It was very encouraging to get reviews in my first Price of Persia Fanfic and I already have another on my way. But with exams and work I cannot concentrate on that and wanted to do a lighthearted one as a stress buster!

SO in my silliness, concocted a modern day PoP fanfic! Just want to share one chapter and see if you all are interested. It will be more humor with Dastan and Tamina wanting to kill each other most of the time.

Look forward to your feedback!

Chapter 1

Today was possibly the worst day of her life, she thought as she drove to work through the London streets. "Let's see there's the divorce, losing my dad and now losing what they built," she announced to herself as she turned a corner to avoid the traffic and sped away in her working class car.

Three years ago, everything was fine in her eyes but it was simply the beginning of the end. Falling in love at sixteen is sweet and the stuff of fairy tales but not hers. She followed the man around to another continent with his diplomatic work and left her father, who brought her up after her mother's death, alone with the company. She was just served with the divorce papers when the call came. She still remembers the words so cold, mechanic and short informing of her father's passing as if it was routine, as if it did not matter. She had one more box to pack and the ticket to get back home was on her table. Two more days and she would have been with her father but she never saw him. The last time she spoke to her, he was happy that she was free of the man who dictated her life and bursting with hope that she will take over the company one day. "I know you hate business Tami," he would tell her, "but your mother and I built this company for you baby. You wait and see! You will sit on this throne one day."

However this is not the way her father or herself imagined the company would come to her. The company had disagreeing investors, loans and loyal employees in a recession. She was just 24 years old. For three years, she tried her best with no business background to save the company as investors left one by one. It was done to make herself free of the guilt of abandoning her duty but it hardly gave any comfort as it was clear nothing could be done now. Filing for bankruptcy was not an option in her mind and it was then the lawyers suggested the sale of the company to their competitor with David and Goliath comparison -Empire Inc.

Empire was a massive family conglomerate with their tentacles, as she described it, in everything. They had a reputation of buying over failing corporations in America and putting them in order leaving a trail of job cuts and redundancies. When the news first came that they are going to reach over the pond and buy her company, she scrolled through the website, staring at the three sons with weird names Tus, Garsiv and Dastan. However, this was the best offer and the chance that the company the father built would continue even without her.

It was then she felt the large force of a car hitting her from behind in the shortcut she always takes.

"Are you fucking kidding me," she screamed and looked up, "Thank you. This is just what I needed!"

"I am so so sorry," the driver got out of the vehicle apologetic but with the slight smile. His long hair combed back and a scruffy beard which annoyed her even more for no good reason.

"Is this funny to you?"

"No, no I am so so sorry. It's just that I am not used to right side driving and..."

"And Monday morning was a good time to try?"

"Look Paul is going to get into trouble if you say I was driving. We will give you his details and mine and I promise you we will sort it out," he said. Nevertheless it blew up into an argument and she was fuming!

Tamina looked at her watch. She had only ten minutes to get to a location fifteen minutes away and this was the last thing on her mind. She snatched the information from his hands in annoyance and got into her car.

She parked. She grabbed her files and ran into the office to be met by Asoka.

"I know, know! Are they here?" she enquired.

"In the board room. I stuffed them with pastries. What happened?"

"Homeless guy in a BMW hit the car from behind," she mumbled as they got into the lift. Their boardroom was small but had a beautiful glass wall through which Tamina saw the soon to be owners with the legal team. She walked in and exchanged pleasantries with Tus and Garsiv who had been handling the handover of the company. It will be the youngest Dastan who will be the working director for the next three months heading towards the final sign off. This will be his first solo project and it was insulting to Tamina that they thought so less of her company to send the director with the training wheels to her company. He was not there as she walked into the conference room and she, already bias against him, assumed that he must be late from one of his tours as the lawyers kept going on and on about.

"Dastan will join in today in a bit. He has been delayed for about ten minutes...actually here he comes now," Tus said.

Tamina could not believe her eyes, the homeless guy in a BMW is Dastan! He was equally surprised and mumbled "shit crazy morning lady."

"Excuse me?" Tus asked.

"Er I said nice to see you again," he said as he extended his had to her.

"You two know each other?" Tus was surprised.

"Oh...I rammed her from behind," Dastan said without thinking and everyone starred in surprise while Garsiv smirked.

"What I meant was that my car hit her car from behind," he said uncomfortable at his own mistake.

It took Tamina all she had not to cry when the agreements were signed off. For three months, Dastan would co-direct and the transfer will be complete. Her whole life she loathed working in her father's company and now, when it became the only link to him, she had to let it go. Papers signed and handshakes exchanged, they were walking out when Dastan moved closer to Tamina.

"I am sorry about the fender bender," he said in sincerity only to be met by scorn from Tamina.

"Well you should be. As of now, it's your property."

Tamina was never a person who let anyone see her true feeling and after years of being the brave face of her company, it became overwhelming and it came out as tears. She could not run to the Ladies washroom because the girls are there this time in the morning and she ran into the men's washroom without a thought. She barely wiped her tears off when she heard the three brothers come in. She ran into the out of service cubicle and locked the door.

"This is ridiculous," she reprimanded herself. Why did she not walk out? It was her company still and why on earth are three grown men going to the washroom together? Now she is stuck in a cubical having to listen to them pee!

"So the documents will be registered and then you will hold Power of Attorney," Tus said.

"You are as good as married to her now. Besides you did ram her from behind," Garsiv joked.

"Ha ha very funny. I feel like I'm being punished for not being part of the company for so long. She's annoying and shrill and stuck up. Freaking nightmare!"

"You met her for two seconds Dastan. We just took her company which means the world to her. I'd be pissed off too if it was me," Tus said.

"Maybe she needs to get some," Garsiv laughed and Tamina wanted to punch his face.

"That's offensive," Tus glared.

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"So are you going to sleep with her?" Garsiv questioned Dastan while the two brothers in union said his name in annoyance.

"I'm just saying. It looks like you are going to sleep with her," Garsiv continued, "In fact, I'm so sure you will I bet you five grand, within three months, you're gonna give her good lovin "

She was so mad and her jaw fell as the conversation continued. Tamina wanted to burst of out the cubical and scream her head off.

"What? I am not going to sleep with her. And who talks like that?"

"Then shake on it!"

"Fine!" they shook hands

" I didn't wash my hands," Garsiv laughed.

"You're disgusting!"

Tus jumped into the middle. He pointed at Garsiv, "you stop being a pervert, and you already lost one bet and be professional which means no sleeping with her and both, grow up!"

She heard them leave and she made a mad dash out. Tamina could not believe the insolence of the three idiots! They take over her company and now they made a bet on the mountain man sleeping with her. She hated the beard! She hated him!

Her trying period would start from tomorrow onwards- 90 days of pure agony of directing her father's work and just letting it go as if nothing mattered. She knew that within two months, she will have to sit with Dastan and highlight jobs and people who needed to be let go of. Most of the people have been working with her family for over ten years and to have to let them go because she was incapable made guilt embed in her. She could not sleep that night anticipating the next 90 days.