Ties Of Fate

CHAPTER 1 : NERVOUS

Aashvi pov

"Yes mam, do you need something". "some dark chocolates, please, thank you". "sure mam, just give me a minute". Currently, I'm on a plane going to India, after a month of being in New York on a project my agency gonna take from a client who is making his product into a brand.

"Why are you so nervous". "I'm not nervous". she scoffed and gave me a look telling me she knows i am lying. "Okay, fine. I am nervous". "Why, its just your sister wedding". "I know its just my sister wedding but, i don't know ever since my father called me to tell that his daughter is getting married i just got this feeling that something's gonna happen or something will be going wrong".

"And I don't want that something to happen. i just want my life to be as it is right now. peaceful." when we got back to the hotel from a meeting with our client in New York, i got a phone call from my father telling me that his daughter, my step-sister is going to get married and he wants me there.

I don't know why he wants me there. Its not like we ever shared some good memories, put aside memories, we didn't even have a conversation ever since he married another woman after my mom died.

And let me tell you that woman hates me. I don't know what did I ever do to her that she hates me. she may look innocent on the outside but oh my god she is one of a cunning witch. One moment she acts so good if someone was watching and the next moment she is most despicable human you'll ever meet. I don't know why my dad married this woman, maybe he wanted us to have a mother figure in our life, my conscious told me. If he wanted a mother for me he did some horrible job at that.

I sometimes wonder if my dad knew about that woman. If he did know why is he still married to that woman, if he did not know..., we have to give a applause to her for hiding her character from him for this many years.

"Don't worry nothing will happen. its just your sister wedding. We go there. Get ready. See the wedding. Eat. And then get back to our lives as if nothing had happened". I came out from my thoughts at hearing the voice of maya. My, whom i can call close to best friend says. "If only it is that easy". i replied. If really only that easy to do. I really hope it will be that easy to go and come back as if nothing happened.

"Maya, tell the guys to get ready for this New York project. It is our best chance to get more clients from different countries if we can success this". "Ofcourse, but do you really think this project can get our agency a name. I mean we are pretty known in India, so why do we need this project. You literally over worked yourself to get this project to us. "Maya, it is dollars we are speaking about. Of course we are pretty known in our own country and have a name for ourselves but if we can have clients from different countries where the currency is big, like America, Europe, and some other countries we can have dollars and euros even from small projects".

"In India for small projects, like just to get their social media account to have more followers and manage their social media accounts we can only get upto ten thousand rupees. But, we can charge about one thousand dollars to our foreign clients for the same service. That's upto like eighty thousand rupees". "Its not about the name or the fame maya, its about how much we are earning. Of course name and fame are a bonus for us, but, we have to know our worth for the work we are doing. My version is that i want to earn the amount of money for the same amount of work i am doing, if not more". She nodded her head at the answer i gave her. Our agency, we started that five years ago.

From childhood i was interested in drawing, painting or just sitting in the nature and enjoying the scenery. Sometimes i tried to draw what i saw in the nature like trees, birds, buildings, whatever i see i tried to draw it. I also sometimes imagined a scenery and tried to draw it. I thought it will go away when ill get older, but as i got older i got more interested in drawing and painting. and that's when i got know about graphic designing. I loved that i can be creative and m creation does not have any limitations.

I was eighteen when i first learned graphic designing and started designing. I created my social media and started posting my works. I worked hard for that and in that process i learned how to grow on social media and how to get clients through my socials. when i was 20 i learned digital marketing and affiliate marketing, i also learned the basics of ui/ux designing. I started earning through that and when i was 21 i met maya, we started working together. After six months we got know more people from different fields and became good friends.

When i suggested we start own own agency and give our services to the businesses on our own terms they agreed. When we started they kinda made me the head. Ever since i was kind of a boss to them, i made maya the the second head if ever i am not available and maya and i were the ones who makes the negotiations and the services we can provide to the clients.

And i wanted more profit for the work we have been doing so i told them we have to focus on the foreign clients since then we have been working on that. This NewYork project is the first and biggest one, if we can success this we can have more foreign clients.

"Mam, your chocolates" "Thank you so much" "You are welcome mam, if you need anything you can press the button and our staff will be there for you". "Alright, thank you again". The air hostess smiled and went to her seat.

"How many hours till we land" I sighed. I just want to sleep. "Another two hours and we will land in India, then we will go to a hotel for this night and the next morning we can continue our journey to your home". I sighed again. Seriously, i hate journeys, why did she have to marry now even if she did what's that got to do with me cant they just leave me alone. Ahh i hate this.

"Can you just stop sighing like a grandma, its seriously annoying". I just sighed two times why is she so grumpy. Grumpy woman.

I just smiled and "Alright grumpy woman excuse this peasant". Maya just gave me tight lipped smile. God she can be scary sometimes.

Haiyee can i get a knox for my self, he is so cute. Juniper Hill is going to my favorite book list. The two hour journey finished in a blink of an eye reading my book. We got our luggage and went to our hotel we booked and i just went directly to my bed. In a span of few i went to my dreamland.

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First chapter of Ties of Fate. Read and tell me about your thoughts.

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- Ana