Just One Night

8. Madness

Chapter-8

Madness

Daniel

Am I mad?

Oh damn, I am...

It's been a week. I come here, sit, stare, get irritated and leave.

Then freaking repeat.

I snigger putting my clasped hand on my hand, looking down at my shoes and wondering. All the words by my friend were so provoking that I had to do this but it didn't mean that the stranger I am after is my answer.

But again why did I get this idea first thing in my mind?

Why didn't the idea of leaving my father's company and heading for my line come by to toil? I let it go away and for what?

An appreciation in the annual conference of innovative business?

My brother sat with me and explained what it meant. How can I make a call and merge many businesses to align credibility backing it with my family name and this achievement of mine? Why I shouldn't protest Father and batter the family name without the blueprint?

So I agreed to it all. Marriage. Business scheme.

I agreed to not gamble my whole life for the woman I don't even know the name of.

What if she doesn't reciprocate? What if she doesn't think of me? What if I am imagining that I want anything to do with her? Why so? Just because she wasn't fazed by my name? Because she wasn't even trying to impress me? Because she didn't want to get in touch with me again in any way?

Damn! I should leave this bar right away!

Hell, it's pathetic.

I have betrayed myself again and I am delusional yet.

What's worth waiting for now?

I should probably think of getting investors and Believers in me Too. Father will fuck me at that!

Yes, and I am mad.

Let's stop it.

I look up. Inhale and turn on my stool promising to never do this shit - waiting for a stranger- ever again.

My eyes widen at the woman who is as shocked as I am.

Holy shit.

" Hey. " I breathe at the statue right before me. She is as stupified as I am. or probably more as she doesn't even blink.

"It's surprising. Today. Finally. "

After a long wasted week of denial. Confusion. Frustration. If I continue the list would go on.

I stop at my rash thoughts.

" I mean night. Tonight." I keep on. Making a fool of myself. Or probably not as she is still stupefied to listen.

Then suddenly a smile breaks out on her face. A beautiful one for that matter.

" I didn't. " She says and rushes just beside me on the same seat where we met.

She takes in a breath and exhales with a strange satisfaction. Thinking that it's me, I feel elated to my surprise.

"Didn't what?" I ask.

"Didn't expect to find you here." She says.

If you would have come every night this week you would find me here. I stop my thoughts again.