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Chapter 10
Payal was missing her family but then gradually this new family was becoming her own.Arjun visited her but not regularly.Sameer too came sometimes.Even Roshni.She was loving her life with so many loved ones and so much of attention.
Everyone there also started liking her and talked with her.Her intellect,sharp vision and smartness to handle the toughest situations were gaining everyone's attention there.She was showing slow improvement. Days were going like hours she,was busy.Sometimes sessions,medicines,gardening,helping others and sometimes even counselling similar patients like hers.She was doing her work too well.She had become very popular there.
Her pain and restless nights were still quite active but they have reduced a bit.Lack of drug availability and living around people who are in similar suffering was helping her to cope up with her urge.
One such day a patient was brought to the rehab,by a relative of his.He was too addicted and needed treatment. When the man entered,Payal was sitting with a boy,rahul,in the garden, less than her age,talking with him.She saw the man come in through the gate.The man had long hair and a slim physique.He was looking down and looked quite irritated when his relative dragged him inside the building to the reception.
Payal was looking at him continuously from the moment he had entered through the gate.The man seemed disturbed.The man didnt even spare a look at anything around and went in.Payal too got busy when they called her for her regular session.
Everyone had seated themselves for lunch at the dinning tables.Payal took her food from the counter and sat at the table where some of her friends were sitting.She was eating her food and talking with her friends when her eyes fell on the man.He was sitting at the table right at one corner of the hall alone and eating his food.Payal went over to him with her plate of food.Forwarding her hand towards him,she said,
'hi,I am payal,kiya mein yaha baith sakti hu?'
the man looked up at her,in between his messy hair, for a brief moment and then went back to his food.Payal looked at him,he was almost gulping down his food,seemed he had not ate for years.He finished his lunch and directly went to his room ignoring payal.
'Akdu kahika,mujhse baat tak nehi ki,mujhe kiya mein bhi nehi karungi,'
saying so she sat down with her food and finished her lunch.
Evenings were very busy with medications and counselling sessions with the doctors.Atlast it came to night.Again it was a sleepless night for Payal.Her chest pain,suffocation and numbness was increasing.Earlier she used to get restless and wanted to get back home.She even called Arjun a couple of times.But now she had made up her own remedy.Whenever she couldnt sleep at night she would go into the garden and roam around humming her favorite tune,breathing in the fresh breeze.She would forget about the urge and pain for some time and when she felt exhausted she would go back to sleep.
Payal got up from her bed and walked over to the garden.It was pretty dark in that area only a faint light fron the bulb at the gate was illuminating the area.She stood near a mango tree and leaned onto its trunk.She pressed her lips and closed her eyes,trying to bear the pain,her raising heart beat and headache was giving in slowly.She tried to divert her mind by thinking about Arjun and her days with him.She humed her favourite tune but her voice chocked and tears started forming in her eyes. She cluchted onto the trunk scratching her nails on it.
She was humming in a cracked voice when she heard a sound of crashing dry leaves.She looked towards the source and found a man sitting on the bench at the end of the garden.She blinked her eyes lashes and tried to take a better look at the man.The man had bend his head in his thighs holding onto his stomach.He was crushing the dry leaves beneath his feet.It showed he was in bitter pain.
Payal composed herself and walked towards the man.While she walked close to him,she could hear his breathing.He was breathing heavily.His long hair covered his face and she couldnt see him properly.It was a windy night and he was sitting in the chilling breeze in a simple short shirt,which was wet with his sweat at his back.She stood in front of him and called out,
'suno,'
The man didnt reply,he remained in the same position.Payal held his shoulder with shivering hand and called out again,
'hello,sun rahe ho?'
The man looked up at her.He was the same man whom Payal had seen earlier in the morning.His face had screached,eyes red.He was shivering holding his stomach and sweating profusely.He was continuously licking his lips and breathing heavily.He again bend down to his earlier position leaving a groan.
Payal removed her hand thinking about the arrogance he had shown her during lunch but remained standing in front of her.She was somewhere feeling pity for this man who was in an exact replica position as she was a few months back.She again tried to talk to him,
'suniye ap thik ho?ap yaha kiya kar rahe ho?'
The man still kept silent.She probed again,
'Apka naam kiya hai?mera naam payal hai,'
The man suddenly straighten and held her hand,shocking payal so much that she let out a cry.
'mujhe thora whiskey lake dogi?please ya rum?beer?kuch bhi please lake dona,'he said and started crying holding her hands firmly,
'Arre kiya kar rahe ho tum?mera hath choro,mein kuch nehi de sakti tumhe,yaha ye sab allowed nehi hai,hath choro mera'
Payal was trying to remove her hand from his grip,but his grip was getting tighter and it was hurting her brimming tears in her eyes.She again tried to reason to his not ending demand of a drink.The man had fallen down on his knees in front of her dragging her down with him,begging her for a drink.
Payal could see herself in front of her.The same pain in his voice,the helplessness in his eyes and the severe convalescene in front of her.She looked at him with tears in her eyes and jerked her hand with a great force making her fall down on the ground.She dragged herself away from his grip not leaving her eyes on him for even a second.She got up and ran inside the building with all her strength and hid herself inside the blanket on her bed.
She was shaking and sweating inside her blanket.She had long forgotten about her need and pain.It took her a long time to compose herself. She got up from the bed to the window.She found a few men taking that man inside.He was in an almost unconcious state now.She looked at him and her heart pained at the sight.
She turned and looked around the room.Everyone was sleeping,everything was silent.But she was not able to sleep,his face and his helplessness was haunting her all night.She had seen patients suffering for their addictions but the fire in his eyes was not letting her forget him.
She lied down and after a long time she finally fell asleep.
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Next morning Payal was sitting sleepily holding her head at the breakfast table waiting for her friend to come.She was feeling tired after the sleepless night she had spent.She heard footsteps at her back and thought her friend had come.Without even turning her head she asked her to bring tea from her.The footsteps slowly drooped and then after sometime a hand kept a mug of tea in front of her.
She smiled at the strong smell of tea and took a sip.The sip itself relaxed her senses.She turned to thank her friend.Thats when he found the man she had met last night.She jumped up almost spilling the tea on her clothes,but he saved the mishap and held her hand.Payal looked into his eyes,the same restlessness and pain was still visible but they have calmed down much.She instantly looked away to avoid getting him on her nerves again.
'kal raat ke liye sorry,'the first words that she heard from him.
Payal looked back at him confused.She blinked her eyes a few times to trust her vision he is really speaking to him.She was thinking why he had suddenly come to her when his voice again alerted her,
'aise kiya dekh rahi ho?insaan hu,bhoot nehi hu,'Payal was still perplexed and didnt reply.
'ohh hello,sun rahi ho?beheri ho kiya?'he asked again,
Now it was limits for payal.This stranger was calling her deaf,
'mein beheri?oh Mr tum,tumhara khandan behera hoga,mein nehi,'
'to ab tak chup kiyu baithi thi?'
'meri marzi.mein jab chahe tab bath kar sakti hu ,tum hote kaun ho mujhe aise kehene wale?'
'karan,mera nam karan hai,'he forwarded his hand,
'payal,'she said folding her hands at her chest,
'mein bas kal raat ke liye sorry kehene aya tha,wo mujhe drinking ka problem hai aur kal raat tum achanak samne aa gayi to mujhse raha nehi gaya.waise tum waha kiya kar rahi thi?'
'basket ball khel rahi thi,tumhe kuch problem hai?'she asked sarcastically,
'really tum khel sakti ho?'he asked after taking a clear look at her frame,
'kiyu nehi khel sakti?larki hone ka matlab ye nehi ki basket ball nehi khel sakti'
'nehi nehi bilkul khel sakti ho,'he started laughing.
Payal was angry at his gesture and had fisted her hand to give punch his nose but that very instant a staff came in to inform that Arjun had come to meet her.
She signed and left a laughing karan,swearing under her breath..
chalo ye part khatam...hope you got payal what I am planning for you.😉..comments plzz..😳
PART 11 page 64
Edited by rimi_invisible - 11 years ago
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