Love's Strange Ways *COMPLETED*

Chapter 21

As soon as the clock in his office struck eleven the next day morning, Vishal's mind stopped working. He just couldn't concentrate on his work.

Granz would have gone to meet Darling. Would she tell Darling everything I told her to say? How would Darling react to what Granz says? Will she believe that I really love her now? Will she forgive me? Will she come back to me again as my darling who always loved me?

There was no limit to the stream of questions that overwhelmed him. All he wanted to do was call his Granz to know the outcome of her meeting with Darling. But he had to wait till it was time for his lunch break. Time seemed to drag for hours as he checked the clock every few seconds while trying to focus on his work.

Just as Vishal grabbed his mobile phone to call his Granz, Rhea stormed into his office. "Vish! What in the world has happened to you?"

"Hi, Rhea. Why? What happened? What are you talking about?"

"You were supposed to be checking on our draft today; you didn't. You were supposed to compile the final program today; you haven't and I don't think you have any plans of doing it."

"Oh, right. Sorry, Rhea, I was a little preoccupied. Where is Sid? I asked him to inform me when-"

Interrupting him, Rhea stated, "Well, he saw you earlier through the window and chilled since you were "dreaming", according to him. But shouldn't you have remembered and checked our draft?"

"Yea, I'll ask Sid to send it in and I'll check it in a minute."

"Before that, tell me, how could you go to Goa before me?"

"Goa...?"

"Yea, Goa! You very well know that I wanted to go there last weekend but I couldn't. How could you go there before me?"

"Well, it wasn't planned. Shreya needed to go there so I ha-"

Rhea interposed again, "Shreya? You went to Goa just for her?"

"Umm... yea, kinda."

"Wow, amazing! Someone's finally in love!" sang Rhea.

"I'm not in love with Shreya, I'm in love with Darling," clarified Vishal.

"You went to Goa with Shreya but you're in love with Darling?"

"Yea... I thought it was Shreya who I loved and I even left Darling for her. But I finally realized that there isn't place for anyone in my heart or life other than Darling."

"You left Darling for Shreya. But does your Darling love you?"

"Yes, of course! There's no doubt about that."

"Then Darling would have been hurt, right?"

"Yeah, she doesn't even wanna meet me or talk to me. That's why I finally arranged a meeting for her with Granz today. I hope Darling gives a positive response."

"What if she doesn't? What will you do?"

"I don't know yet. But I don't think Darling will give a negative response."

"Hopefully she doesn't."

"Yea.... Rhea, look, I know you know about Darling because you found out when we used to work together in the same room in this office. But I haven't told any of our other friends about it. So make sure you don't spread the news. Especially make sure you never blabber about it to Sid even accidentally else he'll inform every soul he knows about it. I'll tell everyone when things are kinda confirmed, okay?"

"No worries, I'm not like Mr. News Spreader." Rhea grinned before pretending to zip her mouth shut.

The door swung open and their colleague and friend, Siddharth, strolled into Vishal's room in the office.