Burning Scars

The D - Day

I woke up a bit early than usual because ITS CHRISTAMAS BABY!!! It was ritual in the sethi family, everyone would wake up early & open all the gifts from the morning only, & guess who is their secret santa but it always turned out that Papi & Mimi were each other’s secret Santa while we both sisters were each other’s Santa. Papi always used to say that no-one can come between a couple not even their kids, because the love a couple shares could never be shared. I had brought up in such a healthy & warm family so, this manor’s high walls felt so cold & hard to me, I could never feel anyone’s warmth or ever witnessed a smiling or happy face.

I had my breakfast, & quickly rush for the office because today is the D – day, & specifically today I can not mess up because if I did, I will be done for the life. As, I reach there I see everyone was already there including Nivin & Ruhi, & the other vendors who were hired for the decoration, food, security, & their assistant. I move to them & show them the storage area, where they can keep their raw materials & goods, and the main hall where the party will take place, Nivin was handling the caterers, & here comes the Mr. Nerve wreaker to call me because the main Boss was asking for me. I head with him to his office & hop on to that lift, I hated that lift as well, because I always felt its taking me to the devil in his hell, never felt great.

As I enter his office, he turns to me and signs me to take a seat in front of him. As usual like a robot I spit all the arrangement progress to him then he says “This is your chance if you do well today than I will promote you to the new position in company, but if you fail today then you know what you will have to do”. I nod my head up & down & take his leave, as I was leaving, his words from the last meeting echoes in my mind that if I won’t able to success this party I will have to be Nivin’s assistant & follow him everywhere like a shadow, which was a big no from myside, because if this happens, I will experience hell down in the earth, because only I know how tough, & strict, hard to deal with he can get when he is in to the business, & I was not ready at all to experience his extremeness yet.

As everything was moving properly as per our plan I return to my desk which was right outside from Nivin’s office, this much closeness is enough for me to stay away from him. So, I concentrate on my work & forward all the important emails & client’s responses to Nivin while I analyse it first. the new marketing deal was pretty hard to crack but somehow, we got it, not magically of course but from what I had heard was it was the work of someone from UK, someone got to that client & convinced him to invest in to our new Hotel chain developing in the UK, so I guess it would be someone from the UK office. The Airline & Hotel businesses are pretty widespread, so it can get hard to manage all the offices, regional offices, & headquarters. I don’t know how I will be able to manage all of this one day. And in such vast business there are many people connected to it, have to look out for them & crack deals that can be beneficial for both the parties are a real thing. Mainly Nivin does that as he is financial head of the company, he goes for all the investor’s meetings, & the negotiations. The branch we are working is the secondery branch of my grandpa’s business.

Ruhi comes & takes me to the cafeteria as it was already the lunch time. I have always loved the food of cafeteria it was delicious, & light just the way I prefer my food. We discuss as always during the lunch break & head to check the cake. Which I had prepared yesterday only now the few touches were left, I finished them I hope my teacher likes my work & here the devil comes he sees it, and hmms I look at him with confusion “hmm, what is hmm, say something”, “it looks good, but not sure how it tastes so, hmm”. “I am sure it tastes good in fact yum, I had made Ruhi taste it yesterday only while preparing it, she approved”. “okay, then you don’t have to worry right?”, I know what he is doing right now he always does this, he makes you question about your own self, decisions, & work, but I won’t lose this time. I nod my head & say “yes, of course, I am confident about my work”, “Good, then you shouldn’t worry”, after saying that he leaves. Urgghhh, I am feeling so angry why is it so hard to get the conversation or real opinion out of him without getting manipulated or doubting yourself. Ohh gosh, I hate him.