Sameera's P.O.V.

Aayansh's words kept ringing in my ears.

He told me that you are being stubborn over a stupid fight.

Dad still trusts Nikhil over me! Why can't he for once think of me as his own daughter and open his eyes and see how I have been betrayed.

Why does he consider Nikhil to be a saint and me to be just a rich spoilt brat?

Why didn't he come to meet me even once? Is his hatred for me more than his love for me?

I have made a lot of mistakes in the past but I am not at fault this time. Why can't he understand?

I looked at myself in the mirror. I see a completely different person from earlier.

Earlier I would look at a pretty and happy face.

But now, only a teary eyed, ugly and a sad face looked at me through the mirror. I am just a mess now. Just a broken person.

I feel so lonely sometimes. I have no one whom I can call my family. No one with whom I can share everything. Is this how an orphan is supposed to feel? Is this how I was supposed to feel always?

A lone tear escaped my eyes as I thought about the pathetic condition of my life.

No Sameera you are strong girl. You don't need anybody. You can do it.

Yes I can do it. And I will do it. I will mend my mistakes. I will work hard all for myself. I have a job now. Everything will be fine if I work hard.

I sat on my bed and drew some illustrations for an order.

After I was done, I lied on the bed and instantly sleep engulfed me because of tiredness and all the crying that I did.

The next day while I was working on my desk, Ziya came and sat on a stool kept opposite to the table.

"Hey Ziya, whatsup?" I greeted her but instead of replying she started crying.

"Hey what happened? Why are you crying?" I asked her.

"I made a big mistake!" She said.

"Tell me clearly. What did you do?"

"Chhavi asked me to get the delivery of some orders done to a couple of stores and I got confused and mixed them up."

"You mean to say you delivered wrong orders in both the places?"

"Yes!"

"Oh my god. What will we do now?"

"We can't do anything." She said. "The clients are already pissed because they needed it urgently and they called Kavya and they were really disappointed. Chhavi is going to kill me."

"She won't do anything. Trust me. She is not like we used to think of her. She will understand!"

"Noo! She won't! She is only nice to you because you helped her. She won't say anything to you if you would have made such mistake. But we are just her interns. She will beat the shit out of us for our mistakes!"

"Don't worry Ziya! I will talk to her and make her understand. Please stop crying."

I made her drink water and she finally stopped crying. But just as she stopped, Rajan Bhaiya came to inform that Chhavi wants to see Ziya and she started crying again.

"Stop crying Ziya. I am coming with and I will try to convince Chhavi. She won't say you anything." I said and took her to Chhavi's cabin.

Chhavi was sitting in her chair and she looked furious. Ziya got scared of her so much that she was shivering.

I haven't been so scared of even Aayansh and she is getting scared of Chhavi. What can she do the most? Scream at her. Overburden her? Make her do the most boring and tedious job? What else? Nothing. Still Ziya is scared of her. Stupid girl.

"Can you explain me, Ziya how could you make a mistake in doing such as simple job? How could you get confused between two different consignments?" Chhavi questioned Ziya in a threatening tone.

"Chhavi..I..I.. actually Chhavi..." She started stuttering.

"What? Are you going to say something?" Chhavi asked her angrily.

"Y..yes. I am sorry Chhavi. Actually I told Sameera to get the consignments delivered since she was already handling other deliveries."

Wait. When did she tell me anything? I looked at her shocked at how she made me the scapegoat. She looked at me with pleading eyes to take the blame for her.

I didn't deny her accusation when I saw a tear dropping from her eyes.

Before Chhavi could say anything, Kavya barged into the room.

Oh shit!

"Chhavi did you find out how did that happen?" She asked.

Instead of replying, she looked at me. Kavya followed her line of vision and also looked at me.

"Don't tell me, it's you again." She said angrily looking towards me.

What do I do now? Tell the truth?. I can't do this to Ziya. She is already very sad right now. But how can I take the blame for somebody else's mistakes.

When I didn't say anything for a long time, Kavya assumed my silence to be because of my mistake.

"Ofcourse it's you. As always."

"It's nothing like that Kavya Ma'am," Ziya said, "it wasn't her job to do. Chhavi asked me to do it, but I told Sameera to do it. I shouldn't have had."

Kavya looked at Ziya and said, "So it's your mistake."

"I am sorry ma'am, I will never..." Before Ziya could complete herself, she was interrupted by Kavya.

"Never pass your work on this girl ever again. She is not worthy of trusting with anything important." She said before storming out of the room.

Drops of tears escaped my eyes at her words.

She is not worthy of trusting with anything important.

Am I really that bad, that everybody has the same thing to say?

I kept standing there. I don't have so much strength in my legs to move.

Seeing me, Chhavi said, "Sameera," I looked at her to see she was staring at me, "you know what? We should keep our professional and personal lives separate. Taking blame for somebody else's mistakes is not going to take you anywhere."

She said and then looked at Ziya, shaked her head in disappointment but didn't say anything to her.

I left the room angrily.

It's all because of Ziya. How could she blame me for something I had nothing to do with.

I came and sat on my desk and started doing my work. Ziya came running towards me and said, "I am sorry Sameera, I didn't know Kavya is going to come. I thought it's only Chhavi..."

"Please leave Ziya. I am not in the mood to have a conversation."

After sometime, I went to Kavya's cabin since I was supposed to help her with her fashion show. She was still mad at me but nevertheless we worked together.

Later when we were done, I sat on my desk and started completing the work I was doing earlier. That's when Rajan Bhaiya came and informed that Aayansh wanted to see me.

My work was almost over so I went to his cabin after a few minutes.

I knocked on his door and entered when he said "Enter."

The moment I entered, he shouted without even looking at me. "When you are being asked to come that means you are being asked to come immediately. You are fifteen minutes late Sameera Ahuja."

How did he know that it was me? It could have been anyone else as well.

"You know what if you can't wait for me you should send for me before fifteen minutes. I don't like leaving my work in between for anyone." I said irritated.

"It won't be needed any longer because luckily I won't have to waste anymore time on you. Kavya told me what happened today and since you earlier asked me to make a final decision, I have made one. You are leaving! I can't lose such a big deal for someone like you! Here is your termination letter."

What? No!

"You. Are. Fired!"

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Now Ranbir and Alia are also married 🥺🥺 Only Sid is left.

Can't believe all three, Varun, Alia and Sid have grown up so much that two of them are already married.

Ranbir and Alia's wedding pictures were so beautiful!!! They look so nice together 😍😍😍

Anyway, I know you all would have been shocked with the ending. Tell me honestly how many of you were expecting Aayansh to do something like that. Any particular reason why a sudden change of Aayansh's mind?

I won't be telling you all the reason so soon😝. Because the next chapters are the past as I promised. Though I will try to update as fast as possible as I already have the drafts ready.

Tell me what do you think about the story till now.

Thank you very much for reading my story!!

Yours truly,
Aashi