A Tale of Trust - A DevAkshi & SamAina FF

Chapter 1 - An Introduction

This account is under me for the coming month and I am not your whistling thrush. For further details don't forget to read the E/N (not A/N) at the end

Happy Reading

Files filled with A4 sheets in her hand, oil in her hair, a pencil tucked behind her ear and her extra large spectacles resting on her nose. Sonakshi banged her door's house. After her first meeting with the rest of the creative team she was tired. Her knocks screamed desperate need for rest.

Brainstorming.

She would have never known the depth of this word had she not taken up this project. She was right. There was no way she could connect to that decade nor did she have a taste for the songs which she and her team were going to use.

Think about your pay cheque Sonakshi.

That's how she kept her dying spirits up.
After an exceptionally tiring day at work all she needed was the comfort of her bed.

"Mubarak ho Sona di! Tinde bane hai" Preeti, one of her three paying guests welcomed her with a broad, fake smile on her bubbly face.

"Tinde? Firse?" Sona kept a hand on her head and tried to act dramatic.

"Yaha to ye roz roz ka hai" Swati who was sitting in the living area added her opinion and then she took her nose out of her textbook and tapped the table "Dunia me hum aaye hai to jeena hi padega zindagi agar zeher... Sorry tinde... hai to khana hi padega"

Preeti clenched her hand in a fist and made a mike out of it. She dived on the seat near Naina (the third and last paying guest) and asked her "Kaise mehsoos ho raha hai aapko?"

"Padhne de na Preeti" came back an annoyed response from Naina's side.

Naina, Swati and Preeti live on the 1st floor of Sonakshi house. The Boses were running short of money so her mom turned the first floor into a well furnished PG. This trio of girls are more like the sisters Sona never had. In her family, she had just her maa, Asha Bose who is a school teacher and also gives tuition to the needy. Even Sona used to help in the tuitions at times. The walls of their house are damp and the paint is coming off at places. The walls are boring white. This project could make them rich!

"Baccha party jaldi jaldi dining table par aa jao" Asha called everyone for dinner

"Aaye Asha Aunty" The girls sang-cum-spoke in unison

"Bhagwan jhoot na bulaye! Ladkiyon jaldi aao" Bela Chachi, Asha's younger sister-in-law called them again and they walked with lazy feet upto the table. Asha and her husband got divorced long back but Bela used to pay Asha frequent visits because of the bond they had harboured and also because of her other taunting jethani. Who could kill anyone with her O bhais!

"Naina" Sona shook the girl's arm. She was still neck deep buried in her text book "Naina chal na khana khane"

Naina gave Sona a reluctant expression and got up after casting a look full of longing to her book.

They took their places at the dining table with zero excitement as Preeti had already dissolved the suspense about tinde for dinner.

"Ye tindo se itna pyar kyu hai aapko?" Swati asked Bela Chachi "Mujhe dunia me do cheezein samajh nahi aati! Ek aapka aur tindo ka pyar aur dusro ye Naina ka kitabo ke saath AMAR PREM"

"Kabhi kitab khol ke dekhi hogi tab pata hoga na tujhe" Naina taunted "Chal hat ab hawa aane de"

She filled her plate with the dish and then continued speaking "Waise bhi tujhe Sameer Maheshwari ke alawa dikhta kya hai dunia me?"