#8
After this dadi and kripa met almost everyday. But she and angad did not face each other since then. On one of these visits,
"Dadi kya aap mere saath who jo famous shiva mandir hai wahan chalengi?"
"arre kripa tumne toh mere dil ki baat keh di. Aaj wahan pe badi aarti hai, main wahan jaana hi chahti thi." She smiled and said.
"theek ahi dadi, toh aaj shaam chalien."
"umm..haan, but actually maine na aaj angad ko promise kiya tha ki aaj who aur main ikatthe lunch karenge and its almost ready. Who aata hi hoga." She said.
But kripa, who was trying to avoid him, thought that she would leave now and come back later.
"Aur main chahti hoon", dadi continued, "kit um hamaare saath lunch karo." She smiled at her and knew that she was planning to leave.
"kripa, kya soch rahi ho? Jaane ka? Ab kyat um uske saamne kabhi nahi jaogi? Face him. Moreover usne sab theek toh kar diya hai." Kripa knew that dadi was right.
"par dadi, mujhme himmat nahi hai."
"Toh himmat banao. Mujhe nahin pata. Tum ruk rahi ho bas. End the topic now." She commanded and went to the kitchen. Kripa was in deep thots wen she suddenly heard the clang-clang of utensils. She ran towards the kitchen and saw that dadi had fallen to the ground and was crying in pain, "kripa…aah…kripa"
"Dadi, dadi kya hua?" but she very well knew that whatever that had happened to addi was serious. She panicked and dint know what to do. She was in no postion to lift dadi and bring her in the room, all she could think of was getting a doctor, but she hardly knew anyone there. Then she remembered that angad was coming so she called him.
Angad was surprised to seekripas cell number on his screen. He picked it up and said disinterestedly,
"Kya hai kripa?"
"Angad… angad…. Dadi….. main yahan dadi ke paas hoon…aur…aur unhe patanahi kya…", she then yelled at him, "Angad jaldi dadi ke ghar aao, jaldi."
Angad was confused as well as scared to hear all this.
"Kripa, tum..tum wahin raho, main, main aa raha hoon." On his way abck he thot all the horrible things that could have happened to dadi, and started crying.
"Dadi, aapko kuch nahi hoga, angad aa raha hai."Kripa said this to an unconscious dadi.
Within minutes angad had comeand they both took her to the hospital. Angad din utter a single word and kripa too was crying. The doctors in the hospital admitted her in the I.C.U.
Angad as obvious was not reacting to anything, kripa thought it would be wise to call the others. So she called dilip and naina and her mom.
Her dad had gone to Australia with josh for some business work. The three came as soon as they could.
"angad, mama? Kripa how is she, ab kaisi hain?" naina came and asked, she was very upset.
"Who…aunty, amin dadi ke saath thi, ander se aawaz aayi, main gayi to dekhaki dadi neeche giri hui thi—" kripa now got into a hysterical position. Gayatri acme forward to console her.
"Excuse me, Mr. Khanna." The doctor who was cheking dadi came and said, "Mrs. Khanna has, I am sorry to say, drifted into coma. Ab unko shayad kal tak hi hosh aaye.", dilip and naina was almost about to breakdown when he added, "but its acute, so please don't think its very serious. Aap Mr. Khanna, plz saari formalities poori kar dijiye." He said this to angad, but angad was sitting and was totally devastated and he dint reply.
"Aap mujhe bata dijiye, main kar deta hoon." Dilip said.
"ok, main abhi paper laata hoon." The doctor then sent some papers, which dilip signed.
"Kripa achcha hua beta tum waha thi." He said,"achcha naina, tum angad aur kripa yahan se jao, media aati hi hogi, gayatri tum rukjao."
"nahin dilip, main nahi jaungi. Angad, kripa beta tum dono ghar jao."
"Nahi naina, baat samajhneki koshish karo, tum, angad aur kripa jao. Gayatri, I hope you have no problems, please stay." He added looking at gayatri.
"of course dilip. Main rukti hoon. Dekho naina agar tum rukogi toh media waale tarah tarah ki baatien karenge, aur look at angad, use bhi to dekhna hai,. Amin sharmas ki spokesperson hoon, main ruk jaati hoon.
"Theek ahi", naina said, "angad , kripa, cahlo. Angad. Angad?" she called him twice, but he did not get up. Dilip then shook him and then his senses drifted back. So finally, the three returned to Khanna mansion. Angad went to his bedroom and stayed there the whole afternoon. Kripa and naina were sitting in the drawing room. They kept themselves in touch with dilip, but dadis condition did not improve. And so went the afternoon, wellwishers came and went. Then at 8.00 pm gayatri came and relieved some of their tension by telling them that dadis condition was improving, but she was still in coma.
" Arre kripa, naina ne kuch anhi khaya hai, jao make soup for her."
" ji mama."
" nahin beta maine kuch nahi khana. Don't bother."
"naina , kuchtoh kha lo."
" nahi gayatri, bhookh nahin hai. Mama ki tension lagi hui hai."
"achcha aur angad ne? usne kuch khaya hai kya?" gayatri asked.
" Arre kahan gayatri, who to subah se bahar hi nahi aaya."
"Toh kripa jao, jaake angad ke liye soup bana do. Jao."
"ji mama." She went to the kitchen and made soup for him. It was raedy within minutes and she went to his room to give it to him. She knocked twice but there was no response. So she opened the door and asw that he was…………
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