The Scenic Life

Epilogue

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Six months later.

I trudge along the sidewalk, willing myself to walk a bit faster so that I can reach home in time. The to do list in my head is making me go a bit crazy, but I take a deep breath and assure myself, in vain, that everything will go according to the schedule.

Viki has been blowing up my phone since the last fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, she reached my house before I did and is now going to be an incessant asshole about my tardiness. I press the ignore button and jog towards the entry of my society.

When I reach my floor, I find viki leaning across my door with bags filled with makeup, purses within purses and her dresses. I ignore her scathing expression, and jam the key in the door while humming a tune. I know I'm playing with fire, but I wont go out of this world without doing that.
She jostles my shoulder with hers and then sets off straight towards my room. I shrug off my jacket and then trudge behind her, knowing that she's going to eat my head.

But its okay, she's my best friend.

But because I am sucha pussy, I shout out an apology before she can blow up. “I'm sorry for being late viki! You know I wouldn’t do that willingly.”

She just rolls her eyes, “yeah yeah okay fine. now help me choose a dress.”

I crack a smile, she smiles back  at me and shakes her head.
Tonight, our movie is going to be presented in the Mumbai film festival, and all of the team is invited.

When khan broke this news, everyone went insane, because the bts people being invited to red carpet almost never happened, but this time because khan is such a sweetheart, she made it happen.

Its also monumental because this is our first project without jody and bonnie.

After word got out that jody and bonnie had been playing around with the lives of their employees, their reputation had receded, and no one wanted to pair up with them anymore. Which resulted in, stellar productions to take us over.

And that has been the best thing to happen since sliced bread. Stellar productions is run jointly by a couple, Mohan and Ayesha Mehra. And because of that, there is a feeling of familiarity when we enter behrouz studious. Ayesha and mohan have been our saviour, and without them, this movie wouldn’t have gone as far as it already has.

Khan worked like a madwoman on this one, countless sleepless nights and mornings fuelled with caffeine later, this masterpiece has been her peak.

As for us, were just happy that we has a piece to do in this movie.

Viki jostles me once again to shake me out of my reverie, and points to the dresses scattered across my bed, “which one? ”

I look them over for a minute but then the blue one catches my eye,

“ the blue one.”

She grins, “great, I wanted you to choose this only”

I roll my eyes, and go to the bathroom to get dressed.

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It is now half past four now, and viki and I are dressed up waiting for the car to come and pick us up. I feel like I am Cinderella, waiting for her carriage to show up.