Save Me..

Madness

Dev's POV

I know he must be busy. Well, he deserves his life with Ananya. She's a nice girl, at least, I wanna believe that. Not everyone in this world is bad, just because I had an experience..

A part of my heart still wanted to defend her. No matter if I had seen enough with my eyes, my brain could process everything but my heart.. my shitty heart.. yeah, shitty. Crappy, stupid.. broken..

Don't cry.. don't cry.. men don't cry..

Had I been in an Indian soap opera, probably I'd be pondering around till the sunlight merged from the other side of the horizon. But I'm not in one, there's no need to ponder around. All that I have seen was true, so fucking true.. she cheated on me. She did.. with that guy, and, he didn't even seem that much intimidating in the first look.

What the fuck did you see in him, Divya?

A pang shot through my chest. It was hard, my knuckles gripping the edge of the bridge, feeling numb. It was feeling like, I was being beaten by a club inside my chest, hard, unforgiving blows right at my heart. I wondered how the hell didn't I die of heart attack yet. It was possible to die from immense heart break, wasn't it?

I was about to put my leg on the side of the railing, when I noticed for a moment, just a few metres away from me, another figure has appeared. It seemed like a female. Well, why do I care about my surroundings. I've been far too disturbed recently, and it hasn't even been half a day since I've seen what a human from the same sex standing few metres away, did to my sanity. I was charged with madness, madness from heartbreak, madness from memories, madness from feelings, madness from chaat, ma-

Chaat?

I looked thinning my eyes, what was she eating.. chaat? I mean, I do have a strong sense of smell, specially when it's about spicy street food. But, who eats chaat on a bridge, near the railing, also leaning over slightly, looking at the sky and, there was no vendor nearby either!

My mouth made an annoyed shape, my brows thinned, and for a moment I even forgot I was gonna jump. Now looking away from her, I pressed my palm on my forehead, pulling my hair slightly backwards. My madness seemed to have been overcome with the probable madness going on about some.. 20 meters away from me.

I looked at her again, and she still was gazing at the stars with dreamy eyes. With chaat, of course. I decided to ignore her, and took my step.

One, two, three, up. And I climbed to the other side of the railing. It trailed through my head again, when I felt my stomach emptying up in a sick way.. just about my lower rib, I could feel the feeling of someone crashing my in their arms. I blinked twice, and freed my right hand from the railing.

I looked straight below, I could feel the drop was gonna take more than 7 second hopefully. Humans are known to memorise the beautiful memories of someone's life in a movie like manner for the last 7 second of their life. So probably I'll be reminded of those and my death wouldn't be so sad.

I was so consumed in the thoughts that, I didn't notice a footstep approaching me. As soon as I left my left grip and decided to give myself to the almighty, another hand flew in, and gripped my left elbow.

"WAITTTT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

I blinked my eyes after a few moments, when I didn't feel the wind rushing from below, and finally smashing against the water. When I stopped blinking, the touch of another human registered.

"Oi! I'm talking to you, what kind of madness are you trying to show?"

The voice didn't sound scolding like Divya, neither did I recieve a slap or, a blow from another random thing of the surrounding. So, I sighed, closing my eyes and looking back.

It was dark, so I couldn't clearly see anything much. Except, the girl was about.. six inches shorter than me, had a nice nose, contrasting to the shadow falling on her face. As slowly the things started to seem brighter. I noticed more things.

She had nerdy glasses like me. Except, mine were rectangular, hers were rounder, She had a good amount of curly, maybe wavy and black hair, falling off her shoulder and back, around chest length and she was looking pissed.

"What happened? Is something wrong?" I managed to ask, clearly kindoff taken aback with the sudden interruption in my suicidal attempt.

"Hawwww!! You tell me! You are the one on the other side of the bridge, not me, idiot!" She seemed to shower her sass around every other person, from the tone of her speaking, I could understand. For some reason.. it wasn't threatening as Divya's voice when she used to..

"Hello? Hello?? HELLOOOOO?!!!"

My ear felt like bursting. Ufff, she surely had loud voice. I closed my eyes and thinned my eyebrows, mouth twitching. Goddamn, I can't even die without getting yelled at.

"I am listening! What is it?"

"What the hell are you doing on the other side of the bridge?"

I made a frowned face, clearly, the universe would not allow me to die in peace. I guess answering her would be easier if it means she'd stop shouting at my face,

"I am not trying to find some audience to show my madness to, thank you. I'm disturbed enough for tonight. You can continue with you chaat."

Her next tone came even angrier, and I regretted answering her immediately.

"YOU WERE EYEING MY FOOD??"

No, I was trying to die peacefully. But seemed like it wasn't an option. Alive or dead, seems like I'm always bothered by some kind of disturbance somehow.

"No, I am sorry. I honestly just was trying to die."

She thinned her eyebrows and suddenly, started tugging my hand backwards. I was dumbfounded. Why was she trying to pull me back, I just told her I was trying to do something, and she's preventing me. Why does she even need to stop me, if she wants that. There's no reason. She can be a good person but, here's risk of getting into witness harassment if I died in front of her. She should run away.

"Are you listening? Do you wanna talk?" She looked at me with the eyes of a doe. I sighed, I'm not a rude person to act like an stone cold person.

I guess, fine. I could give her some time to talk before jumping to show my "madness".