Dragging Tammana in the office meeting, he sat at the seat of the manager with a serious face. The man who was being jolly just a moment ago was nowhere to be seen.
As his father was sitting on the head table, his whole aura was reeking with dominance. Everyone in the room was listening to Radhika, as she was giving her presentation.
"This presentation is about the annual competition of hoteliers to win the yearly trophy of best hotel.
The whole planning department had discussed a few strategies and one of them is to increase the sale. For which we had made many plans for different discounting schemes." but before she could explain more Mr. Oberoi raised his hand.
"Discounting scheme? Since when did Oberoi hotels need to depend on discounts to gain their customers? We are a brand. If we give discounts we will only lose our image.
What kind of immature plan is this?
Do all of you really have something to show me or you are just wasting my time? I have thousands of other things to deal with, rather than hearing your jokes." he reprimanded in his cold voice sending shivers down everyone's spine.
Even the seniors sitting there sweated. They looked at each other secretly expecting each other to take over the presentation. As the more time they would stay silent, more they had to listen in the end, even more few of them can get demotion.
At the end Raghav sighed and stood up to continue the presentation.
In Spite of being head of the planning dept. He always projects himself as a backup plan. In case the presentation prepared by his subordinates fails. Just like today, Radhika failed miserably.
He had asked the girl if the presentation was ready before coming to the presentation room and she had been very confident that things were under control.
"I have another presentation sir," he spoke standing up, "as everyone knows Oberoi is a class, a brand and that is our main point. We have to show people that only by staying and eating in Oberoi, their class will be improved. So all we had to do is to show footage of our recent new year party and make a good video of the facilities available here.
Plus a few exquisite dishes for foreign delegates.." so he continued, when his eyes fell on the girl who was noting the points of the meeting.
His eyes went wide for a second but in the next second he was perfectly fine as he continued his presentation confidently.
At the end, when he finished his 1 hour long presentation everyone was still silent holding their breaths as the main devil had still not said anything.
But they were hopeful as he had listened to the whole presentation and had not stopped it in midway.
While Radhika was praying in her heart that the presentation would fail by keeping her finger crossed.
She was the daughter of Mr. Oberoi's sister yet she had to work under Raghav, just a mere dog of their house.
And now when she was reprimanded, if he would win then wouldn't it be a slap on her face.
Better let him fail too, she did not care about what would happen to their annual planning then. It was not her fault that his uncle did not know the power of discount.
Did those common people not buy anything as long as it was on sale. Too bad.
"Good, as expected from you Raghav. You never disappoint me." said Mr. Oberoi, finally standing up from his seat.
"You can start working on this presentation as you have my permission." he continued shaking his hand with Raghav and avoiding everyone else in the meeting area, even his own son Rehan. That was sitting on the corner noting points from the meeting.
As a market manager it was his duty to follow the plan of the marketing department.
As the meeting adjourned everyone went to their offices.
That's when Raghav came to them and asked, "what are you doing here?" His eyes widened again and then he looked behind her as if trying to find something or should be said to someone.
Tammana looked at him and then behind her in confusion.
With furrowed brows she replied, "I have joined work here from today."
"As my new assistant." Rehan added with a smirk.
"Oh, that's great. Congratulations for your new job, are you here alone?" he asked, since he could not see Meera, better ask directly than making assumptions.
"Can't you see this chipmunk.. I mean your friend here. How am I alone?" she asked, raising a brow.
Rehan glared at her for calling him chipmunk again but then looked at the expecting face of his friend and contemplated whether to tell the truth or tease more? At the end he sighed, he can never see his friend getting worried. So he nodded his head as a hint and Raghav immediately caught up.
"Really?" asked Raghav for confirmation.
"Saw her." he replied confirming.
"Which department?" since Rehan already got the hint there was no point in hiding it.
Rehan shook his head, in a hurry he forgot to ask Meera which department she was working on. "She was with her," said Rehan, pointing at tamanna.
Only then did Tammana understand their code words, "are you talking about Meera?" she asked looking at both alternatively.
"Yeah, had she also joined with you." asked Raghav with big gleaming eyes.
Though confused by his reaction, Tammana nodded, "yep, we always stick together."
"That's great! Which department?" asked Raghav as his lips curved upwards.
"Computers, she is an intern in it department." she told him but added, "but why are you asking so many questions about her?"
"Oh, I saw you here, so I just remembered her generally." replied Raghav scratching the back of his neck.
Rehan raised a brow at the lamest excuse his friend had made. Since when his friend turned into a dumb person. Love sucks man!