TejRan : A Little Beyond Forever

Part-2

Disclaimer : All the characters written below are imaginary and a work of pure fiction. There is no resemblance to any incident or situation and is written as work of fiction.

After almost 20 hours of travel from Mumbai they had reached the hotel they were about to stay in Malaga. It was about 6 in the evening as per the local time there.

Teja took the key from the reception and picked her backpack from the top of her trolley as the hotel staff helped them with their luggage.

"I am going out after freshening up in half an hour may be....anyone wants to come?" She asked enthusiastically.

"Hain?" Literally everyone except for Karan looked at her in shock. As if she was an alien.

"What?" Teja shrugged with a frown.

"Where are you going?" Nia asked confused.

"Just will walk around in the streets and find a cafe may be for dinner....it's a new city new country yaar come on....even if it is not the first visit we have to explore right?" She said happily.

"Pagal 20 hours travel ke baad mai chalne halat mein nahi hoon...." Wahi gave her a look. "Guys my room?will grab some drinks and dinner?" He looked at everyone and all of them agreed.

Teja chuckled and shook her head.

"Count me out...." She said chirpily and went to her room.

"Pagal hai sacchhi mein yeh ladki...." Nishant smiled.

Karan looked at her as she went into her room. He would have ideally liked to do the same. Explore and not sit in the room but he cannot really go out with this girl atleast. It will look damn odd and especially when everyone else dismissed her offer as if she was crazy. It was better to chill with the guys in wahi's room. It would be better. Only if it was that easy for him to be himself. Like he was. Once upon a time. Like she is. Now.

*****

Teja came out after having breakfast in her room and went downstairs. It was the first day of their shoot , first day of the trip.

She stood in front of the bus waiting for the others and went through the watsapp group where they were sent the places they would visit today. The entire tour would be filmed. Well atleast most of it.

The crew was loading the equipments in the cars when a spot boy dropped one of the camera and it broke.

She looked at his face and he looked scared and panicked. Obviously.

Karan who was also standing there talking to a local guy saw the camera drop from the corner of his eyes. He immediately walked towards the spot boy and a guy from the production also reached there.

"How can you drop the camera yaar?" The production guy scolded the spot boy.

"Umm Rahul....i pushed him by mistake and so he dropped it....my manager will pay for it...." Karan told the production guy politely.

"Arrey that's fine Karan...." Rahul smiled at him warmly. "Good morning by the way....did you have breakfast?"

Karan nodded with a smile and wished him back. They exchanged a small talk and the guy went back to his work of managing everything.

"Sir...." The spot boy looked at him gratefully.

Karan smiled at him and patted his back.

"Thank you sir...." He said with a grateful smile.

"Koi nahi...." Karan gave him a small smile and went inside the bus passing right in front of Teja as she stood near the door of the bus , completely ignoring her.

This guy is so strange. He is cool with a few of the team mates. He laughs and jokes with them. But stays quiet the next moment. He helped the spot boy. He talks about money and thinks money can buy people. Does he have split personality? She thought to herself with a frown.

"Kya soch rahi hai lallu?" Ritwik wrapped his arms around her shoulder startling her.

"Nothing...." She shook her head and gave him a warm smile.

She looked ahead and saw that everyone was coming towards the bus.

"Chalein fir?" She looked and smiled at Ritwik and they went inside.

*****

They had spent the entire day visiting the city and shot for the show.

They went to the museum as the last spot for the day. Throughout the day they had visited the cathedral , the old town street , botanical garden , Alcazaba , port of Malaga , the market hall and also did a few street shopping here and there.

Teja had very keenly observed Karan. For some strange reason , he intrigued her like nobody did there. He was a changed guy when he was meeting new people and was seeing the architecture of the places they went. He would look around like a kid with a goofy smile and shiny eyes.

Karan stood in front of a painting in the museum and smiled widely.

She was standing right next to him. The painting was indeed beautiful. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes and he had the same smile. The wide one. And his eyes were sparkling.

"You know the history of this painting?" He asked enthusiastically looking at her.

She shook her head startled by the questions and more startled because that was the first time he had initiated a conversation with her.

"This building is centuries old....almost of the 16th century...." He started of and told the history of the building and also that of the painting excitedly.

She hadn't realised when they both have walked a little away from where the others were as he kept showing her the various paintings and kept narrating the history behind most of those.

"Have you come here before?" She asked looking at him.

"Yes....but i read all this much before that though...." He said with a happy smile. "See this...." He pointed at another painting and went near it and she followed.

To say that she was impressed will be an understatement. He was an actor first of all. He had no connection with so much details of history and yet the knowledge that he had was vast. And the way he explained everything with so much clarity and with the correct information blew her mind.

"Oye kundrra....chal....wapas bhi jaana hai...." Ravi held both their shoulder from behind.

"Haan chal...." He smiled and looked at the painting one last time.

She stared at him softly. She can never ever forget the shine that his eyes had. As if he was a different man. The man that she had encountered the last day in the flight was nowhere similar to this guy standing in front of her.

He was a mystery by himself. Or may be a complex. Who knows? But there was something about him that drew her to him. Her gaze to him.

Ravi and Karan walked towards the exit and she followed them but her stare fixed at his back as he walked out.