Nora Jethwa's.P.O.V.

Thankfully we were able to finish the presentation, and we had ten minutes before the meeting to relax and re-read for any mistakes.

I smiled excitedly, and stood up to head towards my desk when my boss called,"Ms.Nora"
I turned around to face him my smile still intact.
"Yes Sir?"
"Will you be wearing that for the meeting?" He asked eyeing my dress from top till bottom in a disgusted look.
I looked down at myself and raised my head to look at my boss still staring.
"I don't have time to go and change so I guess yeah this is the dress I'll be wearing to the meeting." I replied.

He shook his head smiling and replied,"Ameerah has her dresses left in the washroom cupboard wear any from those."
Before I could object he spoke," you don't have any chances to deny."
Obeying his orders, since I couldn't deny I headed towards his washroom to check the dresses his girlfriend had left.
I had to know it won't be my type but I had no other option.
Meeting with the Chinese delagates will be in six minutes.

She had about three dresses,in the rack.
And weren't the type I would wear, but I took one of teal colour and gave it a try.
Plus it was the only decent one I liked.

It reached to my knee, and was full sleeved it fitted me like my second skin.
And that didn't feel right.
A knock startled me.
"We have to go Nora!"
I finger combed my hair and came out.
"So?"I asked.

He looked at me, and smiled,"now this is perfect."
"It's not,"
"It is."
I rolled my eyes," this is so tight fitted that I feel like am wearing to attract those Chinese delagates."
"That's good, they will get attracted to you and be ready to accept our proposal and work with us."

I took the file in my hand and followed him outside the office, entering the lift I asked," how could you be so selfish?"
He shrugged pressing the button for the top most floor where our meeting will be and said," you have to be selfish to gain something. Try being selfish for once and see for yourself."

I tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear and said," it's impossible for me to be selfish."
He looked at me and was to say something when the lift dinged and we had to come out to face the already sitting customers.
There was a long table with projector and three Chinese sat on one side of the table with their translator.

I greeted all of the people present and sat opposite them.
While Rishi sir sat beside me after greeting everyone.
The translator started speaking on the behalf of Chinese while Rishi sir spoke on our company's behalf.

Thankfully the meeting went well and the Chinese liked our presentation.
I smiled happily excited that they accepted the deal without looking at my dress.

We were back in the lift as I spoke," my dress didn't help though."
Rishi sir smiled and said," am glad you didn't do any mishap in the meeting."
My smile lessened.
"Oh." I muttered.

I thought Rishi Sir was nice, but all this time he was scared that I'll spoil the meeting with my bad luck.
Is that why he never lets me be present in any of the projects?
I always do the projects but he always goes alone for the deal finalisation.
I wonder why today he risked his deal by bringing me?
"Then why did you bring me today?"
He sighed," because you worked hard on this project so I had to appreciate it by letting you be present during the deal."

The lift dinged and i came out,but Rishi Sir held me by my elbow pulling me back inside the lift.
"Sir!"

"Change the dress as soon as possible," he muttered, his breath fanning my forehead.
"I.. ok sir!" I replied my voice shaking with fear.
Ofcourse I was going to change it right away, this dress wasn't something i would prefer wearing.
Cause for me fashion is comfort.
Clothes that am not comfortable in? Aren't supposed to be worn.
Period.

I rushed out of the lift, took my old dress from my bag, and entered the common washroom to change.
Before changing, I looked at my reflection in the mirror.
The dress was no doubt beautiful, but it wasn't made for someone like me.
It's light weight jersey fabric, clung to my body like second skin, and that feature screamed model,which I wasn't.
I was super slim for a dress so fit like this, dress like this needed someone curvy, someone with a body of hourglass, someone like Ms.Ameerah Singh Raichand.

It's teal colour, screamed richness, and that wasn't who I was.
The only expensive thing I ever bought in my whole life was the iPhone I had, and that too for the work.
I was the head designer at the most famous architectural company in France.
My brother and I had moved after my parents death to my aunt(father's sister) place.
At that time I was about the age of seven.
After my brother was eighteen, we both were told to find our own means of feeding ourselves and removed out of my aunt's house by her husband, cause my aunt had died when my brother was sixteen and I fifteen.

We both were thankful for all the sacrifices my aunt and her family made for accepting us and letting us cope with the loss of our parents.
At the age of seven, I didn't even knew where France was.
I didn't knew the distance between Morocco and France.
I used to think we are just few houses away from our own house, but was proved wrong when I finally realized that we were a whole continent away.

When we were little,  we always wished to be grown up cause we thought they had the freedom of going out and living the life the way they want but now that we are growned up we know the struggles we have and the freedom we had when we were kids.
The free mind we had when we were kids.
The fun life we had when we were kids.
Tension Free life,not knowing that money was always important  than anything in the life of a grown up.


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