Pallabi Das

Drama

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Pallabi Das

Drama

The Last Encounter

The Last Encounter

2 mins
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They were opposites but, they say that opposites attract each other and fill their mutual voids.

Ritu looked up as a man in a tuxedo sat next to her in the bar. He had sharp features, dark and deep eyes, neat hair and dimple in his smile. He looked at Ritu and greeted with a smile.

“Do you usually wear suits to a bar?” Ritu inquired.

“Well, one doesn’t wear a lehenga to a bar either”. “It looks like you have run away from a wedding” said the man picking up the drink from the bar counter.

“Hi, I’m Ritu” she extended her hand for a handshake.

“And to answer your question, Yes I have run away from my sister’s wedding” said Ritu with a sad tone.

Ritu was still in shock from the fact that her boyfriend dumped her in front of her family at the wedding venue. Even after knowing his past, she had given him a chance for his looks and charm. He wasn’t very loyal or caring, but Ritu believed things would change with time. Finally, she chose her sister’s wedding day to introduce him to her family. Little did she know this would wreak havoc in her life.


“Seems like even you’ve had a bad day” said Ritu. With alcohol in her bloodstreams, she felt dizzy.


“I do believe I have, yes.” Said the man, while having a sip.


“Well, mine was worse, I can promise you that.” said Ritu.


“I’ll tell you what, let’s swap and Loser pays the bills.”


“I accept your wager” said Ritu in a jiffy.


“Great” said the man, “Lbegin then, ladies first”.


Ritu started narrating her story with every minute detail she remembered, the way they met through a mutual friend, the way he waited at the bus stop just to catch a glimpse of her while going to work and the man heard her very patiently and tried soothing while she was at her worst.

Soon she passed out…


The next morning when she woke up, she was baffled. The person on the front page in the newspaper was the one sitting next to her in the bar last night. He was a martyr in the last night attack at Mumbai Central. But all her claims about him were treated with skepticism.



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