No Love Lost- No Love Found, Part-2

She tried Ansh’s number hundredth time, but it was still switched off. He was missing. Maybe he needed some time to spend alone. He wanted to match his life with reality. However, this behavior of his was making Megha restless. She was feeling suffocated. She just wanted to bring Ansh back somehow and hug him to infinity.

“Should I call his parents?” Megha thought. And when these thoughts were juggling in her head, her cell phone started ringing.

She somehow pulled out the cell phone out of her bag. It was ‘Ansh Calling’. As soon as she tried to pick the call, it got disconnected. She took too long to pull out the phone out of her Gucci.

She took breath of relief. All her pain vanished on seeing Ansh calling her. She was happy. Her eyes squeezed out few tears in happiness. She called back. She was ready to shower her love and care to Ansh.

He picked. 

“Where the hell were you? I was so tensed, can’t you see. Someone really care for you here. I missed you Ansh. Come here right now. I will hug you and won’t let you go,” She completed and burst into tears.

“Mam, Is there any man at your house we can talk to,” An unknown famine voice asked. She was looking serious.

“No, I live alone. You can tell me what happened?”

“Mam, Last night there was some serious Emergency near Sea road. You have to come at Precious Life Hospital as soon as possible.”

Megha choked. She almost fainted, facing the truth. Tears flew out of her eyes profusely. She fell down on the corner of her PG room and started weeping silently, crushing her hand in her mouth. She didn’t want someone to hear her weep. She wanted to drain out everything she had in her heart.   

After weeping for few moments, she ran out of her PG barefoot and ran to the hospital. Rickshaw wala took half an hour to make her reach the destination.

“What happened to Ansh,” She asked at reception.

In no time, a nurse came into the sight and started narrating the matter. 

“There was a serious accident at Sea road. Patient tried to kill himself with a blade first. His wrist was in miserable condition.  When he still survived, he again attempted to kill himself with iron rod. We found three iron rods in patient’s chest. He was still alive.  He ran out of his flat and started running on the road and…” She paused shedding a tear.

“And what…..?” Megha did still not believe what happened to him.

“A heavy carriage truck hit him and his body was grinded underneath.” Nurse completed. She had tears in her eyes. It wasn’t an easy death.

“Can I see him?” Megha pleaded, unbelieving what she had just listened to. She was in shock. She had no tears to pour out. She was numb. She was pale.

“Do you really want to see?” asked Nurse, cleaning her face.

“Hmm…” Megha whispered. Her eyes weren’t blinking. She was in grief.

Nurse showed her the way to morgue. Megha looked at him. Half of his body was crusedh and rest was flooded with blood patches. She looked at his wrist. It was insane. How someone could hurt himself so badly. Every cut was the story of Ansh’s agony; His failure, his loneliness. They were big. He seriously wanted to kill himself in a single go. 

Megha cried for almost three hours in the morgue hugging his half-crushed body. She wanted him to hug her back. However, he never did.

She called her parents after coming out of the hospital. She was quiet. Three hours made her a dead-still-living-Megha. She came back to her PG, almost dead. Her eyes weren’t blinking, her hair were going nowhere. She had nothing left in her mind as well as her heart.

  

Without you, It actually hurts to stay alive,
Miserable tears of blood, I want to dive,

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Make a little space in your ams,
I am coming,
Life doesn’t worth, It’s your embrace what warms

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I want god to take away my breath,
I want to get rid of this Every moment’s death.

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No one can see, No one can feel my wound,
Unbearably, No Love lost, No Love Found.

There are some moments in your life when you just wish it to be a nightmare and not a reality. She was going through one such moments of her life. She reached her PG and dropped herself on the bed, and tried to accept the cruel reality she had just seen. What was it? Was it real or just a nightmare which would end as soon as she opens her eyes? She had no clue. 

As she struggled to get into her senses, a knock on the door helped getting her back to reality.  She drew herself towards the door and secretly wished it was Ansh as he’s always there but she knew, he had already travelled into another dimension. She opened the door to find a courier man standing with a pale green envelope in his hand. She signed the receiver’s document and collected the parcel.

She banged the door behind and walked inside her room. She looked at the parcel and her crying eyes sparkled on seeing the sender’s name while her lips curved into a smile. 

“ To my dearest Megha,

Happy Birthday…

Yours, Ansh”

Suddenly a thought triggered her mind. Today was her birthday. She forgot the day she was sent to this earth as a beautiful angel but Ansh remembered it and managed to make her smile even after he had left for his journey. She hurriedly opened the envelope and sniffed her hand in to take a CD out of it. 

She loaded the CD in her laptop and impatiently waited for the screen to animate.  

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Author-

Himanshu Appie Chhabra

Drishti Dasgupta (Blogger at Because you're - One of a Kind) 

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