Sunday, December 16, 2012

Stranger in the Night

                                                              Part 2

"Shekhar ??? "

She exclaimed......the night,the place,the wreckage scene that lied in front, the rains, the thunders - all swept away in that moment....

He loosened the grip on her wrist....she could see the blood trickling down slowly his forehead....

She only managed to say -- "You are bleeding.....I....I......let me get someone..."

She turned to walk away to get help....and heard the voice of her demons...the voice that defined her existence....

"Will you come back for me this time......."

She paused...and turned to look at him...

Drenched in the rain, her saree clinging to her svelte frame...water dripping her loose tresses...a sudden lightning lit her face.....in his pain, in the darkness creeping down his eyes....in the chaos of the throbbing pain in his head -- he saw it all....and those large eyes of her....tears or rain water rolling down them......and he before it all went dark.....he knew....she will never return back..........

She walked away......

He had remembered later ambulance sirens,men shouting to each other....carrying him....but he knew she never came back......her touch,her presence he would have felt even in the dungeons of darkness....

 

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