Chapter 10
Next Morning, Armaanreached the hospital with a changed mood as everything has changed in a singlenight from top to bottom. Instead, of entering his cabin, Armaan approached thenurse station.
He signed for the time ofarrival and asked while resting his palms on the table, "Has Dr. Shilpa come?"
The nurse pressed her lips intoa smile and answered, "No Sir! Not yet, she will be coming soon"
"Thank you!", Armaan thankedthe nurse and his lips twisted aside with an unknown dissatisfaction.
And he marched for his cabin whileshuffling his hairs as they were falling on his forehead.
As Armaan left the nursestation the same time, Shilpa arrived in haste and asked the nurse the samequestion while signing her arrival time, "Has Dr. Armaan come?"
The nurse hid her lips tocontrol her grin from the palm as Shilpa's eyes were on the attendance file andreplied, "Yes Ma'am! He has just arrived"
"Thank you!", Shilpa handedover the file to nurse with a strange satisfied smile at which the nursereciprocated.
Shilpa was about to leave thespot when the nurse called her from behind and informed her with a smirk,"Wiase Dr. Mallik was also asking about you"
At which Shilpa arched her browand nodded her head.
Few Minutes later, all the interns gathered and were waiting forArmaan's arrival to allot their duties to them.
"Ane ke irade hain bhi ya nahikhadoos ke?", Samrat made a weird face while saying.
At which all the three girlsshifted their eyes towards him in a deadly glare, so he can stop his blabber atwhich he gulped down and all the four turned their head while hearing acoughing sound.
"Aham!", Armaan coughed to gettheir attention.
All of them immediately turnedtheir heads and Armaan asked sarcastically to Samrat, "Good joke! Now can Iallot the duties?"
Samrat nodded in an agreementwith a child like face at which the girls pressed their lips to control theirlaughter.
"Dr. Gunjan, cancer ward", he announced.
"Yes Sir!", Gunjan replied.
"Hmm! Dr. Murtaza in OPD withDr. Samrat", he informed looking at Samrat.
Samrat pouted because he didn'twant the duty with Kashaf, not because he didn't like her but because she usedto scold him so much, whereas Gunjan used to smile at his stupid PJs.
"Is it Dr. Samrat?", Armaansmirked and other interns pressed their lips to control their giggle.
Samrat unwillingly replied,"Yes!", with a gloomy face as someone has given a punishment to the 5 year oldto sit with the monitor of the classroom for the whole day.
"Dr. Shilpa aap...aap mere sathchildren ward mein duty karengi", he announced with a smile at which she noddedin agreement looking into his eyes.
The interns left for theirduties.
In the Children Ward, Shilpa was prescribing the medicines for aviral fever patient and was describing the nurse about the routine of themedicines and injections, her hairs started blowing at was so cold inMussorrie.
She tucked her long hair lockbehind her ear and confirmed, "Have you got it? Time pe medicines aur injectiondena hai"
"Yes ma'am", the nurse replied.
But hearing the word injectionthe child sulked, "No main injection nahi lagwaunga", and pouted his mouth.
"Kyon? Injection nahi lagwaogeto thik kaise hoge?", Shilpa took a seat near him and asked.
"Chalega!", the childimmediately retorted back.
At which Shilpa's mouth turnedin a perfect O with surprise.
She widened her eyes andscolded, "Badmash! Aise nahi kehte"
"Accha theek apko dard nahihoga pakka wala promise", Shilpa tried to persuade the child but he noddednegatively.
"Stubborn!", she taunted andcontinued herself to bribe him, "hmm! Okay aap injection lagwa ke acche se thikho jao, phir aapki favorite dessert hazir"
"What is the guarantee?", heasked arching his brow.
"Chalu! Risk to leni padeginahi to dessert to waise bhi Armaan bhaiya nahi khane denge", she smirked andtargeted from Armaan's shoulder.
"Okay! If you insist so", heagreed with a bit attitude.
"Hm! I insist!!", she mockedand taking a sigh he turned and found someone who was witnessing all this. YesArmaan Mallik!!
Armaan was standing in front ofher while crossing his arms on his chest. He arched his brow as was asking,"What was going on here?"
Shilpa bit her lower lip as shewas caught red-handed, "I was just--", she stuttered but he interrupted, "Youwere JUST bribing a child"
He sarcastically said whileemphasizing the word just at which she bit her tongue.
Shilpa shifted her eyes on thefloor and Armaan smirked. He didn't want to leave the golden chance to teaseShilpa so he kept continuing in strict tone, "Come to my cabin Dr. Shilpa"
He turned his back and twistedhis lips in a grin.
"Ab to tu gayi Shilpa!!",Shilpa mumbled with fear.
Few Minutes later, Armaan was waiting for Shilpa to approach himin the cabin with a naughty smirk and the same time he found her coming towardsthe cabin. He changed his expressions to strict and like a professional doctor.
Shilpa knocked the cabin atwhich he allowed her to enter. She didn't lift her eyes from the floor withnervousness.
"You were bribing an 8 year oldviral patient", Armaan asked while gritting his teeth.
"No actually, he wasn't readyto take injections so--", she tried to explain herself but he cut her words inbetween and continued himself while taking step forwards towards her whichforced her to step back, "So you were bribing him"
Armaan kept coming closer toher and Shilpa took steps backward and finally pinned on the wall and almostcried, "I wasn't even going to give him, main to bas use manane ke liye kehrahi thi"
Looking at her facial, childlike expressions Armaan couldn't stop himself to control his laughter andlaughed out loud.
Armaan stepped backward withfalter as he wasn't able to control his laughter and looking at her expressionswhich were now turned in confusion, as she wasn't able to understand what thehell was going on.
He pointed towards her whilelaughing, "Just look at yourself"
"Hhahha", and he again blastedinto a laughter.
"Shut up! Ho kya raha haibataoge", Shilpa passed him a deadly glare and shrieked.
Her question forced him tolaugh like a maniac this time as he was wondering that the lady in front of himwas such a dumb.
"Will you stooop laughing",she fakely smile while crushing her jaw.
"Tum paagal ho!!", he askedwith ease.
"What?", she replied whilesmacking her head.
"Hmmm. What do you thinkthat-that I was serious.", he asked controlling his laughter and continuedhimself while wiping his laughter tears, "Don't I know how chalu you are? Kabhilove stories, kabhi deserts aisi patati ho baccho ko and I know that", hepressed his lips in a thin line.
Shilpa narrowed her eyes inanger as she was thinking that Armaan has stopped cracking pranks and sheclutched her jaw.
"Otherwise Armaan Mallik and aserious professional Senrior doctor, my god these are very heavy words", hesaid sarcastically and taunted her.
She passed a smile to him andwhile crossing her hands on her chest, "Yeah!! Right you are so cool", and shethumped his feet and while glaring him she said, "Bhad Main Jao"
Shilpa was about to turn whilesaying this but her heel stumbled and she closed her eyes tightly, expectingherself to fall on the floor flatly on her face. But something stopped her upin the air and she opened her eyes slowly.
She found herself in two arms,one was behind her head and other was on her waist, clutching her tightly anddidn't want to let her fall. When she inspected the face of the person who washolding her, she found Armaan. Their eyes met and they couldn't take their eyesfrom each other, a tight hold in each other's eyes and his arms was forcingthem to not shift their eyes from each other.
But the same time, a hospitalannouncement took them to their senses and he helped her gently to let herstand on her foot.
Shilpa passed a smile but theycouldn't meet their eyes with each other. They kept looking here and there andwith a lame excuse Shilpa left the cabin.
In the evening,
"Wah kya baat hai! Chudailawwal ko itni jaldi mana bhi liya tumne, to delay the nikah", Zaroon applaudedShilpa while filling his mug of coffee from the coffee machine.
Shilpa winked and pulled hercollar up in pride.
"I'm the best", she pressed herlips and giggled.
"Yes you are! Chudail ko mananaitna asaan kaam nahi hai afterall", He chuckled and they both laughed.
"About whom you all aretalking? Chudail what?", Kashaf entered the cafeteria and asked while archingher brow.
Zaroon coughed while sippinghis coffee when he noticed Kashaf's presence and gulped his fresh lump down.
Whereas, Shilpa pressed herlips in thin line to control her laughter and was enjoying the scene. Kashafwas passing a deadly glare to Zaroon who tried to make her understand but shedidn't.
"Chudail! Yeah, your bestfriend Shilpa is a chudail", he tried to cover up the topic and looked atShilpa to insist her to not bombard on him.
"Zaroon Bhai!", Shilpashrieked.
Kashaf crossed her hand on herchest and kept listening him, with the anger her face has become red.
"Yes! You are chudail, Jitnetumhare baal hain us according to ...", Zaroon joined her hands in front ofShilpa hiding them from Kashaf but Shilpa didn't pay attention.
"Go to hell! All are targetingme", Shilpa pouted and about to left the canteen but she stopped and informedKashaf, "He was calling Chudail to YOU. Ab lado dono", and smiled fakelylooking at Zaroon who smacked his head.
Shilpa was leaving the canteenbut a body stopped him on her tracks. She shifted her eyes from the floor andfound Armaan in front of her, with a smirk as he has witnessed the whole scene.
He stepped forward andwhispered in her ear, "Bhalai ka zamana hi nahi hai", and grinned.
"Ho gaya ho to shall I gonow?", she smiled fakely and Armaan permitted her to take an exit while showingthe way to her from his hand and with her exit he shrugged his head, "Idiot"
In the Night, Sanjeevani Mussiorie
"Huh! Finally the duty isover", Samrat sighed a relax sigh on the nurse station, while signing hisdeparture time and looked at Gunjan who smiled lamely.
Gunjan too signed when Samratasked, "Let's go! I'll drop you"
"No its okay, I'll go bymyself", and smiled while leaving.
"Ise kya hua hai", he mumbledunder his breath and shrugged his head being a confused freaked guy and wasabout to left when he noticed the love birds ZaShaf coming hand in hand with Shilpa.
"I've heard koi jhagda hua thaaj", Samrat teased.
"Aise bahut jhagde solve hoterehte hain jab baat date ki aye to", Shilpa sarcastically said.
At which Samrat laughed outloud.
"Shut up! I'm so tired rickshawse jana padega", Shilpa pouted.
Samrat smiled and askedsarcastically, "Where is Dr. Mallik?"
"Shut your mouth! He has adouble shift today", Shilpa started saying and spilled out in the flow.
"Oho!", All the three said inunison.
At which Shilpa glared them oneby one, "aj ka din hi kharab hai, jao teeno yaha se"
"Accha accha sorry!", Samratsaid genuinely.
They were about to leave whensomething strike in Shilpa's head, "Oops! I've forgotten my purse in the lockerroom main lekar ati hu"
"Rukna padega!", Samrat askedas he was so tired.
Shilpa stepped towards thelocker room to pick her handbag and when she reached on the exit door she foundthat all the three weren't there. They have already left, Samrat for hispeaceful sleep and ZaShaf for their romantic date.
"Evils!!" , She was about toleave when the nurse informed her, "Ma'am there is an emergency case bed no.128 is feeling difficulty while inhaling"
Shilpa ran inside while keepingher handbag aside on the nurse station and ordered the nurse, "Inform Dr.Mallik fast"
The ward boys shifted thepatient to the I.C.U. and Shilpa started connecting him to the ventilator andmasked his mouth with the oxygen tank, so it can help him to inhale.
Both Armaan and Shilpaconnected the medical equipments started treating him. But Shilpa's hands wereshivering when she injected her. Armaan noticed it and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I hope she will get fine soon.",Shilpa said while observing her.
"She will. And you can do thisI'm with you", Armaan tried to make her understand.
"Next few hours are verycritical", she asked at which he nodded in agreement.
The time passed as it wasn'tpassing, both the doctors were observing the patient in the shifts whilewatching the wall clock after every few minutes and this how 3 to 4 hourspassed.
She was out of danger but forprecautions they didn't disconnected the equipments.
"She is perfectly fine now",Armaan smiled looking at her and passed her a mug of coffee.
"Hmm...Thanks!!", she said whilesipping her coffee.
"Just for a coffee?", he archedhis brow.
"hah no main dar gayi thi.Bahut kam emergency cases handle kiye hain", she confessed and pressed herlips.
He passed a smile to her andsaid, "it's around 1'o clock. If you want to sleep then you can. I'm here withthe patient"
"No its okay, Tum so jao jake",she smiled.
Armaan sighed and suggested,"You're so stubborn. Ek kaam karte hain na tum so rahi ho na main. Yahi bethkebaatein karte hain. Fine?"
"hah okay", she laughed.
They were sitting on a benchoutside the ICU and Shilpa started, "Why did you play a prank at me in themorning"
"Tumhara copyright nahi haipranks pe", he replied back sarcastically.
"Very funny!", she rolled hereyes.
And with all the tease, taunts,laughter and sarcasm the slumber engulfed them. They finally slept after a longconversation; only the God knows how long they spent time with their talks afinally slept. Shilpa's head was resting on Armaan's shoulder and Armaan's chinwas on her head and they slept peacefully.
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A/N: Phew! Marna mat yaar for such a late update. And thank you so much to the new readers and old readers as well for bearing with my bakwas Please Hit Like and leave Comment.
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