Saturday, August 25, 2012

Chapter 10



Regency Ballroom: 
The Fashion Show starts and the final year students start displaying their collection. Maddy starts taking notes on his iPad. ASR gives occasional glances at the stage and rest of the time keeps typing on his blackberry.

The Backstage:
Khushi and KT are both jumping up and down with joy at the success of the show and people's positive response.
Suddenly, they hear a commotion. They get worried and hurry to the green room where they see, Rohit, the last designer to show his work, is holding a gun to the show stopper's head.

Rohit and The Showstopper:





Khushi (Alarmed): What's going on here? And what are you doing, Rohit?
Rohit: I'm gonna kill her. Then I will kill myself... (Puts the gun on his head)
Khushi gasps...
KT (Makes face): Rehne de, rehne de. Woh to lighter hain. Real gun hain to bol...
(Forget it... That is a lighter. If you have real gun, then talk)...
Rohit (crying big tears): My life is ruined... My career is done... Now I'll have to go and sit on my appa's grocery store... (He starts crying loudly)
Khushi: Lekin pehle bol to sahi ke hua kya?
(But first tell me what happened)
Rohit: This is my show stopper. Pata hain isne kya kiya?
(This is my show stopper. Do you know what she did?)
Khushi moves her head side to side with mouth open...
Rohit: Usne 5 pounds weight gain kiya aur woh bhi waist line pe. Ab mera lehenga uspe ugly dikhega. Uske upar apne boyfriend ko khush karne ke liye hair colour blond kar liya... To meri Indian woman collection desi return confused mem dikhega... (He starts sobbing loudly)
(She gained 5 pounds around her waist line. Now my lehenga will look ugly on her. On top of it, she coloured her hair blond to please her boyfriend. Now my Indian woman collection will look like India return confused foreigner)
Khushi tried to find a solution: Achcha thik hain... Agar yeh nehin to kisi aur ko dhoondle naa tera lehenga pehen ne ke liye. Hum bahaar jaake dhoondte hain. Tu yahan dhoond...
(Okay fine. If she is not suitabke, then find someone to wear your lehenga. I will look outside. You look here)...
Khushi turns to leave... KT nods to Khushi looking at Rohit. Rohit's eyes gleam, he grabs Khushi's hand.
Surprised Khushi turns...
Rohit (excited): Arre kisiko dhoondne ki kya zaroorat hain. Who lehenga tujhpe bilkul fit aayega... Tera hair pehle se hi look ke hisaab se perfect hain. Thoda extra make up laga denge to tu bilkul perfect dikhegi...
(Arre, why bother look for someone else? That lehenga is perfect fit for you. Your hair is already perfect for the look. We will put some extra make up and you will be good to go)
Khushi (big eyes): Kya? Kaun? Hum? (What? Who? Me?) Abso-freaking-lutely not... I have never modeled anything before and I don't intent to start now... Out of the question. Find someone else.
Rohit (Starts crying again): Please please please... Dekh next mera collection hain. Agar main nehin gaya naa to mera reputation doob jayega... Phir main suicide karunga aur tu tihar jail mein sukhi roti aur paani jaisa daal khayegi...
(Look... next is my collection. If I don't go, then my reputation will be worth shit. Then I will commit suicide and you will eat dry bread and water like daal in Tihar jail)...
Khushi: Lekin humne kabhi yeh kiya nehin hain yaar...
(But I never did it before.)
Rohit: I know you will be able to do it... Please please please...
He winks at KT and she with the rest of the people in the room start chanting: Please please please...
Khushi: Achcha achcha bas. Fine. I will do it...
Everyone cheers: Yeah and in a flurry start to get Khushi ready as the final showstopper of the night...

Regency Ballroom:
Rohit's collections start to arrive.

Rohit's Collection:




Maddy sits up straight. He really likes the graceful and elegant outfits'
ASR glances up once and again his eyes go back to his blackberry.
Suddenly all lights go off.
ASR looks up: What the'
Colourful lights start flashing on the stage. Music starts to play' and ASR sees a silhouette of a woman standing with her back to the audience.
His attention gets captured with the beautiful hourglass shape. He sits up straight as anticipation starts coursing through his whole body like adrenaline'
The woman turns and all lights go on with the focus on her face.

Khushi's Look:




The crowd gasp to see such a mesmerizing feminine beauty... Maddy and Aman are spellbound.
ASR tenses up as he starts feeling as if his heart, mind, soul and body are on fire... He has dated many beautiful models before... but has never seen such a gorgeous girl in his life. She has an aura of innocence around her that gave her an amazing glow from within...
Khushi starts walking on the ramp with a stunning smile...



As she approaches the front of the stage, her eyes fall on ASR... ASR's piercing gaze was on her.
She freezes instantly. Her eyes widens and her mouth form a silent "O"...
She feels like a doe caught in the eyes of a lion... Her mind screams, move. But her feet feel frozen on the ramp.
ASR's eyes narrow as if he found his prey...
Suddenly, Khushi gets scared and hurries to move. As soon as she turns to go, her lehenga gets tangled in her heels and she stumbles. She feels herself falling in empty air. She squeezes her eyes shut in fear of being hurt...
ASR sees the girl stumble. He hurriedly stands up and the girl falls in his arms.
She fit in his arms as if she was made to be there... As if his arms were made to hold her like this.
He looks down and sees her eyes are still squeezed shut in fear...
Khushi feels a pair of strong arms caught her. She slowly opens one eye while chanting "DeviMaiyya DeviMaiyya DeviMaiyya"... Once her one eye was open and she sees who caught him, her both eyes open in fear and ASR find himself looking down a pair of doe eyes widen in fear and a pair of lips like crushed rosebuds form a perfect "O"... He can't seem to look away...

The crowd go silent for a while when Khushi fell. Then everyone go wild with clapping with cameras flashing everywhere...

PRECAP: THE AFTERMATH



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