Episode 21
Rithish and Santhoshini sees each other… Both gets shocked seeing each other… Suddenly someone clears throat…
Rithish turns and sees his best friend Kamal… and he smiles gestured him to move into the lift…
Santhoshini moves to the left corner and Rithish stands in left corner… And Kamal sees Rithish.. and smiles teasingly… And he left …. Not before whispering ” you have to explain” and gestures towards Santhoshini….
After Kamal moves out… The lift closes with bang… Both gets shocked seeing the lift immobile …Santhoshi who already in shock… And fear… She gets dizzy and before she falls Rithish catches her and he kneels down and slowly slaps her cheeks to wake her up….
He feels sad for her… And sees the Appointment letter in her hand… It’s the Appointment letter to meet the Chairman….It’s her first time to come to the back part of the company… It needs special permission or appointment letter.. only Chairman and main directors of the company is allowed… The entire building consists of five parts… Eastern wing… Western wing… Northern wing… Southern wing.. and Central wing…
He seems surprised to see her in this place… Santhoshini is his next in command… Because of her talent… She comes to this place within a year of joining… But last 3 months are worst part of her company’s life… Because it’s Rithish… He first starts hating her due to some past incidents… And doubles her work load… The work of his another command Sheena’s work also done by Santhoshini…
Rithish – Santhoshini… Wake up… If you not wake up now… I have to double your workload… ( But anyone can say it’s just a fake threat)…
Santhoshini doesn’t seems like moving… He started to get panics… He thought of calling someone… But there is No signal inside the lift…
Rithish then observes santhoshini face clearly… It’s sweet and innocent face…
Rithish ” how can I trouble you this much… I know it’s neither of us fault… My mind accepts it but not my heart… What can I do …. I’m just super stubborn… And my ego doesn’t gives way to accept my fault… How can I behave when a girl slaps me in front of my friends… But I accept the fact any girl in your place will do that thing.. the slap…. ”
Then Rithish blows some air in her face and tucks the hair behind her ears… Then something made him to kiss her forehead… Yes he kissed her forehead…
Then he notice water bottle in her hand bag and opens it… Before he reaches her water bottle he sees some papers stuck between the zip… He slowly removed it and sees it… It’s the thank you note for blood donation… In the name of Santhoshini… He just smiled and sees her hand… There is some small round brown colour bandage…
Rithish ” it’s just because of your blood donation you fell down ah.. I like it to see your face relaxing for the first time”…
He then takes the water bottle and sprinkles water in her face… She slowly opens her eyes… He smiles but he hides that behind his fake cold look…. Santhoshini sees the surrounding and recalls everything… Then sees her boss next to her very closely… She suddenly try to get up but fails… Again he holds her… But so closely… She can feel his breath in her neck… She just closes her eyes and after 5 second she comes to reality and backs away from him…. For some reason he didn’t like her to move back… And bends down her head…
Santhoshini- I’m extr…em..ely so.. sor.. sorrry sir…
She sl*tters her words which brings smile to his cold face…
Rithish – what did you eat in the morning??…
Santhoshini – sir..?? What???…
The person who doesn’t even care for some one even at the least… Ask her this question…
Rithish – I asked you correctly… What did you have for breakfast… And say what did you do after getting out from home…
He said coldly and arrogantly… But there lies the care… Hiding behind it…
Santhoshini gets scared and started saying everything like a dictation to her teacher… ” Actually sir… I left my home at 7 and I knew about the Blood donation camp nearby our office… They are in need of O-ve…. So I thought of donating blood… But if I have my breakfast it will take time… So I said that I’ll have breakfast in company canteen to my family and came to the camp.. only two peoples are standing in the line of O negative… So I just filled the form and I was taken to the lab for testing and I donated blood. The nurse instructed me to stay for half an hour and ask me to eat something because I’ll fall down if I strain myself for half an hour after donating blood… but it’s already 7.30…so I excused and left the lab.. But again I was stopped by the mother of some child… She thanked me for saving her child by donating the blood… As they didn’t find more people of the same blood group…after I left the camp I came to office at 7.45… So I given letter to meet Chairman at 8…and I was directed towards this lift… So I came…” She narrated everything without breathing in between…
Rithish who was dumdfold till now… Opens his mouth…
Rithish – cool down… Here have some water… ( He helped her by feeding water… He likes his close proximity with her… The first woman makes him to do work for her.. the first woman he felt to have this closeness for life long…)
Santhoshini realises that her boss is actually feeding her water… She sees him and both have a cute eyelock…
Precap –
Sheena scolds santhoshini for having apple in office time… And tries to slap her but instead Rithish slaps her… Sheena places her hand on her cheek and looks him and shocked santhoshini also looks him…
Later Rithish apologies Santhoshini and sees the small amount of apple piece on her corner of the mouth and wipes it with his thumb… She closes her eyes and he tastes that piece… Sheena is fuming in her room…
Next update will be tomorrow night…