48 First Time

Sheena frowned seeing Rajeev going to the conference room. Not having slept for the entire night, she is not at all in a mood to attend a meeting.

She made up her mind with much difficulty and got up to walk.

As soon as she entered the conference room, everyone else in the team arrived in less than 5 minutes.

Hello, Good Morning everyone, the team lead started enthusiastically.

I hope all of you know the context of this meeting.

Everyone else nodded except Sheena.

OK, let me demonstrate it again. It's about "Resource utilization and Time Management".

What a boring topic!! Sheena frowned again.

As the meeting is going on, her eyelids started to drop. She pinched herself tightly to make sure not to fall asleep.

The meeting was concluded in 30min, but Sheena didn't listen to a single thing.

Rehaan noticed her unusual behavior. He knew that she usually doesn't pay attention to meeting topics, but she won't sleep at least.

He thought of asking her if she had any problem, after the meeting. As everyone started walking out of the meeting room, the team lead asked him to stay back to discuss some other details.

Sheena was feeling tipsy while walking to her desk, she looked like she will collapse at any moment.

She unknowingly dashed into an empty desk and was about to trip. She thought she would fall and injure herself. She closed her eyes awaiting the pain, but the pain she was waiting for never came.

Instead, someone held her waist tightly, preventing her from falling.

She opened her eyes, but her vision became dark due to drowsiness. She still told "Thank you" out of conscience.

She felt that the grip around her waist tightened a bit. The hand pulled her up to stand straight.

Did you drink??

The voice sounded caring, but frightening at the same time.

Sheena's drowsiness flew away after hearing the firm voice. She was very familiar with his voice.

She opened her eyes fully and stood straight using all her might.

Big boss, I didn't drink.

Then why are you looking like that?

Your eyes are all red, are you sure you didn't drink?

Boss, I swear I didn't drink.

Looks like you won't believe me. Bring an "alcohol detector", I will blow it and prove myself. She gave him a dejected look.

It's not that I don't believe you, you were all good yesterday, but you look very weak all of a sudden. So I am just asking. He tried to explain himself.

It's his "first time" to get concerned about someone, so Shaahir was not able to express his concern properly. There were so many 'first times' for him from the time he met her. He is still in the learning phase, so he got 'flustered' seeing the disappointed look on her face.

Sis, drink this. You will feel better. Rajeev handed her a coffee appearing out of nowhere.

Thank you, Rajeev. You are the best. She gave him a 'thumbs up'.

Although Rajeev was a blabbermouth, he is a very caring person. He helped her many times. She felt very grateful towards him.

Rajeev noticed the perplexed expression on Shaahir's face.

Big boss isn't sis looking like a 'Ghost in old movies'??

Yes, she is…

Shaahir how can you call me a Ghost??

Rajeev, you blabbermouth, you are the one who is looking Ghost.

That's not right Miss Chinese ghost!! No you watched a Korean drama the whole night right?

So you are a Korean ghost. Rajeev and Sheena are bickering like kids, which made the atmosphere light.

They stopped bickering after a while.

Sheena, there is a new task, for which we need to get input from the Margins Dev team. I spoke with their team lead, they asked me to send a person from our team.

These are few queries we have. Handover it to him and get back when they mailed the data to us. Shaahir said, handing over a small file to her.

Big boss, She will fall in half way. Give it to me, I will get the data, Rajeev interrupted.

Let her go. I need you for other tasks.

But she...

No buts. Sheena, you can leave now.

This is her desk number on the first floor.

Sheena walked out helplessly with the file in her hand.

When she reached the first floor, she was informed that the team lead went for an emergency meeting.

She was asked to wait in the waiting room.

Sheena sat on the sofa, she played with her mobile for half an hour. Her eyes started burning.

She closed her eyes for a moment and dozed off into deep sleep unknowingly.

Shaahir got a WhatsApp message from his friend in the Margins team after a while, where a girl is sleeping peacefully leaning on to the hand rest of the sofa.

A faint smile appeared on his lips.