Time is like a stream. It flows in its own rhythm. Sometimes we try to go with the flow, sometimes we don't. We keep on struggling, we keep to fight, but at the end of the day, we adjust, sometimes we even compromise. Time, and Fate continue to drive us towards the unknown. Or, may be towards the way everything was set.
Evelyn rubbed her eyes, then stared at her laptop's screen again. After she attended the party hosted by the Roy's, she left the job as a paparazzi. After selling the story to a platform, she got plenty of money. More than she expected, so she left her job and layed low for a month as she planned.
She looked at the way of the sick body lying on the hospital bed, seemed ghostly pale and weak, she left a sigh.
She put down her laptop and walked towards the hospital bed and sat on a tool beside it. Then very lightly, she touched the channel made on that person's hand, and watched the drips of medicines was going through it.
"Does it hurt?" She muttered, her voice low, seemingly afraid of waking the person up. "All the efforts... Even if I got caught, as long as you are alive, it was all worth it."
A drop of a parl like water spill through the corner of her eyes.
At a distance, her cellphone was put on the table. The incoming messages from a particular chatbox kept the light of the ohone screen's display on, but with no sounds made it clear that it was on silent mode, and nothing was more important than the sleeping figure lying on the hospital bed to her.
Giving an annoyed glance towards the flashing screen of her phone, Evelyn turned the phone off, and went back where she put her laptop as she started scrolling through the job opportunities again.
*Ding*
(You have a new mail to see. Tap to view.)
A message popped up without sound on the screen. Evelyn clicked on it and her hands froze on the mouse.
*Congratulations for getting into the Thunderbolt Corporation. Your job as the software development team is confirmed. To join your post, come to the headquarters on xyz road on 9 am sharp within next seven working days and contact with the receptionists with a printed copy of this mail for further instructions.*
'O my god! O my god! O my god! I made it!' Evelyn whisper screamed. She wanted to jump, to dance, to hold someone and scream on the top of ger lungs but could not be able to do so.
Looking at the figure lying on the bed, her eyes softened. With a wave of thousands of emotions flushing into her heart, she swore to buy an apartment in a better environment where enough light and air could pass through the room, with the advanced technological beds for the sick people. She started planning to hire a nurse and so and so...
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"Did you find a job?"
"Huh?" Mantisha put out her head from the book, only to find Albert sitting accross her. He was like a supreme persona, sitting there like a king. Soft sunlight shining behind his tall frame. Mantisha became a little dazed as she forgot to reply.
"Care to answer." Cocking his brows a little, he asked again. Mantisha got back into reality as she became embarrassed. She lightly coughed to brush off the embarrassment.
"Umm no, it's becoming hard as the final is approaching. I need to study too, you know."
Albert did not tell anything. He just kept staring at her intently. "Darn it. Why is he staring at me like this! Did I steal anything from him huh!" Mantisha cursed him under her breath. She could not understand him at all. In these one and a half month, they had interacted quite a few times. She was surprised to see that he almost seemed interested to talk casually with her while in the last one and a half years, he barely talked with anybody, and when he did, it was about something necessary.
Mantisha bit her lower lip lightly as she stared back to the book on her hand again. The nagging feeling on her heart started to itch again. 'Albert seemed like a nice guy, but this sudden wave of interest. Why? This can not be 'sudden' right?'
"If I offer you to come and work at our company, you would mind for sure, right?"
Mantisha's stunned gaze fell upon him. 'What is this brat saying!'
Mantisha was a overthinker. But while she study Albert's face, she noticed that Albert had an amused look plastered on his face. It said something like 'I knew it was coming'. Atleast Mantisha thought that.
"So I won't say that. I don't like nepotism either."
Mantisha left a sigh of relief at his words. Everybody knows that the Black's are too strict. They don't even give way to their family's children way to their company. They had to fight fair and square for it.
But for a brief moment she thought he was making an exception for her. Giving her way through the back door... That did not seem right. Not only that, if he did that, it would make her only more nervous around him.
"Goodness gracious! I almost thought that you..." Mantisha bit her tongue as she realised what was she going to spit.
"You almost thought that I... What?" Albert asked with the same nonchalant attitude on. But a slight playfulness was hidden under his tone.
Mantisha got dazed. She wanted to slap her lips for going to utter such useless things.
"Umm... Nothing. I... Almost thought that you were going to... Do something immoral. Pushing people using your connections is not good, right? He he." She could not understand what was she telling, she was just spouting anything coming to her mind.
"Hmm" Albert nodded at her words, clearly agreeing. Then said with a light tone, like he was just asking about the weather report,
"So, if you are free this weekend and planning not to study all day long, do want to go out with me?"
"Aahh?!" The book Mantisha was holding fell from her hand. She looked at Albert with a confused, blank stare.
"This Saturday, on 11 am, I will wait in front of Tower Plaza. I will get the museum tickets beforehand. Just come in time."
Saying this he got up and before Mantisha could even react, he left.
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