"If its meant to be, it will be" ❤

Beginning of genderless friendship

It was intriguing to contemplate how we had the ability to turn people who were once everything to us into nothing again. There was a time when we were strangers, and we'd talk for hours, getting to know each other's hopes and dreams, now it feels like a lifetime ago. It was like we shared this astonishing connection and now it's gone, like we were meant to be in each others' lives, but now we were just strangers again. My mind was a battlefield and I was losing the war. Sometimes I wondered if I would ever feel normal again. Everything was falling apart. The only escape I had was my busy schedule and people around me, but here also things went wrong, despite my best efforts to make them right.

Ankit & me were still not got over the fight we had. I wanted him to confront me this time, but him not taking any efforts to do so made me more dispirited. We both pretended to be unconcerned about the situation but deep down we both knew neither one of us was happy with this. But it amused me how it never impacted on our work. The angsty, romance, on screen fights, emotions of characters, everything was there and we both left no stone unturned to serve the purposes. It was so smooth to work with him. Though Priyanka and Ankit had chaos in their minds but Fateh and Tejo' souls had calmness that never reflected those inside storms. It was almost one month, we were hushed, and things were getting more & more difficult for me and to be loosened up in his presence.

We were about to leave for farmhouse where our next shoot was scheduled. I came to the car, saw him already settled in the back seat, eyes closed and headphones on. He was already in his shooting clothes and so me, in a pretty yellow dress with matching long earrings. I sat beside him quietly. I closed my eyes to take a little nap as it was night shift & the shoot might be went for hours, also journey was too draggy. As the road wasn't in good condition, car kept rattling and I bumped into him several times, still he seated there indifferent. I tried my best to maintain distance with him but car got a sudden jerk, made me lean over him completely and to avoid falling out from seat, I grabbed his shirt by collar. He opened his eyes at that moment and looked at me. I quickly let go of his shirt and tried to get away from him when I realized one string of my earring stucked in his shirt. I struggled hard to jerk it off and wasn't able to move away from him. He raised his hand signalling me to stop and moved his long fingers slowly towards my ear. Instead of earring, he went to my earlobe and removed the screw from back, freeing my ear from earring. I sat bolt upright away from him. He carefully freed the stucked string of earring from his shirt and returned it to me with screw. I took it and quickly wore it again. Driver kept cursing to the bad condition of road and as there was dark inside and outside, no one noticed this, I closed my eyes and pretended nothing happened.

We reached on the location where the shoot had been set. It was a romantic long drive scene for Fateh and Tejo. The car got out of order and we came outside so that Fateh could look after it. He removed his shirt, and I stood there with umbrella over our heads. Director called out to let go of umbrella and I did as said. I pretended to be fallen out and he grabbed me by my waist. I held him by his broad muscular biceps. The water droplets were falling from his hair to his face, his neck and towards his muscular chest. We stood in same position for some time so that they could take shots from different angles. It was difficult to gave expressions when water was directly hitting your face. I tried hard to opened my eyes and kept the face straight against the drops, somehow he understood it and leaned down a little covering my face slightly from upper side, so that the water fell over backside of his head. As director sir called out he helped me to get me on my feet and we continued with the next scene.

We went to the nearby banglow and as per the script, we had to sneak into the house through the window where he would be helping me to get down. He effortlessly lifted me by my waist and kept me down where I fell into his arms. Though he had lifted me before, I never thought he was so used to my weight. I kept my cold hands on his warm chest and I could feel his body shivered in reflex. Director asked me to get my face close to him, I did so and our faces were just inch apart. I could feel his hot breaths against my lips. He grabbed me by my shoulder a little tightly. His eyes was on my lips, though it was accordance with script, still I sensed it erratic. I could feel the dominance in his grip and tried hard to concentrate on script. The next scenes went on fluently. There was change in outfit for next scene and we got a break for dinner. Isha & Abhishek joined us, after shooting their scenes in nearby location.