Riansh Short Story - A new beginning

Chapter 2 - New job

After leaving the business and Raisinghania empire in Angre's hands and moving to Germany, Vansh was working as a software developer in a big international firm.

He felt lucky to find a job and that too in such a prestigious company so quickly in these tough times.

He saw the numerous messages and tasks that needed to be answered and completed today and decided to finish all those quickly before the meetings started. Thanks to his old business, Vansh didn't find it hard to work at odd hours, hence he usually reached office early around 7:30-8am everyday, but was surprised that this was such a normal time here for people to reach.

"Vansh, what's happening man, your expertise was on point yesterday. Philip was so impressed and so were the clients. The way you found a midway to satisfy both ends yet not us having to program the application in such a complicated manner for the time being really paid off" said Paul, his product manager.

Vansh had saved the company from losing a big client yesterday and felt happy to get this small appreciation from the product manager. He thanked him and went ahead to finish his work and attend the video conferences.

He joined his colleagues for lunch and smiled slightly seeing what Riddhima had packed for lunch for him. His favorite aloo parantha and achar. He thought about her and checked out his phone for messages. He was surprised to not see a single message from Riddhima as usually she would bombard him with messages since he had strictly told her to keep him informed about her activities and whereabouts and now since he left the house without saying a word she would probably be thinking what's wrong with him. Vansh didn't know what to make of the entire situation, since he felt bad yet was angry at her as well.

He thought of calling her but got distracted by an interesting talk commencing on Basketball, triggering nostalgia in him about the times he played with Angre. It surprised him that there were many people interested in that sport and they were even planning to start a basketball team within the company which he was happy to join.

Since his lunch break was over, he simply sent a text message to her asking her whereabouts and went back to complete his work however In the back of his mind Vansh thought:

"Shayad main kuch zyada hi react kar gaye, lekin Riddhima tumhe bhi to sochna chahiye hai na, tum akeli nahi ho abh, humara baccha bhi hai aur yahan par mere siwaye koi nahi hai tumhare saath"

The rest of the day he kept thinking of her and kept looking at his phone hoping for her reply but it never came. He didn't even manage to get a chance to sneak out and call her since he was stuck with meetings all afternoon.