He ran down with his eager form getting more restless. He was waiting anxiously to find out the truth behind what his eyes saw near the fish aquarium down here.. to his fate, many hot bodies covered him with expressing eyes, but the one form whom he searched seemed to be vanished..
He sighed and moved into his cabin to continue his tasks..
***
She knocked and entered the cabin when she heard an audible 'yes' for her to enter.. she saw a baldy fat man facing his back to her, standing near the cabin window.. he was doing something which she could not see..
The cabin was quite well maintained with a look given to impress any soul entering.. but it had some unique difference. .the cabin was all green.. not the walls, but the atmosphere. There were plants and plants everywhere.. she looked at the open window where 'the morning glory' bloomed along with 'office-morning flowers'in purple.. they were hanged in a pot.. the corners of the wall had veiled up money-plants creeping out of the pot and crawling on the windows, it seemed like the windows always remained open, all the time..
The man turned around to show himself.. he smiled seeing khushi, and asked her to sit.. he had a tumbler in his hand and on a proper observation, she knew that behind him were some rose pots which had buds of roses to bloom..
'this man in his early fifties seems to be a gardening freek'.. Thought khushi..
He kept the tumbler on the window and wiped his hands with a dirty cloth and threw it out of the window and grinned at khushi while sitting on his chair, which was covered with this person's over-coat on it..
She could not help but smile back. She tried and controlled her laugh, as she saw that fat belly peeping out from Mr. Dave's shirt buttons as she sat. he was fat indeed!
Mr. Dave- hello Miss..
Khushi-Khushi, Khushi Kumari Gupta.
She smiled and handed her qualification particulars to that person who was Mr. Dave. She was here to work as his P.A. ..
Mr. Dave looked at her particulars and looked above grinning. He was a nut-case she could make out.
Mr. Dave-You know about my babies?
Khushi-excuse me?
She jumped up a bit hearing this question..He was surely mad she confirmed to herself.She is here to work as his P.A. in the office,and what kind of question is that for an interview for her post? She tried to sound a bit reasonable answering the question but she had gone blank..
Mr. Dave-please be seated..
She sat down as he instructed.. He flipped through the pages from her file and looked at her again..
Mr. Dave-okay,look,i don't have any objection to hire you for this post,but,i don't appoint you..
Khushi-sorry sir,is there anything wrong with my bio-data?
Mr. Dave-oh no no.. All is just perfect..
Khushi-then?
She looked confused..
Mr. Dave-nothing.. I have a tendency to tense people.. I was just playing with you.. 
Khushi was dumb-folded.. Was this her could be boss?? Her breath caught in her wind pipe and her eyes not blinking..
Dave closed her file and placed it on the table..before he could say anything,his phone ringed..
Dave-yes..oh ya..PAUSE.. I will do that .. (nervous).PAUSE how many kilos...PAUSE.. okay..(he noted something down in his note pad and cut the call.. Now looking at Khushi..) My wife .. 
Khushi-sir,I - -
She had nothing to speak,what should she speak? Neither she was asked any reliable question nor she needed to give answers from her side.. It was her first interview..
NOW SHE WAS NERVOUS..
Dave-Why you want this job?
Khushi 
(stammering slowly) - so.. I can.. Help you..
(stammering slowly) - so.. I can.. Help you..
Dave-what can you do to help me?
He may look mad,but he did sound decent..
Khushi-I can help you with your greenery sir..
Electric guitars played in Dave's ears.. It was known fact in AR,that the way to Dave's heart was through his plants.. He loved them.. Khushi's this sentence was like a blessing to his soul.. He was grinning lost in his plants.. It was like- 'pyase ko paani mill gaya..'
Khushi-excuse me Sir..
Dave-you will take care of my 106 children..
Khushi's eyes went big and her tongue-tied.. her breath hitched..
Dave-great,your appointed.. Congratulations..
Saying this he rushed out to get Khushi her appointment letter,who was still fixed to her seat..
'Was this my interview for real?' she she questioned herself feeling dizzy..
**
He was still looking out from his cabin.. His one way glass was helping him to keep his anxiety to himself.. He paced from here to there and went near his white board to doodle something to take out his anxiety..
The peon came in his cabin after knocking and gave him an envelop.. Arnav left the board marker on his desk and opened the envelop after the peon left.. He had to attend a conference call with their Paris clients with his boss Aman.. He moved down..
**
Mr. Dave gave her an appointment letter with a 1000 watt smile on his face and she could feel his over-joyed dancing heart.. She managed to smile back trying to keep it real and replied a thank you.. She turned to leave the cabin when she remembered something and faced Mr.Dave,her boss from now on..
Khushi- Sir,from when can i join? And where would my place be? And what time should i reach here?
**
Dave- Ah, am so sorry k I forgot to inform you that ..
She saw his embarrased pink face.. 'Is He Gay? ' she thought, 'But 106 children ?!' she shaked her head before her nave thoughts turn gutter..
Dave-yur desk will be out along the others and your call time will be 9.00 am. And ya, tomorrow when you come, get a copy of your house bill, for your address proof, as for a security purpose.. you will have to fill a form, just a formality..
Khushi was now thinking of words to speak..
Khushi-actually Sir, to be true, I was not sure if I will get this job but, I am happy to be wrking under your guidance.. Sir I - - I still have to rent a house here, presently I am at my friend's place..
Dave-oh! Okay.. then fill the form as soon as you get a house here in Delhi, you better be fast, its hard to find houses here, they are not economical at all.. Good luck with everything.. and get started from tomorrow..
Khushi was lucky indeed she thought.. She grabbed her bio-data file close to her heart feeling happy and hopped out of the cabin not before thanking Mr.Dave, her boss..
***
Arnav was rushing down to Aman's cabin when he heard a girl taking to her self- '106 children ?' he turned to the direction and hit her as the files fell from both her hands and the papers floated in air.. next arnav knew was that his hallucination was in a real form, out of his mind, gripped in his arms..
***
Khushi came out of the cabin in her bubbly form and twirled in pride of victory.. She hugged herself happily and her charged up body came to a pause when her bosses's words ringed her ears. She walked now getting confused and lost..
'106 children ? ' she questioned herself without looking forward she kept on walking ignoring the figure coming from front..
and 'BAMM' she was hit with a hard body who had a known scent. She was falling down and down when a warm hand slid below her waist and pulled her up. She held the material on coat above those shoulders firmly and her file dropped from her hands as papers dispersed in air..
Arnav held her sliding his hands on that soft material which covered her secret touch, her waist. Both figures holding each other, standing vertically slant in air..Fear of getting hit down still visible in her eyes and both the bodies holding ach other firmly.. he saw her eyes.. so innocent, so pure, so very her!
'She is here.. I was NOT hallucinating.'
He smiled at her and said to himself, who was happy to feel her under him..
She saw him. She those eyes before going in Mr. Dave's cabin she thought.. those eyes looked so familier.. they were the same eyes which- -'
Her thoughts were interrupted as she saw him smirking at her and felt goose-bumps as his hand gripped her waist and roamed there making her feel cautious and embarrassed.. She could sense some different feeling by the way his fingers played at her waist and his smirk covered his face.
She gulped and pushed him getting straight on her legs and broke her long eye-look looking the other side..
The staff had already witnessed their SO-GOODY GODDY Arnav Sir giving attention to a girl for the very first time! Arnav continued to stare her who adjusted her white dupatta and pushed her locks behind.. he stared her with one an eagle's eye as she bent down to pick up her file and papers which lay lifeless on the ground..
he bent down to help her without breaking their eye-lock from his side and his continuous glares with such a 'LOST' face was making her uncomfortable.
He helped her collecting the papers and she looked again directly in his eyes which she now found so pure and everything around slowed down for both, AGAIN.
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