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"Wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR filled with love, happiness, prosperity and success"
For the first time in 7
years of My Corporate life, the office communicator said I don’t want to be
disturbed. My Outlook was sending alerts for the missed deadlines and
unattended meetings. I was seated in my cabin at the corner of the large ODC,
separated from my team. The only good thing about being seated in a cabin is
that, no one notices your tension.
She stood before me and had
a very serious look. 'Not again' I thought, I was not in a mood to continue the
argument we had this morning. Don’t ask me if I remember any of it, I don’t.
Her eyes were still having the same rage that she maintained from home to
office, a 45 minutes’ drive. I didn’t try to convince or confess. I am good in
neither. I am good in avoiding these arguments though.
"Why are you avoiding me?"
"What? Has she started reading my
mind?"
"You haven’t replied to any
of my messages or Whatsapp pings."
I took out the mobile that
showed 4 messages and 10 pings.
"I never noticed them."
"Exactly! Why didn’t you?"
I didn’t answer for that.
Well what would you answer for a question like that?
"I called you, just before I
came in to your ODC."
Oh no! Was that her call? I
started feeling guilty for putting the phone on silent when it started singing
the Samsung default ringtone.
"Say something"
"I didn’t notice it
was you"
"So, you would have
took it if it was me"
I had to say something to
postpone the argument, and the best lines that I could say was, “I am busy
now. Can we have this conversation later?"
"No!" Single word, two letters
was enough to throw away my best lines to trash. I was lucky now to get the
word though. Usually she would just look into my eyes and I would start
reciting my apology.
"Can’t you see that
you are being unreasonable? This is my workplace." I said in an
irritated tone.
"Exactly! This is what
you should have said this morning."
"What?"
"I woke up with a
headache but that doesn’t grant me immunity over fighting with you this
morning."
I didn’t say a word. But
started to feel that the conversation is heading towards a happy ending.
"So what should you
have done?" She asked without the slightest hint of smile
or anger.
That was a boomerang. I was
stupid to assume that I can win an argument with her.
"What? What should I
have done?" I didn’t have anything to say. There are times when
you won’t know what to speak and there are times you stop yourself from making
further damage to the situation.
"You should have
explained to me that I was wrong. I was being unreasonable. You should have not
let me to ruin your day."
"Okay. So, why are you
saying all this now?"
"I can’t carry the
guilt through the day after realizing my fault."
"Okay."
"So what I am saying
is, I am sorry for ruining your morning'"
"Okay." A small smile
appeared at the end of my lips. Was it relief? Was it something else? I noticed
the shine from her lip gloss, the minute blue ear ring, the maroon dot between
her eye brows and the small Sandal line above
it as she leaned on my desk.
"And you should come
home early today so that I can ask absolution in a more appropriate
way." she whispered with a mischievous smile.
"Absol... What?" I asked, unable to
hold the smile that made a hole in my cheek.
She touched my cheek
saying, "And this smile my dear
is the reward I get for the conversation we had now" and walked away.
I stood up to see her walk
towards the door. That walk told me the smile she had, the smile that makes a
curve in her Cheek and pushes the Cheek bones high.
And before she walked out
of my ODC, she lifted her hand and said bye without turning back.
I stood there smiling to
myself avoiding the heads that were peeping to make fun of me.
"You can never beat
her in these styles."
