LIFE, LOVE, A DATE AND WORK!

A heavy fever with a severe headache and illness of being lonely under depression, please grant me a day leave! Grace wrote to her annoying boss, Christopher.

Grace was a typist in the office of Christopher. She has been working there for a year and his overloaded work upon Grace, grace always wanted to leave the jib but the thing that stopped her from doing was the sentiment that he was the only one to give her a job when she came there with no skills. He gave her a month of training and made her learn the skills of being a typist and afforded her a small room with his known people until she got her job permanent and received her first salary.

 Whenever she tries to quit, she remembers the kind heart of his annoying boss and all her decisions gets washed away with the wind!

Christopher, a 58-year-old man, running his famous press company in his town, well known for his perfection and his excellence in his career. No body knows about his family. some day that, he had a family but his wife left him for he gave no time for her.

Despite being a hectic day and a very important work on his table, Christopher looked at her message and gave a sigh. Hmm… he took a deep breath and typed, ‘Okay, leave granted. Take care of your health. And if any emergency, feel free to ask!

Now, the last sentence, made her heart break and the guilt rose in her heart. Yes, she lied to him. She wanted to have a break from this schedule as her mind wanted some fresh air, some nature sceneries to see and to breathe fresh air and hear the music of the nature for she was fed up of breathing the air form her air condition in her office, hearing the chaos in the office and her eyes were fed up of watching the screen of her computer, typing the documents sent by her senior officers!

 

Grace now kept her phone aside. She never mailed him about her leave as other workers do in the office. She was a favorite person for he was too kind with her and sometimes took care like his daughter. She kept her phone aside and got out of her bed and got ready to see the world outside.

It was a special day for her as she was going to meet her classmate Charles whom she had a crush on. It was a casual meet as he had come to the city to see the places and her presence there, which was said my Kate, Grace’s friend who helped Grace from her past trauma made him connect with her on phone and the decision of fake illness was made by her without a second thought.

Stuck between the guilt of telling lie to her boss and the happiness of meeting her long-lost crush, her mind sailed two boats in the same ocean! She suppressed her guilt when she received a message from Charles, I have got out and will reach the bakery at 10:45am. Grace replied to his message and started her journey to the place they decided to meet.

A bakery near the sea shore and they met and a great deep hug, they had. They sat and had coffee talking about their lives. Grace was very secret in revealing about her personal things as she was scared that her step mother would track her and kill her. Grace has a sorrow filled past and she fled away from the place. Grace’s father Lawrence married for the second time; a woman named Jenifer who killed her husband by giving slow poison in his everyday meal. Grace found this out when he had sent her a letter while she was in her high school and that was the last letter, he had sent her. His property was seized by her step mother and wondered if Grace knew about this murder and Jenifer started searching for Grace. Grace had left the place by then and started her new life, far away from them.

Uh! I work as a teacher in a near by school. She said and changed the topic. After several conversations, they got closer and they were confessed each other about their love. they walked to the sea shore and talked much more. They finally got attached to each other. There, a bunch of young women wearing bikini played. They looked at them and upon asking they realized it was a celebration of the ‘Bikini’ and people wear different patterns and designs in bikini. Looking at this, he asked her wear one and join the challenge. She wore one purchased form the road side shop and she looked the prettiest of all. They all danced, cheered, celebrated the cloth bikini, sang songs and enjoyed the event. The photographs of them playing were taken and were given for each as their sweetest memory. It was evening and Grace thanked him for staying and making her day beautiful. He said that we will meet and soon be together! And he dropped her home and left the place.

Grace now went to her room and looked at the bikini she wore and the thoughts about the whole day rolled though her eyes. Her lips wore the brightest smile that day. She looked at the photograph and remembered the words he said’ you look the prettiest in this!”

The sun rose, and Grace rushed to her office. She showed her face to her boss and sat down to work.

Christopher called in to her room asked her about her health. And gave her the newspaper.

She was stunned to see that she was the very big poster in bikini for the bikini celebration in her newspaper.

She wondered how he got that and then saw Charles was the new person in their office.

The boss, herself and Charles, the newspaper, Grace was finally caught red-handed!

-Ajola Ganesan

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