Smriti's POV-

The next day everyone except me were leaving for New York.

" Smriti, take care of yourself and if you feel afraid of living alone, go to Mansi's place." Papa said.

Here comes the overprotective dad!

" And eat on time." Mumma said.

" Okay papa, mumma. Now come, I'll drop you to the airport." I said.

" No need. It is 10 in the night. You stay at home and sleep. I will book a cab." Papa said.

" I cannot do that. I have to go to the headquarters. I have work.

" At 10? Now what work is there?" Mumma exclaimed.

I just smiled and took the car keys.

" You are your work confidentiality!" Mumma sighed.

" Just don't die." Mumma added.

" I will not." I said and chuckled.

Papa drove to the airport. They all were travelling in Mr Grey's private jet.

I really don't understand what is the need to buy a plane when you can very well use the ones which are run by the airlines? God knows what goes on inside the minds of these filthy rich people. They should use their money in welfare rather than all this.

We reached the airport within 50 minutes where the Grey's were already present at the departures.

" Smriti, I just realized that we have not exchanged our phones numbers. Let's do that." Mia said, as soon as she saw me.

" Sure Mia. It is 990......." I said.

She called me and I saved her number too.

I touched grandma's feet.

" Long live child." She blessed.

" Have a good journey." I said to everyone.

" That we will, but you take care. I am really scared in leaving you alone here." Mumma said.

" Mumma, I am not a kid. I can live alone and stop embarrassing me." I said.

" Nonsense! There is nothing to be embarrassed about. She is your mother and is bound to be worried." Grace, Mr Grey's mother said.

" Let's get going." Mr Grey announced.

Everyone nodded.

" I will be waiting Ms Sharma." Mr Grey whispered in my ears before leaving. No one noticed it.

I blushed.

Mia hugged me and then everyone vanished inside.

I started for the headquarters where we will be given details about the Iraq mission.

I reached there and saw Mansi was already present. We took our seats. The meeting lasted for about an hour and a half.

" You all can leave now. But I want you here tomorrow sharp at 9." Sanjay sir said.

" Mansi, no one is at home today." I said and smiled slyly.

" That means partyyyy!" She shouted.

Lakshya, Rajat, Fahim, Sunaina, Chaitra, Mansi and I went to my home.

" It's party time!" Rajat shouted and I started the music.

We were dancing our asses off.

The only mistake I committed was to upload our photos on Snapchat and Instagram.

I had no idea that Mia had followed me and added me on Snapchat!

" Smriti, let's just crash now or else dad will kill us tomorrow if we don't reach there on time." Sunaina said. It was almost 4.

We all nodded. We girls took my room and the boys took the guest room.

One more mistake I did was not switching my alarm on. And this was a grave one.

We all sleep like babies. Thankfully my phone rang.

" SMRITI! I better not find out that your wild party has destroyed my crockery!" Mumma shouted from the other end. I woke up in hurry.

I heard some chuckled too from the other side of the phone.

" What party mumma? There was no party." I lied.

" Really? Mia did show me some pictures of you and your friends at my house with those stupid doggy ears!" Mumma exclaimed.

" Fine! Yes, I had a party but none of your fixed assets have been destroyed." I said.

Then, out of reflex action, I looked towards the watch which indicated that it was 8 freaking 30.

" Mumma did you reach safely?" I asked.

" Yes we did." She said.

" That's great. Now I gotta go. I am way too late. Just pray that Sanjay sir doesn't fire us all." I said and hung up.

" Girls! Wake up. It's 8:30 and we have to reach the headquarters by 9." I said.

All of them woke up with a jolt.

We got ready in 20 minutes. Way too quick. It was 10 minutes left to 9.

" Guys, sit in the car and come up with some excuses as to why are we late. MAKE SURE THAT THEY SOUND GENUINE. Meanwhile, let me drive fast." I said.

" My car died so we had to attend her funeral." Rajat said.

" Guys, ignore him and think." Lakshya said.

" We were all making plans as to how will we execute our plan in Iraq." Fahim said.

After 20 minutes and 200 ideas later, we reached the office without any satisfactory idea.

" Guys! The cat and the funeral one should just do fine." Rajat said as we entered the elevator.

" Shut up Rajat and don't pull up that stunt." I said.

He nodded like an obedient child.

The moment we exited hte elevator, Sanjay sir was standing there to greet us.

" Suspended for 5 days." He shouted on our faces.

" We again took the elevator to the ground floor and sat in my car.

" Guys, pack your bags. New York is calling us before we expected." Lakshya said.

" Yeah! It's good that we are suspended for 5 days. Now we can peacefully attend Smriti's engagement." Mansi said.

" See, whatever happens, happens for gor good." Fahim said.

" I will book the tickets for today night." I said and dropped each of them to their houses.

I reached mine and started to pack after booking the tickets.

The flight was at 12 midnight. Mansi, Lakshya and I took the same car whereas the others reached within 10 minutes too. We boarded the plane after all the formalities.

Smriti's look-

New York, here we come!

It was a hopping flight and took a hault in London. We finally reached New York at 3 in the afternoon, the next day.

" Guys, My parents are not aware about our sudden arrival. Neither am I aware about the hotel they are staying in so let me call dad.

I extracted the information. They were staying in Hotel Standford.

The moment I entered the hotel, I was spotted by Mr Grey.

" Smriti, did I mistook the day of your arrival or you are early?" He asked.

" I am early Mr Grey. Actually all of us are suspended for 5 days so we thought to come here a day before." I blurted out before thinking.

" Have I not made it clear that it is Christian for you?" He asked and I saw a small smile playing on his lips. It vanished before it could actually come out.

Does this man never laugh or what?

" Yes you did Mr Grey." I said.

" I mean Christian." I corrected myself. He nodded.

" And may I ask the reason for all of yours suspension?" He asked.

" We were late for work despite being informed that we had to be sharp at 9." I said.

" And I suppose it was because of your party?" He asked.

" You are aware about the party?" I asked. Can't mumma keep things to herself!

" Everyone saw your photos from your infamous party. You know, Mia is not at all a secret keeper." He said and chuckled.

I blushed.

" Now let me arrange rooms for all of you. In the meanwhile, you can go and meet Mr and Mrs Sharma." He said and started walking towards the reception.

I engaged myself in conversation with others.

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