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I looked around the washroom, happy to see no one else was present to witness that stupidity of mine. I rushed towards the first cubicle only to find it engaged. Sighing in frustration, I checked the other two to find them occupied too. A glance at my watch and it was almost time to meet my new boss!
I have to hurry… I cannot be late on the very first day of my job! And I CANNOT go around looking like this!
Either I was really brave or really stupid because I had removed my skirt right outside the cubicles and was standing only in my shirt and undies while I rushed to turn it inside out with trembling hands. If someone walked in on me at this moment, I would die out of embarrassment.
"Almost done! Almost done!" I kept chanting as my hands shivered and ruined the majority of the effort. But somehow I turned the inside back inside and was ready to wear it when the door of a cubicle opened and a girl walked out to give me a shocked look. I stood back straight, already dying out of embarrassment. She looked at the skirt in my hand and then at me. I instantly became tomato red. Immediately, rushing into the cubicle she had come out from, I put on my skirt. Coming out of the cubicle, I found the same girl still washing her hands.
"It's cold here isn't it?" My lame save made me want to facepalm. It was the middle of the summer, burning with forty degree Celsius! And we were in Hyderabad, it was always damn hot here! She just kept staring at me like I was crazy. I wasn't called Crazy or Craziness for no reason...
"I better get out!" I quickly grabbed my bag up and rushed towards the door as she continued to stare at me.
Oh shit! I forgot my appointment letter by the sink!
I turned back around and picked the letter before rushing back out, while the girl was still trying to understand what was happening.
Someone, kill me now!
I walked out of the washroom, just to go behind a gigantic pillar to bang my head on it, "Why me god? Why me?"
I hit it once again hoping that doing it twice would reverse what I had done. Or was it thrice?
"Am I seeing it right? Is that you Ms. Kundra?" A voice stopped me from further banging my head against the pillar, instead, I cringed unintentionally. I turned around to see a familiar person. The suit looked a size or two big for him, just to fit in his protruding belly. A black beret hat covered the vertex baldness. His smile was stretched on his lips making it look like if it stretched a millimeter more, his lips would tear.
"Oh! It truly is you! What a pleasant surprise!" He laughed his peculiar laugh making me cringe internally.
"Mr. Surya Kanth Nath. How are you?" I asked politely, my mother had taught me to behave politely, no matter how much I was disgusted with that person.
"I'm fine, darling, how about you?" I cringed again at his endearment but forced a smile, "I'm fine."
I didn't want to continue the conversation but Mr. Nath had other thoughts. He started again, "I was just passing from here when I caught sight of you. Is this where you will be working?"
I opened my mouth to answer but he didn't wait for my reply and continued, "It's a good company, always delivering on time. I have been one of their clients for a while. By the way, we have given another project to them. So, my visits might turn out to be quite frequent here. In that sense, we can meet each other regularly and get to know each other well," I stared at him as he started to talk continuously. I had started to tune off his talk when his words suddenly caught my attention again, "Your parents might be already considering my proposal, so, it's safe to assume that we will be married soon. I ain't a proposal to be turned down."
Wait! What was he thinking himself to be again?
"Hold on, Mr. Nath. It's 9 am already. I have a meeting with my boss. We'll catch up later?" I had to excuse myself else I would go insane.
"Sure, sure. Just tell me one thing," his eyes now held an intensity, "no other proposal came your way right? Good enough to be considered?"
It gave me goosebumps by the way he asked that.
"Er… ac-actually... " Again he didn't let me finish as he completed it for me, "someone came to see you," and it wasn't a question.
The seriousness on his face was scaring me but then he just smiled, "It's absolutely fine with me. You do deserve a good husband, of your level. If you are happy, it makes me happy. Have a great day, Ms. Kundra. See you again."
I felt at ease as he walked away, letting me catch a breath. For a moment he had freaked me out completely. But I'm glad that he doesn't feel offended by it. It should be good as long as no hard feelings resided, right?
I walked to the reception for the second time, "Hi again! I'm Rynah, and here is my appointment letter."
The lady in charge of the newcomers hadn't arrived before, so they had asked me to wait, till she arrived. I read her name tag to be 'Shreya Sethi'. Shreya took my letter, quickly scanning it before looking at me, "Follow me, Rynah."
She walked out of the reception area and into the elevator. We remained silent throughout the way. Shreya stopped behind a guy who was looking over another person's shoulder at something on the screen and said, "Anand, this is Rynah Kundra. She's joining the designing team from today."
Anand turned around to look at me. He didn't look like a very friendly being. He had a scowl etched on his face as he examined me. He was in his late thirties or early forties.
"You are in the developing team at the moment. The Designing team is occupied in a project that is in the middle. After the project is over, you will join us," he stated before looking at Shreya, "take her to the development department."
Shreya just looked at him bewildered before nodding and turning around, "follow me, Rynah."
