Free-Fall
Prologue: It was an exhausting day started at 2:35 in the night and
it had almost been a twenty four hour tear! Jay had barely enough in him to
make it through the day or so he thought, as he hit the sack to call it a
day! Favourite music in ears, favourite
book in hand, that was his way to turn off - Pg 59 of the translated version of
"Parthibhan Kanavu", and eyes lazily rolled over to Page 60 …
"He was standing on the precipice of a cliff, wind in his hair, tear
in his eyes, flowing to the command to the breeze. His whole life had been a
lie! It was going all so perfect! He had met the women of his dreams; against
his wildest expectation; it was she who had come forward with her love - and
all he could manage was a dazed nod! But they had blown hot and cold! It is but
a mystery, why two people who were tailor-made for the other could find it so
hard to remain together! They had not been together for two years now! May be it
was the fear that if they were ever broke up again, the toll it would take on
them would be something which they would find it impossible to recover from,
despite the healer - Time. Or is Time the antagonist, eating away life, love
and everything else!
He saw perched on a cliff at the other end, small mother with her infant.
He could notice, that the mother was blind, unable to realise as the child
moved towards the edge. The child was about to fall.. "Hey lady, your
child, your child is about to fall off the cliff, stop it. Hey lady,...". The
waters beneath roared thunderous melodies, putting out all other sound. He
cried aloud, gestured wildly, to alert the lady, crying his eyes out unable to
bear the thought of what was to follow, but it was too late
"Hey......."!
Epilogue: He woke covered all in sweat!! The alarm clock kept
beeping out loud, he turned it off. He shivered still as he opened his mobile
to take his mind off the present. There was this one message from HER -
"Hey HRU, was just thinking about you, about us J&K. Miss you so much.
Can we meet sometime - Love Kay (sent at 2:30 AM)". As he typed back, he
knew that she was the perfect foil to his life. He would complete her and she
him. It was with her that he was the happiest. Plain reason would tell him that
she belonged with him. Tear in his eyes, breeze in his hair he wrote,
"Miss you more than you can imagine, why were we apart all this time, can
i come over and meet you now?". The crying stopped and anger was quick to
fill that void. But she was the one who moved away. And where was she all this
while. Hadn't he heard that she was with another guy. How much that had hurt
him? How much had she hurt him? His finger was just an inch from pressing that
"Send" button. All he had to do was to press it and they would be
back together.
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