It's a new refreshing day but not in my office as everything is in hustle bustle as our new Boss going to take over the company today. Yea you heard it right, Pradeep Uncle's son is back from abroad and he is all ready to take over his father's role today. He is just back to town two days ago but wants to take in charge of the work as soon as possible so that Uncle can rest. It is decided that uncle still will be acting as a chairman for few more months before he hands over everything to his son. I heard Mr. Veer Khanna has setup his own business abroad which is running successfully and now he is ready to take over his ancestor business as well as he believes he have enough experience now to run this multinational company. Uncle did invite me to his house to meet his son which I politely declined as I do not want to disturb their father-son moments as they have met up after so long. Mr. Veer Khanna did visits Uncles few times in the past but each time due to circumstances we could not meet. So today I am official bound to meet him as my new boss.
Our team lead got call in his intercom asking all of us to gather in the conference room as the new Boss would like to meet all of us. He is meeting the team by their segment so some of our colleagues from other department has already met him and most of the girls has gone awe in his look, they keep on praising him. So now it will be the interior designing departments turn, by taking a deep breath I started to move towards the conference room together with others in my team. I somehow have these unsettled feelings in my heart that something unexpected going to happen. My team lead knocks the door and opens it and we all started to move inside the room. I can see Pradeep Uncle and his secretary is already seated there together with some new guy who does not look like Pradeep Uncle's son to me at least based on what all uncle has describe about his son before, and I have never seen this guy before, so I assume him to be my new boss's staff, perhaps his secretary. And there is another guy at the corner of the room, facing outside of the room through the window and was talking with someone on his phone, I could only see his back but by his dressing sense and the aura gets emitted from him, I can conclude he is my new boss. We all took our seat and uncle pass a small smile to me which I reciprocate, everyone in this office knows about mine and uncles' bond so we no need to hide anything. I can hear the person which I assume Mr. Veer Khanna discussing something about some deals on the phone, but his voice seems awfully familiar which increased my hearts beat to a rocket speed. The voice which I did not hear in the past 6 years, I hope this is not the person which I assume it to be.
After some time Mr. Veer Khanna conclude his call and turns to greet us, and there it goes, believe me my heart skipped multiple beats seeing him after six long years. Yes, it is Jai Sir, but how it can be him, perhaps this could be someone who has similar look as him, it is said there will be seven person looks alike in the world, so this could be someone like that. But to put full stops for all my stupid thoughts, he cleared this throat to bring me out from my laa laa land and introduce himself, "Hi All, it's nice to meet you all, I am JaiVeer Khanna, your new MD", and whatever he said after that never get registered in my mind. I am totally gone.
Jai POV:
It feels great to finally be back home. I have stayed in Ireland for the past six years where I went to do my postgraduate and then continue living there to establish my own business to gain some knowledge and experience before taking over my family business. So here I am now, back to my homeland, to my only family, my dad and to take over the responsibilities from him so that he can rest and enjoy his days after this. My mom passed away in an accident when I was seven years old since then Dad has been my sole family. He is a great dad anyone can ask for, he never even remarried as how our relations suggested and lived his entire life for me, so now it is my turn to take care of him.
Since I reach till now all I could hear from dad is about his friend. I do aware about this friend of dad which he always talks about, I just know it is some young girl as he never mentions her name or I never really take note on it. Believe me, I even feel jealous on how she can capture my dad's heart this much as he went to her praising mode all the time even during our calls over the years. He even told me on multiple occasions that he really wants to make her his daughter in law only if she agreed but unfortunately to him and fortunately to me that girl has been on one sided love with some scumbag for years now and not ready to involve in any other relationship. Well, it's good to me as I am not ready to commit with someone who I never really know about. I did have few girlfriends before but none of it really worked out as all of them is either behind my money, look or popularity. One thing I am glad about this dad's friend is at least she was here with dad when I am not around and never let him feel alone. I really need to thank her for that when I meet her.
So today I am here in our office to officially take over the Managing Director role from my dad. Rather than meeting everyone together I decided to meet by their department so that I can know more about each of them. Dad was here in the conference room with me, he did introduce some of his best employees personally to me and shared his opinion and thoughts about some of the departments and certain employees. We just done meeting finance department so now lastly, it's time for interior designing department before we head to lunch break. We are waiting for the team to arrive when I receive an important call from one of my foreign delegates about an important deal. I took the call and went near the window in the conference room to talk while looking outside which shows a beautiful view of the city. Once done with the call, I turn back to see few people already seated in the room. I came to took over my seat and starts to introduce myself while scanning my eyes through everyone in the room, that's when my eyes met that spectacular beauty again, Naina, my student when I was teaching in the local tuition center during my undergraduate years. I never really teaches for money, I love teaching and the head of the tuition center was my former teacher, he has requested me to teach during my free time which I happily obliged, that is when I met her, she is like an innocent angel, I did love spending time with her as she is not like others, she is very true to herself and also innocent, but unfortunately we could not continue to keep in touch due to the feelings that she develops on me and believe me I never had those kind of feelings on her, she was literally still a kid then, plus I was in a relationship with my college mate Nisha that time which eventually break up after months. I still remember the last time I seen Naina and the pain her eyes reflects when I rejected her proposal, true to her word, she never come in front of me after that until now. She looks much more beautiful now and seemed shocked seeing me here. After some briefing from my end now it is time for the team to introduce themselves, eventually it came to her turn and she confidently introduce herself, "Hi Sir, I am Naina Mishra, I am working as Interior Designer here for the past 3 years. I joined here as a fresher post my graduation from ABC university and working here since then", once done with the small introduction, she passed a small smile to dad and take her seat again, why do I feel that she masks her own feelings behind that confident smile, or I am just overthinking. After her, the others introduce themselves and then we had few discussions on how the team works and the progress of the current projects. Throughout the discussion my eyes always move towards her direction, but she never even looked in my direction once, her face seems have gone paled, she was only focusing on the notebook on the table in front of her. Once done with all the discussion the team starts to leave when dad ask Naina to wait.
After everyone left, dad asked his and my secretary to take lunch break as well. So now it is only me, dad and Naina in the room, that's when dad introduced Naina to me, "Veer, meet Naina, my best friend and Naina meet Veer my only son". I was beyond shock to know she is the one who dad always talks about. She just passes a small smile to me and nods her head while I did the same. I could not form any words as many things were running in my mind now, all the things dad shared about her, he did mention that she is still in one sided love with someone for the past few years, by any chance is that could be me. That time I thought it was just a teenage crush and she will eventually forget it but based on the things dad shared to me about her and based on her reaction after seen me, it did not seem so. Did I made a big blunder by rejecting someone or perhaps the only one who loved me truly? I was brought back from my thoughts when dad called me asking if I would like to join both of them for lunch which I obliged. I did hear from dad that her mother is a fantastic cook, finally I am having a chance to taste it which I could not miss. Moreover, I really missed good Indian meals, the food abroad is not for my taste bud, it is too bland, and I felt like my taste buds died after eating those foods without any spices for years and now it is remunerating again after tasting the Indian spices. We then moved from conference room towards dad's cabin while Naina left to her cubical to bring the lunch which her mother packed. After some time there was a knock on door and she enters after dad asked her to enter, she then moved towards the coffee table in the room to serve the food and bring out all the utensils to serve the food, she seemed very familiar with the place as dad and her seems to have lunch together always. Me and dad joined her after washed our hands on the attached washroom in the room, and soon starts to attack the food. I literally moaned when I took the first bite of the food, truly dad was not exaggerating all this while when he praised Naina mom's cooking skill, indeed this is the best food I have ever tasted. Once done with the lunch she packed all the items which I and dad helped as well and then she left the room. All the while she never looked at my side at all, she behaves like I was not exist there at all. All her focus were only on dad, and even dad seems have forgotten about me when he was talking with her. Believe me I literally felt like a third wheel between them, they seem more closer than I have assumed.
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