The Billionaire’s Fake Marriage

Chapter 2

Days later, finally Janet’s body had accustomed to the local time and climate. Now the bonfires by the beach stayed only till midnight and the group would go the other islands in the day. But most of the time, all of them would just sit by themselves and relax. After all, spending time with themselves was the reason why most of them were here.

When Janet came back from the bonfire one night, Kitty dropped a small folder in front of her.

“What is this?” Janet asked looking at the folder and then Kitty’s face.

“This, is why we came here.” Kitty replied.

Janet opened the folder and found several files inside. She opened the first file and realized what it was — “Oh come on! Do we really need to do this right now?” she cried.

“Oh yes! It’s about damn time!” Kitty was stern.

The folder contained files with the details of several startup ideas that Kitty and Rebecca had collated before the trip. These ideas were shortlisted by the two of them as the Plan B. Kitty had decided to go back from this trip with a solid idea, and this was her first step towards achieving her goal.

“We are going to read and discuss all these ideas and come up with the one you will be buying.”

“But, I am going to come up with an original idea, that would be completely mine.”

“Go ahead, but till the time you come up with something, we are going to read and discuss each and every one of these ideas.” Kitty dropped a few files in Janet’s lap.

Both of them stared at each other for a few seconds before Janet finally gave in.

“Alright! Lets do it.” She knew Kitty was not going to budge and so she started reading the first file. Kitty joined her with a pen and notepad. Together they started going through that big pile of files.

“Is this for real?” Janet cried with disbelief. “Are people really working on an app like this?”

“What is it?” Kitty looked away from her file.

“Haterz!” Janet started reading. “This useful app tells you who has unfollowed you from your instagram, youtube, twitter and facebook pages. Let those haterz know that you know… so basically people are creating apps that would let people know who stopped following them on social media??”

Janet and Kitty looked at each other and the Haterz file was thrown on the floor. Janet picked up another file and started reading.

“Directions! An app that lets you leave your own set of directions for various routes and places. Let your friends know the best way to reach a place and help many others discover a better route to reach there.”

“What is that? I don’t think I get it.” Kitty expressed her confusion.

“It’s like giving directions to reach a place, over an app. Your friend can tell you how to reach a place via this app and it will be there for the whole world to see.” Janet explained reading and understanding from the file.

“Don’t we already have Google maps for that?” Kitty asked.

Janet again read the file. “They say sometimes Google Map cannot tell the right direction because the data is not available. But in this app, people can use their own knowledge as the data and help others… This is so ridiculous!” Janet exclaimed after understanding the concept, “I don’t want to waste my time with this anymore.”

“Alright, I think I have a good one here. Listen to this.” Kitty started reading from her file.

“Rate Money! It’s an app that pays you for rating all kinds of businesses. You rate, we pay!”

Janet was a little intrigued, “Tell me more.”

Kitty started reading again, “Ratings are super important to businesses these days, for they can make or break them in the age of the internet. So for every rating you give to a business, that business will pay you. This way you will get something in return by giving the businesses your valuable opinion.”

“Sounds crude, but interesting.” Janet said while analyzing the idea in her head. “Lets discuss this.”

Kitty started making notes while reading from the file, “The businesses will pay you for your ratings.”

“Yeah you told me that already.”

“But it’s written again!” Kitty said.

“Also,” Janet suddenly had a question. “Why would any business pay you to rate them? And how much are they going to pay for any rating? This could influence the kind of ratings the customer will give them. Suppose a restaurant that pays its customers more for a good ratings. How can you trust this app then?”

“Well they say that the ratings would always adhere to the central rating rate, fixed by the app developers.”

Janet chuckled, “Trash this file! This is nonsense. But I think we can make something really nice out of it.”

And so Kitty threw that file on the floor as well. The two of them kept checking more and more files till they felt sleepy.

*****

The next morning, Janet met the group of her new friends in the Tiki bar by the beach.

“You care for a swim?” Joseph asked Janet as she joined them.

“Yeah, I guess.”

“Good! Come then.” Joseph finished his drink and started walking towards the ocean. Janet walked behind him but stopped when she saw Joseph taking all of his clothes off. In his birthday suit, the man jumped into the water. While Janet stood there, watching him in awe. She then turned to the rest of the group behind and found them grinning and chuckling.

“What was that? Is this a nude beach?” Janet tried to come up with explanations of what Joseph just did.

“Nope.” Elena replied. “He is just French.”

“There are no nude beaches in India,” Ted added. “But Joseph is cool and so we let him.”

“You still want to join him?” Bilal asked Janet with a naughty smile.

“I think I will stay here with you guys, thank you.”

“Hey Janet! Why are you not in the water?” Joseph called her, while Janet just waved instead of replying. Joseph soon forgot about her and lost himself in the waves.

Janet got busy with the rest of the people at the Tiki bar.

“So Janet, who is that beautiful friend of yours?” Bilal asked quite knowingly.

“Oooh!” Rose said with her drink, “Somebody is crushing hard.”

“So what? I am supposed to like people on holidays. Aren’t I?” Bilal justified himself.

As the group teased Bilal, Janet came to his rescue. “It’s alright! Her name is Kitty and she is a wonderful girl.”

“What does she like?” Bilal asked being more detail oriented.

“Well,” Janet started thinking. “She is a sharp girl and likes smart people..”

“Then Bilal has no chance.” Ted cut Janet off in the middle. A wave of laughter overtook the group. Bilal just played along while Janet continued.

“She has an eye for detail and likes people who focus on their work and things around them. And she likes men with curly hair.”

Suddenly, Bilal’s eyes grew wider and a smile danced on his lips. But then Ted patted his back jokingly. “Too bad your curls are fake, Bil. You had a real shot here.”

Bilal laughed with the rest of the group.

“Excuse me, can I have a Mojito?” A deep voice grabbed Janet’s attention.

She found a tall man with wheatish complexion and broad shoulders standing behind her at the bar. The barkeep started working on the man’s order while he looked around. His eyes met with Janet’s and a courteous smile appeared on his face. Janet replied with another smile as she looked at him.

And when she turned back to her friends, all of them were looking at her with an open mouth. Making sure, she was not seen by that tall broad shouldered dude, Elena mouthed, “Wow!” to Janet.