Never Say Goodbye Final Part and Link to New SS - Page 74

Everything felt hazy.

'A speeding truck hit---'

'Critical---lot of blood loss'

'Admitted very late'

'In ICU---we are trying'

'Severely injured'

'Pray'

The words told by doctors and nurses seemed hazy.

Her footsteps reached the ICU.

'No God it is not him. It can't be. I just found him again.

Punish me for keeping him away,

Punish me for hurting him.

Don't hurt him.

Please, please, please, please----' she did not know how long she chanted please----perhaps as long as she saw those strong hands bandaged and the loveable face bandaged completely except for those incredible eyes.

It was him.

Her Arnav

Lying there helpless, bound.

The man whom nothing could bund---

was bound to a hospital bed, fighting for his life.

Nothing sank in.

She thought she saw Ajay Singh Raizada

Perhaps he was talking to her

She could hear the lips moving

She could see people moving.

Only he was visible to her.

'You can't touch him.

No you can't go in again'

Someone seemed to be telling her.

Was it a day?

Was it an hour?

She did not know.

What meaning did time and life have without him?

Why was she hung up on silly things when she had him with her?

Why had she fussed about his rights and wrongs and not looked at the love?

Why had she let him go out of the door?

Why had ego ruled?

Had she stopped him he would not be here

Had he not been upset he would not have driven rashly

Had she not let him get into the car, he would be safe at home with her---

Wishful thinking

She had been a fool

An utter fool--

'He is slipping'

'Not responding to treatment'

'No we have no hope left'

'Pray'

And again she felt her heart stop

No!

He would not dare to leave her

And if God was cruel enough to take him

She would defy God

She would follow him

Yes!

She would not live.

She would just find a way to join him

'You can come in

Say your final goodbyes

Nothing left to hope' someone seemed to say.

Goodbye?

The word did not exist between her and Arnav

They were two bodies one soul.

Two different people with one heart

Two beings entwined in a feeling beyond human boundaries'

A love that defied every human law

No she would never say Goodbye.

Not in life.

Not in death.

She would follow.

Wherever he went she would go.

Heaven or hell

Earth or a world beyond

She felt rather than knew herself walking away.

She felt herself walk up the stairs of the hospital

She felt herself go towards the edge

She felt herself walk towards the edge of the ledge

In a minute her life flashed before her

Ma

Bauji

Payal

Mausi

NK

Lavanaya

Friends

And it stopped at Arnav

Everything stopped there

His smile

His laughter

His voice

His hug

His kiss

----And she needed nothing more to make the final plunge----

And she felt herself fall

Fall far

Fall into oblivion---

Just then through her hazy mind

She felt herself hit a soft ground

Soft ground?

And then a sound penetrated

The sound of a doorbell----