Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Chapter 65--- at the business conference


It was finally Monday morning and arnav had to attend a conference in great London, it was a business conference for all big business men, who invested in shares in Europe, it was said that some companies, have openings for some shares, and they planned to whole the buying and selling in conference which would make it easy for the companies to keep track, arnav and akash decided to go and attend the conference, they were going to leave early morning,
It was around 7 am, khushi went to wake arnav up so he could get ready, then she went on to naina who was refusing to get up begging her mother if she could miss school
Naina: please mom, I am tired, can i not go to school today (she pleaded)
Khushi: naina please, wake up, you have to go come on
Naina: please please pretty please with a cherry on the top (she said in a cute voice)
Khushi: (chuckled) no you have to go come on, off you go (she pulled her up and out of bed)
Naina headed of to the bathroom, rubbing her eyes sulking about going to school, khushi went on to now check on her husband, as she entered the room, she saw he was still in bed, she went next to him and started to shout
Khushi: what are you still doing here, get up
Arnav: khushi I don't want to go to work
Khushi: what the
Arnav: hey that's my line (he hit her with the pillow)
Khushi: arnav!! You have the conference thingi to go to
Arnav: ya I know, but I don't want to, let akash go for it
Khushi: you and your daughter are just alike, even she was refusing to go to school
Arnav: because its Monday morning that's why
Khushi: come on get up (she pulled him out of bed too)
A fussing arnav went into the bathroom to get ready, khushi again headed of to the kitchen to get their breakfast ready, naina came out she was rubbing her eyes and drinking her chocolate milk arnav followed her his black coffee was on the table, both looked at each other and said in a sleepy voice
Arnav and naina: I am sleepy
After they both spoke they realized that they spoke together and both of them started to laugh khushi joint in, they had their breakfast, arnav took of too work and naina cycled to school on her new cycle,
At AR designs
Akash was waiting for arnav to come, from their they would leave for the conference, as arnav entered akash put some files in front of him, 
Akash: bhai, good you're here, these are the company profiles that we are looking at
Arnav opens the files and gives it a glance
Arnav: ok akash , if we are ready lets leave
They all left for the meeting to great London, which was held in a grand hotel, as they entered the conference room, everyone were in business suits black, blue beige, the announcement was made for everyone to sit down at their respective tables, then the projector was turned on and a bunch of graphs were shown to brief everyone about the companies, people around the world had come to buy shares at this conference it was a big deal, and the world stock market would fluctuate from here on,
One by one the announcement was made on the mike for shares, and people stood up and bought them, arnav and akash had bought quite a handful of shares as the market was good, and arnav singh raizada was known to be a bull in the market, aman stood up to confirm each share they bought as a representative
The conference was about to end and people were now mostly socializing, refreshments were served by the hotel, and people were all standing and talking, arnav and akash participated,
mr babinsky: well hello mr raizada what an honor to have you here, at the conference I hear you have picked up a lot of shares (he smiled at arnav)
arnav: well yes, off corse, they don't call me the bull of the market for no reason do they (he raised his eye brows)
mr babinsky: off course that's true (agreeing) and hows everything else mr raizada I heard you got married and have a child
arnav: (remembering his khushi and naina, he smiled) yes they are fine,
arnav was chatting up with people when he noticed a tall figure in a business suit he was none other than ritesh, he leaned forward and whispered into arnavs ears
akash: bhai look its ritesh, jiju
arnav immediately changed the direction of his eyes and saw, and there he was anjili's husband, ah I mean ex husband, arnav and ritesh shared a distant relationship after the divorce, before the divorce they were both close, they would often discuss business issues, arnav looked up to ritesh like an older brother, Anjili was happy to see arnav and her husband so close, but after the divorce things changed, arnav couldn't see his sister so sad and thus he too started distancing himself from ritesh, so there was no contact,
ritesh too saw arnav, both the men stared at each other and then out of courtesy they both walked towards each other to say a casual hi 
ritesh: hi arnav
arnav: hi jiju
akash: hi jiju
ritesh: hey akash
and then there was awkward silence
ritesh: so arnav how you doing,
arnav: I am good, doing fine and you
ritesh: great never better , I heard you go married
arnav: yes I did, (he smiled)
ritesh: so who is the lucky girl
arnav: well her name is khushi,
ritesh: oh that's great (he smiled, took a pause and then said in a low tone) hows Anjili doing
arnav: she is fine,
ritesh: well I met her that day, she was shocked to see me, so I was worried
arnav: (confused) which day jiju
ritesh: you know on saterday, at the mall,
all the jigsaw pieces came together, he now could see clearly that anjilil was behaving strange because she met ritesh, and khushi had mentioned to him about what happened in the car
arnav: well yes she is fine (he nodded)
ritesh: oh ok that's great, (a bit surprised) well I better be going
all three men shook hands and then took off,     

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