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Genre -ROMANCE


Ahmedabad. I’m here, in an unknown and new city for starting a new life. I got a job before coming here which I would be starting from the day after tomorrow but I didn’t find a place to stay. I exit the platform and just started walking hoping to find a hotel where I can stay for the night and have dinner. As I was near the railway station so there were so many hotels, I went to total four hotels and asked the fare for one day and chose the cheapest one as I have to be careful spending money. I had dinner in my room and slept.

It's new day of my new life with no stress. I don’t have anything or anyone to be worried about. I ordered sandwich then got fresh and left for getting a place to stay. I met two to three real estate agents and finalized a place by the evening and the plus point was that it had a single bed that means I didn’t have to sleep on the floor because I couldn’t afford to buy a bed for at least three to four months. Then I went to buy some necessary stuff I needed for the house a fan, a gas stove, and kitchen utensils. I already have my soap, shampoo, lip balm, kajal etc. in my bag so I don’t actually need to buy it right now. Then I went back to the hotel check out and finally I’m at my own place. I ordered dinner online for today, I would go to the market tomorrow after work.

It’s morning again I woke up and got ready for my first day at job. I had breakfast on my way to work. I’m little nervous to be honest but I’m more excited. I mean everyone would be strangers, they would not have any idea about past me. I am appointed as Social Media Manager at an event management enterprise i.e., “MAKE IT HAPPEN EVENT ”. When I entered the office, my boss introduced me to my colleagues and showed me my desk and gave me my office id and password to login in the computer and explained my work. While I was starting my computer, I saw someone coming from the office entrance door.

Gorgeous. Hot. Handsome. These thoughts came into my mind when I saw him coming. He had grey eyes and he was wearing a light blue color T-shirt. Our eyes met. He caught me checking him out and he smiled and came to me.

He asked, “Hello, you must be Kavya Sharma, the new Social Media Manager ?”

I replied, “Yes.”

He said, “I’m Niketan Gupta. I’m the Event Manager here.”

I said, “Oh.” Seriously just oh, no hello, no saying nice to meet you.

He said, “Good, I’m looking forward to know you.” And then he went into his office with a big smile on his face. What does that mean? Looking forward to know me. Why would he want to know me? Did he said that because he saw me checking him out? Was he flirting? Oh my god, why am I overthinking? Maybe he just meant to say looking forward to work with me. Yes, this is what he wanted to say.

Peace. I finally have peace of mind now. I did a good job today at work. But I couldn’t stop thinking about Niketan. The way he talked to me at first and then at lunch too. No, I shouldn’t think about him. I made three rules for living here one was not to think about my past, the second was dating with no string attached in short not to fall for someone at least for some time which means break up before you fall for the guy and the third was no dating an office colleague because it would be obviously awkward.

It has been two months since I moved here. I have a cool job. All I have to do was upload photos of events on our enterprise’s social media account, answer the queries online, review the feedback from customers, also I attend the events personally to help them organize, click photos and all. I’m also going on dates with the guys through the help of tinder. Also, I’m still a pure virgin, I haven’t kissed any guy yet. I’m just friends with Nick, he told me to call him Nick now that we are friends, he flirts with me, we have also hung out together a few times. I have a huge crush on him and I have sensed that he has crush on me too but whenever I get a hint that now he will ask me out I just start ignoring him for few days by making an excuse of work because I didn’t want to fall for someone and I knew for sure if we start dating, I would definitely fall for him.

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21st October 2022. It’s my birthday and I’m out for dinner with my colleagues including Nick. I blow out the candles and cut the cake, Nick was standing beside me so I gave...