It's Him....AGAIN
Introduction
This is my first try and hope you all will like it!!✌️
A little intro about our characters!
REYAN MALHOTRA
29| Creative Director | Her boss and Ex
Traits-
Cold, Calculated, sharply intelligent
barely speaks in meetings unless necessary
Controls his surroundings like a chessboard
Wears monochromes- clean lines, structured cuts
Known for being brilliant, terrifying and emotionally unavailable
His internal world:-
Doesn't believe in fate, but meeting her(again) shakes something inside him.
On the app he feels freer - softer- and real
.
.
.
Obsessed with-
Her voice
Her silence
And the fact that she doesn't recognize him....YET
Aira Verma
23| Junior designer| Hurt, healing, unaware of the fire she's near
Traits-
Bright, intuitive, creative
Quite sad but masks with sarcasm
Struggles with boundaries
Doodles in margin of papers when bored at work
Thinks her boss hates her but something about him pulls her in
Her internal world:-
Left a traumatic relationship (Reyan) but doesn't remember the depth of it due to emotional suppression
Uses the anonymous app to say what she can't in real life
doesn't trust easily but feels dangerously safe with "THE GHOST"
never imagined her old ghost was sitting in three cabins away!
Contradictions-
In the office -
guarded, professional, insecure
On app -
raw, expressive, emotionally fearless
Her heart leans towards THE GHOST not knowing she's walking into the same arms again!!
NOW
LETS JUMP INTO THEIR WORLD!!!
No faces, Just words
App: Velvet- voice and texts only
Aira Verma
Why are you still awake?
Aira Verma
Couldn't sleep.
Too many thoughts.
Too many versions of me.... None I recognize anymore.
Reyan Malhotra
Same.
I miss someone I shouldn't.
Or maybe just the way she made me feel.
Aira Verma
I miss silence that doesn't ache.
Reyan Malhotra
That's rare.
Most people miss noise.
You are different.
Aira Verma
You don't know me.
Reyan Malhotra
I know how broken feels.
That's the Start.
Aira Verma
I almost deleted this app.
Reyan Malhotra
Why didn't you?
Aira Verma
Because I needed to say something without being seen.
You?
Reyan Malhotra
Because someone like you might show up.
Reyan Malhotra
Too honest!
Aira Verma
If I told you I'm someone's burden by day and someone else's ghost by night....
Would that scare you?
Reyan Malhotra
No.
I'd say I want to be the space in between.
Aira Verma
Don't get used to me.
Reyan Malhotra
You are assuming I haven't already.
The new hire
HR girl
Reyan, this is Aira. New junior designer.
From Delhi. Top of her class.
Reyan Malhotra
(short nodded)
Portfolio?
Aira Verma
Already mailed. Would you like a printed.....
Reyan Malhotra
(interrupting)
No. I already reviewed it.
You are on the project team 3.
No Phones during briefs.
Reyan Malhotra
(eye lingering a second too long)
That name....
Aira, right?
Reyan Malhotra
(sharply)
Nothing. Go.
Dev
(senior designer)
So.... First impressions?
Aira Verma
Everyone seems cool.
Except the boss. Little...... intense?
Dev
Reyan? He's brutal.
But genius.
Don't take his stares personally. He's just...like that.
Aira Verma
(nervously)
He looked at me like he remembered something.
But I swear we've never met.
Aira Verma
Rough day. New job. New rules
Old silence
Reyan Malhotra
Sounds like your skin doesn't fit right in the new place.
Aira Verma
Exactly.
The office feels like glass. Everyone is watching
One pair of eyes, especially!
Aira Verma
Yeah.
He talks like a knife.
I don't know if I hate it or want to earn it.
Reyan Malhotra
Careful.
Men like that don't just see you.
They study.
Reyan Malhotra
Want to disappear with me for a while?
Reyan Malhotra
Here.
No names. No walls.
Just the ghosts of who we used to be.
Aira Verma
Okay.
Let's haunt each other then.
VELVET notification - contact saved "THE GHOST"
Aira Verma
Ever feels like you don't belong in your own skin?
Reyan Malhotra
Every day.
Feels like I'm just.... pretending to be functional.
Professional. Calm. Controlled.
Aira Verma
Yeah. That word!
"Controlled"
I hate how people worship it.
Aira Verma
Because being in control usually means you've buried something deep.
Reyan Malhotra
You think I have?
Aira Verma
Your texts scream it.
Reyan Malhotra
You're sharp.
Most people don't look past the formatting.
Aira Verma
I'm a designer.
Details betray people.
Reyan Malhotra
What's one sentence that always gets stuck in your throat?
Aira Verma
(sends a voice note since her hands are busy in cooking midnight meal)
...." I'll try harder next time.
I used to say it a lot.
Now I only whisper it to the ceiling at 3 AM."
Reyan Malhotra
That Sentence has blood on it.
Aira Verma
Yeah.
And still....I say it.
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