Flipping the coin in front of her for quite some time, Akira called up Vikram. She knew that he would have hoards of questions for her, but she was more than ready to face them.

"Hello."

"Hello, Akira. So you finally got time to call me up?"

"I saw your texts and calls Vikram, but I was so caught up that I just couldn't call you back. Didn't want to rush through the call, so I thought, it would be better if I called you after dealing with everything over here."

Her voice was all soft and mellifluous and Vikram just couldn't get angry with her. It was like as if she sprayed a can of water over him with her voice.

"Well yeah, but can you please help to explain what just happened at the press conference? I thought it was for our project RENAISSANCE but it turned out as the old project MEDUSA. I do not get it. You changed the name to RENAISSANCE and we signed all documents for this new project, then what is with this old project Akira?"

"Oh, so you have been frantically calling me for this? I thought you were just worried about uncle's health."

"Well that's there, but will you care to explain the whole deal to me? My PR department is clueless. They had no idea that this was going to happen."

"Oh yeah, this was just internal news. I hadn't informed your PR department about the specifics. So how can they know about it?"

"Well, you are asking me questions now. I am supposed to get the answers from you Akira."

Vikram squirmed as he was on the brink of losing his patience and it was clearly reflected from his voice in which he was trying to mince his words to suppress his anger and frustration.

"See Vikram this project has nothing to do with the new project for which we had signed the deal. This is another project altogether."

"But how is this possible? The details, 3D projection usage, it was all part of RENAISSANCE project right?"

"Yes, it is and it is also part of project MEDUSA as well."

"Are you kidding me Akira? How can both the projects have the same theme? And how can you take up a new project when the old one isn't even complete yet?"

"Excuse me Vikram, but I guess you have got it all wrong. MEDUSA was always our first project and then came RENAISSANCE."

"Yes, that's what I am talking about. The project was named as MEDUSA and later you told me that you wanted to change the contract as you wanted to rename it as RENAISSANCE."

"Did I?"

Akira asked all casually trying to play with Vikram's nerves.

"Stop mixing your words Akira."

"I might have said by mistake Vikram. You invested in our new project RENAISSANCE which we will be starting from next year and MEDUSA is the one which we are working on currently for next quarter release."

"What about the deal? My company has already released the funding for RENAISSANCE."

"Yes and that is being used for RENAISSANCE just like the project terms. I think I gave you the whole file to read before taking your signatures. Also, a copy of it was sent to Peter as well in which we have clearly mentioned that it was our new project."

"Come on Akira. the money I invested was huge. You mean to say that the whole chunk of money is locked now till next year?"

"I am afraid so. Those were the conditions Vikram."

"Did you trick me Akira?"