Ashu's POV
She looked at me with her killing brown eyes.
I never noticed before how intense and deep they were. Perhaps I was more lost in her beauty that made me blind earlier.
Smiling hesitantly, I braced myself before a soft "Umm...Hi..." escaped my lips.
She looked at me up and down for a brief moment before she turned totally in my direction and crossed her hands over her chest.
"Hi" she replied UN-interestingly.
Ashutosh, you have to work hard. I told myself.
"Listen Nidhi..."
"Dr. Verma" She curtly cut me down...
I bit my tongue. It was highly casual for me, a man who is even so formal with his Kaka who particularly have spent his whole life with me, to directly say her name which I just got to know almost an hour before.
"Yes...Dr. Verma"
"I need to explain you a few things...it seems like you have a misunderstanding."
She looked at me like she just wish to scratch my face with her pointed sharp claws if they would have exist.
My eyes fell on her fingers and then on her nails.
Oops, May be I should be careful. They are not pointed but definitely long enough to scratch my face.
"You are mistaken here...I DON'T HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING" She stressed on the words, seething between her teeth.
"I know that its right what I think" Hopeless, Your chances are next to infinity Ashutosh.
"Nid..." She looked daggers at me. I scolded myself mentally, as my eyes fell again on her nails.
"Dr. Verma..." I gulped down my saliva. "I haven't made the rules...They are there from the starting of this institution...I don't own a single responsibility regarding the rules."
A short sarcastic laugh escaped her lips.
"So what kind of a dean you are...who don't try to make things right."
"Me being a dean has nothing to do with rules...Management has decided the rules regarding KGH...By allowing KMC students only for internships means that the students get an assurance that there hard work will be paid off. That if they passed there MBBS with high ranks, they don't have to worry about there internships as they will pass out having jobs in hands...Its just a motivational path for them to give there 100% in there exams"
"So that means that if someone is much better than your highest grader student of KMC, she have to be ignored...She have to get disappointed in the end...Her dreams are nothing." She barked back after hearing my long speech and left speechless.
Literally.
"You know what...I had checked your KMC student ranks too...the one who got 1st position in KMC was 9th all india ranked...and he got to do internship in India...so that means that my 4th rank means nothing..." Awww...she was badly hurt.
"How you must have felt when you get in a profession, you don't want to go initially but ultimately, that profession becomes your life. Just two weeks before my 12th exams, my father got a heart-attack...He had no one else than me...So you meant that i must have not cared about him and should have focused on my exams so I could get my damn admission in my dream college..." Her voice got heavier with each next word she said
"Nid ...Listen to me..." I tried to get close to her but she stepped back and raised her hand in the air to stop me.
"I didn't get disappointed on not getting the admission in KMC...you know why ...Cause my father got better...and he told me that Nidhi, Don't loose hope beta...work hard in your MBBS...and get such a position, that KGH has to break there rules to take you in" She quoted her father and wiped the single line of tear, that got traced a moment back.
"I had given my 101% to my MBBS...those six years, you know how I have spend them" She looked at me with accusing eyes. My heart bleed seeing the hatred and pain in there.
"I kept on dreaming...made it my aim that i will be the topper in lucknow and I did it...But never knew that all my hard work and effort is just a waste" She took a deep breath and look back at me.
"I have never felt such useless in life as you and your institution made me feel...And now I am glad to not being a part of such mean organization." She turned around a last glare and after getting into the car, left.
The bouquet in my hand was still there. The card was there. And in addition, a pain was slightly piercing my heart, making me feel so helpless.
To others, May be her pain seemed baseless. But I understands her.
I could look into her soul through those crystal clear eyes and tell that this rejection has hurt her more than it was intended.
She was gone so I too get back to my car and putting the bouquet back on the passenger seat, drove away.
My mind was totally filled with her thoughts, her words, till I reached the orphanage, that is on the way to hospital from Ranganath place. I do visit it sometimes when I feel too lonely.
Leaving the card on the seat, I too hold of the flowers and went in and present the flowers to the kids out there.
My this gesture brought a sweet smile on there face that somehow brought peace for my guilty self.
Getting back in the car, I looked at the card and go through it.
"I will keep it safely...May be someother time, I could show it to her...Or else, It will be a reminder to me of our meeting"
I went to hospital and busied myself with paperwork till late night. Getting myself over-worked somehow bring peace to my over-working mind.
It was around 1 am, when I felt the need to have a cup of coffee.
My sleeves were rolled up, tie was loosely hanging around my neck with few upper buttons opened.
I first thought to correct my attire but then stopped.
Who would look at me at this time?
No One.
Else than those inters on night shifts who wouldn't dare come in front of me, gossiping, as i was really strict about the duties.
Stretching my arms out, I relaxed myself before I was on my toes and rushed to canteen.
Grabbing a hot cup of coffee, I looked into corridors and peek into wards to check on patients. A usual habit that's hard to die.
I was coming back to my cabin when few voices from interns rest room caught my attention.
"Yaar...I am fed up already with this schedule...Cant wait till this internship gets over in two months" One intern, I think Nisha said.
"Yeah me too...I hardly got to see my husband due to these night shifts...Its just few months of our wedding, and he already seems pissed off" Priyanka sighed.
"Me three..." A male intern, Rishi said while sipping his tea. "My friends call me BORE now a days cause I can't go out to clubs with them..." Childish issues, I murmured.
"You know, few days back, My cousin, Sameera was telling me how lucky I am by getting an opportunity to work here in KGH. She is also a KMC pass out bit couldn't get in here...She is doing her internship in bombay now after her family shifted and what a life she is having..." Nisha's voice was of full envy.
"Why? Dont she have night duties or don't she have patients to attend?" Rishi spoke up.
"Ofcourse she does have...but her life is not that tough. She and her friends change up there duties how they like. Like if she has to go out with friends, she would do a 36 hours duty before that she says isn't that tough. She do get to take naps in between. I so want to exchange her with myself" She whined.
"Thats great...I wonder how other Hospital inters get jealous of us...They should just spend a day in here and they will thank there luck." Priyanka sighed as they continued on with there gossips.
Somehow, I didn't get in to stop these interns and charging them for lack of duties as my mind was already working on a new idea.
I get into my room and closing the door behind, sit on my chair and while sipping the coffee thought on.
"Nidhi is angry that she didn't get a chance to work in KGH...now how about I remove this complain" I thought evilly as a smirked got placed on my lips and I processed the whole idea in my mind.
If my interns are so fed up with the duties, then how will she manage...What will she think
"She is so going to say thank you to God by not letting her get in KMC & KGH..." I smiled and got down a note pad and wrote a few numbers in a diary that I need to call the first thing in the morning.
"Dr. Nidhi Verma...Lets see what you will have to say about this"
Next: OMG!!!! Where I get trapped...😆😆😆
next part will come next week...will try to update as fast as i can...
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