“Hey—hey—hey! What are you doing!” a little girl shouted, her small feet pounding against the pavement as she ran toward the boy standing on the edge of the bridge.

“Get down!”

The boy didn’t turn around. His fingers tightened around the cold railing as he tried to climb higher.

“Who are you? Why do you care?” he snapped, his voice cracking despite the anger. “Go away. I hate everyone.”

Before he could pull himself up, the girl wrapped her arms around his waist with all the strength her tiny body could manage. The sudden force startled him. They lost balance together and tumbled backward, landing on the road on the opposite side of the bridge, scraping knees and elbows but alive.

“Ow,” the girl muttered, pushing herself up. She brushed the dust off her frock and held out her hand to him. “Why are you doing this?”

The boy stared at her hand for a long moment before finally taking it. His eyes were red, swollen from crying.

“My parents left me,” he said quietly. “I’m going to them. Grandma says they’re stars now. If I go up there… I can be with them.”

She sat down beside him on the warm road, legs crossed, thinking hard.

“My papa says stars are very far,” she said slowly. “And very lonely. They just shine. They don’t hug.”

The boy frowned. “You don’t know anything.”

“Maybe,” she agreed without arguing. “But I know this—if you go away, your grandma will cry. A lot.” She paused, then added softly, “And I will too.”

He looked at her, surprised. “You don’t even know me.”

She smiled, small and stubborn. “I know you were going to jump. And I stopped you. That means we’re friends now.”

For the first time, the boy laughed—a broken, uneven sound, but real.

“You’re weird,” he said.

“I know,” she replied proudly.

They sat there in silence as the sky slowly turned orange, the first stars blinking awake above them. The boy tilted his head upward, then back down again.

“Maybe,” he murmured, “I’ll wait a little before visiting them.”

The girl nodded, satisfied, and leaned back on her hands.

“Good,” she said. “Stars aren’t going anywhere. But you are supposed to stay.”

"Gudiya chalo we have to leave" Her moms voice came from behind.

She looked at the boy. "Bye bye I will see you again! "

None of them knew they never will meet or fate had something else in mind.