Raj walked Meera to her apartment’s door, then waited until her flat mates opened the door, and then bade her farewell, watched her enter her apartment before leaving.

He had just reached the entrance of the apartment building when suddenly his phone rang. He checked who was the caller and phone showed ‘Prashant’, his friend and business partner who should be in a very important meeting right now.

After looking at the name in his phone he became nervous and answered the phone “Hey Prashant, what happened in the meeting?”

Prashant was in the meeting to finalize their investor for their business venture, there were many who are interested to invest because of Raj’s abilities but their conditions are much harsher than this investor who is with Prashant right now, if the investment deal with them finalizes, their venture would be like tiger with wings or cherry on top of the cake. This is also the reason why Raj is leaving California. They wanted to establish their own event management company rather than working in someone else’s. Their proposed company name was ‘Moments Event Management’.

Prashant knew how anxious and nervous Raj was so he didn’t tarry and replied in a solemn tone “Investors are happy with our proposal but their head wants to add a condition to it and it didn’t reach your bottom line for our project, so I suggested him to talk to you.”

Raj thought for a second and replied seriously “Put the phone on speaker.”

Prashant put the phone on speaker; either way Raj was the main lead in the project and also had the final say in it. The investor name was Barry White, a giant in the world of investment. He is considered to be best in business for being fair and to have his investment always return a good outcome.

Barry was a straightforward and upright man so he directly answered “Raj, I was there when you organized the Marriage as project head in Venice last year, I know most of the things in my friends marriage was your idea so when I learned about you starting anew, I was happy because I know your previous company has name and gives good money but they never gave credit to deserving workers.”

After praising and putting the reason for investment and that he had the good impression of Raj, that’s why the deal will go through if the condition can be fulfilled so he continued “Half of the world already knows that I have an Indian girlfriend and I am going to marry her so I want to you to be Event Organizer but you know I can’t hire anyone so I want your company to be listed as top ten in India by end of two years, so you can conclude these as my conditions.”

After hearing Barry’s conditions, Raj was in thoughts. He knew that it was investors right to have his investment succeed and he also met Barry on two to three occasions and what he heard and knew about that he can be a trusted partner though there were extra conditions that they had not discussed earlier. It does not affect the overall picture much.

After some deliberation, he answered formally “Mr. Barry, I have heard of your good name too and know how just you are, I know it is tough for someone new to do this after entering the market, but it will be a good challenge rather than calling them conditions but I would like to request your support as you have more contacts than me.”

Well after so many years in the industry, he knew when to compliment the other and how to look good while doing that. He easily converted conditions as challenges and request his aid without being outright.

Barry after hearing the answer smiled as it was better than he expected, he was happy with the answer so he replied jubilantly “That settles everything, I heard you will reach India in two days so let’s sign the contract then, Gentlemen, that will be all”.

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Hearing that the deal was sealed, Prashant was so happy that it was hard for him to control himself, they have been trying for investments for so long and finally the dust has settled on this matter. The guest left after two to three minutes in which neither Prashant nor Raj said anything. When there was no one in the room Prashant stood up from his chair and shouted “Yes, we finally did it.”

Raj after hearing his friend shout and cheers could not control himself too and said one word loudly “Finally.” He realized he was not alone and was at entrance of someone else’s apartment at night. He looked apologetically as his first thought was to run from the apartment then a thought came to his mind and he turns to the direction where he came from some time back, direction of Meera’s apartment, He reached the apartment after a moment and pressed the doorbell and waited for someone to answer.

A flat mate of Meera’s came to the door, looked from the system and asked “Aren’t you Meera’s friend, why are you here again?”

Looking awkward he thought of an excuse and replied with a little embarrassment “she forgot something so I came to return it, can you call her for a sec?”

The flat mate looked meaningfully for a moment and called for Meera, informing her of friend on the door.

Meera who just cleaned herself and changed looked confused as she knew she didn’t forget anything she thought for a second and smiled thoughtfully; let’s see what this rascal is up to.

She opened the door and looked how happy Raj was, his temperament has changed a little he has a happy vibes about him now, she noticed so she asked confused “what are you up to now, little rascal?”

Raj looked at her Senior who has the wet hair and wearing comfy home clothes, suddenly he had the urge to kiss her but he lacked the courage to kiss her on lips so he kissed her on forehead and said “Senior, you really are lucky star for me, I got the deal I wanted for so long”

She was first shocked than smiled as this was the first time he initiated anything between them, today she was also emotional so she didn’t hold back and hugged him tightly and congratulated him.

They both stand there for some time not saying anything and then a thought stuck her so she asked suddenly “Aren’t you going too late for the flight?”

Suddenly color drained from Raj’s Face as he yelled in distress “Shit I am done for”

He looked at Meera for a second and started running after saying “Sorry Senior, I have to run now, I will contact you on Facebook as soon I reach India and have time” as they still didn’t have each other’s contact number.

Seeing him run she sighed, she was confused about how she should react as they were finally making progress but now he was leaving, she shook her head and thought to go with the flow at the moment and replied “Rascal, remember, the next time we meet, you better be ready for punishment.”

When Raj heard this, he smiled ruefully. He exited the building, took a cab to his apartment, checked the luggage, washed the face, and arranged his clothes in hurry.

After checking everything done in the apartment, he handed the key to the owner of house who happens to be his neighbor and left for airport and successfully boarded the plane.

Settled in his seat he started to think about his old days with senior when they were in college. There was one time when he was sad due to some problems with family there was no one who he wanted to share this with but Senior noticed his behavior and took him out.

This was the first time when they came closer to each other as he poured his heart about his feelings and problem. Meera patiently listened and advised him where she could, he even cried in front of her. This was the first time she has seen a man cry for a good reason except her family.

This incident became turning point in their relationship they never committed to each other but were closer than that, they knew almost everything about each other but didn’t say a thing about it because they didn’t care or wanted it. Raj remembered so many incidents as time passed; he eventually slept for twelve hours and woke up just in time when flight landed at intersection. He felt like what happened yesterday was a dream and he didn’t want it to end.

This was their first time after college and their relationship ship was as ambiguous as it can be. This was first kiss they share with each other, technically not kiss but that showed how much they care for each other and adored each other.