PART 15
In the evening, sujal & kashish enter the party.
Sujal is dressed casually and kashish is wearing a knee-length frock style dress. She had tied her curls I a flowy manner & some wild curly strands of hair, come out occasionally..the make up was just right to make her look gorgeous yet naturally beautiful.
Sujal thought of complimenting her, but decided to skip the complementing part.
She gives him an ear to ear grin as they greet each other, and sujal holds her hand as they enter the party.
They look like a couple to all his friends and x-classmates.
He was meeting & greeting his old pals after a long time.
Most of his friends were either married or had come with their fiances.
Sujal couldn't help but admire kashish's behavior with everyone around, she was not at all throwing her weight around like other people from show biz would normally do for the attention. She didn't know anyone in the party, but still she was there with sujal all the time & giving him an invisible support & warmth; that normally a real girl friend or wife would give.
A friend of his approaches him with his pregnant wife.
Frnd-hey, sujal how are you?
s-i am good, how are you?
Kashish also gives the couple a warm smile.
Frnd-we are good.
k-congratulations [she congratulates them with a genuine smile]
s-oh..yeah, congratulations.
[he was never good all these social formalities, thank God she remembered, he thinks to himself]
Frnd-thanks, at last you are hitched..huh
s-emm…yeah…we are good friends..[he keeps his arm around her shoulders]..very good friends.
He wanted to see her reaction, he wanted her to taste her own medicine. He knew she did the friendly act in front of the media, but now it was a private party, there was no media. He wanted to see her behavior, where no cameras would click them.
But she was comfortable with his touch, & her reaction doesn't change for even a second.
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Kashish goes with all the ladies for a nice chit chat and sujal remains with the boys for a drink or two.
All the while he had been observing her. She had no starry airs, she was equally comfortable with the house wives as well as the working ladies. Her charm & joyful nature was making her the apple of everybody's eyes.
She had a talent of mingling with everyone with ease. He had to admit that she looked cute when she made those faces while she spoke.
She would speak to everyone, share her beauty and make up secrets, have a friendly dance with all his friends, laugh at every joke & tell everybody a joke & laugh at it even before completing it.
Her lovable charm would every time end up bringing a small grin on his lips.
He thought media was not there, but she was her friendly best. But then he thinks, she was always friendly. He could somehow feel, she was more herself today; away from the prying eyes of the media. She had lost her fake plastic cover today, he could some where see his old kashish in her somewhere. As if she had become alive again.
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She bids good bye to all her newly made friends of her.
Sujal & kashish are walking towards their car.
It's a silent moon lit night but she looks happy meeting & enjoying with new people.She can't help smiling in herself.
While sujal is walking silently putting his hands inside his pockets.
After a while she feels his strong gaze on her, she looks down & her cheeks turn rosy.
s-you enoyed?
She nods her head in a yes, she knows his eyes on her. She doesn't know why but, she knows she would blush more if she would look into his eyes, so she prefers looking down.
They reach the car, & he drives her to her place, with a soulful music accompanying them along the silent drive.
He stops the car as they reach.
She gets off the car.
k-good night, sujal
s-good night
she walks a few steps towards the gate and then turns & looks at him.
He also looks at her.
She walks to him.
She looks into his eyes, her eyes were searching the same warmth & care in his eyes as he had before.
He was looking into her eyes, trying to understand her, find her.
k- I am sorry [she has in an apologetic whisper]
before he could say anything, she says.
k-can we be friends, [after a pause] again?
Her eyes are oozing genuineness& request for forgiveness.
She looks at her hand as she extends it towards him.
He doesn't know what to d, what to say, he doesn't know what is right & what is wrong. What did she want, who was she. He was dazed.
He just extends his hand & keeps it lightly on hers for just a moment.
s-bye, kashish
she smiles briefly.
She is trying to gauge his emotions, trying to understand what was he thinking.
k-bye bye
he turns and drives off in his car.
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