FEATHERED LOVE

Chapter 5

By the time I reached the office the next day I had only five minutes left to rush into my room and set up for the meeting. Ideally, I would have liked to arrive half an hour early and grab a cup of coffee on the way, but waking up an hour before the meeting doesn't allow for such fantasies. The reason I woke up late was because I slept late. The reason I slept late was because I was dreaming of a certain browned-eyed and curly-haired gentleman. He in my imagination converted my whole body into a zoo filled with rabid animals lusting for his attention.

His soft lips did things to my dream self that made my determination to stay away from me waver. And if you were thinking that I dreamt of us doing the dirty, then you would be wrong. It was just him existing, talking with his pretty lips and looking at me with those deep dark eyes. And yet these perfectly normal things were so overwhelming to me that I couldn't function.

The times when I wasn't thinking about him I was planning to avoid him like I was planning to do right now. I was standing, waiting for the elevator when I saw him walk in through the door. He was wearing military pants, black boots, and a black tee and walked in aggressively seeping on what looked like an iced Americano. He walked towards the waiting area and saw me. The moment his eyes met mine, I had the sudden urge to run. But because my office was on the fourth floor and I had less than five minutes left, I had to unwillingly kill the idea of taking the stairs.

Those left me in the awkward situation of waiting and seeing him walk towards me with each passing second. The tee he was wearing fit him perfectly and every time he took a sip of his coffee his hand muscles would flex and my breathing would stagnate a little bit. I didn't want to come off as a pervert so I started looking at everything that wasn't him, the snake plants, the vase, and even the lighting on the damn ceiling.

He came near me and stood beside me. He kept to himself and even if he recognized me he didn't show any signs of it. He didn't try to start a conversation and I was very thankful about it. Within a few minutes, our elevator arrived and by the blessing of sheer devilish luck, there were only two persons in the elevator. How I wished someone would rush into the elevator and stop making this so damn awkward.

After quickly putting in my floor I went to the side and quietly waited for my floor to arrive. The few minutes of quiet gave me the illusion that I could safely reach my office without having to have a conversation with him. But my illusion was broken when he turned towards me all of a sudden and said< "You are Maya right? The girl who mistook me for the delivery guy?"

Oh! the heavens and earth! Please, open up your heart to take me in, I don't have the heart to face this world anymore.

What could be more mortifying than the fact that the guy you had a crush on remembered you for the single most embarrassing thing you had done in your whole life? What are the goddamn chances?

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth my mouth fell off of my jaw and my eyes grew to the size of a lemon. The disbelief flashed through me so quickly that I had no time to control my facial reaction. My eye shifted from him and I saw my reflection in the mirror, I had the sudden urge to smack myself in the face. I looked like Donald Duck in a seizure.

I immediately turned my face away from him and schooled my features. I was pretty sure my ears were burning red right now. As I moved my hair to cover up my ears, I heard a low deep chuckle beside me. He stopped talking after that. As he reached his floor, he came up behind me to hold the door open for a minute. I was surprised by his actions and turned around to look at what he was doing. Our eyes met, he looked directly into my eyes and said," You don't have to worry about yesterday. It was an honest mistake. I didn't mind."

He said all of that with a face as straight as a steel plate and walked away. If it hadn't been for the fact that his eyes were reflecting pure kind intentions I would have thought he was flirting with me. It was like he knew that there was a damn monkey in my head that danced in his presence and he was giving it material to do a goddamn ballet show.

How can he be so damn perfect? He is so kind to a person even if they mistook him for a delivery guy.

I don't know how I reached my office after that but I am damn sure that my plan to avoid him flew right out of the window. The whole time from my office to the meeting room I was on autopilot.

I woke up from my internal reflection when my boss walked into the room. I turned on my work mode and started giving an explanation based on what I had found in the reports yesterday. From what I had found, his package had already arrived in the country but was held up by immigration for some reason. A conversation with them revealed that they had held the package for additional security inspection and the package would be released within three days. After I had established the reason I waited for anybody to ask any questions.

I honestly wasn't expecting any questions because I had done a very compressive study on all things possible I could find about the package. I was very glad that I could restore my image in front of him and probably impress him. But all my dreams broke when my boss opened his mouth and asked me if I knew about the rules of the immigration office regarding high-security packages.

I was stunned. As far as I remember my job for this meeting was the job to find out why the package was stuck and I had done a pretty good job at it. I didn't think knowing all these things was also important.

"I ... that .. sir, um, the office of immigration does a security check for special packages for an extended period of days...um like 15 days or something.."

I stuttered and my mind drew a blank on everything I knew. The room fell into silence. My bass gave me "the look" and went on about how the new generation officers had no idea about the workings of the government and everything.

I was so embarrassed that I felt like crying. Aside from the sadness of being lectured, I was even more sad that he had to see me like this. I looked up in panic to see if he was laughing at me. But I saw him looking a me with honest worry in his.

His worried eyes made me even more embarrassed and I stopped looking around and dug my chin into my chest. The meeting ended a few minutes later as my boss assured Abhimanyu that he would talk with immigration to hurry up the process and Nadia gave me a worried look while going out of the room.

I remained in the room to clean up after the meeting and collect myself a little bit. After a few minutes of everyone leaving, I heard the door open once again. I thought it was someone who came to take something they forgot. I didn't look up to see who it was.

As I was collecting my things, I saw a chocolate being slid across the desk towards me. I looked up and saw him standing beside me with a sheepish look. " I heard chocolates make everything better." He said while avoiding eye contact with me. He waited and saw me take the chocolate off of the desk and went away as abruptly as he came.

I didn't know if chocolates had magical powers in them or not but I was assured that he surely made everything better. Even though all my life I had hated the aftertaste of chocolate and would never eat a chocolate bar to save my life, I solely peeled the wrapper back and took a bite. I finished the chocolate bite by bite until there was nothing left. I quickly suppressed the feeling of nausea by drinking a whole bottle of water and walked out of the conference room with a big smile on my face. I didn't know much of chocolates but the chocolate he gave me had to be the best one ever made.Today was a day satisfactorily spent. 

AUTHORS NOTE

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Heloo peeps

she got a chocolate from her crush?what did u get from yours?😏

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