Chapter 9: In the flight...
Kruthika finished the security check up and saw one of her friend. She was Clara, Air hostess. She met Clara many times at Heathrow airport and had known each other from few months.
"Hi Clara. How are you?", asked Kruthika
"I'm fine, how are you?", replied Clara.
"I'm fine too. In which flight you are having duty tonight?", asked Kruthika.
"May be London flight I guess", asked Clara.
"Then it's perfect! Listen I need your help. While serving in economy class will you please serve me the food from this box", she handed a box to Clara, the box in which her mother cooked palak paneer sabji(spinach and cottage cheese) and some roti.
"I'm not sure. It's difficult, if I get caught I can lose my job. It would have been easier if you were in other classes but I can help you to return it back to you when you reach London", said Clara with feeling of helplessness.
"Okay. Will you please return me this when we reach London?", pleaded Kruthika.
"Okay I'll try. Now I've to go. Bye", said Clara and went away holding the box given by Kruthika, while she stepped towards the boarding counter
At boarding counter, the lady was checking her documents Visa, passport, boarding pass and ticket. Kruthika was having an economy class ticket. After checking her documents twice, lady at the counter asked,"Are you traveling alone Ma'am?"
"Yes, I am", answered Kruthika with a bit of hesitation.
"Congratulations Ma'am. You have won a business class ticket", said the lady with a smile on her face.
"May I know what I have done to win a business class ticket?", asked Kruthika.
"By all means Ma'am. We provide a free business class ticket to woman who travels alone to make her more comfortable during their flight in our airlines. Accept this ticket Ma'am", said the lady still with a smile.
"Hmm... intresting. Do you give such offer daily?", asked Kruthika.
"No Ma'am. But it's decided by our superiors. Now if you don't mind please move forward Ma'am. You are holding a line", said the lady.
Kruthika took her new ticket and collected all her documents back and moved forward. She found it strange and felt fishy about it but still she choose to go to business class.
Her seat number was 13A in business class, it was a cubicle near window of the plane and there was another cubicle beside her, the seats of both these cubicle were in such a way that the person seating would be facing each other and there was a rectangular strip to slid if you want to isolate from others.
Kruthika went to her seat, she saw there was someone sitting in her opposite cubicle, it was Abhikshith Bhargav the film star of South Indian Film Industry and the most eligible bachelor consistently for 5 years, he was tall and handsome he had brownish black hairs and brown eyes and wearing Tshirt sand a jacket and ripped off jeans.
As she approached her seat, they both saw each other and gave a smile.
Kruthika was not excited to sit beside the celebrity like him, while Abhikshith was expecting her to say something about his stardom she just sat into her seat without saying anything.
Air hostess have instructions about the seat belt and the emergency exits as usual, Kruthika was listening to them even though she knew all these things but to show some respect to them. While Abhikshith was in no mood to listen to those instructions as he was lost thinking to himself "why didn't she sat anything about me?".
Kruthika pressed the help button, and enquired about her friend Clara. Due to unexpected change of her seat from economy to business class, she would now have the food cooked by her mother.
"May I help you Ma'am?", asked Clara making sure to not reveal what they discussed before.
"Yeah. Would you please pass this message to the person I've written on this paper? It's personal", said Kruthika and passed the letter, which was written as HI CLARA, UNEXPECTEDLY I'M IN BUSINESS CLASS WILL YOU PLEASE SERVE ME THE FOOD THAT I GAVE YOU.
"Sure Ma'am", said Clara and took the leave.
Kruthika pulled the rectangular strip to get isolated, but Abhikshith interrupted it, "No. I want to have vision of the window. Don't pull the strip.", said Abhikshith who's words were sort of statement instead of being request.
"Okay", said Kruthika. She took a book from handbag which her mother gave it to her
After few minutes the food was being served to everyone based on which they would prefer to have. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian sections were being served.
When the food trolly reached there cubicle, "Which would you prefer to have sir?" asked Clara.
"I would like to have veg", replied Abhikshith and recieved his food.
"I would like to have veg please", said Kruthika taking her food. She was glad to see here food, she was very thankful to Clara to serve her her's mother cooked food.
Abhikshith observed that they both ordered same but were having different food,"We both ordered the same but got different, isn't it strange?", he said.
"Please don't make this as a big issue, if you do so she might lose her job . She had only done this on my request", said Kruthika trying to explain the situation.
"Okay say me what happened I'll think whether I should report it or not", said Abhikshith.
"Okay. I was visiting to India after six months, and I only had three days to live with my parents and to have all three delicious food cooked by mom. I was not fulfilled by it. I tried to bring food cooked by mom in plane so that I could not miss last taste of her hands and I don't know how long will be my next visit to my home. So I requested the Air hostess to place this food instead of airline food. If you still want to report the superiors you can and I'll be responsible for all this", explained Kruthika about her situation.
"I won't report them but only if you allow me to taste your food", said Abhikshith with smile as he wanted to start the friendship with her.
Kruthika gave her food to him they both enjoyed food together.
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