I am going crazy now. I hate my work, I feel like slamming this mouse to the wall and running away from my cubicle.

Why is this not working? My code is correct, I tried to debug it but it's not showing anything there.

Work is hard these days, I come in at 7:30 and leave around 5. It's a week from Christmas so most people are on vacation even Sarah and Rick.

Rick comes on alternate days so I'm the only developer working. I have been getting an error since the morning and I couldn't figure out how to fix this.

I just needed some fresh eyes to look at this. So, I texted my friend Avinash from the university and I have been waiting for his reply ever since.

My phone started buzzing and I felt relieved as I thought it was Avinash, thank God he is calling otherwise I could be stuck here the whole day.

To my bad luck, it was not Avinash but my stupid cousin Arjun on a video call.

"I'm not talking to you Arjun and stop showing off," I told him because he is in India with my grandparents and my grandmother was feeding him dinner.

"I missed you Ammu, I just wanted to see your face," he told me with a mischievous smile on his face.

Like I believe that.

My aunt's family went to India as my uncle's father was sick and had some major surgery scheduled. Arjun and Dhruv are with my aunt's parents who are my grandparents.

And I'm staying alone at my aunt's house. Living alone is so boring, I don't know why I wanted to do it. It's been like 3 days since they have been gone but it feels so long. I hate living alone and going into an empty house.

I'd rather stay at work than go home to the devils-less house.

"Stop annoying her Arjun, my baby is already staying alone, I don't know if she is eating or not." my grandma said to Arjun giving him a noogie.

My grandparents' home is like 200 years old. He didn't wanna change the rooms where his ancestors lived so we made an extension to that house with new rooms.

"You don't have to worry about her eating grandma, she eats like a pig, feed me the yummy Rice and Pickle you made," Arjun said

"Ignore him Ammu. He did the same thing with Anu (Niya). She told him that she will break his bones the next time she sees him, so tell me how everything is going on? Are you eating food? Stop doing work out for 2 hours a day." my grandma started asking.

She is like every other typical grandma, mine is lovely and warm too. She feeds us when we go home. I, Niya, and my aunt always fight over who gets the first morsel, and now Arjun joined our never-ending battle.

"Don't worry, I'm fine and I am eating, and everything is good. Where is Dhruv I can't see him anywhere." I told her because she gets worried easily and I don't want to trouble her.

"He is sleeping, he played all afternoon along with the other kids in the sun," she told me pointing the camera to my aunt's room.

"I called to annoy you, not for you guys to chit-chat." saying that Arjun grabbed the phone from grandma and ended the call.

Arjun has such a temper. I wish I could go to India, it's been a year since I went to my home. My grandparents came here like 6 months back.

I know I have seen them, but I think I miss the place more than the people. The feeling of cold air on a hot sunny day is so much better than the freezing cold here.

I looked at my phone and I got some texts from Avinash and Lindsay.

Avinash says he will call in a few.

Meet me for lunch at 12:00P.M by the Starbucks on 4th street. It's an emergency. ~Lindsay.

It's 9:30 now and if Avinash helps I could figure this thing out and meet her for lunch, so I said yes to her wondering what her emergency might be.

I spoke with Avinash and asked him about the code we both slowly figured it out. The error was a small typo and it couldn't connect with the database because of that.

I hate stupid errors like that, that took me half a day to figure out. Thank God! I have Avinash for emergencies like this.

Avinash was the brains of the group and he has a girlfriend Sachi, in India I met her when I went to India the last time in Hyderabad.

We talked for some time and updated each other on our lives. After completing some more work, I informed Mary that I will be going out for lunch and drove to the Starbucks.

As I reached I could see, Lindsay was already there waiting for me. What could be the thing that made me call her and she looks really lost?

"Hi, how are you and how is the darling inside you?" I asked giving her a hug.

Lindsay is having a baby girl, and we had a gender reveal last week for that sadly I couldn't attend because of some other work.

"I'm fine and the baby is healthy too," she said rubbing her stomach, gosh she looks so fit during her pregnancy too.

The last time I saw her she didn't have a bump this big and now it's like she has a cantaloupe inside her shirt.

"Let's go grab some food, I'm famished," she exclaimed and started walking towards the counter and joined the queue.

I got myself a Tomato Mozzarella Panini with a Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade, while Lindsay got a Turkey and Pesto Panini with a Chai Tea Latte.

"I need a favor from you." she asked while I was munching on my panini.

"Yeah, sure! what do you need? Anything for you." I told her after chewing my food.

"It's for my friend in Lamaze class wait for a few minutes she will be here, I wanted you to know before you meet her," she told me eating her food.

"Her husband has gone missing for the past 2 days. She told me that he was acting weird and he went for a hospital checkup and got admitted there. When she went to meet after her work ended they told her that there was no patient with that name." She told me in a sad tone.

"Oh God, did she talk to the cops may they can do something," I asked her thinking of ways I could be useful to her.

I could see that Lindsay was waving her hand at someone. I turned my head and there was an Indian woman in her 30s may be in her 5th month and a small boy with her. She looks like she didn't sleep for days.

"Amaya this is Meera and the little man is Rohan." Lindsay introduced us, I asked her to sit and pulled up a chair. The boy was looking so cute, he might be 3 or 4.

"Hi, Amaya!" Meera said looking at me with sadness in her eyes and the boy was clutching her shirt and sitting on her lap.

"Hi, Lindsay told me everything and I would be glad to help you with anything," I told her as I didn't want her to relive the whole thing.

"Thank you so much, the hospital management is not responding to me and the cops are looking for him too," she said with tears in her eyes.

"Will you please help us," she asked me.

I don't know what I can do to help her, but I would gladly do anything to help her. It's hard living in a different country, being pregnant and having a 3-year-old boy is the peak of hard things.

"Can you talk to someone on the hospital management board maybe they might help me?" she asked me, how do I get hold of a person managing a hospital. I should ask my uncle if he might know someone.

"I don't know anyone at that hospital, I'll ask my uncle. Can you give me the hospital name?" I asked her and they looked baffled.

"It's Global Care Hospitals. The reason I'm asking you is that I saw you with the board member of the hospital at the Green Valley Grill," she said.

Does she mean Andrew and Mr. Browne? Do they own a hospital?

I remember that because that was the last time, I went to dinner with people other than my family and we don't own any hospitals.

I could ask Andrew for help, he is an approachable guy, unlike Mr. Browne who I should definitely avoid. And Andrew is super chill, We talked a lot during all the meetings, and boy he cracks me up.

"You mean Mr.Browne and Mr.Jones. Sure, I can ask them to help you. Let me talk with them and I'll tell Lindsay if they want to meet you. Send me all the details about your husband." I asked as my lunchtime was almost over and I had to leave.

I hugged them both and left having 2 big tasks to do. One is to get Andrew's no from Aarav and the other is to talk to Andrew about Meera's husband.

I went to the office and texted Aarav to give Andrew's no. I explained the reason why and texted Andrew to call me when he is free. And he replied by saying he is free right now and I could call him.

"Hi Andrew, I need a small favor from you," I asked him to which he replied

"I will gladly be at your services Madame," he said in a British accent.

He started acting like that after he knew that my uncle owns the biggest IT firm in this state. He just doesn't get that it's not mine.

"It's not funny Andrew. I heard that you own Global Care Hospital and a friend of mine needs to talk to you guys. Her husband's gone missing from your hospital and the management is ignoring her." I told him hoping that he would help.

"I would be glad to help but I don't own Global Care, It's Jameson's family who owns it. You should ask him he would be glad to help you." He said and I could just feel him smirk on the other end.

He knows that I avoid Jameson, and he is pushing me towards him on purpose.

Do I have to talk to him?

From the day I knew that I liked Jameson Browne I started avoiding him.

I will get my heart broken for sure. He is not my kinda person. Interacting with him is just a highway to heartbreak for me, he is the apple I can't reach.

1. Why would he like a small-town brown girl? When he can have anyone in the world.

2. My grandfather is going to kill me if I say that I love someone as my family is super conservative.

Even Niya had an arranged marriage and there is no way in the world that Jameson Browne will like me.

I don't wanna talk to him, I have to keep my distance. But, this is not time for my egos to act, this is Meera and her family. I have to figure out another way.

"Why don't you ask him and let me know, it would be more effective if you asked him as you guys are partners and best friends," I said to him so that I don't have to talk to Mr. Browne

"Nah-uh!! Where is the fun in that? You can talk to Jamie and ask him. A small suggestion, if you want his help, don't try to punch or bite him this time." he said, and I heard him holding his laughter.

"Please help me Andrew I don't wanna ask him that's the reason I called you instead of him," I told him hoping he would understand

"He is busy with meetings all day, come around 7 in the evening to his office. We will talk to him together," he said, I agreed to it.

I did my workout and came here in hurry only to find out that Andrew is out of town and I have to do this alone. I will kill Andrew once he gets back.

Mr. Browne's secretary told me that he is not back from the meeting yet. She asked me to wait inside his cabin as she was leaving for the day.

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