A few months later, Meera joined a well-known advertising agency called Aurora Creatives.
The office was lively and full of color — walls covered with campaign posters, brainstorming boards filled with scribbles, and people rushing around with coffee cups and laptops.
Unlike most people there, Meera wasn't loud or flashy.
She was calm, observant, and thoughtful.
Despite being only twenty-five, she had already earned the role of a Senior Campaign Strategist. Her job was to plan ideas for advertising campaigns and present them to clients.
She preferred letting her work speak instead of herself.
Across the office, in another department, worked Saarthak.
He was the Finance Lead for Campaign Projects — the person responsible for approving budgets and managing the financial side of the agency's campaigns.
Because of their positions, they didn't interact casually like most colleagues.
Their teams were different.
Their daily work rarely overlapped.
The only place they met was the conference room.
Campaign planning meetings.
Budget discussions.
Client presentations.
Those were the moments their paths crossed.