The Lost Memorandum – Part 3

 I follow a ritual, whenever I come back to publish an article after a gap of more than one year, I compose a post with the title "The Lost Memorandum" to start again. 

This will be a post with memories based on the time frame covering between my last post and this one. 

Don't believe me? Here are the Part-1 and Part-2 of this blog, just note the dates. 

The last two times the gaps were three years and above. This time I am writing again after a gap of 2+ years. My best record ever.  This Part reminds me that I persist, irrespective of the gap in-between years.

 Earth revolved 895 times since the last blog published at my account and it felt like yesterday. I know the narcist in me wants to think like that but the empaths in me realized how big procrastinator I am! 

Wait! am I with some split personality syndrome? 👀

I hope not because I do write, if not regularly and it's just this blog that got ignored every time. It takes lots of internal motivation to publish something on a platform that will hardly get the notice or reads by anyone.

The good part is - Yes! I am back and the best part is with some new fiction, mythological articles, and movie reviews.

I know the earth has not changed much since I published my last blog to this one.  

The picture of earth from space when I last published my blog.

The picture of earth from space today, when I published this blog.

Although, many people's life must have changed because of one pandemic which caused havoc in everyone's life. Even something or the other bad happening in almost every country on this earth, in the past 2+ years.

My love and hug to all the survivors who belong to any country of this earth and who had gone through any kind of hardships in these past 895 days and ahead. May the soul of all deceased rest in peace and I pray to God to give enormous strength to all of their loved ones.

I know the earth has not changed much since I published my last blog to this one but I want to change from now onwards with more peace, love, hope, and care among fellow peoples of this earth. 

It's easy to ask but tough to perform unless each and every one persists to give peace, love, hope, and care to their fellow peoples of this earth, no matter what happens or happening to their own life. Can each individual take this simple challenge to themselves, irrespective of what others do?

Talking about challenges, what was my biggest challenge this time? Apart from waking up every day and try to work, truly speaking, it took me lots of effort and time to find the URL of this blog itself. My own blog 😊

I realized recently that my long term memory has gone bad and this is one of the reasons I am not revealing what I was up to on those 895 days, unlike past two-part of this series.

I came to know that Hippocampus in our brain is responsible to retain something long term and each time we learn or do something new it generates new neuron which can be retained by exercise and further learning of new things.

I am not regular in doing exercises and it seems not doing anything new lately. So not able to locate my own blog is now scientifically justified.

I am concluding this part with the hope that I will stick with trilogy only and will try my best to Not come up with Part-4 of this series by regularly publishing blogs here. 

I tried hard last time. It was my best run so far. Wrote blogs continuously for almost 5 years and published 46 blogs on various topics. The challenge for me this time is to break my own record, and I believe with persistence by my side, I can.

Feel free to connect and comment to help me write more here in this blog. Please subscribe to this blog as you may know by this time, that I will persist no matter what.

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Life without Internet in the Year 2018

In today's world, we are so dependent on the internet. What will happen if it vanishes one fine day? Yes, you heard it right internet disappear but mankind remains.

Like the electricity gone at your house, the internet will also disappear and will never turn on. It will be not only at your place, across the world this thing happens. I know imagining this could be hard but why not hypothetically?

In these scenarios what you will miss the most. Like you, I will also go crazy and mentioned below are the list which I believe will be the most impacted areas.

·         VOIP - The cheap call from one country to another country across the globe will no longer possible. We will be back to the costliest era of Telephone bills for connecting to someone in different state or country. Although not only voice the video calling will also be missed by most long-distance couples, parents, and friends. To me, this will be the blow to the advancement of technology.

·         Google Search - This is something many of us will be missed who use Google for almost everything. If you stuck while coding - Google. You faced integration challenges - Google, you want to know the meaning of a word - Google. I even know peoples who type “google.com” on the google search bar as they are so addicted to using Google that they forgot that damn address bar in a browser exists. Ask a software developer to imagine a world without google search he might say “Duck Duck Go” but in this scenario, that will also not work.

·         YouTube - I must list the most used one first, then listed below are some other ones. The entertainment and education which is mostly free at YouTube will be missed the most by me and I am sure most of you. Although my preference for paid ones is listed below, you can always defer and add some of them to the list.

·         Netflix/Amazon Prime/Udemy/Coursera - I just listed the one I use or used, there are many on entertainment and education categories which could be favorite for others. Moral of the story, you need to go back to respective college or library for gaining knowledge and off-course wait for the TV channel to showcase your favorite movie because theater will only showcase latest releases with very few exceptions.

·         Social Networking - Whats-app will be on my top missing list compared to Facebook but the way these apps had revived the social connectivity of human beings. I am sure after the internet is dead your living soul can’t rest in peace. Just add Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn to this list and pain will only increase.

·         Email - If this would have happened 15 years back, this would have been listed as my first but somehow will be happy to not receive many irritating emails like the winning of the 10-million-dollar lottery but would be sad to lose one of the best ways to instant communication within or outside the network.

·         Porn - The internet revived this industry and easy access is something that will be missed by many majorities of peoples. Don't worry the market of CD, DVD, and BlueRay will be there to make you feel no casualty happened in this arena.

·         Payment Gateways - All your cards and mobile wallets depend on the internet so your cashless days will be over. You need to carry cash for every transaction. This will revive the pickpocket market which is currently facing recession.

·         Smart Phones – Yes, I will miss my iPhone, you will also miss your smartphones. Why? They are called smart because they can use the internet to execute the desired applications. Otherwise old phones can call and cameras can take pictures for quite some time now.

Imagine a scenario where you can’t book a cab and restaurant. You can’t do anything that listed above. You can’t use google map and you can’t upload your contents or contacts to the cloud. Then what your smartphone can do apart from calling someone? Take a selfie? Yes, you still can take selfies in so many megapixels, but you can’t upload those pictures to receive an affirmation, comments or like from your social network.

So, will you still use this feature of your phone that often? In this situation, your Smart Phone capabilities will not be much better than old Nokia 3310 (Image is shown below). At least it will cover better call quality if you are living in any South Asian region.

All not lost here, there will be some benefits too, your kid will be playing actual sports in place of virtual. You might connect with your parents or friend via phone than WhatsApp.

Something will not change, the usage of your phone as a watch will continue. You can keep those irritating tunes as your caller tune or hello tune which soothe your ear. You can still play existing games on your mobile, if not with others.

You might still able to check your calorie burnt, unfortunately, you must keep it to yourself or call a friend to tell that because you can’t share them on Twitter or Facebook. So smart vs non-smart phone will still exist with very less benefit.

Loss of internet will also impact in terms of sharing your talent (Poem, stories or articles) to the world instantly but that will not stop you to write and get better and compete to get published someday. Same will be the case for any Arts and other creative skills too.

Without the Internet, our life might be like what it was 30 years back (I believe 1988 life will be like 2018, in this scenario), maybe bit better with other advancements in technologies minus IoT.

The disappearance of internet at this stage will impact every stage of almost all human beings on earth. What I touched here were some important points only. There could be so many points which I missed. Do let me know in comments the ones I missed or how you think your life will be without Internet, today.

Remember, we as a human being had seen so many ups and downs since ages and survived so many catastrophes so we will survive this one too and so also you, eventually.

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Love Industry

In Indian IT industry most organization will ask the employee to serve notice periods for 3 months from the day that employee resigns from his/her job. In many cases, the employee joins back the same organization after finding better salary and designation from other companies and end up serving the notice period of 3 months because the organization can't make up their mind until the last moment. This story is the hilarious take on that rule when it will be applied to the love industry in place of IT industry on the love of the couple Padamesh and Sweety. 

Mentioned below the chapters of the complete story. Each chapter was published every day to complete this story in a week. All the incidence and characters in this story are fictitious in nature.

The Chapters/Part

1. The Notice Period
2. The Love Hunt
3. The Offer Letter
4. The Resignation
5. The Knowledge Transfer
6. The Other Day

 Please feel free to provide your love and constructive criticism over the comments section.

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Love Industry - The Other Day

This is the last part of the story. Read Part -1, Part -2, Part -3, Part -4 and Part -5 first.

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Only last few days left for the breakup of Sweetie and Padamesh. Sweetie’s friends decided to give them a party for this breakup. Padamesh already started realizing the mixed emotions he is having about Aadita, Sweetie, and all her friends.

The situation was not different for Sweetie and when Simran asked her about the feeling about this departure she said “Dev is the best thing ever happened to me. Somehow, he knows everything about me, my likes and dislikes, it's magical when a man knows so many things about you.”

“You are so lucky,” Simran said.

“I am sure he is getting many tips from Paddu. This surprised me as I always thought he doesn't know me at all.”

“When Dev is perfect, why you care?”

“I have few complaints about Dev.”

“What is that?”

“He is not that good in washing clothes, cleaning utensils or cooking food like Padamesh. He felt irritated while doing these things.”

“Why don’t you keep a housemaid?”

“You know maintaining them is so costly and they will come up with their own tantrums. Looks like I have to do that now.”

“I know it’s bad but you can’t always get a complete package.”

“Paddu was the complete package. I ruined everything, he was right about me,” and sobbed silently. “I will talk with him to apologize me.”

***

On the eve of breakup party, Sweetie asked Padamesh to meet in a cabin by saying, It’s urgent. The moment Sweetie saw him she tightly hugged him, smooched him and said, “I will miss you, Paddu” Tears started rolling out from her cheek. Padamesh is now confused and never saw that coming. He realized this kind of behavior was missed in the KT documentation for Dev.

“I thought you hate me to the core of your heart,” Padamesh said “It’s me who want to be with you for some more time so came up with this idea of three-months’ notice. Which I now realized was a stupid idea.”

“No Paddu, that was a brilliant idea.” She came closer to Padamesh again and wrapped her arms around his neck and said, “please stay, don’t go.”

Padamesh took out her arm from his neck and said “What’s going on? Why now and Why today!”

“You know, I am not good in saying goodbyes,” Sweetie said and turned around her face from Padamesh.

“I don’t believe you, you can’t have a sudden change of heart” Padamesh knows that she will not have eye contact while telling lie. “You can share things with me, technically I am still your boyfriend.”

“You are not having any cold feet?” Sweetie asked by turning back towards Padamesh.

“Cold feet? I am not getting married. We are getting break up. Cold feet happen when you join, not for disjoin” Padamesh replied.

“How you find Dev? anything odd you noticed?”

“Nothing odd in terms of being human. He is a nice guy, although was bit tensed recently.”

“Have he said anything?”

“Nothing, anything went wrong?”

Sweetie inhaled a deep breath and said it in one breath “Dev absconded and he is untraceable. Will you join me back?”

“What!!!”

The silence persists for quite some time. Sweetie took the responsibility of breaking this silence and said, “it’s always better to be with the known devil than the unknown ghost.”

“You are talking like an HR. I will think about it. I always want to be with you. My new girlfriend waited for three months. I can’t just say no to her”

“I agree with your concern, you have not fallen in love with your new girlfriend yet so I will give you the raise in love”

“What that mean? People fell in love, nobody ever raised.”

“I am ready to provide an offer better than your new girlfriend’s offer” Sweetie revealed her real intention for this meeting and continued, “The better offer in terms of love or love making, or anything of your choice.”

“I have to think about this, it’s a very big decision for me,” Padamesh said.

“Yes! Go ahead and take your time.” Sweetie said.

Padamesh started fiddling around pant pockets to hide the tension and nervousness. He realized there is a small box is in his pocket, he curiously brought that out from his pocket to find the content. Sweetie noticed something at his hand and said in ecstasy “Ohh, My God!!! Yes, Yes, and Yes” and jumped on Padamesh to hug him tightly and started kissing him.

Padamesh was wondering what just happened. He tried to have a look at what is in his hand over the shoulder of Sweetie while she is still kissing him all around. He found that it was the same box of the ring he bought and plan to propose her in that restaurant, on the night of their breakup. Coincidentally, today he was wearing the same pant and not washing them for months made him forgot about it. When he opened the box Sweetie thought he was popping up the question “Will you marry me?”.

Sweetie said in his ear with a bliss and answered the question which Padamesh never asked: “Yes, I will marry you. I love you Paddu.”

Padamesh was cursing to his luck in his mind and what he thought and what happened. He wants to say it’s an accident but what he said was “will the raise in ‘love making’ offer from your side still intact?”

“Yes!! Off course, we can do it right away till you want to stop” Sweetie said, “I will never ever get over from you.”

They jumped on the nearby table. Sweetie was smiling all around since her loss got compensated. Padamesh was smiling too and pleased with the current offer. They both knew they can live happily ever after...till the need arise.

--The Begining--

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This is the last part of the story. Read Part -1, Part -2, Part -3, Part -4 and Part -5 first.

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Love Industry - The Knowledge Transfer

This is the Part-5 of the story. Please read Part -1, Part -2, Part -3  and  Part -4 first.

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It was the day for Knowledge Transfer session, Dev and Padamesh are staring at each other with unknown expectations. This is the first time in the history of love that someone’s’ moving out boyfriend will give knowledge transfer to the moving in boyfriend.  Sweetie explicitly mentioned Padamesh beforehand, that it should only be about how to handle Sweeties household stuff and nothing else. Padamesh reluctantly agreed to this when he was reminded about this mess been created by his so-called brilliant idea. Although this time he has no plan and no idea.

“Let’s start with good times you had with her,” Dev said, “maybe three things you liked most about her, and we can go from there onwards.”

Dev broke the ice and Padamesh had no clue what worked so far, Sweetie has so many tantrums and mood swings that he lost count of ideas he implemented during those times to calm her.

“Irrespective of many good times the best part was always sex,” Padamesh said with a grin. 

Then he realized it was not the correct answer for Dev’s question. “Men will be men you know, there were so many things I loved about her.” He said with a nervous giggle. “Let’s do one thing we document everything about her,” this time Padamesh said with a confident voice.

“Document!! What?” Dev asked.

“I know, it will be odd but documentation is always the best practice for all kind of KTs,” Padamesh responded, “You can add your own experience when you will give same KT to someone else in future.”

Dev again started staring Padamesh with unknown expectations. Now it’s Padamesh turn to break the silence.

“We will create one excel file with multiple sheets in it. First sheet can define household chores I perform at her house. One sheet will have details about all reasons for her tantrums and mood swings and applied remedies. Another sheet will have details about she loves or hate. It could be food, the color of clothes or shoes. We can even have one sheet with all her hobbies, ambitions, egos and good qualities she had. If you insist, the last sheet can be about all the parts she loves to get touched on the bed and otherwise, maybe we can add her likable positions too. Once all details will get completed, then we will add very first sheet as index and disclaimer of this document where I can add everything is based on my experience and true to my knowledge only. The same sheet will also have version information along with your review and sign-off for this love KT to close this document fully. What say?”

“Let’s do it and complete this love KT,” Dev said after a long pause “Let’s start creating the last sheet first or in reverse order and end this at sign-off and disclaimer sheet.”

They both agreed to this process and now eager to complete this historic love KT session. The KT session which was supposed to be short and sweet gone to many brainstorming sessions, and finally, the KT document is ready. Dev only needs to update this document with latest changes whenever any need arises in the future. This document contains more details about Sweetie, that any astrologer might have ever predicted about her or she might have even aware of herself.

***

“You looked tensed?” Padamesh asked Dev when he was reviewing the finalized document.

“I know…I now know everything about her, along with her expectations” Dev said.

“Curiosity is the mother of love and I just killed her.”

“I can only hope for her reincarnation and everything that written here get reset.”

“Don’t worry you will survive.”

“Love can never be industrialized, in an industry survival is the key and if you are just surviving in love then you are not in love”

Padamesh realized Dev said true words about his wrong concept.

“Why you ever thought of this weird idea?” Dev asked.

“The idea was generated from the fear of judgemental society who think you as looser when someone dumps you” Padamesh replied.

“I am all ears.”

“When my parents tried to get divorced for the first time. The judge asked them to stay back together for 6 months and if things don’t work out in this period they will get divorced. My mom conceived me during that period, and they didn’t get divorced at that time. The same situation raised when I was 5 years old and my brother born soon after that 6-month period. This time my father did a vasectomy and their marriage didn’t survive when the same situation came up for the third time when I was 10 years old.”

“Ohh…were you guys planning for a baby in these three months?”

“No, absolutely not. I believe procrastination is good for some cases, it gives you second chance and I thought of achieving that second chance. I want to buy some time to change her mind.”

“It didn’t change.”

“It did give me time to find someone and it’s always better to leave with a job in hand than getting fired.”

“That’s quite an honest reply but is that’s the only reason?”

“Actually no. If you do something daily for 30 days, that becomes your habit. I am not sure if it's true for love but true for cleaning clothes and utensils. I think I love doing that.”

This response from Padamesh bought that odd silence again for quite some time and Padamesh said: “Do not forget to give the Sign-Off to the KT document soon based on our original process.”

Go to the Last Part (The Other Day)

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Love Industry - The Resignation

This is the Part-4 of the story. Please read Part -1, Part -2  and Part -3 first.

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Finally, love hunt of Padamesh leads a result and he happily went to Sweetie to talk about the release dates.

“I want to be relieved from all your services,” Padamesh said with a smile, “I found the one.”

“Wow!! Congrats…” Sweetie said, “Who is she?”

Padamesh realized revealing Aadita’s details may cause future problems so he said “Actually I have more than one offers in hand. I have yet to decide.”

“Hmmm, I got it. You don’t want to reveal her identity in front of me.” Sweetie said it with a fake smile.

“Sweetie, One Request. Can I get an early break-up?”

“What does that mean?”

“We were supposed to have our final break up after remaining 2 months, can we do that early?”

“No. We agreed on total three months, so nothing before that.”

“Why? You only want to have a breakup.”

“Yes. It’s you who want it in corporate style. Early releases have its own consequences you know that.”

“What consequences?”

“Many corporates charge penalties for early releases, how it will work for love I need to figure that out.”

“Ok, let me figure that out or what about I find you my replacement as compensation.”

“No need, I will find that out. You just need to give him KT.”

“KT…What?”

“Knowledge Transfer.”

“What on earth I can transfer knowledge to your future boyfriend?”

“There are so many things like the way I like my clothes and utensil cleaned. We will discuss all those details later.”

“Sweetie, why are you doing this to me?”

“I have just started. Finally, no love or love making to your new girlfriend till your notice period complete.”

“Why? Do you know it took a lot of efforts from my side to find her? No one accepts a boyfriend with three-month notice because everyone expects an immediate joiner.”

“When you receive an offer letter from another organization, you first resign from the previous one and once released then only you avail all the services from the new organization like salary etc. In your case, you received the offer, so you will neither going to give or get any services to/from your new girlfriend till you complete your notice period.”

“In this case, what will be my relationship status? In or out.”

“In case you are worried about social media’s you can put your relationship status as ‘Serving notice period’.”

Padamesh realized that the idea to avoid social humiliation became a boomerang for him. Sweetie also realized that soon she needs to sort out her priorities. She knows what so ever she said today was all her insecurities and jealousy to find Padamesh moving out. She wants to dump Padamesh but now technically he is doing that, a wrong decision to agree on his idea.

***

One fine day, after last incident they met again on their usual route to the office. “Hello Padamesh, Meet Dev.” Sweetie said sweetly, “My new boyfriend.”

“Congrats Sweetie,” Padamesh said, “Hello Dev, nice meeting you.”

“Who is he?” curious Dev asked.

“He is my old boyfriend who is serving notice period,” Sweetie replied.

“Notice period?” Dev asked again.

“Don’t worry I will explain you everything,” Sweetie replied, and turned towards Padamesh and said “He will be your replacement going forward. As discussed last time, just ensure to provide him all the necessary KTs.”

“Do let me know your availability we will have Knowledge transfer session soon,” Padamesh said with a nervous smile.

Dev showed blank face, his body language clearly showcased the discomfort to all these jargons and happenings right now.

“Can I get her for a minute please?” Padamesh asked Dev and even before Dev can blink he grab Sweetie by arms and drag her to the corner and asked “What is this? You mentioned no joining before notice period, then why you have a boyfriend before our final breakup?”

Sweetie removed her arm from his grip and said “You again forgot that you are leaving and I am recruiting. The notice period applies for you. I can get anyone if he is willing to join immediately. Think about this scenario in a corporate way, the way you love to think. You are leaving and he is joining. We can love each other in any way we want.”

“Everything in your favor, nothing for me?” He said with shrugged shoulder and open palms.

“That’s corporate policy,” Sweetie said with a smile, “everything for corporate, minimum for the employee. Just ensure you complete quick KT with him.”

She went back to Dev, holds his arm and walked away while Padamesh still standing and can’t believe what just happened.

Go to the Next Part (The Knowledge Transfer)

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Love Industry - The Offer Letter

This is the Part-3 of the story. Please read Part -1  and Part -2 first.

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“Can you check the guys’ expression sitting at your 10’O Clock?” Aadita, his girl on the blind date said, “I am just here to make him jealous. I really love him to the bottom of my heart so you just need to have lunch with me, have a fake date and then we will have our own ways. My Sonu, he is so cute, right?”

“Why me?” Padamesh said with a realization that his question is for God too. “I mean, there are so many of them at a dating site. I know in IT organization some of them do fake recruitment and job interviews to showcase they are still in the market. Are you doing the same?”

“We had a fight recently and he said that it's him who bears all of her tantrums no one else will even date with me,” Aadita said instantly, “That’s why I closed my eyes and randomly picked the one and you became the chosen one.”

Padamesh knows that his luck for the lottery is always bad but his recent adventure of being picked as lottery proven to be quite good. He is now with full of frustration still all smile at his face. He started casual conversations and in the meantime, do check her boyfriend’s expressions as per her instruction.

“Food in this restaurant is too bad, I can cook better than that” Padamesh said it while having his food, “Don’t give me that look, I really can cook better than this.”

“That’s my boyfriend’s favorite restaurant and we thought the food is really great.”

“I don’t think so. You can either call me great cook or this one as disgusting food, your choice.”

“I fully agree, Sonu only like to eat chicken legs and don’t have a developed taste bud …” Aadita nodded with acceptance, “and I have to accompany him no matter how bad the food is.”

Padamesh glanced towards her boyfriend finding him too engrossed in eating a chicken leg. Being curious how good it could be, he picked up one lying on his own plate. He thought to advertise himself further, in case she has any friend whom she can recommend.

“I love cooking, cleaning dishes and washing clothes.” He said it in proud voice, “I actually spend quite some time to clean my house and everything around.”

“Wow! with a quality like this you are sitting on Goldmine,” Aadita said with a surprise and Padamesh looked towards his crotch on the chair then realized Goldmine was for the literary purpose only. “Your girlfriend might be so lucky or are you single?” Aadita asked.

“I am single… Technically.”

“What does technically means?”

“We recently broke up and thought to follow breakup process based on IT industry. I am serving notice period and almost two months left, after that, I will be fully single unless in industry terminology received a new offer letter.”

“That’s great concept. Looks like you are creative too. I wish things would have been different between us today. You are a very nice guy and someone will soon find you.”

“These words are equally beautiful as you.”

“Don’t remember Sonu is watching us,” she said with a smile and stood up “I am coming back from the washroom.”

He checked her out and thought she is equally beautiful from the back and the very next moment he realized that none of his dates who went to washroom ever came back. She also had the company of her boyfriend who will rip him apart like the way he is ripping chicken legs. He thought this is the time he had to run away so started quickly finishing his chicken legs.

“I want to say you something,” Aadita said.

Padamesh didn’t realize when she came back standing in front of him. “You came back?” Padamesh said with a surprise “Yes, go ahead.”

“I love you,” Aadita said.

“What?” He can’t believe what he just heard and is mouth stayed wide opened.

Aadita bends towards him and gave a tight kiss to the gaping mouth. That’s a surprise attack to him and the chicken legs are still on his hand and her tongue is totally inside his mouth and vigorously searching for something. He opened one eye and looked towards Sonu, he stood up from his seat with all surprised and still have that half-eaten chicken leg in Sonu’s mouth and the remaining portion in his hand. Padamesh, while still being smooched showcased the chicken leg towards him with a gesture of ‘Cheers’ and focused back to the kiss by closing his eyes again. He realized if Aadita doesn't stop her tongue traversing inside his mouth he may get choked soon and on second thought “Is she searching for his tonsils?” really scared him up. When she finally stopped, that eased both the boys on that restaurant. While Sonu still can’t believe in his eyes, Padamesh looks confused not only because of her action but also which one tastes better, Aadita’s lips or chicken leg along with so many tastes of food in his mouth.

“I am the damsel in distress,” Aadita went back to her chair and said, “you are my prince charming.”

“Where the hell this is coming from,” Padamesh said, confused and agitated. “Is this dialogue from Disney movie, ‘Finding Nemo’? That’s why you are finding something inside my mouth?”

“No, not from that movie. The skill set you possess, I can’t let you go. What I have given you just now at your mouth, is the offer letter.”

“Now I get it, you are actually signing the offer letter inside my mouth with your tongue. You have pretty long signature”

“You also have a good sense of humor.” She said with a shy “I will ensure you that I will have a breakup with Sonu and give him two months’ notice period, to be with you.”

Padamesh looks all delighted to hear these words and took the chicken leg in his hand and said, “I accept your offer, Cheers” and she also reciprocated with another chicken leg lying on her plate.

Go to the Next Part (The Resignation)

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