Ignorance is bliss.
Because, knowledge at times results in dreadful folly!

The flower-dressed scarlet Bentley sped in its full capacity through the narrow muddy thoroughfare of Dehradun, crushing away the fragile weeds on its way. The newly wed couple sat inside, one screaming at the highest pitch of her voice, begging for dear life, while the other sat quiet like a stone statue awaiting the end!

"Daktar Babu... Do something... Pleaseee.."
Mira howled and cried as she saw Suresh sitting still on the driver's seat, with his hands rested on the steering wheel. He wasn't making any efforts to save themselves, or so did Mira thought.

"Why do you want to live Mira?"
Suresh suddenly asked her with a cold dead voice, sending shivers of fear and shock down her spine.

"Daktar Babu... Please... I don't want to die... Daktar Babu... I want to live..."
Mira continued her desparate wailing.

"Why?" Suresh asked her once again.

"I want to live for my son... " She screamed as she jumped on him, trying to take control of the static steering wheel.
"Why aren't you moving this!... Why?" She yelled at him.

"I don't have any reason to live Mira...
You don't need me... probably Ani won't need me either..." Suresh murmured.

But, Mira wasn't in a state to listen or pay attention to any of his words... For, if she would, the despair in his voice would have been hard to miss.
She was probably his last resort and unknowingly she had already hammered the last nail in the coffin!

"Sit down Mira... " Suresh growled at her restlessness as he forcefully pulled her off from him, shoving her back to the seat.
Mira resisted vehemently.

"Shut up!" Suresh barked at her.
"Don't you understand... Foolish woman... We aren't meant to live!" He chuckled at his own words as the car bumped mercilessly on a speed breaker.

"Ahhhh...!" Mira screamed again, as her head hit against the hard glass of the window.

"You and I... We both are unwanted Mira... We both have to die... And that's the perfect Poetic Justice! Don't you see?"
Suresh's words were disoriented.
"I raped Kshitija... Not once... But, multiple times, you know." He laughed like a lunatic.
"And then I so neatly pierced the knife on her neck... Right on the jugular vein!" He touched Mira's neck to point out the exact location of the particular blood vessel. "And, splashhh!" He raised his hands demonstrating the occurrence.

"Let me go... I want to live..." Mira screamed again, pushing him away.

"I tasted her blood... It splattered all over my face...it tasted salty... Like iron!" Suresh withdrew his hands completely from the steering wheel, giving up on his control on the vehicle.
"My destruction was decided on that very day." He sighed deeply.

Mira bent down from her seat and touched Suresh's feet.
"Daktar Babu, my son needs me Daktar Babu... I want to live... I want to live!" She cried and begged incessantly.

Suresh looked at her.
"Mira... You want to live? Then promise me you'll avenge us... me... !"

Mira couldn't fathom any meaning from his words, but she readily agreed to whatever he was asking her to do.
Suresh clenched his jaw muscles suddenly.
"Can you swim?" He asked her with a serious expression.

"Ye... Yes... I can!" Mira replied promptly confused by the irrelevance of his question.

Suresh took a deep breath again.

"It's so unfair that Anirudh and Bondita gets to live happily after what they have done to us, isn't it?" He asked her gravely.
"I didn't get my love, and so wouldn't you, ever!" He gritted his teeth and gripped the steering wheel back, trying to regain it's control.
"How unfair!" He screamed and thudded the wheel in rage as the car raced with time in a maddening speed.
"Promise me Mira... You would do everything in your power to destroy them! They destroyed our lives... Promise me." He turned around to look at her pale terrified fear stricken face.

"I... I... Promise!" She sobbed.

Suresh breathed out a sigh of relief.
It's surprising how humans dig two graves while embarking on the futile journey of meaningless revenge. And, in this case, the first one was already dug!
Suresh leaned left towards Mira as he unlocked the door on her side.

"Wha.. what are you doing?" Mira tried to scream in her half choked voice.
"I'm unable to slow the car or change its direction Mira." Suresh swallowed hard. "You see the pond there? Beside that large maple tree. That's your only chance. On my count... Jump!" He narrowed his eyes on the road, trying to focus for one last time.

"And you?" Mira asked with a trembling voice.

Suresh chuckled.
"Live Mira... And destroy them...!"

Mira froze for a moment, trembling, as she saw the car speeding towards the maple tree like a revengeful cheetah.
She faintly heard him counting the numbers...

One....
Two....
The entire world seemed fading infront of her eyes as Mira saw her imminent death infront of her eyes, the maple tree being the gateway of her hell!

"Mira jump..."
She heard Suresh's voice one last time... But, it didn't register to her senses.
She felt a sudden jolt, the world blacking out infront of her eyes into a never-ending whirlpool as her consciousness drifted into an endless abyss of dark oblivion...