Safe haven [Yourstoryindia]

#Chapter 7: Signs...do they exist?

           Hello, here is an update.. hope you enjoy it.. happy reading.

         
  It was a busy Saturday for Anusha. Her boss was back in office, having marathon meetings with their consultant companies. Yasmin was going crazy over the continuous meetings so was she. Anusha was busy dealing with all the labours coming to check their leave approval and filing their problems and complaints.

Sometimes they will release all their anger and frustration on her, some will even cry, she would listen to them and to their problems without hesitation, that is part of her job and that is the least she can do for them. Today around hundred labours were send back from one site without prior notice. So they were making a fuss outside the office.

She had informed the related department and they were already working on it. Occasionally she got calls from manpower supply companies, for getting information regarding their manpower strength and their requirements. She can't give away such important information to other companies so usually she would politely decline them. Despite of her best effort, they still made calls to her, for appointments or for information, which kind of annoyed her especially days like today. She didn't realize that it was past lunch time until Arlene came looking for her. She informed Yasmin that she was going for lunch. Meeting was about to wrap up, and Yasmine would join them later.

                    Anusha warmed their food as Arlene tried to call home. She grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, and walked back to their usual table. Arlene was frowning looking at her phone.

' What happened?' she asked as she sat down and opened her lunch box.

'They are not picking up the call.. I wonder what happened?' Arlene shrugged as she tried to call again. No one took the call and an uneasy feeling settled on both of them .

Anusha tried to comfort her friend by saying that they might had gone somewhere, but that didn't made any sense to her, because that never happened before. They always called at this time, to talk to Maria.

It was around 5'o clock in Philippines, perfect time to call and they never cancelled without telling Arlene beforehand.

'Don't worry ,let us try again later. Maybe they went outside or something. Have your lunch first,then we will try again.' She tried to convince her friend and herself.

After trying one more time Arlene joined her. They ate silently. Anusha had some rice and curries that Rashi made. It was tasty but she couldn't eat much as Arlene wasn't eating.

They sat there some more time and Arlene tried to call again which went unanswered again. She was panicking now and Anusha was worried. After dumping their food, they returned to their separate desk.

Yasmine came out of the meeting room, as the manager and clients had left for lunch. Yasmine gave her a tired smile and headed to the pantry area.
Yasmin was from Egypt, she was working for their boss for the past three years. She was the stunner of their department. Tall, beautiful and confident.

Anusha liked her, but they barely got time to catch up with eachother. Their boss kept her busy almost every day.
                        The morning rush was almost subsided by then and Anusha called Arlene for the update but her worried voice have that answer itself.

Anusha tried not to think about the worst case scenario. She was trying to distract herself but it wasn't easy. She was about to call Arlene again when Kathir came to the office. He took his safety helmet down, tried to dry off the sweat from his brow with a towel and smiled at her.

Kathir was from Tamil Nadu and his Hindi was very poor so he preferred to talk to her in Tamil. Anusha could understand Tamil well, but when she replied, her Tamil got mix up with English and Malayalam. He was younger than her and used to call her akka. His big figure and innocent smile was a delight to watch. She knew that he was there to confirm his leave approval.