I was a working man. I previously had a job as a software engineer, in Ebex- Software Engineering Office, Pune.

But, recently,just a few months ago, I had lost my job, due to my very poor performance and attendance there, and...... one more reason .....

...I used to go there very late and .... being drunk...

Actually, a few months ago , when one day, I returned from my office, I suddenly got a call from an unknown number.

It said," Your mother is no more. Kindly come to the hospital to take her body home."

I was shocked!

I couldn't believe what I had heard!

I already lost my father at a very young age.

After that, my mother was my only support.

But Today , ......I just couldn't take what I had heard.

Just then, I received another call.

This time, it was my aunt, my mother's elder sister.

I received the call, Just to hear her saying," Please don't come here, son. You won't be able to bare all this. You won't be able to bare the sight of your dead...de....de...dead....m...m...... mother!"

I understood she was crying badly while she spoke.

But suddenly, she started to stutter!

And her breath stopped....

I started shouting in the phone," Aunty! What happened? Why did you suddenly...."

Before I finished, my uncle responded, that, my aunt had fainted.

I fell to the ground.

I couldn't take it at all!

I couldn't digest the fact that I became an orphan!

And now, my aunt had fainted!

I rushed to the hospital.

When I reached there, I was dumbfounded after seeing what I saw....

A body, covered in white cloth, laid in a stretcher, was being brought out from the OT, and my aunt and uncle, stood there speechless....

They noticed me.

I couldn't stand all this!

Why always me !?

Why I'm always the sufferer!?

God didn't leave my mother too!?

Why did he leave me then?

I started sobbing, yelling, crying like hell!!

My mother's body was brought out finally.

I ran to her.

I started shouting at the nurses there!

I yelled and said that I wanted to talk to my mother.

I wanted to hug her.

I wanted to kiss her.

I wanted to cry on her lap and tell her never to joke again!

But I knew it wasn't a joke .

I just couldn't accept it!

How could I, anyway!!!???

My aunt, though herself being in a shaken state, tried to calm me down.

But, ..... but I just couldn't calm down....

That night, after my mother's funeral, I returned home, with two bottles of wine.

It was the first time in my life I had touched a wine bottle and was gonna drink it!!

I went to my room, locked myself up, and cried and drank like hell!!

After that day, I stopped going to office.

And I used to drink almost every day.

I wasn't in a condition to inform everything in my office .

I didn't even recieve my office calls .

Thus, few months later, I rejoined office.

But I still wasn't stable.

After the first day of rejoining,

The next day onwards, I started going late, in a drunk condition.

As my instability obliged me to...my instable mental health obliged me to!

On the sixth day, I was called to the room of my boss, and he handed me a letter and an a form.

He said, "Sign here. Read the letter later."

"What's this, Sir?" I asked.

"Your suspension form .Sign here for the confirmation that you're accepting your suspension ." he replied in a heavy and angry tone .

"What! suspension!?

What the hell!

Why am I being suspended all of a sudden!?"

"Read it in the letter you got!"he yelled!,"Now for God's sake, please sign! And get out of here!"

"Sir, actually, I.... I ........I........"

before I finished, I suddenly felt myself very weak, drowsy, my legs trembling....

I couldn't stand all of that!

I suddenly.....fell to the ground.....

Stay tuned in , my friends, for the upcoming episodes...

Singing off,

~@h@n@~

Friends, the name of the man, is Soham.

And the other characters who will come next, will introduce themselves in the upcoming chapters.

RECAP--Soham couldn't stand all that.

While recieving the suspension form, he couldn't stand upright anymore, and fell to the ground.

That day, neither, he didn't drink before going to office nor did he go late.

He hoped for a better future from that day onwards but that day darkened his future and......

CHAPTER~2: WHEN I MET HER...

but.....

Continue....

Soham received the suspension form and being unable to stand the situations, his legs tremble and he falls to the ground...

"Soham!"sir yelled out!

"Soham! Wake up man!"

He called for the office staff for help.

Few minutes later, when I gained consciousness, I found myself lying on the sofa, in my boss's cabin.

I sat up straight. I remembered, I was to sign in the suspension form.

I searched for the form beside me, but didn't get it.

My boss was sitting beside me without a word.

Silently, he handed me over, the form.

With trembling hands, drowsiness and blurred vision due to my tearful eyes, I managed to scribble my name on the form.

Then I got down from the sofa, and crying

like hell, with a feeling of drowsiness and instability in my movements, I took my messenger office bag with me and ran towards the main door with tearful eyes!

I don't think I ever cried so much due to any official issue , but I never knew I have to face such a day!!

I felt like going to my mother's straight away instead of going home.

What would I do going back?

Sir and cry and drink!

And regret for not having gone with my mother before all this!

I came out on the main road. I wiped my tears, but I they they refused to dry!

I walked towards my bike, without knowing in which direction, towards what/ whom I was walking.

My eyes just sheded tears and with a blurred vision, I walked ahead, when suddenly I bumped into something, or..... someone...

I immediately said sorry, and while wiping my tears, I asked for forgiveness once more and when I looked up, it was a girl I'd bumped into...!

I said sorry, so did she...

but...in a angry tone....

She said," Can't you look forward and walk! Though it was in one hand, my mistake too, but you should have been looking up while walking. I noticed you looking down, seemed you're lost in thoughts! Take care , next time onwards."

"Sorry once more... Actually, It wasn't my intention to bump into you...

Actually...... now I'm in a......"

Before I finished, suddenly, she started,'' Intention!? I never spoke about that! Why suddenly did you speak about intention? Does that mean you had an intention!!???

What! How Dare !!......."

"I didn't! It happened by mistake! Understand? If you wanna *misunderstand* me, you may, to your fullest! I've no interest to argue with you! I'm actually not in a state to argue with you! Go your way! I'll go on mine."

She already seemed angry , and especially after bumping into eachother.

And now after I spoke to her like this, she was frustrated like nothing!

In utter frustration and anxiety, she yelled," Very well! Go your way! Some people don't know to accept their mistakes! Just sheding tears, and trying to emotional blackmail others, I hate all that!!Bye !!"

I was quite hurt by her way of talking and her words but I don't know why, I quite liked her...

She misbehaved so much, but why am I quite liking her!.

I won't. I decided!

I was just a wandering soul now!

I don't think I'll be able to ride my bike after all that has happened!

I couldn't decide whether to live or die!...

Why was I suspended?

...why didn't my boss try to understand me atlast once...why?

Why did that girl all of a sudden misunderstood me?

Was I born to be misunderstood and suffer always!!

.How will I live now!?

Without being economically and mentally settled, and stable, how would I survive?

Sometimes I wish to die ....I wish I would have been dead!!!

But today, I wished I would have been Neverexisting! instead of dead!

Then I wouldn't face any of this....

I kept crying, sitting on my bike...

I cried like hell!

I then managed to give my bike a start, and set out for home.........

Or actually not home....to the drinks shop first...I decided, I'll drink till I die....and this time, there was no one to cry for me......no one to shed tears ...as my mother was not there anymore...she was the only one left who would cry if I die....to whom, my death would matter a lot!

Now, she wasn't there anymore......

So no one to cry ......

I can die with freedom!

I wanted to go to my mother and I will!

No one to stop me!

I bought 3 bottles of wine..... one more than usual...

After buying those, when I went to my bike, to my utter surprise, my bike wasn't there where I had parked it!

It...it was missing!..

I searched madly everywhere, but it was nowhere to be seen.....

I asked the people around me if they had seen a bike here anywhere....or someone riding it and going....

Same reply from everywhere.....NO! ......

Oh God! Why me!....?????

How would I go home now?

I had hardly a hundred rupees left!

If I spent it, I would be left with barely some money to spend a month and then........

without any income, how would I survive?.

I started walking on foot.

if this takes me few metres to my house...mm.

I was walking subconsciously...lost in thoughts...............

I didn't notice when I had come to the middle of the road ....

Suddenly, a car, pacing towards me....not with much speed, but enough to push away a person, hit me.

I fell on the road and laid there subconscious......

I barely could see something ...I wanted to faint, or die....

But I laid there, howling and yelling in pain.....

The people in the car and the surrounding people rushed towards me....

I couldn't bare the pain!!!

I finally................................................. fainted!

I thought I went to my mother........mmm....... but I didn't have enough time to think whether I actually did or not.........and before I realised anything else, I fainted!

to be continued, read the upcoming chapters.....

Stay tuned in, my friends....

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Signing off,

~@h@n@~

IT STARTED WITH A MISUNDERSTANDING~(Gh: 3)

Recap--

Soham met an accident.

Everyone around him , surrounded his unconscious body and the driver of the car, a girl, rushed to Soham and tried to wake him up; but he won't. His head bleeder badly and his shirt was red in blood.

CHAPTER 3: DON'T GO AGAIN!

Continue.........

Many among the crowd, panicked .

But no one called an ambulance.

The girl was feeling very guilty of herself. She cried, little because of Soham, more because she feared.....she feared if ...... if....if Soham died!

She took her mobile phone out, and dialled the ambulance number.

She yelled and said," Please come near the drinks shop, on the main road. There's an accident case. Come as soon as possible!!"

Few minutes later, the siren was heard.....

To the girl, the siren seemed like the siren of hope..... Hope to get Soham cured....to save him......to not get blamed for Soham's .......

let it be. ... won't say that word more.....

pray for his get well soon.... that's all the girl wanted to and was left to do.....

Soham was taken into the OT.

The girl sat outside, with some amount of hope in some corner of her heart, that Soham was okay and he'll be out soon.

She remained seated.... and kept thinking to herself......'First time in my life.....for the very first time.....I faced such a situation.

For the first time, I was so subconscious minded while driving, that , today a life was about to end.....for me....... only for me!"

She felt very much guilty!!

Few hours later, she was called to the doctor's cabin.

She went to the doctor's cabin, with a hope, that she'd get good news ...

The doctor said," He's okay. No worries now. Just......."

Before he completed, the girl cut in between," just what? please continue, doctor ...."

"Please be calm. Let me say. "

And he continued," Just, his limbs...I mean, the left leg and left hand, are quite injured..... gravely. He's got a slight fracture in his left knee. He may have to stay bedridden for about two months. And his left arm, bruised and a deep cut. Those have been stitched. But, he needs to be 24/7 cared for. Does he have someone who will always be with him, will care for him, and not let him down. Is anyone such there?"

The girl recalled Soham's words, he told her, the day they bumped into eachother.

"No." She replied in a sad undertone.

"What!" exclaimed the doctor.

"He won't get well soon then. Doesn't he have a family?"

"No. He doesn't. His family left him. Long back."she replied.

"Oh ! really sorry for the poor soul! Then I don't think he'll get well soon. He'll suffer the pain, live in pain, live with pain, for quite a long time...!"

"I...I understand, Doctor. I understand...."

she replied.

Few hours later, after a long time awaited, she was allowed to meet Soham.

Soham was laying on the bed, unconscious, head bandaged, an arm bandaged, a leg plastered.

The girl went and sat down on the tool beside Soham's bed.

She felt inside her, a liking for Soham. She felt, she had liked him......

But she didn't think of all that much.

She sat there, staring at Soham.

It was evening....or actually.... nearly night...

about 8pm .

She didn't return home that day.

Nor did she inform anything.

Suddenly, she received a call, it was her mother.

She received the call. First she tried to hide everything.

But she couldn't.

She told her mother, everything that had happened.

And right then where she was.

Her mother didn't get much angry. She said that she could return home when everything was okay. She said she trusted her. She consolidated her and the line went dead.

When she went back to Soham, she noticed something, something good!

Soham was moving. He opened his eyes and looked around.

She stood in front of his eyes. Seeing her, at first he failed to recognise. But then, he recognised!

"Y....y....you!?"he said ," Why are you here?

Why are you beside me? I ....I... quite well remove that you said you hated people like me... then why....why did you......?"

Soham panted...he could hardly speak...

He was still in bit pain....

"I'm Suhani ." said the girl. "I'm here beside you today, as,............as ...."

"As?"

"As, you're here today, became of me."

Before she said anything else, Soham said," Be....b... because of you!? But how?

How can you be the reason for me to be here? ......it was just a car accident. that's all! No connection of all this with you."

"Yeah. you're right. It was an accident. But not 'just' accident. Actually, I was the driver of the car that hit you.

Actually , ....."

"What!!!"

"Please let me say first. Let me let you know what actually happened . Actually, I was quite lost in thoughts. About my career. I joined new at EBEX-COMPUTER ENGINEERING OFFICE"

"What!? What name did you say?"

"EBEX"

"I used to work there......but......"

"But?"

"But, after my family left me, I was just tok much taken aback to do anything! to live anymore! But still I lived....hoped for a better future. But , I wasn't enough destined, enough favoured, enough lucky , to get what I expected, what I wanted.

Instead, I got suspended! Suspended forever! I have no career! no family! nothing!" Soham started to sob by then.

"Tell me why did you save me! why? You could have let me die! I would have been living with my family now!

Why?"

he cried badly by now...

Suhani wiped his tears..." I'm there. Don't worry. And..... please forgive me for all my misbehaviour and harsh words I had said that day. I'm .....I'm extremely sorry!"

"It's okay. My fault. I didn't go with my mother. I lived. !"

"Please. no more such words. I'm understanding what is going on in you....but my soul isn't calm, too. I too have been through a lot of......." she sobbed. She couldn't speak further.

"A lot of?"

"Leave. You take rest. THAT most important for you to do right now. You may know everything when you get discharged from the hospital. please take rest."

"mm...I wanted to share many thoughts,too. Thanks for your support. You must go home now. Your family must be waiting. I wasted lot of your precious time ."

"I should have said it instead. Anyway, you take rest. I'll be with you, till you get discharged from the hospital. "

"Thanks...... Suhani..." he smiled.

"Welcome, Soham."she smiled back.

Then Soham fell asleep.

Few minutes later, Suhani's phone rang.

She went few metres away from Soham and recieved the call. It was her mother.

"Hello Ma!"

"Suhani, Suhani! ........"

"Ma! Ma!"

Suhani understood that her mother was weeping badly. But ... what happened all of a...

sudden!?

Why was her mother crying?

Why had she called her?

Suhani thought of calling back...

But she didn't.

She couldn't decide whether to go or not... Her family was her first priority!

When she turned around to face Soham, she saw something that left her shocked! Speechless!

She saw.....she saw......

to be continued, read my next chapter...

hope you liked it till here .

Signing off,

~@h@n@