CHAPTER 2 - A HOPE FOR DHRUV-TARA
Tara and Dhruv planned to go Tara's house in Chennai and took the train to Chennai. When Tara informed the news to her parents, Tara's parents spoke very harshly to her and insulted Dhruv as well. They instructed not to come to their house with Dhruv.
Sadly, Tara and Dhruv turned down the decision of going to Tara's house. The train reached Chennai.
Tara and Dhruv stayed in a hostel as paying guest. Dhruv tried to look for jobs and Tara too started looking for jobs in various hospitals.
15 days passed.
Dhruv received a call from a private number. Nervously, Dhruv answered the call. After talking for some time, Dhruv smiled. Tara anxiously asked him who was on the call.
Dhruv carried Tara in his arms and spins joyfully shouting, "We got a job, Tara. That too with a high salary."
Tara – "Dhruv... please let me down. My head is spinning."
Dhruv let Tara down.
Dhruv – "Sorry Tara. I got slightly over-excited."
Tara jokingly asks, "Slighly over-excited?"
Dhruv – "Over excited. Okay?"
Tara laughs.
Tara – "Who was on the call and what is the job?"
Dhruv's phone beeps and a message notification popped up. Dhruv shows the message to Tara.
Dhruv – "We can go to the hotel by tomorrow afternoon to meet the man. He will provide us the job. Now you go and sleep. I'll tell the rest of the details tomorrow."
Next day
Green Emerald Palace Hotel
Dhruv and Tara entered the hotel and sit at the table that was specified by the caller.
Dhruv - "Sanjeev Vishwanath is an Indian but he is one of the youngest business tycoons from California. His native is Ooty. He is looking for a physiotherapist for his mother."
Dhruv shows his LinkedIn profile to Tara.
Tara exclaims, "Seems very rich."
At their right side, there is a big glass door through which the garden with a big swimming pool is visible.
Tara passes her sight over there. A young man is swimming in the pool.
Tara – "Is he Sanjeev? The one who is swimming..."
Dhruv – "Yeah yes. He is the one."
Sanjeev comes out of the pool flexing his muscles. He grabs a towel from the waitress and wiped his body. Two girls come to him and touched his chest and abs. He pulled two of them and kissed them one after another.
Tara – "Playboy."
Dhruv – "Casanova."
Tara – "Whatever. He has money to pull girls over him."
Sanjeev completes his kiss and wears the bathrobe and moves towards the changing room.
After 10 minutes, Sanjeev appears in a three piece formal suit and comes to Dhruv-Tara's table along with a lady who is his PA.
Sanjeev shakes his hands with Dhruv. Sanjeev sits in a bossy manner opposite Dhruv and Tara.
Sanjeev - "It's a six months contract but I'd pay you 1 crore each. In return I expect success from you."
Tara - "But what is our work, sir?"
Sanjeev answers, "Dhruv is going to be my mom's clinical psychologist and her security. And Tara is my mom's physiotherapist and personal nurse."
Tara and Dhruv nodded.
Dhruv thinks, "How did he know that I'm a psychologist."
Dhruv – "But I have no experience as a psychologist. I studied it but after graduation, I become a wedding planner."
Sanjeev – "Aren't you the best student from the batch? Your professor Mr. Deshpande suggested that no one can be better than you. And you didn't practice psychology as you didn't get proper income from it, right?"
Sanjeev put down all the points to Dhruv's surprise. Dhruv wonders how he got the contact of his professor and how he tracked down all the reasons. Dhruv silently nodded.
Sanjeev – "Don't worry, Dhruv. I'd pay you for your work handsomely."
Dhruv smiled.
Sanjeev – "Also my mom runs a cottage. She lives there only. Its name is Monsoon Cottage. Earlier it was used for business and people stay over there but now we left the business. She is psychologically unstable too. She is taking medications for that as well. So be careful. Also, she has killed two doctors."
Tara – "What?"
Sanjeev says, "Don't worry. She'll never kill innocent people. Those two people abused my mom using her innocence that made her mentally ill even more and so her illness shaved their heads from body."
Dhruv is relieved.
Tara says, "It's great to meet you, sir. Now-a-days children leave their parents at old age homes. But you're paying 2 crores to look after your mom."
Sanjeev smiled.
Sanjeev says, "I selected you both among 70 people for a specific reason. I trust you guys. By the way, you can stay there itself in a lavish room."
Tara feels goosebumps.
Dhruv asks, "Shall we take our 8-year son there?"
Sanjeev says, "Sure. (Looks at his PA) Guys, she is my PA. She'll explain the work in detail. Don't forget to get 15 lakhs cheque as advance before you leave. By today's night, a car will come to your hostel and you can leave for Ooty. The driver will send you at the right address."
Sanjeev leaves the place.
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Next day
Monsoon Cottage
The couple with their son Yug enters the cottage where Sanjeev's mom Vidya Devi lives. It had a classic architecture. It had a lot of pillars.
Yug ran into the house and hugged a pillar and murmurs, "I love this pillar very much."
Tara looks for Sanjeev's mom. She searches her and finds her in kitchen who is cooking food. Tara says, "Vidya Devi mam, please don't strain yourself, let me cook."
Vidya turns and smiles at her, "So you're Tara, right?"
Tara nodded.
Vidya – "No need to call me mam. Aunty is fine. Sanjeev informed me about Dhruv and your arrival. Take rest now and let me cook."
Tara tries to convince her but Vidya remains adamant. Tara is quite surprised by seeing Vidya. Tara thinks, "She is normal but why Sanjeev sir hire us as her physiotherapist and guard?"
Tara and Dhruv look around the house. It looks like a palace. The grandeur of the cottage shows the South Indians magnum opus at architecture. Yug is still hugging the pillar. Tara caressed his hair and kisses him.
Tara says, "He like this house."
Dhruv asks little sarcastically, "Why are you hugging this pillar, Yug?"
Yug says, "My name is Yug (pronounces each letter separately). I know Johnny Johnny yes papa rhymes. I hate train sounds."
Yug burst into tears. Surprised Tara tried to console him.
Dhruv knelt down and holds Yug's chin and apologized to him holding his ears. Yug smiled and goes upstairs.
Tara says, "Dhruv, we don't know who is this boy. But he is the reason for our survival indirectly. We should give a good treatment for Yug that cure his mental illness."
Dhruv thinks, "He must have undergone something too bad in his life and because of that he becomes mentally retarded."
Dhruv says, "Tara, we must use the money for curing his illness, then we must adopt him legally and then we can start our business. That is our motive."
Tara and Dhruv hugged each other. Tara goes upstairs looking for Yug.
Tara moves to upstairs. She is seeing the all the rooms and wondering at its design. She finds a room with a rusted door with a lock.
She heads towards the room seeing the roof's design. The tile in front of the room becomes little fluid. From that fluid, suddenly a broken human flesh leg full of blood come. Tara didn't see the leg, suddenly she slips there because of the leg and falls down.
Dhruv comes there seeing Tara fallen down in front of the door. He lifts her up. The leg disappears before they could notice.
Tara says, "I am fine."
Dhruv compelled her to show the leg to check whether any wound is there.
Dhruv finds something red sticked to Tara's foot and checks and its blood.
Dhruv - "Tara, you don't have any wound in your foot but.."
Tara – "There is more blood in my foot. Whose blood is this? "
To be continued...
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