It is a two shot OS guys😊...on TaaRey😳 for obvio reasons😆...HOPE YOU LIKE IT😉. This is the first part.
Taani walked briskly past the temple bowing her head in front of it with a newspaper in one hand and a laptop in other. And there she came to the parking area. Sitting in her car she tuned in the radio, placed her bag on the nearby seat, moved the steering and zooming went the car from that area stacked up with cars in the very morning. This was her daily routine---walking past the temple, carrying her laptop and newspaper and thrashing all of them at one seat in her car. on the red light her eyes didn't res for a second and she started reading the messages on her phone at one go---rather deleting all of them one by one.But she did skip some...like the ones from her patients asking for appointments or from her fiancee Shaan...oops...Shantanu Maheshwari----the famous photographer.
She always used to get a creep feeling at his messages---not that he wasn't sweet...he really was and had been a very good support to her after the untimely death of her father...but his messages just made her shrivel up---for no reasons---rather reasons she didn't want to accept.
Having caught him red handed with a girl during a swimming photo shoot for his yearly calender for Kingfisher was no joke. She had not even forgiven him easily...he had changed...TOTALLY to be precise but still the glimpses of Shaan holding that bitch so close uptight with her breasts rubbing right against his chest and his hand in...oh gosh...why do you always end up thinking THAT...sheesh such a bad picture...urggh. The fact that Shaan and they had shared the same picture it was difficult to forget him EXACTLY the SAME WAY with another lady. HONK HONK HONK...shit the light had turned green...and Taani was comfortably checking her phone.
She moved the steering wheel with one hand while other on gear ans sped away directly parking it near the porch cars of her colleague.
She walked right to the nurse station and waited desperately for the interns. She gave them the duties after a 5 minute lecture on how they were always goofing around and always late as well.
And then with her stethoscope and everything she needed she walked into the General Lab where her patients had been waiting for her. With a sister always right next to her to guide her about the medicines and dosage, a junior doctor also always accompanied her. Today it was Dr. Atul at her side panicking in fear of a scolding by Dr. Taani.
And then she read out names of all her patients when suddenly Dr. Sapna came running in. All hysterical with her hair running all over her face in one breath she spat "Dr. Taani fast...Rey again had fits...fast."
And pale went the color of Taani...for a second the world seemed to have frozen...Rey again had fits...this was the second time in 3 weeks...this was heights...what is WRONG?
Trying to hide her fear and shock Taani walked with a composed look on her face. "First manage yourself and then can you think of being a doctor, Miss Sapna. needn't panic. Dr. Atul you are the in charge over here for the time. Look over and don't play around with patients with your partner in crime-Dr. Armaan."
"Let's go" she signaled Dr. Sapna.
Walking into that cabin she always felt claustrophobic...not that she wanted to and as a doctor she isn't even supposed to but just the whole atmosphere.
It was dingy according to her...total about 5 patients in this one big spacious room---that was OK---- but the locked up doors and windows made it really awful -not only for the patients but for the doctors and staff as well.
But that room was her last priority at that time...she walked straight up to Rey's bed.
"I took the charge in your absence...he is fine...I have given him the anti-epileptic drugs. He is fine. Needn't worry " said Dr. Kirti in her straight and upright tone- one she was known for.
Taani breathed in hearing Dr. Kirti's words but she actually didn't stop worrying. How could she? This was about Rey...the man she couldn't forget whatever the circumstances were.
"He is OK Taani...are you OK?" asked Dr. Kirti with a concerned look on her face.
"I never can be when it is related to him."Taani answered looking into Rey's eyes not loosing the contact even once.
"Why...what's the matter Taani. Who is he after all?" Dr. Kirti asked with an edge in her voice and concern ringing in her eyes.
"It all started that day...
It had been a long day . I had got a leave after along time...that too in the MORNING. I was relaxing all laid back watching TV when the blaring sound of the music from my neighbor's house stopped all of a sudden. well I didn't even give it a second thought until the door bell of my house rang and there came in the biggest news of my life.
A guy of about 24 years old who I had seen come to my neighbor's house plenty of times called Vicky came all startled.
"Please doctor help...my friend...your neighbor ...Reyaansh ...he jumped off the building...please help...doctor please help us. Please."
"What...where is he...tell me right now!" I shouted at him.
"He is lieing right there " he pointed to the ground floor of my building.
I walked in my night tracks just like that directly to the ground floor. Bloody hell the lift was jammed that day. i literally had to walk down 7 floors. But those 7 floors seemed to have been like 70. I couldn't help but think about Reyaansh. we had been neighbors for about 4 years and even though we had never talked and all but he was my neighbor after all...a man I knew...and really didn't want to die.
We really weren't friends or even good neighbors. actually we were quite bad. The first day he had come to our building I had worked late at the hospital and came home at about 1 at night. And at 1:30 he had rang my bell to say hello and how he just realized that I came home. that was not just the annoying part...I slammed the door on his face...yes the very first day he came home. Now don't laugh at that Kirti
I thought he is this reckless brat who had a string of girls and a tonnes of friends who just partied all day and NIGHT long...that too at my I mean HIS place only. I thought of him to be this big Casanova but that day I came to know that he jumped off the building intentionally because his girlfriend Shakti had left him and moved away to US.
He had been so traumatized by her departure that he took that big step.
But I was not aware of the romeo neighbor of mine when I walked out of my house that day. I was just going to help the reckless brat that day. As I jumped off the last step...two in one seeing Rey in the pool of blood was more than just a shock...the carefree smile with which he had rung my bell...shit that had been swept away...and so badly smeared by blood all around that no one could say that he was the reckless brat I was referring to.
But he was and I was aware.
I bend down to check his pulse while his friends try and lift him up. and that is the first time I touched him. Not that that I hadn't touched a guy before...but this was different. He was all most my age...may be an year younger but just my age ...and quite charming...and so the whole feeling of touching a person of opposite gender was there. Holding his hand in mine sent a ticklish feeling down my spine. And I didn't deny it either because it was so natural. It was out of pure adrenal rush an not love or like but still the feeling was just BLISS.
MUSIC
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard,to survive
'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Can't you feel my heart beat fast?
I want this to last
Need you by my side
He had been murmuring her name...his breath was slow but still her name was audible and the only thing I could make out. He kept chanting it till he totally fainted. Walking into the hospital with his hand wrapped around mine I think I had never been more desperate to help a person.the ticklish feeling hadn't died away but the feelings of a doctor took charge and finally after two full days of operation and hard work he was safe but not mentally and physically fit enough to go. He could have repeated it once again and you know Kirti in these three years the conditions have become worse...he still loves Shakti... hasn't moved on one bit. He is physically all right but mentally...highly UNSTABLE...has fits and convulsions and hallucinations every few days.
Rey has been more than just a patient Kirti...the feeling I get when I hold him...it is out of the world...I ma not a despo and you know that...but holding Rey feels right...it feels perfect...it feels just FAST and SLOW"
Taani wrapped up her tale with tears glistening in her eyes. Placing her hand onto Rey's she weeped quietly not disturbing Rey's sleep feeling fast and slow at the same time...feeling PERFECT.
MUSIC
Can't you feel my heart beat fast?
I want this to last
Need you by my side
Cause everytime we touch, I feel the static
Udne Ki Aasha
Hollywood
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