“Cia why do I have the feeling that you are not happy?”
“Jay just leave this topic . We are getting late for our flight back home.”
Saying this Cia walked back to her room with tears in her eyes. The flight back was uneventful and as soon as she reached home she threw her luggage on the floor and settled on her bed crying.
She was not crying because she had slept with Jay but because Jay had seemed quite indifferent to her feelings. She knew that now it would get difficult to work together and she had to keep her distance from him.
For the next week or so she behaved as a robot going to workshop, designing, coming back having bread or soup for dinner and going to sleep early. She even avoided Jay in the morning by taking her morning tea in the kitchen rather than at the porch.
After coming back from their Rajasthan trip Jay noticed a restlessness in Cia. On the surface she seemed to be the same but there was something different in her behavior. She worked seriously and with full dedication but did not speak much with anyone. She no longer argued with him, nor did she spend much time with him . In fact she founds excuses not to remain in the same room as him.