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"Chasni move a little back, little more that's it."
"What the f... hold the model nicely. Don't break it, keep it straight, idiot." Neil shout on radhika. Right now neil is shooting some model of paper plane.
Radhika pout "Why am I standing with it if you are only taking this plane's picture? And in the park, we can be at least in studio." She said with little hope. Thanks to Neil she is standing awkwardly with a paper plane in hand and the entire passerby looking at her as if she is a fool.
"Now stop whining. Ready... 1 ...2...3 go" neil clicked and someone got in the way.
Instead of the picture of the plane a brunet got capture in the film. The girl was astonished by the sudden shoot and gave Neil a question-look. Neil looked at her annoyed. Then she turns behind and got her answer. She smiled apologetically towards Neil and her teary smile melted him. Neil smile in return but a tall guy interrupted them.
"Sam, listen to me... let's talk. Lets sort out everything." The intruder said.
"There is nothing to sort out Arjun. I don't wanna talk to you. Just leave me alone" the brunet shout.
"Sam lets go. What the hell is your problem? First you left your home because of you bad-ass rebellious nature and now you are working in a cheap parlour to cut off my nose in front of my friends. Enough of your stubbornness." Arjun said rudely.
Neil and Radhika were watching the heated conversation, dumbfounded. Paper-plane and camera are long forgotten in their hands.
"You rich snob, go show off your rich ass to someone else." Same screech. Neil put finger on his ears. Arhh he can't digest anymore language in public and Radhika looked around embarrassedly to find families with kids were glaring at them. She wanted to say them that this shouting couple are intruders and she and Neil have nothing to do with them.
"You bi..." Arjun started but got interrupted by Neil.
"Brother it's a park and you are not only spoiling the environment here but see you are delaying my work to by standing right in between my model and camera. Neil said.
Sam looked as if she got back her common sense. She looked at Neil apologetically again and lowered her eyes then ran way followed by Ajun.
Neil let out a sigh of relief "ok Chasni melodrama finished let's get back to work
~00000~
Back in studio.
"Finally I got it." Neil said exhaustedly.
"When are you going to shoot me?" Radhika pout.
"You don't have anything to shoot for." Neil said opening an eye.
"Moron." Radhika sulk.
Gray rolled his eyes "Just kidding. Why do you girl stick with lenses i can't understand" He got up to develop out the photo in the back room of studio.
"you will never understand because you got no brain." Radhika made faces behind his retreating back childishly. Neil turned around and showed her the middle finger and Radhika stuck out her tongue. Neil smile and shook her head and murmur "kid" while opening the back room door.
He entered the room with illuminating red light and shut the door behind and heard a "you are kid." From outside the door and smiled.
He washed all the pictures in the film after developing those and clipped them high to get dried off. His eyes finally caught a photo. It was the photo by accident. Brown hair flying backward, astonished yet tear-filled brown eyes, Innocence in feature but anger in nose. Everything about the picture is beautiful. Neil smiled at the picture and went to the front room to find his Chasni sitting or may be lying on the sofa. He smiled at her and collapsed beside her to take a nap.
He woke up to find Radhika is still asleep and he was drooling like hell.
"gross...!!!!" he exclaimed and started to poke and shake her with his feet.
"um...what?" Radhika said sleeply.
"what? What... you are covering my sofa with you drool."
She sat up embarrassedly and rub off the drool.
"yuck..?" Neil exclaimed in disgust again. "are you sure you are a girl?"
Radhika looked at him as if he is a fool "you you sure you are a boy."
yes i am." He said folding his hand on his chest.
"You don't seem so. No guy wake a beautiful lady with their foot." She said arranging her hair behind her ear.
Neil laughed and imitated her action in a joking way "no guy wake a beautiful lady with their foot." He said in her voice but his smirk soon disappeared. Neil touched it to find a hell of shit thing in his hair. Chewing gum!
"What the f**king hell! Chasni I told you to not to throw chewing gum here and there now look what the hell have you done." Gray started to take the gum from his hair. Failing miserably.
"I am sorry, it won't be happening again. I am sorry. So sorry." Radhika apologized multiple times.
"But what will I do now. I am stuck with this."
"Here let help you." Radhika brought a scissor.
"No Chasni, don't."
"Nothing will happen. I promise."
"No... ." Neil started to bounce off the wall followed by Radhika.
Fifteen minutes later.
"What have you done Rahika?"
"Hey it is not that bad. It kind of look stylish.
"Is it stylish? You have made me a clown. Hell Chasni. I knew I should not have listened to you. I am going to fix this." He took a cap and placed it on his overly stylish hair cut by Radhika.
They reached a saloon and saw something that he didn't expect to see. The girl from previous accidental photograph. Both of them were awe stricken.
That certain photograph was coming in Neil's mind and he blushed. The girl looked at him and also seemed to blush. Radhika didn't know whether it is from the embarrassment from the previous drama or something else and smiled shyly. Many things were running in her head. She is a shipper worshipper.
"umm...i .. i came here for an hair cut and wash." Neil stammered.
The brunet chuckled. "Yeah then let me see the hair."
Neil hesitant... "why hesitating?" Radhika said and pull off his cap to reveal the mess of hair.
"she made such a mess." Neil said and his face resembled a tomato.
Sam smirked at his adorable face. "You know you are adorable."
Neil blushed "Thank you... You are very pretty too." he commented her back. The girl smile cheekily and Radhika was in shipping heaven.
Sam called Neil to sit on a chair. She cut the hair to make it more presentable. Though out the whole haircut season Neil could not keep his eyes of her through mirror. Sam tilted his head downward for her convenience and Neil was tried to see her in that condition as well. He was constantly cursing his long eyelashes as they were becoming hindrance to his eye work. He swore in mind that he will get a neck pain if he continued this. Sam was trying hard not to smile at this adorableness.
After hair cut sam applied some shampoo and massaged with her finger. And again Neil was staring. She got fed up and closed his eyes with her hand forgetting that she had shampoo in hand resulting into burning sense in Neil's eyes. Neil jumped up. ..."shit my eyes."
Sam didn't know what to do "sorry, i am so sorry sir. I will wash it away."
Neil looked at her though he could barely open his eyes. Tear was running down his eyes. He rubbed off his tears with his sleeves frantically.. "it's alright. I am fine. Re..."
He was cut of in the middle.. "what's going on here?" an authorising voice demanded.
Sam and Neil looked at a lady, owner of the parlour.. "i am sorry ma'am, I did a mistake."
"No you always do mistakes. When will you learn Samaira? You are good for nothing. It's your last warning Samaira Khanna. If something like this happen again you will lose your job." The lady berated Sam.
Neil could see Sam's face became so small when she said Sam is good for nothing.
The lady looked at Neil. "i am extremely sorry sir it won't be happening again." The lady assured him and he nodded blankly."Payel take this charge." The lady announced and another girl probably named Payel replaced Sam and washed Neil's hair. Sam left the place with gloomy face and Radhika who was enjoying Neil and Sam's reaction sulked.
~00000~
Sam was about to leave the saloon after work when her eyes fell on something, a cap, the cap which that boy was wearing. She smiled when a flash of strange haircut and red embarrassed face came in her mind. She thought to give it back but how? She don't even know his name. Thinking that she left through the door. after five minutes she came back again and took the cap with her. So what that she doesn't know his name. She is an educated and intelligent person. Finding a boy won't be that hard' she thought.
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