My Colleague Missed Me A Lot
Hi all… This is me again… after a long time… This is my second story on ISS… My first was “My First Story – Swetlana”… Let’s go to the story straight away…. It was some time i.e. around 3 years I had started my job in B’lore in a MNC. I had made many friends and colleagues… Time was ripe and I had decided to move on…. I got a very good offer in Mumbai. And I had decided to move on with my Job…. It was Sept 2015… I put my papers….and as per my organization; my last date was 31st… Though I had many close friends in the organization, none of them knew about my new job… many were in shock… particularly Snehal …. who was one of my closest colleague and friend. She started sobbing on just hearing the news of my resignation…. She came to me and her question was…. “Why did you come in our lives if you are going to leave so abruptly??”…. I was taken aback by such a kind of reaction… I said “I’m not going to leave immediately…… I have to serve 3 months notice… I’m still here for 3 months…. We can be together for these 3 months…..“ (‘Together for these 3 months????’ …… Was I out of my mind???) I didn’t know what and why did I say that….. Going back for a year……. One of my seniors had resigned as he was about to leave for the US for a PG degree. My team lead who is a pervert asked me to hire a female in the team so that the guys in the team get ‘motivated’…. I had to take the interviews…. So as per my team lead’s requirement, I was rejecting the applications of the male candidates. After about some thousands of interviews, there she was… Snehal… I gave a green signal to my team lead as she had good communication skills and technical know how… I decided that I will not allow my team lead take an undue advantage or insult Snehal. Luckily, I was given the responsibility of managing Snehal. So I was relieved a little bit that at least she is not under bad leadership. Time went by….. I trained Snehal and she picked up very well…. We got close to each other…. Our team had a reputation of being the one which parties a lot… Most of the parties being late night parties… Me being a non- drinker and non-smoker used to drop Snehal at her place after almost all the parties as she was the only female member in my team. Every time I dropped her at her room (she was not a localite), she used to invite me over for a coffee… I couldn’t get her point until my last day… ;-) As I put my papers, time flew by very fast….. It was the last month of my notice period… We had a party from one of our colleagues who was about get married… As usual, I dropped Snehal at her house after the party… When I was about to drop her and leave, she begged me to come up for coffee… I said I was in hurry to go to my house as I had to arrange for some documents required for my clearance from the current organization…. She told me that it will take me only 5 minutes…. I agreed. I went to her room… Her room was very tidy…. Nice fragrance….. The ambience of the room was getting to me….. I sensed something different…. She told me to sit while she prepared the coffee…. I was checking her room…. She came out of the kitchen with two hot coffee mugs….. We sat and started drinking the coffee…. She started her queries… “So…..Where are you going?” I said “Mumbai…” “Mumbai??!!” “Why? What happened?” “You’re going so far from me ….. uuhh ….. us….” “Got a better opportunity…” “Come on….couldn’t you get a better one in B’lore itself??” “I was searching….but got a better one in Mumbai…” “So you will not meet us anymore?” “Sorry dear…. Have to go wherever life takes us…” “I’m going to miss you …..” And she started sobbing like a little girl… That was awkward for me…. I got up and went to console her…. She stood and hugged me tightly…. It was one moment in my life where I couldn’t decide what to do…. I took her face in my hand and told her “See…. I will come and visit you guys…. Don’t worry about that…” and kissed her forehead…. I didn’t know why I did that…. “Don’t tell me anything… You need to come and visit us atleast once every 3 months..” “Ok….sure…” I left for Mumbai…. Just one week after joining my new job in Mumbai, I had to go to B’lore to collect some documents and complete some official formalities… I called Snehal and told her that I’ll be coming to B’lore on and will be visiting the team. She screamed with joy… “Where are you going to stay?” “Not yet decided….” “I insist you stay at my place…”…. excuse me??? “My roommates are going back at their home town for Christmas…. I have one spare room… You can use that….” “Ohh…ok… no problem” New Year was also nearby and so I decided to extend my holiday so that I can spend those with my office colleagues… I reached B’lore on 25th as it being Friday, people will be in a weekend mood. Monday and Tuesday I had planned my work and after that 30th and 31st I will celebrate. On the 25th, I had a party with my old office colleagues… we partied hard….After the party, I and Snehal came back to her room and we slept… I had also planned some outgoing activity with the same colleagues on 26th and 27th but they ditched me and Snehal as they had some other plans… So it was just me and Snehal for the rest of my holidays….. On 26th I was sort of bored to go outside as I was traveling for the previous 2 days…. So I asked Snehal to prepare or order something instead of us going out…. As she was a very homely girl, she prepared special dishes for me as she knew my tastes and likes…. I was impressed…. We both had dinner and it was an awesome and tasty dinner….. I just teased her “So…..you cook awesome food….. your husband will be very happy….