Part 6
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General POV
- At Riddhima's house (Wedding day)
Dr.Shasank said, "Padma and Anna Ji, jalti se dulhan se bullao."
Padma nodded at Dr.Shasank, before making towards the girls' room with Anna by her side.
Pandit Ji asked, "Doctor ji. Dulha kahan he? Jalti se usne bullao na."
Dr Shasank nodded.
Billy offered, "Mein bullaogi."
Dr.Shasank shook his head, "Aap yahan pe rukiye. I'll go and call them."
Dr. Shasank muttered to himself as he made his way towards the boys' room, "I asked Yuvi to bring Armaan down, about 20 minutes ago. Where are they? Even the other boys are not downstairs."
Dr. Shasank, hastily went over to the boys' room.
Upon reaching, he knocked the door, "Boys, are you ready?"
He knocked a few more times to no reply. Curious, he turned the knob and went into the room. The sight before was atrociously ridiculous. All the boys, well dressed in kurta, were sleeping on the bed except for Yuvi, who was snoring on the couch. He opened his mouth, shaping into a huge O, in horror. Even Armaan was sleeping. Imagine that, the dulha was sleeping on the wedding day, right few minutes before the wedding ceremony itself.
He shook his head and started waking all of them up, "Utto,Armaan. Sid, Yuvi,Atul wake up. JP, wake up!"
All the boys just groaned and turned away. Yuvi just flapped his arms in distress. Dr. Shasank, in vain, continued trying to wake the boys up.
After 5 minutes of failure, Dr. Shasank straightened himself and raised his voice, "Doctors, wake up!"
Suddenly, all of them woke up, in unison. JP, disoriented and unstable, almost fell down, only to be caught by Sid's hands. Soon, JP straightened up as well as the others.
Dr. Shasank asked, "Yeh kya horahahe?"
All of them remained silent, looking down to their feet.
Dr. Shasank repeated, suppressing his anger, "Doctors, mein aap sabse ek sawal puch rahi hu."
JP, again in his panic state, "Doctor saab. Vo toh. Mujhe bohout neend arahi he aur usne baat.. kaal raat bhii.."
Sid quickly stomped on JP's foot, to avoid JP from spilling the milk.
JP exclaimed in pain, "Ooooooooooucch!"
Dr. Shasank, pointedly asked, "Kya hua, Dr. JP?"
JP just shook his head like a little elephant. Dr.Shasank looked at Yuvi,JP,Sid, Atul and Armaan. As Dr.Shasank examined closely he noticed that they all had light, almost invisible black lines underneath their eyes.
Dr.Shasank asked again, "Can someone explain to me why are you all sleeping?"
Yuvi answered, "Vo toh, Dr.Shasank. We were just exhausted."
Dr. Shasank replied, "Exhausted? Mein bhi exhausted hu but you don't see me sleeping, do you? You are saying and looking as though you did not sleep yesterday night at all."
At those words, Atul,Yuvi, Sid and JP glared at Armaan, in unison. Armaan just scratched his head, innocently.
Dr. Shasank shrugged and continued, "Whatever it is. Shall we head down now?"
Everyone made way for Armaan as Armaan walked forward.
Suddenly, Dr. Shasank cupped Armaan's face as Armaan reached Dr.Shasank, "Son, I hope you are happy and you will keep Riddhima happy too, which I know you will do."
Armaan startled by the sudden affectionate moment, could not say a word.
Dr. Shasank just smiled at Armaan's dumbfounded expression and patted his shoulder, "Chale, dulha ji?"
Armaan smiled and nodded. With that, Armaan, with Dr.Shasank went towards the mantap, followed by Sid, Atul Yuvi and JP.
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