Love Bridge ✨ (S1.EP2)

 Well! There are a few things in our lives that we don't want to lose, even if it's best for us. It's just that we're so stubborn to accept the reality that it makes us blind. Because we want that thing to be real so badly that we ignore the truth. Or we just deny the fact that isn't what it looks like. And that's where the biggest mistake of our lives takes place. And by the time we realise, it was already too late for us. It's like sailing a boat into the storm far away from the shore. But we need to sail out.

(Heart is consumed by You)

14th April 2022,

Earlier that day, 

Cell phone rings. 

"I need to see Nile." Avantika said. 

Call declines.

The cell phone again rings.

"Please, it's urgent. I know what I did is wrong and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything I did. Please, help me." Avantika cried.

"He is there, where we left him two years ago." 

"Don't go alone, take Kartik with you." Stranger said.

Call declines.

Outside the apartment no.22, 

"Thanks, Kartik." Avantika said.

"You go in, I'll stay here." Kartik said.

As soon as Nile see a face.

"Get out", Nile said.

"Is that how you treat a friend after a long year?" Avantika replied.

"What do you want?" Nile said.

"Do you think I'm here because I need something?" Avantika said.

"Then what else you are here for?" Nile said.

"Nile! I'm here for you." Avantika said.

"Oh! The kindness. This is why you are here, to show your pity, your greatness." Nile said.

"Door's that way. And I'm not buying any." Nile said.

"Nile! Stop pushing away. It's been years." Avantika said.

Current time,

"I love you and I always will." She confessed.

"Listen! Stay back. You will find only flames in here." Nile whispered.

"Nile. Please!" She begged.

"I don't want to see your face, get out of my sight." Nile raged.

"I can't." She pleaded.

"If you have one percent of self-respect left in you then please go away." Nile raged.

"I am not leaving." She replied.

"Kartik!!!! Get her out before I burn down this place." Nile screamed in her face.

Kartik comes in and takes her out. He doesn't even dare to look into my eyes.

"I've told you, he won't listen." 

"And stop wasting your tears on him. He doesn't care anymore." Kartik said.

"I love him." Avantika said.

"I know. But you need to understand he isn't that person we knew." Kartik said.

"We have to save him." Avantika said.

"We can't save the one who doesn't want to be saved." Kartik said.

"We can't leave him like this, he is our friend." Avantika said.

"He may look like our friend, but he isn't. He is consumed by the darkness. He can't be saved." He said.

"I can't believe, you gave up." Avantika said.

"Some things need to be left as they are." He said.

"You are not seeing this now, because you're in love with him. But the person in that room is a monster. And loving him is a curse." Kartik said.

"Kartik, he is your best friend. How can you say that?" Avantika said.

"Yeah! He was once. And I gave up on him a long ago, and on us too." Kartik said.

"And now I gave up on myself. I'm moving to Kolkata, leaving this place, this town, these people, everything behind." Kartik said.

"Why are you doing this? What are you guys up to? This is .... This isn't right." Avantika stammered.

"Goodbye, stay in touch." he said and started walking.

"Kartik!!!!" She shouted.

"I'm sorry." He turned and replied.

"Waah! Good. The best."

"No, don't stop, keep walking."

"Run! Run as fast as you can. He is running from the reality in there and you are running from us. You both are the same."

"And what's about me? Am I nothing to her?"

"Perfect! No, it's perfect. Go and hide your dead bodies. Go!!!" Avantika screamed.

"I'm sorry." 

"You may call me a loser. But I can't take it any longer. I need to leave."

"Yeah! I'm selfish. But I need to heal myself." Kartik said and leave.

To be continued ....