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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Sunday was meant to be blissful. To a degree, it was. Without any rehearsal, my immediate attention fell to the TikTok Lives and preparing for them with Zayan. The Lives would work two-fold; they’d help with Zayan’s publicity, but also with the play’s. That was why I reached out to him right after everyone left Desi Night.
Hey!! Just wanted to know if we could use a portion of tomorrow’s practice for planning how we’re going to tackle the Lives.
00:00
Zayan (The Actor):
00:12
Hey. I won’t be able to come to the rehearsal tomorrow. I’ve got an audition.
Oh. No worries. Good luck for your audition! How about Sunday? We could FaceTime and just iron out what we’re going to say and do. Maybe we could bring in Pierre too.
00:13
Read: 00:13
Left. On. Read. He left me on read. I didn’t message again. That felt desperate, and I was too busy obsessing over why his attitude had changed back to the cold celebrity I first thought he was.
My suspicions about Zayan are confirmed when I see him standing on stage on Monday, holding his script in his hands; the cast and crew’s attention momentarily falls to me as I walk in, including Zayan’s. When our eyes meet, he doesn’t linger. He looks away, going even as far as to turn his body away from my general direction.
I greet Anushka, keeping Zayan and David in my peripheral vision. Zayan has pressed his palm to his cheek, one arm wrapped round his upper body as he listens to David. I will him to look at me, wishing we had some telepathic connection.
