TejRan : A Little Beyond Forever

Part-45

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.

Karan frowned as the alarm started to ring.

"Shut up...." He groaned in frustration.

"Karan bhai you have a press conference to attend...." Omi came inside his room and Karan put the alarm off and turned to the other side to sleep.

"Karan bhai...." He said pulling the blanket away from karan's body and Karan sat up angrily.

"Kya yaar....sone de nuh...." He frowned and rubbed his eyes.

"Press conference hai...." Omi said looking at him.

His under eyes had dark circles and were puffed. With all the drinking from last night's party.

"Yeah yeah...." Karan groaned and stood up. "Manoj ko bol chai bheje...."

"How many hours did you sleep?" Omi asked him seriously.

Karan checked the time. It was 8 o'clock. He had come home at around 5 after the party.

"3 ghante...." He muttered casually and went to the washroom.

Omi sighed. Since the time Karan had come back from Europe 6 months back , he had seen Karan lead a reckless life. Every other day he would attend a party or the other , drink till he cannot stand and return home late at night or even early morning like he did last night. Half of the nights he wouldn't get proper sleep and would go to shoot without his sleep being complete.

And Omi knew the reason.

Karan sat in his lounge with his tea and checked his mails.

"Aaj ka schedule kya hai?press conference and then?" He asked Omi trying to sound cool. He would meet her again today. In the press conference. After 6 months.

He knew everything about her in the past 6 months. She has done well for herself in one of the leading shows of ITV. But he rarely saw her publicly. She would avoid getting papped since she rarely went out. He would wait for her to post something on her feed or on story , but all he got was professional photo shoot pictures and sometimes pictures of food on her story.

He checked his tagged section and chuckled seeing pictures from last night. He was clearly drunk during the exit paps and he scrolled down without giving any shit. There were pictures from the parties. He stared at one of the pictures. A girl was sticking onto him and he remembered that she was hitting on him clearly. As much as he wanted to hook up , he couldn't. He kept his phone away and closed his eyes.

Since the past 6 months , he has fought an internal battle everyday. Every freaking day. Each time he would go somewhere he would get female attention. And everytime he would actually try to even think about saying yes to their advances , he would remember her. And something inside him stopped him. It felt as if he would be cheating on her if he goes intimate with another girl. He belonged to only one person.

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Teja got ready as her makeup artist did her makeup in her room. Her mom came inside with her breakfast.

Teja smiled softly at her and started to eat as all her staffs left the mother and daughter alone.

"When will you be back Teja?" Her mom asked caressing her hair.

"I will be late mumma....i have to attend this press conference and then go for naagin shoot and then i have to shoot an ad at a studio...." She said smiling at her mom.

"Beta ad ko weekend ko shoot kar leti...." Her mom ask in worry. Since the time Teja had come back from Europe she had hardly been at home. She was always working. She came home , spoke to her parents , slept for a few hours and left for work again.

"Mumma weekend ko i have some interviews lined and also i have to shoot an event for the channel...." She said finishing of her breakfast.

Her mom knew telling her anything wouldn't change anything.

Her phone was ringing and teja smiled a bit seeing the name on the screen. It was wahi.

"Haan ji bataiye...." She said after picking up the call.

"I am picking you up for the press conference....we will have breakfast on the way...." He said happily.

"I already had breakfast...." She rolled her eyes.

"Then donuts...." Wahi immediately changed the menu.

"No...." She muttered.

"Yaar Teja....stop being a spoil sport....mujhe khaana hai yaar...." He whined like a kid.

"Toh kisi aur ko leke jaa idiot...." She rolled her eyes again. "And you don't have to drive till here....i will go...."

"Oh....so you don't want me to come to your house and meet aunty?" Wahi asked in a dramatic voice.

"You know all this is not gonna work...." She said strictly and Wahi sighed. It was true. All this would not work with her now.

She had changed. She was not the same Teja anymore. She wouldn't run behind her friends or anyone for that matter to convince them for anything. She would not be excited to go out for breakfast or lunch and would rather prefer to work. She wouldn't jump around getting excited for the smallest things.

"Okay chal see you....drive safe...." Wahi said softly and disconnected the call.

Teja hugged her mother and went downstairs. She saw her father sitting in the lounge and hugged him as well and went out. She drove to the venue and went inside after posing for the media.

And there he stood. Standing with Ritwik and Nishant. She walked to them and Ritwik immediately smiled widely seeing her.

"Tejuuuuu....long time huh...." Ritwik said happily and Karan looked behind and saw her walking towards them. She looked the same. The same innocent eyes. The same long hair. He could feel his heart thudding in his chest seeing her.

"Hi...." She went and greeted ritwik who gave her a side hug and she looked at karan.

"Hi...." She greeted him exactly the same way she greeted Ritwik.

He was too taken aback to answer her back. The last thing he expected her to do was to greet him. That to so casually.

She didn't even wait for his greetings. She turned to Ritwik and was answering him and then spotted Nia at a distance.

"Guys excuse me....i'll just go and meet Nia...." She said to both of them and walked to Nia and gave her a hug.

Karan's eyes followed her.

What the hell was that?how can she behave as if nothing had happened?she should have avoided me. Or atleast given me a cold shoulder.

NOTE: The story hasn't ended obviously and please don't give me gaffe for scaring you people making it look like a sad ending. It was not my idea. It was _Riddhi16 's idea. And yeah she convinced me to continue the same story and not a part 2 and also helped me figure out the upcoming track(after 6 months leap) . So half of the credit would go to her. Love you riddhi.

I hope you guys like this new phase of the story as much as you like the previous phase. So the after intermission part begins.