Love - our myth

Chapter 1 : Email from an enemy?

Ding. Ding. Ding.
Opening my eyes with a slight shudder, I sat up straight trying to look around as the sun rays peeked into my room through the slightly crooked window. My mind was still in a daze from the little power nap I had succumbed into last night although that had by now been perfectly dissipated into thin air by the sound of those notifications.

I took a moment to let my eyes get used to everything when something suddenly clicked into my head. My hands, in a moment, made their way to the keyboard while a million thoughts were running inside my mind like there was some kind of horse race going on in there.
Who would possibly send me an email right now?
Has someone finally decided to send me a reply ?
Wait- what if it's a rejection letter again?

I couldn't bring myself to avoid my pessimistic self after having those few miserable turns my life had taken over the last few months, but now that I had opened my email, I couldn't help but pause at the top message that read "The Lavaints". My heart thundered within my ribcage as I knew for a matter that this was most definitely a rejection letter. Hell....if anything this was a humiliation letter. The Lavaints would never accept me as an employee, never, at least not after that extremely scandalous past I shared with their loving yet arrogant boss. I didn't really have it within me to read that mail the first thing after waking up from a not so fulfilling sleep, yet I opened it anyway and-

"It's an acceptance letter. Oh my god my sis you're finally getting a job again. Who- wait aren't they the Lavaints? The Lavaints accepted you- what? I mean it's a good thing and all...but they invited YOU into their company? Are you sure it was not a mistake- ? Oh wait, what if they already found you?"
My ears went deaf to all the commotion happening behind me while my sister was getting all busy with her overthinking self. But my mind. It was just there. It was most definitely not frozen and I was most definitely thinking, I just didn't know what. My nerves stopped and so did the blood around my body. Quickly putting my rumpled, untidy hair into a further unsuccessful bun, I proceeded to read the mail sent by them.

Hi Ms Malhotra,
I am a manager from Lavaint, writing this letter on behalf of the recruitment group. We received your email regarding a job offer last night, and I would like to let you know that we have a few roles available for you. We discussed your CV today, and if it is convenient for you, then we would like to hold an interview with you on the coming 20th April, which is this coming Tuesday, to discuss a few things regarding the recruitment.
For any further questions, please contact us through our official page and we would get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Adharv Nene (Recruitment Manager)

Reading the mail I sat there for I don't know how long probably lost in the trance. This was true. It was happening, really happening and I just couldn't bring myself to believe it. I was not dreaming right? Because if it was in fact one, then I would never wake up from it, I would just want to lay dead till the end of it. Lavaint had been my dream since I was a young kid, the multinational billion dollar company hailing from India that too excelling in wedding planning! Although I had wanted it all my life, I knew it was impossible. I kept that little glimmer of hope within me deep hidden as if I knew all my life that I had no chance with it. I had always known that the only way to be associated with Lavaints was marriage and I in no life was ready for one.

This really was not what I was expecting, at least not after having seen the last drops of energy within me, all striving to be extinguished. While still in a daze, as if trying to contemplate what was really happening, I let my mind take me back to a certain flashback. A flashback from a few months back when I was a full-time employed woman, with a good, fat amount of monthly salary. It was a life of luxury if not something else, for I worked in a company that I was going to take over in a few month's time, if just not for some stupid arranged marriage....After all, arranging an entire marriage for someone and getting into that powerful, sacred bond with someone are two entirely different things. And marriage was never my cup of tea. But most of all, I had one question....why did the Lavaints accept me? And most importantly, since when did I, in all sense, send an email to them, that too asking for a job? Like them....of all people?