Finding Love

3

Ananya looked around her new cabin which was a considerable improvement from her old one. It was a large room with plain white walls with a designer ceiling. The ceiling had yellow, white and grey colours giving her a nice, sober look. There was more classy furniture and it was properly air conditioned. It was a very spacey room and the wall sized window to the side looked over the beautiful city, giving a breath taking view. But none of this registered her mind.

She sat in her lush seat, and shook her head. She disappointed herself. She let Avinash Nanda rile her up. She didn't  expect her first day at this new venture to go this way.

Sighing, she tied her hair up into a messy bun and turned the AC up. She opened her laptop and found around a fifteen new mails already sent. She was supposed to work double now. She has three departments under her.

The work took her majority of the morning and she skipped her lunch to get her work going. Her mom would have yelled at her had she known. She would not know, obviously.

It was quarter past three when she ordered herself a sandwich. She leaned back into the seat, sighing. This work was VERY taxing.

Just as she was about to close her eyes, Ananya's phone pinged. There was a new message. It was from a contact called The Genius. Who? She opened and read.

It read as follows :

I guess I was correct about your ego in the morning. The boss wants us to work on this together. There's no way out. Please don't make it difficult for me and reply to the information I asked you earlier. I want this job. We can deal with our problem later.

Avinash. Why was his name saved as Genius? Oh, he seemed to have fed it that way in the morning. So mature! And he was calling her immature.

And what was this guy going on about? She refreshed her mail and checked through all of them. Nothing.

She went into the spam and checked. There was a mail from Avinash asking details about the new Investments List.

Ananya rolled her eyes. Why did it have to happen that way?

She typed out her reply :

Your mail went straight to the spam. I had to check it again after you sent your kindly worded reminder. I am sending you the list.

P. S. I wouldn't bring ego into profession. And my job is important for me too. I haven't been offered with a job for free. Or for time pass.

She then sent the list and got back to work.

She got another message. A single word :

'Whatever'

Ananya ignored it.

Her evening too was very burdening. She had to send mails and ask for information many times from Avinash. Very frequently indeed. It was very frustrating to have to type out a new mail every five minutes. She had work to do as well, apart from sending mails. They also had to discuss a lot of things. Mails weren't the best option. Her inbox mounted with mails that day.

After a thorough discussion of the marketing department's progress of strategies, with Avinash, she was done for the day.

She headed out of her cabin and made a beeline to the elevator. Avinash was already in it along with two other old men.

Avinash held the door open and let her in.

"Thanks," she muttered, he just nodded.

Ananya wanted to speak to him. About work. They can't go on like this. They HAD to sit together and work.