we belong together...

"We belong together"
Part I - She leaves him gasping for breath....

Part II- Lost or found....?

One month later...

A sudden gust of breeze blew the windows of a sea facing apartment open, unveiling a freshly painted room with bare walls and unpacked boxes scattered all over the floor. Everything looked dark, silent and lifeless except the windows that rattled intermittently, as the mild drafts of wind blew against them.

Oblivious to her surroundings, she lay in one corner of the room in a state of delirium...
Pale and motionless...the lustre was gone.......

Her world was largely numb except for the distant sound of the windows and the unquenched thirst that she felt, as she wavered between various levels of consciousness…

Worn out by the immensity of her grief, she found solace in physical pain…most of which was gone now.....

As the frailty of her nerves and a lack of sensation consumed her...She slowly transcended to another world...another realm...leaving behind a trail of blood on the cold marbled floor....

Far far away from the cruel world and its complexities, in another dimension, she calmly drifted through a valley full of flowers,sheltered by a clear blue sky, towards a bright light that seemed to promise elusive happiness.She felt at peace at last, as she stood at the doorway of redemption...a place where tranquility and serenity reigned...harmony and ecstasy prevailed.

She smiled. She could finally be free now...from all the intricacies of her existence.

However, something seemed to be holding her back….She couldn't’t figure out who or why...

She dreamily whispered, “You don't understand…I’m happy here” but something kept pulling her away....

The light slowly disappeared as she struggled to free herself from the powerful siege she was engulfed in... "Let go of me.....I'm happy here...", She cried once again..But the light was gone. Everything slowly faded to black and white......

A loud scream brought her back to life....

Where was she? She wondered as she looked around puzzled by the sudden commotion around her, still in a semi-conscious state. Everything was dark and blurred, but she could hear some voices....mostly shrieks...Someone was holding her tightly, someone familiar......It was him.......

"What have you done.......!!", He cried, as he lifted her up and carried her down the stairs hurriedly. He looked miserable.

What had she done? She looked around confused and distracted by all the screaming.....Why was he so sad? She just couldn't understand...
With trembling hands she slowly touched his face...Why was he crying?

An excruciating pain shot down her spine and suddenly it all came back to her; All the hurt, all the pain and all the emptiness that she had felt, before she had decided to end it all..............

She had disappeared without a trace a month ago from his life and the lives of everyone she had known and loved... She had been unhappy for so long...She had to do this....this was the only way out- She had told herself....

A tear rolled down her cheek as she lay in his arms physically and emotionally spent...wondering whether she was lost or found...................................................
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(to be continued...)