Prarthana Nanda

Drama Crime Thriller

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Prarthana Nanda

Drama Crime Thriller

I Will Never Leave You. Ever.

I Will Never Leave You. Ever.

3 mins
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Tanya got into the elevator and pressed the button for the 25th floor. She was a novelist and had to present her ideas for a new novel the very next day and hadn’t come up with one yet. Looking at the night sky in solitude always inspired her and that night she was inclined to do the same. Just as the doors were closing, Tanya thought that she had heard a faint scream. Through the closing doors of the elevator, she glimpsed at the silhouette of a woman with disheveled hair, scampering towards the elevator. A look of pure terror plastered over her face. The woman raised a hand but could only raise it halfway before it went limp, like the rest of her body and dropped down. Before Tanya could do anything, the doors of the elevator shut, and it started moving upwards. Tanya’s heart beat quickened and immediately her ‘writer instincts’ turned on, but before she could jot anything down, she heard something drop onto the floor of the elevator and roll towards her. It was a glass marble, leaving behind a trail of red as it slowly rolled towards her. All of a sudden the marble went still. Tanya bent down to pick it, but at her slightest touch, the glass shattered and revealed a small paper folded neatly kept within it. ‘I’m on the 25th floor,’ it read, and then the lights suddenly went off.


‘Tonight, the wrongs will be righted, and the sins will be purified. Tonight, is the night of total redemption,” heard Tanya, the familiar voice making her panic like never before. In a flash, the lights came back on and the doors pinged open and the very same girl who Tanya had seen below was standing there. She had a locket in her hand and with a creepy smile, she forced it into Tanya’s hand, before she pointed upwards. Through the transparent glass roof of the elevator she saw the open black night sky and then, a faint movement near that pulley that held the elevator in its position. Before she could scream, she was falling. Falling, along with the lift, and then… It stopped. Tanya could hear a crack as she felt a warm wetness spread all around in her in a red halo. For a split second she could feel immense pain coursing through her, her eyes focused on the girl's face peering down below with a maniacal grin plastered over it. Then, everything went black…

‘Sisters by chance, friends by choice,’ read the locket inside which was a picture of Tanya and the girl she had seen overhead. ‘I will never you,’ her sister had promised and had kept her word, for the last thing Tanya had seen was the black sky with twinkling stars and the face of the girl she had suffocated to death over her parents’ attention, just a few years ago.


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