#A_CRAZY_LOVE_2
©Sir Zach
EPISODE 84
Both of them bade their farewell before leaving together, hand in hand.
“Who have you invited Kizy? Is he truly that special?” Nicole came ahead after going through her script for the hundredth time, as she didn’t want to mess up the script written by Kizy.
“You may see that yourself. But I guess you have already seen him. In fact you have worked with him before.” Kizy said, making Nicole even more confused.
“I saw him? I don’t think-” Nicole was still speaking when someone interrupted.
“She is talking about me.” A calm and masculine voice was heard from the entry door, while a tall and well built figure entered.
Nicole had to focus her eyes properly as the man was walking against the light on entry, making his figure look darker against his bright background.
“Victor?” She finally said once he was nearer, set lights illuminating his chiselled face.
“Hi.” Victor said curtly before going towards Kizy.
Victor was not ready to take this role, but Kizy forced him a lot. Eventually he could not say no to this second sister of his and ended up accepting it.
Kizy had not asked Jason for this role because she knew how Rose felt about him. Plus if someone was to recognize Jason through the advertisement then it would be a huge problem.
Victor and Harry had less exposure to others, hence it was very difficult to recognize them, that too when they were not revealing their face.
But Harry’s short height along with his immature aura would not have suited Nicole for the commercial.
Other than these three, Kizy only knew Jack, Alex and Andrew. And she could not ask anyone out of these as they were Markus’s men and friend respectively.
Thus Kizy ended up asking Victor, who was calm, mature, mysterious and well built, perfect for a tall and bold woman like Nicole.
“Wrap it within one hour. I need to be somewhere else.” Victor said, looking all serious.
“Go change first.” Kizy said before showing him direction for the changing room.
Nicole was playing a rich heiress, who owned her own business. Whereas Victor was acting as a young business tycoon. Both of them come together for a business partnership and end up falling for each other – this was a simple love story script that Kizy had written for Nicole and Victor.
It consisted of dialogues unlike the story of Joel and Nina.
Nicole was practising her dialogue when she heard the director praise.
“This suit looks so perfect on you. Seems like it was made for you.” The director said, genuinely praising Victor, who looked like a CEO walking right out of some fiction novel.
She turned around, and found herself nodding her head to the director’s statement.
Victor, wearing a whole black suit, including black shirt, pants and blazer, with his hair gelled and swept slightly backwards, was enough to make any girl’s heart skip a beat.
With those sharp eyes, thin lips, pointed nose and that musculine body, he was every woman’s dream come true.
“Should we start?” The director asked Nicole, who was still dazedly looking at Victor, who was now walking in her direction.
Nicole had brought her own outfit. She was wearing a pastel blue dress ending at her knees, while a long white blazer was placed over her shoulder, showing a little of her bare shoulder and neck skin. Paired with them were white heels and pearl earrings.
Her shoulder length hair was straightened, giving her a mature business woman look, the one she was enacting.
“Shall we start?” Kizy asked while giving Nicole a nudge, who finally responded.
“Yes yes. Let’s begin.” Nicole said while walking towards the stage, a little embarrassed for staring at Victor like that.
Director gave them two minutes to get comfortable around each other before starting the $h00t.
Both of them sat on the sofa, sitting opposite to each other. A document was seen on the table placed between them. With the director’s signal, they started $h00ting.
“We look forward to working with you.” Victor said, with his back facing camera while he shook hands with Nicole.
“Me too.” Nicole said with a polite smile, the one that she had mastered over years.
Her face was directly facing the camera, capturing every single expression.
With that both of them got up. Nicole turned to leave the room while Victor just kept standing there.
“You are not coming?” Nicole asked when she reached the door, noticing that Victor wasn’t following her.
“I have some other stuff to do, so I will stay here for some more time.” Victor said.
“Okay.” Nicole said and was about to exit when she suddenly paused and turned again.
“Anything else?” Victor asked, as he was still watching Nicole.
“I was about to forget this again. This Saturday is my birthday. All my partners are invited to the party. This is the invitation card.. It will be my honour to have you as my guest.” Nina said, though polite but her tone was cool and dominant.
“Ohhh.” Victor paused.
“I will definitely attend-” Victor was still speaking when he heard a sneeze.
“Aachhoo!” Kizy who was sitting beside the cameraman, watching this perfect scene being played suddenly sneezed, gaining all the attention.
Victor instantly walked towards Kizy in large strides, before removing his blazer and putting it on Kizy’s shoulders.
“Why are you wearing so little?” Victor asked, his tone reprimanding, but worry and affection could be seen in it.
“Take this back, you need it for the $h00t.” Kizy said, trying to distract Victor so she won’t get any scolding.
Both she and Rose were prone to cold. Thus all three males in Black command always paid attention towards this point. The girls were always given rooms with the most tolerable cold temperature even when they were on missions.
In an attempt to distract herself from thinking about Markus, Kizy had started taking her laptop on the balcony and working there for late hours at night.
Their bedroom reminded her of Markus, and she no longer wanted to sit still and do nothing while Markus was facing unknown dangers alone.
Thus she decided to work hard for the company, and strive to take it to new heights, even at the sake of compromising her health in between.
“I will get another blazer for myself. You keep this on.” Victor said before turning towards the director.
“Please turn that AC off. The temperature isn’t very warm today.” Victor ordered, his tone dominant enough to make the director go and switch it off by himself even without him realizing it.
“Stay here for a minute.” Victor said to Kizy.
“First brother-” Kizy was still speaking when Victor made a call and moved to a corner.
He returned within a minute.
“Go and $h00t your scene. Don’t overreact. It’s. Just. A. Sneeze.” Kizy said, feeling embarrassed by having all eyes upon herself.
“You want to stay here till the $h00t ends or should I call Jason?” Victor said, his voice intimidating, and for the first time, Kizy meekly obeyed someone since the past week.
In five minutes, Harry wearing a cap and mask, while carrying a black blazer and hot coffee entered the $h00ting area.
“Here.” He said before passing the blazer and hot coffee to Victor and Kizy respectively.
“Thank you.” Kizy said with guilt, knowing first brother would have made him rush for all of this
“Don’t fall sick if you really want to thank me.” Harry said through his ragged breathing, as running all the way while getting a blazer and hot coffee within five minutes and delivering it was not an easy task.
“Who said I am sick?” Kizy asked while glaring at Victor for giving her away.
If Jason was to know this, then she was definitely in for a good lecture.
“Why would he order hot coffee for you in the middle of a hot sunny day in summer then?” Harry asked, his smirk covered by the mask was visible to Kizy.
Yes, it was summer, that too with a hot sun burning everyone with high temperature and yet Victor had asked the director to turn the AC off for his sweet little second sister with the reason of ‘weather not being very warm today’.
“Please don’t tell this to Jason.” Kizy begged.
And for a moment, both Victor and Harry were happy to have their second sister back to normal.
“On one condition.” Harry said, his usual naughty expression showing that he was definitely going to demand something hard.
“Let’s finish off with this $h00t. Then we can discuss.” Kizy said, looking at the director, who didn’t even sit back on his seat since Victor was standing nearby.
“Okay.” Harry said and took a seat next to Kizy, curious to see the $h00t.
Victor just shook his head at Harry’s extra excited behavior before wearing the new blazer and going back towards the $h00ting area.
All this while, Nicole had been standing on her spot, catching every little action of Victor.
She had seen how his expressions went from shock, panic, realization and lastly a mixture of anger and worry by the time he wrapped Kizy in his blazer.
This was the first time when she had seen the always calm and collected Victor, to get worried. But what was more surprising was his angry and dominant aura which he had unknowingly released while ordering the director.
She had never seen this bossy and masculine side of Victor that made her heart flutter, something that had never happened to her.
She was still dazedly looking at Victor when he came back to his spot.
“Should we restart the act or just resume from where we left?” Victor asked while looking at the director.
“Resume the ongoing scene.” Director said in a mild voice.
With that the director signaled them to resume the scene again.
“I will definitely attend the party then.” Victor said.
With that, Nicole was supposed to nod and finally leave. But she was completely immersed in her own thoughts, standing there unmoving.
“Cut.” The director said after five seconds had passed and finally Nicole moved.
“Uhhh. Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.” Nicole said, her cheeks turning a little red.
“Let’s resume from the dialogue once again.” Victor said and the director gave a thumbs up, indicating he was okay with it.
With that Victor repeated the same dialogue again.
‘How many faces does this man have? Last time we met while rescuing Evie, he was cold in the beginning. Then he was very gentle when Evie was present. Even now, he was completely calm till Kizy sneezed. But suddenly he was so worried and angry that he seemed like an entirely different person. What is he exactly hiding?’ Nicole thought, looking at Victor.
“Nicole. Nicole! NICOLE!!!” This time Kizy shouted to fetch her back the present.
“Huhh?” Was the only thing Nicole managed to speak.
“Where are you zoning out? Why are you still standing there? You just have to nod and leave. That’s it.” Kizy said in a little shocked voice, not knowing why suddenly Nicole was performing like this.
“Sorry sorry. This won’t happen again.” Nicole said, this time turning completely red after embarrassing herself this way.
“Here.” She heard Victor say and turned towards him.
Victor opened the bottle cap before passing it to Nicole, knowing she must be shocked because of his behavior moments ago.
Nicole took the bottle before gulping half of it down her throat.
“Thank you. I am ready now.” Nicole said.
‘Come on Nicole! You can do it. Just concentrate and you will perform well.’ Nicole motivated herself and finally she was able to nod and leave.
Victor kept standing there looking at the closed door even when Nicole was gone, as if thinking about something, all this while his back facing the camera.
He then turned to the side, the cameraman changing his angle as well to prevent capturing Victor’s face.
Victor was now looking at a glass window, through which the entire city was visible. He then looked downwards and smiled.
The scene ended here.
For the next scene, the stage was changed with a backdrop showing a large mansion.
Both Nicole and Victor were asked to change once again. As earlier, Nicole had bought her own outfit while Victor wore the one given by the $h00ting team.