New Life (9)

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Ila POV:

Two weeks later

"And then the camera comes close to her with only her in the frame. Her expression should become a complete shock or astonishment as if she is not at all aware of what he just said..."
I explained the scene using my hands to support me and with my expressions imitating the character.
"Yes. And when the camera shifts to him, he still keeps talking and yelling without even concerned to look at her." This was from Sam.
"And then she starts crying..." Sam added.

"No. Not crying. Not necessary here. Don't make this more of a drama guys.." Franklin commented.
"I was just assuming what would Ila do in such a situation." Sam smirked and rolled her eyes.
"That's mean..! I don't cry so often," I uttered and pouted.
"Ya ya,you do it a little less often" This was from Ben and he chuckled.
Robert laughed out loud while the others joined him.
I was silent and started looking into the script as if I didn't hear anything of what they were talking.
"Enough of fun guys. Back to work." Robert said and we have started to discuss the climax part.

We have to a make a short film for the talent event to be held next month. All of us were made into a team each one with each different talent.
I am doing the script work. Sam is gonno do with her camera. She just loves that task of shooting. She is always with an entire set of latest video cameras and now that is just what we need to make our work a lot better.

Ben is doing the editing task. He thinks he can just excel in avoiding all the unnecessary ideas of me; that's what he claims but still he definitely does a perfect job in that. He is also doing the production work and that means he is rich. Well as a matter of fact he is very interested in investing his money to make movies, that's more of a business strategy to earn back the price money by making a real great stuff.

Robert is the musician for us. He is also an expert in his job. He is a trained guitarist and also owns a private band of his friends. They do the background score together.
And that's how our team is formed.

I had been working these two weeks on the script. And today it's completely ready. I've made it entirely simple and yet interesting with only two characters in it. Today I've planned to discuss the script with the others. Sam is also helping me in this; and that's what we have been doing since one hour in cafeteria.

"And that's how they sort it towards the end." I've thought of a simple story that just revolves around two people. The basic tagline is
'how two people who are madly in love with each other face consequences due to their over possessive nature and giving less space to each other'
"Perfect" stated Franklin breaking the silence that was getting me tensed since 5 min after I ended it.

I sighed in relief and the rest of them joined Franklin in appreciating me.

Talking of him, he has really become a good friend after that night, well avoiding that awkward moment where I was made to literally run away from him suddenly. But he didn't even bother to ask me about that and that made me more comfortable being around him. We were made into a team after that. Robert and Ben are his long time friends; with me and Sam joining them I think we make a perfect combo of varied talents.

Yes, not to forget Franklin's part, he is the lead role of my script. He is playing the lead and we are still in search of the female lead. He is just more than an expert in that. He has got an amazing screen presence and he is extremely photogenic. That doesn't mean he is not handsome otherwise; he is a great looking person in either of the ways. He carries of any character with ease and as far as my character is concerned he is just perfect for that. Not to forget my crush on him

I was really busy these two weeks and had been working hard on my script. These are all the things that kept me away from thinking about Mart all these days.
All right if I just avoid the ongoing plot behind my brain as to how would I behave if I would come across him and all.

But even he was busy. He started working. I don't know what on earth made him decide that all of a sudden but he is really working hard even if Alex is not with him. I didn't even met Alex all these days. He had also been quite busy with Allyson and I am happy for them. But he had finally made up to the decision to go on with his long time dream to study MBA. He was busy studying for the entrance of it and I am glad that he finally gave a thought about that. Not to forget that now he has got his girlfriend to think about him..

But even in his absence Mart has been working. I hardly went home these days as I end up staying in Sam's place working together overnight. But those few times when I was home I was told he that he was out of the city for work. I wonder how come he became so concerned about it all of a sudden.

Well, this clearly implies that I've done quite an investigation about not finding him around. But that just happens subconsciously. It's not that I missed him or some thing but somehow after all that I heard about him I feel like I know this person a lot better now though we don't spend much time together.
In fact we haven't spend any of good time together. But still I feel I could personally connect with him somehow and I find myself concerned about him. He always keeps popping into my brain no matter how much ever I try against it.

"So, we have finally done with the script work guys and god job Ila" Franklin spoke breaking me from my thoughts.
"Thank you"
"And we should search for the right girl for this role within the following week and then we have to start the 20 days shoot" Ben stated.
"That's right. We have to be prepared before the event." Sam spoke and it went on for another half an hour in planning everything. All of us are really excited about this event.

Then it was late and we have decided to go home.

I am actually going home after two days. These two days have been really tough and long. I feel exhausted and tired. Right now I can only think of resting a while. And also may be if I go home early today I might come across Mart. I absolutely have no clue why I am I desperate to meet him but yes, I am. I have to admit that I have missed him around me.

I was walking with Sam after we said our farewells to the boys.

"Last night was hectic.right.We had been working almost whole night" Sam said.
"Yeah.It was. But thank god every one liked it. I was really worried"
"I know." She sighed. "Hey let's go party tonight.!" She exclaimed.
"What?"
"Yes let's celebrate Ila. Let's have some fun." She was exited.
I gave her one of my 'I am-not-in-mood' kind of looks.
"Common Ila.Don't tell me that you haven't gone partying at nights back in India, or you are not interested and all. I am not gonno listen to you this time. Not at all"
"Ok." I wanted to avoid arguing with her. I've decided that I would leave early from there making some lame excuse.
"Great let's go."

I made myself comfortable at a corner and ordered a soft drink for my self while Sam was on the dance floor. I have decided to come and have fun but somehow I felt myself lost in my own thoughts. Music was very loud and it irritated me today. I was in no mood to have fun or dance around.

I took a sip from my drink when my eyes caught something and I kept staring at that.

"Hey" Sam tapped my shoulder, sitting beside me.
"What's that you are staring" she added.
"Who is staring?" I uttered still staring behind her shoulder.
She looked at me, "who's that?" she looked behind where I was staring and then turned to face me.
"That's Martin," I said taking yet another sip of my drink.
"You mean the Martin Stevenson..!!" she exclaimed.

"And who's the girl with him?" she asked immediately.

"What do I know? Ask him if you wanna know."
I took the glass of my drink and completed it within no time.
"Could you get this one more for me?" I asked Sam showing her my empty glass. She took it in her hands
"You are drinking! I guess you said you don't"
"What do I know? Ask them who gave me this. Now that I had it already get me one more. Now.."
"You seem to get drunk already..."

Mart POV:

I was driving back home from work and I was really desperate to be back home! This never happened to me. All the time I had been searching reasons to be away from home. But now I am really missing Ila. I haven't seen her since two weeks but then I have to wait till night to see her; as my stupid P.A had arranged an important meeting with a sponsor of our new show in a pub just because he wanted to. Now, in my own business, who is gonno decide where will the meeting be held? Of course it should be me, but if the other person is someone who is gonna invest money for you; you have no other option except to obey them.
It sucks! I know...

So here I am in this pub where I had been before several times and in each corner of this place I could just view my self with a different girl. It makes me feel bad and sick about myself. It's been very difficult to avoid all those familiar faces throughout our discussion and now I am struck with this girl just when I was about to leave.
She is Angela; my last secretary who got fired and now she's back in her action to seduce me and get back her job. If I were old Mart, I would have been rude to her or may be use her but now that would be the least possible thing I would do.
I was actually in my plans to respect women. So here I am trying to be nice and get rid of her. But actually nothing worked.

"Hey let's go out from here Mart. Let's go to my place. It's nearby.-" She kept her hands round my neck, while I removed them and held in my hands.
"Angela, No. Not now, I've gotto go-"
"Not so soon Mart, It's been long time that we didn't hang around.-"She placed her hand on my shoulder.

Mart, Mart, Mart. I am just getting irritated hearing that from her. I don't like being called by my nickname by everyone. It's only for special people around me. And here I am bearing with her and trying to be nice.
Then I saw a hand tapping her shoulder. She turned around to face who ever it is and so did I.

To my surprise it was Ila.!!

What is she doing here??

"Eyy nangee haath nikal " (Author: It's Ila's mother tongue-Hindi)

"What?" Angela exclaimed and that's exactly my reaction too. What was that she spoke? Oh may be her language. And she is drunk!!??

"Oh you don't get it right. Ok let me tell you in the language that you understand- Take your hands off him and stay away from him, now do u get it?"

She was really too much drunk. Her voice and eyes have become drowsy and I could see she was struggling against her eyelids to keep them wide open.

Angela was in a shock and so am I. In fact I was struck by a thunder listening to her. She actually felt jealous seeing me with a girl?? That's what I infer from her weird reaction.
But that's a positive sign.Isn't it?

"You don't understand what I said. I said take your hands off him you bitch..!"
she yelled and the crowd started paying attention to us. But I was too shocked to react discovering this new side of her. I actually couldn't make out whether to be glad about her concern for me or be annoyed for her behavior now.??What??

"Excuse Me-" was all Angela could say.

"You EXCUSE US" with that she pushed Angela away and caught hold of my hand.

"Mart. What's happening? Why don't you say something?" Angela urged me to defend her.

"Its Martin. Martin Stevenson. Don't you dare call him Mart again. He doesn't like it" She leaned against my shoulder. I found myself grin at that.

"Mart let's go from here-"she pouted and looked at me. She was god damn cute and she called me Mart! How could she be so confident that I would love to hear that from her? And yes she's right!! I am just loving it.

"How dare you? Are you one of those poor girls who claim to love Martin? I pity you darling but he likes me not someone like you. I mean look at you.
Guys can you find a better looser than her?"

Angela tried to insult her sarcastically. Now this is making me mad. I was losing my patience and I swear I would hit her but before I could decide on that, to my surprise Ila gave her back.

"Ohh...I've seen you before. Are you not the girl who got fired for seducing your boss? Right that's you. You look better in your awful half-top dear. You think you are sexy with that oodles of wait and wearing a complete see through. You just look like a desperate slut"

Just then Angela gave a tight slap against Ila. She became more dozy and her head fell on my shoulder.

"Don't you dare do that again?" I yelled at her.
I was getting on my nerves and couldn't control it any longer. I gave her a hard hit against her face and she fell on ground.
I was least concerned about it now. She deserves this for doing such a horrible thing to Ila. She thinks she can hit my girl and walk away just like that?

my girl
It just sounds great that way and after discovering this side of her, I was feeling good about my self.

She is just an amazing person but tough to understand. Whatever is in her brain, I am not aware of that but it is actually making me smile just thinking of all that she had done. The sudden turn of events surely confused me but at end of it I am with Ila right now. This feels great.
Woah.! She is right in my hands and I am holding her close to me. It feels like the entire world is at my feet....