Chapter 01:

It was the time of night, the cool breeze was hitting the trees and plants. The silence was all around because it was the time of late night. The whole city was sleeping peacefully but one innocent soul was dreaming or I say, her daily nightmare was hunting her. The moon peeped into the room of the girl who was sleeping by covering her with the blanket on the single bed near the window though the window was closed but it was of glass. Her head was sweating.

She murmured: I am sorry, sir. I am sorry.

Dream:

The girl was standing in the office of her boss and was looking at her boss with dreadful eyes. A file was thrown near her and she heard that her boss said: you are fired, Miss Mehta.

The girl woke up and sat on the bed with a jolt. Her forehead was sweating and her eyes were popped out in fear. Her lips gulped the fear and her throat passed into her stomach. She looked here and there and she realised that it was her dream. 

The girl’s lips were shown: means, it was a dream?

She looked around.

She was still shivering. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and she caught her forehead. She closed her eyes and huffed by catching her forehead.

Girl: thank God, it was a dream.

She thinks.

Girl: No, not a dream, it was a nightmare.

She gulped and again layed by covering her completely and was shivering.

Girl: boss also doesn’t leave me in my dreams, at least he can talk to me nicely in my dream but no. I think, his sweat talks are not in my fate, ok, now, sleep else you will get late tomorrow and your dream will come true. Uff, kay musibat hai yeh?

She took her hand out of the blanket and switch off the small lamp’s light.

It was the morning of the winter, the birds were chirping on the trees of the jogging garden where a man was running and was wearing a tracksuit and the zip of his black shirt was open a bit. He was sweating even in January and was panting. He stopped and bends by holding his knees. He was panting and he gulped. He looked up and his blue orbs were spelling on the girls who were looking at him. The sweat was running from his forehead and neck. His hairs were brown and when he stood, he looked talk. The girls were ogling him because they found him handsome. Indeed he was handsome. He walked with swag by ignoring the girls and he came to an old lady who was sitting on the bench and eating ice cream in a cup. The boy holds his bag and smiled to see the old lady.

Boy: again, you started.

The lady looked at him and was holding the spoon in her mouth. She thinks and eats the bite. The boy shook his head while smiling and took out the bottle from his bag. He sat.

Boy: hmm.

He sat and started opening the cap while saying: Bebe, I don’t understand one thing that daily you come here for jogging but instead of doing that. You start eating ice cream, why?

Bebe is his grandmother and she was of mid 60 but still, she looks young.

Bebe looked at him. Neil drank the water.

Bebe: because ice cream is my life.

Boy: aaahh.

The boy wiped his mouth and he frowned.

Boy: means?

Bebe: uff ho, why you do exercise?

Neil: for a good and healthy life.

Bebe: exactly. You do exercise for your good health and ice cream is my life so I eat it. Simple. But your that hitler mother don’t let me eat it at home so I eat it here.

Boy smiled.

Boy: how can someone eat this much ice cream?

Neil drank the water.

Bebe: meri ice cream ko nazar mat laga.

She turned her face away. The boy was drinking water and he looked at his Bebe while drinking. He took away the bottle and gulped the water. He smiled.

Boy: when mom will get to know about it then she will see you.

Bebe: jaa, teri maa se darta kaun hai?

Neil: aap.

Bebe: it is your and her misunderstanding. If I don’t say anything to her that doesn’t mean that I am afraid of her.

Boy: oh yeah?

Bebe: yeah.

Boy: ok, we will see.

Bebe: ok and by the way, who will tell her about it?

Boy: me.

Bebe looked at him.

Boy: yes, now it’s a limit. You daily come here to eat ice cream on the name of jogging but now not anymore. I will complain to mom about it.

Bebe got afraid. She started buttering her grandson.

Bebe: no, Neil. You are my cute baby. My dear grandson.

Yes, he is Neil. Neil Khanna, the business tycoon. Everyone is afraid of him in his office because he is very strict about his work but at home, he is just like a common man but anger doesn’t leave him there also.

Neil: no means no. if you did not stop eating ice cream then I will complain to mom.

Bebe: ok, I will not eat it on daily basis from now. Ok?

Neil looked at her.

Bebe: at least, I deserve one ice cream in a week.

Neil: no. one ice cream in a month.

Bebe was shocked.

Bebe: in a month?

Neil: yes. Deal done?

Bebe made a sad face.

Bebe: ok.

Neil smiled to see her.

Bebe: acha chal, yeh to khane de, tere chakar main pighal gai.

Bebe eats. Neil smiled to see her and shook his head.

On the other side, a huge building was shown and the sun was showering his love on that and it disturbed the sleep of a girl who is not lazy but is facing a hard time of her life and her nightmare disturbed her sleep at midnight that's why she was sleeping. Her head frowned and she kept a cushion on her face. She was laying on a single-size bed and soon, her alarm rang then she woke up with a jerk and her black hair was messed at her face. She kept away her hair from her face and her face was glowing even after incomplete sleep. She looked worried and fear was clearly shown in her deep eyes, her lips were parted because of worry. She was looking beautiful even without washing her face so makeup is far away. She saw the time on the table clock.

Girl: 07 o'clock. Avni, get up and get fresh fast. You have to reach the office before the boss.

Yes, she is Avni. Avni Mehta. Neil Khanna’s innocent employee who always became the victim of his anger whether the fault was of her or someone else. Avni Mehta lived alone in her parent's apartment. Her father died when she was a kid and her mother is alive but Avni lives alone. She is working in the Khanna enterprise for two months.

Avni got up hurriedly and brushed her teeth in hurry.

On the other side, Neil was sitting with his family in the dining area. He was eating his food peacefully but his mother was not happy to see him eating peacefully. Like every other mother, she also has one agenda and that is Neil’s marriage and she really likes his one employee who just have made a place in her heart that too on the first meeting and Neil is very well aware of that so it is also one reason to hate his employee.

Neil’s mother: Prakash Ji, how is that girl? What is her nameee?

Prakash is Neil’s father.

She acted to think the name. Prakash understood. Neil was chewing his food and looking at his mother.

Prakash: who? Avni?

Mother: Yeahhh, Avni.

Neil made a face and rolled his eyes. He was chewing his food, he looked at his food and stirred the spoon. He gulped it.

Prakash: Shweta Ji, she is absolutely fine.

Shweta is Neil’s mother.

They smiled.

Neil ate the bite.

Prakash: she is such a nice girl. I wish, I could have a daughter like her.

Neil said while chewing his food: thank God, you have only a son.

They looked at him. Neil looked at them. He gulped the food.

Neil: if you like that Afat this much then why don’t you people give her a job here at home?

Shweta: that’s a good idea. Prakash Ji, we can hire Avni as a caretaker of Bebe.

Bebe looked at Shweta in shock.

Shweta: she will take care of Bebe and will keep an eye on her so that she doesn’t eat any sweat.

Bebe was shocked but one more person was shocked even more than Bebe. It was Neil.

Neil: no way.

Everyone looked at him

Neil: I can’t tolerate her there in my office and you want to give her a job here. No, bad idea. Very bad idea. No, she will not work here. I will not let her enter my home and that’s it. That’s final, no more discussion on it.

Shweta and Prakash looked at each other and they laughed. Bebe and Neil looked at them.

Shweta: I was joking.

Bebe sighed and Neil made a face.

Bebe: thank God.

Neil looked at her and smiled.

Prakash: what, Bebe?

Prakash smiled.

Prakash: but jokes aside, she is really a nice girl. She is hardworking and dedicated to her work.

Neil rolled his eyes.

Shweta: kya, Tillu, tu us bachi se itna chirta kyun hai? Kitni pyaari bachi hai.

Prakash: absolutely right.

Neil: pyari. Priya nahi puri afat hai. Don’t know, why Dad hired her.

Prakash: hey.

Neil interrupts.

Prakash: yeah, yeah, don’t underestimate your dad’s experience. Right?

Prakash: right. Don’t forget it.

They smiled. They had breakfast happily and their table was filled with various items like omelette, juice, bread, butter, paratha and other things. But on the other side, an innocent soul was standing in the kitchen and she opened the fridge and nothing was there to eat.

Avnui: uff, Avni, again you forgot to buy groceries. Now, what will I eat?

She made a pout and closed the fridge. She found the things in the kitchen but nothing was there to eat.

Avni: chal beta, Avni, aaj phir ase hi office jana parega.

Suddenly, her mind rang a bell and she widens her eyes: Office. Run, Avni.

Avni hurriedly goes from there and she grabbed her bag from the couch and was about to go but her eyes fell on her parent’s picture and they were smiling in it. Avni smiled to see that and she goes there. She was looking at the picture.

Some words echoed in her ear: when my daughter will become a doctor, I will throw a grand party. The whole city will be invited to it.

Avni and her mother giggled at her father’s words.

Avni as a child: Yes, Papa, I will become the best doctor of our country.

They laughed.

Avni smiled with moist eyes. A tear found its way to fall but Avni didn’t let it fall and she wiped it on its way. She sighed and looked at the picture. Avni goes to the door because the picture was hanging near the door. She closed the door and locked it.

A car stopped outside the huge building. Khanna enterprise was written on it. A man came there while running and Neil Khanna came out of his car with his attitude and swag. He was wearing a suit with a vest and coat on it. He was talking on the phone and was wearing specs. He goes to the office and his guards and some employees go after him. He entered the office and his family picture was hanging there in the large frame.

Neil: I want that file on my table in two hours. That’s it.

Neil cuts the call and was going toward his office. The staff was greeting him and he replied to some, nodded to some and ignored some also when he was talking to his man.

Neil: DD, what is the progress report of the sight?

DD is his right hand.

DD: the work is going smoothly. The report is in my hands.

Neil: good. Atul, what about that Shah’s project?

Atul: they did not send the fax. They said that they will send it today.

Neil: ok, do it soon.

Atul: yes, sir.

Man: Sir, your signature is needed here.

Neil: hmm.

Neil was walking and his eyes fell on the empty table. First, he ignored it and then he stopped and again looked at it.

Neil: Miss Mehta didn’t reach till now?

DD: no, sir.

Neil saw the time and it shows 09:08 am. Neil thinks and he looked there.

Neil murmured: hardworking and dedicated. Hmm.

Neil shook his head.

Neil said while going: send her to my cabin when she comes.

DD and others were with him.

DD: yes, sir.

They go. Neil came to his cabin. It was a lavish office, the room was large. A huge table was kept there and his some awards and certificates were decorated on an expensive and beautiful shelf. His office’s colour was grey and white. It looks beautiful. Neil sat on the chair and he started his work.

On the other side, Avni was coming by running but she stopped to see Neil’s car and she was shocked to see it. She was panting and she gulped.

Avni: Mar gaye.

Avni got worried.

Avni: now, I will surely be kicked out of this office.

Avni sadly looked at the office and thought was disturbing her. She looked at the building sadly.