His Personified Chaos

chapter 13

~Devaditya~

Beep Beep Beep

I wake up to the noise of my alarm, when the timing showing on clock gobsmacked me. It's 8.30 am. I need to be present in my office by 9, especially when I don't like being late. But somehow i'm late today.

Why didn't the alarm rang on time? I go to check and find out it's on snooze mode. Who the hell put it on snooze?

No, I can never be late, I'm Aditya Singh Rathore. Never late for work. I guess I will just skip breakfast today. Skipping meal once doesn't makes a huge difference.

I get in the shower while my clothes are laid perfectly on my bed by ruhi aunty. She used to work as a house maker in Rajmahal. Most trusted by my grandfather, later when i moved out, he insisted on sending ruhi aunt with me, so she could take care of me.

Her bedroom is right beside the backyard door. She normally lives there and gets the chores of the house done. After I get out of the shower and get dressed she puts up the breakfast in the table, which I ignore,"I'm not having breakfast today." And leave.

She nags at me from behind, apart from dadisa, she was the one to babysit me when i wasn't with Chandni. She's has grown old too, now ages somewhere around 57. She has even has two small grandchilds back in her hometown. Her family is well employed now, she could easily leave her job and rest like other elders do, but being just as stubborn as my dadisa is, she insists she will keep doing the job unless her bones give in.

She used to put me and Agastya to sleep, after narrating us a horror story, Agastya would be so scared that he didn't even wanted to get off her lap. Although I wasn't scared, my life was so horrible that those horror stories couldn't scare me.

My driver drives me to the headquarters. As I get off my car, the manager greets me morning and we both take the lift to my office.

"What are the tasks for today?" I ask checking my watch. There are still 2 mins left to 9 o'clock. I made it on time.

"Sir, as for today, you have a meeting with the with the board members regarding the memorial event and volunteer finalization,"

"Mhm,"

"Also in the later half, you have an appointment with the pm of Canada for the trade proposals. And-"

"And?"

"Harshit asked to report you that he got him under." My lips curl into a smirk. A nice treat after work is waiting for me, without any further do I go to the conference room.

I choke on air as i see trisha entering the conference hall.
I didn't ask her to be here. She nods at me and handles her laptop to my manager and then both started explaining the programme schedule.

Now, I seem to remember the reason for me almost being late today and my alarm on snooze mode.
I couldn't sleep and stayed up long thinking about her. Trying to recall every sentence she told to me. In the same tone, the same pitch, the same way she told to me.
Trying to recall her expressions on our every encounter, recall the sound of her payal, recall the way she looked at me, with tears welling her eyes.

I fell asleep thinking about her, so much, that I even dreamt about her. A blurry moment of us holding hands and if i'm certain, she was smiling at me, a warm smile that felt lik-

"So, now about the volunteers for each product, we have chosen the candidates. Please take a look at them sir."

"Oh yeah" they kept on babbling names while I could'nt focus on one single name. What the hell was wrong with me?