Concoctions

Next day Neerav reached office a bit late than usual. He crossed Snehali's seat to verify if she was there. Not finding her, he felt disappointed and went to his own seat. On his seat, he took out his phone and started typing a message for Snehali. He was about to send it when he decided against it and kept the phone back. Neerav opened his computer and started going through the pending emails. He was thinking of a way to contact Snehali and started looking at the pending tasks where he might need help from her. Just about then, Snehali's email notification appeared on his computer screen. "Not well, Taking a sick leave today too" Seeing the email, Neerav again resumed his search for a pending task to use as an excuse to contact Snehali. He found the task and sent an email to her requesting for some information. H e went to have a cup of coffee in the pantry area before starting his work on the tasks for the day. He met Karan there, Karan was h...

Snehali was resting and had just kept her phone aside after sending the email for sick leave. She was feeling a bit down yesterday and today she had woken up with a headache and a high fever. She was complaining of headache when her mom had casually touched her forehead to check and had found it burning hot. Snehali had taken the medicine for fever and now her temperature was getting back to normal. She could finally muster the strength to send an email to inform people at work. She had plans to go to the doctor with her Dad soon. Snehali was her Dad's darling daughter and he got very stressed whenever anything happened to her. She and her Dad were having tea and her Dad was as usual worrying for her "I always ask you to not eat anything from outside during the rainy season but you don't listen to me". Snehali had replied "Yes Dad, but what to do. Golgappas are my favourite. I can't imagine not having them atleast once a week." That is when they...

Neerav was a self-made man with lots of responsibilities. These responsibilities had made him mature beyond his age. The struggles of his childhood had made him strong. He had learnt to hide his true self so much so that he even felt embarrassed whenever he fell ill. Neerav's hard work and dedication had helped him secure a well earning job in a prestigious company. Snehali was from a middle class family. She had a loving family and a very different view of the world - a world where people were at peace with themselves. She had been a sincere student throughout and now was hired in the same company as Neerav. They worked in the same company and in the same team. Being the kind of people they were, Neerav and Snehali did not give much thought to each other. But now, they were assigned to work on a project together and it was inevitable that they would get to know each other. They both did not know much about the differences in their personalities but they felt intrigued wh...