My Mr. Artist

Chapter 17

Kiyah

'oh my god ! MIHIR ! what is he doing here'  i was internally screaming.

I was starstruck, like literally starstruck cause the person infront of me right now was a new famous actor who played second male lead in one of famous block-bluster movie which was talk of the town in entertainment world. Mihir saksena, a handsome and popular actor, also my classmate and my first crush in school life. he was in the same boys gang with tanish, who is ashi's fiance, rohan and others which was also part of our group of friends. you can also say that he was almost my best friend till the age of twelve but latter because of puberty hit, i started crushing on him and used to get all shy and would avoid him and him being the most good looking guy in our school with almost all girls having crush on him, started behaving like a playboy and than slowly slowly we lost our connection and moved on with our life. 

i think he was in same college as ashi and tanish doing his engineering but later got selected in one of the audition and his journey as actor started. there were sometimes when we would coincide in same parties but it was when we were in college and he was no actor at that time.

" ahhhhh, omg, you are mihir, right !" reva almost screamed in excitement with both hands covering her mouth and eyes as wide as it can be possible. she was from different school so she didn't know much about it but she is now a true fan of him. now everyone is looking in our direction and before me or him could let out a word, reva again started, " i am your huge fan mihir, can i get a picture of you? " as he nodded hesitantly with still a gentle smile on his face, reva handed me her camera and started posing with him.

after i clicked few photos of them together, she immediately run away after saying thankyou to show the photos to her boyfriend. 

" sorry about that " i said when just two of us were left standing opposite to pani puri stall, i was half distracted my panipuri but still kept my smile.

" no, its my pleasure to meet my fans, by the way you are looking beautiful" he said and then look me up and down after saying second half of the sentence. i rolled my eyes at his flirting.

" yah, you also look fine" i immediately blurted out than look up to see his smile widening at my praise, " i mean congratulation on your success, you finally made it " i said with then gave a genuine smile to him. he was handsome and had talent in acting and he also knew it very well but his family were always opposing to the idea of him becoming an actor, so he decided engineering.

" thank you" he dramatically bowed his head which earn him a chuckle from me. we started talking randomly about here and there and reach to the open garden. i could feel curious gaze of our friends and could even imagine their tease in my mind. at first it was awkward as we really never talked one on one for more than a decade but than got the flow.

" i heard from rohan that you shifted to city R and working with awasthi group now, that's quite a great achievement" he said after sending smile to passer- by who were continuously looking his way.

" i also think you have quite leisure time to listen to rohan's rants " i instead tease him. i know that only an extrovert rohan and sometime tanish are in touch with him but how came he know so much about me, i think i am too lenient towards rohan this few months.

" oh, he is my only entertainment this days " he replied with low chuckle. we talk for almost an hour before ashi send some one to look for us as she wanted to take some group photos with all our friends

" we should go " he gesture me to our friends direction.

" are you okay with group photos " i said because as far as i know actors need to cautious while taking or giving photos.