CHAPTER 26(B)
Nightmares continue……
Kashish jumped out of her skin when she heard a clang in the kitchen and almost fainted when the telephone rang after that. Placing a hand over her thudding heart to sooth it, Kashish slowly neared it. Her practical mind told her that she was acting absurdly by being afraid of a telephone, but her jangled nerves and thumping heart believed otherwise. Kashish picked up the phone with a shaking hands and squeaked "hello?"
"KASHISH!!"
Kashish almost dropped the phone with relief "Dad!!!"
"Are u ok? U sound unsettled."
"I'm fi-… where is every one? What's going on. No1 is taking my calls. Dad.. Ther..there..is blood at the bottom of stairs.. I.."
"All of us are at the hospital near ur office. The blood is… I'll explain it when u come and come soon."
"What's wrong dad? Who is hurt? What is going on?"
"No time now, just come!"
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For the second time in the same night Kashish felt her car didn't go fast enough. Her heart was still beating hard and she cud still feel the adraline rush in her senses. Upon arriving Kashish rushed to her family and was informed by Sujal that nick had accidentally fallen from the top of stairs… broken a few bones.. Bumped his head and cut his cheek on the table nearby… that was all of his injuries they knew of as yet….. Whole thing happened about an hour ago and he hadn't been able to regained his conscious since…. Doctors feared concussion.
Kashish went inside the patient room and sat beside her dear, unconscious brother. Only one member was allowed to visit at time.
Nick looked pale, his chest was bandaged.. bruised ribs, his leg was in a cast… broken bones, and a IV was stuck to his right hand… a mole on his palm.
Kashish stood up and automatically rushed back 5 steps.. Obviously this was just a coincidence… Right? It can't mean anything… It was obvious some1 had just tried to scare her with a real hand, but the similarity of the moles…. Both were right hands… Both had it exactly in middle of their life lines…
Kashish took a step forward and chided herself for being stupid… ofcourse this was just a coincidence, whoever did it was going to die by her wrath tomorrow.
"Kashish?"
Nearly jumping out of her skin again Kashish turned around and found Sam standing there.
"u scared me bhaiya.. What is it?"
"Sanskriti wants to be with Nick for now… Do u mind? I didn't mean to scare u, although I don't understand why u r so high strung. Something wrong at work?"
Kashish shook her head and followed her brother outside.. No use burdening him with her problems.. He already had Rin and his child to worry about.
"U know something Kashish.. I never expected Nick to be this clumsy.. U r the one with most medical knowledge.. U think he will wake up soon?"
"Of course he will!! Don't worry bhai it was just a silly unlucky fall, no way is Nick gonna sleep and get his marriage postponed "
Kashish watched as her brother sat down dejectedly.. so much was going on.. It's like a never ending Nightmere. First one, then another member on her family was getting hurt or sick and then that hand… Something about it was making her very uncomfortable… Kashish looked at her brother and then on a impulse decided to tell him the whole thing, perhaps two of them can find some sick humor in the situation..
So Kashish told her brother why she was so jumpy and waited for him to tell her how absurd she was being.. jumping to conclusions.. Connecting two incidents..
To Kashish's utter horror she watched Sam go ghostly white when she came to the part of describing the mole and how Nick had an identical one too…
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