Manmarziyan – Seasons Of Love – Chapter 4

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Chapter – 4

She looked him in disbelief…He smirked…”Get lost!!”…

“Bhai….”,he turned listening Sam there…

“I told.you….”

“Bhai…I went to check materials..but saw you coming here….”,Sam said looking Radhika…

She tried to move away,but Sam held her wrist…

“Work.on your sketches…we want it tomorrow..”,Sam pulled her back….she staggered a little,with her gaze down…”Bhai…I wanna discuss something..”,Sam turned to face him now…

Arjun’s piercing gaze on her,now shifted to Sam…”I know….”

“Bhai…please….”,Sam pleaded…Arjun glared her before he turned around to leave…

Radhika banged her fist on table….She needs to prove herself….but not at the cost of her self respect..!! What was the reason he had,to order her…”Get lost.”..ah…yes…
Its was her mistake that she din’t say she was Adhi.,but he could have scolded or warned her…

Her thoughts were disturbed when Lucky came there…..

“Glad you aren’t fired…Adhi….better apologize dear…!!”,he rushed back…

She pouted angrily…if only he had ears and patience.,she would have…

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“Bhai…you forgot your words…you said you won’t interfere..”,Sam tried again to convince him….

He stood silent,after that 10 minutes argument..,only where his own sister spoke in favor of an employee…her junior..her friend….but never acknowledged his words about her lethargic behavior….

“Why dint she say..she is Adhi…”

“Bhai…Employees fear listening your name…then how she will?..and I just thought to play with you,when you said Adhi to be a guy…..I send you her file…you dint notice ..so…I ..”

“Enough Maira!!…..stop snapping my every word with your lengthy explanations…one good reason!!…why she has to be here…after making our office as a party hall..”,his fore finger raised,to denote the lowest cardinal number,and the stiff look well spoke his ill temper…..

“Bhai…bhai….I said…I gave permission…!! If you are angry…punish me…and…Adhi….she is talented…!!and.,,.Its…Only her talent…if you find faults in her sketches..I will dismiss her myself”,Sam made her point clear at last though she pleaded earlier…

He had never witnessed this side of his sister.,annoyed with him.,his words about a employee…and finally indirectly posed a challenge….Though he was happy with her clever move,cornering him with his own words.,he felt quite uneasy at the thought that.,that girl Radhika.,a stranger being the reason for it….

“So confident?”,his jaw clenched a little as usual…He saw her to nod thoughtfully… “Ok!!”,he patted her shoulder surprising her…

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Next day

“Sam…what if he intentionally reject these…”,she asked sullen..,standing before the table,with her sketches spread….

Arjun heard her,when he was about to step inside.,but stopped on his tracks only to listen Sam’s reply….

“Shhh…Adhi…He may come anytime…and I know…Bhai never behaves that way…and Adhi…this one conveys your hard work…am truly amazed…!! Bhai..will not bring his personal grudges to profession…so relax…”,Sam’s voice sounded more like a whisper yet clear…

A small satisfied curve adorned his marble cut face listening his sister words….

“Well…Maira….what about the sketches.”,he asked cold walking straight into her cabin…

He tilted his head a little to left,when Sam was busy in arranging table…

“Good morning Sir”,she stammered at his look..

He nodded a little,when Sam raised her head listening Radhika…And for next few minutes,His hands swiftly passed papers to its left and right,marking something.,arranging in a order over the table,shifting the sheets,eyes keenly fixed on the sketches…..he stepped back a little….

His left still held a sheet of her spring collection…Scrutinizing every single thing on that rough sketches over the table,he grimly nodded to Sam.,before he turned around to leave…

She stood biting her lips…patiently waiting to listen one word….

“Bhai….”,Sam called him like a plead… she pouted disappointed looking him…

“Could have been better..”,he said..

Her eyes widened in shock…better!! She gave her best..!!

“So…shall we reject this.”,Sam collected the sheets…

His eyes now, scanned her features,shocked ..surprised…she dared to look him,but watched the papers rolling in Sam’ hands…

“Let this be…no harm in trying better…and these are nice…finish with patterns and colors…we have time…”,he turned around…

“Means…”,she whispered leaning towards Sam….

“Means…you are still a AR employee..”he said aloud moving towards the door..

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Trendz employees greeted with confusion looking him there….”Yaar..will he come daily.,”,Lucky asked with a cry baby face…and others looked each other terrified…

He strode thoughtfully towards their designing room….which only he and his sister access.,but was transformed into a party hall yesterday….He felt pleasant with the tidy look of that favorite spot,of his,in Trendz….

He sat on a table…scanning the paper with a smile…A rough sketch combined of her spring collection thoughts for his Formals idea…His fingers quickly turned the paper,to read her notes about material choices….He raised his head hearing a humming sound….

“Sir…sorry…”,she mumbled as she turned around..

“Wait…!! Don’t fly high…!! You will leave this job yourself..”,he said narrowing his look,to her face…Sitting more comfortable on that table,pushing that paper inside his coat pocket..

Confusion loomed over her,draining every bit of her enthusiasm….wasn’t she happy that next launch will be with her designs…
Consecutively second time…!!

She checked her watch…Lunch time…Sam had already left for home…and how and why he was here…

“Why….you said…”

He walked towards her…the white full sleeve winter jacket,which covered her front,minutes back,being buttoned,,now lied loose,close to her either arms..revealing her pale blue sleeveless single long piece……the tie-up belt around her hip,,added more charm to her blooming youth….

“You design your own stuff,”,he chuckled with his eyes glued on her middle..

She blinked..before stuttering,”at times”….

“This..”,his fingers rubbed the Jacket material next to her collar….”You seem to love mix and match”,his voice low yet charming,enough to cast a spell,did cast one.!..

She stood still..,having the tall handsome close…his blue jean jacket,brushing her…His broad chest covered in black tees,blocked her view to look anything beyond it…
He looked enormously elegant even in casuals…She was lost until she felt his finger to slid between her sleeve strap and skin over her left shoulder…

“Is it not of your size?”,he asked…his left middle finger trailed down,while the rest,leisurely coiled around the strap…

She tried to step back..but he clasp turned forceful….she snapped a terrified look from his hold to his face…

He took a step forward,his finger trailed towards the strap fixed with her dress…

“Mixed fabric.?? no…Linen?”,he asked throaty sending shivers down to her spine…

Where his fingers would play checking the material….her eyes stuck to his fingers,which was just few inches above her bosom….

His finger ran in circles beneath her shoulder.,the soft muscles over her precious constricted at his touch…..her voice turned dead even before it reached its chords when his finger reached a cm above her armpit…and…her right caught hold of his hand on her strap now….His grip was strong….
She can’t let his finger play with her feelings,at the cost of her dress being pulled down…her left stayed close to her figure,ready to hold the dress,once he pulls the strap…but his finger,his hold,he.,himself stayed unmoving…..

Watching her to hold her breath in anxiety,”How long you will hold…”,he asked hoarse… “I mean in this company”,he smirked….He withdrew his finger and buttoned her coat now…

She stood rooted deeply grasping his words.,his actions…what did he really think about her?? A girl who can tolerate….No..No..who can withstand all this just for a job,in his perception….She saw him to look his mobile confused.,not even a trace of any reactions related to what happened minutes before….He did touch her sensuous.,but now…Well..He wasn’t the only one to be blamed….she should have slapped him the second he slid his finger under that strap….She shook her head annoyed on herself,for losing herself minutes back…..She walked away quickly…. She dialed Sam..,deciding to leave her job…

“Hey Adhi…Will be back in half an hour..Anything important.,”,Sam spoke chewing her food…

She smiled listening Shristi Mehra.,scolding Sam for having a talk during lunch…. “Sam…”,Radhika tried to gain her voice…

“Whats up”,Sam asked alarmed…

“Nothing..I…Designs…”,she stuttered….

“Adhi…Relax….we can design it…Did you have lunch…?? You make next set by next Wednesday…yaar…we could speak in office”,Sam mumbled before disconnecting her call….

Her mobile beeped with a message immediately… -‘Adhi…15 mins I will come…Any prob dear…Pl text…’-

She texted back asking few things regarding to their work…Confused with her decision she walked to Sam’s cabin…

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He looked his finger tapping the mobile screen,flashes of it sensing the tenderness of her skin minutes before,came across his mind….He had never touched a girl this way..!! Touch?? He wasn’t interested to even have a look…and today….A unknown intense desire to feel her skin.,touch her in one of the sensuous way….He closed his eyes..,the image of her jacket revealing her beauty zoomed in his vision….May be attraction…!! But what if,she din’t hold his finger.,he wondered what he would have tried…
Smirking at his own thoughts.,he walked past Sam’s cabin.,but halted on his steps looking her to write something….

“Resignation Letter?”,he asked after a minute of silent observation…

She jerked and saw him.,his lopsided smirk rubbed her bad…..was he really glad about his actions? May be..!! Or did he think he could scare her with his touch….That’s cheap!

“Materials list..For AR also..Am making a copy….Sir”,she said like a robot…

He raised his brows amused…His eyes snapped a look at the paper,he stepped forward to pull it.,but she.,thinking it to be his another sensual stunt.,tried to move but staggered and landed safe on the chair next…He saw her befuddled…. “whats wrong?”,he asked…

“You thought I would Resign being scared…with..with…your….that’s…a cheap trick…I do my job….You have no rights to misbehave with me…touch in an inappropriate way…”,she shrieked widening her eyes,lying across the chair holding the arm rest…

He stood biting his cheeks….He did want to scare her.,but the other way..he thought of something and ended up doing something…he smiled recalling the moment…How did he behave so?….He so wanted to throw her from his thoughts..but…

“Don’t smile….Sam will feel bad if I say about you”,she pouted annoyed trying to get up…

His face lost its smile listening that…How dare she thinks him that way?? She was the first one to challenge his senses….and still he couldn’t figure out why…She wasn’t even upto his mark…..Still….

“Getup..”,he pulled her by arm…”Go…Blabber anything…!! Are you trying to utilize that moment on your favor…? Stay in your limits”,he raised his fore finger to her face.,while she looked terrified…

“As though he stayed in limits”,she mumbled when he took a step away from the cabin..He stopped listening that,but walked away rubbing his forehead…

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“Yes…Yes…”,she spoke annoyed in her phone and rushed to the elevator…pushing the mobile back to her bag,she faile to notice the lift door was about to be closed….Just as she stepped,it hit her right shoulder and she collided with the one standing inside… Unexpected with a sudden weight to hit him.,he staggered and she leaned over him….Her front plastered with his.,he quickly placed his palm on lift walls,for a grip…her tresses covering his coat….He inhaled deep.,irritated.,but only got hit by a mild fruit flavor cooling his temper..

“Sorry..sorry”,she mumbled.,but her senses turned alert,as her eyes caught blue jean jacket.., her breath to feel,that intensely wild cologne….the same…An hour back…which made her senses to fail….

“Cheap trick…Inappropriate way…Trying to lure your boss?”,he asked chuckling…

She stood upright listening that…How did he land up here? Oh yes!…AR is his company…But..wasn’t he supposed to be at home for lunch…well….When he sucks human blood like a vampire in the name of efficient work….what’s the need for him to feed on food…

He snapped his fingers to her face…”Why are you here?”..

“Materials..”

“What nonsense…You aren’t that experienced to check materials…Just design and stay back…Did you get that…..”,he shook his head in annoyance.,sliding his left to his pant pocket…relaxing his neck muscles….

For a sec.,she thought..what if he behaves the same way inside the lift…Gosh!! she took steps in backwards and stood in a corner…

He din’t give a thought to look her…..His mind busily occupied with some thoughts…”Go back!”,he said sharp once he stepped out of the lift….

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“Ah…No Anki…Its Sunday..No one comes to office…Me and Sam..Ok…Bye…”,she threw her mobile to cushion….Pulled her hair to a messy bun and poked it with a china pin…threw her shawl away..switched on the lights…

“Sam…I will finish..no worries..Take your time..”,she replied attending her landline call…

The moment she landed into CAD software app.,she forgot the whole world and got too immersed designing….part by part…

“Left…Give me the left profile”..

“Hmm…I thought”,she replied unconscious….but her hand over mouse,failed to move a inch.,realizing the beholder behind her…the same calculative hoarse voice…

“This isn’t CAD”,he came to her level…she sensed his face next to hers…..gaze on the screen before…

“3 D virtual…”

“Good!!”,he turned to his left….but his eyes glanced her features expressing a shock!! She looked shocked!! Her juicy lips..he quickly averted his gaze….

“Where is Maira..And Employees aren’t allowed to come on Sundays”,he said regaining his posture…

She quickly got off the chair.,”She is in AR..Men’s collection…”

“Hmm..Ok..left profile..do it”,he gestured her to sit…

She couldn’t click a point in precise turning nervous…He sighed annoyed… “Get up”,he yelled..

His fingers pointed few things in air,before he got hold of mouse…and she kept watching him to work with ease…”Look…this point…”..He moved the cursor over the chest part of that outlined female figure on the screen…”You should concentrate for formals here..The elegant look.,should be your watch…!! Got it..An Apt fit.,not like usual formal shirts…the fabric should neither lie loose or wrinkle here”,the cursor moved in circle across the bust…”and….that’s for outlet designs..not.for.launch..”,he corrected the size she had mentioned…

Her mind was now fully occupied with one thought.,of how much he would have noticed women wearing formals..in particular their middle.,that now..he explicitly pointed it..and corrected a inch for bust size…She took a step behind.,and saw her shawl lying across the couch…she folded her arms across her chest…

He kept scrolling all her works..Everything.,the room.,his presence..,her work took a back seat as she got the images of his finger tracing her skin beneath her dress strap..asking if that was of her size..now his measurement….She was unable to figure out what was wrong…Its common for everyone in this field to note these things while designing a outfit…but still….she admonished herself for trying a perfect fit.,while the man.,her boss.,that jerk points elegance is missing…..Argh..!!…
What would have he thought about her.,a girl trying for a s**y fit in women’s formals..,and the guy indirectly points that,it isn’t necessary for his launch….But she din’t plan that…how the hell.,he landed behind her back.,why she wrote those sizes…Ah…Designs for outlets….

“Maira…whats up”,his voice brought her back….

Her eyes now scanned his broad shoulders and chest…His formal shirt to fix exact to his size….Not to wrinkle when he moved his arms as he stretched to take a pen,with Sam in call…..and his Jean…Completely different…An ivory color Jean with light pink formal shirt….Pink…!! Girl color..! Still he looked handsome..!! Arrogant…! the same charm… She peeped to look his corrections and her eyes widened..when he marked over bosom part…

“What the hell is wrong with him”,she mumbled unconsciously…

“Excuse me!”,his finger gestured her to come before him.,and that pen laid flat…

“Ah..Sir…!!”.she responded alerted..

“Well..Try this way..”.He marked a cross line….”So..the measurements?”,he looked her…

“Why to lay..”

“To avoid..”,he saw her look him intent.,he pursed his lips…averting his gaze to the monitor.,”Do as I say”,his voice came commanding…

She made a face….Is he a don or something…Arrogant much!!

“The next one?”,he asked… “Radhikaaa.”,he banged the table…

She being too engrossed imagining the outcome of the dress if done as per his instructions..,got alerted!….She stepped in between the legs of a tall stool to her left,and took her leg back,stumbled a little holding the system table…

“Enough of your silly stunts..”,he remarked annoyed…

She heartily cursed him under her breath…She was all sober until he made his entry…and what was the need for him to step in…well…Sunday was his day in Trendz…But its only because of Sam’s words that he won’t be here this week..she came…

His eyes thoroughly relished her every move…and his lips quirked up for a lopsided smirk once she moved towards door…He smiled a little…well..who expected her to be here today…..He came there to inform something.,but was surprised to see her using his PC…Who gave the access was the first thought to cross his mind.,but he knew the answer…Definitely Maira!! He stood on his place captivated with his view…his view of her brown orbs to scan every inch of that monitor’s screen.. her lips to blew away those disturbing hair strands from her messy bun,instead of pining it back….the sleeveless white top.,with multi colored skirt and Choco brown bold flat buttons till the middle of the top….

He stepped to find what made her engrossed.,but was equally interested with the patterns being clicked in one window and at the same time the rough sketches to be made into designs….Quite skillful l!! but when she struggled over one model,he wasn’t able to stay silent..,after he got that the left profile has something to do with her doubt…

His eyes flapped back to reality.,when he found her trying to pull the door open…he quickly went towards her…”Locked?”,he asked pulling it.

“No..No..I din’t…I din’t…”,she sounded tensed..

“Move..”,he hissed.

“You only locked it…”,her voice raised high being panicked…., He pulled her aside.,and held the door..

“Who pushed this stone?”,she asked…

“Stop screaming..”,he noticed a stone beneath..and looked her confused…

“They varnished wooden doors just half an back..and stone..”..

“Door stopper?”,he glared her…

She gulped.,”Yesterday it broke…”..

“Who the hell asked you to party in my room?”,he growled and moved towards a cupboard..

She cursed and ran behind…She had stuffed that cupboard with decors and being busy with her work.,she forgot to clean the next day… “Sir..sir…”,she ran chanting..and he turned abruptly only to get hit with her…Glaring her sharp,he pulled its door.,which got stuck surprising him…”why is that everything is stuck today”…he murmured as he tried again…That wooden non living thing,shook its whole receiving his forceful pull…

“Pls sir….It…”,before she could finish.,he pulled the door open and her back got hit with all the stuffs,she mercilessly had dumped inside that cupboard….
Something of over weight hit her back,forcing her to hit his front and he laid with his back over the armrest of that couch,as a result of that unanticipated incident….

He was shocked to see a pink teddy bear doll over her back…Was that his office or not…he looked the streamers,decor letters..lying on the floor…She had turned it,no less to a garbage…His anger vanished looking her.,to pout like a kid,rubbing her nose.,crooking down his neck a little he saw a small joker mask between him and her…the china pin peeping from her messy bun alerted him not to further crook his neck down to look her…her head over his chest,and he sighed irritated……His left raised to push the fur doll down.,but she flinched at that…..He raised hands back in air,….”Get up by yourself”,he said….

She saw his upper half to lay across the sofa and rest down.,while she was completely over him.,her legs dangled unable to touch the floor…,Had she grew 3 more inches tall.,her legs would have hit the floor….Wondering on what would have pushed her with that force,she searched something to hold.,only then she could raise herself….Lying flat over him.,annoyed her more..

He laid watching her to shook her shoulders to push back the teddy.,and trying her best to get up… “Hold the armrest”,his cold gaze fixed on her…She tried and finally gripped.,he got up with a force holding her shoulders,his legs balancing both of their weight,and he gripped her shoulder bone ordering,”Stand straight !!..”….She stood rooted feeling his grip on her shoulders…His eyes scanned the items scattered around,”Which idiot kept this inside?”,his voice failed to mask his surprise looking the wooden curtain brackets and curtain rods….If not the fur doll was over her back.,those would have hit her hard….

She pouted annoyed,trying to untwine a thread wound over her tops button.,his gaze followed to the other end and he quickly held her hand….

“Don’t”,he pointed a wall hanging decor still laying across inside the top shelf of the cupboard….He was confused with the metal frame staying there…He dialed Sam for help moving aside.,and searched for scissors or knife….He kept metal frame on sofa,.she sat next to it trying to pull the thread out…

“What for you got this thread”,he asked unable to figure out the reason of a heavy thread roll for a party….Her silence annoyed him.,he pulled her to his level.,and his fingers caught hold of those tangled threads lying over her hair….She glanced him once.,and with that.,her gaze was locked with his,he removed the roll from her hair.,and finally his fingers reached her button.,over her middle..her eyes widened a sec,when his fingers rolled over her top…his features turned soft with a smile as he wound the thread around his fingers…

He raised his hands holding two different thread rolls in each….Then she realized.,why wasn’t she able to do it….She dint even care to notice what his hand had got hold of every time,when it swirled front and back around her….she saw him embarrassed on her stupidity…”For lanterns..and for paper hanging..”,she said feeble pointing those….

They turned listening some noise…Sam’s and few men voice was audible…”you stay back..”,he pointed the couch….When he stepped near the door.,two guys pushed opened it from the other side..

“Maira..who kept those rods inside that cupboard..and what the hell..,door stopper is missing….Is this how..?”,he paused when Sam looked him confused…”That girl is sitting there..”.he pointed his right…

That girl ??!!..what that girl..her eyes narrowed listening his words…Thanks to the one,who designed this L shaped room…Her animated punch wouldn’t be visible for that haughty jerk….

“Adhi…”,Sam stood shocked with the window curtain rods on floor.. “Did it hit you baby”,she rubbed her back completely forgetting her furious brother’s presence…”that idiot lucky…”,she gritted her teeth..

“No Sam…I cleaned the room….You said to clean every single thing.,so Lucky took these..I told to… you see..cupboard was spacious too…”,she reasoned with utmost sincerity…

“But that’s for garments….Exclusive ones for outlets….”,his strict note made them to notice him….

Sam got worried thinking ways to handle the current situation….Her eyes followed his gaze to hit the pink teddy doll…His hands gestured his enquiry and Sam bit her lips wondering for an answer….He saw her and Sam…Sighing impossible one,he turned around to leave…

“Did he scold you?”,Sam asked….She clicked her tongue inside her cheek nonchalantly….Sam heaved relieved…. “Awww…Cute teddy…”,Sam poked the doll..

“Lucky’s return gift”,she carried it like a baby on her left…and walked across the room….

He smiled an unseen one.,as she stood on her tracks shocked looking him…with that doll,half of her size over her hip…

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Next day…

“Maira…”,he pushed open the door….but was greeted back with a empty cabin…As he walked across the office.,his feet failed to move listening someone to giggle….He slowly tread towards the pantry….There…that girl…Radhika…over the counter top…..Sitting relaxed.,chatting with someone…In office hours…Not even a chat…Its Poetry…Verse on love!! LOVE!!!

She finished it saying.,”My Heart beats only for you…!!”,with her left over her heart..,closing her eyes feeling the lyrical note…!!

Is she in love with someone!!

“Neil…Tell me…Helloooooo….Are you there?”,she sing sang…

He stepped back listening that….

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