A Tale of Trust - A DevAkshi & SamAina FF

Chapter 6 - Changing Dimensions

Can I be lazy and not name the chapters? :/

Happy Reading

"Lights. Camera. Action." Ishwari screamed for the third time.

"Bike ride, Take 3"

Sahil (Dev) asked Chahat (Elena) for the last time if she would take his help to reach her home or not. It was eight in the night, the roads were deserted and if Chahat wished to reach home on time, she had no other option but to ride behind Sahil on his bike. The market sported an abandoned look, there was no one to spot them but she felt hesitant in riding behind a boy even if she had started developing a soft corner for him.

"Haa ya Naa?" ("Yes or No?") Dev (Sahil) asked. He had to sound irritated and he perfected the emotion after three takes.

"Ok. Cut" Ishwari screamed.

She got up from her director's chair (a chair with director written behind it, bought just to fuel Ish's ego). She cheered Dev for his performance and turned to Elena to explain her how she had to agree to ride his bike yet look uneasy doing it.

Sonakshi was on the set too. She was looking for Arjun. He had to perform in the next scene but there was a glitch in his copy of the script. She saw Arjun sitting in a corner, learning his lines. She walked upto him and informed him about the correction.

"Kisi spot dada ke saath corrected script bhej deti aap." ("You could have send this script with a spot dada too.") Arjun suggested.

"Galti meri team se hui hai aur mai creative head hu. It's my responsibility." ("As the creative head of the show, it's my responsibility to mend any mistake made by my team.") Sonakshi said while proof reading the script once more.

"All good?" Arjun asked

"Perfect ... Just perfect." Sona smiled and returned him the script. She had started smiling a lot more now.

"What was the glitch by the way?" Arjun tried to read through the dark cuts Sona had made with her black pen on the script but couldn't read through it.

"Ignore it. Everything's set now." Sona left the conversation on an abrupt note.

When she was at a safe distance from Arjun she released a long breath. Subconsciously, she had written Dev instead of Sahil in the final draft of Arjun's script, while taking her team's inputs on it. It wasn't a big mistake & there was nothing to feel embarrassed about it too but there was something about that glitch that made Sona feel like she was letting out a big secret of hers.

Writing Dev on empty pages was common for her now. Specially after she read an inteview in which Dev had said that he is 90% like Sahil.

Sonakshi just sat down smiling, on the road created for their set. No one was looking. She didn't mind sitting on the floor. An old world style lamp post shined over her head and she admired Dev from a distance while Ishwari was explaining his role in the next scene. He was listening with full attention. His brows were constricted, they were almost joined together and she found that cute too. (along with a million other things she found cute in him!)

She looked around at the posters pasted on various shops to recreate the 90s. Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahi, Maine Pyar Kiya, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Afsana Pyar Ka, Aashiqui and many more. Her eyes travelled from the poster of one love story to another. She felt as if they wanted her to start her own romance now, probably she was over thinking, probably she was going nuts, probably she just needed a break from working on a love story of yester years, probably she should look around at other boys and forget about him, probably she should just hold on to the feeling and unleash the little butterflies in her tummy, probably she should just feel what she was feeling and be happy. Yes, that's what she should do.