09. ᴛᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ʜɪᴍ..!!
Raman was driving back to his house while his mind was occupied by Shagun and Ashok, he reminiscing his old days when Shagun betrayed him for Ashok and that made his furious,he gulped alcohol from the bottle while driving when suddenly loosing control over his car, he hit the car with a tree and injured himself badly.
Ishita was driving back to their house along with Mihika when suddenly she saw a car hits the tree badly. She quickly stopped the car and they went to check, when she saw Raman inside. "Mr. Bhalla?" She tried to wake him up but sensed that he's drunk.
"What should I do now..!!" She wondered when Mihika said, "Leave him here akka.. His family will find him."
"No, no. This is wrong. Let's take him with us." Saying this Ishita leaned on him when she smelt alcohol.
"Chee.. He's drunk." She made faces while pressing her nose with two fingers."
"Oho.. Akka, pull him out." Mihika told, giving nod to her, Ishita and Mihika pulled him out from the car and made him lay on back seat of their car while Ishita drive back.
At the apartment, with guard's help, they reached to their houses when Ishita saw Bhalla door was locked. "Aiyyo..!! Inko bhi aaj hi kahi jana tha.." (Oh no..! Should they need to leave today itself..!
"Ab..?" (Now..?) Mihika asked.
"We don't have other choice.. I can't leave him here." Ishita thought for a while that what to do when she said, "Amma appa will be staying at Vandu akka's place. Let's take him inside."
"But akka..."
"Mihiku.. We can't let him stay outside, it will not look good,isn't..?" She politely said and instructed her to open the door. Ishita brought him inside the house with Mihika's help and settled him on the bed. "Uff..!!" Mihika huffed. "He's so heavy, akka." Mihika gasped while rubbing her forehead, Ishita chuckled.
"Mihiku, you go and freshen up..! You must be tired." Once Mihika left, Ishita looked at Raman who was sleeping unconscious. "Inka bhi kya kismat hai." (So unlucky he's..) She felt bad for him as she remembered Shagun's behavior. Shrugging her thoughts away, Ishita removed the shoe from his feet and covered him with blanket when she saw his forehead was bleeding.
Ishita aids Roman's injury and then split some water on him, "Mr. Bhalla?" She called him when she saw him getting his sense back.
"Where.. Where am I?" He asked keeping his hand on his head, as he felt heavy.
"You're in my house. You please take rest. You aren't well." She stated.
But Raman didn't hear her and tried to get up saying, "No, I'll manage." But lost his control over his body, his head was about to fell on the pillow harshly when Ishita supported him placing her hand on his back of head, she gently placed him saying, "I told you, don't try. Aapka hangover abhi tak utra nahi hai." (Your hangover hasn't landed yet.) Raman shut his eyes as he felt dizziness. "You take rest. I'm here only, if you need anything, give me a call." Saying this, Ishita went to the sofa and settled there comfortably.
It was middle of the night, Ishita was taking a nap in a sitting position when she heard some whispers and she woke up. She looked around to see from where it's coming when she sensed Raman was sobbing. She went to him and turned on the lights and saw him shivering while murmuring something but she couldn't understand what he's saying..!!
"Mr. Bhalla, are you alright?" She asked, slightly leaning on him but she didn't get any answer from him. "Mr. Bhalla?" To shook him, she placed her hand on his arm when she felt his tempting body, she gets frightened and quickly placed her palm on his forehead, "Oh God.. He has high fever.."
She wondered what to do. "Doctor.. I.. I should call the doctor." She said grabbing her phone. "But.. I don't have his number." She remembered that she recently came here and haven't any contacts. "Mihika.." She quickly ran to her room and knocked on the door.
"What akka?" She yawned after opening the door.
"Mihiku, Mr. Bhalla has high fever, can you give me doctor's number. I need to call him." Ishita requested.
"Oho akka, yeh bol ne ke liye aapne meri neend kharap ki.. Waise humare family doctor abhi out of station hai.." She informed. (You wake me up to say this.. And by the way, our family doctor is out of station.)
"Oh no.. Ab kya karu..?!" She wondered worried. (What to do now?)
"Akka.. Aap theek ho na? Itna kyu tension kar rahi ho?" (Are you alright? Why are you so tensed?) Mihika asked seeing her sister so worried for a stranger.
"Mihika woh bhukar se kaap raha hai.. Tum mein insaaniyat naam ki cheez hai bhi ya nahi? Maana ki humein woh pasand nahi, iska matlab yeh toh nahi usse marne ko chhodh de..!! Aur.. Aur agar isse kuch ho gaya toh blame hum par hi aayega. Yaad rakhna." (Mihika, he's shivering in fever. Do you even have a thing called humanity? I know, we don't like each other but that doesn't mean, we leave him to die. And.. And if anything happens with him today, then we will be blamed today. Remember that.)Ishita scolded her, seeing her casual behavior.
"Sorry akka." She apologized.
"It's okay. Tum so jao, i'll manage something." (You go and sleep.) Saying this Ishita went to the kitchen while Mihika watched her.
Ishita walked to her room with cold water and a cloth, she came to him and saw him still shivering. She quickly covered him well with the duvet and sat beside him. She gave him cold sponge until his fever falls down.
When he saw him better, she was going to leave when Raman held her hand tightly whispering, "Don't go.." She once looked at her and then looked up at him. "Don't go Shagun." He whispered again.
Ishita remembered, he behaved so rudely with Shagun despite that he still loves her, her eyes filled with water. "Hum chaha kar bhi uss insaan se kabhi nafrat nahi kar sakte jinse hum pyar karte hai." (We can't hate the person whom we loved the most.) She thought and was going to free her hand but he again held it tightly.
"Kyu? Kyu chodh kar gayi tum? Meine tumse kitna pyar kia, tumhare liye sab kuch kar raha tha na, phir kyu mujhe tod kar rakh diya tumne.." (Why? Why did you leave me? I loved you so much, then why did you break me?) Ishita saw him, tears rolled out from his eyes. "Sab kuch khatam kar diya tumne. Mera trust, mera pyar sab kho diya." (You ruined everything. My trust, my love, you've lost everything.) Ishita saw him getting restless in sleep, she leaned closer to him and caressed his hair saying, "Shant jo jaiye, relax.. Relax..!" (Calm down.) She caressed his face, when Raman got a glimpse of her in his dizziness but wasn't so strong to respond anything, so he fell into sleep slowly as if her touch sooth his pain.
"Pyar humein nayi zindagi deti hai aur wohi pyar agar dhoka de toh zindagi khatam ho jati hai." (Love gives us new life and if that love deceives then life ends.) She thought thinking about her past with Subhhu. But composing herself, she was going to leave when she saw him holding her hand yet. She tried to free her hand but that disturbed her peaceful sleep, she waited for him to free her hand for sometime but when he didn't leave, she slowly sat on the floor and rested her head on the bed, and fell into sleep.
Next morning, as sun rays fall on Roman's face, he woke up twitching his eyes, he looked around the room when he saw her sleeping on the floor in her sitting position while her hand was on him, he removed his hand from her with a jerk when feeling a movement, Ishita woke up and saw him getting up, she too gets up from floor and looked away. They were having an awkward situation when Raman asked, "How did I came here?"
"You had an accident last night and no one was present in your house, so I took you here and then you had fever." As Ishita said, both of them reminisced last night, though Raman didn't remember all the moments but he clearly remembered, how he held her hand in dizziness. They looked away.
"Oye..!!" They heard chaos from outside, Ishita walked out quickly and saw Mrs. Bhalla shouting at Mihika, "How dare you to bring my son here?"
"Aunty.." Ishita stepped ahead.
"Don't call me aunty..! Don't try to be friendly with me." Sighing on her comment, Ishita continued, "Mrs. Bhalla, I can explain, please calm down."
"What calm down? Ghar pe koi nahi tha toh mere puttar ka advantage le rahi hai tu..?" (There was no one at home, you took advantage of my son.) As Mrs. Bhalla shouted at her, Ishita looked on confused.
"Kya bol rahi hai aap?" She exclaimed. (What are you saying?)
"Tujhe kya laga mein kuch samajhti nahi? Pehle Ruhi ke kareeb aur ab bhai ke..!! Ab samajh aaya tere pati ne kyu tujhe chodh diya." (What do you think, we don't understand anything? First Ruhi and now you're trying to come to my brother..! Now, I understand,why did your husband left you.) Simmi taunted which hurt Ishita.
"Simmi..?" Raman yelled. "How can you be so rude to her? First learn the truth then accuse her." He yelled.
As Raman came, Mrs. Bhalla saw him injured as well as weak, she went to him saying, "Puttar, how did this happen?"
"First you finish your fighting." Raman said looking away angrily.
"Puttar, why are you saying like this?" Mrs. Bhalla gets worried for him.
Meanwhile Mrs. Bhalla returned home with Aditya and saw Ishita crying in the presence of Bhallas, she send Aditya inside the house and went to her daughter. "Ishu, kanna Whats wrong?" She asked to her daughter worried.
"Nothing amma." To avoid fighting, Ishita denied to say while Mihika said, "Amma, last night Raman met with an accident and we took him here and he stayed the night with us, so Mrs. Bhalla and her daughter bad-mouthing akka. And my great sister, tolerating this insult."
"What..? Santoshi, how can you.." But she was stopped by Ishita who said, "Amma, let it finish here." She walked to Mrs. Bhalla and joined her hand saying, "I'm sorry, I was just trying to help your son, that's all but if you think I'm taking his advantage then I promise you from next time I will not involve myself in your matter. I'm sorry." She turned and walked in her house with her family, though Raman tried to call her but she didn't listen to him.
"God knows, when will you finish it off..!" Irritated Raman said and walked in his house slamming the door behind them.
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