He had never focused his energy into anything in life. In other words he wasn’t serious about his life. Rjing happened instantly. He happened to audition for show that was hunting young and vibrant people like him for the role of RJ. Lady luck smiled at him and he landed the job before he could finish his college. He never had to work hard for anything. He got it instantly- girls, money and everything he desired.
Now he had to work hard for the girl he loves . This was the first time he found so difficult to impress. He had to literally run behind her to get her notice him. She was always in her own world. She had no time to look at him. He hoped she would look at him one day. Fortunately her birthday was coming. He had planned to make it big. He had practiced a routine with the help of Ali. He had bought a huge card and box of chocolates for her. He had learnt from Ali that chocolates was her weakness.
She was in mess. Everything had turned upside down. Life didn’t seem fine as it should be. Her love wasn’t there with her. Her passion was tearing her up. Her personal relationship was getting worse. Nothing was going on right path. A week was left and she had no partner for the dance competition. She had everything ready except for partner. She badly missed Randy’s presence. If he was there, then nothing would have gone wrong. She wanted to leave everything and go.
It was the usual Saturday afternoon. It could have been special one as it was her birthday. For the first time in twenty five years of her life, she didn't feel like to celebrate her birthday. How would she have good time when life was miserable and Randy was not around? Anyway, she was taking auditions of her students. They were good but didn’t fit in her expectation of the partner.
She was busy auditioning people. Suddenly Ali called her to talk to her on urgent issue. She sent her students for break and walked slowly to the room where Ali summoned her. The room was quite big and dark. She tried to switch on the light. But it didn't work. After few attempt, she left it as it was. She called Ali’s name. He didn’t reply and all of sudden a spotlight appeared on a person standing at the center. She walked closer to see better. When she could see who it was, she was surprised as well as annoyed to see Mohit. What was he doing here? He could have called her instead of using Ali as the bait. How could Ali accept to be used as a bait to call her? She was about to leave. Music started and she turned to see him dance.
It was song from Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl -Aadat Se Majboor. “ Ah! Typical chauvinist song!”, she thought. She wanted to leave but his moves were quite good that it made her stay a bit longer. His steps were mostly bollywood freestyle. There was a miss of one or two beats. But he danced well which was above his standard. His extensions were not too large but it was according to the beats. He ended the dance with perfect poise. Before he could compose himself and say anything, she passed her judgement like any judge of a dance show, “ You were perfect! Your dancing was raw. But we can work on that. You are selected as my partner for my competition.” He was awestruck by her response. His mouth was wide open.
(To be continued)
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