Love Unreachable

Chapter- 8

Aparna's POV

As soon as I opened the door a strong fragrance of aftershave hit my nose and I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I was lost by the strong fragrance.

Every hair in my body stood straight and I got goosebumps. I opened my eyes in slow motion to see who it was. 

There he was Mr. K. He was looking at the garden waiting for us to open the door. As soon as I opened the door he turned and gave me a broad smile. My facial expression went from wow to Omg within a GIF of seconds.

Once again my belief came true. The dream was happening. Not exactly but slightly yes.

I hear Ashi scream from the dining room asking who it is which brings me back to reality.

'Hi again miss' Mr. K said in a flirtish manner. 

I stood like a statue and did not move. I was frozen.' Shit,' I mentally hit myself.

I wanted the earth to swallow me at that instinct.

I was embarrassed as hell.

I was out of my voice too.

I just kept looking at him and him at me.

I guess after ages Ashi came to see who it was. I turned towards her and told her 'My meeting will start now' and went inside to start my work. 

Why am I acting so weird and not greeting Mr.K?

What was wrong with me?  My head was filled with these thoughts.

All I wished for was this incident to be erased from my mind and that was exactly the opposite of what happened.

I could hear Ashi and Kishan laughing and talking.

After about 10 minutes Ashi came to me and gave me my boxes which I had given Kishan's mom yesterday.

She asked me why I came off. I did not respond. She knew when not to push me. She was about to ask me something when she got a call from office. She went to pick up the call.

I mentally thanked God and went to the kitchen to wash off the dishes.

After cleaning up I started my work.

It was about half an hour after we started our office work, Ashi got a call on her phone. She had left her phone on the dining table, and she was busy with her office meeting so I decided to pick up the call.

By the time I picked up the call, the call got disconnected.

I was about to keep her phone back when I saw a new message notification from the same dating app.

This got on my nerves. It also made me sad at the same time.

Why had Ashi kept this a secret I thought.

Because of all the mixed feelings I had, I did not want to open her phone or talk about any of this.

My mind was a mess at this point. Ashi and her dating app, the feelings I got when Kishan was in front of me, An unknown person stalking Ashi, my dad not completely well. All these thoughts exhausted me, so I decided to put on some music.

It was almost lunchtime when Ashi came out of her room finishing her meeting.

I was still pissed at her but stayed quiet.

'Ashi, tell me the reason for this work from home?' I asked her breaking the silence.

'Nothing Appu, I just wanted you to be by my side.' Ashi replied casually.