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Next day once Nikki got to Sanjeevani , she came to know it was Abhi's day off . She felt suddenly angry and stormed off straight to his cabin and angrily punched his numbers .
His voice laced with sleep answered but today her heart wont melt '
"Abhi don't u dare, don't ever dare keep ur day off when im on duty" , she said still furious. Not allowing him to say anything after the sleep laden Hello.
" where u caling from?" , his calm voice asked her . he seemed to have had woken up now.
"Your cabin...No one will catch me here " , she responded and then burst out laughing at her own smartness.
Abhi shook his head at her pertness ,God she drove him crazy. They talked for a while and Nikki reluctantly disconnected after realizing how Abhi had ended up staying late the previous night and had missed out on his sleep .
In the evening Nikki checked her phone and was surprised to see no call or messasge from Abhi "She consoles herself but yet can't help feeling sad
After work she listlessly got out of the hospital but She brightened seeing his black car , slightly hidden from normal view , he got out of the car barking an order "jaldi karo koi dekh lega ." , he tells her and she happily obeys him.
"Lets go to ur place I want to see ur pics where u look like a roly poly kid ," ,she tells him excitedly as she sat down " I wanna see ur albums .."
" no nikki I don't have ne albums ," , he tells and she looks at him surprised ,
"Abhi don't lie '. " and he shakes his head in defeat . ITs impossible to stop her once she sets her mind on anything , well he should have learnt that a long time back.
Both sit in his drawing room as Nikki looks at his albums. Abhi points out to his picture where he is 3 yrs old , hes holding a toy gun , see this gun Nikki I had kept it preserved , I have nicely preserved everything of mine nicely '. But '"
"But ?... abhi u lost it .."
"No not me , mom , she lost it while shifting but never me iam very careful abt my things."
Nikki rolls her eyes at this kadoos guy and mutters sadu but its drowned by the ring of dinner arriving , they go through more albums , the last album is his college '.
"Bas nikki iske baad I stoped posing for pics ' my brother had picked up a fascination for photography so all pics after that are with him , and as it is nowdays '.. no one takes out pics ,,,, u know facebook n all"
Nikki smiles and is abt to close the album in her hand when she notices another bright pic at the end of the album , for a second her blood freezes 'what if '.. , then she opens the page and is overwhelmed to see her pic from armaans roka there , she had the exact pic and many others at home in her album ' abhi gives her a smile '. I had taken the photographers number and got the pic from him , Nikki gives him a grateful smile , comforted and delighted by this piece of news .
"Lets have dinner " , she tells him and he agrees ,
After dinner nikki insisted she wanted to watch a movie and after a fight a reluctantly agreed to a rom com , halfway through the movie Abhi was shocked to see Nikki sobbing .
Abhi gulped , what was he supposed to do ?loving her was one thing, but consoling her for this stupid movie was a tough task , he tried to give it a shot
"'nikki don't cry!, its just a movie ' "
"tum ladke bhe naa ' " she shouts aat him '" totally heartless "
He was shocked at her angry retort '. ooops wrong answer .. better he kept quiet and watch the movie ..trying to stop her crying wasn't such a bright idea/somewhere in the movie abhi got too tired and leaving her engrossed in the movie , went to his room ,
he got up in the morning and realised he had fallen asleep when he had lain down to rest last night, chalo at least he had sucessfuly escaped that movie. He needed to check out how Nikki was doing and walked out only to she her sleeping peacefully on the couch.
He got ready and made coffee and took it to the couch and kept her cup on the table and woke her up.
"Nikki get up ' here's coffee for you , I need to leave now ''."
Nikki sat with the coffee mug in her hand sighing happily seeing him leave, a small contended smile on her face.
In the hospital muskaan was furious and restless .
"Kya hua muski yaar?" , Nikki asks her .
"Wo sadu macchar has given me night duties "
nikki feels bad and wrings her hands absent mindedly, she looks at ridzy pleading for some help '
ridzy shruggs "muski u urself come late for duty and blame him .. now come on get to work ."
Frustrated at her friends , Nikki goes to his cabin .. Abhi is on phone ,but he still motions her to close the door .else all interns will come to know she hits him shyly ' She obeys and sits down silently . Once he is done with the call , Abhi comes to her and stands beside her, observing her sad face "koi pareshani hai Nikki ?" , he asks tenderly and Nikki looks up at him.
"Haan interns were abusing u '. And I don't like it one bit . Abhi when can we tell them '. I really can't take all this mahabharat between them and you anymore. Lets tell them Abhi."
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" No Nikki Not before ur exams 'dheere dheere unhe pata lagne do .."
"But ..."
"No Nikki . I am used to that abuse by now . And if it means you being so concerned for me and so hurt for me , I really don't mind it " , he said honestly and Nikki stood up from her chair and rushed into his arms .
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