Chore of Holders

Chapter three

I woke up early this morning, took shower and had breakfast with Hailey and Samantha because mum and dad had already left together for work. We three were having our breakfast peacefully when I saw Zorro barking a lot. It was unusual, he never does this, he is usually calm and quiet, so I stood up to check him in the garden. He was acting weirdly; he was continuously staring at the main road where I could only see heavy traffic, vehicles and people, hustle bustle. I thought maybe because of the cars he was barking, so I took him inside and gave him his food. And I tried to calm him by caressing his back, after a while, he got quiet and sleepy, as he slept; I came back to the table in order to resume my breakfast from where I had left. 

I arrived at the University and attended three consecutive lectures in the first half. Yesterday dad asked me to visit office more often because he alone cannot manage his cases along with our family business. My father got this company from his father, and despite of the fact that my father was interested in becoming lawyer from the very start, my grandfather asked him to pursue his passion along with this family business, to which my father happily agreed, and he proudly mentions at times that he is doing it well, and undoubtedly all these years, he has been managing all this like a pro and now he wants me to take over his place in the company. I decided to go to the office after classes. Mira and I had our lunch at around 12 and then I dropped her back to her place and reached office within an hour because I don’t know for what reason there was a heavy traffic today unlike normal days. 

“Good morning son.” Bronze said and greeted me with a smile, he is the manager here, since dad is mostly busy in handling his law cases and he does not get proper time to look after his business which he got from his father, so this man Bronze is basically our savior, he manages each and every single thing and he is my father’s friend, they have been together since a very long time now, he is my father’s partner. Even Bronze wants me to help him in office because he now says that he is getting old and wants to make sure that their “empire” is in good hands. He ordered tea for me and asked me to sit, he started explaining me all the things in details about the upcoming project and I was listening thoroughly, when I noticed that I saw something weird on the street. I was sitting on the 3rd floor of our building and I could see all the roads and streets down there. I saw him once again, yes I just did, and he was walking inside the mart which is exactly located in front of our company’s building. “Alex, are you even listening to me?” He suddenly disrupted my thoughts and I nodded. God, why on earth do I get to see him now, what exactly is the purpose of me watching him walking inside the mart or finding his car key in a mall. I really got disturbed because I was sure about one thing that this cannot be a co incidence, this man is someone that I have dreamt of so many times in my childhood, I still do. Moreover, everybody around him acts normal and do not get frightened or freaked out because according to them he is just a normal man, unlike me, I can see his half burnt face and that black gown as well. 

After some time, I finished my tea and got all the details regarding the proposal and I also suggested some solutions to the problems encountered by our workers in the market, we discussed it with every department’s manager and had a good time discussing all the issues. Though I know at the workplace you have to be calm and composed, you have to keep aside your feelings and emotions while you are in a meeting, but I could not snap that man out of my mind the whole time. The discussion was really helpful and gave me confidence to give proposals in future as well, because everyone liked my idea. “Nice to meet you Mr. Alex, we are sure we will get more success under you and we are hopeful to create a healthy work environment when we have people like you on our top, it’s a privilege to work with you sir”. Mr. Navoki, our senior executive greeted me with these motivating words to which I said “It is indeed an absolute pleasure to work in my company with people like you, who are working really hard to make our company’s vision successful, I really appreciate your words and I hope the same too. Thank you so much; nice to meet you too sir.”

It was around 6 in the evening when Mira called me to ask where I was, I told her about the meeting and everything, even I told her about that man, to which she responded the same as she did last time that it must be a coincidence that I saw him again and it is just normal, I should not be bothered by him anymore. I was still sitting inside the meeting room in the same chair thinking about that man, I opened my phone and started searching about gown with triangular sign. The search was loading when my father’s number popped on the screen, I received the call and he asked me about my time in office, after 10 to 15 minutes of discussion, he told me that he will be late today so I should get back to home now as Hailey is home alone. So I got up and drove back to home, “You back”, said Hailey while hugging me tightly. Hailey and I are very close to each other, we share every strong bond, our age difference is five years but seems like she is my age or I am her age. Because we understand each other like no one can, she is a gem to me, I love her with all my heart, she is my little sister and I always treat her like I used to treat my bunny before she was born. Just like that bunny, I take care of her every single thing, I support her in whatever she does, and she is very talented. We often try our best to annoy each other and especially me because I love to see her irritated face. Hailey hugging me was something unusual because she is not that expressive, she does not hug me normally like this, so I asked her “Is that some sort of prank or something, I guess you need something, you are smelly, get off”. I pushed her and laughed to which she slapped my arm so hard that I almost got a shock, “God, what do you eat? Zorro’s snacks to make energy for slapping me this hard and by the way you should be ashamed; I am four years elder”. I tried my best to annoy her by poking her face twice, and surprisingly she did not get annoyed. In fact she started, “Yeah you’re absolutely right bro, I am so sorry, I owe you an apology, kindly accept my sorry”. It got me by surprise, what does she want, I thought in my head, I quickly raised my one eyebrow at her and she suddenly started laughing. Okay so I know she wants to take a favor or something, “what?” “If you get permission from dad to let me go at the concert on 17th, I will be really thankful to you, I won’t tell you broke mum’s favorite glass last week, Samantha’s hair dryer is not working because of your chewing gum that you accidentally threw on it, but I will tell as if you knowingly did this, I will also not tell dad about you leaving me outside the garden in that heavy rainy night all alone and..”. “Such an evil you are, 17th this month?” I quickly said so that she could not add up more things in her list. “Oh yes, Thank you so much, I don’t know what have I ever done in my life to deserve this beautiful brother”, she calls me beautiful to irritate, I made a poker face and rolled my eyes at her, she made a puppy face while requesting so I could not deny, and her list was a clear threat to me so I sensibly decided to help her.