Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snyder

Author:Suleikha Snyder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

The monsoon season was here…days of heavy, humid heat finally giving way to the inevitable. As the crew starting scrambling to wrap things up for the day, Trishna tilted her head back and let the first drops of rain kiss her face. If she closed her eyes, she could imagine each one was the brush of Harsh’s lips.

The subtle stroke of his fingers on the inside of her wrist told her that he was thinking the same…that he was promising it for later. Across the courtyard, Michael was laughing at something. Whatever it was made Avinash drop to one knee and begin doing his best reenactment of the gazebo scene from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. He really was quite brilliant, holding his hands just so, and then twirling Michael in an over-the-top version of the characters’ romantic dance. Though she saw the magic, the spark, no one else could see it as anything but two madcap boys engaging in comedy. The camera guys laughed, while the AD rolled his eyes at the tamasha.

It was just noise and silly business. A big to-do.

Then a profane shout shattered the easy moment. Sam Khanna, five-seven with an additional six meters of attitude, strode across the set. A half-smoked cigarette was clamped between his almost cruelly thin lips. He tossed script pages down on the steadily dampening ground with a dramatic flourish and fixed Joshi with an accusatory look. “What the fuck is this shit, man?” he demanded. “How is Vikram Malhotra on this fucking film? What is the meaning of this?”

The director began trying to explain himself, his normally exuberant pitch style turning into an incoherent, nervous stream of babble. Trish met Harsh’s knowing gaze, and laughter overcame them in unison.

Sam had so much to learn. The same lessons they’d learned. There was no meaning. There was simply fate and where it led you: straight to where you belonged.

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