Was I hallucinating??? Was I dreaming..?? Surely enough.. It must be dream.. a nightmare... the worst nightmare I ever had..!! I stumbled to my room.. Sri.. are you... Sri.. Sri.. Sriii...

I jerked up as the water splashed on me..!! jerked up with the headache..!! "dude.. you crashed with just four shots???" Sambit pulled me up from the floor.. I looked around.. Shit..!! I had collapsed in the corridor itself.. "Sri.. where is Sri..??" was all I could ask... "whoa... someone seems to be really drunk.. you need Tani.. Shani.. not Sri.." Sambit mocked... I ignored him and walked towards her room.. my steps pretty stable than earlier.. Sri.. I have to find out is Sri fine.. Is she okay... her legs..?? surely I am drunk.. otherwise I can't have such absurd, weird hallucination..!!!

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The door of her room was left ajar... I peeped in.. there was she.. talking to phone on someone.. walking perfectly... I huffed in peace... shooo... thank god..!! what a nightmare..!! I knocked. She looked up with a quizzical face..!!

"I have completed the ppt.. you go and have rest... I am sure my hotel design will rock just as the layout had.. good night.." she chipped combing her hair.. "close the door before leaving..." she spoke again.. her pony... hell!! Her neck had my mark... deep and red..!! fuck's grace..!! what did I do... I rushed to her... "Sri.. I am sorry.." she laughed.. laughed hard..!! sarcastically.. but then went to the washroom with her casuals..! I stood there like statue..!!! if the mark was real.. that means.. the whole thing happened in real..!! Christ..!!

She was out with putting on again that housecoat.. I looked up at her.. she started applying some face cream, and I found myself standing behind her... she saw me in the mirror and turned around.. face.. unreadable... "you know.. I hallucinated something very absurd.. how on earth I saw such a weird thing... you know.. I saw you.. with a prosthesis..!!" I closed my eyes.. and I could feel a tear rolled down my eyes.. Hell.!! Was I crying...?? shit.. I cant cry in front of a girl!!! I am a man..!!

My tears were wiped off... I opened my eyes as I felt the familiar touch..!! she was smiling..!!! "Ujaan.. accept life how it comes... I don't mind if I am incomplete.. I don't mind being handicapped... I have accepted happily.. so.. just chuck out.. you have come to know recently.. that's why you are feeling odd... few days later.. you will be used to it.." she patted my cheek..

no... hell no..!! I shall never be okay with it..!! how can she be so calm with it..??? is she the same Sri who used to cry over a needle prickle??? Who used to nag for a broken nail!!! Sri... you are not my Sri... my Sri was never so dull with emotions.. My Sri was a cry baby.. my Sri was always... what??? Am I chanting... "my Sri.."..??? I gave away into her arms.. "its okay Ujaan... like I told you.. its life..".. was she consoling me??? For she had lost her leg???

to be continued...