Suicide [prose]

Deep dark gray clouds are approaching as if they want to engulf me; here I stand alone on reefs as the foams of cascading pristine waters from glacier move on touching my feet. “O distant cloud, I will not go with you, go and tell the world- I won’t return back.”
*****
“Shit! No balance in phone, its 2:00 am mid-night and I need to call him, what to do?” thought Rita as she was left with no balance to call her boyfriend, “hmmm yes, yes, yes, got it! Last time Debbie ended her balance she called customer care for credit, hope it to work for me too.” She winked while telling this to the ceiling of her room. Ring, ring … “ hello this is Siddhartha from cell o phile, may I help you?” asked a voice from other end of the phone, “ O yes, yes, of course I need help that’s why called this time, mmm tell me how can I avail credit for one night?” asked Rita, “ yes, for that you need to go to the message option of your cell phone, type ACT space C in capital letters and send it to 5995.”
After getting credit balance, Rita trying to call her boyfriend- “ the number you’re dialing is switched off”, “the number you’re dialing is switched off”, “ the number you’re dialing is switched off” these lines kept on repeating as she kept trying to call her sweetheart, its 8:00 am in the morning and she’s still trying to get hold of her love, suddenly phone started ringing on the other side and her boyfriend received the call to say,” O sweetie forgive me last night forgot to charge the phone and it got automatically switched off, I was so tired that I slept as soon as I fell on the bed!”;  “It’s ok dear, I love you.” Rita replied with a sigh, “So, can you meet with me this Sunday?” she asked him, “Sunday!!!” he exclaimed, “ not possible I’ve a project to finish by this Tuesday, see you after that, ok baby take care, love you honey, bye” her boyfriend said like this and hung up the phone without listening anything from her.
Ring, ring the phone rang near Rita who's immersed in deep thought of space, it rang and rang when suddenly she realized that the phone was ringing by that time number of missed calls flashing on the screen of phone were forty two! “Hello” she said while receiving the call with a sob. “Seven days of fun! Congratulations! You’ve been selected for real life-real game for cell o phile customers”, said a voice from other side, “ok what’s it?” Rita asked in not so interested voice; “today is Monday, from today till Sunday, you’ll have to go to the restaurants as messaged to you by us, there apart from nice dishes something great, unusual would be waiting for you- something related to you which we got from our investigations," said the customer care executive; “investigations! You mean to say your company spies on customers’ private lives???” suddenly she busted with anger, “Oh! No, no, Miss we offer services and other facilities on the basis of statistical data, I meant statistical investigations like what kind of place a girl of twenty two would like to visit most, don’t worry Miss we are not spies spying on your private life” the customer care executive replied.
A beep when the message showed “Pepper Chili” as the restaurant name of first day- Rita reached there in the evening had some nice dishes and when was getting out received a teddy with tag name of “pepper chili” written on its heart, “Is this the gift?” Rita thought in mind anyways, “ well, I really enjoyed the food and had nice time, who cares about gift… lol” she again thought, next day message showed ,”bites” as the restaurant name, again went had food and at end received a teddy with “bites” written on its heart. Like this:
Third day- restaurant name, “youth” received teddy with name “youth”
Fourth day- restaurant name, “loots heart” received teddy of same name.
Fifth day- restaurant name, “leaves surprise” received teddy of this name as usual.
Sixth day- restaurant name, “at”, received a teddy again
Seventh day- restaurant name, “the end” received teddy of the name, "but, wait what’s this??? He’s PC my love with a chick! He said me he has project to finish! Is this his project? Let me see…” said Rita to herself and moved towards her bf. “You’re the first girl with whom I decided to spend my night twice, cheers” PC said to the chick while Rita heard this from back, with wet eyes she started running and running without thinking of destination when someone stopped her on the path, “Hello I’m Siddhartha of cell o phile, actually there was no offer from cell o phile, PC is my boss and I was knowing all these about him, I knew how much you loved him and started admiring you for that love but, when myself fell for you didn’t get, so I wanted to make you aware of all these and this was my plan.” Pained and betrayed Rita took refuge in Siddhartha’s arms.
“Well done boy! I knew, you could do it” PC said to Siddhartha on phone when his voice started staggering because of the tears which he was unable to stop,” now she’s your responsibility, keep her happy” PC hung up with these words.
*****
After two years, Rita and Sid went for their first honey moon to Hrishikesh, when suddenly Rita’s eyes fell on an obituary for death anniversary in a newspaper-
“To PC with love
Who left us fighting
Cancer last year”
-A tribute from all employees.
Suddenly, Rita’s heart started to pang as if heart wanted to engulf itself, taking the crumbled paper in hand she rushed towards the jungle without looking back!