9:15 AM, KV Technologies:-

Writer's POV

Sitting on his chair completely dressed in a navy blue formal suit he was typing something furiously on his laptop with a hard expression on his face and full concentration on the screen.

"Bring me my coffee!" Aakarsh ordered his secretary on the intercom.

Aakarsh Verma, a 23-year-old guy turning 24 in a couple of months, who last year finished his studies and since then has been handling his dad's business. Currently, he is the CEO of KV Technologies. Despite being 23, he is very mature for his age. He is always in a serious mood. He hardly smiles let alone laugh.

"Sir, your coffee." his secretary Vivan came with coffee and placed it on the table.

Aakarsh just gave a curt nod and asked about today's schedule.

"Sir, meeting with Mr. Mehra at 11 then a routine meeting with all the department heads at 3 pm, and lastly a video conference at 4:30," Vivan informed him.

"Okay, bring me Mehra's file and also mail me the final presentation," Aakarsh asked Vivan.

"Sure, Sir" Vivan replied and was about to go when Aakarsh called him again.

"Vivan, make sure no one disturbs me till 10:30. Don't transfer any call until it is extremely important. And no visitors are allowed today." Aakarsh ordered in a firm tone.

"Alright, Sir" Vivan replied but was still standing there.

Aakarsh noticed his frown.

"What… wanna say something?"

"Yes Sir, actually Sir… I… no I mean Mrs. Verma… I mean..." He was stuttering which irked Aakarsh.

"What the hell is this Vivan? If you want to say something then speak up clearly otherwise you can go. I don't have a whole day to waste." He shouted due to which Vivan flinched.

"Actually, Mrs. Verma, your mother, asked me to set up a date for you with Miss Nayana and ordered me to get you there at any cost," Vivan said in a low voice wiping the tiny drops of sweat that appeared on his forehead.

Scared of his reaction, he didn't dare to meet his eyes with the cold gaze of his boss.

Aakarsh groaned in frustration. Clearly, the idea didn't go well with him.

" You can go now, I'll handle it and dare you do anything stupid like that," he said Vivan in a warning tone.

"No Sir, I was already scared of your reaction to it, that's why I told you everything beforehand," Vivan said timidly.

"Okay, go now, and don't let anyone disturb me" he ordered Vivan.

Vivan left from there. Aakarsh took his phone and dialed his mother's number.
She received the fifth ring.

"Hello," his mother answered from another side.

"What is this Maa?"

"What, what is this?" She asked in confusion

Aakarsh was already frustrated with the whole plan his mother made and on top of that, she doesn't find it important to even inform him which irked him to the core.

"Maa, I have told you so many times to stop arranging dates for me, why can't you understand?" He said furiously gritting his teeth yet in a low voice, trying not to disrespect his mother by any means.

"And, I too have told you, stop wasting your life for nothing." His mother replied calmly.

His hold on the phone tightened. Some flashes, some hurting memories clouded his mind.

"I have said this not once but thousand times, I don't need anyone in my life, I'm okay the way I am. Neither I'm interested in anyone nor I need anybody." He replied with unusual calmness in his voice which his mother sensed clearly. But, being the mother, how could she let her only child suffer?

"Son, I'll only say that it's high time you should move on now. This journey of life is too long to walk alone; if I am saying that it can't be travelled alone, then it is for a reason, Krish."

"We need someone to hold us, someone to love us, someone whom we can trust with our closed eyes and we'll be knowing that this specific person will never let us fall. I am not asking you to waste your precious time for nothing… but you must know the treasure of love and trust by investing it in the right person."

She tried to make him understand the importance of a life partner. The importance of love and trust.

He chuckled sadly hearing her words. He didn't want to make fun of the words he heard his mother speaking, but his bitter past wasn't letting them make any sense for him.

"Love, trust are good words Maa but, just words, no strings of real feelings attached." He replied, releasing a sad chuckle.

"Krish… " his mother tried speaking when he cut her words in between.

"Maa, I've taken this decision already, and about living the life alone as you said, then it's not necessary that everyone will get a companion in this journey, some travellers walk the way all alone. Not everybody is destined for someone to share these feelings. So please, don't do any kind of such arrangements from now on. I have a meeting ahead, see you in the evening." He said to her in a low but determined tone.

With this, he cut the call and got up to move out buttoning up his navy blue blazer which was making this angry young man a complete hot-handsome-killer male species.

Aakarsh is one arrogant man who never gives anything a second thought apart from his busy schedule. He had developed this nature of being workaholic for most of the time in his life. The thoughts of getting married and having his own family, never crossed his mind, nor did he want to think about it.

He feels it unnecessary and the past he had suffered is enough of an experience for him to refrain himself from this social norms of a man for living a life; A happy life!

But, little did he know, nothing in life goes according to our plan.

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