5 Chapter 4

<Alina>

I'm very much aware of how that sentence as affected the environment around. The sentence, that's very much true has created a hollow silence in the room. I don't think Racheal believes that her phone is dead.

"No Alina, I have been getting calls in that thing for 10 days now. I spoke to the caller too!" I knew she wouldn't have believed this in the first shot. I have to explain what's been happening and that's the toughest part.

"Racheal, please just calm down okay? I can explain what's been happening. You remember 2 weeks back you got a from Joe, your boyfriend? He phoned to your house number because he couldn't reach your phone. He called you at around 2 am, to tell you that he wanted to breakup and he was leaving to his hometown!"

Racheal must be thinking why am I reciting the whole event to her, to the person who has been through it second by second. "Racheal, 2 hours after that call, Joe passed away in an air crash."

Racheal looks angry now. She starts to speak in a tone I haven't heard before.  A voice filled with guilty, sadness and regret? She says, " Yes Alina, I know that. I have been through it, all of it alone and I know the whole incident by heart. He was just being an... Ughh I told him not to leave, told him we'll figure out what ever the problem was. But he wouldn't just listen to me! He had to go in that flight on that fucking day itself when the plane had an air crash."

Seeing her in this state has me feel sad to bring the topic out again. She's crying now and I don't know what can I do. She starts talking again, "Joe and I knew each other for almost an year. I know it's a very short time to fall in love, but we felt deep affection towards each other." She stops abruptly, probably recalling her mistake and what she just spoke. She looks at me with those teary eyes filled with guilt maybe. And slowly she starts, "But 2 weeks back Joe decided to break up with me, just because he had to go back to his hometown in Rondonia. We were still in the same country, but he felt insecure about our relationship and decided to breakup. He called me that day at 2 am just to say he was going back to his home and would never return. 4 hours later, I got a call from one of his friends saying he passed away in the air crash. I was totally devastated. All those mistakes that I did came back to me with such force, I was totally shaken."

That's guilt in her voice and regret too for all the mistakes she did. But will it help now? No! And I can't say this to her.

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