Chapter. 23. Help, Rumours.
The leader: "Well we so need someone's help, but I don't think that someone is her".
Max: "What does that mean?"
The leader glanced at Aai and said "May we have a moment here?".
Aai: "... It's fine just say it". She was firm.
The leader sighed and said, "Well the girls here refuse to work with her".
Max: "May I know the reason here?". He glared at the girls.
The leader: "Actually she's someone who's famous among the juniors and the seniors. You must have heard the rumours about her saying that she's a bad influencer".
Max: "... ?... Oh, that! What's her rumour have to do with her helping here?".
A girl in the team spoke, "Max it's not just rumour. Some of our seniors say that they have seen her get into fights".
Max: "Did you see that?". He spoke sharply making the girl scared.
"You know some boys in bikes came here to pick her up, though she didn't go with the bikers instead went with some good-looking tall guy".
Max: "Well it's a fashion to ride bikes nowadays what's wrong with that?".
The girls still came up with an excuse but Max just refused to accept.
The leader: "Just why are you so fixed on having her Max?"
Max: "It's just that the rumours have nothing to do with her helping. We need a hand and she's willing to offer what's the problem? She's not even asking for anything in return, we are the ones benefiting here and also it's just for a few days. So what is the problem?".
Max's words sound so true. Hearing him his friends agreed to him then later girls too though few of them were scared of her.
The leader smiled and adjusted her lens. "Then it's settled, Aai, I thank you for agreeing and let's start our work".
Aai looked at Max, who noticed her and smiled, "Let's get along well".
Aai ignored him. Max stood scratching his head.
"MAAAX!". Max suddenly turned around and saw Chase standing furiously.
Max: "Chase haha could you cool down?". Max nervous.
"YOU SURE HAVE TIME TO PLAY?" Chase pulled Max by his collar and dragged him away.
Max: "UGH! CHASE! Wait..... !".
The leader began assigning Aai her task. She was strict with her job and talk so she didn't go easy on Aai. Aai was given the same treatment as the others by her which somewhere gave Aai an ease.
Abhi a friend of Max went to Max, "Hey! Is it okay for the leader to act like that with that senior?".
Max: "It's fine".
Now Aai had to plan the stage set up and arrangement for which she was cracking her head. It was a comedy and drama theatre so she had to think of something warm and light designs.
She was also asked to help others with their task too. Though she was ready to help, no one went up to her so she focused on designs.
Day passed and the next day as she was arranging the stuff and the rest were practicing.
The leader called her and asked to check on the script. She walked to her and observed.
Except for Max and his two friends, the others went stern while playing. One of them suddenly fell down tearing the cloth apart.
"The costume! Aaa.... !" the leader was fainting from the scene.
Aai suddenly caught her and said that she could fix that. Somehow adding decor and stitching up, the costume looked better.
Not just the costume, Aai even helped to make posters for their play, shifting stuff to the auditorium with others and of course her design setting.
Looking at how busy seemed, Max went to the leader and asked, "Hey! Could you slow her down. She's like doing a lot".
The leader: "What? How many days do you think we have left to slow ourselves down and since she's here for that only na?". She said as she was checking the papers.
Max: "No just that.... ".
The leader: "You seemed to have a lot of time on hand. JUST WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DECIDE ON YOUR MAKEUP?". she was furious.
Max: "Haha...I'll do that soon". He walked away frightened.
The leader: "Humph!....Aai are you done with the background?".
Aai: "Ah!..... Here's that".
The leader was pleased with the design. They soon began working on that.
But something was bound to happen.