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9. Life after Him

The next day Mr Durrani flew back to Kashmir. Before leaving, he gave me
a carefully sealed envelope to be handed over to the same tech guys. He told
me to guard the envelope with my life or so I thought from whatever I could
make out of his terse words. No goodbyes, good evening or even a smile, Mr
Durrani hurriedly turned around and left.
Nobody, I repeat nobody, had ever treated me like that!
I would ask for a different project if I had to deal with clients like
him, I decided. With vengeance in my heart, I headed straight to the data
server and literally tossed the envelope on Raghav’s table, once I got hold of
him.
‘Woohoo! Hey what happened? Miss Sunshine, you look angry.’ He
smiled.
Actually Raghav and I had been friends for a while. We joined the
company almost at the same time and we had a few management classes
together where I shared my bench with him for team management
assignments.
‘I am pissed,’ I replied.
‘Why?’ He looked puzzled.
‘This Mr Durrani, the same guy you met yesterday, is getting on my
nerves,’ I said.
‘Yeah? He has left I guess. He is quite reserved, but if I may say so,
nothing looks offensive enough to piss you off unless he actually proposed
to you on his knees.’ He chuckled.
‘Really?’ I stared hard at him.
‘Sorry! What happened?’ He pretended to be serious.
‘Yaar, I wasted all of yesterday running his errands and trying my
best to make him feel comfortable but all I get is this lousy envelope to be
delivered to you guys, and he never even thanked me. All the while, he made
me feel like a lousy errand boy! Imagine!’ I said it all under my breath.
‘Haha! He does not look that bad. In fact, he was quite pleased with
our work.’
‘Yeah! Yeah!’ I pouted.
His fingers were playing with the tapes on the envelope while he
conversed with me. My mood was already scaling towards the happier side