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Hey guys: Just a reminder

I came across some quotes that symbolizes what I want to depict in this story at some point so I thought of adding few quotes and my thoughts describing them in my point of view. You guys can read it or skip it totally up to you. Don't forget to comment and let me know what you think.   

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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

-David Brinkley

David’s quotes is an eye opener and one of the best inspirational quotes. There are so many people who takes others bullshit for a long time and get insecure which leads to depression and anxiety attacks. Mental health becomes a major issue with it. David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC. As David said, we should build our life the way we want and show the people who wronged us how unfortunate they are to lose us. People throw a lot of s**t at us in our journey of life but we shouldn’t stop anywhere just people someone who is envious of you or jealous of you had something to say. It never matters nor is it true.   

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Enjoy the chapter:

I woke up early today and I’m highly excited and in a happy mood. I dressed myself in my yoga pants and sports bra. I placed my yoga mat in my balcony and started doing yoga. I do it every weekend but I think I should start doing it every day. No matter in what mood I sleep in after doing yoga I feel good and refreshed after sweating a bit, not to forget sweating helps rejuvenating skin too.

After doing my yoga, I made myself some smoothie and started making some light breakfast. Eating heavy breakfast after yoga makes no sense. After that I called my parents and had a quick chat with them. I got ready and gave a call to Richa as she told me yesterday to call her once I get ready.

She told me that she would pick me up as there are more malls near my area. I got ready and came down to wait for her near the gate. There were few apartment residences who gave smiled at me in acknowledgement and I returned it.

“Hey Uncle” I greeted the watchman. He is a mid 50’s man who is very kind and helpful. He had helped me few sometimes when I wanted to know about the area and where I can get the things that I want.

“Hi Akshara” He greeted back giving me a smile.

“How are you?” I asked him standing near his chair.

“I’m fine beta(child), how are you?” He asked back.

“I’m awesome as always” I said shrugging and he laughed at my words.

“That you are, how is work going on?” He asked tilting his head.

“The work on the project has started so I’m excited to be a part of it” I said smiling giddily.

“I’m glad, are you adjusted to Bangalore?” He asked with concern.

“Yeah, this place is awesome. Just traffic is much but nothing compared to Mumbai” I said with a smile.

“That is true, it takes an hour for me to get home” He said shaking his head. Before I could answer we heard a horn and a car sound. I turned to my left to see an Audi car and I felt my ovaries flip.

I love cars, that too posh and costly cars.

I had a huge fight with dad to get an Audi or a BMW but dad was hell bent on Toyota Innova Crista. I don’t get it why he likes it so much. He brought a new Innova when I was in high school and drove it for nearly 7-8 years and gave it to his cousin. Now again he got a new Innova. I don’t get why he is so obsessed with that car. Sure, it is amazing but it is so big not at all necessary for us.

I looked at the person in the car and stilled. There sat Varun Mehta wearing a sunglass looking like a model. Looks doesn’t matter now that he’s thoughts are so rotten.

“Hey Kaka” He greeted the watchman by rolling his windows down.

“Good morning sir” Uncle replied back and went to open the gate for him.

He turned his attention to me and stared at me.

I looked at him for a second and turned my eyes towards my phone.

Where the hell is this Richa?

I raised my head when I heard the car sound. He drove off and uncle closed the gate.

We usually use the small gate and open the big one when there is cars movement. Uncle once told me that Varun is planning on getting one of the automatic open and close of the gate mechanism where Uncle can handle it from sitting in a small booth on the side.

He said that Varun is working on it and will deploy it in a few weeks.

At least he is respectable to Uncle and not acting like those rich people do.

I heard a car horn and looked outside the gate to see Richa waving her arm around. Sighing, I bid bye to uncle and walked out of the small gate and got into her car in the passenger seat.

“Hey girl” she greeted with a smile. She is wearing a yellow sleeveless shirt and a white plant with a sunglass on her head looking chic.

“Hey, are you ready?” I asked with a wink.

“Of course, can’t you say by my look” She said pointing towards her.

“Yeah, very chic” I said chuckling.

“Damn right, let’s go” She whopped and started the car. During the whole ride, we kept listening to some of her favorite song which I knew as well as it was nice. It wasn’t awkward though, we usually spend time when we are with our whole team and I think after our first talk this is the second time we are talking, just us.

When we reached the mall, we parked it in the parking lot and got into an elevator.

“Where do you want to have lunch? Here in the food court or go somewhere else?” She asked me pressing ground floor.

“Let’s decide later, I just had my breakfast so my brain is not thinking about food” I said shrugging and she chuckled nodding.

“So, what do you want to get?” I asked her as we got out of the elevator.

“I was thinking of a suit” She said thinking.

“To an inaugural function?” I asked raising my eyebrows.

“Yeah, we are the employees right? It’s not like our home function to wear something traditional” She said shrugging.

“Okay, I thought of getting a peach color like almost nude color suite, a chudidar” I said smiling. I’m excited to find my dress.

“Then let’s go to soch for your clothes and zara for mine, what say?” She asked and I nodded.

“Cool, let’s go to zara first, it’s on the ground floor” I said pointing towards the Zara store.

We shopped for 3 hours straight and got her a teal color suit with white shirt inside. She looked good in it but it was too professional in my opinion. Next we went to Soch and other ethic wear shops and got the suite that I wanted. I was perfect with semi-circle neck line and half sleeves. The measurement was perfect for me so no need to get any stitches.

After that we went to buy a cocktail or party dress for the pub tonight. She bought a black body con dress while I bought a white body con dress with a plunging neckline. We also got matching heels, I’m used to wearing heels so I got a small 3 inch heels. I love to dance and I don’t want to sit in the side with leg pain or strain my ankle while dancing. She did the same.

We chatted a lot during shopping. I shared her about my family and friends while she shared about her family, She’s from Bangalore itself. Once we were done with the shopping we were to a near by posh diner for lunch. It looked lavish and I actually liked it.

After than we went to my place to chill and then later get ready here itself. We agreed that she would come back to this place and spend the night here. Today, Ashish would be the designated driver. He would drop us off here and others to their respective home.

We got back to my apartment after we had lunch. It was a relaxing lunch to be clear. We talked about our lives and family, mostly fun stuff. We are not yet close enough to share the dark parts of our life. The dynamic between us shifted from when I got into her car in the morning to now, we are more comfortable.

We still had few hours to kill before we had to get ready so we sat our asses on the sofa and started scrolling through Netflix.

“Hey, have you seen Bridgerton?” I asked her.

“No, is it a TV show or a movie?” She asked in confusion.

“OMG, you haven’t seen it. Gosh girl, you are in for a treat” I exclaimed sitting up all of sudden scaring her a bit.

“Okay, play it. I want a treat so bad” She said chuckling looking at me in amusement.

I played the show and relaxed myself into the sofa. We watched 4 episodes before we realized that we have to get ready. We thought of going to club at 9 so that after partying, we can eat something.

“Damn, I want to watch what happens next” She said applying concealer under her eyes. I laughed at her words. She is hooked for the show.

“I know right, even I couldn’t wait to see other 4 chapters the first time I saw it” I said moisturizing my face. I do it every time before applying foundation. I usually don’t apply foundation but today I want to go all out and look bomb.

I honestly need it after the week that I had.

We got ready talking about the show and discussing about the scene that we thought were good or intriguing or fun. After that, I wore that dress in my room while she got dressed in the washroom.

“How do I look?” She asked getting out of the washroom and twirled around.

“Smoking hot” I said winking.

“Thank you” She said smiling slapping her hairs back like a diva.

I chuckled at her antics.

“Can you zip me up?” I asked turning around.

“Sure” she said and came near me to zip the dress.

“Wow Aksh, your skin is so smooth” She said in envy. I get my soft and plum skin from my mom. I’m a photo copy of her, that’s what everyone says.

“All thanks to my mom” I said modestly.

“I can already tell without seeing her that she’s a beauty” She said rolling her lips.

“Stop buttering, it won’t work. I won’t make out with you” I said waving my hand.

She looked at me shocked and later started chuckling.

“Oh please, you are not my type” She said grabbing the straightener to straighten her hairs. Her hairs are naturally straight with little waves at the end but mine is complete curly hairs when I take bath but after combing they turn wavy.

“Then what is your type?” I asked wiggling my eyebrows.

“Tall, dark and handsome” she said smirking.

“Hey, we do have same type” I said chuckling and she laughed at my silly comment. Every girl fantasies about tall, dark and handsome guys.

“Someone like Varun Mehta” She said sighing dreamily and my smile dropped at her words.

“No thanks, anyone but him” I said crunching my face in distaste.

“Oh come on, you have to agree he is hot” She said rolling her eyes as I was bluffing.

“True but his personality sucks” I said applying my lipstick.

“He can be a grump sometimes but he is very respectable you know. He treats every girl in the office with respect, except for Carla that is because she tries to jump on him every chance she gets. He never once misbehaves with any girl in the company” She took his side.

Whatever she said is true but I still don’t like him for what he said to me two days ago. It’s not like I’ll tell her that so I kept mum and continued applying my lip gloss.

“You know he gives everyone very nice health benefits and he takes care of education of all the janitors children. He treats everyone fairly and give us generous bonus when the company hit new profit percent every time, unlike other company” She continued ranting about him. Listening to that made me wonder if he is actually that good guy, did I do something for him to say what he said. Did I trigger him?

I got a text from Ashish that he was outside the gate with his girlfriend. His father actually has an Innova so all of us will fit in completely.

“Yeah yeah, Ashish is downstairs. Let’s go. Grab your phone and bag” I said grabbed my phone and my sling bag which was light weight and comfortable.