In a small apartment in locality of Ahemdabad there was a woman in her 40s sitting in her small yet spacious living room sipping onto her morning tea lost in her own thoughts. The walls of the living room were multicoloured giving the entire setting a colourful yet a subtle homely vibe. The one with the main entrance was lime in colour housing a book shelf containing the works of famous authors such as Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Munshi Premchand, Charles Dickens, Mahadevi Verma and others. Next to the book shelf were two white French windows covered with grey drapes allowing very little light to enter the room. On the light purple wall decorated with peach floral prints next to the main entrance, mounted a small TV set with speaker on both sides. In the middle of the room was a off blue sofa set with floral prints and next to the sofa set stood a tripod floor lamp giving it a slight modern look. There was a wooden dining table with white chairs covered with off blue floral cushions that matched the sofa set on the other side of the room and on one of those chairs sat Anupama in a simple black kurti and white plazzos with her hair tied in a bun sipping tea lost in her thoughts.

Anuuuuuuuu…………

A small voice broke her reverie.

It was none other than her best friend Devika with whom she has been sharing an apartment for a year after the divorce.

Devika :- Anu kha kho gyi h….kbse bula rhi hoo tujhe?

Anu :- Sorry wo……

Devika cut her off before she could finish her sentence.

Devika:- Chal chod wo sab….mai nikalti hoo…office ke liye late ho rhi….aur haan aaj wo tera interview hai na internship ke liye uske liye all the best….i know you will ace it my rockstar.

Anu :- Thankyou devu….chal aab tu jaldi jaa nii to late ho jayegi.

Devika:- Haan haan…chal bye

Anu:- byeee…aaram se jaana

Devika :- Haan haan theek haiiiii....

And saying this Devika disappeared.

Anupama has divorced vanraj last year when she found about his affair with Kavya and soon moved out of the Shah house. She started her own dance academy with the help of Bapuji who insisted on her using his old factory to start off her academy. Soon after its opening, a large number of students started enrolling themselves in the academy as Anupamaa has already build a base with her online dance classes much before the divorce.

With the success of the dance academy in just a month or two…Anupama decided that she should pursue her MBA which she always wanted to before she gave up her dream for the sake of her family. She hired a team of two dancers who could manage the dance classes while she is gone for her MBA classes during the day time and enrolled herself in a two year MBA programme in a college.

It has been a year since Anupama joined college and this is the summer of her second year where she is required to intern with a company before she completes her MBA.

Anu in thoughts :- What if I don’t get the internship……khi mere college aur MBA ke beech ke gap ki wajah se consider nhi kiya gya to……kanhaji dhyan rakhjo....

She was lost in these thoughts when Devika broke her reverie and marched out after wishing her all the best.