Varun's POV:
Sitting down in my vanity van, reading her note while munching on the lunch she packed I continuously smiled to myself. If anyone saw me, they would think I'm crazy. I wonder what Shraddha and Kiara were doing, because she hasn't returned to my van.

"What are you thinking about Varun? American chicks?" Shraddha asks flopping down on the small bed that is in my van.

"You do know you will always be the answer when somebody asks me what I'm thinking about." I say staring at her through the mirror. "And please American chicks? We all know it's only you I will forever want so American chicks are out of the equation." I chuckle finishing the remainder of the lunch.

"How's the food?" She asks.

"Absolutely terrible." I tease and she rolls her eyes.

"Just tell me Varun!" She whines and I laugh.

"I like it, it's really good." I say closing her container and handing it to her. I got up and went to the bathroom to wash my hands. "Why'd you come here?" I asked.

"You didn't want me to?" She questions.

"No it's not like that. Obviously, I would love it if you came sometimes but I didn't expect you to be here to join me for lunch." I say.

"Well, I didn't plan to come here. But you forgot your phone and after that note you left I figured to bring you some lunch." She says standing up.

"Or you just didn't want to me to suffer from indigestion due to some random American chick's terrible cooking?" I asked while smirking.

"Oh shut up, just say you love pulling me leg." She rolls her eyes while I laugh.

"I told you, it makes my day!" I smile and she rolls her eyes.

"Anyway, I'm gonna go." She says grabbing her bag and the container she brought for me.

"Why? So soon?" I asked glancing at the clock.

"Well, I've been here for 3 hours waiting for you to come back and eat the lunch I lovingly made for you." She says and I nod.

"But you haven't spent time with me." I pout and she laughs.

"Aw is someone feeling sad because of that?" She smiles.

"Yes, very sad." I pout.

"Too bad. Suck it up!" She pats my cheek before she leaves. Rolling my eyes, I hesitate to let her leave but I do because she wants to take things slow. I don't want her to feel she should spend her entire time with me which is another reason why I don't call her back.

It isn't until past 10 when shoot concludes for us. I change off into my normal clothes before grabbing my essentials that is needed before leaving my vanity van. Getting into my car, I plug my phone in the charger since the battery died. Once my phone turns on, there are several missed call notifications from Shraddha.

Quickly unlocking my phone, I press on her contact and bring the phone by my ear.

"Why haven't you been answering my calls?" She huffs the second she picks up my call.

"I was busy with shoot and my phone battery died. I'm sorry!" I say.

"Visiting hours are over." She says and I immediately remembered promising her to visit the person who I supposedly put in the hospital.

"I'm so so sorry I didn't make it." I apologize.

"It's alright, I kind of figured you weren't going to make it back in time considering the time you ate lunch today." She says.

"I'm sorry, but did you get to visit?" I asked.

"Yeah, I went as I left your shoot. He underwent an operation today, so he's resting." She says. "I don't think he's gonna continue with the charges." She adds.

"I hope you didn't plead before him." I say seriously.

"No I didn't, well I tried but I gave up because he wasn't having it. But Alizeh was telling me that he isn't gonna go through with it." She says.

"Oh. I promise one day when I get out early from shoot, I'll come with you to visit." I say.

"Promise?" She yawns making me chuckle.

"I promise. You should go to sleep." I say.

"I'm waiting for you of course, what if you being an idiot forget to switch the light on and bump into everything denting my nice and expensive appliances?" She laughs.

"I am not that much of an idiot." I scoff in a playful tone.

"Oh you are too!" She teases making me roll my eyes. "How far are you away from here?" She questions.

"Approximately 5 minutes." I say recognizing the streets.

"I'll be waiting." She says and cuts the call. Smiling, I unplug my phone from the charger and get out the car after noticing I had told Shraddha the wrong estimate of my arrival.

Thanking my driver, I shut the door before buzzing her apartment to let me in. I push through the lobby doors before entering the elevators. Pressing her floor number, the elevator doors shut as it took me up to the correct floor. Stepping out the elevator, I noticed her standing in the door way holding the door open for me as I walk down the long hallway.

"That was quick!" She smiles letting me in.

"Well I didn't realize that I was 2 minutes away instead of 5." I shrug taking off my shoes.

"Oh I made a quick stop to your hotel if that's okay." She says locking the door.

"It's okay but why did you go there?"

"Well I brought you some clothes, plus your manager made me get them for you because apparently some of the media reporters came to your hotel." She explains heading towards the kitchen.

"Now I got you." I say nodding following behind her.

"I made chicken biryani. Not too sure if you'll eat it." She says grabbing a plate as I wash my hands in the sink.

"Of course, I'm starving!" I say drying my hands using the kitchen towel.

"Here you go." She smiles handing me a plate of biryani.

"Thanks! Where's your plate?" I asked sitting by the table.

"Oh I already ate." She lies avoiding my eyes. To confirm her lie, I hear her stomach grumbling which makes me laugh.

"Of course you lied!" I laugh making her roll her eyes. "Come on, you're going to eat with me." I fix a plate for her making her sit at the table with me. 

"But I'm not hungry." She whines.

"Keep making me believe otherwise but the sound I heard just now says something else." I laugh and she rolls her eyes with a smile on her lips. She eats a morsel of biryani before screwing her face. I mentally laugh before asking what happened.

"What happened?"

"It doesn't taste good." She says before grabbing a napkin and spitting it out. Curious to taste it, I take a morsel before chewing. She was right but I didn't want her to feel bad.

"What are you saying? It tastes so good." I lie hoping she doesn't see through my white lie. Forcing myself to down every morsel of biryani, I finally finished what was on my plate.

"Maybe my tastebuds are off." She says noticing my empty plates.

"Maybe, but it was truly delicious." I lie once more making her smile.

"Would you like seconds?"

"No!" I say too quickly making her look at me. "I mean, I'm a bit stuffed." I lie and she nods before cleaning up. I grab my stuff and head in to the bathroom to freshen up. 

Rubbing my wet hair on the towel, I step out in shorts and a plain white shirt.

"Shraddha?" I call for her but there's no response. I head towards her bedroom noticing the door was slightly closed. Knocking, I push open the doors to see she was fast asleep with the lamp on. As much as I wanted to fall asleep beside her, my body is kind of sore from the way I slept last night. Closing her door quietly, I make my way towards the living room. Seeing the neatly folded blanket and pillow, I quickly laid down and covered myself with the blanket. I was then over taken by a deep slumber.

Shraddha's POV:
Feeling the bright warm sunshine rays seeping through my room, my eyes slowly peek open. Immediately flashed by the sharp bright rays, I cover my eyes with my hand before sitting up and rubbing my eyes. Looking over at my side, I thought Varun would be there but he wasn't. Knowing that he wasn't by my side throughout the night, made me feel so empty without him despite him being asleep in the living room.

Stepping out of my bed, I wore my slippers and headed out of my bedroom. Heading towards the living room, I see the blanket was neatly folded with the pillow placed on top.

I was then greeted by the wonderful smell of coffee and something cooking in the kitchen. Hearing utensils being dropped on the ground made me immediately laugh. Rushing over to the kitchen with a smile, I see Varun cooking or attempting to cook breakfast. His face was covered in flour, while his hands were working on scrambled eggs.

"Well good morning roommate!" He smiles without even looking towards my direction.

"Good morning to you!" I say heading over to grab a cup to pour my coffee. "You're up bright and early." I add before hearing him chuckle.

"Well I wanted you to taste my cooking for once." He says turning off the stove as I pour coffee creamer into my cup.

"So what did the chef make this wonderful morning?" I asked leaning on the counter sipping the coffee.

"Well I attempted in making waffles which I failed at," He pauses pointing towards the burnt waffles sitting on the countertop making me laugh. "So I decided to leave it to the expert while I am an expert in making scrambled eggs." He smiles grabbing 2 plates for the eggs.

"You do know we have frozen made waffles in the freezer right?" I asked arching an eyebrow.

"I definitely did not."

"All you could do is heat them up." I say showing him the frozen made waffles in the freezer. "Now you know we have them." I laugh.

"Well excuse me for wanting to have a healthy body than eating frozen junk." He scoffs making me laugh.

"Sometimes Alizeh and I don't have time for breakfast!" I shrug laughing.

"Sure!" He retorts making me laugh.

"Besides I'm in the mood for toast!" I say grabbing the loaf of bread we have before putting it in the toaster.

"Put in 2 slices for me!" He says as he sets the table.

"Here's your coffee." I hand his cup to him which he smiles before thanking me. The slices of bread pops out from the toaster which makes me grab a plate to set them down.

"Would you like avocado on your toast?" I asked him spreading avocado on my slices of toast.

"I never heard of anything like that!" He exclaims from the other room.

"You'll like it." I say bringing it to the table. He hesitates seeing how my toast came out. Giggling, I hand him a piece of my toast.

"Try it, if you like it take it!" I say and he bites it from my hand. He then takes it from my hand and adds it to his plate making me laugh.

"Where did you learn about this?" He asks eating his breakfast.

"Alizeh taught me about it. Now I can't see myself eating toast any other way." I laugh as he nods.

"Before I forget, I may be leaving shoot early. When I do, we can go visit your friend!" He says wiping his mouth on the napkin.

"You don't have to if you don't want to." I say knowing he's doing it for me.

"No I want to. I was the one who put him in that condition." He say avoiding my eyes continuing to eat his breakfast.

"You sure?" I asked as he nods. "It's getting late, you should get ready for your shoot." I say grabbing our dirty plates and heading towards the kitchen.

"I'm going to head into the shower." He says as I clear up our breakfast mess. I'm cleaning up the mess Varun made in the kitchen that is till he calls for me.

"Shraddha, can you bring me my towel?" He shouts from the bathroom. Looking on the sofa, I see his towel lying there with the rest of his clothes. This guy I tell you, always forget his stuff. Grabbing his towel and his clothes, I knock on the bathroom door. Slightly opening it, he reaches out for it and takes it from my hand. He then gets ready and promises me he would meet me at the hospital by 6:30 in the evening. He then leaves and I'm then surrounded with loneliness.

I never felt so lonely after leaving Varun, because I've had my friends by my side. Maybe since Varun came back into my life, I'm slowly sinking back in to that space I was at when I was with him. But one thing is for sure, I can't deny the way he makes me smile randomly. I can't deny that I'm happy seeing how hard he's trying to gain back my trust and respect for him. I can't deny all the butterflies I feel around him. I can't deny the warmth that courses through my veins whenever there is some sort of physical contact between us.

Days passed by where Varun and I have grown much closer. Our bond was different but different in a good way. It's like where I can see myself trust him again, and the respect I had for him is back. Within these few days that had passed, Varun's life was now at ease considering Ayan finally withdrew his complaint. Leaving Varun to collect his passport from the officers, and having this taint removed from his record. He was packing his bags getting ready to move back to his hotel suite leaving me to be roommates with Alizeh.

I head into my room seeing him folding the clothes I brought up from the laundry room. He was silent, only focusing on packing his things in his bag.

"You won't have to sleep in my small apartment anymore." I walk over to help him pack his things.

"I get great sleep in that hall." He says chuckling as I smile.

"Varun will you go out with me tonight?" I asked.

"Alone?"

"I mean everyone will be there, but let's go out together." I say.

"Yeah of course." He hesitates. We continue packing his bag for the rest of the afternoon, before getting ready to party the night away. We all decided to meet at the club we went to before. This time Varun along with his friends also joined us. We all took tequila shots, and partied the night away on the dancefloor.

However, Varun and I managed to escape our friends and head somewhere secluded where we would be able to have fun together and alone. We were currently sitting somewhere laughing our asses off.

"You know, I always wanted to know since when did you start to drink? When we were back home, you always scrunch up your nose in disgust just at the smell. Why the sudden change?" He asks me taking a sip of the beer bottle he had in his hand.

"I don't know honestly. I just know I started taking it when I first went out with Alizeh. It was the day I thought I stopped caring if you were coming for me or not. Alizeh saw how upset I was so we got dressed and headed to the club with Ayan. Something just told me to take the shot, to feel the liquid burn my throat as I gulped shot after shot. At first I was tipsy but as I continued it's like I felt so free and happy." I say sipping my beer he chuckles.

"This Alizeh's rubbing off on you." He says making me laugh.

"Why say that?" I asked.

"Well, I just never seen you like this. It's like you're doing what you want and you're at your happiest while doing what you always wanted to do." He says and I nod.

"You know, when I first came here it was probably like a few days and I decided to call home and speak to Papa. I wanted to tell him that I'm sorry and I'm doing something that would make him proud, but he didn't talk to me. So I gave it up, and began to complete Di's dream." I said looking down.

"What was it that you gave up?" He asks lifting my chin to meet his eyes.

"The night I was getting married, while Tara was decking me up I received a notification from this job I applied long time back. At first I didn't think I would get it which is why I didn't tell anyone, but I got the email saying they wanted to meet with me. When I came here, despite being heartbroken over you I still came here for the job purposes. They wanted me to be a teacher's assistant to NYU'S dancing program. They would train me in classes and I would be a professional dancer and if necessary I could be promoted to teaching their dance classes. Despite not being a professional, they still liked my work and wanted me. So I gave it up and decided to do something for Di." I said pushing back my tears except realizing that Varun brushed a tear drop away with his thumb.

"You are so strong you know. Many people I know would still go through with that opportunity, but you wanted to share your success with people that cared. I'm so sorry Shrads." He says kissing my forehead.

"No it's okay. I was sad at first but it's like one door closes and another one opens." I say smiling sipping on the beer. We continued to talk and laugh our asses off till late in the wee hours of the morning. Varun somehow manages to walk us both back to the apartment and quietly gets me in my room. However I knocked things over in my way, laughing before being shushed by Varun.

He helps me get into the bed before tucking me under the covers. He reaches over to take off the light but I grab his hand and pull him down next to me. I keep his hand in mine as we both stare into each other's eyes, probably wishing for something to change between us. My eyes felt heavy so I pulled his hand by my cheeks and laid on his as he stroked my hair strands. Placing my lips on his hand, I fell into a deep slumber with Varun by my side.

Varun's POV:
Seeing her eyes shut, I lean over and place a kiss on her forehead. These past few days, Shraddha and I have gotten closer. It felt as if there were no more distances between us. We'd joke around, leave notes for one another, sometimes she would meet me at my shoot and sometimes I'd purposely skip shoot for her but she would end up forcing me to go which I reluctantly go.

The way I felt around her made me never want to leave her again. I never knew how possible it was to be in love with someone and consistently love them even more. That is until I met her, she laid before me under the covers sleeping on my hand. She looked adorable, and I never wanted her more.

I slowly felt my eyes get heavy as I stared at sleeping Shraddha. Slowly I too fell asleep until, remembering that I was leaving later on in the day before Shraddha would be up. I set my alarm for 7 in the morning before falling back asleep by her side.

As my alarm shrieked throughout the room, I reluctantly opened my eyes making sure not to wake Shraddha. She still laid in the same position sleeping on my hand, I didn't want her to let go but I tried to free it from her grip and replace it with a pillow. Grabbing my things, I quietly left the room not before glancing one last look at Shraddha. I noticed Alizeh was in the living room drinking coffee.

"You're leaving her?" She asks not looking at me.

"No, I'm leaving to go back to my hotel." I say.

"You make her happy Varun. I hope you know that." She says and I nod before leaving.
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Hey you guys, I know a chapter that was delayed throughout the whole month. But I had a little writers block for this book which is why I then focused on a new chapter for my oneshot.

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