Always with you!

Chapter 2 THE JOB

As she woke up by the ledge, she had a resolve to make this house a home. For the entire week, she had been working to make this flat a sanctuary of her dreams. Trying to bring it to life by some inconceivable grace, but as it is apartment became a part of her happiness. Not due to some hard wooden furniture or even the paintings and pictures on the newly painted walls but since everything was quiet the bathroom, the kitchen, the front hall. It was different, she could hear her thoughts and she could talk to it. She had worked hard & she had big dreams, she had a bigger calling and she knew wherever she was heading she can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what she was doing, and the night before her first day her anticipation rose, butterflies in her stomach had made her take care of every small thing before her big day, she kept the pen her father gave next to her as she dreamt of how it's going to be working as a manager at an Inca Designs.

She was nervous, and her uneasiness which would not be assuaged by all the safeguards of all her attributed fortifications. As she got ready for her big day, she wore the necklace her mother gave to her when she was in School, A gold chain with a golden dolphin, and Vanshika believed it bought her good luck. She always held it tight as a habit whenever she was lost in thoughts and as a habit of her nervousness. Her coffee gave her time to think. She had been skeptical of the team and how it's going to be, she had a voice and wanted to be heard. She wondered a lot about if equality there was a front or would it be present. But as she reached outside the office, she looked up at the tall glass facade the beautiful campus of the office and everywhere she looked the smile got bigger, her Amber eyes lighted up, she was happy. Everything she was discovering was wonderful. It was green. The air scented beautiful due to the Mogra trees lined up in a straight line there were birds' chirping to the morning sun the smile was a constant and she forgot of the stress the heaviness of her feet and her nervousness gone. She had watched videos and imagined it to be a dull concrete structure. She never thought her new office to be a sanctuary like this,

The office had gray painted walls and long set of cubicles in blue red and yellow and though every cubicle had people there was almost a pin drop silence broken periodically by the clicking keyboards of the laptops people worked on she was passing through a wide gallery and all she could see was the cubicles decorated and personalized by people and can almost speak out the personality. She was extremely creative and had a few ideas about how she would decorate her cubicle. As she reached towards the end she was called out from the back, It was Asmara, Hr of the company. She had been in touch with for months for her on the boarding process and as Asmara took her to meet her new team. The design team had nine Employees who warmly greeted her Naina and Shikha were only two female employees in her team and very welcoming to have one more person in a very male-dominated team. As she was shown to her place, her face dropped a little as it was only the design team that did not have Cubicles. They shared a single long table as a workstation. but as she interacted with them all she discovered a decrease in-formality and the morning's unanticipated difference had now amalgamated to create an advantage which she now did not see not a demotion but as an ability to blur the lines between bosses managers and employees and had helped her to see all aspects of her design department she could not anticipate she would get such a positive vibe after being so nervous for so long.

As the office ended, she thought about this new life, a new office, and a new home. It hadn't stopped being magical, a lot was changing right in front of her eyes. Yesterday her flat made her restless, evenings made her restless. Somehow she couldn't think about anything but what made her restive and for her until yesterday, these two words (office and Home) were just like a musical accompaniment to the text. Today she got a meaning. For the past week, she had been silent beyond her strength. Today she found a voice, a place in the middle of a crowded world, and she tilted her head at the thought with a faint smile, as she got out of the taxi to her home.

At night she constantly kept interrupting herself to search for memories, her silence was reliable. Some malicious devil was bringing back all the memories she thought she was leaving behind. Her head was in unrest and aching for the first time, Vanshika arrived in Mumbai. She was being cautious. She didn't know if she would like the thought. It had several dilettantish features and horrible affections, but her mind continued to make ridiculous inventions. It was enough to make any girl and her whole world extremely fragile and a possibility that she will be torn to pieces by the elements of her own thoughts. She kept playing with the stories in her mind and in her uneasiness still going on, she slept with the rare rich tears, her eyes had seldom seen.