Sangreh - My OS Collection

4) Payback ( Pranbir and Rhea)

Drawn by a call so profound, akin to a moth to the flame she kept walking towards the cliff. It felt as if she was in a trance, her mind and body no longer under her control. All her senses had seemingly stopped working and all she could hear was her name being called out. The voice calling out held a yearning, a desperation and a certain longing. Her heart stirred in her chest even as her eyes pooled with tears inadvertently. She dint know why but she felt immense agony tighten her chest. All of a sudden she felt as if the intensity of the call has magnified. She felt more drawn and her steps increased their pace on their own accord. The dark of the sky seemed to darken even more even as the faint light of the moon cast a sinister shadow on the woods.

"Prachi!" somebody called out from the woods, making her snap out of her trance just as she was about to keep her step at the edge of the cliff! Startled she almost lost her balance and was about to fall off the cliff when two hands tightly held her in their grip and pulled her up. Before she could even register all that had happened, she was tightly secured in a warm embrace!

"What the hell were you doing here at this time of the night? You would have died if you had fallen off this cliff nothing less than an abyss! You realise that right? And do you realise that if something had happened to you, I wouldn't be able to live as well??" he shouted at her even as his grip around her tightened. She wrapped her arms around his back gently said

"Shh! Nothing would have happened to me. You know why? It's because you are there and till the time you are with me, I know for sure nothing will happen to me!"

"I'm not God Prachi! I don't know if I would be able to make it each time."

"You will!" she said, her voice conveying her faith in him. But instead of her belief soothing or assuring him, it scared him! He dint know why but he had been experiencing such feelings of fright since the past few months. Her statements of extreme belief in him somehow instilled a fear in him of something unknown.

His grip around her tightened even more and he held on to her as if she would vanish the next second if he would leave her. She just smiled a bit and held him back equally tight.
They soon broke the hug and headed towards the cottage and for this, they had to walk through the woods. Right when they were in the middle, she heard the same voice calling out to her again, this time the pull more stronger as it seemed to call her to the cliff. She stood frozen at the spot as a similar feeling of agony engulfed her heart. Tears flowed down her eyes in infinite drops.

Seeing her the way she was, all his fears increased to the fore and so did his insecurities. He shook her and wiped her tears even but niether did she move nor did her tears cease to exist. They continued to flow! And then within the blink of an eye, she was walking back to the cliff!

He screamed and rushed behind her, the woods echoing with his desperate shouts of her name yet she dint stop. And before he could reach her, she had walked right up to the edge!

"Prachi No! Please No!" he shouted as he ran with all his might yet he couldn't reach her who was a few steps away due to an unknown force holding him. Trying his best to move forward, he kept shouting her name but all she did was smile at him, her eyes shining with tears and immense love, before she turned and plunged into the abyss never to return!

"No!!!!"he shouted and the next moment, he had blacked out!

2 years later

He sat by the window gazing at the snowy mountains and the beautiful coniferous trees. It had been two years since her death yet he hadn't found answers to the mystery behind her death! The last look of her, just one moment before she jumped, had haunted him ever since and each night witnessed his struggle with the constant nightmares he had started getting since that unfortunate day.