Anita: Tumhara Kabir se koi rishta nahin!
Ananya: Ma...magar kyoun? Aisa kya hua ek din main, ya phir kuchh ghanto main, jo aap Kabir ke liye aisa keh rahi hain?
Anita: Jo cheez mujhe bahut pehle samajh jaani thi, wo ab samajh main aagayi hain. Better late than never. Aur maine faisla kar liya hain. Jo cheez mujhe dikhti hain wo tumhe kyoun nahi dikh rahi, pata nahi.
Ananya: Is something defective with my vision? Or the contacts are not doing their job?
Anita blows up. "I am not joking. Hamesha uss Sunny aur Ronnie ke saath reh kehar chhez ka mazzak bana let hain tu! Keh deti houn, aaj ke baad tu Kabir se nahi milegi. He is not the right person for you!"
Ananya sneezes.
Anita: "See? Isko kehte hain sach bola" then she realizes that Ananya is soaked to the skin. She quickly relegates the burning issue to the back bench.
"Tu bheeg gayi hain, chal, kapde badal ke sookhe kapde pehen. Main tere liye garam garam adrak ki Chai laati houn!"
Armaan joins in.
"Ek cup chai peekar baat karte haina Ma..Kabir Sir aise nahi hain jot um soch rahi ho!"
"Maine kaha na...iss mamle main no discussion. Chal andar..." Anita pushes Ananya to her bedroom.
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Next day at KKN.
Kabir is searching for Ananya. He asks the most reliable person around.
"Ronnie, where is Ananya?"
"I don't know, Sir. She is not answering her phone!"
"Hope everything is fine with her? Yesterday she got drenched in the rain..." Kabir pauses, noting that Ronnie wants to tell him something.
"Yes Ronnie? Something is weighing on your mind?"
"Sir Actually yesterday Anita Aunty was asking for Shreya Ma'm's address..."
"What?" The world spun around him. He could easily put 2 and 2 together and make it 22. But this was further...a recipe for disaster.
"And then..?"
"Sir actually she was so upset with the whole thing and I could just relate to her angst. So..."
"Ok..." Kabir thought furiously. The damage had been done. He turned to Ronnie.
"Ok, Ronnie...just call Anita Aunty. Find out where is Ananya. Dont tell her I asked for her. I am worried for Ananya now!"
Ronnie was compliance personified, probably to make up for the past slip. He did as directed.
"OK, Aunty. Just take her to the hospital and I will be there!"
Kabir was worried. What happened?
"Sir, Ananya has got high fever and Aunty has called the doctor, the doctor said that she needs intravenous antibiotics and also further investigations. So told her to admit her to the hospital"
"OK. Which hospital?"
"Government hospital!"
Kabir thought furiously. The name rang a bell somewhere!
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"Ananya...So ja beti...Nurse ko drip lagane de!" Anita pleaded with her daughter, who just refused to lie down. Ronnie was standing next to her, trying to relax his best friend.
"Ananya...do minute, ek chinti ke kaatne jaisa dard hoga. Buss!"
"Nahi mujhe office jaana hain.."
"Are abhi to office ka naam chhod!" Anita was privately furious with KKN. She wanted to say a lot of things, but this was obviously not the correct time.
"Nahi ma...Chhod de sari duniya kissi ke liye...yeh munasib nahi aadmi keliye!"
"Amma Ji...theek se haath pakdo Ji!" The nurse was struggling to hold Ananya's hand steady.
"Yeh Haath maine chhodne ke liye nahi pakda, OK?"
"Yeh kya horaha hain yahan?" It was a fresh authoritative voice from the doorway. Anita whirled around, a doctor stood in the door.
"Dr Ramprasad Pandey, from Benaras. What is happening here?"