LIFE.... AS IT COMES (CHAPTER 7)

“Okay! One more shot to go! Mira a bit more to the left. That’s right. Andy give me your pout. A bit more. Yep-just right. Okay guys! Done for the day! Pack Up!” announced Ryan as he finished the shoot.

Within minutes girls surrounded him.

“No Mira I really can’t go out tonight. Hey Samantha! Am doing good and I really don’t need a sauna bath. Yes am really tired. No I think that having food here is a bad option.”

This continued. It happened every Saturday night. And unfortunately he had no plans today. Tam had gone out with Danny and Kunal was over at his cousin’s place tonight. A thought struck Ryan. His lifeline.

He dialed a number. The call was received on the 4^th ring.

“Hey it’s me. Am kinda stuck here at work. Could please come down here and take me out of here?” Ryan paused as he listened to the answer. “Yeah cool. You will be here in 5 I guess. Waiting for you.”

With that he kept the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. But his swarming didn’t stop. 5 mins came and went and soon his rescuer arrived in a black neat top with a black leather mini skirt with black slacks beneath it. She looks beautiful, thought Ryan as soon as he saw her.

“Hey Sheila!” greeted Ryan and went over her, gave her a huge hug and a resounding kiss on the cheeks.

Sheila was left rooted in the spot. If rescuing Ryan from work meant this, she was game for it everyday! Bring it on man!

She beamed a huge smile at him.

“Who is she?” asked a model covered in only laces and her long figure left very little to imagination.

“Guys! Meet my fiancé! Sheila Kapur!” Ryan announced!

Okay, Sheila thought, this was getting way out of hand. She was surely dreaming. She would wake up any minute now.

A collected whisper ran around at Ryan’s announcement.

“What happened beauties? She broke your hearts?” smiled Ryan at his small audience.

“Ryan, darling! Your fiancé looks out of sorts here. What does she do?” asked a girl puffing away heavily on a cigar.

“Ah! Her work? That is a very interesting question.” Ryan gulped. Saying that Sheila was a chef wouldn’t raise her status but pummel it down.

“She is a wedding planner! Has her own agency. And very successful if I may add so!” He gave her a benevolent smile.

Sheila was too shocked to actually absorb all that was going on.

“So, how did you guys meet? And fall in love? And who popped the question?” a million questions began to be thrown at them.

“Girls! Let her speak. She will say so. C’mon Sheila tell them how we met!” Ryan urged her on and frantically hoping that she wouldn’t screw it up.

Oh my god, she thought, what will I say.

“Actually we met through a common friend and chance encounters began at every party that we went to.” Sheila began.

“That’s so clichéd! Then you became friends, then lovers blah blah blah we know the rest. Give us something new honey!” came another voice.

Okay, Sheila thought, here we go.

“No you see actually we were both committed to different people at that time. And one night at a party we got high and while drinking one thing led to the other and we ended up having wild, passionate sex. It left us wanting for more. We knew at that time that our respective partners could not give us what we needed from each other. You see it just began as a wild animal sex thing. We used to meet discreetly and have a heady time. It was during one such time that we realized we completed each other in more ways than the size on the bed. He popped the question and here we are today!”

Sheila gave her beaming smile at the stunned crowd and turned to look at Ryan. It took all her strength to stop laughing on his face as he was staring at her his mouth hanging wide open!

“Well, we don’t see much friction now.” Came a snide remark from an anorexic model on the left.

“That’s coz you will see it now!”

Said Ryan as he pulled Sheila to him and began kissing her. It started off as a small light kiss, but every instinct in her body screamed for more as Sheila grabbed Ryan and began kissing him back. Maybe this is how it should have been, she thought with a sigh as Ryan deepened the kiss and began exploring her mouth and she heard wolf whistles, this should have been my first kiss!