Part 16 - Signs of the Star
Here is the new part. Hope you like it)
Last time we left Ram with Shania's top. Yes, with the top, because he could not resist and kept it for himself.
Ram didn't go to another bar that day because he was already drunk on that voice and the mole on his back.
He collapsed on the couch in his living room, and without even turning on the light, he immersed himself in thoughts about what had happened and an argument with himself.
Ram, what happened to you today? You stole the top of an unfamiliar girl.
- Kapoor, did you hear her voice? Have you seen this beautiful back and obviously lively character?
- Well, let's say, where is the connection with her top?
- I do not know, but I could not restrain myself, understand!
- I'll understand, but she?
- She will not know.
"Are you sure?" Ram said sarcastically to his own shadow.
âAfter that, Iâm not sure of anything.
- Did she break your shell?
You know everything about me...
- You're an idiot?
"Yes," Ram laughed uncontrollably.
- She really makes me a fool, but I'm glad.
- I see, unexpectedly, right?
- Turn off your sarcasm, Kapoor.
- Maybe he's yours?
- Oh, okay, shut up.
- Good boy.
- Stupid boy.
- Fully.
Ram stopped communicating with himself and took her top out of his pocket, he held it in his hands and smelled her perfume, something peppery, chocolate and vanilla.
God, it still smells like sin!
And not only her, Ram remembered how, many years ago, at the wedding of Prem and Priyanka, he caught a piece of fabric from the outfit of a certain stranger. It smelled exactly like this top.
- Do they use the same perfume? - a dumb question flashed through Ram's head.
But they did not use, they were one woman, Priya loved this smell from her youth and could not refuse it, being Shania.
A different presentation of herself allowed her to mislead when necessary, she did not use perfume or hid it behind other means.
But Ram was not everyone, he paid attention to the little things.
So today, a few years later, after meeting with Master Ram, he went to bed excited, he approached the solution every day, but could not come closer. Therefore, I got out of bed and opened the closet, pulled out a small internal compartment and took 2 things in my hands - a piece of a red outfit and a top. By some miracle, he managed to keep them practically intact. He turned to their mistresses: âStrangers, if you havenât met me again, help me find your âfriendâ. At these words, Ram brought both things closer to himself a little and it dawned on him: âThe one whom I kissed smelled exactly like these two!â
âRam, you are amazingly stupid!â he turned to himself again in a teasing tone.
- Yes, I know! Tell me what to do
- First, go to the biggest perfumery in Mumbai.
- Do I smell bad?
Ram, are you an idiot?
- Alas, Kapoor, you are right, - Ram hit himself on the forehead.
- Do you think it's the same girl?
- Something tells me yes. My Stranger.
"Mine, find her first!"
Yes, you are right Kapoor.
At this point, Ram finally drifted off to sleep with the clear decision to search through all possible perfumes and then think about the rest of the signs that he had received on his own and with the help of friends.
What about the Stranger, as usual, she was immersed in worries so much that she fell asleep immediately as soon as her head touched the pillow. But in the middle of the night, she had a dream: first of herself in her youth, how a piece of fabric falls off from her wedding dress and falls to no one knows where, then she finds herself in the future, the day after the first concert, surprised that her top disappeared in the Agarvals' house and finally, she is again in the arms of the Ocean, he kisses her.
Priya wakes up in a sweat and asks herself: Was that a hint? Or I'm going crazy because of this man.
