RaghVi FF - Melt into me

CHAPTER 2

It was a busy morning where everyone is hustling, Pallavi was busy with taking new orders for cocktail dresses as the wedding season is going on, Amrutha is busy supervising the designers, the embroidery section separately and the aari work separately, stone work separately and fabric painting section separately. Here, Raghav was busy making this new branch attractive to get the customers, he was working on the lighting outside and the banners to be hung outside, thinking of launching a scheme of his own so that people will think of investing and all. Nikhil has got the order of countless kanjivarams as the wedding season is in full swing and the south indian brides are just placing orders of shades of Reds, Maroons and even the dark greens for their big day, he even received orders of many pastel kanjivarams for the bridesmaids as well. In fact, the hustle bustle of DSE was so high that there was a staff crunch in the shop to attend to the customers. Farhad was busy in co-ordinating with jewelry designers and gold smiths as they are planning to make the jewelry multipurpose, in such a way the locket from the heavy temple jewelry can be detached and worn in other chains also so that they dont have to wear heavy jewelry everytime. They are even trying to make a maang tika cum bracelet to wear it either way, so Farhad is busy with that collection for the modern bride.

Kunal, Keerti and Krithika are busy with designing the mandaps and thinking of ways to inculcate new and surprising stuff to make their decorations unique. They are thinking of giving a package which adds up a complimentary photoshoot for the bride and the groom and that way, people who can't afford a photoshoot can get one, and moreover they can give a chance to budding photographers. Ofcourse, the arrangements and necessary planning of KriNik's wedding is also going parallelly.

It was around 11:30 when Farhad was heading towards the cafe in the 5th floor of Emerald, and Amrutha was coming from the opposite side, both busy in their phone and some file respectively, they reach the counter saying

F and A: Donuts

The waiter in the counter says

W: sir only one donut is left

F: It's okay! Madam ko dedo

A: no no please, sir ko dedo

F: arey aise kaise? Aap lelo, aur next time mere liye bhi order kar dena

A: okay... 50-50?

F: cool!

The waiter cuts it into 2 and gives in two paper plates, Amrutha was leaving the cafeteria with her plate when

F: Amrutha?

She turns around

F: coffee?

A: okay

They both sit down with their hot steaming coffee opposite to each other in the cafe where there was an awkward silence for the ice breaking, Nikhil and Krithika enter and were ordering something at the counter

Farhad and amrutha look at them and smile to themselves

F: iss shy baby ko pyaar kaise ho gaya? Aapko kuch pata hai isske baare me?

A: haa, in fact i was the first one to know ki nikhil ko pyaar ho gaya

F: really?

A: haa, actually they were very good friends since the beginning but kuch 6 months back, krithika got covid and she was very sick and Nikhil got really worried, because they couldn't talk and she was always sleeping due to medicine effects and this guy, literally tadap raha tha, he could neither eat or drink,

F: Oh my god! Itna kuch hua tha?

A: yeah! That's when he realized that it's more than friendship that they have. And he confessed his feelings when she came back to work. But usse pehle, he told me only, that he likes her and he can't say it to kunal because he may get over protective of krithika nor he could tell Pallavi, wo impulse me kuch bol degi so...