She was staring out of the window with her favorite doll in her hand. It was raining heavily outside, the monsoon was here. People on the streets tried to keep their umbrellas but the wind wouldn't let them. Pia smiled to herself if only she could have drenched herself in the rain. She loved the rains and the scent of the earth when the rain first hit it. She looked at her Apple smart watch and realized all her time was trapped in this 8 by 8 cabin.
Pia was always a bright student as a kid and her parents were proud of her. She was determined to become a famous personality one day and here she was heading holding the most prestigious position in one of the finest companies in the world. Her cabin gave the most spectacular view of the most beautiful part of Mumbai, the Marine Drive or rightly said "The Necklace Road". The day they announced her the CEO of the company she couldn't believe her ears, she was so happy that she wanted to call but there was no one to call. Her parents had died in the car crash six years ago & the only person who she wanted to talk to didn't want to talk to her. Avinash & Pia had known each other for three years and they got married eleven years back. Everyone was very happy that day, they were the made for each other couple. The happiest was Toby their 2 years old dog who finally knew that Pia will always be there in the house to give him food. Their life was like a perfect picture, a happy couple with their Toby who wouldn't leave a single pillow in place.
It all felt yesterday to Pia, everything was fresh in her memories the day Avinash was on his knees proposing to her to the day he left. She didn't know what had changed in all these years when & why they had drifted apart. The day she became the CEO she went to the house where she had grown up and looked for her favorite doll, she thought to herself that she wouldn't leave her, Toby was also not there any more he suffered a kidney failure three months back. She stood there gazing at the sea which was not calm and quiet anymore, she could feel it even in the darkness. She saw her reflection in the glass and saw a wrinkle running on the corner of her eye, age had started catching up she thought. She was 39, successful and alone, her achievements in life. She woke up alone in the morning, went for a run, come home to cooked breakfast which she mostly never ate and rushed to office for those endless meetings and calls and came back home, no an empty house. She had earned well a Mercedes to drive alone, a big kitchen in an empty big bungalow which was hardly used and those endless gadgets which reminded her that she had nothing else to do.
The guard asked "Madam 10 baj gaye aap ghar nahi jayengi", she looked at him & smiled gesturing that she was leaving. She picked up the keys of her luxurious car to drive to her empty waiting huge bungalow.
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