Walking through the dark streets alone sharon rubbed her palm against each other to gather some heat...she could see the faint light coming from a distance which was standing out in the contrasting black surrounding...
She walked following that light...
Reaching there , she found a hut in the middle of nowhere...curiosity made her peep inside through the crack of the door...
There she found the girl again...the same blurred face of a girl in the middle of darkness...like every other time, this time also she could figure out that she had shoulder length hair...she tried to focus her sight on her face and get her features n the darkness when she felt someone's breath on her neck...
"time for the TRUTH..." She heard an unknown voice whisper in her ear...
She shuddered...
And with that Sharon found herself sitting on her bed in her room trying to catch her erotic breathing...
She had that dream about the girl again...
To her nothing was strange in the dream...she had it most often...but what she had never seen as a part of her dream was the voice in her ear talking about the truth... And that made her remember last night's incident...
Throughout the day she had kept on thinking about that strange man with the hoodie and what had happened to her last night...she couldn't concentrate on rehearsal earning swayam's glare quite a number of time...
Of course , he was thinking that she had made up a story to cover her late arrival...
And probably because of her over thinking , she had ended up dreaming about some god knows what truth...probably some friend was trying to play some stupid prank...she tried to reason and gulped the glass of water from the side table...
She checked the time on the wall clock...it was 4 in the morning and she still had an hour to sleep before the alarm would start to ring...and with that thought she drifted off to sleep...
****
Swayam was pacing in the rehearsal hall...it was 8.30 in the morning and she was supposed to come at 7...
"god knows what story in store today..." He muttered although for a fraction of second he was scared...
What if she was not okay...what if she needed help...
He took his phone from the pocket and was about to dial her number when he saw her enter the hall...
"good mor...ning..." her chirpy voice faded out seeing his glare...
"I can explain..." She sighed before he could even ask her anything...getting the "go on" look from him she continued...
"I missed my morning alarm and then the pump was not working and then the pump was not working...so was late for bath an then...forget it...as usual nothing goes right with me..." She gave a nervous smile...
Swayam thought for a while...
"you know...yesterday's story was much more creative..." He said with a sarcastic smile... "change and come for warm up..." He glared at her and walked away...
****
Sharon knew she wasn't being able to concentrate...probably her mind was too occupied with that incident although she had tried to make herself understand that some friend had played a prank...she knew swayam was trying to be patient with her and she also knew that this patience won't last too long...
For the ninth time in a row she missed the count of a beat and with that his calm was lost...
"what the hell do you think we are doing here? Do you even care about dance? Do you even care about our show? Do you have any freaking clue that not even a month is left?" he blasted her...
She shuddered at the anger in his voice...never in the span of her knowing him had she seen him this angry...
"I just can't understand why are you taking this for granted?like do you have any clue what will happen if something goes wrong in the show?do you have any idea what pain it takes to get blamed for your team's lose?when the entire world points their finger at you and you are forced to stay away from your passion...huh...what passion... Are you even passionate about this?don't just freaking take this for granted miss.sharon raiprakash...you will never understand what you have...you can dance on stage..."his voice started to choke... "in the middle of the crowd...with the spotlight focusing on you..." His eyes had already turned distant and moist... "with the crowd cheering your name..." he gulped... "and then everything is lost...everything is..." before he could say any further rahul kept his hand on his shoulder bringing him out of the trance...as swayam looked at him perplexed , rahul shook his head asking him to stop...
Rahul was the only person with whom Sharon had ever seen swayam talk and smile...
Composing his state of mind swayam said softly... "let's continue in ten minutes..." And he walked out of the hall...
****
Swayam was teaching some steps to them while everyone was sitting on the floor and watching him carefully...
Sharon was again zoned out... And this time it was swayam...
"you can dance on stage..."his voice rang in her ears... "in the middle of the crowd...with the spotlight focusing on you..." She could feel something unfulfilled in his voice... "with the crowd cheering your name..." there has to be something which had caused him a lot of pain...which had left him like this... "and then everything is lost...everything is..." which made him lose himself...
And suddenly Sharon had an unexplainable urge to know whether swayam was always like this...without any smile...and in that second she wanted to know the previous swayam...she wanted to bring him back to life...to take away all his pain and fill his life with smile and happiness...
May be they were meant to be each other's healing...
"and in the fifth count we'll be doing a split and by the seventh count on our feet..." Swayam's voice brought her out of the trance...
"concentrate sharon..." he scolded herself for wandering again and composed herself watching the routine carefully when her phone beeped...
She unlocked the screen and opened the message screen...
"you are looking beautiful in blue...BLUE...the colour of TRUTH..." The message read and immediately she looked at her T-shirt...she was wearing blue...
She looked up at once and found swayam dancing and all the other team mates watching him carefully...no one was with their phone and the doors of the hall was also closed...
"he can see me swayam..." she screamed...
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