here is part 36
Doc 1(taking deep breath): abhi hum kuch nahin keh sakte.. next 48 hours are very critical for her. Even if she survive this period its great miracle…
Arjun's rage shot up to a new level. He ignored his pain in ribs and lunged towards the doctor and held his collar tight and spoke through gritted teeth
Arjun: agar mere kookie ko kuch bhi hua then I will not spare you…..
Sameer, shree and chotu struggled hard to separate them.
Anvi was shocked to see this face of her brother. she had never seen him in this level of anger before.
Sameer: doc… go and save her. We want her alive.. we cannot afford lose her.. please doc I beg you…
Shree: doc, aap please meri didi ko bacha lijiye…
dada, I want her back, caressing my hair as she always does…… to love me like a younger bro… please doc…
Docs nodded and said they would do their best and left.
*****
Arjun slumped back unable to bear the pain….both physical and the pain that was gnawing his heart. He immediately reached out for shree signaling him to wheel him towards ICU where Krishna was just shifted. Instead shree took him to his ward and made him lie not even giving him a chance to question o argue.
Shree was indeed reeling in shock…..
It was his family suffering…..
It was receiving blows one after the other and no one could help them.
First he himself was injured….
Then entry of sikander in the frame…
He after his best friend Riya….
Phir his Arjun sir was shot…
Attack on his bhabhi and nanhisi beti….
Above all……. It was his didi, who was lying on the bed in ICU, struggling between life and death………
he had read her letter...but, he did not have courage to tell anyone...
(i ll tell the contents later...)
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After he was assured that Arjun had slept, he went out of room, ran and hugged chotu tightly… chotu could not understand what was wrong with him… he turned around and saw sameer standing near ICU, gazing at his sister…
His bhabhi was on waiting chair with dia…. Riya and anvi silently shedding tears…
He slowly led shree to the waiting room, made him sit on sofa and passed him a glass with water.
Shree: kyun chotu???? Kyun ho raha hai ye hamare saath… sab……( a sob escaped from his throat) sab log dukhi and I cant do anything…. Infact none of us chotu….. why?? Why us chotu????"
Then he breaks down.
Chotu patted his back and let him cry. He knew shree needed to get those tears out of his system. He had not even shed a single tear from the time taayi was wheeled into hospital. He stood as a piller to entire family….
chotu, sameer and even Arjun had cried but not shree… he had reached his saturation level. He had to let that out…. Other wise it would eat him, make him empty gnawing him every minute…
*****
after some time, sameer entered the room with dia in his arms…
"papa, wo aunty kaun thi? Unhone mujhe ye chain pehnaya and told me ki bua mujh se bohut pyaar karti hai… kaun hai wo papa? Aur pata hai unhe wahan bohut dard ho raha tha…. Phir bhi unhone mujhe uss gande uncle se bachaya…"
she said playing with the chain krishna made her wear.
it was a long gold chain, with oval pendent with a large diamond in the centre and small diamonds studded around it.
Sameer let out a sob, unable to hold it back anymore…
He had pushed her too far in past. When he got his sister back, destiny had other plans. His attention was grabbed by his daughter and he wiped his tears. He pecked her forehead and told her
"bacchi, wo aunty aap ke papa ki sister hai…. Tumhari kishu bua…"
"wo ab kahan hai papa? Aur ye chain nujhe kyun pehnaya? wo mujhse milne kyun nahin aayi?
"unki tabiyat theek nahin hai beta…… aur ye chain to unke papa mama ne unhe diya tha…. Unhone ye aap ko di hai as her blessings….""wo aayengi na...? papa, bua bohut acchi hai."
"haan beta, zaroor aayengi"
"papa, mujhe neend aa rahi hai…"
"so jao meri gudiya….. " he patted her and lulled her to sleep.
He then turned towards chotu and shree… shree was sleeping like a baby keeping his head on chotu's lap. He had tear traces on his face.
"chotu, ye shree…."
"haan bhaiyya…. Bohut roya hai…. Abhi thodi der pehle thak kar sogaya… why taayi bhaiyya???? Why Arjun sir again???why us?"
"chotu ye pareeksha ki ghadi hai…. Pata nahin bhagwan humse kya chahte hai…. We cant lose her…she is too precious… aur Arjun… Arjun to shayad…. I don't even want to think about that…."
"bhaiyya, hum Aisha ka kya Karen?"
"wo baad mein sochenge…. Raat bohut ho chuki hai… thak gaye hoge… get some sleep chotu….. he made dia sleep next to chotu and went out wiping his tears…
to be continued...
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