Chapter - 12
"Hola! "Ryan came up to me and spoke.
I just nodded in response engrossed in my latest report -making on laptop.He asked, " will you have the hot chocolate that I bought or will I sip it myself?"As usual that sentence made him get my full attention and I made a puppy face.
"What?" he asked scanning my face.
I made that puppy face for a bit more longer on purpose and said , " please if you don't mind drop it on the table and go because I won't be able to talk to you , my report giving is tomorrow, tight schedule as you can guess."I pouted.
He put the hot chocolate on the table and went on asking ,actually the same question I had answered Laura ," what happened between you and Sam ?"
I being annoyed for the umpteenth time at the utterance of "Sam" and told him keeping my calm still, " He confessed, I rejected and it was over , he spoke to me afterwards only to start choking in his voice by his overflowing emotions." Saying those I concentrated on my laptop.
I could see Ryan looking at me by widening his eyes as if it will pop out from his eye socket.
He shouted too as expected. " WHY DO YOU BREAK INNOCENT HEARTS?"
" I never told those innocent hearts to fall for me and beg me to be with them as they were my best of bestest friends and brothers nothing more , you know there is a demarcation between love , sibling-feeling and friends I think you get it." I shrugged and rolled my eyes.
He couldn't stop himself from throwing a angry glance on me and stormed out from our house.
I shouted loudly enough for him to hear, "Bye dear , have a good journey." He looked back and showed me his middle finger, like what did I do? I just let it go.
I slipped back to my work to be done once and for all.
The very next day , I got up from sleep to just see I was late. A whole lot time back in my schedule.It was 8:00 am and I had only one hour to complete everything all alone and run for office . " shit".
I ran into the room where people were setting up cameras for the newsroom and asked to one of them, " Hi, is Miss Anderson here?" as today there is an important meeting to be set up by her before I leave for the ground work of collecting raw datas.
The person said, " Well , mam, she is upstairs you can find her there. "" Thanks ," I murmured before going upstairs.
Miss Anderson was facing the wall with her back towards me when I entered her office.
I mentioned, " Mam ,you had asked me to meet you before the meeting gets started so that the camera is set and the guest gets treated to the best of best possible, will it occur now?"She turned around her wheels of the chair and wore a frown in her face.
"You can see, Miss Singh you are late."
I am sorry mam , it is really my fault but I came as soon as it was possible through the jam on road,I said my head hanging low glancing at the floor.
She came up to me and shouted,"Pratiksha , you are really out of your mind , she was our guest who only because of your non- co-ordination and late arrival have cancelled it, I had great expectations from you and thought you could take the pressure but if this is the situation , I think apart from your ground work and computing of it ,you are a lost cause". Saying those she took a pause and said this time calmly , " When you leave the room ask Briney to come and meet me".
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