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#3: I'm sorry I yelled at you.
The world was coming to an end wasn't it? The sun that bought them brightness was eclipsed, colors of the world were fading to black and white. Well that's what it felt like to Kunj anyway.
He felt his lungs expanding and collapsing-but he just couldn't draw in oxygen. He felt his heart beating but he was sure the blood wasn't circulating. He saw the second's hands on the clock moving but time had come to a halt. He saw the moon disappear but the sun hadn't appeared yet.
"Kunj." He feels someone place their hand against his shoulder drawing him ouot of his trance. "Kunj chal ghar chal." Their lips were moving but his mind failed to register the words.
And then someone is pulling him out of his seat. That does it; that stirs him wide out of his reverie. "Nahi!" he screams, ripping his arms out of the person's hands. "Main kahi nahi jaa raha. Twinkle ke bina toh nahi!"
"Kunj puttar." It was Bebe. "Dekh raat bahut ho chuki hai, hum Twinkle se milne kal aa jayegey haan?"
"Nahi!" he repeats stubbornly, like a child he felt like at the moment. He firmly places himself on the seat, waiting.
Because that's what the doctors said right? That they needed to wait for Twinkle to come out of surgery in order to know about her condition. Yes, that's right. That's what the doctor said, he remembers. So that's what he is going to do. He is going to wait.
He looks down on the watch on his wrist. The minute hand was at 4 and the short, hour hand was on 1, but what did it mean? It doesn't make sense. Kunj remembers telling Twinkle that the hands on the clock were too thin but she insisted that they were fine and that the watch looked good on his hand. He was yet reluctant to buy it. But Twinkle was nothing if not stubborn, so she gifted him the watch a week later. He smiles at the memory.
The doctor allows him to see Twinkle when the minutes hand was on 8 and the hour hand at 4. Leela pushed him towards her door because he was pretty sure that he was about to enter the wrong room. He wished she hadn't. He wishes he could turn back and run away- run far, far away.
Because he can't, he can't see her like this. This was something short of a death sentence to him. He feels his throat closing in, feels that familiar dizzying sensation that he had been feeling all evening. He wonder if she must be dizzy too. Surely she must be, her head was all bandaged up. What did the doctors say again? Concoction?
No, concussion! She had a grade three concussion.
He doesn't realize when he seated himself next to her, doesn't realize when he took her IV'd hand in his own, doesn't realize when his lips start moving and words being formed. But he does remember saying. "I'm sorry I yelled at you!" He only remembers saying this because this was what was eating him from the inside.
He had yelled at her, and inevitably that was why she ran out of their house with tears in her eyes. And unsurprisingly the tears blurred here vision and that was how she involved herself in an accident. She was here, lying on the hospital bed, lifelessly all because he had yelled at her.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you!" he repeats again and again and again, until his throat dries up and then he takes to whispering the words.
"Please uth jaa, please." It's a desperate plea, almost beg, but he doesn't care. He will beg all she wants if she just wakes up.
The doctor walks in then, checks her vitals and reassure the husband that his wife will be fine. But Kunj doesn't hear any of that. All he hears is the constant beeping of her heart monitor, the only assurance he needs for now.
The doctor leaves and almost an hour later a nurse walks in announcing that visiting time was over and that he had to leave. He scoffs and rolls his eyes at that. Didn't they know he was wasn't a visitor? He belonged with her. And those who belong aren't visitors. The hospital should staff better nurses!
He hears Leela talking with the doctors, something about making an exception and letting him stay with Twinkle but he really doesn't understand much. He didn't really need the doctor's permission to stay with his wife. Ridiculous! The hospital was filled with idiots.
The minute hand is back on 8 and the hour hand on 4 for the second time before Twinkle groans and opens her eyes in narrow slits, immediately closing them again against the bright lights of the room.
He holds his breath because just last night he had dreamt the same and was thoroughly disappointed when he woke up. He didn't wasn't to be disappointed this time too. His heart couldn't bare another break like that.
Her eyes find his and Kunj knows this was real. His brain could never do justice to the twinkle in her eyes.
He opens his mouth to repeat what he had been mumbling for a day. I'm sorry I yelled at you.'
But Twinkle beats him too it "It's okay. I forgive you."
She smiles while he cries and just like that the colors started seeping back in again, the eclipse was cleared, time made sense. And Twinkle was okay.
THE END.
This is the end of Day 8/50. I tried doing a different POV approach, I hope it was clear and good enough. Let me know through your lovely comments.
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