The Freaking Good Feelings
"3... 2... 1... ugh! Arjun! Where's your ATTENTION!" Arjun jumped out of his trance and colored rapidly as a few annoyed heads turned in his direction. Coelho cussed under his breath and threw his hands above his head.
Arjun Rawte, the hero of his play, was I.M.P.O.S.S.I.B.LE.
"You either do it or focus here, I do not take any eye sex! For God's sake you're getting betrayed by Brutus and your face is enlightened and is if you've gained freaking Nirvana!" Coelho bellowed while Arjun choked on his bottle of water, blinking rapidly and clearing throat.
"Sorry sir." Arjun scratched the back of his neck and continued to stare at a Sameer who looked like he would blast any second. "Dare you laugh on me!" Arjun snarled while Sameer raised his hands and asked for a preparation time out.
"When I come back, you're going to cry your lungs out and say et tu Brute? If not..."
"Kill him sir, anyways he needs to die only." Sameer added casually while Arjun thumped Sameer way too hard on his back. Apologising to Coelho once more, Arjun turned around and recounted his lines.
"He was a noble man..." Sameer mimicked Shree who tried to memorise the speech for Anthony and failed repeatedly. "How come he managed to come to class today? If I weren't wrong... yesterday he had nausea, day before typhoid and the day before that flu." Arjun joked as a pale Shree kept on repeating his lines.
"Nothing, Coelho sir ended up beating the shit out of Shree because he was too scared to say the entire monologue!" Liza walked in, however, pausing to cast a shy glance at Shree.
"Li, why are you dating Shree... he's a chashmish!" Sameer shrieked as Liza punched him hard. Looking at Arjun's lost state Shree cleared her throat "Or else do what? Like Coelho sir said... eye sex with S..."
"Shut up! It's nothing to do with Sakshi!" Arjun bit back and frowned into his lines, staring as if the paper would burn into ashes. "I didn't even take Sakshi's name!" Liza and Sameer high fived each other while Arjun felt his ears burning up.
"Sakshi? Did anyone call me?" A soft, squeaky voice took Arjun's attention as a shy twenty year old Sakshi made her way up the stage. A goofy smile hung around his lips as he noticed her messy hair tied severely into a bun and her black t shirt having a little Nike sign.
For the past four years in theatrical school, Arjun had his eyes on this cute little nymph called Sakshi. Her cheeks would often turn into interesting shades of red whenever he caught her in a boisterous act and her voice would always be soft, tantalizing to his ears.
Sakshi, unlike the others, worked in the background. She has her hand in preparing scripts and setting the stage. Her dream was to script a Broadway at New York. White was her favorite colour and she was born on...
"Stop boring the audience with slambook information!" Sameer nudged Arjun not so subtly as Arjun cleared his throat and walked up to a waiting Sakshi. "Yes Arjun, any problem?" She paused to push back her too large spectacles while Arjun melted, once again.
Damn.
She was just as adorable cute little button.
He snapped out of his staring zone as his phone beeped "Tell the poor girl smthin n stop hvin EYE SEX wid her! Yeah bro I luv u 2." "Sam!" Arjun cursed under his breath and looked at a confused Sakshi.
"You want Sameer?" Sakshi gently checked him out from head to toe... Arjun didn't look like someone who would be homosexual, but then it's not bad. Even if she felt slightly broken but it's ok, everyone's allowed their sexual preference.
What little Sakshi didn't know was that she had mouthed everything she thought and Arjun almost yelled "NO! STOREROOM! I NEED STOREROOM." Sakshi stifled a giggle at his flushed face and shrugged her shoulders "So go, oh, am I stopping you?"
Hell no... just keep on stopping me...
"I don't know where it is..." Arjun lied flatly while Sakshi's pretty brows knotted.
"But you've been here for four years..." She threw at him while Arjun rolled his eyes "I forgot! What's with you girls! Always in a snoopy mode... journalism needs you, you know!" Liza opened her mouth in indignation at this insult but before she could say anything Arjun grabbed Sakshi and walked towards the storeroom.
"You said you didn't know where it is..." Sakshi said while Arjun grit his teeth "So SHOW me! I didn't know, I know a little. If you don't want to help..."
Sakshi's eyes went rounder as his pitch went higher "Ok I'll take you but what's there to freak out about?" Arjun felt like banging his head on the wall. In front of him his cute button was nibbling her soft lips with her tiny teeth and...
Shit... he was obsessed, possessed. Like those anti heroes in terrible novels. Was this the route to be a stalker?
Sakshi cleared her throat and gave a weird glance at a lost Arjun and walked in. "By the way do you..aaa!" Sakshi shrieked as she fell right on her face, wailing as her head throbbed with pain.
"Shit! Sakshi am so sorry!" Arjun followed suit and helped her leg off a loose wire. "Why are these storerooms so khatarnaak! I swear you'll find a dead body someday." Sakshi grunted while Arjun shook his head. He gently took his kerchief out and wiped the little blood trickling down her nose.
"Sakshi, please fight with the storeroom facility for the rest of your life... for now you are bleeding from your nose." Arjun said as Sakshi stiffened, stared at his face and yelled even louder on seeing her own blood drop on the floor.
"OH MY GOD... ARJJJUUUNNN..." Sakshi shrieked while Arjun held her and laid her on a table. Sakshi felt heat shoot up and her hands stilled as Arjun grabbed her head, gently, and bent it below the table level.
"There's just one way to shut you up... I swear..." Arjun whispered while Sakshi forgot about her bleeding.
Oh let it bleed for eternity while I nestle in his arms, his face frighteningly close to mine.
Sakshi closed her eyes as he cupped her face more firmly.
This was it, her first kiss.
In a storeroom, with a nosebleed.
Perfect.
Her eyes shot open as she felt cold wetness across her nostrils. "Hein?" She muttered, her face scrunched in disappointment while Arjun looked back at her with equal confusion. "What? Now stay still and keep your head low, you should stop bleeding soon."
He was putting a wet tissue on her nose while Sakshi just blinked, what the hell! Wait, did she really want that kiss.
What the hell?
"Waise Sakshi," Arjun paused to take out and dust an old toga from the clothes box "why did you close your eyes?" Sakshi gulped and remained deathly silent while Arjun packed the necessary articles in a bag. Taking a quick few steps, he smiled as her bleeding stopped and helped her up.
Just as Sakshi was about to leave, Arjun placed a hand across the exit and looked into her flustered eyes "I don't like to have my questions unanswered. So why did you close your eyes?" Arjun took a step closer and smiled with satisfaction as a deep pink marred her cheeks.
"Or, what did you think I was going to do..." Arjun asked as Sakshi blushed crimson, fumbling with her now broken spectacles. "Can you fix this for me?" Sakshi asked ever so softly that Arjun left the door and looked at her poor, broken glasses.
"Su.." His answer hanged in the air as Sakshi used that opportunity to duck out and run away, not before stopping to look at him. Her face bright with excitement.
"Practice resumes within five minutes. Go back before Coelho sir blames you of visual intercourse... no wonder my glasses are broken." A shocked Arjun looked on as Sakshi winked and ran away.
Arjun grinned and held the spectacles, stopping to dance a little jig.
~ fin ~
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