Friday, 25 September 2015

Anger: Rhea

“Send! Send! Send!” we shout. “Click on send!” She does it, and we celebrate. Sheena whistles, I howl, and Parth pats her back, as Rhea stares at her computer. Tears start traversing the length of her face, wetting her cheeks and disappearing somewhere below her ear.
“How on earth are your tears black in colour?” Parth questions her.
“HOLY CRAP!” Sheena jumps in. “Oh no no dude! You can’t be possibly ruining the efforts I took in applying that kohl to make your eyes look absolutely striking. So unfair!”
“I hope you extracted all the anger inside you, and poured it in that email,” I say. Her breakup has turned her into this angry fire-breathing dragon that shoots out fire at everyone in the vicinity. The only way out of this, I could think of, was to breathe the fire out at the person who solely deserved it. Might as well save us from a lot of wrath of hers along with making her feel much better.
“Can we read it?” Parth wonders, and I roll my eyes at him. Honestly, Sheena and I want to read it as well. But Rhea has always been a private person. To my surprise, she nods and opens up the email for us to read. It may have a lot to do with the fact that it was Parth who had asked it, not Sheena or I. Amongst all the cousins, he’d always been the closest to her. Even closer than I, her real brother, could ever be.
We all start reading:

Hey, there’s something I need to tell you.
I hate you. I unconditionally abhor, contempt, despise, disdain, loathe, and scorn you.
I hate you for leaving. Leaving all of a sudden, and leaving me alone. I hate you for gifting me a CD of ‘A Walk to Remember’ because although it’s my favourite movie, every time I watched it, I remembered all the times we’d watched it together, and so I had to give up watching it altogether. I hate you for announcing Café Chokolade as your favourite hangout spot, when it was my favourite spot too, coz now I try to avoid it as long as possible. I hate you for asking me to introduce you to all my close friends, coz now whenever I meet any of them, all they want to know about is you.
I hate you for making me believe that your love was enough for me, coz I made you my world. And that was the biggest mistake I ever made. I avoided my friends coz you’d have planned a date. I kept myself from sharing things with my bro, coz you hated him. I can’t believe I even avoided texting Parth just coz you had problems with him too.
I hate you for making me believe there was a future, when there clear wasn’t any.
I hate you for breaking my heart.
I hate you for being my first kiss.
I hate you.
Rhea.

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