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Pragya woke up to Abhi sneezing and coughing. Abhi sneezed and coughed and sneezed and coughed.
"What happened?" Pragya asked Abhi.
" *cough* Nothing *cough* I..I..I *sneeze* am fine." Abhi replied. He did not want to drink the warm water again. Little did Abhi know that there were worst things than warm water.
"I can see that." Pragya said getting up from the couch. "Wait right here. I'll take of these coughs and sneezes for good now."
Abhi stared at her in horror. What was Pragya going to do? Kill him? Abhi quickly got out of bed and held a pillow for safety. If Pragya had went of the room, she was surely going to get the knife. He hid behind the door.
After some time, Pragya finally came inside but just then she was hit by the pillow causing her to fall backwards and tray hitting the ground, breaking the small bowl and cup in it.
"Ouch!" Pragya screamed. "Have you lost your mind?"
Pragya started looking at the broken pieces of glass on the floor. Abhi came from behind the door. He gave her hand to Pragya to help her stand.
"Sorry *cough*." Abhi told her. "I thought *sneeze* you were going to *sneeze* *cough* kill me."
"If I had to kill you nah, I would have done ages ago." Pragya replied. "Wait, now I have to clean this and make you a new set of medicine."
Abhi actually felt extremely stupid and embarrassed, thus he decided to help Pragya clean up. That wasn't the smartest idea by Abhu because he had gotten the fingers on his right hand cut. Giving Pragya to not only clean his wound but the mess as well. After some time, both of them had cleared the broken glass and wiped the medicine from the ground.
"Now you come with me." Pragya told him. "I don't want to be hit in the face with a pillow again."
Abhi sneezed and nodded and started following Pragya to the kitchen.
**
Abhi sat on the counter while Pragya again prepared the homemade medicines. Abhi was about to drink a soda when Pragya snatched it.
"This is why you keep coughing and sneezing." Pragya explained holding up the soda. "If you keep on eating this junk food nah, you throat will literally explode."
Abhi just nodded as a little kid who had been scolded. If he didn't have such a sore throat and nose, he would have replied with some witty comeback but right now his throat hurt and the sides of his nose, thus he decided to remain quiet.
After what seemed like eternity, Pragya finally came with a small bowl and a tea cup.
"Okay." Pragya said. "First with the sneezes. Here you go."
Abhi took the cup from his left hand and sniffed it. It smelled weird. "What is it?"
"Tea with ginger." Pragya replied.
"Oh tea." Abhi said. "Wait.. ginger?"
"Yes ginger." Pragya replied.
"I am not drinking this *Sneeze*." Abhi said.
"Don't make me force you to drink it." Pragya warned.
"Really? *cough*" Abhi said. "What would you do? *sneeze*"
"You want me to call Daadi?" Pragya said raising her eyebrows.
"I'll *cough* drink it *sneeze*." Abhi said hearing Daadi's name. "Ah.. *cough* Can you hold my nose? *Sneeze* My right hand is kind of useless." Pragya nodded and carefully held his nose, not wanting to get any snot from his runny nose.
Abhi started to drink the tea. He took a big gulp and finished it. After that Abhi cringed. "YUCK! *cough* that was horrible *cough* *cough*."
"On the bright side." Pragy told him. "You're not sneezing. Okay now the cough. You have to take three spoonfuls of this."
Abhi coughed and raised up his right hand, indicating he can't do that. Pragya sighed and took a spoonful and tried to feed Abhi.
"Wait." Abhi said stopping her. "First *cough* what is it?"
"Honey with black peppers." Pragya replied. Abhi stared at her in horror. Pragya was definitely trying to poison him.
"No *cough*" Abhi whined.
"You want to cough while singing." Pragya asked. Abhi just stared at her. She had won this conversation. He just opened his mouth in response. Pragya gave him the first spoonful.
"YUCK!" Abhi yelped and got down from the counter. He nearly jumped on Pragya. "*cough* horrible. HORRIBLE."
"Quiet." Pragya told him. "You'll wake everyone up. You just have to take two spoonfuls more."
"Two? *cough*." Abhi whined.
"Fine just take one more but keep your voice down." Pragya replied.
"Good. *cough* " Abhi replied. Pragya took a big spoonful and fed Abhi.
"YUCK! YUCK! YUCK!" Abhi yelped wiping his tongue with his hand. "This was so gross. This is torture I tell you. Just plain torture. How can one even eat a thing like that?"
"You're not coughing." Pragya smiled. "And keep your voice down." Abhi while over reacting to the taste hit his right hand on the counter.
"Ouch!" Abhi yelled.
"I told you." Pragya said taking his hand and removing the bandage. "Why are you such a Drama Queen?" Pragya checked Abhi's hand and readjusted the bandaged. Abhi just stared at her. Pragya looked up to see Abhi staring at her and they shared an eyelock. *Allah Waariyan in the back grounf* But unfortunately their moment was short lived.
"Ahem." Daadi said. Abhi and Pragya both broke the eyelock and looked away. "Abhi why were you screaming."
"I.. woh... honey.. ginger." Abhi stumbled at his words embarrassing him and Pragya. Daadi just laughed and left the two standing in the kitchen.
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