One Shot Michi FF: Suicide Point

|[| Suicide Point |]|

"dear god please do forgive me for my sins, I know I have been a bad person in my entire life though everyone says that I am perfect but you and I know the truth'"

Milind opened his eyes as he heard someone's confession that was coming not so far away from where he laid. In the midst of the chilly evening, he heard her voice echo and getting up from where he laid, he saw a girl standing not very far from the edge of the cliff with her eyes fixed up on the sky and hands folded. Clearly she was offering her prayers which looks like as if she was offering her last. He edged closer to catch the words she was murmuring and since he wasn't that far from where she was, it wasn't difficult to hear out what she was saying. he looked at her as she went on'

"i wanted to impress my late boyfriend with the new cat I bought to his home, hell I didn't even like cats and it ended up eating his goldfishes, poor guy still considers the new fishes as his old ones.."

Milind had to hold his laughter as she went on with her confessions'

"recently I poured juice into mother's tulip plants she so adored and blamed it on the same cat.."

"my weight is not 38 but 45 but I keep telling Ayesha that so that she would get jealous and start to lose weight and look herself like a skinny bone, I hated her figure"

'I didn't like rain as it would completely ruin my perfectly rebounded hair, do you know how many hours it takes to do a re-bonding? Of course you know" she rolled her eyes as she said so.

"I failed my SAT exams and told my parents that I passed only to re do it without their knowledge can you believe that??'"

"I don't want to get married too soon but my parents want me to become a woman! Why am I not a woman? I think I perfectly am and ended up telling that I can be a woman even without getting married'"

"dad asked me what I want and I told him I want sainthood"

"I love him oh how much I love him, I waited for him all my life only to betray me and marry a woman and have six kids, how I envy of them but still I wish them a happily married life, Brad I'll still love you forever,'"

"oh and it was I who sent hate mails to Jennifer and Angelina"

Milind coughed out unable to control his laughter making her to startle. She looked at his direction horrified and then narrowed her eyes with her hands on his hips. She was clearly angry.

"sorry I didn't mean to eavesdrop but you were talking pretty loudly that I couldn't help but hear out" he said apologetically and then when he heard no response from her, he took a sip from his bottle and then again looked at her. "please do continue, I wont interfere"

"yeah you better" she snapped at him and then again went back to her same pose and began her complaining list which was seem to be endless.

"I love my cousin but she is such a pain, remember how she had snatched my color pencils when I was five? I still hate her for that so tell her I'm sorry for that'"

"Excuse me? Are you talking to me?" Milind asked her. grunting with frustration she turned to him.

"don't you see that I'm trying to suicide and praying my last prayers?" She asked him and then he made a perfect 'O' with his mouth. Shrugging he said. "oh you too?"

"what do you mean you too?" she asked and then her eyes softened. She was no long her angry. "are you too?"

"what else people do in the suicide point?"

"suicide?" Prachi asked dumbly.

"hmm, why don't you resume your suicide? And so will I" Milind suggested while Prachi's mouth flew open in surprise. Clearly she wasn't expecting a stranger to be so supportive of her suicide attempt. Shrugging she shifted her focus back to the task and thinking that there was no time, she stepped towards the edge of the cliff with slow hesitant steps. She was having second thoughts ever since she had spoken to that man! How dare he to interrupt her suicide? She looked down just to make sure how far she was going to fall. She didn't want her body to be lost anywhere around. She gasped as she saw how deep it was. Gulping down hard, she took a step back as sudden fear gripped her. 'No! I cannot let my fear over take me! Wait a second that sounds like a line in the Cinderella story movie! How ironic now that I cant even have my own authentic words!' Prachi thought bitterly at her lack of originality.

"what's wrong?" she heard the same guy call out. Turning she saw him eye her curiously.

"its too deep!" Prachi called him back. she wished that he would stop inspecting her like a cop and leave her all alone! But no he was coming to her and the next thing she knew was that he was peeping from behind her shoulder to look down.

"yeah, its pretty deep" he agreed and then asked. "so what next?"

"I think I'll go down a bit so that it wont hurt much"

"good idea" he beamed and then turned his heels and went to lie back on his car again! 'god! he is infuriating, shouldn't he be telling her not to do it? why is he helping her anyway?' she thought thoroughly disappointed that he wasn't even trying to say 'I object' to what she was doing.

Milind turned his heels and walked towards his car and leaned onto it to watch the free show. He brought the bottle and sipped down once more not taking his eyes off her. he watched her as she made her way down a bit and his heart almost skipped a beat as her foot twisted a little. Milind knew that he had no guts of watching her take her life. So, he hopped on to the hood of his car and lay down closing his eyes. it was after all her life and she should know what to be done with it.

Prachi looked down once more before squeezing her eyes shut. "here goes" Prachi said. "thank you for everything"

And then she jumped.

Milind opened one eye as silence began to itch him. he got up and looked around and saw the place empty. 'so she had jumped after all' Milind thought amused. Then gently got down and was to walk towards there when '

"HELPPPP" and at that moment, he knew that it was her. of course it had to be her. who else was crazy enough to suicide at a place like that.

Milind jogged slowly to the end of the cliff and bent down to see from where the voice was coming from. He almost had let out a small laugh when he saw her clinging on to the branch. He wasn't that heartless but seeing the way her skirt has hiked up and she eyeing on it made him want to laugh aloud so hard.

"HELPPPP!!" Prachi screamed again and Milind had to cover his ears with the high frequency of her voice that was loud enough to break glasses.

"Gosh you scream loud" Milind remarked and prachi looked up surprised. she saw him watching her and he wasn't remotely panicking for the state she was in. but of all, he was smiling. How dare he smile like that! but that is a remarkably gorgeous smile'oh shoot! Stop it Prachi! she scolded herself. this is no time to drool over a smile. This is time to suicide! But oh, this is embarrassing.' She realized as she saw her skirt hiked up to which one end was stuck with on a low branch exposing almost half of her calves.

"what are you doing there?"

Prachi stared at him angrily. 'gosh he has got some nerve to ask that!' Prachi smiled sweetly and sarcastically replied. "Hanging out in the hanging garden"

"oh right" Milind nodded his head but made no move to help her up. "I thought you were gonna .."

"Suicide, I know, now will you help me up?" Prachi cut in impatiently. Her hand was slipping and the branch is almost'.

CRACK!!!

Too late'it was cracking and she was going to fall! She didn't want to die hanging like that!

"please help" Prachi choked out as she began to fear.

"are you sure?" he asked suspiciously. "because you yourself said that---"

"will you stop your chit chat and help me up?" Prachi snapped at him. he began to smile even more and bent down extending his hands.

Prachi gripped one hand tightly on the branch before removing the other and clasping her hand on his. As soon as he did, he grabbed her by both his hands keeping his weight down hard on the ground so that he wont slip. He tangled his legs to the nearby tree as he began to slide down a bit. Holding her firmly, he pulled her up and only he knew how much he was hurt! Hurt by those meter long nails that dug into his arms during the process.

"When this is over---" Prachi said as grunted in between.. "remind me to thank you" but Milind just rolled his eyes and continued with his work but then again he added. "when this is over, remind me to cut your nails" and Prachi all could do was roll her eyes.

When he pulled her up, she laid down on the ground panting and Milind eyed her curiously thinking why the hell she was panting when it was he who did all the work!

"I know, but I'm still tired" Prachi said as she saw him watching her. "not physically but mentally" Prachi added seeing that he wasn't satisfied with her first answer.

Milind got up and offered his hands to her to which she gratefully took it. getting up, she once again looked down to the cliff she just jumped and then was pulled up. her heart was already in her mouth and now she wasn't sure that she should do it. 'NO, I have never backed away from anything in my life and neither I will do it now!' Prachi said to herself and then turned as she heard him ask.

"what were you thinking?"

"I was thinking what will happen if I just push away the braches while I fall, but I accidently held on to them'" Prachi started to explain her theory but Milind was in no mood and irritated---

"Alright alright, just get on with it will you and give me some peace?" Milind said cutting her off.

"fine!" Prachi glared at him and then said. "I need to rest for sometime"

"why do you need to REST?! Just get on with it!" Milind said exasperated.

"NO, I HAVE to rest!" Prachi shouted and Milind almost had to back away. "Look you don't understand, I'm tired and I want to rest"
"so cant you just rest?" Milind asked raising a brow and Prachi glared at him confused. "Rest in PEACE?!"

"Unbelievable!" Prachi's hands flew in air with exasperation. "is that your bottle?" Prachi then asked pointing at Milind's bottle to which he has kept it on his car hood. Milind nodded his head and before he could say anything further, Prachi walked up to it and picking up the bottle, she gulped the liquid down. she made a face as the bitter liquid hit her throat. She hopped onto the hood of the car and made herself comfortable whilst Milind just watched her with a smile playing on his lips.

"what are you smiling about" she scowled at him taking another sip.

"nothing, just wondering why a girl like you want to suicide" He shrugged carelessly and Prachi's expression almost changed the very instant. Her face immediately fell and Milind suddenly felt sorry he asked for it. he cleared his throat wanting to change but before he could let out any word out of his mouth Prachi spoke up.

"I just found out that my boyfriend cheated on me and I didn't even get the chance to get over this that my mother has already planned to send me off to a strangers place!"

"well, I think that's a good idea to go for a holiday it will help you get over him---"

"I'm not talking about a picnic idiot, I'm talking about marriage! the lifetime sentence, ever heard of it?"

She cut in making Milind turn slightly pink. Taking another sip prachi asked. "what's your story?"

"my story?" Milind asked confused and saw her arching an eyebrow.

"yeah your story, you don't look like an idiot who will come here for a picnic, what's the deal?"

Milind looked down, his brows joined with worry and Prachi immediately sensed that it must be something very big for him and so she said. "its okay, you don't have to tell me, I'm a stranger after all"

"no its nothing like that" he was quick to response and she was a little taken back aback little. "actually, it's the same old story.." he said a bit hesitant.

"Girlfriend betrayed?" Prachi guessed and Milind's eyes lit up and beamed. "Yeah!" and then lowered his eyes to say.

"I never thought she will do this to me you know"

"yeah, no one will know what kind of person he is and when we get to know, it will be too late"

"so, what did he do actually?" Milind asked sometime and this time, she didn't bother to reply so Milind asked her once more and still, when she didn't answer, he began telling his side of the story.

He told her how his girlfriend had betrayed him by stealing his money and his precious laptop. He also said that during their initial days of their affair, he got to know that she came from a very poor background and she use to steal for survival. He found her very unique and brought her to his apartment and it was then he began to find things missing every now and then. He also mentioned that he saw a wording tattooed on her forearm and when she asked what it was, he said, "it said, Meri maa chor hain"

And Prachi would look at him suspiciously as the story he was spinning was sounding more like an old hindi movie. But alas, he was a stranger and didn't dare ask him if he was telling the truth. He concluded his story with his girlfriend looting everything he owned never to return again. he was too heartbroken to file a case against her and so to forget about her he has taken the devdas route.

Sighing, he laid down on the hood stretching his arms which made his biceps to give a short flex making Prachi's heart to jump along as well. She knew she was a sucker for such handsome men but she didn't know that she would fall so easily for this guy after she had been through all so much. the betrayal of Ranveer her ex-boyfriend was still so fresh in her mind and heart and before leaving her home, she had decided that all men are bas***ds. It wasn't her saying so, it was Kajol saying in Pyar toh hona hita so she wasn't to be blamed also. Prachi took another sip as she glanced at Milind and then went back to her train of thoughts again. he seemed like a nice guy. His fate, same as hers. Maybe not all are the same. even her mom maybe right. He may not be like Ranveer who is a total, well a nincompoop she thought smiling which made Milind to question her all of a sudden.

"what's the smile for?"

"nothing, just thinking about the guy my mom must have chosen for me"

"yeah? how do you think he is?" Milind asked interested and sitting up.

"well, I guess he will be a total mamma's boy. Very nerdy, over-weight. Short, less amusing, no sense of humor"

"you are describing as if you know him" Milind said frowning.

"I do, he was one of mom's music student. Don't remember his name but I never forgot how he look like"

"so do you know how he is now?"

"No, it has been almost 20 years you know, he was 10 and I was just 6" Prachi replied.

"are you sure that he will be exactly the way he is even after 20 years?" he asked getting curious even more.

"I don't know and it isn't the look that I'm worried about, I don't care if he is like that now too, but the problem is that I don't love him, I can never be able to love and trust anyone now, all thanks to that---" Prachi gritted her teeth and bit her tongue to say the rest.

"well, you know, I know I shouldn't tell you this but you shouldn't have come here to suicide" Milind began and Prachi gave him a short laugh and began drinking again. "no I'm serious, from what I have gathered from you so far, your mom is right about you settling down and its also a good thing that you have got to know about your boyfriend before things got out of hands"

"yeah but you still don't know me and my problems"

"there is no problem that you cant fight for, every problem has a solution" he paused. "other than death ofcourse"

"so what do you suggest me to do?"

"just go and tell your mom that you aren't ready" Replied Milind in softly.

"its not simple" she shook her head and said angrily. "dammit why am I not getting drunk?!"

"it is, you are just scared that she might say no and try to force you" milind went on ignoring her complaints.

"Exactly--" she cut in.

"but that wont happen, at least, she will have the idea that you aren't happy with the arrange marriage" He cut in before she could say anything further.

"yes I'm scared and I'm so scared that'"

"Look. Listen to me, you are making a selfish decision here" Milind took his hand in his and caressed them slowly making her nerves to shoot up like a fireball. "you are trying to kill yourself because you think that with them controlling your life and you think it's the end of the world, but its not, you don't want your mom to force you into a marriage that you don't want and you don't trust men because your boyfriend betrayed you, but have you ever thought what will happen if your mom gets to know that she is one of the reason for your demise? She gave you birth after so much of pain, sacrificed for you so that you can get a better living and you are throwing all those things away for your own selfish problems"

Prachi sat silent for a moment and began to thinking about what he just said. he was right. She was being selfish for no reason. Her mom has been the pillar of support ever since she could remember and she has always given her whatever she has asked for. Maybe, if she ask not to push her to anything, she might listen to her. and about ranveer, she don't really want him to gloat over the fact that it was because of him she took her life. That is if she has taken it. he don't deserve that much even.

"I think you are right" Prachi said slowly and she thought she heard him leave his breath all of a sudden as if he was holding it for so long but it was quickly replaced by more important matters.

"I have to get going and tell mom sorry, she must be worried sick" Prachi said all of a sudden jumping off the hood and turned to him and saw him smiling broadly.

"thanks" she said handing him his bottle. "by the way, you can call me prachi"

"Call me Milind"

"milind? name sounds very familiar"

"is that so? Yeah, I am a very rich guy, you must have seen my pics on the magazine covers or interviews"

"Maybe" Prachi shrugged not very convincing with the answer she got but she hurried to her car anyway but before she could go and open her car door, she heard him call.

"if you ever need more of my advice, you are free to call me" He said and prachi burst out laughing.

"Okay, Mr. Psychiatrist, I'll keep in touch" she said and was about to get in again when he called.

"I don't trust you, give me your number so that I can call you and tell you to come for sessions" He said in such a straight face, serious tone that she burst out laughing and said to herself. 'men'

"why don't you just ask for my number straightaway?" Prachi cocked a brow at him and she saw him turn slightly pink. "its just my style" he said making prachi to laugh again.

"yeah, completely your style, and by the way, don't forget to change the wine, it didn't get me drunk"

"you have never drank before have you?"

"it is my first time but I do well know that wine happens to make people slur their words" She snapped at him with annoyance and then apologized almost the very next instant.

"I'm sorry, I've to go now, and thanks a lot for everything"

"you're welcome" Milind replied giving her hands a little shake.

Prachi gave him her number and gave him a long look before she sat in her car and drove away unable to wipe off the smile off her face. she knew that it was just the beginning after their little adventurous encounter.

Milind watched her as she drove away and breathed a huge sigh of relief. he went over the edge of the cliff and began to smile thinking about the silly girl who just came there to suicide. He put his fingers into his mouth and whistled loudly.

"all clear!" Milind heard the reply from beneath and he looked down and saw the crew men appearing out of the camouflaged net that hung almost above them.

"thanks guys" Milind called out and one of them gave him a thumbs up and began to instruct his other crew members to take the safety net and leaves out of the way. Milind watched as the one by one emerged out from there with the safety net dragging up. the leaves and branches which hid the net well amazed him. no one will even dare to think that there was a net hidden in such a short height beneath the cliff. It was almost impossible because it looks so real like it was the real deep jungle. Smiling at the stunt men, milind shook their hands one by one and Milind walked over the car and took his cell.

He dialed the number and was picked up before the third ring. "she is on her way home"

"don't worry sweetheart, she wont do it again" Milind stopped and listened and then said. "I told you, I can do this, I did this just for you because you owe me for teaching me such lovely music when I was ten" He laughed and said. "yes, she is a beauty but still has a vipers tongue, like before'I know don't worry, she wont know, I'll make sure of it, bye sweetheart, make teples for me I'll be coming there tomorrow" Milind smiled and ended the call.

"sir, do you want this?" Milind turned as he heard one of the crew members ask picking up the wine bottle.

"Nah, throw it away, its Soda water anyway" Milind chuckled and went round to sit in his car. he gave a low laugh remembering how Prachi was saying that why she wasn't getting drunk. She was innocent as he thought that she didn't know the taste of wine even and didn't realize that she was drinking soda water the whole time.

Milind rested his hands on the seat and closed his eyes.

He has planned it all. After coming back from London after residing there for 20 long years the first thing he did was to call his favorite music teacher, Premlata. He has kept in touch with her ever since he had left India and was surprised to hear out her hysterical voice when he called her. she explained to him that her daughter has left for the suicide point to suicide and she didn't know what to do. Milind almost had the urge to laugh over the situation because he knew Prachi from childhood when he use to come to their place to learn music and she was a nuisance. It didn't take him a second to realize that she haven't changed at all. Luckily, he remembered his friend who works in a famous stunt coordinating team and called him up to make the arrangements.

They did the arrangements quicker than he thought. call it fate or whatever because they was already planning to do a stunt for a commercial at the same point and had already prepared for the shooting that day. With the safety net below camouflaged with leaves, Milind knew that it was the perfect opportunity to talk to her out of the silly decision. He wanted to know what made her take such a big step. A girl like her wasn't a type to give up easily and he was more shocked to learn that it was her boyfriends' betrayal and her mother planning to get her married to him. he was about to blurt out everything to her but didn't as he wanted to know about her more. call him crazy but he was quite smitten when he saw her approaching to the suicide point. he quickly went to his position and wait for her. he was more than relieved that he managed to talk her out of it even he had to make up stories picking up bits and pieces from old hindi movies.

He burst out laughing remembering what he told her about his 'girlfriend' having a tattoo saying, 'meri maa chor hain' he still couldn't believe that she had actually believed him. he looked around the suicide point once more and smiled recollecting their meeting once again. his smile grew wider as he knew that it was indeed a start of a new tomorrow. He had seen it in her eyes that she too must be feeling the same way as he was feeling now. he frowned as he realized that he has somehow cheated on her with all the bluffing he did a moment ago.he smiled again thinking how she has never forgotten him even after so many years. The chubby fat geek who come to her house to learn music. She still was the same as she was before.

He doesn't want her to hate him but he couldn't tell her the truth either. Not yet. He decided to deal with the consequences later and for now, just look at the path that laid ahead of him which he could clearly see that it leads forward only to her. Prachi.

Letting a huge sigh he started his car a drove off as the sun set down the horizon behind him.

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