A Girl From London - Episode : 5

After 8 months.

LONDON:

In these 8 months a lot of things had been changed in Diya's life when she came back from Kolkata, she was completely a new person.she somehow learned to suppress her past and be happy at the moment but deep down she stills misses various things and Kolkata is one of them. As promised to her Grandfather Diya joined the University of London for her Master's, and she moved in with Indu.

"Diya! We are getting late" shouted Indu.

"Yes, I am coming just give me 5 minutes more"

"You are telling 5 minutes since 1 hour, if you are not coming down in 5 minutes, you better book a uber to university"

"NO, wait," said Diya while she was rushing towards the living room

"Well, how do I look?"

"You are looking great and you are asking me this question from past 1 hour and don't give me that confused expression, wait! If you are thinking to change your dress for the 4th time in a day, I am leaving, I don't want to be late on my first day" said Indu with frustration.

"Hey, wait," said Diya and got inside their new car which Diya and Indu bought together, they were on their way to their new university in that traffic Indu saw Diya staring blankly into the traffic beside her.

"Diya, are you ok?"

"Yes"

"You look like something is bothering you, come on now tell me what it is?"

"You know right, exactly one year before the situations were not so good for me it actually sucked"

"Yes, I know, now what is it that is bothering you?" "I mean we are in a new beginning now, what if the same thing repeats"

"Like what?"

"What if something like Vikram happens again"

"Seriously, are you in thoughts to have a new boyfriend"

"I mean come on I am a teenager, and a there is nothing wrong for a teenager to get a boyfriend"

"Diya, you are 23, and as far as I know a person who is 23 is not a teenager."

"OK, maybe belated teenager?"

"Well, get to the point"

"That is the point, what if I get ditched again or what if..." said Diya and became silent.

Indu can understand the silence of Diya and she began to convince her.

"Look, babe, first thing Vikram is a jerk, I mean come on he fuckin hit you, and who the hell does that, Second thing this is master's and I think people will be more mature"

"OK, you got a point"

"I can't believe that I am saying this, but let's get a boyfriend for you"

"Aww, really?"

"Yes, really you are not supposed to blame everything on yourself and you need a boyfriend to blame him it helps for mental balance"

"How gross, I do not need a boyfriend for that"

"Yes, I know, I was just kidding Diya, So tell me what kind of boyfriend are you looking for?"

"I have my expectation's and yes getting a boyfriend is in my bucket list, but for now let us go to the college and enjoy our first day," Said Diya and opened her Instagram.

"So, what do we have in here, oh Vaibhav uploaded something, so this is Sidhartha Roy," thought Diya and fiddled here phone for some time and she was excited to see what the college life has to offer her. But Diya was unaware that destiny had another plan for her, a plan 7957kms away from her. And now it's time for destiny to play its part.

7957 kms away from London ( KOLKATA ) :

Around 4 am in the morning, technically it is night for Sidharth, he was in a deep sleep and suddenly he started hearing a buzzing sound like bee near his ear, even if it is a bee he would not have paniced that much, but unfortunately it was his phone, Sidharth suddenly woke up and checked his mobile, there were 4 missed calls from the driver, and as usual Sidharth woke up late.

"Shit! what the hell dude you missed the bloody alarm again" thougth Sidharth and called the driver.

"Hello!, yes Bhaya give me just 2 minutes, I am coming"

"Come fast Sir, I have been waiting near your house for the past 15 minutes, I need to pickup few more people, they are calling me as they were getting late for the office"

"Ami 2 minitera madhye sekhane thakaba" said Sidharth and began to run towards the bathroom.

He quickly washed his face with the cold water and took his brush and while brushing he ran towards his wardrobe, he quickly took the jeans from his wardrobe and wore them upon his shorts as he had no time to change properly, he took his shirt and just wore that as it is and not even buttoned the shirt, he ran towards the bathroom and completed brushing his teeth.

In that hurry he rushed towards the door and took his ID card and bag and held his shoes in his hand and ran towards the main road to board the cab. While he was about to reach the cab the driver didn't noticed him and went away from there.

Sidharth ran just like that behind the cab his shirt half buttoned and with shoes in his hand, but he was not able to board the cab.

"Fuck, I will be late for the bloody office again" Thought Sidharth and began to slowly walk towards the tea shop at the end of the street.

"Abara gari misa?" said the tea shop guy with a familiar smile on his face.

"Haan, amake yatharti ekati sakta chai dina" said Sidharth in Bengali and took a cigarette from his bag and sat on a chair at that tea stall, he slowly began to put all the buttons on his shirt and wore his shoes, by that time the tea stall guy brought a strong coffee that Sidharth asked

He started to sip the coffee, the deep woody, roasted smell of the coffee instatntly relives him from his pressure, it was a perfect strong coffee with less sugar, he slowly enjoys his coffee and leaves the tea stall to board a bus to reach his office. He was relaxed but that didn't last long, he was able to feel his phone vibrating in his pocket, he took the phone out and he coud see his manager was calling him.

"Hello Sidhartha, did you missed the cab again?"

"Yes Raghav, he left off before I could reach him, I was right behind his cab but he left off in a hurry"

"Oh come on dude, this the 4th cab that you missed in this week, however I am updating a late login for you, be here by 6 am at any cost, do you get that?"

"Yes Raghav" Said Sidharth and ended the call, he started to listen some songs in his phone and began to look out of the window and he instantly got lost in his toughts and after sometime he reached the office.

"Dude, you are late again?" asked Pawan.

"Oh comeon man give me a break, you know that I hate this morning shifts"

"Yes, but you can't say that with Raghav, he is waiting for you inside and wants to meet you"

"Oh man, ok I'll go and check it out with him" said Sidharth and went into his managers cabin.

"Oh Sidharth come in, have a seat"

"Thanks Raghav"

"Well, do you have any issues buddy?"

"Sorry I couldn't get you Raghav"

"Look Sidharth, I know you are not comfortable with this morning shift but for that I can't excuse your late login's" "That's what I am saying Raghav, I need a shift change"

"Well, we do not have slots for a shift change and you too know that for now you have no other option rather than to work in this shift" "Well, I think so"

"And this is a formal warning for you Siddharth, from here on I want you to reach office by the login time, Is that clear?"

"Yes Raghav"

"And what about the status of the project which you and pawan are handleing, as per the reports I can see you guys are lacking time"

"We are working on it Raghav, the clients are not sure about their requirements, so we were getting a few production back lashes"

"Don't say this to me Sid, you know the group manager won't listen to this,"

"Yes Raghav, but you too know that this is a clumsy project"

"Then make sure you clean that mess, that's what you are hired for, talk with the clients and make sure you finalize their requirements and get the work done"

"Yes Raghav"

"I am not being rude to you Sid, but did you ever think about it for a second or a minute regarding your future in this company, with this kind of project handeling?"

The question was very familiar, Sidharth knew exactly where he heard this question,for a second he slipped trough the time and went back to into his past. It was one of the painfull moments in his college days, he was sitting in his college canteen with a girl who has a long, dark brown, thick and rich hair. She was one of the exceptional personalities that Sidharth met in his life.Sidharth was about to ask her something which could change his life forever, he looked into her intense eyes which were startling black colour. So luminous and mismersing that when she looked at Sidharth he could feel that he was about to break his heart then he averted his eyes because he was scared that if he continues to look into her eyes he would not be able to ask her the question which has been haunting him from days. He slowly got back the courage to break his heart and asked her "Riya, can I ask you something?"

"Yes Sid, go on"

"I have been thinking this lately, yes I know we had this conversation before as well, but I think at times I neglected the actual questions"

"Questions ? like what?"

"Question for which I know the answers and never got the courage to hear it from you"

"Sid can you tell me exactly what you are talking about?"

"It's complicated Riya, I mean we are complicated , but I want to end this once and for all, so let me just ask you this one question and I expect you to answer it, is that ok?"

"Fine, I will"

"I had proposed you 2 years back and here we are in our final year and ready to move on with our lives, So in this 2 years atleast for a minute or a second have you ever felt that we could have a future together?"

There was an awkward silence, but this time Sidharth was courageous enough to accept the opinion of Riya, at this point he knew that he can't love her based on his assumptions.

"No" said Riya with a slowly and steady voice.

Even though Sidharth knew the answer, it broke his heart.

He suddenly snapped out of that memory when Raghav repeatedly called his name,

"Sidhu are you listening?"

"Yes Raghav,I was just thinking about the project, do not worry I'll make sure it will be completed in next 2 weeks"

"Well, I gave the required details to pawan, just go and communicate with him and I want this assignment to be completed on or before the dead line"

"Definetly Raghav" said Sidharth and left the cabin.

"Is everything fine Sidhu?" asked Pawan.

"Yes, as usual formal warning"

"Dude, I cant understand you have a bike but why do you use the office transport?"

"First of all it's not just a bike, it's a sports bike and even if I wanted to come office on that, do you think this travel allowance of 4000 would be suffient for the petrol? The petrol for 4000 won't even last for 10 days, so cab is the best option"

"OK I get it, and by the way here is the project details" sais Pawan and they both began to work on it and in that hectic schedule within no time his shift was completed.

"So dude you missed your cab right and I think your cab wont be scheduled on your exit, so do you want me to drop you at home?"

"Yes Dude" said sidharth and they both left the office on there way they stopped at a tea stall and Sidharth lit a cigarette, at that time he could feel his phone vibrating so he took it out to check what it is and he saw 56 notifications from his Instagram.

He opened his Instagram and he could see a person named Diya Chakraborty liked all of his 56 pictures on Instagram, he was surprised for a second and thought.

"Now who is this person?"