As the clock strike 8, Sandra and her new colleague Millie turns at a Purlieu, wearing their best dresses. As their team is going to celebrate their new achievement in Software development for the Country's Military service.
"Why are you so dull?" Millie asks Sandra, as she observes Sandra's unconcerned upon the party.
"It's not like that", Sandra replies with a small courtesy smile upon her artistically contoured face.
"What Ladies?? Gossiping about me?"James their team lead joined them, while Millie excuses herself for lu.,
When James and Sandra were busy in chirping jokes about the team, James heard someone's loud voice, he looks up to find their guests are arrived and decamped himself to management.
Everyone occupied themselves with starters and food as the party rolled. Sandra being Introvert, found Millie talking interestingly to their manager.
So, Sandra walked to them with her plate filled and started listening as they are discussing some brawl happened earlier. After some time, she lost her interest in both food and their conversation, so she excuses herself for dumping her plate.
While she flects low to dump her plate into the bin, another plate joined with her and resonated loud. When Sandra retracting back, Her senses started filling gradually with a known fragrance.
Sandra bents her head and fixes her gaze down on the floor as she feels the fragrance fills her to the core, consumes her senses and pulls her to the source.
Sandra started feeling her palms and feet sweaty, her feet were slipping from her sole grip. Sandra abruptly fixed her dress with the left hand and made her lips into a thin line, carried her walk by gripping the sandal tighter with her toes to the ladies room.
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Before 4years
Sandra in her pink sundress, sling her bag to the side, walking past her mother in a very well-known mall.
With black, shoulder length hair, which compliments her short nose and black eyes. Sandra approached her mother to take permission to join her later.
As her day is quite enjoyable, she entered a tarot shop, next to a CD store. Sandra finds a very old lady sitting behind curtains, tarot cards spread Infront of curtains. Sandra finds it alluring.
Sandra being Naughty by nature, giggles "O wise old day, I want to pick a card to find my future" asks her while moving a card from the pack of cards, which spread Infront of her.
Old lady picked up the card which Sandra moved, and twitched her lips. As curtains separate Old lady and Sandra, Sandra felt difficult to guess Old Lady expression.
"What happened?? Have I been blessed with luck, and are you jealous of it??" The wayward behavior Sandra chirped out with curiosity
"No dear, A mishap, You," she said with her shaky thin breathy voice.
Sandra found it was pretty amusing, left a 20 bucks note and forget it as soon as she steps out of Tarot lady threshold.
When Sandra enters into the CD shop, A bulky man entered brushing past her. Sandra fell on to another man who walks Infront of her,
"Oh. God...my jaw hurts.." the man exclaimed for the unexpected contact with the floor,
"I'm sorry, a bulky man brushed past me" Sandra's eyes almost moisten because the rough carpet scratched her cheek and her ankle got twisted after they both fell together
The man upon whom Sandra fell, lifted himself from the floor and passed his hand to Sandra to stand-up. She took it and shrugged her ankle off to get relief from pain and excused herself,
After the fortuitous accident, Sandra drifted off her mind from that, immersed herself searching for the desired CD. While searching, she found the bulky man, who brushed her at door, started looking for something here and there near her legs.
"What do you want sir?" Sandra asked while turns to him, picking up a CD.
Immediately the bulky man caught her hand, took her bag away. He picked a bracelet from it, And started accusing, "She is trying to theft his dropped bracelet"
One after another people started gathering around Sandra. Sandra's face started getting pale, and blood started to freeze upon their horrible accuses, and name callings.
Now the man who fell together with Sandra came to her. He stood Infront of the bulky man and slapped him hard on his face.
"Every word you Pronounce, I will reward them with a slap. Till I complete my words" Sandra's Savior started his monologue. His eyes were very determined at the bulky man like they were inducing fear in him. He started looking around at everyone in the shop.
Now, Sandra feels a little bit happier, as someone talking behalf of her. "That bracelet unexpectedly fell in her purse," his voice is very stern and clear like judgment. The bulky man accepted his defeat as his eyes were bloodshot red, and cheek was lashed out.
When Sandra's savior started to leave, Sandra follows him out of the shop,
"Hello. Mister. Sandra's savior".. Sandra called out, and ran after to reach him,
The man stops after he listened to her 'vile' name call. He finds it alluring, turned to her with his signature smile.
Sandra took deep breathes, bending and holding her knees for support as she ran out of it. He waits patiently for her while observing all the flushed details of her face.
"Thanks, what's your name?" Sandra asked him by spreading his palm standing straightly.
"Kristin it is, I know you, I have friends from your college," he said, and both proceed walking further, sharing their whereabouts.
Sandra's phone rang after sometime indicating it's her queue for leave. Before they leave each other, they found they were escaping into a different world in each other's company. So they exchanged mobile numbers.
Day after day, month after months, there spark lightened up, weaving a wonderful Love vine around them. When day blooms they catch up with each other and share how their night is. And when night falls, they used to talk about everything, anything that they feel to talk and sometimes, start a fight for nothing till sunrise.
On their graduation day, Kristin wanted to take their relationship to further, intertwining themselves in a Holy knot. But Sandra wishes to move to the city in order to perceive her dream to be a designer of weaponry.
Kristin and Sandra used to visit each other every fortnight. As months passed by, Sandra & Kristin get busy with their work. They fell sad and strive themselves for time to call each other every day.
One day Sandra plans a surprise visit to Kristin's place. When She dolls up, reaches his room. She found some other man instead of him.
"where's is Kristin!?!", Sandra asks him, thinking he might be his new roommate.
"Who is Kristin??" He looks at the unknown girl surprisingly asking about unknown person
"Kristin, isn't he living here?" Sandra asks him as it surprises her, that he never mentions upon vacating his room. When she is traveling back to her Parents house Sandra sees Michael, a friend of Kristin entering a restaurant, so she drives her car to it.
"Hey Michael, How are you?" Sandra's surprising voice startled Michael but shares a welcoming hug.
"Hi to you too girly, how are you, and your work??" Michael asks her with a sparkle in his eyes,
"Good, how is Michael, I didn't talk or met with him after graduation,", Sandra play Infront of him, like they were separated. Michael didn't make eye contact after hearing this Sandra.
"as he still has backlogs in graduation, he is still writing exams. His father rejected him out of the house. He said he is in severe financial crisis when the last time I talk to him" Michael told Sandra with a cracked voice and leaves the Restaurant.
Sandra remembers Kristin behavior with her. Whenever she calls Kristin to talk to him about her bad day or problems, he always listens to her attentively, but he never shares something. If she asks him why his voice is broken, he buries it by singing a soft song for her.
Upon remembering his soft voice, Sandra understands how much Kristin loves her. Still, It took a troll upon Sandra, that she can't digest he lied about his results, financial crisis.
With disturbed mindset, Sandra leaves her hometown without informing her arrival to her parents.
Later one day Kristin calls her, to inform that he is coming stay with her, as he could have job opportunities there. Sandra hides that she came to know about his issues, and start living happily with him.
Every time Kristin leaves for Interview, Sandra wishes him Luck, but as the Bad shot of the luck, as many trials as he did, he never gets through them. As much as Kristin loves Sandra and keeps her Smile without deflowering, Sandra started searching for the Answers. Why it always happens to him? , after all, she knows how Industrious he was.
One day, when Sandra packing her bags, "where are you going Sandra," Kristin asks him as he hugs her from back, and lifting her in the air. The small gestures and sweet kisses that he always does, they show a great impact on her.
"Kristin, I'm feeling giddy, put me down, what's the news", Sandra asks him chirpy kissing his cheeks
"I'm going for an interview tomorrow," Kristin informs her, looking into her eyes like he looks directly into her soul. But Sandra started looking here and there turns to bag and again starts packing her clothes.
"What? say something, where are you going", Kristin asked Sandra, while falling on the bed beside her bag.
"Um, I'm leaving for a project, will come back in two days", Sandra explained slowly.
As her phone starts ringing, Sandra zips her bag and kissed his cheek, inhales his scent which links her soul to him and left the house.
After a week Sandra returned and find, Kristin left for the new office, as she looks at the appointment letter upon the table in his room.
Sandra's behavior started changing gradually. She quits talking to Kristin and often spends at her colleague's place in the weekend. And she started applying for another company in different cities, because, Kristin start to face issues again whenever he fights with Sandra.
One day, a courier arrives for Sandra, while Kristin collected it, and it leaves him numb.
"God, how many times I have to explain this to you Kristin", Sandra rends the air and plops down on the sofa defeated. Covering her face with palms, Sandra trying to control her emotions and searching for words that convey herself without hurting him.
"I can't interpret why do you always bury things away from me?" Kristin's face shaded to red, and his eyes turned glossy as he feels his heart get tormented by Sandra's behavior.
"Kristin, Understand if I want to get you know, I will. Just try to understand". Sandra feels suffocating to see Kristin holding her 'joining letter'. she knows how extreme he can reach in his temper. She tried to look away but caught when Kristen pierces his gaze upon her.
"Sandra, I know you are taking me for granted, as 'time-pass', dammit", Kristin vociferated and slapped the courier besides her on the sofa. But it hit Sandra by mistake.
"Don't worry, I didn't tear off your call letter, because of I never steep that low like you," Kristin turned his body away from her, as he feels defeated by his own emotions. Sandra raised her head and gazed at Kristin sharply
Sandra suddenly felt debilitated as he faces again at her. ,
"you want reason right, then listen. We are done. Are you happy?" Sandra disclosed what she never wanted to.
" You will never understand how much I love you in your life." With that, Kristin left her presence.
This is it, Sandra reasons herself, left her room with the courier cover.
As soon as Sandra left her room, Kristen unsealed a whiskey bottle from the fridge and started consuming raw. He tried to point out where his relationship has gone wrong, but he knocks off as drink descends more in his throat.
Sandra trying to reconcile herself by sitting on her bed. But her tears are claiming victory upon her self-control. As the time passes she felt more and more disappointed in herself. So she felt her gut kicks the urge to leave before the cooling period. So she packed her bags and looked for Kristen. As he is no longer in her eye-reach, she dumped her luggage's in her car and vanished herself from his house there by his life.
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Kristin wakes up to find Sandra left him, but he didn't know why she left him. His brain is exploding by thinking 'what has he done wrong, that leads her to punish him like this'.
As Kristin started going through an emotional trauma, millions of emotions started pounding his heart. He started drinking more and more, as she is the only light, in his dark life and he lost her. He never shared any of his problems with her, because he born and live in problems and he never wanted his darkness to touch her.
He let his feelings pour out as tears, as he sees his world-shattering in front of his eyes, everything was falling apart. He started hating his life, his skin, his body from the moment she left his life.
As the days pass by, Kristin wants to relive these feelings again at least for a day. As he knows it is hard and close to impossible. He quit eating and started harming his wrists. He feels fighting his emotions each and every second is getting tougher and the wound that he bore over his heart was getting an increase.
Kristin's miss Sandra, the purest woman he saw, badly.
He misses her laugh, her gestures, her hugs, her fragrance which keeps him alive, very badly.
She is the first girl who invaded his heart and earned respect a lot. , she can transform herself just for his happiness but she is nowhere in his reach.
As the time pass, Kristin sat on the kitchen floor thinking about Sandra's laugh. The alluring laugh which comes out of her lips whenever he chirps a joke while talking on the phone. Slowly slowly, Kristin started questioning himself, 'Doesn't she know how much he loves her?'
'Doesn't she know what she is to me?'
'Why did she left me when I can't live without her?' breaths became inaudible as his tears flow upon the floor with the blood from his wrists.
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Sandra felt her eyelids heavy to open, and sharp light Pierce through her eyelids when she tried once more. she found an IV attached to her right hand as she manages to rub her eyes. When Sandra lifted herself up, the iron bed started to creak, awakened Millie from her half-sleep.
"Where am I??" Sandra asked Millie as, and Millie helps her to sit comfortably.
"You scared everyone in the party, you found unconscious on the floor when I saw you in the ladies room, so, we brought you here". Millie shared what she missed in the story while pour juice for Sandra.
Sandra took juice from Millie's hand and found an Unreadable expression in Millie's eyes as she whisks her hair off from her shoulder.
As Sandra completely understood, that she was a mishap in his life. She wanted to drift away completely from his life. So that, he will achieve what he wanted to achieve.
One early morning, she felt Kristin presence near to her, hugging her from behind. She dismissed her thoughts and restrained the pull she was feeling, deep in her heart. As the day ascends bright Sandra is feeling her pull increase, and gut kicks her to run their house to get a glimpse of him.
As her Heart races undertaking her senses, She drives her car fast to find a Police jeep and Ambulance parked near their home. Sandra wanted to see him. But she never wanted to watch his swollen lifeless body holding her scarf to his heart.
As tears roll down her cheeks, she wanted to touch his skin one last time. She wanted to take his dimple cheeks one last time in her palms. She wanted to kiss one last time on his forehead and hug him to her heart. But her legs didn't have enough strength to carry her body.
"Kristin, I'm sorry, " She cried louder and louder so that all this will melt like a bad dream, and she and he will take back to the days where they used to talk whole night.
"Please don't take him away from me," she begged at every police feet, to not take him away, as she wanted to spend be with him one last time.
He disappeared away from her life like he wished, But his fragrance which imprinted over her Soul, couldn't vanish how much she tries to. She tries to die umpteen times, but death didn't embrace her because she should carry the grief till who knows?
People do not just randomly disappear from our lives, there is always a reason behind it.
The happy moments they share will come out as tears, and the warmth they experience emerge into their bodies and it couldn't come out until it turns into ash with their skin.
