||1. The present||

Lying on the green grass, they were watching the stars when he had smiled at her, and uttered those beautifully venomous words-
"People don't die from suicide, Nandini. They die from sadness".

And it took her a while to understand them, but when she did, she smiled at him too.

"But Manik, isn't it wrong, to grieve the tragedy of end so much, that you forget how beautiful the beginning was?"

A one shot exploring the depth of human emotions caught in whirlwind of perceptions.