11 ~ Euneirophrenia

" I am not a party person,
But to see you singing , from a
corner makes me fond of attending
parties. "

Jia's POV

" Because I wanted him to know how it feels when the person you trust the most, hurts you." Those words were still continuously echoing inside my brain.

These words gave me chills for some strange cause. I never want anything to inflict any type of pain on Ishaan.

All these thoughts led me to the scenes of the cafe.

How close Ishaan and Zara were? Were they in a relationship ?

I rebuked myself for thinking about my boss's private life. I tried to take a nap, but I couldn't help but think about him only. I felt so befuddled with my own emotions. Tossing and turning, soon sleep lulled my eyes into the land of dreams.

I had a long warm shower and eased all my frustrations as soon as I woke up. It was already 5:30 pm so I dressed myself in a knee length full sleeved floral dress, matching it with round earrings, with neutral makeup. My hairs were left open.

Ishaan, Rohit and Zara had already left for the Loveshore cafe . Ronnie, Mishka and me went to the spot on a car while our parents followed us in their private cars.

We all reached the cafe at 5:55 pm , there was only 5 minutes for the programme to start. Zara and Ishaan had already taken their positions with their instruments on their hands.

I saw Kshiraj, my cousin coming towards us, passing by the vast stretched crowd. He hugged me and stood beside me. He was stealing glances at Zara each time. I raised my eyebrows at him and he blushed faintly.

Wait , what ?

He blushed. It was so funny. The crowd was increasing each passing second. But, I left no chance to teased him.

The lights suddenly went off, the spotlight was directed towards Ishaan and Zara. They both looked at each other with so much tenderness and then Ishaan started singing and Zara followed him with her violin.

It was a beautiful song of friendship ... They were so much into the the tune and full of emotion. At last the duet ended . Ishan stood up and took Zara's hands in his. It felt as if I was turning lighter every upcoming moment.

" Zo, Our life had been so beautiful since you entered it. I love you, sweetie. You are really the colour in our bleak life." Ishaan said and I was on the verge of being unconscious.

"Shh, Don't skip me. I love you too, Zo. Congratulations on your special day. We are proud of you." Rohit told cheekily and I released a breathe, I didn't even know I was holding. Ishaan, Rohit and Zara shared a bone crushing hug with happy tears in their eyes . They looked so adorable. Kshiraj was also watching them with an awe expression. The crowd continued howling and hooting.

Ishaan, then took out a blue box from his pocket and brought out a ruby studded- s- shaped silver bracelet from it and slid it in Zara's wrist. She mumbled a 'thank you' before throwing herself on Ishaan. The bracelet looked angelic in her white skinny wrist. I was being insecure for some odd reason.

Ronnie shook me and said " They are so cute, right ?" I just nodded at him. We returned back as the RIZ Party ended.

Earlier, both of them were slightly uncomfortable around me, but gradually relaxed as I seemed fine. After a lot of teasings from me and my cousins, finally they retired towards their bedroom. Meanwhile, I came to my room and drifted into deep slumber for the new day to come.

You know, can't wait to see my boss !

All ounce of excitement just bubbled out as I heard that he was on a tour to New Zealand for the promotion event of his new song. I so wanted to meet him, talk to him and maybe, know more about him. Thinking about him, I felt as if a spark ignited inside me. My back seemed as if on fire.

I saw Mishka entering my cabin with a humongous smile adorning her facial features. A smirk made its way on my face on its own thinking of the ways, I was going to tease him with.

" So, how was last night?" I nudged her with my elbow. Oh my, her cheeks had quickly turned into the darkest shade of red, I have ever seen.

" Just shut up." She hushed, hitting my head.

" We both would have been screaming my lungs out last night. Why should I shut up?" I raised my brow at her, when a knee hit my chair. And, I toppled down the chair and fell on the floor, laughing like a maniac.

" Okay, let go of last night's juicy details. But atleast tell me how did you both fall in love ?"

" It started in our college canteen. I kissed him out of a dare. "

| Flashback { Mishka}|

     I was sitting with a group of girls of our college playing "Truth or Dare ". The bottle stopped infront of me and being the daring girl, I chose dare.They all were amused with their eyes filled with mischief. They asked me to kiss the first boy, who enters the canteen. All the people roaming in the canteen were looking at me like I was some sort of animals who escaped some zoo, as I spat the water, I was sipping on. I told them a yes but, inwards I was thinking if it turns out to be an old man or any of our teachers, I was so gone.

I saw Ronnie entering the canteen. I was thinking of who he was. But, the next moment someone pushed me towards him and I fell directly on him, but he held me in his arms. I mumbled a sorry quickly and turned around to leave .

" Someone is going to lose today ... Get the punishment ready." Someone shouted from behind. I again turned around and faced him.

" Can I kiss you ?" I asked him quickly, but then I realised how desperate I sounded. I was so embarrassed that I wanted the ground to hide me inside it . He remarked on my desperation to kiss him, haughtily with a smirk affixed on his face. My cheeks were the darkest of red. I couldn't even had a moment to ponder as he pulled me into him and pressed his lips on mine. If I say I didn't love it, then it would be the biggest lie of the century. All the girls and boys were hooting and whistling by the time he released me, robbed of breath.

He went in his knees and took my hand in his, saying " I love you, Mishka." I just shrugged and said, " I don't even know you." Listening to this the whole campus was whirling with rounds of laughter and Ronnie hugged me.

" You will know me in and out, real soon." With a wink, he went away. But little did I know, true to his words, he would be meeting me real soon as my boss. Boss, as in, the owner of Roy Studios.

The best moments of my life were when, I became a member of his company.  Our sweet secret office affair, with our cute banters acting as the cherries on the cake of our love.

My whole world turned upside down, as I heard the news of him marrying Jia came up. I tried to maintain my distance from him, to forget how I feel for me. Though I love Jia the most, still I also loved Ronnie too.

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" Thank you so much, Jia. I can't even thank you enough for what you have done for me and Ronnie. We owe you so much. I wanted to clear cut our ways apart from each other the day, you got to know about us. I am still unable to believe that we are married now." I hugged her hard and wiped her tears.

" Okay, stop with your emotional drama now. I am also going to pester your dearest husband to listen his part of story. I don't trust your words. How did he all of a sudden land on our college canteen ?" She laughed as I gave her a fake thoughtful look.

" Mind you, he was upto something." I tried to make herself doubt her decisions with my infamous fake serious look.

" Let your mind rest a bit. He was there because Shara Aunty is a trustee of our college." She said, while shaking her head.

" Jia, I was thinking about something. Your results are going to come soon. Will you leave the company after that or manage both ?" I was really confused about the same. I just wanted to go with the flow. Maybe, I can manage both somehow.

The day passed with Mishka, handling the newly launched music discs, while me and Rohit continued with the writing of lyrics and song editings.

I surely missed him.

I saw Ronnie approaching us, he asked me and Mishka to sit on his car to drop us home. As I sat on the car, I bombarded all the questions in the pit of my stomach.

" Really, you landed on our canteen out of no where ?" I asked him, daring him to lie on my face.

" No." He mumbled.

I smirked, while Mishka was shocked.

" Now, continue how to managed to stalk my friend." I laughed at him, while Mishka was eyeing him with a murderous expression.

" I knew about Mishka being in the canteen, because I had been stalking her for three years, then." He said and I looked at him with utter shock.

" What? 3 years?" My eyes were same the size of the tennis balls.

" I bumped into her on a club and that was how I fell for her at her first ever sight. Then, I used to follow her. You can call me a stalker. But, as love makes a person blind, logic and reasoning were the least concerned subjects for me at that time. Following her, I got to know so many qualities about her. Like she goes to 'Sunshine Cafe' once in two days. She is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer. But, the most interesting thing about her is that she is an adventure lover. She usually goes for forest safari, and ventures. That day, I walked to her canteen to meet her, but I was stunned to hear her demand to kiss me. Though that was a dare, I kissed her and even confessed.
Through my P.I, I got to know that she was going for a trip to Shimla. As you were not going, I decided to reach there. I admired her from afar. But on the second last day, I became her partner in paragliding. No, that was totally unplanned, but I think God also want to see us together. I teased her for being scared of height, but she couldn't recognise me. Only when I asked what she thought about my proposal, she realised who I was. Her face looked so red, as she feigned ignorance. We thought to celebrate it in a cruise as it was the main attraction of that place.

The party was about to be over but something different occured. Some goons were chasing Mishka and she kept running. I too followed them. While running, we entered a jungle and there I beat those bastards mercilessly. But we both were struck in the mid forest in the mid of night .

Mishka was crying as she was afraid of darkness . I held her tight against my body . We soon collected some woods and with the help of stones tried to bring out fire but failed miserably. She was trembling due to cold , so I wrapped my blazer around her . But she was high on fever. She was raining so bad, so we dat under a huge banyan tree, while inclining some large dry branches of coconut tree, with a slope to prevent the rain to wet us. Her body was boiling with extreme temperature. Without any options left, I removed my wet shirt and my handkerchief. I embraced her tightly, by patting the cloth on her forehead. I slept holding her. The next morning, her eyes were so big to see me sleeping by her side.

The very next moment, I was running all the forest followed by a tiny tigress holding a coconut branch. After several beatings, she calmed down and we both sat down laughing at each other. There we shared our second kiss. Her parents asked me to be someone of her worth, as they came to know about me. That was the only reason, Roy studios emerged. She was the only inspiration and love, I had after my mother. I am really ashamed, Jia about what you had to endure for me. I don't know, how I was blinded by the passion for money. Any apology won't for that. And, yes I owe you so much for giving me my love, my best best buddies and also, my mother's happiness back. Thank you." Ronnie said his eyes having unadultered gratefulness. I just gave him a bright smile.

" Mishka, that's so bad. You didn't even tell me about the hot and happening shimla tour." I twitched my face as they both ended up laughing heartily.

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