The Inward Pull

: I'm terribly sorry for catching you off guard like this.
: Tithi, why did you lie?
: Because I wanted to spend this last day with you.
: Did you really not know 'the source of this lifelessness in you'?
: No... today is our final goodbye, Neer. Don't try to settle the accounts of what we never had.
: Why must this be our final goodbye? Where are you going?
: You weren't told, I'm truly sorry about that day... I'm thinking of leaving this city, going somewhere far away.
: You never really loved me...if you had, you wouldn't be able to hide yourself so fearfully behind these shadowed paths.

: Neer, don't be hurt... what I'm trying to do will be good for both of us.
: You know nothing, foolish girl! Take my hurt and make it your own, I dare you.
: Keep me captive in your hurt, Neer. Believe me, I never wanted to live as a fugitive... I wanted to remain in your reality.
: Ha ha... 'fugitive'? That's just an excuse to keep yourself safe.

: Won't you talk to me, Neer? Will you spend all this time in silence?
: There's nothing particular to say... when are you leaving?
: Are you waiting to bid me farewell?
: What if I said I'm waiting to hold you tight against my chest... to keep you forever on my lips with that excuse... would you listen, Tithi?
: Don't speak like this... it hurts me terribly, I can't look into your eyes.

: You know, I wanted those moments of gazing steadily into your eyes to remain as witnesses to our love.
: Come, let's touch a few more moments together.
: Don't go away from me, Tithi... I could never forget the moments I spent with you.
: Forgive me for not being able to give you anything.
: In your presence, even unknowingly, I was able to surround myself with a drop of peace... don't seek permanence in that, Tithi.
: Neer, so many of our memories are gathered in this mirror's glass.
: Our reflections are kept there.

: How do I look in your eyes?
: Like the restlessness of a wounded bird...
: Neer, why do you never tell me to leave?
: I've seen deep love for me in your eyes... I've seen how tenderly you shelter me in your feelings. What causes you such pain, Tithi?
: You never wanted to know... those things are exactly like you, entirely my own.
: I'm holding you close... let your sorrows merge into my chest.
: I don't want to free myself from this deep embrace of yours, Neer.
: Even when angry with you, I could never push you away, Tithi.

: Unconsciously we keep ourselves bound in an invisible connection.
: The words I could never say to you very deeply, today I feel like saying them, Tithi...
: I've been waiting so long, you know... curled up in the pores of your chest, I want you to tell me recklessly— 'Tithi, I terribly...'
: ''Love you,'' you crazy girl.