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25th February 2022

5:56 pm.....

Bloomfield Avenue, New Jersey....

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In the bustling city of New Jersey when sun was already about to set during the dusk . People where packing there things to return from there respective works and shops were bustling with people.

In the bustling city two woman in their late twenties were sitting at the bus terminal located in the streets of Bloomfield Avenue.

One of them having black and another one with slightly brown hairs. One hair smooth and silky running down to her waist but a knot of rubber band tied in it at the nape of her neck. The others hair tied in a bun her hair Tangled like a nest. A few strands falling here and there from them.

The orange rays of sun were falling on their faces through the windows of bus terminal one of them so engrossed in her work that she didn't realise the small request of the rays who wants to play with her but the other looking continuously on the rays falling on her hand.

"How weird the life is! Isn't it?" Said one of them..

The other looked at her and blinked a few times.

"Are you talking to me?" Other woman asked raising a brow at her..

"I am just blubbering. Don't mind me.." she said.

"What's your name?" She asked sighing...

"Mine?"

"Yeah!!"

"Anika.. and your's?"

"Nice to meet you Anika. I am Shrestha.."

"Nice to meet you too Shrestha!!"

"Did you live here?" Shrestha asked.

"Yeah! I was born here.. dad used to run a business here!!" She said shifting her weight on her hands as she clutched the chair more firmly...

"What do you mean by used to?"

"They died a few years ago and then I used to run it but..."

"But...?"

"But now relatives from my mother's side have captured it and throwed me out from my own house. They have occupied it legally by some illegal methods..." She said and a lone tear escaped her eyes...

"That house and cafe is the only thing that was left to me by my parents now they want it too.." Shrestha sighed again....

"You know Anika. Every end has a new beginning and no matter how dark it is to see. There is definitely a ray that pierces through the dark and get to you..."

"Maybe, there is a hope of light that is created for me but still the wait is enough to make that person give up...

There are many who loses even before the ray got them..."

"I know only a few are able to reach it but... But the only one who holds until than writes their destiny according to them..." Her words were like a light for her..

"Just hold a little your life would definitely brighten again "

"It's easy for you to say!" Anika said... Shrestha looked at her weirdly and chuckled

"You know we judge every person just as how we see them but not everyone knows the depth of their scars..." Anika's eyes drift in Shrestha trying to find something but there was nothing in her eyes...

"Well do you wanna be friends?" Shrestha offered her hand to her..

"I won't mind!!"

"Where are you going next friend?" Shrestha asked

"To one of my old friends. Maybe she can help me for a while"

"When?"

"The bus will not come before 8:30"

" Will you like to spend this evening with me?"

"Huh? You know I am straight!"

"I am too! I was asking for a girl's evening? It will change your mood" She said laughing...

"Sure! But where?"

"To the amusement park!"

"Sure!"

And they went to the park. They brought the tickets and entered..

"What are we doing first?"

"Let's go to the rollercoaster first.." Shrestha said

"Let's go!"

They seated at the rollercoaster. Soon the ride started at first there where slow up and downs but soon it started increasing Anika clenched Shrestha's hand when they reached on the place that was tallest in the whole ride . Shrestha looked at Anika her eyes where tightly closed.

"C'mon open your eyes girl and look the whole city is visible from here!!"

She gently squeezed her hand and Anika opened her one eye and slowly the other eye too.

She looked at the view infront of her but before her eyes could capture it they were falling down...

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!" Screamed Anika and Shrestha was chuckling.

After the slide ended Shrestha said to Anika let's go to the Ferris wheel.

"What no? I am afraid of heights!!"

"A few minutes ago you have lost all your hopes and look you don't wanna to die now!!" Shrestha said to Anika. Anika opened her mouth to say but she feeled like there is no word that could prove her wrong.

"Let's go and enjoy!"

She taked her to the Ferris wheel. This time Anika didn't closed her eyes. She looked at the magnificent view infront of her eyes. When they reached at the top of Ferris wheel.

She looked to the city that was bustling with people everyone look very tiny from there. The lights were making the night feel like a broad daylight. She opened her hair and let them fall.

"That's how we are,pathetic!" Shrestha said. Anika turned her head to look at her.

"In a moment we wanna die and at the very next we wanna to live. We climb on that every thing that could brighten our life"

"Do you know what is the thing that makes us want to live?"

"Hope!" Anika said and Shrestha nodded ...

"Yeah! The hope of a bright and new future. The hope of everything getting better. The hope of we deserve better

..... Hope.."

" Thankyou " the word leaves from Anika's mouth.

"You know Anika the world is very weird. Sometimes those persons we know from decade are not able to understand us but a stranger whom we have never meet can!!"

"Just like us!"

"Yeah!!" She said with a smile

_____________After the ride____________

"Shit!" Anika said stopping behind the bus that has already leaved for its next destination. She was gasping . She was feeling like her lungs was on fire. Her breathing was very fast due to the run she was doing all the way to the bus terminal. Her open hair falling on her face.

"It's fine I will take you on my car.."

"But first let's go and watch a movie "

"Which one?"

"Let's see which movie has released "

Shrestha booked a cab and as soon as it arrived they leaved to reach the theaters.

"So which one?" Shrestha asked Anika..

"This one... 'This is me now'.."

"I will get the tickets while you got some popcorn " she said handling Anika her card..

Before Anika could say anything Shrestha leaved for the ticket counter

They watched the movie by the time they came out it was already 11:30 . The cold breeze was blowing ruthlessly piercing through their soft skin.

"Let's go"

They went back to the bus terminal through a cab.

Shrestha walked towards a car parked in the gas station nearby and Anika followed her..

"Is it done?" Shrestha asked to the man who was doing a few changes in the car

"Yes! Mam, it's all ready to race with speed!!"

"Good!" She payed the man..

Anika's eyes were wide after seeing the car...

"Let's go!!" Shrestha asked to Anika..

"It's your car?"

"Yeah!!"

"Fuck! It's really beautiful!!"

"It is!"

"It's my dream car!" She said stroking the smooth surface of the sports car..

"Hop in! I will take you to your destination!!"

"In this?" She asked. Her eyes glittering with shine...

"Yeah!" Shrestha replied with a small smile tugging on her lips...

"Hop in faster." She said sliding in the car...

Anika quickly hop behind her.

"So! Where do you wanna go madam?" Shrestha asked bowing a little in a dramatic manner...

"To Trenton" Anika said like a queen. Continuing the drama...

"As you wish"

"Fasten your seatbelt, now we will challenge the wind!"

They quickly buckled their seatbelt and then Shrestha filled the engine with life and the car started to take its passengers to their destination....

Anika diverted her gaze outside of the car . It was the city she has grown into. The place where all her memories are stored and now she was leaving it to start a new journey...

Her mind was constantly playing all those memories like a tape in her head... The weight was heavy on her heart but there was a hope that has lighted in her heart a hope of a new beginning a hope of a bright future.

She rolled the windows of the car and allowed the fresh Breeze to tangle the untangled hair. She looked at the trees that were feeling like saying a goodbye to her and a smile played on her lips feeling that still there is someone who cares for her!!

She closed her eyes feeling the cold breeze through her skin . The sound of the breeze and the hussle of the leaves on the trees were feeling like a melody to her ears...

The moonlight falling on her face making her glow . She was feeling refreshed even after everything. She was still happy. Every single Complaint she have from her life feeled nothing with this moment.

She doesn't know why.. but she feels like the nature is with her today!!

She was loving the feeling...

They reached near the Crossroad . One of these roads are going to take her to the new beginning of her life....

They were in the middle of the crossroads . When a truck came from the other side making the car roll down the lane . And after overturning 4 times, the car collided with a tree.

The car has turned upside down.

A hand falling from its window and the windshield of car broken in pieces and the pieces shattered everywhere.

Blood was dripping from that hand..

The driver got off the car. He checked the car . Both of the women's in the car where badly injured.

A lamborghini's revuelto stopped there. A man got off from it. His face was not visible due to the mask but the cruelty dripping of his face was fully visible...

"Is she alive?" That man asked to the driver of truck...

His voice pierced through the erotic silence spread in the dark forest.

Cries of an owl mixed with the howling of wolves giving the weather a chilly and scarry look. The beetles where also trying to make their presence feel with their rattles...

The fog slowly covering the dense forest. The chilly winds fastened their pace....

"I was about to check.."

"Just go and hurry before anyone sees us here. We have only five minutes until the lights came back..." He said gritting his teeth...

Their voice echoing in the forest.

The driver went to the car.

"Sir there are two women there!!"

"What how?"

"Are they both dead?"

"One is dead but the other is alive.."

"See if the one we want to kill is alive or dead!!"

"Their faces have been destroyed.."

Voices of some cars were heard...