#the line between us

[intellectual6666]

The line between us (PART-1) (INTRODUCTION)

Synopsis : An independent rich woman lives alone in her world, for which she sometimes gets upset, meets a guy who, for the first time ever, questions her work.

Genre : Enemies to lovers, a bit angsty now.

Warnings : None ig ? The male character mocks the female character

Not proofread (there might be some spelling and grammatical errors)

More under cut ~

Stumbling to the entrance, Kriti balanced all the files she had in her embrace and walked in her office building. Everyone on her bowed her, to which she replied with equal respect and moved inside her office on 4th floor.

No one knew Kriti Sharma, Sales Manager of Whipco company was fuming inside. Little did she knew her day would go that bad. First, she got to know early morning that she accidently deleted all the important emails the last night after getting drunk. Then, after getting everything ready, when she went to her car, she noticed there was a hole in her top. Ughhh. Again running inside her house, she changed and drove to her office in a speed of bolt (reaching late still). Fell in her office while pacing around, attending a call. Then went out for a small break and got the hot coffee all over her dress, burning her skin. Meeting went bad, more work piled up, boss not satisfied, lot of pending work left. The day went worse than worst for Kriti. Driving back home, she saw the beautiful city lights.

After reaching home, she unlocked her attractive apartment and went inside. Throwing away her heels, she flopped her bag somewhere and laid on the couch.

Eyes closed, hands on her stomach and legs spread, she thought about the day. Every thing went bad, nothing worked out, boss is unimpressed with the new interns, mind isn't working, that shitty coffee. Tears formed and trailed down the sides of her cheeks. She was feeling so full of everything, it felt overwhelming.

There was nothing she didn't have in her life. She lived alone in an extravagant apartment, working and earning enough to get her whatever she wants and even thinks of once. She loved all she had, and honestly, anyone would die to live like her. But something always felt missing. Her passion.

Little Kriti always dreamt to be photographer, to travel around the world and capture every other piece of art this world has to offer. But due to the society's pressure that this is not any fruitful kind of a job and especially her family's taunts, she ignored her passion.

Thinking about all of this, tears kept running down her face. The burn on her thigh was hurting her, her thoughts even more. She didn't feel like getting up, having anything and get changed. All her mind wanted was peace. So slowly, Kriti drifted off to sleep.

Next day

Kriti woke up, in her last day's office dress, with the minimal makeup she did last day. Getting ready for the day, she mentally decided "Today's going to be nothing like yesterday." Little did she know her world was about to take a beautiful little turn, making her alone life fill up with a person.

Reaching her office, she got startled by her frenemy, Mr. Prasad on her way. "Do you know that our COO (Chief Operative Officer) is coming to visit us today ?", he asked.

"Oh really, how come I don't know about it ?"

"Anyways, let's run, we shouldn't be getting late."

Running into their office, they reached the 4th floor and almost flew towards the meeting room. Getting inside, both were relieved that the meeting hadn't started yet.

"Kriti, Mr. Mukherjee is visiting us today and he will stay in our branch for sometime. It is a suprise visit. He said somethings are screwed up here so he is coming to fix it", said her boss.

"Oh okay."

"You have all the annual report files with you ?"

"Yes I do, in the laptop."

"Show them to him when needed."

Humming in response, Kriti started growing anxious. Nothing's wrong with their branch. It's running smoothly. Everyone's happy to do their piece of work and they are paid for the work they do. But let's see what the COO have in his mind.

Mr. Aadarsh Mukherjee. COO of Whipco company. The most famous man in the company. Most of them feared him because of the rumours that, he could find loopholes nobody else noticed. So when he visited the different branches, everyone would be scared.

Walking into the meeting room, Mr. Mukherjee was bowed by everyone. Sitting into one chair, he started the meeting, he met everyone's gaze. No, not everyone's though. One girl at the corner, with silky hair done in a pony and brown coloured blazer with black shirt under, looked straight at the projector, not sparing him a glance. Kriti.

After speaking about few things, he asked, "Who's the sales manager here ?" Looking at everyone, he finally saw that girl stand up and say, "Good morning Sir, I am Kriti, the Sales Manager."

"You really need to improve your work. You're not communicating enough with customers more, and thus, not satisfying their needs. I hope you know that communicating with customers is a part of your job." He mocked the last line.

"Yes Sir, I know it's my work but as much as I can remember, everyone commented that I do an amazing job in communicating with our customers and satisfy their needs."

"Well, I might call them blind cause apparently, you aren't doing much good of a work."

"I'll try to be better next time."

"We don't need the better ones here Kriti, we need the best. Try to be best or you're out I guess."

She looked at him in the eyes. He could sense her fuming rage inside. She controlled herself and said, "Okay sir."

Never in her professional life did anyone criticized her like that. Yes, she did mistakes like any other human but she knew, along with others, that the amount of work she did, she did it with focus and perfected them. Though, knowing the fact that the COO will surely try to find loopholes and she may become his target, Kriti didn't like the way he mocked her.

After the meeting ended, Aadarsh wanted to have all the managers infront of him and commanded the rest to go. But knowingly, Kriti left without a word.

Maybe she was upset, but surely, she was angry. She didn't want to stay there with that man any more second. She needed her alone time to perfect her work and don't give him any other option to question her work. He will get to know what Kriti Sharma is capable of.

First impression went bad. Both didn't like each other. But as it can be predicted, the relationship between them will be growing even more bitter by time if not mended. So will this small passive argument between Aadarsh and Kriti grow bigger or mould into something else ? Something better ?

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Ik it sucks. I could do a lot better. This came out to be really shitty. But okay. Let's see what happens next. I hope I'll be better next time.

Tagging : @shadowseductress @bareillyki-barfi @msperfectlydamaged @zeherili-ankhein @emartirabdi @lotuseaterwhowistlesthedark @priimadonnna @0fuzzyduck0

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[mslovepoem]

Love the song, love todobaku, can’t animate for shit -> 💥

This happened.

(It was either delete it or post it so now you guys have to suffer the consequences of my obsession)

[lilislegacy]

college student: where are your friends? percy and annabeth, right?

frank: honestly? probably either fighting somewhere or making out somewhere

college student: ….right, because those are basically the same thing

frank, nodding: pretty much

college student, side-eyeing him: you’ve apparently never heard of sarcasm

frank: you’ve apparently never met percy and annabeth

[pricklenettle]

inspired by this post, Danny’s lost in the ghost zone and comes across pariah dark’s keep. I had to draw it and had The most fun with the spooky green ghost zone

[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[uncanny-tranny]

Once you stop thinking about queer people's labels as strict indications of what's in their pants and who they do/don't bed and instead view queer people's labels as how they interact with the world, you'll find that you'll get along with queer people better and treat them better, I think.

[katabay]

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...

the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin

this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.

you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.

also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.

⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[ajwahoocrowley]

[heartorbit]

always by your side

[intellectual6666]

The line between us (Part-3)

Synopsis : They be falling in love

Genre : Enemies to lovers

Warnings : None

Not proofread (spelling and grammatical errors are there)

More under cut ~

It had been almost 3 weeks since Aadarsh's arrival. Many things changed. The working habit of the people, their liabilities and work time. But what went unnoticed was Kriti's change in emotions for Aadarsh.

Yes, she didn't like him at all, she had many reasons to not like him. But she couldn't deny her growing feelings for him.

His lingering glances, subtle touches, and sweet hums made her heart flutter. Though she hated his attention towards her but she couldn't help but internally smile when his eyes were always on her. But Kriti was determined she won't show any of this to him. Kriti also acknowledged his feelings towards her. He never looked at someone the way he looked at her. But then the question was, if he really liked her why did he hate her so much ?

Both of them were invited to the party organised by the Branch head of the company. Aadarsh didn't like parties but went only because of Kriti.

Kriti spent almost 3 hours in choosing the perfect outfit. The one which flattered her curves the most, which made her look the most elegant in the room. Dressing up, she went out of her house and drove to the venue.

Every eye was on her. Everyone was moving around her, trying to catch a glimpse and trying to make a contact. Getting a glass of drink from the bar counter, she sat in the seat and looked around. Trying to find that similar face, she finally got to see him. In a beautifully pleated Royal blue pant, white shirt, the top 2 buttons opened and Royal blue blazer, he stood there, looking like a prince in the midst of every other average looking person. How majestic he looked, how amazingly he talked with the co-workers with a shiny whiskey glass in hand, his lips looking so beautiful after taking a sip, glistening. She felt like losing herself in him.

Snapping out of her thoughts, she regained her senses and started looking elsewhere before getting caught.

Aadarsh, on the other side, looked everywhere in search of Kriti. Going to the other side of the room, he saw the similar outline. Moving a bit closer, he saw her. In a black bodycon gown, with a slit from the left thigh. Her melanin skin glowed in the darkness, making her look divine. Her curves on her waist added to the perfection. She wore gold earrings, and a thin gold bracelet. Her beautiful wavy hair was falling on her back, with few strands on front. How could someone be this beautiful, he thought while almost burning her skin with his stare. He could look at her all day and never get tired.

The Branch manager clinked the champagne glass to gain everyone's attention. And then he declared the reason of the party and congratulated everyone for the great success in the company. By that time, both of them, Kriti and Aadarsh were standing parallely but a bit away from each other. Both felt something. Some kind of a click inside. Or and an urge, to be precise.

And they looked at each other. Their orbs stared at each other, with intensity, no one in any mood to break the eye contact. Not worrying if someone's looking at the tassle between two. They hated each other, right? They couldn't stand each other, whenever they talked with each other, it formed an argument. Both wished other one was out of their life and surroundings. But why was there a thin invisible string tugging them towards each other ? Why did they silently cared about each other ? Why did they feel that the nature, the universe, the cosmic powers want them to be together ?

The Branch manager's speech ended and everyone clapped. That's when they came back to reality. Looking away, they clapped in sync.

Kriti didn't stay there for long. But she also wanted to meet him, talk with him and maybe, just sit in silence with him. Her hate didn't really go away, but it was pressed down with the new kind of emotion for him.

Bidding others goodbye, she walked to the parking lot, to her car. And that's when her phone vibrated in her clasp.

"We've got some pending work to do, I'm leaving too. To my house. Don't be late."

Sending her his address, he put his phone in his pocket and went to others to bid them goodbye.

On the other side, Kriti was staring at the phone screen for a minute, rereading the text multiple times. She manifested meeting him tonight, personally and that's actually happening.

Oh she's more than ready for him.

Will the two souls come together or fall apart ? Will they live happily ever after or will some horrendous tragedy fall on their lives, destroying everything ?

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Tbh even I don't what's going to happen in the next part 😭 anyways, hope you guys like it.

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[userjiminie]

those hips working like rent is due

[heritageposts]

[emdotcom]

I know it's a mite too late for this to be funny, but I demastered him.

[lay1306]

Listen, I always try to be very mindful of keeping my wild fandom mind and reality properly separated and not become ACTUALLY insane about a ship, but as a 30 year old queer I feel like I must say that there is no way that what jikook are doing isn't an actual gradual soft launch. As someone who has the tiniest bit of actual life experience now, I just don't see how their dynamic and chemistry could NOT be read as romantic. Are they coworkers? yes. Are they best friends? yes. But it's pretty obvious there something even deeper going on there and it's honestly just denial at this point to think otherwise.

And it all comes back to the whole fandom thing again. So many people try to deny it by making whole ass essays about how they interacted with x y and z that one time. I need y'all to remember they're actual people and real people are capable of incredibly complex relationships with more than one person at once. They have friends that aren't each other, they have confidants that aren't each other. And if anything, all those interactions just make an even more stark of a contrast as to how THEIR relationship is different than all the ones they have with other people.

[bamsara]

The amount of b-grade/miscut/misprint stickers I get when making batches is goofy

What's in my hand is usable and can be sent out, the boxes behind it are all ones with imperfections/ damage but can't bring myself to throw away because it feels like I'm being wasteful. I might make 'scrap baggies' for each fandom and offer them on kofi for like 7-10 stickers for the price of one or something again

[hothammies]

the usage of the lyrics “i don't know what you mean to me, but i wanna turn you on, turn you up, figure it out - i wanna take you on” right after carmy's apology to sydney is so serious to me and i wish we talked about it more. i think it's one of the only times where we get an explicit idea of what carmy thinks of syd in a romantic context and i fucking LIVE for it the lighting, the acting, the attempted phone call, the ambiguity of that entire scene to confuse us on whether or not he's thinking about sydney or if he's thinking about claire in the lyrics - all of it is so so so fucking scrumptious AHHH i love that shit i love this show so much