Aryan paused the video footage of yesterday's which Darshan had sent half an hour ago as he tried concentrating on the present conversation.
"Shravan sir I know but that was an accident." Aryan said trying to calm his own head.

"Technical blackout and you call that an accident. I better salute your sense of humour Aryan." Shravan growled on the phone.

Aryan could imagine Shravan impatiently walking on the grass of his estate with tonnes of unnecessary tensions dancing over his head. Aryan was still thinking how to ensure Shravan that everything was alright here when Shravan pronounced the greatest idea of the decade ; announcing his vital presence at the Institute tomorrow. Shock jolted Aryan to the unescapable reality. Three things screamed for attention to be sorted out before the inevitable Shravan Bhattacharya makes his entry at RCSM.

". . 10 AM Sharp."

No. No. No. Shravan sir shouldn't come. No.

"No. Shravan sir you can't come. " Aryan said surprised finding his own voice so pathetic.

"Why? What did you do this time?" Shravan asked.

"Nothing. It's just that I won't be free tomorrow so . . . "

"No worries my boy I had already cleared your schedule with your PA."
Aryan could sense venom dipped in each word of Shravan.

Damn it. There is no way Shravan sir could be stopped.

"Okay then we will meet tomorrow. Good night." Shravan said declining the line.

Aryan punched the wall trying to control his temper. Why the hell Shravan always choose the wrong timings. The only thing Aryan could do now was call that idiot Darshan.

Darshan as dramatic as always picked the call on the very last ring increasing Aryans irritation to the peaks.

"Hello Shetty. How on earth you are giving your valuable time to this leech creature?"

Aryan sighed in annoyance reconsidering his decision about calling this psycho now.

"Gosh. Darshan when did I even say you a leech creature? "

"Then probably just now you called me a madman."

"No. I said psycho. "

"Oh! So hello this is physico Darshan speaking what do you want?"

"I need your help. Shravan sir is coming tomorrow from Singapore visiting us so I have got three major problems the prior is the deadbodies in the basement Labs and . . "

"Okay I get that. The corpse from G7 will be cleared in two hours and what else ?"

Relief flooded Aryan once Darshan assured the bodies will be cleared. Basically Darshan hated Aryan for conducting all these research which eventually leads to a lot of mess. But soon it occurred Aryan that he had more two things to look after.

"Darshan can you setup a panel meet tomorrow? "

"I can. Why?"
Darshan was quite sure that Aryan was definitely loosing his pretty brain with every passing day but he could'nt figure out what was the source of loss.

Maybe a girl. Girl? Never. Aryan and a girl are just two poles apart. But still there maybe chances.

"Who is the girl in the video?" Aryan asked zooming the paused video in his laptop. The girl was in a baby pink formal sleeve shirt with raven hair adjusting her scarf and the very next second she was squatting over the thuja plant in the glass cabinet at the sixth left corridor of Block B. She was turning to the camera but the next moment it was chaos and innumerable unrecognisable faces clashed into the screen. The girl lost in this mess.

"I knew. I knew it. Definitely it is a girl. Damn." Darshan shouted in excitement. Finally the time was running parallel to him.

"Darshan have you lost it? Any idiot watching the video will tell that is a girl." Aryan said frustrated.

All of sudden Darshan suspicions were short lived when realisation marched in. This was the same girl who was the last captured individual in the CCTV beside the thuja plant.
Her face was not captured in any of the footages and in one it was recorded from too far where the face was beyond recogonisation.
The girl squatted and then out of nowhere the fire alarm was alerted. Obviously a false alarm. It was just that the thuja plant were on fire and the fire sensors recognised advancely staking the risk of entire blow down of the Block which lead to the excessive blaring of the fire alarm. With no fire to ablaze. The entire floor was on panic mode with water dripping all around making the situation more difficult and impossible to handle.
The sound sensors at the power lab mistook the reception of the alarms and lead to the ringing chaos of the new alarms. Technical department jumped into action to turn down the power lab technically while the hub ordered complete manual shut down. Due to the lack of interaction between the technical department and the hub the power was shut down both manually and technically without any prior warning. The computers screeched and the generators didn't respond due to the power being cut. This resulted the infamous technical blackout yesterday.

". . not so important right now." Aryan said.

"What is not important? "
Darshan was finally out of the thoughts of yesterday and the anonymous girl.

"That's not important. Ask your PA to schedule Miss Seghals class with the neuro department instead of the cardio."

"OK. What's not important?"

"Nothing is important. I mean that was not important which I was telling is important. "
Aryan sighed in both annoyance and relief. Annoyed on Darshans 'important ' massacre and relieved over the three problems being sorted out. At least for now it was sorted.

"What has got you shitty? You are bloody confused about something important. "

"For heavens sake would you drop that 'important' topic? Anyways let things go smoothly tomorrow I will treat you. "

Darshan smiled on how childish Aryan could be. We have friends to get us out of shits and even push into the gutter. Aryan doesn't consider anybody for real. It takes him forever to make anybody become a somebody to him. And today Darshan is for sure a somebody to him. Smiling Darshan concentrated on the conversation.

". .wondering in wanderland. Bye."
Mute. The line was dead.

Aryan tossed his phone on the bed and cuddled into the comfy couch scrolling the mails forwarded by Voina. Sipping his brew he shortlisted the pharmaceutical companies ready to collaborate for the latest medicine on diabetes.

Faded. And Alan Walker consumed the space while the clock striked 2 AM. Yawning Aryan resumed reading the clause of the new agreement with Noon pharmaceuticals.

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07:30 IST

Sejal in a haste ran into one of the lifts tucking her ID card parallely adjusting her hair and air typed 32 on the lift keypad. She was alone in the left as nobody came any sooner the doors closed and Sejal took the opportunity to check herself out. Afterall it's after years she was going to be a student again to attend today's neuro session. The girl staring back at her from the mirror was in a navy blue crop top paired with a faded jeans with her hair curled lightly at the tips. Classic Sassy. Is what Katu would have commented. But she didn't come back to the apartment yesterday and moreover put her calls on voicemail.

Dunno what is she upto now. The last time she was away for two days she landed up in trouble with a pub owner whom Katu disowned his own club announcing him to be a stripper and moreover a lap dancer. God save the world.

Ting. Sejal looked at the display. Twelve. More twenty to go. Sejal sighed that nobody tagged along into the lift.

Beep. Beep.

Sejal glanced at her phone and her face brightened because finally that devil got time to send a message. Not a message but a photo. Someone entered into the car. To say barged in.

"I know it damn. But still I want that man in the panel today."
That somebody shouted frustrated as Sejal opened her whatsapp and saw the image downloading. Below the text stated : how am I looking darling?

Before she could see the image thud something made a noise making Sejal glance in the mirror. Aryan . Aryan Shetty. She blinked again to check whether her eyes were deceiving her. But no it was Aryan. Aryan the bipolar.

But something seemed missing today because even after acknowledging her presence he spoke nothing. Literally nothing. The cocky rude and sexy Aryan was nowhere to be seen.

"You okay Dr Shetty? "
She surprised herself asking the question.

Aryan simply nodded. Which seemed not to match with his eyes. His eyes were getting dilated. Something was definitely wrong. In a jinx Aryan held the steel supporter. Sejal held his hand to stabilise his position and this time the touch was not icy nor electrifying. It was comfort.

With the free hand Sejal popped out a sugar chocolate and gave it to Aryan.

"It's not the sugar levels."
Aryan said refusing the chocolate.

Aryan entwined their fingers even tighter along Sejals.

"Emotional drain out. "
Aryan managed to say.

Without thinking anything further Sejal did what she could do at the at most now. She hugged him.

And he hugged her back tightening his arm around her waist. Aryan digged his head into her hair inhaling the sweet smell of strawberry. 

Peaceful. The most peaceful thing in the entire universe.

Sejal could hear his heartbeat against her ear which was calming down gradually. A shiver ran down her spine due to the intimacy between them.

"Thank you."
Sejal heard Aryan whispering peacefully into her ear with his lips almost touching her earlobes teasing them badly. She suddenly wanted to feel the touch of his lips.

"Be careful with Dr Aniruddha whose class you are attending now. He doesn't love people proving him wrong muñeca. "

Sejal nodded against his chest. Aryan held her even closer as if she was too precious to lose. And suddenly she realized in the process of making him feel alright her heartbeat had raced up making Aryan smirk.

Look. The cocky arrogant and rude sexy Aryan Shetty was back.

Electric jolt.
Aryans body was suddenly on fire. Burning. When Sejals lips teased his jaw pondering a feather kiss in the ear. And then her lips kissed the collar which was shielding the nape of Aryans neck. A sudden itching triggered Aryans neck wanting to feel those lips.

"Shock therapy Dr Shetty."
Sejal whispered and laughing she released them from the forever hug.

It takes a moment for Aryan to compose himself back. Aryan crawls his right hand around Sejals neck and pulls her backwards moving her closer to him. He could sense the shiver running down her body. He gets lost in the smell of the strawberries and nestled into the soft hair even deeper. Slowly moving his lips to her ears almost kissing them he whispered.

"Next time I can't stop myself muñeca. I want to kiss you."

Ding.

Aryan loosened up his arm as the door opened. Sejal rushed even without a glance backward. Aryan smiled recollecting the just happened moments and the sound of her heart hammering too loud was irresistible.

'Destiny's bought me back ... '
Played bringing Aryan to the checking reality of what the heck did really just happened.

"Fvck. What am I doing?"

Knack. He punched the lift door.

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An:

Finally the next part is out.

For those who don't know about Fifty Shades of Grey it is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James.It became the first instalment in the Fifty Shadesnovel series that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving BDSM(bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism).

The elevator scene in Fifty shades is where Christian Grey couldn't resist Anastasia Steel anymore after their back to back two meets and ends up kissing. Their first kiss.

So finally we had our elevator scene and even witnessed what happened.

And even the cause of the infamous technical blackout.

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