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Chapter 3 - Vision

"Hey, Jared! What are your plans for tonight?", I asked as I came back from the lawyer's office.

"Ohh, I have big plans for tonight. I am planning on having Palak Paneer and watching a documentary about Liberia. Why?", Jared replied to my query.

"Oh well, if you have your plans then I won't bother you. But Peter Gregory is having a Toga party tonight. Rest of us are going but if you don't want to….", I left it hanging. I didn't have to wait for long.

"Yes. No. I mean I would very much like to come with you guys. You know to be a part of the gang. Do you think they will have gelatin shots?", He asked in a rapid-fire speech.

"Why don't we find out together? We leave at 9."

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"I get the feeling that I should have worn more than my underwear and a bedsheet!", I said as I entered a party. The hotness levels of girls here was like... wow!

Others made some comments but I ignored them as not important. I am pretty sure Jared thanked me profusely before he went searching for Gelatin shots. My eyes, however, were grabbed by smoking hot greek goddess as she came towards me.

"Richard!", she said came towards me with a champaign glass in her hand.

"Wow! I mean like Wow!", I said admiring her from top to bottom but trying to not appear creepy. Let's try a cheesy pickup line.

"Did it hurt?", I asked and as I saw her questioning face, I continued, "You know when you fell from heaven because you look like an angel!" What a reward her melodious laughter was.

"You are terrible!", she replied grinning.

"You are beautiful!", I grinned back.

She smiled shyly at that.

"So Peter met with LaFlamme today and signed the paperwork which means that pied piper is officially launched.", she said changing the topic.

"I saw what you did there. Fine. So why didn't you tell me about all the other compression companies Peter was seeding.", I asked shocking her.

"What?! No, its nothing you need to worry about because none of those other companies have your vision.", she tried to reassure me.

"My vision?"

"Yes, your vision. Speaking of your vision, Peter wants you to come in on Friday to talk company big picture that kind of stuff. You know layout your vision in broad strokes."

"Fine, I will be there. So what are you drinking?", I asked Monica, already being prepared for this.

"Screwdriver, you want one?", she replied.

"I want you… I mean that…. I will now go get that drink.", I fake stumbled and moved on. I knew it wasn't the right time to make a move on her. I wouldn't want to date me right now as well. But hopefully soon. If not there were other fish in the sea.

I walked over to where Dinesh and Gilfoyle were hanging out and took a glass of whisky on the rocks and started drinking. But I was pacing myself as in no way shape or form did I want to offer Erlich a place on the board while drunk, as it had happened in cannon.

Then two pretty ladies walked over to us, who I had no recollection of seeing on the show. They must not be important.

"Cool costume! Where did you get it?", the pretty blonde asked. She was accompanied by smoking hot brown skilled brunet. Who was wearing the most eye-catching bustier.

"Umm…My bed.", I replied truthfully, but with a smile and a little bit more confidence.

"Oh… you are funny.", she tried to play me. And just like that, it came to me, who they were.

"And you are very pretty. You are so pretty in fact that I bet you do not know Peter Gregory at all. You know, from your looks and your personality I think you are….hmm… let me guess… actresses?", I said already knowing that they were, in fact, actresses, but it still shocked them.

"How did you know?", the pretty brunet asked.

"I am sorry I didn't catch your name. I am Richard, this is Dinesh and Gilfoyle. You are my lady?", I asked with my best charm. By the way, she smiled I just might get lucky. I knew I had no chance with the blond as she was here with her boyfriend.

"Oh… hehe… sorry about that… I am Anastasia and this is my friend Brooke.", she said giggling.

"It's very nice to meet you girls. The answer to your question about how I know, well I might not be as pretty as you but I am really really smart. You see, Peter over there has just invested in our company Pied Piper, which is going to be the next billion-dollar idea and I am its founder and CEO. So can I get you, girls, a drink or are you here with somebody?", I asked with a grin. Seeing their eyes light up in dollar signs hearing the worlds SMART, BILLION DOLLARS and CEO was very amusing. God bless gold diggers. To my surprise, not just Anastasia but Brooke as well agreed to let me get them a drink and told me they were here alone. Gilfoyle and Dinesh had their jaws dropped as I moved away with the two pretty ladies.

The next morning I woke up in a hotel room with a black eye and two girls…Anastasia and Brooke snuggle into me from both sides.

Then it came back to me. The drinking, them grinding into me on the dance floor, Brooks boyfriend punching my face and me kneeing him in the balls, then my escape with the two ladies, finding a hotel room as I refuse to take them back to the incubator and then the mindblowing sex. Wow, these girls knew some stuff. And now me waking up next to them. Looks like little Richard is awake as well. Let's see if I can get another round out of them.

It was 4 in the evening by the time I reached home and was met with a standing ovation from Dinesh, Gilfoyle and Jared. Erlich wasn't talking to me as I had straight out refused to have him on the board last night no matter how much he insisted.

I was kind of pissed right now at him as well, as he went behind my back and had LaFlamme draft the documents that included him on the board. Well, he is shit out of luck as I wasn't going to sign it.

"Dude you left with the two girls! What happened?", Dinesh asked.

"I thought you knew what happened, that why you were clapping.", I told them in confusion.

"We were clapping about you kneeing that Steroid addled Jock in balls. Do not for one second think you can fool us in thinking something actually happened between you and those girls. You probably just gave them cab fare and maintained a respectable distance chickening out once you left the part.", that was Gilfoyle.

"…"

"…" "…" "…"

I didn't say anything. I just took out my phone, opened the gallery with a password and showed them the picture I asked them to let me take to remember them by. Also with a promise of calling them again in the future, which I wasn't going to do…maybe. The shock on their faces was amazing.

"How did you do that?", Erlich asked?

"I think you mean, How did I do them?", I asked with an innocent expression and then promptly broke out into fits of laughter. Somehow I was managed to control myself and tell them in a conspiratory whisper, "The answer is TOGETHER and Whole Night Long and Whole Morning and Afternoon. Eat that Bitches. Now I am going to go take a shower and go to sleep." I said moving away laughing. I am pretty sure someone or all of them called me ass hole.

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It was Friday and Jared and I were sitting in Peter's Lobby waiting to be called in. Suddenly Erlich burst's in through the door. I visibly groaned seeing him. These past few days had been a headache dealing with him. We had multiple shouting matches with him wanting a place on the board and me refusing multiple times. Thank god for Anastasia. She had agreed to see me again, as I had called her frustrated after having one of my shouting matches with Erlich and need to blow off some steam. Brooke had backed out thought, not wanting to be a part of a three-way thing, and I was fine with that. Anastasia was hotter anyways. We went on two dates and both dates ended in mind-blowing sex. If Richard was alive he would have been jumping up and down in joy for getting so much action. Though he was not a virgin before this, his sex life left a lot to be desired.

"Richard listen," Erlich began. I visibly groaned again. Here comes the emotional speech. "I may have been wrong about being a board member. And I may be wrong about being steve jobs in our relationship. But I do know this, You are my steve Wozniak and no woz should go in into a meeting like that alone."

"No Actually…" I started replying but he interrupted me again. "So just let me come in, then I won't speak. And I think you should have somebody in there that actually has your back.", he finished.

"Okay. I am not going there alone, Jared is going in there with me.", I could see from his face he was about to erupt in the middle of my investor office at that, so I hastily continued, "Though you can come in if you promise to shut up and let me do the talking." I laid down my condition.

"You want to do the talking? You? Are you sure you can handle it? I am surprised you haven't pissed or cream yourself yet.", he said condescendingly. I just smirked and leant closer to his ear and said, "Unlike you, I have someone to su*k my b*lls off so that I am relaxed before a meeting. And she loves doing it too."

I could see a flash of jealousy in his eyes at that. But he kept his mouth shut. "If you want to come in you have to keep your mouth shut. Do we have a deal." I extended my hand for him to shake on the deal.

"Your funeral. Don't come crying to me later." I just smirked.

"Guys, Peter is ready for you.", I heard Monica's voice from behind me. I looked back to see her and her smile seemed a little strained looking at me.

"Hey, Monica! Yeah, we are ready too. Let us go. Gentlemen, Erlich, after you." I said gesturing with my hand ahead for them to proceed.

As we settled down Peter got to the point and asked for my vision. Erlich was waiting smugly for me to freak out and pass the mantle onto him. Jared on the other was making the face of an adorable loyal puppy with an encouraging look. I shook the image from my mind it was too distracting.

"Today's users want access to all of their files, from all of their devices, instantly. That is why cloud-based is the holy grail. Now dropbox is winning that game for now. But when it comes to audio and video files, they might as well be called dropbox." Peter laughed his weird little laugh at that. I felt I was on the right track so I continued, "Using our platform, Pied Piper users would be able to compress all of their files to the point where they could truly access them instantly. We control the pipe, they just use it. That's the vision in my head.", I completed. Looking at the reactions around me, I saw Peter and Jared were all smiles. Monica had a look in her eyes that said she had just acquired a new piece of information about me and was revaluating her opinion about me based on that. Erlich, on the other hand, had his jaw dropped. Understandable as I ripped off his speech word for word.

"Sure….Sounds fine.", Peter said back with a neutral expression. "Oh, I received an email from LaFlamme saying that this gentleman is going to be our third board member?" he continued.

No one said anything for a few seconds. Then I replied, "Not at this time. I am still evaluating what value Mr Erlich can bring to the board. So far the evaluation is not going well. Those papers were an incentive for him to try harder, they shouldn't have had been mailed to you yet. Please ignore them for now.", I told Peter not looking at Erlich as I knew this was his doing.

"Fine." One word reply and then he got back to work dismissing us.

I got up immediately not waiting for him to actually dismiss us verbally. Other stood up following me as well. As we got out of peters office with both guys and Monica following, I turned around and got in Erlich's face, "You pull one more stunt like that and you will be done. Do you understand?"

"Yes.", Erlich said not meeting my eyes and soon shuffled off.

"Jared can you give me and Monica a minute.", I said looking at Jared.

"Sure, I will go wait by the car.", he said and I replied by nodding.

"So, trouble in paradise?", Monica began before I could.

"Yes, you could say that. Any progress in acquiring his share?", I asked her.

"No. He flat out refused.", she said shaking her head.

"Fuck. Life is going to become really difficult for me now.", I said groaning.

"So how are you doing?", she asked out of the blue.

"Umm…fine. Why do you ask?", I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh… you know… the black eye. Though it looks like its healing.

You know I head a funny rumour.", she said looking me directly in the eye.

"And what's the rumour?" I enquired now interested, Erlich forgotten for the moment.

"Oh it's a silly rumour about the party that night. That you left the party with two actresses we hired to spice up the party.", she asked slyly. I smirked internally at that but outwardly somehow managed to control my emotions.

"Well I had to leave, the jealous boyfriend socked me across the face and I kicked him in the balls. Party kind off blows after something like that happens.", I told her.

"So nothing happened between you and the girls?", she asked. And I could immediately see the regret on her face as that slipped out of her mouth. She didn't want me to know she was jealous. Wow, she is jealous this early. Or she could just be intrigued. Now how to play this.

I finally decided on a plan of action. I leaned in as if to whisper a secret and as she leaned in as well.

I kissed her on her cheek and leaned back smiling, turned around and walked away.

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AN: Guys I recommend that you watch the episodes as well when reading this.

So i just posed 3 chapters back to back. I have 9 more written and this was just to get the ball rolling. Next chapter will be posted now . I think you are going to like it, major divergence are going to start now.

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~Till the next time