
"What happened bro... who was that on phone..." Dhruv asked.
"It was dad..." he said.
"He wants me to hire his friends daughter as an intern for assistant designer... and he insisted that I should not interview her...just give her a chance...,why..." Manik fisted his hands and took his coffee from the counter.
"How will I know that girl is suitable for the job... why do I have to go through with this... I don't understand.." seeing Manik getting upset Dhruv pat his shoulders.
"Bhai relax... don't get worked up... may be she is good...just give her a chance..."
both Dhruv and Manik came out of the Starbucks's and stand there on the sidewalk to drink there coffee.
"Let me just inform Kathy to cancel all the interviews... it's no use of going through it now..." Manik called Kathy.
Nandini stands in front of the mirror in the restroom and started talking to herself softly.
"Listen Nandini you have to forget about that man and concentrate on your interview... you need to get this job... this is your only chance to stay here... otherwise you are dead..."Nandini was busy convincing herself When she heard someone else talking.
The voice was coming from one of the toilet.
"Yes papa...I'm here... and I'm going to the interview... please stop calling me..." a girl is talking to someone, maybe her father... she was getting very irritated.
Nandini overheard and thought.
'Another candidate for the same job.. oh Aiyyappa... you have to help me get this job...' she prayed unknowingly.
That girl came out from the toilet and smashed her file on the counter and started washing her hands.
"Why do parents have to be so demanding... I don't want to do this job... I'm not even interested in this field...I hate this..." that girl was blabbing to herself.
'Tell me about it girl...' Nandini thought, couldn't help herself from hearing her as she was standing right next to that girl. But, She pretend to ignore the girl.
The girl was in a hurry so she left her file on the sink counter and left.
Nandini noticed it and picked up the file and went after her.
"Excuse me... your..." but the girl was already gone.
"Now another responsibility.. I've to find her and give this file to her... or I can just leave it at the reception desk.." she thought. Grabbing her stuff she came out of the restroom.
Kathy came to the waiting room and informed the people waiting for the interviews that it's cancelled. The people's face went down. The girl from the restroom was also there.
"Thank God... saved today.." she took a breath of relief and came out. One of the candidate got curious and asked Kathy why was the interview canceled.
"Big boss hired someone already so it's cancelled..." Kathy said.
"But without any interview how can they hired anyone..." the person asked again.
"Sweetheart, It's their matter.. I can't say any thing... I'm also an employee here... I have no right to interfere, but I will say one thing... if you have references and recommendations that strong, than it's very easy to get a job these days..." Kathy didn't want to elaborate on this matter so she said.
"Guys I'm really sorry for you all...on be half of the company I apologize to you all..."
The girl from the restroom, she heard the whole conversation. But she wasn't interested in the details. She was about to leave, but she heard Kathy talking to one of her colleagues.
"You know the girl who got hired she was one of big bosses friends daughter... they hired her without any experience. Just because she is a rich girl she got hired. People work so hard to come up here you know..." Kathy sounds mad.
"I hope she gets to work under junior Malhotra... then she will know what hard work is..." Kathy continued with irritation.
The girl from the restroom just tapped her feet hard on the floor and walked away from there.
"I'm not going to work here.. I will convince daddy somehow..." she murmurs and exists the hall.
Nandini was looking for the girl who left her file. She came to the reception desk and asked
"Where are the interviews held..." the receptionist looked at her from top to bottom and said.
"Oh you are here... go straight and take a right from the corner... they are waiting for you..." the receptionist was curiously watching her.
Nandini checked herself and thought. "Why is she looking at me like that..." she went in the direction she gave.
When she reached the place she searched around. Kathy looked at her and came near her.
"So you are here...Ms Nandini M right..." Kathy asked with a serious face.
"Yeess..." she replied with a surprising look. How do they know me.
"Can you give me your file..." Nandini was giving her file forgetting the top file wasn't hers. It belongs to the girl from the restroom.
"Ms Nandini Mathur right..."when Kathy said her name.
"Huh..." she asked.
"We already received your father's call and after that there's no question of a doubt... so you can start working from Monday..."
Nandini didn't know what's going on. She was confused like hell.
"I'm already hired???" she asked Kathy with an unbelievable face.
'And why wood Appa call for me...' she thought.
"Stop joking Nandini... when you have the connections than who will say no... anyways as you just came we don't have your resume and full information.. I'm gonna keep your file with me... your file looks impressive..."Kathy checked her file and said.
" wow you can speak French and Spanish fluently... that's a plus point..."
"I do..." Nandini asked with her shockingly with mind blank.
"Well your file says so..." Kathy said.
"Well then, I guess I do..." she chuckles didn't know what else to say.
It was then Nandini realized that she gave her the wrong file by mistake. She understands that they are mistaken her by the other girl. But she kept quiet and goes with the flow.
"Excuse me.." she said.
"Can I have a copy of the file..."
Kathy gave her a questioning look.
"Actually I..." she thought of an excuse.
"Actually I... I don't have a copy of my file..." she hesitated to lie but she don't have any other option.
"They are all my original papers..." she continued lowering her gaze feeling guilty of lying to the girl in front of her.
"Yes of course why not..." Kathy took her file to the copy machine and asked her to wait.
Nandini sat on the chair next to her.
'Aiyyappa what's goin' on... they are mistaken me as a different person... and fortunately that girls name is Nandini too with a different last name. how will I make them clear.
Once I start the job I will clarify and give my actual documents...right now I need this job..I'm so sorry Aiyyappa... I didn't want to hide or lie to them but I have no choice... please please save me... this is the first and last time, I'm doing something wrong... I have never did this kind of blunder before... please manage it for me... please..." she makes a pray.
She knows that she is kind of doing an identity theft. Which is a big crime specially in America. She could get arrested for a felony. But she is not thinking in that direction.
"Here...this is your original papers... I have your copies...but I need your proof of identity... any photo ID..." Kathy said.
Nandini got startled and was stunned in her place.
'Now what... how will I give my photo ID with a different last name...think Nandini think...'
"Excuse me ms Nandini.." Kathy called her out from her thinking.
"I was thinking..." she gulps her own saliva.
"How should I give you my ID... when it's not with me.." she said creating another lie.
"I didn't understand.." Kathy said.
"I lost my wallet... two days ago... I reapplied for my drivers license and state ID... so I didn't have it right now..." she was feeling more guilty now with another lie.
Kathy bought the lie she told and said.
"But for now I need something as a proof of ID... I will make a temporary ID for the company right now with your picture on it... but make sure to bring your real one when you get it...". Kathy solved the problem.
Nandini relaxed her nerves and followed the instructions to where she has to get the photo of hers.
She got relieved that in the chaotics, at least she got a job. That too with a totally different identity. She has to inform Navya and Aliya. Otherwise she will not be fine. She has to let it out.
She came out in the fire escape and called Navya.. Navya picked up the phone.
"Navya just hold on, Aliya is calling I'm connecting it three way with her..." saying this Nandini connects to both of them.
"Hey guys what's up...Nandini my dear how was your interview...did you got selected..." Aliya asked as soon as she got connected.
Aliya is another sister like friend of both Nandini and Navya. She stays with them in the same house. She is a registered nurse at cook county hospital.
A girl with a very soft and clean heart who always find good in everyone. Navya find her when she was traveling from the subway once. Aliya was getting harassed by some goons. Navya saved her from them and brought her home. Aliya was an orphan but she still made her career with her hard work. Now these three girls are bound and tied with a sisterly bond.
"Haan yaar Nandu... what's up with your interview, you said you were late...what happened.." Navya asked.
"Guys interview was great... and the good news is... I got selected... I have to start form Monday..." replied Nandini.
"Wow that's great news..then why do you sound so down..you should be excited.."Aliya asked.
"Something happened...and I can't tell you on the phone..." Nandini's voice was very defeating but they didn't noticed.
"What happened Nandu...you ok naa..." Navya got concerned.
"I told you guys I can't talk on the phone...and I can't talk in the house too... aunty Sumi and amma will be there... can we meet somewhere...it's important..." the desperation in Nandini's voice scared them.
"Sweetheart you are scaring me...what's goin' on.." Aliya's worried voice got them.
Nandini didn't answer.
"I'm gonna be off for lunch break in an hour... what about you Aliya." Asked Navya.
"I'm done with my duty.. we can meet in the millennium park in one hour..what say Nandu..." Aliya replied.
"Yes Navya I'll pick you up and we will meet..." Nandini said.
"Nandu..whatever it is don't take tension.. we will solve it...hmm.." Navya gave her hope and assured her.
She hangs up the phone and came out of the fire escape to take the elevator. She was busy with her own thoughts when the elevator arrived and she entered it. She didn't see who is in there and where it's going, up or down.
Her heart skipped a beat as soon as she saw him in the elevator once again.
'Oh no..' she thought
"You again.." she screamed and turned to get out of the elevator but the door closed.
Her heart started pounding in her chest that she could hear it in her ears.
'Control Nandini control... you can't just lose yourself when he's around.. breath in breath out...' after calming down she said.
"I'm sure of it now that you are following me..." she stand properly and said.
" you said you work here.. do you work here as an elevator guy always present here..." she said without even thinking what she is saying.
"Huh..." he crinkles his eyebrows. 'Does she think that an elevator guy wears an Armani suit...'he thought.
Her perfume reached his nose and that tingly strawberry smell started to do something to him. It's so exotic. His hands were itching to touch her, to run his fingers on her long silky black tresses. She was not tall but the heels she was wearing is bringing her close to his height. He can't wait to just grab her and hug her again.
He shrugged it off and tried to concentrate and hear what she was saying.
"Don't think that you can get lucky all the time... that was just your default luck..." she gave him a glare.
'Is she a mind reader... how did she know what I was thinking..' he thought. He had never wanted to kiss a girl so badly in his life before.
He said, "Oh Trust me honey, you have no idea how I want to stay away from you..." he said out Loud to make her clear or rather make himself clear that he has to be far far away from her.
The elevator stopped at the 10th floor where his office is. But they were so busy with their bickering that the door closed again and it started descending down.
"First of all I'm not your honey,.." she pointed her index finger at him.
"Second of all I'm not dying here to be near you... so back off.." and she jerked herself and turned around to bang her head on the elevator wall.
"Ouch..." she pressed her forehead with her palm.
"Are you ok..." immediately he grabbed her head in his both hands and started rubbing.
"Don't touch me..." she immediately jerk his hand away.
"Don't come near me...stay away..," she stumble backwards and said again.
"Just stay away from me.. take your hands off of me..."
He smiled at her reaction. "By the way exactly how many sentences do you need to explain yourself..." he asked.
She was already in an irritating mood.
"Don't act smart with me...I'm not going to answer any of your questions.." she bend down to grab her things.
He moved his hands at the back and watched her. As she grabbed her things which fall when she was fighting with her.
She came out from the elevator and exits the building. He watched her go out. He wanted to clear his mind so he went back upstairs to see what MS is doing about the new venture.
As he entered the floor which is designated for just designing and display of already finished products. MS is in charged of this department.
Dhruv was already sitting there chitchatting with her. When Manik went near her. A lady of an average height and a very nice and well maintained physique stands up from her chair and came near Manik. She is good looking woman with a fair complexion. Due to her petite figure she looked like she is in her late twenties.
"Ah ha... my favorite boss is here... what's up handsome... welcome back..." she gave him a nice and warm hug.
Her office is in an open space where there's lot of materials and clothes were spread around. The sitting area was decently set in the middle of the floor from where she can keep an eye on all the designers and assistant designers work.
She patted Manik's back and suddenly she started sniffing him taking her face near his neck, on his shoulders, around his surroundings.
Manik looked at her lifting his eyebrows.
"Mel are you ok... you kinda acting weird..." said Manik moving himself from here to there.
"There's something new about you, a different smell has surrounded you... that smell, that feeling..." Mel was lost in her words closing her eyes imagining.
Manik's mind went straight to Nandini.
"I feel some attraction... some coziness... some love..." she said still eyes closed.
'Love...never...' thought Manik.
"Hahaha... Mel honey... since when did you became a psyche... you are not planning to quit here and take another profession right..." Dhruv make a joke out of it.
"I'm not a psyche... I can just feel the feeling of love...but anyways..." she jerked her thoughts in a second and joined both of them.
"How was your trip.." she asked.
"Successfull as usual.., just be ready, as soon as the stock comes in you have to be fast up on your toes to finish the order before the venture... and I want unique designs this time.. after all ten years has completed successfully of this company..." Manik felt proud saying it.
"I know darlin' , I'm more excited than you, I was here before you even joined this company... so trust me. It will be a blast.." MS excitingly answered.
Just than Kathy appears from the huge alley.
"Excuse me Mr. Malhotra.." Manik and everyone turned to her.
"Mr. Senior Malhotra has arrived and he is waiting for all of you in his office.." said Kathy.
"Thanks for informing Kathy we will be right there..." Manik said. Kathy was about to leave when he called her.
"Kathy one minute..what happened with the new girl who supposed to come for the interview..." he asked
"Yes sir.. she is already hired as per your instructions... she will be joining from Monday..." Kathy explained.
"Oh really.." Mel interfered.
"Is she going to be the new assistant designer for me..." she asked.
"No Mel.. dad said she will be under probation for four weeks and..," he hesitated..."
Mel and Dhruv looked at him.
"And she will be working as an assistant for me in those four weeks..." he concluded.
"Ohhh... like that..." Dhruv got up from his chair.
"So what's the big deal bro... relax... she is just a girl... she's not gonna eat you..."
'You have no idea Dhruv what she's doing to me...' Manik thought as they went to take the elevator.
At the millennium park three of the girls were sitting quietly in a bench under a tree, after Nandini told them the whole ordeal from bumping into Manik to how she got the job. The weather was so pleasant that the sun rays were shining and giving light to them passing through the leaves.
Both Navya and Aliya didn't know what to say. Then suddenly Nandini started the conversation.
"It's totally his fault, if he didn't bump into me then I wouldn't have get myself into this mess. He is the one who brought the bad thinks in my life today..."
"I agree with you 200 percent.. men are usual good for nothing... they either get you into trouble.., or they leave you into trouble.."agreed Navya. She don't have good point of view about men as she na her mother has spend almost all of their life with any man beside them.
"But Nandini you can think the other way around. It's can be because of him or maybe your good luck that you bumped into him and you got the job... otherwise thinks about it... you could be the person who is walking out of that building empty handed..." Aliya tried to make a point.
"What should I do now...I'm ina big mess.. how should I do my job with a False identity..." The guilty conscience is making her very uncomfortable.
"Listen to me Nandu... right now you have a job in your hand.. ok.. we can go home and tell aunty Annie that you have a job so you can stay here. When she go back to her home town then you can quit and find another job... what say.." Navya find a solution to the problem.
"Yes that can happen. And maybe you will get another encounter with that handsome dude.." Aliya's face got excited again.
"Aliya..." both Nandini and Navya said in unison.
"What... you can dream right... and I'm dreaming good for Nandini... there's nothing wrong in that..." Aliya made a pouty face.
They got up and did a group hug and left from their.
End of part 2
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