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After hitting the floor number, we waited for the elevator doors to close when suddenly a hand shot in the middle of the closing doors and stopped the elevator. The doors reopened to reveal a beautiful lady wearing a short maroon wrap dress that fit perfectly around her hourglass figure. She didn't look like an office worker from any angle.
"Is it her birthday or something?" Kavya asked me in a whisper. I just shrugged in reply. How was I supposed to know?
"Excuse me, can you please tell me, on which floor is Viaan in?" She looked at the guy standing by the number panel but then he was busy staring at her long legs. I rolled my eyes. Men will be men.
"Hello?" she stuck her hip out before the man, placing her hand over it, "I know that I'm beautiful just don't be so obvious about it, Viaan doesn't like it."
I couldn't help but frown at her words, she was referring to Viaan like she was pretty close to him. Who was she? Was she his girlfriend, his cousin or his fiancée? She couldn't be his sister or wife, because, I knew for sure thatThe Raivardhansdidn't have a sister nor did I see any woman in their house when I had been there.
"Huh?" the guy who had been shamelessly ogling her legs finally seemed to come to his senses and dared to ask, "Viaan who?"
"Viaan!?! You don't know who he is?" She asked in disbelief, "Wait till your boss hears about it."
Like a bulb being lit in his head, the guy paled visibly as he realized that she was talking aboutViaantheRaivardhan, our boss.
"The fifteenth floor," he spoke in panic as he hit the floor button on the panel and stood up straight staring at the metal doors of the lift like they were more interesting than her now. Well, that was bound to happen when you ogle at random ladies buddy, you asked for it.
Nevertheless, I did feel a nasty little tinge in the pit of my stomach. It took me a second to realize that it was a hint of envy that had bubbled in my stomach. She was beautiful, sexy and close to a certain antisocial Raivardhan. Well, he wasn't exactly antisocial, just towards me though. And shedefinitelywas a Raivardhan material. It wouldn't be a surprise if she turned out to be his fiancee. Taking a deep breath, I swallowed my ugly feeling. For I knew, he would just remain a celebrity crush of mine. Like a dream that could never be attained, because he was way out of my league. And I was going to be married to Ravi soon.
We got off on our floor as the beautiful femme fatale remained in the elevator while the doors of the lift closed.
Be a mature woman, Rynah. Be a mature woman.
I kept chanting to myself, not wanting to end up before Viaan's work quarters, as I headed towards my cubicle. But that didn't keep me off from glancing at the lift every time it opened.
Not ten minutes later, I stood by the water dispenser, trying to fill my cup with water. But my eyes were glued to the elevator. I didn't even know if the water from the dispenser even made it to the cup or not.
"You won't be able to find whoever you keep looking for," a sudden voice made me jump in my place. I turned around to see Kavya standing behind me with a knowing smile.
"Huh?" I asked her as my mind went blank. My plastic cup now swam in the bucket containing wastewater. There you go Rynah, way to waste things!
"You are waiting for him to be present in the lift when it stops, right?" She put her arm around my shoulder as she stood beside me and looked at the lift as if she could see a dancing frog on the walls and the closed elevator door.
"Who?" I asked not knowing what to say. Innocence was better than denial, right?
She placed a hand over her hip as she looked at me pointedly, "Do I look that much of an idiot to you? I do know one thing for sure, agree or not, but you have a thing for Mr. Raivardhan."
"What!?!" I might have or might have not shouted that out loud with eyes wide open. That only resulted in Kavya looking around to see if people were staring at us.
"Shush...! Did you have to shout like that?" She hushed me before taking in a deep breath, "looks like Mr. Rock star does affect you, nevertheless."
It took a second for my brain to register her words. Did she think it was Aaryan? I opened my mouth to correct her but then I thought,what she doesn't know, she didn't have to know, right?
"And the company pays for you to stand and gossip," a scowling face of a pissed off Anand came into view. I and Kavya immediately turned around to scramble away when we heard, "Wait!"
We braced ourselves to be scolded like little kids as we turned to face Anand once again.
"You, get back to your seat! I expect that document ready by evening, on my table!" Anand pointed at Kavya making her flinch, she shot me an apologetic look before disappearing into the maze of cubicles.
"And you," the sun bear finally turned his eyes towards me before continuing, "You go and deliver these files to the boss."
Anand dropped a dozen of files on my hands so suddenly that it took all my reflexes to not drop anything.
"Me?" I asked in freaked out squeal, to say the least.
"No, my dead grandma. No one here is as free as you are at the moment. Only you have all the time in the world. Now, head upstairs and deliver this to the boss, shoo!" He shooed me off towards the elevator.
The entire day I had been wanting to catch a glimpse ofhim, just to know if the lady from earlier was someone close tohimor not. Very nosy of me, I know but wasn't it the human tendency to be a busy body? Then again, now that I have got the legit reason to visithimwithout looking like a stalker, I don't want to do it. My senses had been on overdrive, buzzing them completely and leaving them numb, but my heart... My heart was drumming away.
