part - 1
"come on kabir yaar... let's go to club..." someone came running from behind and patted a person who was spread over a sofa lying in the staff room of a prestigious hospital. The person yawned and turned to another side.
"kabir uth ja yaar... aaj chal le fir 1 mahine tak night duty karte rhega"
"kya h adheer... abhi meri duty over hui h ur tjhe 2 min ka bhi chain nhi h..."
"kabir pls yaar chal na... waise bhi kal se night shift h hmari... ek mahine tak club kya din ka suraj bhi dekhne nhi milega..."
Adheer shook kabir making him irritated at him.
"thik h... ye last time iske baad agar mjhe ek mahine tak pareshan kia na adheer to samaj lena..." kabir stood up and dusted off his clothes. Adheer squealed like a college girl and hugged kabir "jo chahe kar lena abhi to chal...". Kabir shook his head and went to the attached restroom for changing. Adheer let out an evil laugh "aaj kabira tjhe kisike saath phasa k hi dum lunga mai... jab dekho logo se bhagta rehta h.."
A club was lighted with fairly dim lights and blaring music. The crowd was swaying with the beats with no worry of tomorrow. Suddenly the light focused on the door when two handsome boys entered and all the attention shifted to them. The girls go oohhs and ahhhs looking at two smoking hot pieces of the male specimen while boys got intimidated with their mere presence. They moved to the bar area and grabbed two booths. A girl of their age came jumping from behind and back hugged adheer. "adheer..." she planted a kiss on his cheeks while he smiled and winked at her. Adheer turned and hugged the girl "hello beautiful". They both stared at each other forgetting their surroundings while their eyes spoke volumes of their hearts. Kabir saw the love birds who were in their own world and sighed. Ananya and adheer are together since school, they were best buddies and these best buddies turned into the cutest couple of the college. Adheer was apprehensive in reaching out for her thinking may be the relationship will damage their friendship and kabir had to threaten him. He clearly remember when he told adheer if he didnt proposed ananya then kabir himself will go and propose her. That finally gave the boy a push and it started this beautiful journey of his two mad friends. He too wanted to feel the same, the same warm feeling that fills your heart even in coldest of moments. Someone eyes which can give him the reason to look forward the light, the smile which can inflict on his lips... a voice which can give him goosebumps and a love which can give him a reason to live. He crave to feel some one touch, a touch which can burn him with the right fire and ignite a passion which cannot die. He wanted to be loved and to love someone to the extent of sanity. A glass broke somewhere and he came back to the moment, sighing again he looked at his friends who still were in each other's embrace. He came behind ananya and kissed her cheeks "hello would be bhabhi..." kabir winked. Ananya jumped to few inches in air and turned red at his given name. "h.. hi kabir" she shied while adheer glared at kabir. "what maine kya kia..." kabir asked with a cute pout. "u know well..." said adheer. "hey... i just did this" said kabir kissing ananya cheek again making adheer scowl at him deeper. Ananya chuckled and slapped both of their shoulders "stop it u two... we are here to enjoy not to have a glaring match". "tell ur boyfriend not me... ani, my love" kabir said stretching ananya nickname making adheer mad. But before he can lunge on kabir, he backed off and went to order their drinks.
Ananya was laughing while adheer was still scowling at his dear friend. "adheer stop behaving like a child... u know he is playing around" she pecked his cheek and rested her head on his shoulder. "i know... he still irritate me... but u see now what i will do to him... par pehle ye btao is she coming.." he asked with a curious expression. Ananya sighed in a tiered manner "yes she is... but u know u are forcing him into it... he dont like her... at least not like that..." she said. "i m not forcing him ani... he needs to loosen up a little... a scar of the past shouldn't shadow ur present... ur waise bhi vo ek hi ladki h jise ye budhu apne paas aane deta h" he shook his head. " vo use apna dost samjhta h... bus islie ki vo ek bhot sensible ladki h ur meri dost h, vo kuch kehta nhi h.." she tried to explain. "par vo to use pasand karti h na..." adheer argued. "ha... kuch jyada hi... ur kabir k chakkar m thodi paagal bhi ho gyi h..." both giggled as kabir came back managing 3 drinks on his hands. He gave them theirs and was about to sip his, when adheer shouted "hi maira..". Kabir suddenly choked on his drink hearing the name and started looking here n there coughing badly. Adheer started laughing out loud while ananya hit him on the chest and ran to pat kabir back. "adheer... stop it..." she glared at him while kabir coughed hard due to his spree and gave adheer a murderous glare for his prank. "what... maine kya kia..." adheer recited.
"kya kia tmne adheer..." a sweet voice came from behind making adheer smile mischievously and kabir groaned in annoyance. "hey maira... hows u..." ananya smiled at a tall and lean beautiful girl who was wearing a cute body hugging dress. "m fine ani... hows u all?" she beamed at all of them. Adheer grinned while kabir smiled timidly at her. She stood by kabir side at gave him a sugary look making kabir squirm in his seat. "are maira why u are standing... sit beside kabir" adheer offered his seat to her and went to other side with ananya. The 4 of them starting talking and enjoying the night, soon adheer and ananya took off to the dance floor leaving kabir and maira alone. "so kabir... how u doing" asked maira. "m doing fine..." he gave her a clipped answer. "hows work" she asked again. "good..." he chipped it. She let out a sigh "went home or not...".
"nope..." he said. "still in hospital...:?" she asked. This time he just nodded in a yes shutting himself.
"kabir... say something more, why u always talk so less or is it just me around whom u are uncomfortable all the time..." she wondered. "maira... aisa kuch nhi h..." kabir waved a hand at her. "to kaisa h kabir... it's almost 2 years since we know each other and u know i like u... i like u more than i should but u always try to ran away from me... m i that bad?" she whispered the last part. She had been crushing on him since the day she has laid eyes on him but he wont even tried to answer her properly once he got to know what she thinks of him. "no maira... u r not bad... there is no prblm with u... and as far as the question of liking u stands... i do like u... u r a nice girl... but m not the one for u alright?" he whispered back to her and stood abruptly to leave. Maira felt the guilt running through her seeing his remorse and confused state and held his hand. "ok i understood... just dont spoil ur night because of me kabir... enjoy ur life" she turned looking at him hopefully. He turned to her and smiled "i m enjoying it maira... n m satisfied...". He sat again by her side and they both looked at adheer and ananya who were dancing at the beats with different emotions in their hearts. As the dancing couple returned to the table, kabir's phone began to ring. He looked at the caller id and a horrified expression appeared on his face. He looked at adheer who returned a quizical expression.
"hello dr. Kabir... can u come hospital now??" an elderly voice of a female asked him through the phone.
"oh yeah... i can... wat happened is everything okay with him...?" he was troubled.
"yes... he is ok but is having his regular nightmares and is calling u..." she informed him.
"how come he is awake... didnt he took the pills... sister angela"
"he threw them out of the window in rage... he is angry on u"
"why... oh damn... i promised to be with him tonight... m on my way" he hastily cut the call and smacked adheer back of the head. "ouch... what was that for" adheer rubbed the stinging sensation away. "he is having nightmares again because he didn't took the pills and is angry on me all because of ur party jig..." he glared at him. "but u didnt told me about it before" adheer exclaimed. Kabir put his hand on his throbbing temple and pressed it to relieve the sudden tension with a huge sigh. "ur right... its my fault again... m sorry buddy" kabir squeezed his shoulder and turned around. "m going... will meet u tomorrow" he called out and jogged to the exit.
Soon kabir was on the road driving in his suv, worried for him. He took a steep turn and ran his car on the lone road. Obviously it's empty, it is past midnight for god sake. Why he had to agree to adheer... He shouldn't have come here. He is an idiot to forgot about his promise to him. God... he isnt going to forgive so easily. Kabir was in his thoughts when a high speeding car pass by him almost crashing kabirs. "what the hell..." kabir shouted as he suddenly applied brakes causing his car to come to halt with screech. His breath ragged and blood pumped to his ears at the act. "freaking idiots..." he cursed out loud and sat back in his seat with his head on the steering wheel, trying to control his raging breath marathon. After what seemed like several minutes, he finally composed himself and set on the road again. After a good distance, he noticed someone lying on the middle of the road on his stomach down. He stopped his car and jumped out of it in a nanosecond and raced towards the limp body. The horrific scene in front of his eyes was knocking him out and why shouldn't it be like. Nobody deserves to die like this. someone holds up his hand for help and immediately dropped.
He sat by the side of red pool of blood and took a closer look at the body lying lifeless in the middle of nowhere. "a girl..." he mumbled and scoot closer to her turning her on her back with care. A look at that bloodied red face of hers and all the air from his lungs knock out, leaving him breathless. "so beautiful yet so painful..." he remembered what he read somewhere. He was still looking at her shamelessly when a new bloodline made its way from her forehead to her neck. When he moved his hand beneath her head, blood curled out on his hand travelling to his sleeves. "shit..." he cursed under his breath and searched her pulse or any signs of life still residing inside this beautiful body. A hand raised again and touched his cheek leaving the bloodprint there and a throaty voice escaped from the almost lifeless figure mumbling something. He growled loudly sensing how much time he had wasted and her dropping pulse awakened him. Quickly picking her up in his arms, he ran to his car and shoved her inside securing her with seatbelt. Calling police on his way, he drove to the hospital placing one of his hand on her chest so that no more damage should be done. Driving frantically, he reached to his destination in a matter of minutes and screamed for the emergency help. Other than picking the limp body in his arms and the futile tries he did to listen to her heartbeats, all the other thing passed in a blur moment. Running her inside on stretcher, calling the doctors on duty, providing whatever needed he did it all of it almost mechanically.
"dr. Kabir..." a lady in her late forties placed her hand on his slumped shoulder. He turned around from his spot just outside the operation theatre and gave the lady his famous grin "sister angela... how's the boy" he asked. "sleeping... will be up in sometime..." she informed in a motherly tone. Kabir smiled at her and turned his attention to the chaos inside and sighed tiredly. Whats going to happen now... what will happen to this anonymous girl. what if she can't make it... what if she won't come to life... what if...
One second why is he thinking so much about her. People used to die... it isnt something new. This is a hospital, people come n go either fully well or out of this mortal world. She is another accidenal emergency case... isnt she. So why is he so bothered about her... why does he want to see what lie behind those heavy eyelashes. Why he wanted to feel that touch again. Why he wanted to hear her voice... what kind of voice that swan neck may possess... would it be silky velvety or raspy husky. How would it be to get touched by her when she would be awake. How...
A hand on his shoulder brought him back to the present. "you might like to have a shower first before meeting up with him... he would be awake in some minutes." sister angela said with a soft smile. "yeah of course... ummm.. would u do me a favour sister.." he asked without tearing his gaze from the infamous OT door. "anything u ask.." the reply he expected, reach his ear. "look after the girl for me... will you?" he asked. The woman looked at him a little shocked but soon recovered. "yeah sure... why not... i will be here" she replied with a genuine smile. Kabir hummed, teared himself away and left for his duty room with sprints on his heel.
He couldnt actually make out what this feeling is all about. Why he was getting lost... is this means something???