SAFAR

CHAPTER 1

Anjali was sitting in her cabin doing some work on her pc when someone knocked.

Anjali : Yes?
Someone : May I come in Mam??
Anjali  : yes pls

As the person entered, she saw the person was none other than the manager of Managing Director of the company.

He : Good Morning Mam!
Anjali : Good Morning! Have a seat please.
He : Thank you but I am fine. I am here just to inform u about the meeting going to be held in half an hour.
Anjali : Meeting? But I wasn't informed about any meeting today.
He : Yes, it wasn't on the schedule. Sir decided it suddenly today and I couldn't mail you all as it would take time for you all to get informed. That's why I came in person to inform you all.
Anjali : Oh Okay. Thank you.
He : It's alright.

In the meeting, she got to know that she along with some employees of the company have been assigned for important business meetings in different different countries. She hadn't used her holidays not even took weekends off since last two years when she had joined the company. She thought when she is going to abroad, she would enjoy her holidays as well and thus took 2 months off. She didn't know yet where she was going to be assigned to as information regarding meeting would be mailed to them in next couple of hours. She just had to check the mail in order to know when to leave and what to pack and stuffs like that. After couple of hours, it was her lunch break so she thought to check her mail. She became excited to check where it was. So she checked the location and as she got to know the location, she froze in her place for a while. She saw that the location was nowhere other than INDIA and even in INDIA, nowhere other than MUMBAI. Her breathe got stuck. She took deep breathe and thought," Millions of people live there so my existence doesn't matter" and relaxed herself a bit. She did her packing and rented a flat in Mumbai as she had to stay there for three months; one for the meetings and two for holidays. She arrived Mumbai and passed some days there visiting some places refreshing her memories making her sometimes happy sometimes sad but more sad. So she decided she won't visit any place & will keep herself busy to avoid those memories and loneliness but the problem was she had meetings after 2 months so she decided to do some temporary job there. She gave some interviews there and got selected. As per convenience, there were two companies left for her: T-SERIES and INDIE MUSIC LABEL. But she didn't want to work in T-SERIES due to its offensive incidents but she also didn't want to be in INDIE MUSIC LABEL. But she had to keep herself busy so she had no choice except to work there. She decided to join INDIE MUSIC LABEL without letting anyone know her much. She went there & was in Naushad Khan's cabin.

NAUSHAD KHAN AS NAUSHAD KHAN

They were talking about work. There she got to know that she had to work with Naushad to learn the work and so she agreed. After that she took her file and was going outside. She was busy in arranging some papers in her files that she didn't even notice someone coming towards her and on her way, her shoulder collided with that person coming towards her. The person was busy in phone so that person too didn't give much attention. Both said sorry in union. Only then Naushad Sir looked upwards. As they said sorry to each other, Anjali realised whose voice it was and goosebumps erupted on her skin. Her heartbeat became fast and her breathe got stuck. She swallowed and holding her breathe, quickly went outside the cabin without turning even once. That person too realised what happened just now and recognised whose voice it was and was shocked that it took him sometime to process. His heartbeat increased and he immediately turned back to confirm but it was late. She was already gone.

Naushad : Arre Darshan! Come come. Kya baat h aaj Itni subah aur woh bhi yahan

(AN✍️: Yes it was none other than Mr. Raval😂)

He turned back and looked at Naushad Sir for a while in disbelief of what he heard just now. 

Darshan : haa woh

And saying this, he turned once again with his racing heartbeat. He wasn't believing it so to confirm, he went straight to him.

Darshan : who was it bhai
Naushad - Are haa m toh tumhe btana bhul hi gya hume kuch time tak ke liye manager mil gyi h so now relax and main jab tak baahar rahoonga tab tak wahi sambhalegi sab kuch. She is software Engineer.
Darshan - Arre waah! Ye toh bohot achi baat h. But what's her name
Naushad - She is Anjali..jo abhi abhi gyi

Darshan was shocked again hearing this. He once looked back again and continuously to talke for sometime then he went out of the cabin to go home. While going outside, he was looking at the whole office surrounding him as if he was searching someone or something but didn't find. Then he went his home directly while continuously thinking about the incident. He thought to call someone & called. On the call;

Darshan - Yrr mujhe woh(he didn't even know what to say)//..woh mujhe shyd..I mean...shayad woh yaha hai
Someone - kon (He was silent. Then that person understood). Whatt?? What are you saying
Darshan - yeah...I think so (and told about the incident)
Someone- ohk wait I am coming
Darshan - No no..you don't need to come...main confirm nhi hoon abhi..first let me confirm if she was that or not then I will call u
Someone - ohk but tell me for sure
Darshan - yeah bye gn

And he cut the call. Next day, he went to INDIE MUSIC LABEL and tried to find her but couldn't. On the other Side, Anjali was going out of the cabin when she bumped into someone. When they exchanged their apologies only then she realised what she heard. She realised whose voice it was and froze but next moment without wasting a second, she went out. She didn't know what would have happened if that person had seen her. She quickly ran to her car and drive to her apartment as fast as she could. And as she arrived, she sat on couch panting, breathing for air. Then she relaxed herself and warned too,"work properly there and control yourself , control your emotions". She was thinking about the incident whole day and was horrified with the imagination of what would have happened had he seen her. At night, she went to bed and was continuously crying hugging her pillow tight.