“ Hello, Mercy. I thought you got annoyed last night. I know it’s sometimes impossible to satisfy everybody in a grand party; after all, we are all humans, we have our limitations.”
“ Sorry Luna, I had to leave in between. I don’t like parties but had to attend out of compulsion. Though I left the party soon, I went to Cineplex to enjoy a crime thriller. Will you believe Luna, the villain whom I suspected to be was merely on a supporting actor. The suspense will keep you perplexed till the end. All that I can say is it was a superb movie without a hero.”
Luna got surprised at Mercy’s excitement and her perfect narration of every scene. She never saw her in full vigor before. Her liveliness and the way she explained the crime thriller changed Luna’s view about Mercy.
Luna and Mercy worked in a popular cosmetic industry and as such keeping themselves fit and beautiful was a demand of their profession.
“ Mercy, Luna, Suzan, Monsoon, and Feriha you five are selected for the publicity of our new brand. Except for Mercy, I think the other four don’t need any training, but she needs a fine polish,” as Miss Darcey, the CEO of the company put forward her suggestion, Suzane interrupted in between.
“ Mam, for the last three years we five have been working together in the same group. Why Mercy needs a fine touch, why not us. By the way Mam, the words ‘fine touch' seemed a riddle; what do you want to mean!”
Darcey was foreseeing the question but was expecting it from Luna. Being the CEO of the company Darcey has studied the five dynamic ladies personally. But Mercy was an exceptional case for her.
“Suzane, don’t you think Mercy has an excellent style of narrating; she can lengthen a simple word to a sentence and a sentence to a mind-blowing paragraph.”
Darcey gave a short...