Chapter 58 - Got The Project

Jimmy felt proud sitting with his grandpa as this was his first time sitting on this chair for an official meeting, before his grandpa retired it was his father's chair. Jimmy felt a sense of pride flowing through his veins.

He then presented the plan his father prepared in advance, since he studied it well he was able to present it smoothly. The three investors were listening to his plan carefully with utmost concentration. Seeing them, Anthony felt proud as it was a good sign when the investors for a project are keenly listening to the presentation. Anthony was also impressed with the way Jimmy was handling this entire presentation.

Meeting was concluded after an hour and the investors seemed very happy. The two old men looked at each other, one old man raised his eyebrows as if asking a question and the other old man nodded in agreement to the unspoken question.

One of the old men then looked at Anthony and Jimmy, "We would be honest with you, we met a lot of your competitors for this project, although we would be investing in this project and you will be the one managing it, we still wanted to partner with someone who has a sense of responsibility and integrity, we want to continue to be involved in this project although externally.. Now, we can safely conclude that you guys are not just good with your business plan and management but your ethics and courteousness won us over, so instead of making you wait for two more weeks, as we were supposed to discuss whom to choose, we have already made our decision and we decided to select you and let you handle this project for us."

Jimmy and Anthony were absolutely shocked, as it was very rare for the investors to make a decision on spot.

The third man in the investors team too was surprised but he didn't want to question the decision taken by the two old men and decided to keep quiet.

"Thank you so much Mr Tanaka. I am overwhelmed." Jimmy honestly replied.

"Haha you deserve it young man, let's meet next month with a more detailed plan, my secretary will schedule the meeting with you."

"Sure, Thank you so much" Jimmy stood up from his chair and bowed to him, seeing him Anthony too followed the suit and he too bowed to them and they did the same.

Then they completed all the formalities and paperwork, then they officially handed over the project to Jimmy after some more discussion they took their leave and similar to his earlier act Jimmy dropped them off at the entrance. 

After they left, he went to his grandpa, who was sitting in shock in Jimmy's room.

"Grandpa Aaaa did you see I got the project."

"How?"

"Did you not see they were so impressed by my integrity and responsibility."

"What the fuck, you are not at all responsible and integrity? You have Integrity? my foot."

"Grandpa, they were supposed to give the decision after a few days but see they were so impressed by me that they took the decision right on spot."

"That's why I am in shock," Anthony replied.

"Hahaha let me call dad and inform him of the news."

Jimmy then called Harry and told him everything that happened, just like Anthony, Harry too was surprised as he knew the Tanakas are not easy people to deal with, Jimmy not only impressed them but already got the project, the announcement was supposed to happen after going through all the quotes and details but Tanakas directly announced them as the winner for this bid.

"Jimmy let's celebrate today." Harry said.

"No dad today I'll celebrate with someone else, let's all have a nice party later on some other day to celebrate this news."

"Sure" Harry agreed, he was so happy he would agree to every suggestion of Jimmy.

Anthony then left for home and Jimmy called Rachel.

"Rachel Rachel Rachel, I am so so so so happy." Jimmy shouted in excitement.

Rachel laughed hearing his words.

"So it was successful?"

"Yes, we got the project and we completed the paperwork too."

"What????" Rachel too got surprised.

"Yes, they were so impressed they even signed the contract before leaving."

"Oh my god Jimmy, that's awesome news, this calls for a celebration."

"Yes, are you free today?" Jimmy asked.

Rachel got hesitated as to what to reply, she wondered should she tell him about her meeting up with Daniel or not, then she thought there was no point in lying so she decided to be honest, "I am actually heading towards Daniel's new house in an hour, we made plans to meet each other."

"Oh that's awesome, then I'll join you guys, let's have a pizza party." Jimmy self-invited himself and Rachel couldn't obviously ask him not to come as it would be rude and it was his own brother's home, he can come whenever he wants and she too didn't want to make her feelings obvious, so she agreed and told him to come in an hour. 

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Earlier Today (Few hours Back)

Daniel called Harry, initially when Harry called him, he was busy meeting with his patients and did not pick up the phone which was on silent. Later after seeing the call from his dad Daniel called him back.

"Hi Dad, anything urgent? Sorry I couldn't lift the phone earlier, what's the matter?" 

"Daniel just like you said I have involved Jim in a new upcoming project, I lied to him and made him take over that project."

"That's good dad"

"I am a bit worried, those people are not easy to deal with, they are very strict and…"

Daniel interrupted his father, "It's good that way Dad, things just came easy to Jimmy, let him face some difficulties too and I feel confident in him, he will handle everything well."

"Okay, if you say so. Take care son."

"You too dad."

...

Present

After talking to Jimmy Harry quickly dialed Daniel's number and as he was just going through some files he quickly picked up his phone, "Hey Dad"

"Dannyyyy just now I got a call from Jim, he already signed the contract with the Tanakas."

"Wow that's awesome, I didn't know contract signing happens so fast."

"No, it doesn't but they were so impressed with Jimmy they signed it today itself."

"Wow I can't believe it, Jimmy managed it so well." Daniel was genuinely very happy for his brother.

"Exactly, I called your grandpa too, surprisingly he too was there in the meeting with the Tanakas and he said that Jimmy handled it well and he behaved so maturely that your grandpa thought he was someone else.. Grandpa was very happy today with Jim's involvement and dedication."

"Finally, grandpa acknowledged his talent."

"Yes indeed, I wanted to celebrate today with all of you." Daniel got worried hearing his words as he was meeting up with Rachel in the later part of the day but his father's next words made him relax. "But Jimmy said no to today, so this week we will celebrate some day."

"Sure dad, friday night would be better."

"Okay, I'll confirm with Jimmy then."

"Sure bye."

Daniel was now excited that Rachel is coming to his house for the first time so he wanted it to be special. He decided to hang out with her for some time then order food and spend some quality time with her, he was excited, not knowing what was awaiting him.

He met with his two interns and asked them about the day's updates and informed them he will be taking their updates everyday, he mailed them few files and asked them to go through it, his next operation is with these patients and he wanted these two to study about the patient's condition well, he told them he will let them assist him as a spectator if they study this case well. His work was over so he updated his schedule for the next day and rushed directly to his house to make sure everything was in the proper place.

On his way he saw Matt in the parking lot, he was having a bad feeling so he didn't want to stop and waste his time. He therefore pretended like he didn't see him and was about to go towards his car but Matt stopped him. 

"Daniel wanna hang out with me, I am going to the bar" Daniel's bad feeling was proven right.

"Sorry Matt, I can't join as my brother is coming to meet me so I have to rush to my home" he lied as he didn't want to tell him about Rachel.

"But your face is so red and you are blushing as if your girlfriend is the one coming, you are lying right and trying to hide something, am I right?"

"No no really my younger brother is coming, by the way I don't have a girlfriend. I need to go bye"

Saying this he did not wait for Matt's reply, sat in the car and quickly left the hospital.