Sagar Memorial Park(SM park) is a big park in the outskirts of Kolin city, it has many benches for people to rest and a young man can be seen sitting on one such bench. Just a look at his face was enough for people to understand that he is in a bad mood.
The brave facade he had shown Harry had crumbled showing his true feelings.
"I am not sad. Why should I be? I am handsome, smart and rich. If anybody has to be sad it's her, not me and she, she is just above average in all." Then Emma's face with her big blue eyes appeared in his mind "Ok, Maybe not at everything. And what does that Harry have other than his pocket filled parents, even his reputation in school is bad. It is all her friend's fault. I have told her many times that friendship with them is going to bring more bad than good. What can I do if she doesn't trust me? She just has to learn things the hard way."
His mind was silent for some time and thoughts started to appear again.
" Maybe this is for the best. Now I don't need to think about buying an apartment or marriage expenses. I can re-invest the money in my account. If she had waited for two more days to break up, I would have brought up the topic of marriage and it would have been embarrassing. I should have told her about my finances then things wouldn't have been like this, No, this is for the best. If I had told her it would have been too late to find that we aren't compatible. "
Aiden was brought back into reality by some wet sensations on his face and hand. He looked around to find that the sky had turned dark and it had started to rain.
He searched for his umbrella only to remember that he had left it in the coffee shop. He cursed his luck and walked to a nearby tree and sat under it. It was then he remembered why he had called Emma to the cafe. " Man, I don't feel like buying clothes today. I will do that tomorrow, there is still time for graduation day." He noticed that the intensity of the rain was slowly increasing and now the tree was unable to provide shelter to him. He decided to walk back without minding the rain as it is going to be dark soon.
" I hate rain." He muttered and started to walk towards his apartment.
His apartment was on the top most floor of a four story building and it was only a 15 minutes walk from the park. The building was clean but old and had a narrow road connecting it to the main road. That road was so narrow that no car would be able to reach there. The rent here was low as no family would be interested in this place. He had a scholarship which also gave some money to pay for accommodation, which was more than the actual rent of this place. So he could use the rest to meet his daily needs.
His apartment was small but enough for a single person to live. When he entered he was met with a single room apartment, there was his portable bed in one corner, a cement wardrobe without doors and a shelf, there was a plastic table and 3 plastic chairs and lastly a concrete rack on which there was a stove and a LPG cylinder below it. There was no bathroom as it was shared for each floor.
The walls of the apartment had some photos of him and Emma on them. When he thought of her before he felt sad and lonely but now seeing them smiling together in those photos he felt angry. He took them all, shredded them and threw them in the garbage. After that he took a bath and started preparing his dinner.
"There is nothing more relaxing than cooking and football."
It was a little past 7 when he finished his dinner, then he opened a stock market app on his laptop. He was going to invest the money in his account. He checked his bank account and it had a balance of (corin)¢29,31,703. He planned to invest 27,00,000 out of it and to keep the rest in his account itself. This amount was his hard work for the last 7 years. He used ¢500,000 to purchase shares of 'Tigris Motors' and the remaining was invested in different mutual funds, bonds and debentures for 3 years. According to his calculation all of this will accumulate to at least ¢40,00,000 at the end of 3 years, that is if everything went without any problems.
'Tigris Motors', It is a company founded by one of his past employers. Eight years ago Aidan came to Kolin city after qualifying for a free education scholarship. After arriving his first part time job was to tutor a pair of brothers and Aiden became friends with their father, Mr. Issac. Mr. Issac was a good investor and trader and also had a cycle factory and later converted it to a 2 Wheeler manufacturing company and named it ''Tigris Motors'. They would talk about many things and during one of these talks Aidan became interested in investing and trading, He proposed to tutor his children for free but in return Mr. Isac have to teach Aidan about stock market and Mr. Isac agreed to it. Aidan's tutoring had a great effect on the brothers and the elder one even manager to become school topper in his 10th exam. Mr. Issac was very happy because that was the first time his children had managed to achieve this good of a result and he gifted Aidan with some shares of his company when Aiden left them after 2 years of tutoring and after that the children went abroad to live with their mother. Aidan knew that Mr. Isac had a competitive mind, especially with his ex-wife and he was happy that he gets to boast in front of her about him being better in looking after their children and this was the main reason he has given shares to Aiden.
He had purchased many shares of 'Tigris Motors' and it had grown to one of the best 2 wheeler manufacturers in the country. He wanted to work there after his graduation and Mr. Issac had promised to help him get a position there. He is scheduled to have an interview in three months and his performance in it was going to determine his position in the company. He wanted to keep this a surprise to Emma, so he lied about wanting to start a business and now everything was settled.
Time was close to 11 when he had finished all the analysis work and went to bed. Now his only remaining job was to invest, for that he had to wait till 10 am tomorrow. He went to sleep praying not to see any dream about Emma.