WISH

*Empty streets with no street light*

*a woman wearing long frock\, drinking alcohol on the top of a 5 floor building\, in a penthouse\, with a cake box on the table beside her and three empty beer bottles*

Finishes the 4th beer and places the bottle on the wall. Sitting down in front of the table, she opens the cake box

and lights the candle. She remembers what her dad said during her 12th birthday.

Flashback- her mom lights the candle and her father tells, “Close your eyes and make a sincere wish, baby. It’ll come true.”

She removes the candle as it was melting. She puts another candle and lights it.

“I’m 28 now, my wish has been the same…since last 5 years.”

She takes a deep breath, shuts her eyes, and exhales. She makes a wish while holding her hands together. She pressed her lips tightly, a cold breeze brushing her hair and her white skin glowing in the moonlight...."I want my parents to die," she wishes as she opens her eyes and blows out the candle.

She cuts the cakes and serves herself a piece and goes out. Looking at the sky, she smiles and eats the cake with tears running from her eyes.

*Phone rings* - Someone was calling her. She goes inside. She

looks at the phone. It was her best friend.

She answers the call, “what?!”

“hello sudh, ha…happy birthday!”, he wished her with a cranked voice. “Oh my! You made my day, you see. How should I thank you now?” she replies with a sarcastic tone.

“I know you’re angry with me”, he answered. “huh ….Am I? No, I don’t think so. I’m not angry, Abhay, I’m hurt!! I am…...seriously hurt!!.....You were the only one I could trust blindly and yet….arghh..”, she falls on the couch and shouts, "why?!!! What did I do wrong?.............Answer me damnit." after a stern silence he replied, "I can explain, but you need to calm down first." Hearing this she got more furious, "I know what to do!!!"cutting the call, she threw her mobile on the couch.

She walks into her bedroom and grabs a towel from the wardrobe and goes into the bathroom, stripping her clothes. She takes a hot bath warming her muscles, she washes all the scars on her thighs and stomach and her back, knowing they won’t let her live in peace. After a long bath she goes back to the wardrobe and picks a dark blue t-shirt and changes into it. She throws herself on the bed and closing her eyes she asks herself, “Why is it so

complicated?”

Next morning, the alarm rings.

Sudh’s pov:

I woke up to the alarm shouting at me. It was 4 am in the morning. Honestly, I didn’t get enough sleep and want to sleep more, but I have a lot of things to deal with.

I called Mr. Raman, my bodyguard, and asked him to prepare breakfast for me at the office. He has been with me for the past few years, and he deals with my security and even took the leverage of handling my meals. And I didn’t stop him. He is like an elder brother to me. I saved his daughter who was kidnapped by a few gangsters, which got me one of the scars on my body. He was an ex-cop and so I asked him to be my bodyguard, he agreed without

hesitation.

I got myself off the bed and went down to the 4th floor, where I did my routine gym for an hour and went back to take a quick bath. I wore a white shirt with a black coat and a pencil skirt. Did very little makeup and curled my hair. I like getting ready. I want everything to be perfect. I left the house wearing my black heels.

It was 6:45 am, and I would be at the office by seven usually, but today I’m a bit late. Raman was waiting for me in the basement. “Good morning, sudh”, he said with a small smile. “Good morning,” I replied in my usual cold tone.

We reached the office by 7: 15. I stepped out of the car and took a moment to look at the building.

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