TR-X's tour started while Tiara was looking for modeling agencies that could hire her as a model without any experience. Strive agency announced the world tour list to the public a day before the tour started and Indians were happy about their arrival in India for the first time not knowing the reason behind it but they were supposed to come after a month as India came in 6th country in their tour list.
Tiara got a video call from Kaashi but she didn't pick it up as her introverted side was on. She was sitting casually on her room's bed, in that specific corner she always sits on, and writing something down, Poetry of her feelings. She was repeating this poetry mumbling to herself to think of the next life that matches her feelings and rhymes with the first one. It helped to keep her mind at peace and do something productive in her free time.
She got a video call from Kaashi again and she sighed. 'I didn't pick up your call not because I didn't hear it because I don't want to!! Can't you understand?' She glared at her ePhone and thought before picking up the call in irritation. "What do you want?" Tiara asked her in irritation over the phone. "Dude, You won't believe it." Kaashi exclaimed cheerfully with a bit of a surprised tone.
"Then don't tell me. What's the point if I won't believe it anyways?" She raised her eyebrow at her friend and gave her a serious look while she pouted at her words. "Why are you always grumpy?" Kaashi questioned her cutely. "Did I ask you why you are always dumb?" She questioned her back teasingly and giggled while Kaashi was so done with her regretting her decision to call Tiara. "Anyways, I called you because TR-X is coming to India to do a concert!" Kaashi informed her about the TR-X concert happily and Tiara seemed surprised, Her eyes got bigger, and her eyebrows raised for a few seconds but she quickly fixed her expression back to normal making Kaashi think that she was hallucinating about her reaction shrugging it.
"That's great!" She nodded casually and looked back at the notebook she was writing on. "Why aren't surprised? They are coming here, girl! You can meet them again." Kaashi tried to get her attention back to her, tried to make her look at the camera again but Tiara wasn't bothered. "And you know? There's a rumor that they added India to their tour list forcefully after fighting with the sponsors." Kaashi informed her with an intense voice while Tiara stopped doing what she was doing but she still didn't look at her phone screen.
"Are they coming for you? Are you still in contact with them?" Kaashi asked her teasingly making her sigh heavily and look into the camera. "Don't make me repeat my question." Tiara was serious, her voice was emotionless like a robot. "What question?" Kaashi raised her eyebrow at her, confused about what question she meant. "Are you dumb or do you act like one?" Tiara said in a teasing voice trying to hold back her laugh while she was saying and then burst out laughing, Kaashi rolled her eyes at her and then giggled a little.
"Okay, I won't ask you but maybe, the rumors are true and they really are coming for you." Kaashi said what was on her mind. "Have you been reading one of those romantic books?" Tiara made a disgusted face questioning her while Kaashi gave her a done look. "Or why else would you make those things in your mind?" She added and twisted her jaw. "They are coming to India, that doesn't mean they are coming for me. Get your mind outside of the gutter, will you?" Tiara commented to her.
"Ugh, Okay! Are you going to attend their concert?" Kaasi asked her, doubtfully. "Nahh, I don't have money, You can go if you want." Tiara answered uninteresting, Kaashi sighed because she knew her answer before she asked her but still, there was still hope she would agree but she didn't let all her hope go up. "If that's all then I am hanging up. Bye!" Tiara said waving her right hand at her before taping on the cut button without hearing anything else from her.
'Why's everyone so obsessed with them? But are they coming for me…. Like for real?' She stared at her poetry blankly not thinking about the next line. "Ehh, Nahh. They are coming because it's their world tour and India comes in this world too." She answered herself and eye-rolled before counting to write her poem.
She spent some more days finding a suitable company/agency to sign her up for modeling and she got some offers as well but none of them were as per her expectations. She wanted a perfect start to begin with, She didn't want to settle down with anything less than her expectation even when she was a beginner. She knew that the beginning may affect her career later on, mess it up entirely, or she could be stuck in a low position if her starting was wrong.
But, After 27 days of searching, she finally got an invitation to be their model which was according to her expectations. She was happy while she discussed the conditions and work period with the agency over a call and got everything settled.
"Okay, We will prepare the documents within 4 days. You will have to meet one of our agents and sign the papers before you start." A female was speaking to her. "Of course, Let me know the time and the address, please." Tiara said happily sitting in front of her mother who had a slight smile on her face as well. "For sure." The female said. "Thank you." Tiara thanked her before hanging up the call.
"Finally, It's done!!" She cheered in front of her mother spreading her arms in the air with victory. "That's good! You have been looking for the good one and you got it." Her mother clapped twice. "How long is this contract going to be?" She asked Tiara. "They were saying 5 but I agreed on 2 years. We can renew the contract afterward but who knows if I get a bigger opportunity?" Tiara answered her and told her the plan. She agreed to her and nodded her head.
TR-X were doing tours in other countries and were tired because of the work they were doing continuously. They could only get sleep around 4 hours but they tried to cover the lack of sleep in their flights when they kept moving through the countries one by one while doing concerts in each one of those countries. Maybe, It was the fees of the fame they got, they knew it was necessary in order to complete their dreams.
Almost all of them were just waiting for that one country they were excited about. They were in China but this time they were there to do a concert. It was their last day after they wrapped the concert the very previous day and entered the airport to go to India in front of their fans who were present there to see them, cheer for them, and say goodbye to them.
They got inside their charter plane which belonged to their group for their next destination. They sat on their seats relaxing fully, ready to take a long nap before work started again. They drifted to sleep once they sat down and made them comfortable enough to sleep in their position. They were exhausted yet they were happy that everything was going well and according to them. However, Their personal managers had to handle the whole group as well as their separate things because they hadn't hired any other manager for their whole band yet since their late manager who had been with them since the beginning died during the apocalypse.
They landed after 8 hours on their chatter flight and got fresh to go out to face their fans who were present to welcome them in India. As soon as they entered the large hall after the security check-up, they were stunned by the number of people in front of them even the security was struggling to hold them back with the ribbons which were there to keep them away. They knew they had to walk fast but in a subtle way as the fans could tackle down the bodyguards and the border between them to come near them. It wasn't because they didn't want to meet them, It was because they had faced it before and it didn't end well for them. Vin kept looking at his fans to find something or someone between them but he was disappointed while JJ was looking around too but he didn't seem much disappointed like Vin.
They jumped into their little van to reach their hotel with their belongings and took a breath of relief. 'So, This is Maharashtra, India.' Vin looked out of the van's window. 'What will happen now?' KR wondered when his eyes fell on the rest of the members looking out of the window to see what India looked like. 'I looked around for her but she wasn't there… Does she know we are here in her country?' JJ knitted his eyebrows wondering why she didn't come to welcome them.
They reached their hotel to take a rest to prepare for the next day's concert. They went to their respective rooms to wash up and meet again to prepare for the concert and decided to meet in the hallway in front of their rooms once they were done. They all came out one by one and Vin was the last one to come outside but he wasn't in one of his practice outfits. He was wearing a thin black half-sleeves t-shirt, loose beige pants, a beige long thin long-sleeves jacket which were reaching to his knees, and white sneakers while his face was covered with a black mask, a black bucket hat on his head, and specs on his eyes.
Everyone was confused about his appearance because he never wore these kinds of clothes while practicing. "Why are you wearing this?" KR asked him confusingly. "I'm not coming to practice because I am going somewhere else." He answered him from behind the mask. "What do you mean you aren't coming?" Joy questioned him. "Where are you going?" Sam threw another question, pushing him to answer with his elder card. "I have work to do here." Vin nodded his head and started to walk away from them. JJ had an idea where he was possibly going but wasn't sure and he didn't have the courage to go with him because he was afraid to make mistakes on the stage in front of his fans, unlike Vin.
Vin got out of the hotel and got into a cab which he booked online. No one noticed him because he was hiding his face and was quick to take a seat inside the cab. "Where do you want to go?" The cab driver asked him in English after looking at his appearance. "I…don't know. Near Goa border." He replied hesitatingly. "Yes, but where near the Goa border, exactly?" The driver questioned him. "Uhm… Somewhere…" He replied to the driver because he wasn't sure where exactly either but he wanted to try to search for her at least.
He knew he would be disappointed in the last but he didn't want to regret that he didn't even try once. The driver stopped the cab and turned to look at him raising an eyebrow at him. "I will pay… 24000." Vin exclaimed, freaking out that the driver might drop him off and not help him to find her. "Okay, But where do you want to go!" The driver was getting impatient with him because he wasn't telling him the location they were supposed to go. "Around Goa border. I…just drive." Vin said and looked around to avoid the driver's glares which were sending daggers in his direction.
"Okay, I got it, around the Goa border!" The driver said in a loud voice. "But where exactly!!!????" The driver asked him, holding himself back to yell at him. "Drive. Leave me back at…hotel." He tried to say that he wanted him to drive the cab around Goa's border and then leave him where he picked him from afterwards. "So, U-turn?" The driver asked in confusion because he thought Vin wanted to go back to the hotel. Vin shook his head vibrantly to stop him from doing so.
He remembered how Tiara used to talk with the women who were keeping an eye on her in China and pulled his phone out of his pants before typing something on it. He brought the phone near the driver's face and tapped on the screen. "I want you to drive along with the Goa's border that is attached to Maharashtra and drop me off in front of the hotel afterward." A robotic sound came from his phone and the driver listened to it carefully.
He looked at Vin and nodded his head. "Okay." The driver agreed and turned around to start the car again. He was confused about why would a person want to travel near the border only but he shoved it again because he was getting paid enough. Vin was looking out of the closed window to find something and kept looking until they reached the end of the border and they saw a beach in front of them. It took them around 5 hours to reach there which was exhausting for both of them because the driver was driving the car and Vin was looking around desperately to find that one person who he wouldn't find, He didn't even get a glace of her.
"Should we rest on the beach or go back?" The driver asked Vin while stopping the cab in front of the beach. "Back." Vin quickly answered him because he needed to take a rest before the concert tomorrow. "Okay." The driver nodded without even looking at him and turned the car to go back.
It was around an hour since they turned to go back to the hotel when the rain started making the window blur with their drops on it. Rain in the evening but it was already dark enough to call it a night despite the time, the car's headlight was on which was making the drops on the window sparkle like diamonds.
'I thought I would find you like this but I think I am the unluckiest person when it comes to you. Even the sky is crying like my heart now. I won't ask you why didn't you come to welcome us or see us, You don't want to meet us again, do you? But I think it attracted me more toward you, It increased my urge to meet you again. I care about what you think or what you want but I don't care if you don't want to me or us because I want to meet you once again. I just need to find a way back to you.' Vin was staring at the sparkly drops at the window and thinking about Tiara.
'I miss your touch. I liked it when you kissed me, I remember it, don't want to forget it ever! I miss those eyes of yours with glitters on them. It is the most purest and innocent angelic eyes I have ever seen. Those cute large eyes of yours pull me towards them like a blackhole and the worst part is… I want to be drawn in that black hole too.' Vin gulped down remembering her eyes.
'That pureness is rare to find these days… I don't know what is this, why I want to find you again, or why I think of you like this… Maybe I want to protect your pureness and innocence from the world or maybe… I jumped into love with you willingly. Is it love? Or just an attraction? Or maybe attachment?' He sighed at his thought, lost in his thought. He could only hear the hitting sound of raindrops at his cab and could only see the shower of rain outside.
The cab driver dropped him in front of the hotel and he went inside to rest. He avoided the other members because he didn't want to talk about it because he failed for what he was gone. He was disappointed and didn't want others to read his face.
The next morning, Everyone got ready for their concert and went to their concert venue. They sang and did their best in the concert but they were trying to find something each time they looked in the crowd or at the screen whenever the cameraman showed fans in the crowd which made them upset, disappointed, and desperate. All of them wanted Tiara to attend their concert but she didn't, They had to hide their disappointment from the fans and perform their best.
The concert ended after 3 hours and they fell on their knees due the exhaustion. They just wanted to go to their rooms and rest now, The dancing, running, singing, and everything they did on the stage drained their energy out of them. JJ took a pack of ice bags because his shoulder was hurt and was paining badly but he wanted to go to his hotel's room to rest on the comfy bed that's why they kept moving while he was holding the ice pack against his left shoulder which was hurt.
They got inside the little van which was supposed to take them back to their hotel. They sighed feeling the defeat. They lost hope of finding her again. The ride back to the hotel was silent, no one said anything to anyone but they were feeling that the silence was louder than words, and still, no one dared to say anything.
JJ was looking outside like half of them while pressing the ice bag against his injured shoulder. They were going through a busy road, there were only white big buildings around in which there were different shops. It was looking like a good shopping place with everything around, cafes, food places, clothes, accessories, and bag stores. It was around the afternoon which gave the white buildings a glamorous look, exactly like the place where most of the humans imagined bumping into someone and falling in love at first sight. Their car stopped due to a little bit of traffic but JJ didn't care as he was amazed by the beauty of the white building environment when his eyes fell on a familiar figure. He blinked his eyes to look carefully if he was mistaken but he saw the same figure again.
The same thin but perfect curvy, small, and cute figure that they were looking for in the thousands people of crowd but couldn't. The same girl for whom they were in this country. The very same girl who spent 3 days with them. He was able to quickly recognize her because she was wearing the pair of clothes he picked for her. An oversized black t-shirt, black loose pants with chain accessories on it in which a panda locket was hanging, and black sneakers. She had her hair tied up in a bun with some bangs on her face to look nice.
He could recognize her anywhere in those clothes and that bun on her head anywhere easily as she always kept her hair up in a bun when they were staying together, "Ti-" He stopped himself from spelling the name like before but succeeded in grabbing everyone's attention. They looked at him with questionable looks to know why he was shocked, They tried to figure out and in the end, their eyes fell on Tiara as well after following JJ's gazes.
She was talking to a young man wit a smile on her face in front of a food restaurant, it looked like they were on a date or something.