25. Where are you?
London:
The next day the important meeting was held at the office.
All the major and important stakeholders were present.
Sofia's thoughts had taken possession of Akshay's mind completely and hence he tried his luck by suggesting to the client and his seniors that they should send Raghav to India instead of him.
Including Raghav, all were surprised by this. Raghav was already hurt since the day Akshay straightforwardly told him not to teach him philosophy. He sensed Akshay's personal hidden agenda behind suggesting his name. And he guessed it right that Akshay must be wanting to stay here for more time for Sofia.
Now, Raghav got determined not to accept at all the offer to go to India, let anything happen!
And Raghav declined it.
Akshay was looking with fierce eyes at Raghav. Initially, Raghav was a bit terrified but then recovered quickly.
Finally, Akshay accepted it.
During the whole meeting, Akshay was looking intermittently at his phone like a thirsty person in the desert waiting for water droplets. He was expecting that some magic will happen, and a message will come from Sofia, and he would be able to see her before going back to India. He had searched all social media by her name but in vain.
Not knowing when he would be able to come back here again, he decided to visit places in the UK whenever he had free time with a few of his local friends. Who knows if by any chance he gets to spot Sofia somewhere?
Dune and Deborah were his local friends. He went with them on weekends to various places in London. But his motive for going to these places was to look for Sofia. In every crowd of London Eye, London Dungeon, Hyde Park, and Tower of London Akshay's eyes were searching for Sofia.
While walking on the famous London bridge, Akshay took binoculars from Deborah and enjoyed views of the river Thames.
At one instance, when his binoculars focus was moving from one cruise ship to another, he suddenly noticed one face which looked like Sofia. Was it Sofia? He again focused back on the same ship and zoomed in to maximum capacity.
But to his disappointment, the face which he had just seen was now not there. Was it just his imagination or really Sofia was there?
He looked carefully at each girl who was brunette with brown hair. But, no! He didn't find his Sofia.
This way the vigorous and rigorous search for Sofia went on!