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Chapter 20

Ira POV

I have made a big decision to ignore that person as much as possible. No one has a right to take us for granted and give us the confusing treatment. Granted that he was nice and helpful to me a couple of times but if he is going to be a jerk then I am not going to give his behaviour any heed.

I wanted some extra confidence to ignore Arjun while making him regret his actions for being rude to me. Yes, its dramatic and childish but that is what I am going to do to survive.  When he was mean before I dint know him so well so if he is just a stranger his mean behaviour would not affect me but now that I know him it hurts to not know on why he is being weird.

I reached the office 10 minutes before my reporting time which is when I saw him working seriously on the computer. I decided to ignore him and take my usual seat.

Arjun: Good Morning, Ira 

Me: Good Morning, Arjun

Yes, I have decided to ignore him but there is a small difference. I was going to ignore him as a friend not as a collegue. So I was going to be the polite collegue. I switched on my laptop and started looking at my emails and pings on teams.

Slowly the office started filling with people, bustling with morning energy. I greeted all of them, spoke to couple of them and submerged myself with work which was hectic but it was what we call as good hectic.

Around lunch time I looked at the time, it was few minutes before but I still left to my special place where I would love to eat out. I reached the safe but secluded place to sit having my sandwiches. 

After having enough I fed it to the little puppies in the park. This park was located on the back side of the building, sorrounded by trees and food vendors, this is a best spot to relax. I was soaking in the sunshine enjoying the solitude when I heard a couple of deep breathes near me, I opened my eyes to see Arjun standing before me.

Arjun: Are you okay ? I tried to find you in cafetaria but you were not there and ...

Me: Arjun, why are you here ?

Arjun: I was looking for you 

Me: Why ?

Arjun: What why ?

Me: Why were you looking for me ? I am just a collegue to you and I am that person who annoys you with lots of questions and get hurt like a little kid 

Arjun: Ira 

Me: Dont !! I have no patience to deal with your hot and cold behavior. We were aquaintances but it does not give you a right to snap at me and blow hot and cold whenever you want. I have complicated all over in my life and I dont need another complication in my life. 

I dont wish to associate with you as an aquaintance anymore. We are just collegues, that is it and if you wish to give me an explanation to your irrelevant, irrational, rude behaviour then I am all ears, I will only take the apology then.

I see that he has no response for my question, he was looking down embarassed

Me: Good bye Arjun

I walked off from there and ran to the washroom taking deep breathes looking at myself in the mirror. This was what I was afraid of, Arjun was close to becoming my good friend and now as expected I lost him over silly stuff. He might be a nice person and he might be going through some crappy stuff himself but it does not give him any right to walk all over me.

I did the right thing 

Right ?

I walked out of the washroom keeping my head held up high with a smile on my face. The usual fake smile. Arjun used to school me when I gave the fake smile and I started not doing that in front of him. I used to sulk, I used to get angry, I used to get annoyed, I used to get all dramatic whenever I was around him while he used to silently listen to me now that is over. I am back to faking it until making it and he is not really there to ground me for that.

While I was working I felt like somebody was observing me closely and when I used to look around everything was normal. I cursed myself for being delusional and continued with my work.

I left early to pack for my trip to USA. It was in a few days and I need to deck up with formal attire, informal attire, fancy attire and casuals. I took Meera and we went crazy shopping in her favorite mall.

Normally, it is just her who is excited for it but because I would be on this international trip I was looking forward to buy some clothes which suits my style the best. 3 hours of walking around and spending I had decent amount of clothes for my trip.

We will be flying this weekend and I was checking up on the last minute stuff. Everything was ready but I was still in my usual panic mode. It was like freaking out before your big presentation. I was already in that mode when I got a call from my manager asking if everything was okay, it was but that added pressure on me.

There was an empty space beside our office. It was not occupied so I went there, rested my head on the cool glass and took deep breathes.  I was handed a glass of water when I looked at the water provider.

Me: Arjun, I told you, you do not have to do this

Arjun: As you said, we are collegues. So collegues should not be snapping at each other rather they can be nice to each other while being formal.

I glared at him but covered it up with a fake smile. His jaw clenched, I know he hates it when I do that. I took the water from his hand.

Me: Thank you for this Arjun, hope you have a good day.

I was walking away from him when I heard his voice

Arjun: You might think you are not good enough, you might overthink about the mistakes you might make but remember even with messy people and messy situations you are still standing strong. You will do good Ira.

Saying that he walked away after giving me a backward glance. Ahh, this guy is so confusing and how the hell did he know what I was thinking ?

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