Off-Script

Chapter 8

Helly got busy with the plugs when she felt a pair of eyes following her.
Trying hard to keep away the creeping blush away from her face, Helly looked up slowly to find her handsome Boss's eyes on her. "Wait! Handsome?" Their eyes met...
"Well he is" replied her inner self.
She looked away hastily and continued with her work.

Rrahul placed his elbow on the head of the chair and looked at her. Unknowingly a smile of adoration crept on his face. The girl in front was so busy with her work that she didn't even have time to glance up at the clock, but, did have a time to feel his presence.

That mere eye contact, it was not just a stare, or general eye contact. It was special, something very different,
"Well...She is adorable".

"......Mr. Saxena was right. Keeping her busy will distract her to the fullest....." His lips pursed into the centre while his eyes still stuck on her......

"Game?" Rrahul turned around to see the addressed short petite girl standing with furrowed eyebrows.

"It seems Helly arrived..." said Mr. Saxena when he heard Helly voice from the other side of the phone, "....Listen Rrahul, the only way to keep her in line is keeping her busy. Please don't throw her out, she has a lot of potentiality" said Mr. Saxena in a sort of pleading.

"I will talk to you later" Rrahul said while his eyes fixed on the girl and cut the call.

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"......But why is Mr. Saxena so desperate about her working here?!"

"What are you thinking Sir?" The owner's question snapped Rrahul out of his thoughts.

"I am waiting for you Ms. Shah" he said and Helly looked up at him confused. He then sniggered and pulled out the chair for her. She looked at him and then at the chair.

Hesitantly she walked towards him when another girl draped in black saree took the place, "Thanks Rra" she said smiling.

"Uh..Your welcome Nia" he said pressing his lips in thin line which furrowed Nia's eyebrows.
"Why such an expression? Was this chair for someone else?" Asked Nia when Rrahul shook his head abruptly.
He glanced at Helly whose face had a blank expression. She looked up at him when the corner of his eyes immediately caught it.

"Nia I think you should take a different chair, I need to discuss about the project with Ms. Shah" Rrahul said taking a large gulp thus pusing down the unsure lump in his throat.

"Am I not a part of the project?" Asked Nia frowning.

"It's not like that Nia, understand. We worked on this file together" he said biting his inner cheek.

"We are working in a show together" Nia said adamantly when Rrahul closed his eyes in tensity.

"Why are you being so adamant?" Asked Rrahul still holding his patience hard.

"And why are you so desperate to sit beside her?" Asked Nia giving a chuckle when Rrahul felt his knees having a breakdown. He glanced at his general manager whose doe shaped eyes were wide trying to find answers to his created mess.

"What's happening with me?!?!" He asked his inner self after finding himself standing on the middle of a lost battlefield.

"Because he cares for you" replied Helly pulling their heads towards her. She turned her head towards him fixing her eyes onto his. She gave voluntary blink and Rrahul felt the pit of his stomach doing a somersault. 

"Meaning?" Asked Nia raising an eyebrow when Helly answered smiling, "Won't sitting between a duo make you feel as a rock? He just doesn't want you to be insecure" she completed.

"Really? That's so sweet Rra" she said smiling up at him which Rrahul reciprocated, but each soul in the room knew the smile was a fake one. Behind the pressed glittering blue lips held an unknown emotion. 

"Fine I'll sit here..." She said pointing on to the next chair towards her left,
"....Rra you sit here...." She said pointing the chair on her right, "....and  Ms. Shah can occupy there" she said and Rrahul nodded.
Helly's eyes scrunched on seeing his nod, "Why is he acting like this? Probably to calm down things I guess" and her forehead flattened again, but not her inner turmoil.

Nia stood up while Rrahul pulled out the chair for her and she shifted on to next seat.

He held out the first chair on his right for Helly, "Ms. Shah" he called looking at her. Helly nodded and walked towards the chair, but, in a sudden instance, she crossed it and sat on the middle one; the one occupied by Nia previously.

As she bowed down to her guts and took such a step, she felt her heart jogging against her ribcage and the pit of her stomach churning so fast that felt like throwing up.

Piercing her nails into the handle of her chair, Helly tried hard not to breathe heavily. She looked from the corner of her eyes the chair towards her right ws still unoccupied.

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he looked up at him turning her head, "Take your seat sir" Helly said boring the nails into the leather covering  handle of the chair.

Without any nod or shake, Rrahul sat on the addressed chair. Their head looking straight at nothing particular, but the idiotic unavoidable corner vision were making this more hard than imaginative prospects.

"What am I doing?!?!"

"What's happening with me!?!!"

Leaving the duo with unanswered questions.

Sudden burst of feelings. Are they true or just attraction of good looks!!!

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