Anxious-less eyes

He stood by the staircase near the entrance to the office talking to two others. She saw him as she came up the stairs. She did not use the elevator as she did not like its cramped space . She was also not a fan of exercising and so used such opportunities to justify the two dollops of vanilla ice cream she loved to have. Her face brightened on seeing him. She walked up to the group with a beaming smile. He looked at her and said "Hi! Looking good today". Her cheeks turned red and she said something that sounded like "Oh noleela" To hide her blush she tried to take out her handkerchief from her bag. In the process, she took a step back and lost her balance. He quickly grabbed her elbow and saved her from a nasty fall. Her face resembled a tomato when she heard him say "Careful dear!"

At the lunch table, he was sitting with two others. They were engrossed in a discussion regarding the status of the project. She walked towards them with her food tray. She had a smile on her lips as the seat next to him was empty. As she reached the table, the guy sitting opposite to him looked up. Her smile grew ear to ear and she passed some message to the guy by shaking her head towards him. The guy looked at her perplexed. He did not understand the meaning of her gesture but could not question her as she sat next to him and started talking to him.

The evening breeze sets in from the East. The curved balcony area, popularly referred to as the parabola is usually crowded in the evening as people chatted with mugs of coffee in their hands and large bites of egg puffs in their mouths. Not many knew that the time between 4:03 pm and 4:37 pm is best time to be at the parabola. The evening breeze would have just set in and people usually start coming out only by 4:30 pm. So the sweet 34 minutes could be pleasantly spent in near loneliness. They stood leaning against the grill looking at the patch of blue near the horizon. They did not talk to each other for sometime. A little later, they stood with their sides against the grill and started talking. They talked in hushed tones and no one could hear them. He played with the empty mug in his hand by turning it around in semicircles. She played with her hair as she looked up at him. They talked!