Chapter 57

"call roli and ask where is she" Sid said to rahul as he continued to drive the car at the maximum speed. 

Rahul dialed roli's number and asked after turning on the speaker mode "roli, where are you?". 

"I got some important work. So, going to office.." roli answered. 

"Where are you exactly?" Sid asked tensely, interrupting roli. 

"I'm on highway" roli replied, raising Sid's heartbeat. "What happened? Why you're sounding tensed?" She continued, concerned. 

"Listen, is anything suspicious around you?" Sid inquired. 

"Everything is fine. Why you're being worried. I'm fine. I'll be reaching home soon after finishing the work in office" roli thought sid was just being worried knowing that she was going alone. 

"Just stop the car and don't drive any further. I'm coming" sid said as he took the turn towards highway. 

"But, why... Ahh" a huge truck hit roli's car from the sideways, making roli to lose the balance over steering wheel. 

"Roli, what happened?" Sid asked anxiously. His heart was thumping at a higher rate. 

With the sudden force, phone fell down from roli's hand and she couldn't hear Sid's question to answer. 

Receiving no response from roli, sid increased the speed of the car even more and drove like wind. 

Rahul continued to call out roli but, got no response from her, which made them scared. 

On the other side, roli's head got hit to the steering wheel and she started feeling dizzy. With much difficulty she opened her eyes and watched the truck driving away. 

Roli looked down at the phone. The call was still on line and she could hear sid and rahul calling her, distinctly. She tried to pick up the phone from down. 

However, before her hand could reach the phone, another truck from the other side rushed towards the car, hitting it hardly. 

With the force, the car rolled and was pushed to a few metres away from its spot. 

Sid suddenly stopped the car with a jerk. He felt like he was going out of breath. A layer of cold sweat covered his body. 

"Bhai, are you okay?" Rahul asked worriedly. 

"Call pratap uncle and tell him to reach the highway immediately" a moment of silence later, sid could manage to utter these words. 

Rahul couldn't understand why sid was saying that but, he still obeyed him and informed to pratap. 

On the highway, one of those truck drivers called veeru after driving a little distance away. 

"Sir, work is done" he informed, taking a look at the damaged car from the distance. 

"That's a good news" veeru smiled viciously. "he won't be saved, right?" He asked for confirmation. 

"By the looks of the car, I don't think anyone inside it could be saved" the driver replied. 

"That's fantastic" veeru felt satisfied hearing the reply. 

"You said it's siddhant's car. But, it seems to be a girl in the car" the guy said as he keenly observed the person, whose half of the body was lying outside the car.

"Girl? You bloody idiot, whose car you hit?" Veeru felt agitated as he thought he might have missed out the chance of killing sid. 

"It's the same car you've given the details about. I'm sure of it. But, siddhant isn't there in the car. Only one girl is there" the driver said with confidence. 

"How can that be possible. It's Sid's car. Whatever.. you just leave that place before anyone could see you" veeru ordered and hung up the call.  

"Again you escaped siddhant" veeru yelled as he kicked the tea table before him.

It took nearly twenty minutes for sid and rahul to reach the spot. As they were nearing the place, they could see a group of people gathered along with pratap and his subordinates. 

Sid was scared to agree but his instincts told him that something bad had happened when he suddenly stopped the car a few minutes back. He realized his roli was in real danger so, he told rahul to inform pratap as his office was near to that place. 

Without even waiting for the car to stop properly, sid jumped out and ran towards the crowd. 

Sid's steps slowed down as he watched the damaged car on the road. The car's condition was terrific which gave a chill to sid.

"Ro.. roli" sid turned to pratap and asked in a trembling voice. 

Pratap looked at sid and without saying a word, he turned to an ambulance that's was at side. 

Sid felt a wave of complicated emotions rushing inside his chest as he walked up to the ambulance. With a strange fear, he stepped into it. 

He felt himself like a lifeless body the moment his eyes fell on roli, who was on the stretcher with blood covered her body, unconsciously. 

"Go to hospital soon" rahul said to the ambulance driver, who stood in shock after watching sid. 

With a jerk, the driver got in to the ambulance and started driving it. While sid sat in silence, holding roli's hand in his and watching her face. 

Rahul turned to pratap and said "sir, we need to find veeru as soon as possible. This time he's not going to escape". 

Pratap nodded as he understood the situation. Rahul then drove the car and followed behind the ambulance. 

Inside the ambulance, sid held roli's hand near to his chest as if he was scared to let her go. 

"You'll be fine. You've to be fine" sid spoke in a rather low voice, clutching his jaw as he struggled with the tears that were threatening to fall out of his eyes. 

After reaching the hospital, roli was taken in to ICU. Sid was standing outside the door and watching through the glass door. 

He was broken so badly that he couldn't even speak. His roli, his life was in danger and he was just standing, doing nothing. 

What more worse for him to bear was, it was supposed to be him in roli's place. This mere thought was killing him. 

Rahul stood at little distance from sid. The more silent sid was, the more worried rahul was being. He never saw sid being as helpless as he was now. He couldn't find any comforting words to say to Sid. Even he himself wasn't in the state to comfort sid in the first place. 

Rahul's phone started ringing. He looked at the display and found sunny was calling him. 

"Why you guys still hadn't reached?" Sunny asked impatiently. 

"Roli.. met with accident" rahul informed with a heavy heart. 

"What the... Don't talk nonsense" sunny scolded. 

Rahul took a deep breath and explained everything to sunny, who was shocked as hell. 

"I won't leave that veeru" sunny was furious. "I'm coming there" he continued as he prepared to leave. 

"Wait, don't come" rahul stopped him as he continued "by now veeru might got to know about roli and sakshi too. It's better if you stay with sakshi and take care of her". 

Sunny felt rahul was right. With both sid and roli not being around, he should take care of their doll. 

"How's bhai?" Sunny asked with a lump in his throat. He knew what roli meant to sid and how much sid loves her. He couldn't even imagine the state of sid right now. 

"Not at all good" rahul replied, glancing at sid, who was fixed at the place and looking in to the ICU. 

"Take care of bhai" sunny said and hung up the call before he burst in to tears. 

Watching tears in his eyes, nidhi rushed to him and asked worriedly "what happened?". 

Sunny looked at her with teary eyes and hugged her tightly. 

"Is everything fine?" Nidhi asked, hugging him back. 

"Nothing is fine. Roli met with accident. Bhai is broken" sunny said as he cried on her shoulder. 

Even nidhi couldn't control her tears when she heard it. Though she hadn't met roli personally yet, she had talked to her a few times on phone. In those few conversations, she got so close to roli. And she could understand how sunny was feeling at the moment. 

-In the hospital-

A couple of hours had passed already. Finally the door of ICU got opened and a doctor with two nurses walked out of it. 

"How's roli?" Sid asked as soon as they came out. 

Doctor and nurses were stunned to watch tensed sid. They knew sid as a gangster as everybody else knew. 

"Patient's condition is critical. The injuries she got are severe. We've done the surgeries for external injuries. We can't guarantee anything until she wakes up. Even after she woke up, we can't tell exactly how her condition would be" doctor replied very politely. 

"She would be fine, right?" Sid asked, hoping for the answer to be yes. 

"Sorry to say but, we can't guarantee that. Let's hope for the best" doctor replied with the same politeness. 

Saying that the doctor left the place. Sid took a few steps back, helplessly and sat on the chair in the corridor outside of the ICU.

Sid held his head in his palms, not knowing what to do. He was truly helpless at the moment. He hated himself for not being able to save his roli from the suffering. 

He sat there in silence for nearly an hour, without raising his head from his palms. Rahul sat next to sid, waiting for him to talk something. He really couldn't see his bhai in such a pity state. 

Suddenly Sid's eyes fell on the pendant that was tied around his neck and dangling in the air. 

Holding it in his hand, Sid's thoughts drifted into a few months back. 

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"Roli.. I'm getting late. What are you making me to wait for?" Sid said glancing at his wrist watch. 

"Coming coming" roli closed the wardrobe after taking a small box from it. 

"Here it is.." roli took out a small lord ganesh's pendant attached with a chain from the box. 

"Arey.. what are you doing?" Sid stopped roli, who was about to tie the chain around his neck. 

"This is for you. So, you've to wear it. I don't want you to get hurt again" roli said seriously as she reminded of the day when sid returned home being wounded a few days back. 

"Lord ganesh will protect you" saying it, roli tried to tie the chain but, again stopped by sid. 

"So, you mean.. this chain will protect me?" Sid held the chain and asked looking at it. While roli nodded. 

"How can you believe in such things? I don't want anything to protect me. Keep your ganesh with you" sid never believed in all these things. So, he denied to wear the pendant. 

"You might not want but, I want to protect you. Have you forgotten how you got wounded few days back?" Roli's eyes got moist as she spoke. 

"No.. no.. no crying" Sid immediately got softened after watching her tears and cupped her face. 

"You know right I won't believe in such things" sid patiently explained, wiping off her tears. 

"But, I believe. Wear it for me, please. Just for my relief, please na" roli pleased like a kid. 

"Fine. I'll wear it" finally sid had to give in to her pleadings. 

Roli promptly smiled as she circled her hands around his neck and tied the chain. Sid held her waist, supporting her. 

"You should always wear it and never take it off" roli said in an ordering tone. 

Sid smiled, pulling her closer by her waist and said "if you want to protect me, just take care of yourself. If you're fine, I'll be fine too". 

Sid rubbed his nose with hers. While roli replied "if you're fine, I'll be fine too". 

Roli repeated Sid's words and looked in to his eyes. Sid started moving near her lips. 

"Now you're not getting late?" Roli interrupted, making sid annoyed. 

"Yeah. Will deal with you in night" sid gritted his teeth for the disturbance. While roli chuckled at him. 

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Sid came out of his thoughts and glanced at the Lord ganesh's pendant. Though he wouldn't believe in spirituality, he wore it for roli. 

Then he got up from his place and walked in to the ICU. While rahul waited outside. 

Sid slowly walked near the bed, where roli was sleeping in an unconscious state. Her forehead was tied with gauze and a drip was stuck in her left hand. 

Removing the pendant from his neck, sid sat beside roli. Then he meticulously tied the pendant around her neck. Cupping her face in his palms, he bent down and placed a feathery kiss on her forehead. 

"This is the right place for this pendant to be. Because even if I protect myself, there's no meaning to be alive without you" sid spoke in a low voice, sitting on a chair beside the bed. 

Sid gently took her right hand in his and placed it near his cheek. 

"I know you won't leave me. But, still it's too bad of you for making me scared like this. Now enough of your drama and get up" sid gulped down the lump that was blocking his throat. 

"Are you listening to me? Get up and talk to me. I promise I'll listen to whatever you say. I won't even tease about you doing chikchik pikpik" sid smiled painfully as he reminded of how pissed off roli would be whenever he would tease her about her nonstop talks. 

"Get up na yaar, please" sid literally begged. But, roli didn't show any reactions. 

"You said you want to see me in police uniform right. I'll wear it for you if you talk to me now otherwise I won't" sid continued to speak as he waited for roli's response. 

"Roli, you know I don't have patience. Stop your drama right now otherwise I won't talk to you even if you cry in front of me" sid warned as his eyes got moist already. 

"Are you going to talk to me or should I leave?" Controlling his tears, sid asked sternly. But still no response from roli. 

"Fine. You continue with your drama. I'm leaving" losing his patience, sid got up to leave. But, stopped as his hand got stuck with something. 

Sid turned around to find his pinkie finger got stuck in between her pinkie finger and other fingers. 

**"We'll be always together like this" roli smiled, holding his pinkie finger with Sid's pinkie finger**

Sid smiled emotionally reminding of his roli's childish gesture of making promise. 

Sid held her pinkie tightly with his and sat back on the chair again. 

"Okay, baba. I'm not leaving" sid kissed her hand and kept it close to his chest. 

"Now get up and talk to me. You know your silence is the worst thing. I really can't bear with it. Stop killing me like this yaar" sid finally couldn't hold back his tears anymore. 

Sid couldn't hold the pain anymore. This pain was lot more than all those pains he had experienced in his life. Her silence was killing him. 

Sid closed his eyes, holding her hand in his and kept repeating the words "please, get up". 

Suddenly, sid felt the movement in roli's hand that was in his hold. Sid's eyes swiftly got open and found her fingers were shaking a little. 

"I know you can't leave me" sid smiled finally getting some response from roli. 

Sid immediately called doctor, who entered the ICU along with a nurse and also rahul. 

"That's a miracle" doctor was stunned to watch the monitor screen and roli's response. 

"She's fine, right?" Sid asked curiously. 

"She still hadn't regained her conscious completely. Can you please wait outside. We'll have to examine her condition" doctor turned to sid and replied. 

"Bhai, let's wait outside" seeing sid was reluctant to leave, rahul came forward and took sid out of the ICU.

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