As the sun descends down the horizon, Rajeev walks to the nearest bench in the park and sits down. Tired of the drowning city voices, he looks for calmness and shuts his eyes. A young girl, of about 10 years, sparkling with joy comes and takes a seat right next to him. Miffed with himself and his life, he doesn’t even bother to greet the girl, and shuts his eyes again. Thinking of how rude he had been, he opens his eyes, only to find the girl walking away into the winter darkness.
Her seat is quickly replaced by a beautiful woman in her late 20s, who has strikingly similar features to the previous girl, and who is whining about how bad the city has turned and how she has been robbed in a foreign city, with no money to return to her hotel. The worst thing being, s
he can’t even remember her hotel’s name. She had gone to a jewellery store and splurged her money on danglers, and had then been robbed. The only thing remaining with her, were those danglers. Rajeev, who had been patiently listening to her cockeyed fable, with a smirk plastered on his face, asks her to show him the danglers, so that he could actually believe her. She frantically searches for the danglers and mutters angrily that she might have lost them, and storms furiously into the darkness.
As Rajeev gets up to leave, he sees the danglers lying beneath the bench and runs hastily to stop the girl, and blames himself for not believing her and gives her the danglers and some money, enough to last a week. She promises to return back the money.
As Rajeev walks back to the bench, he finds the 10 year girl, with whom he had been uncannily hostile, searching for something.
“Have you lost something?” he asks. “Yes, my danglers.”
An eerie silence greets Rajeev. He feels like a miserable fool. “Bam! I should have just trusted my instincts.”, he mutters in a hushed tone. He had foolishly parted with his own money.
As Rajeev gets up to leave, he sees the danglers lying beneath the bench and runs hastily to stop the girl, and blames himself for not believing her and gives her the danglers and some money, enough to last a week. She promises to return back the money. As Rajeev walks back to the bench, he finds the 10 year girl, with whom he had been uncannily hostile, searching for something.
“Have you lost something?” he asks. “Yes, my danglers.”
An eerie silence greets Rajeev. He feels like a miserable fool. “Bam! I should have just trusted my instincts.”, he mutters in a hushed tone. He had foolishly parted with his own money.
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