In a meeting room, the walls were coloured in black and grey patterns. There were fifteen people seated in the chairs beside a big oval table. Two seats were vacant. Five of them were focusing on the files they had in their hands while the other ten people were discussing among themselves.When the sound of footsteps were audible, the chattering sound stopped. Everyone adjusted their dresses and hairstyles and sat attentively. Everyone"s attention were focused on the door. The door was opened, then came a lady with blonde short hair holding a little girl in her one arm and files on her another arm. That lady had a fair complexion, she wore a daily use orange gown of their own Diva brand.
Followed by her came a lady of black brown hair tied in a ponytail, wearing a navy blue coat, white shirt and matching jean. She was also holding a little fella in her hand while the other hand had files and a backpack in her back. To other companies, it might be a awkward situation, but to the people working their it is like daily routine. Those kids were part of the company.
Both of them walked past their chairs, and led the two children down. She opened her backpack, then gave those kids electronic tabs each. They opened their tabs and started doing something. Then she came to her seat. She didn"t sit, she gestured Emma to have a seat. Then with a big smile, She greeted those who are present in the room.
"A very Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. I hope you guys have finished your respective a.s.signments." Then walked towards the projector and inserted her pen drive and started with her presentation. The meeting took place for four hours straight.
"Okay, so we have finalized five floral designs with two types of designs for each. Thus we will release ten costumes, in which five of them are custom made with exactly fifty dresses while other five belong to readymade collection", Ria finished her side of opinion and the rest nodded in agreement.
Vice CEO Emma continued next, "Crocus, Red Dahlia, Sternbergia, Cyclamen, Begonia are the flowers we selected. As usual the designs of the CEO will become custom made..." Before she could finish Ria interrupted saying, "No! This time we will have some changes in the custom made collection. Jerry, Simmon and Kira has done a good job this time as well, yet Riyaz and Reven has gone beyond my expectations.
Those two"s collection representing, Sternbergia and Cyclamen will go into custom made collection instead. Is there any objections?" The room was silent upon her question then she smiled and they started discussing about materials and pattern types. The meeting extended for another hour until the little guy went next to Ria and pulled her coat end.
Ria looked down and smiled at her little guy standing next to her while rubbing his tummy indicating that he is hungry. "So we will finish here today. You guys can find me anytime if you need something", Ria said in a jovial tone, she stood up and picked the two kids in her arms. While Emma packed the backpack and followed them.
When they left the room, everyone outside the room greeted them. Ria asked Emma, "How much free time we have before the meeting with shen corporation?" Emma replied, "I originally planned that we will have two hours break. But due to someone"s over working disease we have less time. Thanks to varun for interrupting your mind." Emma smiled while ruffled the hair of the little fella.
The meeting was fixed in Tokuyoshi, a Michelin three star restaurant in Milan. They reached the restaurant in 15 minutes. Ria took the kids and went inside the restaurants while Emma went to park the car. They sat in the table which was booked for the meeting.
The waiter approached them, then she ordered "Two gla.s.ses of milk and cream cheese sandwiches for the kids and a Bruschetta with less cheese and meat for me" the waiter nodded. Before he could leave she continued saying with a guilty tone, "Can make it fast? my kids are hungry", the waiter smiled and said, "Sure mam" then he left.
She pulled her phone from her jean pocket then called Emma, she said "Don"t forget to bring the backpack" then she hung up. Emma was used to Ria"s selfishness yet she was stunned. She thought "atleast let me say okay you idiot!"
Emma was already at the entrance, he went back to get the backpack, when she came back she saw the kids munching the sandwich which was cut into small pieces. Her boss was checking her phone while eating the bread with toppings. Their booth had sofa style furniture, the kids and Ria was sitting on one side. She dropped the bag on the other side and then she sat.
Ria pa.s.sed the plate to Emma like telling her to eat. She took a bread piece and stuffed it into her mouth. The richness and taste of the food made her anger reach a far away place. Ria stood up and went to the other side, then opened the backpack and took to two packets of milkshake powder. One was chocolate and the other was strawberry.
She mixed the flavours with the milk in two gla.s.ses respectively. Chocolate was given to the little guy and strawberry was given to the little girl. They continued their own work. The time decided for meeting was already pa.s.sed. The other party was late by 10 minutes. When the face of Ria started to turn cold, Emma felt a shiver in her backbone.
At that moment someone walked in. A guy in his 20"s wearing a blue suit entered the booth. He looked dashing with brown hair and blue eyes. The most important fact is that he looked surprised when he saw the gang of four in the booth.