When Our Stars Collided

01

Chapter One
"What a hottie hottie!"

✧ P R E E T ✧

"I hate my life."

I muttered while dusting the sand from all over my clothes. Guess who ended up falling on her butt on the beach where her whole crew was present?

Including my Canadian man, Connor.

The one I laid my eyes on three days back and he probably doesn't even know that I exist but he's just hot. So that makes him my man.

"You have the one which is closest to perfect" Neava, my best friend remarked and I rolled my eyes.

"Dusro ki thali ka ladoo bada hi lagta hai." I commented on a phrase my mother told me in grade six because I told her that Prapti's mom is way better than her because she makes nice food for her lunchbox.
[The piece of cake on someone else's plate will always look bigger.]

I never understood the coded meaning but later I realised that it was not about the ladoo.

"You should have chosen to become a screenplay writer instead of a filmmaker. Kaafi filmy dialogues marti hai." I happily accepted her packet of chips, only to find it empty. I looked at her and sighed.
[Your dialogues are very filmy.]

"You should have chosen to shut up when you were born,"  I replied to her and threw the empty packet on her face.

"Kuda humesha kuda hi failata hai." She removed her hand which was intertwined with mine and went to throw the packet in a nearby dustbin.
[Garbage always litters around.]

I successfully ignored her statement and thought about the short film we are currently recording for a project in Film school. I see a lot of potential in it until the actors, including my Canadian man, don't mess it up.

Let me tell you about the Canadian man, first of all, he's so fine, with a sharp jawline, brown eyes, freckles, and a perfect smile which would melt anyone. He got a boyish look that I like in a man.

He's just very pretty in a handsome way.

"What happened to Aniketh?" Neava asked me and my face instantly fell. The mere mention of him brings a wave of guilt in my head.

I became a bad person by ending things.

Well, Aniketh is my ex-boyfriend. I dated him for two years and everything was perfect until last year I just fell out of it. I lost feelings for him and ended the relationship, it just didn't feel perfect to me anymore all of it seemed rather fake.

Still, I am responsible for breaking his heart and it makes me very guilty at times. But it would break his heart more if I kept leading him on while I felt nothing for him.

Maybe he just wasn't the one.

"His whole family shifted to Canada. He still tries to meet me every day with any excuse and asks me to give us another chance and that same bullshit on repeat. His mom called me once telling me that I should accept her son, can you imagine? I felt so guilty at the moment that the thought of giving us another chance flashed my mind." I ranted it out to her.

Neava has been my best friend since school, we grew up together.
She knows me way better than anyone else in this world. She knows all the sides, she has seen all of them. She might be a bitch sometimes but I am grateful to have her.

If it was not for her, it would be very hard to survive in Canada alone. Right now we are staying in a PG with 5 other girls, but at least we have each other in this foreign country. And it has always been our dream to live together in the same house since childhood.