Colors - Paradox ✔️

18

The presentation started at the scheduled time and everyone gathered in the meeting room.

The employees would get up one by one, to present their respective projects, talk about its details and answer others questions.

Both of Shreya and Shivam were sitting in their chairs as it wasn't their turn yet.

Soon, it came to a break when everyone headed out to grab a quick lunch.

Deep inside Shreya's mind, she knew what she was going to do. Though she was not very confident about it, but she tried to focus.

After having a glass of water, she sent a text to Saurav.

Saurav received the text message and started the plan. He went straight to Shivam.
"Hey, there's an important thing I wanted to tell you. Can you come over for a minute? " , He asked Shivam.

Shivam looked up and nodded.

"Good, then I'm there, beside the coffee machine in the canteen "

"Okay, I'm going", Shivam replied and again concentrated on his project for the last time before it's presentation.

After a couple of minutes, he went towards the coffee machine as Saurav told him.

But reaching there he couldn't find anybody.
"He told me to come here. But he's nowhere", Shivam murmured and moved his gaze from left to right in order to spot Saurav.

But he failed to find the latter out.

As he decided to go back and just took a step towards their working area, he felt a sudden tug from behind as someone had grabbed his wrist and pulling him backwards towards the empty corridor which led to the store room.

It was Shreya.

He was amazed at this behavior.
"What the hell is wrong? Where are we going? " , He asked in a normal tone.

But Shreya didn't answer.

She pulled him into the almost empty store room with some brooms, brushes, scattered here and there. Some worn out computer machines were also stacked at a side.

"What is this Shreya? What are you up to?", He asked as raised his voice a bit.

"Nothing! ", She replied with a smirk.

"What? I thought you had something to tell me. Come on, let's go! ", He tried to get out of that room.

But Shreya promptly gave him a little push and locked the door from inside.

Now, both of them were in that store room, locked and Shivam could understand that there was something up. Shreya didn't do it without any purpose.

"Shreya we don't have time for this. Both of us have our presentations. It's less than 15 minutes to go". There was a tension boiling up in Shivam's face. 

"We are not going to do it baby", Shreya replied very coldly.
"None of us is getting this promotion. Neither you, nor me"

"No way! Are you mad?" , Shivam couldn't believe what he had heard. He was waiting for a 'hey I was kidding' or something but what he received from her was a coy look.

Well, Shreya didn't tell Saurav about this.
She told him that she was going to set a fear in his mind and make him tell the truth that he had stolen the pendrive from her drawer.

But deep inside she knew what danger she was going to put herself and Shivam in.

"Yep. I'm gone insane. But the point is we are not going out before that presentation thing is over "