Arshi FF - Flames and the Fall

Part 1 - Proposal

Gupta Villa

Gupta Villa — as the name suggests, it was nothing less than a Villa. The lush greenery of nature can be seen around the Villa. Their Garden was such a beautiful place, full of peace, with a water fountain in the middle. It was five stories Mansion, all cream and golden glistening in its all magnificence. It is a heaven on earth. The butterflies chirped around the flowers, seeking nectar, in the garden while a few birds made their nest on 15 feet tree. Security was on the gates, securing the Villa, and a few meters away on the other side of the garden, a little deep down, there lay a few cars parked one after the other, and a little away, there was another garage.

Looking at it from the outside, one could only think how beautiful it could be on the inside. Indeed it is. A golden chandelier in the middle of the hall, giving it a classic look with sofas in the middle, beautiful vases around a few places in the hall, including a stairway, which took them to beautiful wide rooms and another wide hall with a stairway. The stairway leads to a few more rooms. Heavenly beautiful rooms!

One such beautiful room was Khushi's.

It was early in the morning, and birds chirping around the mansion fell into the ears of Khushi Gupta, who was sleeping on the bed cozily, thin sheets of silk hovering over slim figures. Neither the song sung by a beautiful bird nor the rain falling on the loveable plans in the corner of her poolside woke her up. It was just six and the sun was hiding behind the dark clouds. Who would wake up if their office starts at 9 and is just half an hour away? If Khushi Gupta woke up by something, it's only because her phone rang and she woke up in an instant — as if there'd be no other day for her to wake up and enjoy her work.

"Yeah?" she mumbled, answering in her croaked voice.

And what she heard next had blown her mind, she fumed, her anger touching the roof, "What? You should have double-checked it. How did you forget to add a few more slides?"

Khushi sighed, rolling her eyes, and caressed her forehead, "Fine, I'll check the presentation and work on it. "

Khushi got up from the bed, slid the phone aside, and threw away the silk sheet that was covering her long milky legs. She walked to the washroom to freshen up in such chilly weather and had a hot shower, walking out in her classical business suit.

Taking that beautiful laptop of hers, she sat on the recliner, typing away the needed information, adding a few more slides to the presentation, with her oh-so-beautifully long nails that glistened with no paint. She was supposed to check the PPT during her office hours, the same PPT her employee had worked on a few days, and sent the attachment in the mail to her PA. Before she could have checked the attachment her PA had forwarded it and scolded her PA and employee, the woman who was on leave had called her PA already, and her PA had to call her early in the morning, to tell her about it.

She so wanted to fire them for this but couldn't. They were the most intelligent assets for their company and recently she'd found out that the employee to whom she assigned the task to prepare PPT was pregnant and before going on leave for a few days, she had commanded her to prepare PPT on it. The loyal employee that she was, had agreed on and prepared PPT.

She didn't realize that it had gone more than an hour since she was working on her laptop and had only come out of her world filled with work and work and just work when she heard an irritated voice with an equally irritated name, "Chikuuu.."

She knew who it was! Who else could it be? Other than her beautiful sister who had no other work than eat her brain with her so-irritatingly weird nickname.

"Aah. Nisha. I'll kill you if you call me by that weirdly weird name for another time," Khushi warned her, just like every day but never really killed her. It was routine for them. Nisha wouldn't have a peaceful without disturbing Khushi and neither Khushi could be peaceful without scolding her.