The Fall

What does doing well in studies do with me getting a new phone as a gift? This concept of ignoring my ideas frustrated me. I thought over this all night and came to a conclusion that, killing myself was the only best thing to make my parents understand the pain.

But suddenly now I feel my mother was right. Anyways my grades were low and I had a number of credits that were yet to be cleared. And it was to motivate me that she denied me from getting the phone. In anger I didn’t even open the gift she gave me yesterday.

I felt sad for my mother. I felt I was missing her. I was almost there and it was too late to realise my mistake. But I tried, I threw my hand in air fighting in mid-air so that I miraculously catch some invisible rope and save myself. And go back to my mother.

“Amma”

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Thud! Everything around me went white, as if a bright light was shone in front of my eyes.

“I am sorry” was my last thought.

Evening News:

A 19 years old girl jumped off the tallest apartment building in the city (340 feet). Reports say that, she was the resident of that building and was tortured by her parents. A letter was found in her room that stands as evidence.

“Amma! I am so much frustrated living with you people. You are inhuman and don’t even respect my feelings. What is that I asked? I asked a phone, after all a new phone for my birthday. But you denied it. If you people are not capable of getting me that, I don’t think you people deserve me AMMA.”

When asked her mother (a school teacher) says: “The unopened gift box in her desk is the gift she wanted, the exact same phone she wanted. Now I feel like I really don’t deserve her.”