Faded Love...!!!

"I will be coming home late today. Please have your dinner and go to sleep"

"But you had promised that we will….."

"Hey listen. I have to go in a meeting. Call u later…"

Beep…beep…beep…beep…

She was used to these types of conversations lately. But today, she had least expected this as it was their second anniversary. For a moment, she forgot that this was a part of her life now, in fact their lives now. She tried not to think about all those things but her thoughts drifted in that direction speedily. Her head was spinning, her mind seemed out of control and she went to her favorite place – the one where she used to go whenever she felt down. It made her feel relax and ease all her tensions.

She thought about the initial days when their love had just blossomed. Riya and Aditya were deeply in love with each other and both had decided to spend the rest of their lives together. There was an essence of purity, respect, trust, forgiveness, acceptance, sacrifice and loyalty in their relationship which blended both of them into a single soul. They were determined to be together no matter how many obstacles may come their way and they stuck to the promise they had made to each other. Though their families didn’t agree, they got married and started a completely new life together.

In the beginning, the romance between them was abounding. They both were the world for each other and were extremely happy that way. But hardly had they known that it takes huge effort to sail a ship through the storm successfully. It all started with minor issues first and then gradually the differences between them increased. Initially, they would quarrel only amongst themselves, but soon their arguments started coming up in front of their friends as well. Their life was an open book to everyone now and it became the source of entertainment for few as well. Aditya started spending more time in office than at home. He started ignoring Riya and would never lose any opportunity to tease and provoke her. She too would always find flaws in whatever he said or did, ultimately increasing the gap between them.

Thinking about all this made her feel suffocated and she started breathing heavily. She desperately wished to go back in time and correct all those things between them that had gone wrong. She wanted to be in love again with Aditya. Though situations were going against both of them since long, she somehow expected that they would celebrate their anniversary together today. But she was shattered into pieces after hearing his response. Everything seemed useless and unbearable to her. She wanted to escape out of all this and set herself free. She wished to live in a world where there were no more hard situations between both of them, where both would only love and respect each other. She was roaming restlessly on the floor and she felt her legs could no more hold the burden of her own body.

She still moved forward, giving the entire place one last look with the hope that the place which always gave comfort to her and spared her from all the tensions will help her today as well and suddenly that place seemed a best mate to her. She felt a lump in her throat as she was going to leave this place forever, may be to find solace somewhere else. Her eyes were swollen and red, her mascara was washed with tears along her face, but these things no more mattered to her. She reached the parapet of her terrace and glanced down on the road. A distance of only seventeen floors to be travelled and everything would be fine, she thought. Without thinking too much, she climbed the parapet and stood on it. She stretched her arms and felt the cool breeze across her body. She closed her eyes and saw an image of Aditya. A soft smile spread across her lips and soon she was floating in the air….

"Happy anniversary Darling…..I love you!!!"…. She heard Aditya’s voice. She glanced everywhere around, but could not see him. She wanted to be with her husband, to hold him tight in her arms, to feel him around her, to love him, but why was she feeling so helpless? Why she was in no more control of her mind? Why was her body not responding accordingly? She started struggling a lot…She tried to get up, but could not. She started sobbing heavily and continuously. Suddenly she felt as if her body was being shaken up. She opened her eyes and was shocked to see Aditya in front of her. He was holding a bouquet of roses. She quickly looked around her and found herself in their bedroom just to realize that it was a bad dream. She hugged Aditya tightly, cried a lot and felt that in spite of the differences between them, their love was far beyond everything and she promised herself to bring back the spark of love which was only faded between them, not lost.

"Happy anniversary to you too Darling. I love you too and always will through eternity and beyond...!" was all she could say…