Chapter 6
September 13, 2004
"Kripa!!! Kripa don't go!!! Kripa come back!!! Kripa!!!" angad said getting up from his chair and stumbling around the room.
He bumped into the bed and fell into the ground. He looked ahead with his hand raised he was trying to stop her, but no one was there. He got up again and started walking but bumped into the corner table. He fell again this time hurting his hand and his knee. There was some bleeding on his knee. Angad opened the door and still tried to follow someone but again no one was there. He kept on bumping in to things. He was able to see the white light but no one was able to see the light but him.
"Kripa stop. Why are you going away again? Don't go kripa." Angad said again and again following something that only he can see. He bumped into the vase, which fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Hearing the noise Raj came out of the room to see what was going on. He saw that angad was acting as if he was haunted by something. He saw that angad was repeating kripa's name over and over again. Raj moved towards angad quickly. Angad was at the end of the stair case and wasn't in his senses to go down them without falling. Raj ran towards angad to catch him but before he could reach angad fell. He tripped down the stairs. He fell down the stairs hitting his head. He was lying on the last stair unconscious. Raj climes down the stairs quickly. He moved angad's head to observe his injury. Angad was losing blood fast. Raj called the doctor and told him about the incident. He called Amar and Naina as well. Raj with help of his servants took angad to his car and then to the hospital.
The hospital staff was ready with the starchier when Raj came into the emergency parking of the hospital. They took angad to the observation room and looked at his injury. Doctor started wiping away the blood from his head. He stitched up angad's wound and came out of the room. Amar and naina arrived at the hospital right after Raj brought in angad. They were very scared to know if they will be losing angad as well after kripa. They didn't want to lose anyone else. Raj was sitting on the bench with his head in his palms. Amar stood by the door and naina sitting next to Raj comforting him.
"Mr. Sharma?" the doctor asked and Raj quickly looked up to the doctor.
"Doctor Angad?" Raj asked
"Mr. Sharma the cut on his head was really deep. He has lost plenty of blood. Mr. Sharma if he doesn't come back to his senses in these 24 hours we might have to conclude that he has slipped into coma. We are doing the entire brain test in order to make sure he doesn't have any internal injury. Don't worry Mr. Sharma all will be fine. Keep faith in god. Ok. I will be in my office if you need something." The doctor left and they all went inside to meet angad.
Tears slowly began to leave Raj's eyes as he hold angad's hand in his. He was afraid to lose angad as well. Naina and Amar tried to hold their tears and were trying to be strong for Raj. Tears from Raj's eyes dropped on angad's hand. Naina and Amar set down next to Raj and looked at unconscious angad. Naina shut her eyes trying to keep the picture of dying kripa from coming in front of her eyes. Tears slowly escaped her eyes as she remembered kripa lying on the same bed dead. Naina wiped her tears and then raj's. When she moves her hand and wiped the tears on angad's hand they moved. naina quickly looked at angad's face in a surprise. Amar followed her eyes and looked at angad's face. His lips parted and out came a puff of breath. Slowly his eyes were opening but they were struggling. Slowly he was gaining his conscious but he was also mumbling again.
"Kripa," was the first word they heard from slightly conscious yet unconscious angad. Raj who was still looking down was not looking at angad. Raj had hopes in his eyes again. Naina squeezed Amar's and Raj's hands keeping her self from yelling in excitement and irritation. Amar had smile forming on his lips as he heard his friend moving and gaining conscious. Angad was now gaining his conscious fast. he was chanting kripa's name like a mantra. Amar ran out of the room and towards the doctor's office. Naina kept hold of Raj's hands she was happy, scared, excited, and surprised all at the same time. Raj's hold no emotion at all. It was blank but his eyes said so many things that his face didn't.
Angad's breathing got faster and heart beats went up quickly. He was breathing too hard and moved his hands as if he was getting shock treatment. Angad opened his eyes fast and screamed kripa's name getting up from his bed. He started removing needles and tubes from his hands. He removed the dressing on his forehead and left the bed. He started walking towards the door and kept on screaming kripa's name.
"Kripa!!! Kripa!!!" angad kept saying over and over again. He fell on the floor and wasn't able to walk his knees were hurt as well when he fell from the stairs. Raj and naina ran towards the fallen angad and made him get up. he jerked away from them.
"Don't touch me!!! Get away from me!!!! Kripa where are you!!! Kripa!!!" angad said when Raj and naina tried to help angad again. Angad dragged him self away from Raj and naina into the corner when he wasn't able to get up. Amar quickly opened the door to the room with doctor following behind him. Amar was surprised to see angad in the state of almost going crazy. When Amar ran towards angad he screamed again.
"Get away from me. Don't come near me. I want my kripa. Where is she? I know you have kidnapped her and hide her somewhere. Please give her back. Ill do any thing you tell me to do. Please." Angad said shaking and screaming. Amar moved towards angad again and tried to talk to him, but angad slide away towards his bed. Angad quickly got hold of the needle that was lying on the bed and pointed towards Amar.
"Don't come near me or ill kill you. Stay away from me. Stay back. Don't come any closer," angad kept on repeating. Naina was holding raj's arm in fear. She was squeezing it too tightly. Raj was scared as well. He squeezed naina's hand to let her know everything will be fine. The doctor went out from the room. Amar kept on walking towards him without listening. He got close to angad and grabbed the needle from his hand and threw it away. Angad jumped on Amar and got hold of his neck, Amar not being able to help himself slapped angad. Raj and naina were standing the in corner of the room not being able to believe that angad was going insane in kripa's love.
The doctor came in with 4-5 nurses and pulled angad away from Amar and made him lie down on the bed. Doctor took a sleep injection and put in on angad's arm. Angad was still struggling to get free and Amar stood close to angad bed without any emotions on his face or in his eyes. Angad began to cry now and looked towards Amar with pleading eyes. When Amar didn't budge he turned towards naina and Raj for help but they didn't help. Naina wanted to move forward and hug her friend but she knew that this was not the right time. Angad began to talk again.
"Amar please get my kripa. I know she is here I know she is. I can feel her presence around me. I want her back. Please get her back. Please." Angad said crying and pleading at the same time. Amar now moved closer to angad and covered angad's hand with his. Amar smiled and caressed angad's hair. Slowly angad was settling down and started to fall a sleep. The doctor moved away when angad fell asleep completely and the nurses left to room to perform their other duties. Doctor turned towards Raj with confused look and Raj knew that the doctor wanted to know the history. Raj went out of the room and the doctor followed.
"Before you ask me anything doctor I would like to answer all of your questions" Raj said once they were out of the room.
The doctor smiled and put his hand on Raj's shoulder. "Mr. Sharma you don't have to tell me anything. I just want to know who this kripa is. If she is here you might want to go and get her here so angad can get better. If she doesn't come I don't think we will be able to stop angad from going insane."
Raj now looked at doctor with sad eyes. "Doctor if she was here this incident wouldn't have occurred. The whole cause of this incident is that kripa, my daughter, is not alive any more. She is not in this world. She passed away few days ago. Angad loved her a lot. Now he is loosing him self for her. I am helpless doctor. I can't do anything to help my son in-law.
Doctor was now able to understand the whole situation. Angad lost his wife and was now going crazy to get her back somehow. Doctor patted Mr. Sharma's arm and left. Raj went to sit down on the bench and fell asleep after few minutes. Inside the room naina and Amar were sitting on the sofa holding each other's hand. Naina wasn't able to stop her tears and Amar didn't have any strength left to wipe her tears away he wanted her to cry and let her pain out so he let naina cry while holding his tears back.
Angad was now sleeping and his eyes were twitching and rolling while he slept.
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August 23, 2000
a guys drives his black colored shiny new bike into the gates of a big old fashioned building. It was shaped like a castle yet it was a college campus. He drove his bike to the parking a lot. He parked his bike and took off his helmet. He was looking around beautiful campus. He has never seen anything like this before. Miles and miles of green lawn surrounded the campus and out side of the campus was a big forest. It looked so peaceful and beautiful. There were two small man made lakes which was full of fishes, ducks, and swans. He loved the site and he was sure that he was going to like studying here. He already found his favorite spot to study. There was a big oak tree which was planted near the lake. Smiling he took his books and started walking towards the entrance of the campus.
The peaceful environment ended as soon as he entered the area closer to the building entrance. There were too many students on this campus he thought. Everyone was spread out in groups. There were only guys group; some girls were hanging out together giggling about something. There were some groups with boys guys and girls, some of the groups had show offs rich kids he thought. He kept on walking trying to find the information desk. He had meeting with the principle since this was his first day at the college. Looking around the campus and ending up in wrong part of the campus many time he finally found the information desk.
"Excuse me, can you tell me where is the principle's office?" he said quite nervous to see the principle
"Straight from here second door to your left. There is a sign on the top as well." The lady said in her low voice.
"Thank You." With that he started off to go to the principle's office. He reached there and knocked on the door.
"Come in" came the response from the other side of the door. Following the instruction he entered the room. It was a really big office full of wooden furniture and looked quite like an apartment hall. There was a man sitting behind a big brown colored wooden desk. The man was quite chubby his skin was fair and was wearing squared black framed glasses. There were two free chairs in front of his desk. On the left side of the desk there were big cabinet which might have the record files of each students and staff. In the center of the room there was a glass table with a vase full of fresh flowers. Hmm a man who is fan of flowers kind of weird he thought. When the principle cleared his throat the young man stopped staring around in the room and looked at him.
"Sit down angad," the principle said as angad took his seat in the chair. The principle looked through couple of files and finally found angad's record. Smiling he took the file and examine it. Angad was quite nervous to know what was on principle's mind. Angad looked around the room rather then staring at the principle.
"Here we are angad. Here is your schedule for rest of the semester and hope you do well in all your classes. I want you to go to the admissions office and get your id made." The principle said handing him the papers.
Angad started to get up from his seat when the principle started to talk again. Nervously looking at the principle and smiling he sat back down in the chair.
"Angad say hello to your father for me will you. I have been able to keep in touch with him since few years now. I hope he is alright."
"Sir, my father passed away few years ago." Angad answered in a sad and quite tone.
"Oh I am really sorry to hear that how did he die? How is your mom doing?" principle asked again
"He died in a car accident and mom died right after him. She was also the victim of the accident but dad died on the spot of the accident. Mom wasn't able to control her emotions when she found out and died of heart attack and some of the injuries made the bleeding in her brain go out of control." Angad said again trying to keep tears from forming in his eyes. Realizing angad's sad voice and expression principle didn't ask any more questions and started doing his work. Taking his leave angad left the office and headed straight to his first class.
While he was walking toward his class he heard bunch of guys ragging a new freshmen. Those must be the seniors of the college he supposed he kept on walking towards them to know exactly what was going on. There he saw a tall, well built guy with brown eyes and light brown hair standing in the middle of the group. Oh he must be the leader of the group quite a show off angad thought. There were about six more guys standing around him forming a half circle. Angad stopped about few feet away from the group and was watching what was going on.
"Oh honey come on now give me a kiss right on the lips. Don't be shy now. Come on," said the leader of the group. The girl did nothing but just stood there. Angad was amazed to see such a strong girl standing between seven quite built guys. He noticed that the girl wasn't scared of those guys instead there was a smirk forming on her lips. The girl was about 5'4" with black long hair and was wearing light blue jeans with dark green t-shirt that said don't bother on the back. She moved forward and told the guy to repeat him self.
"What did you just tell me to do? I didn't quite hear you can you please repeat your self sweetheart?" said the girl moving few steps closer to the guy. The guy now smirked him self. Angad stood there smiling himself realizing that the guy was about to see the bad side of the girl. Angad stood there impatiently for the next scene. This scene was such drama like.
"I said give me a kiss on my lips right in front of all these people. What are you deaf?" the guy repeated him self and as soon as he was done everyone in the hallway heard a noise that sounded as if someone has just dropped bunch of books from the second floor to the first. Every student and teacher going in the hall way stopped to look for the source of the noise. Finally everyone found it. The guy had his hand on his cheek. Everyone assumed he just got smacked by the girl standing in front of him or may be the girl standing next to him. There was anger and embarrassment in his eyes. Of course he would be embarrassed since he got slapped by a girl and in front of almost the whole college.
the girl who was now standing next to the guy moved so she was now standing next to the girl wearing green t-shirt. Now this new girl was about the same height but quite fair, brown eyes, short yet not too short dark brownish black hair. Now she was wearing some classy clothes. Quite expensive angad presumed. Everyone was now looking at the scene before that only angad and few other people were. Angad was trying hard to keep him self from laughing.
"now repeat your self." The girl wearing classy clothes said to the tall guy. The green t-shirt girl was also trying to keep her self from laughing so she put her hand and her book she was holding by her mouth to hide her smile.
"I said repeat your self. Are you becoming deaf now? Or the noise of the slap is still ringing in your ears? Hmmm," the girl repeated again. The guy didn't answer but just stood there. The girl moved towards him and grabbed hold of his collar.
"My name is Kripa Sharma and this here is Naina Gupta. You mess with her you mess with me. Don't you ever try to harass her again or you will have me to deal with. This time only half of the college knows what just happened but next time the whole Mumbai will come to know about it. You got that. Now get your self out of here before I take you to principle's office for ragging other students." Kripa finished
She started to leave before the guy began to speak. He moved forward. He guy was wearing nice clothes him self blue baggy pants with white shirt and brown leather jacket and black shoes. He was wearing nice new fashioned watch on the left hand and a thick silver colored chained bracelet on the right hand. The anger was still visible and embarrassment was gone.
"If you are kripa sharma then I am Amar Chopra. My dad owns half of Mumbai and if I want I can embarrass you right now and no one will be able to do a thing about it, but you see I like to take things slow and easy. I wait for the right moment. And when it comes I swear I won't spear you kripa. You will pay for this slap." He finished and moved back to his group. The other girl Naina grab hold of his jacket and made him turn around. She moved forward and slapped him her self. Now she eyes were filled with fury.
"What the hell do you think of your self? Just because your rich and your dad own nothing but few businesses you are threatening her? If she wanted you be arrested for harassment. I guess I should tell him kripa that the polish commissioner and the governor of this state is your father's best friend and if she wants you will spend rest of your life in jail. So don't you dare say a word to her or you will regret it more then anything in your life Mr. and ya one more thing I feel sorry for your parents who raised a child like you shameless and rude. You are nothing but a show off try to earn position of your self rather then relying on your fathers. So next time watch your steps you never know they might be your last steps as a free man." Naina said and dragged kripa away from there.
Everyone started to leave the place. The teachers were ashamed of Amar and his attitude. No one said anything to those girls because they knew what they did was right. Now the whole hallway was empty those guys were gone and so were the students and staff. The only person standing there was angad. He was still looking in the direction of those girls. He was amazed by their unity and strength against those bullies. He was falling for one of them but who was the question left unanswered.
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Note: in the beginning of the part angad is seeing a white light which he saw in the last part and now he is trying to stop the light from going away since he sees kripa in the light.
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