𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚

28.

A month of nothing. After a month of staying in the same surroundings breathing the same air and yet there was no change in Sofia and Arsalan's relationship. They would continue to bicker on small things and then forget the presence of each other, ignoring and indulging themselves in their work rather than in each other. The two of them being workaholics devoted themselves more to their work. Sofia kept herself busy with her upcoming campaign while Arsalan was working on his new project. Nothingness stayed between them yet again.

They both argued just yesterday and Sofia would not back down on Arsalan's demand for keeping her distance from Akash instead she would use her smart mouth to irritate him, which would lead him to lose his temper and say things that would end up hurting her.

Nothing was going right and they decided not to be on each other's throats for a few days, keeping them busy with their work, ignoring their presence, maintaining their space and giving their whole time to work had created a lot more distance between them than needed.

Sofia could feel all of it. She could feel the chilling coldness between them increasing as the days goes by. There was nothing more than an accidental touch or talk until it was required. They were already falling apart even though it was just the start.

Arsalan's desperation to keep her away from Akash was always so loud that sometimes he would get irritated with himself whenever he crossed the borderline he had created. He shouldn't care about anything related to her but he ends up doing that. The only thing that could put him in his right senses was a shit load of work. So he decided to ignore whatever she was up for and not to interfere, to let her be stubborn, hard-headed and he will keep his cool by being unaffected which definitely wasn't the easy task.
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Sofia headed straight to the location where the magazine shoot was scheduled today for their campaign by her and Nakshatra companies. Akash had handed out the magazine part of the work for Sofia's company believing that she could do it better. Sofia wanted to tell him how little he thinks of her; she could be much more than just better and she was determined to show him that.

The set-up was amazing as she wanted it to be. One side of the wall was covered with vibrant colours of tropical flowers and plants covering the seat prepared for the model to pose on, the other was aesthetically pleasing, set up from backdrop to props all were in gold and ivory white and the last one had the pictures of famous empowering women of all centuries around the world.

Everything looked impressively good to her as she marched toward the green room to get a glance at the models wearing the newly designed jewellery pieces created by Sapphire and Nakshatra.

Encouraging all of the models she met, she entered the last green room to give her support and good words for being a part of this campaign. She pushes open the door after a knock to see a familiar figure getting ready in haste who had her back to her.

"I'm sorry I am kinda in rush, please speak quickly I am the next one for the shoot"

"Kehkasha?!"

Kehkasha stopped the makeup artist and turned her head abruptly "bhabhi!" She exclaimed in surprise upon seeing Sofia in the room.

"You are one of the models?" Sofia made her way to Kehkasha, surprised yet happy to see her there.

"Yes! Oh my god, I never thought I would meet you like this!" She pulled Sofia into a hug.

Sofia laughed "careful you will spoil your getup they are pretty expensive"

Kehkasha pulled back "Sapphire is you?!"

Sofia nodded with a broad smile "it's 'we' actually Shahana and me and my entire staff"

"Generous as always. I'd my doubts. I wasn't sure until now and you won't believe how happy I am to be a part of this campaign and it doubled knowing that it's been done by you," Kehkasha said, her eyes twinkling with genuine happiness.