A Tale of Trust - A DevAkshi & SamAina FF

Chapter 7 - SaMunDit: The Making

Sameer. Control. Relax. You can do this. It's no murder. You can do this." Sameer mumbled under his breath.

Inside a white Creta, Sameer Maheshwari was sitting impatiently. The car was parked outside VJN University,Mumbai. He was waiting for Naina and her gang to come out of their college. He was doing Bachelors in Mass Communication from the same university. He didn't need to visit the college everyday and he didn't care much about his education either. He was doing well enough to pass his exams. He was out there to be friendly with MunDit, who are the easiest shortcut into Naina's close, little world.

"What did Ishwari ma'am say about nervousness before a scene the other day? Yes I should talk about random shit to myself! So what's happening around? It's a hot day. A hot, humid day. I can hear the birds sing or a better term will be are making noises... I ... I'm scared. Okay, Sameer,Sameer you are doing everything with the right motives. What was that dialogue in our show? Kuch cheezon me to sirf niyat dekhi jaati hai aur Chahat ki niyat me to pyar ki sachai thi. So, I'm doing this for Naina... Let's take it as a scene. Ha? Ok? A hero bumps into some common boys outside a university. He talks to them and ... Oo Naina's here." Sameer said.

As soon as he saw Naina and gang walking towards the gate of the campus he jumped out of the car in a frenzy. His steps were unsure. He was going to become friends with people only and only for his benefit. This wasn't typical of Sameer but he couldn't find any other way.

Pandit was the one who was walking on the outer edge of the pavement. He was unmindful of the people coming and going. They were all busy in laughing on a joke which was cracked by Munna. Sameer saw this as the perfect oppurtunity for his 'scene'. Few diagonal steps towards the group and BANG, Sameer bumped hard into Pandit. He was so desperate in doing the scene perfect in one take that he didn't care about the intensity of their collision.

"Ouch!" Pandit whined in pain. He was down on his knees because of the effect of the collision.

"I'm sorry" Sameer pretended to not notice anyone in the gang. He was frantically picking up Pandit's phone and books from the floor.

"Are Sameer tu?" Munna exclaimed with surprise and Sameer said a small thank you to God. He was hoping that Munna would recognize him in front of his friends so that he could join them in whatever they were going to do next.

"Hi Munna! Hi Pandit!" Sameer gave a brief smile to both of them. Their radiating faces were pinching him. He quickly turned to the girls and said a small hi there too.

He waited for someone to ask him something but the awkwardness of the silence was growing each second.

"Aaa ... Sameer tum chaloge humare saath? Red Rose?" Pandit sensed Sameer's uneasiness around them.

"Haa ... Mujhe koi problem to nahi hai par kahi kuch logon ko mere yaha hone se complex na ho jaaye." Sameer tried to insert an year's quota of swag in this one line as he eyed Naina while saying this.

"Prob..." Preeti opened her mouth in protest but Naina held her arm to stop her.

"Munna... Ye tera bhai hai na, hume kya problem hogi? Acche se khila ke vida karenge." Naina could throw consecutive bombs at him right now but Sameer was ready with all protective gears. Aan do he thought.

They walked to Red Rose, the college's nearby one-stop-eat-it-all restaurant. Swati and Preeti exchanged tensed looks but Naina was walking as if they hadn't welcomed Sameer in their small little group but an estranged puppy who had to be fed and dismissed!

"Ye pagal ho gayi hai kya?" Swati asked Preeti in whispers

"Phuk kyu rahi hai kaan me? Lagta hai Naina ka koi screw gir gaya hai Sameer se milne ke baad." Preeti replied. Swati came close to Preeti's ear to whisper something but Preeti stopped her "Phukna mat!"