It broke windows and doors and made her cry.
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The pain was unbearable, and so he was carried by a Paramedic to the ambulance. They took him away.
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They told her, with grave little smiles, there was nothing they could do.
She smiled bravely at them, and told them she would be fine.
But she knew she wouldn't be.
They all did.
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At night she cried under the covers, and wished he was there in all his glory flexing his finger and pulling her in a corner or pinning her against a well. A different person, a different life. She wanted it all to be gone.
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But when she woke up the next day, it was still there and and he was not. Lurking, like a shadow on a summer day.
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She said she was over it, in the months to come, but soon they would all see she would never be back. She was gone now.
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She followed him to the hospital still not showing him her face and she cried every time a new needle tapped his spine. She cried so hard.
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Her old friends or rather classmates, who had long forgotten her, came to say hello, to pretend everything was the way it used to be.
But she knew it wasn't.
They all did.
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Vidushi was startled and scared once she entered the hospital room to see the entire room filled with scattered pieces of glasses, vases and syringes. The doctor told her that they had to sedate him in order to start him on treatment for his aliment. He was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in which the peripheral nerves become inflamed and damaged. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is a rare disorder that is treatable, but in some cases can result in permanent numbness or weakness of the arms or legs. She saw him deep in his lumbar on the sterile hospital bed looking anguishedeven in his unconscious form. She wanted to wake him up and collect him in her arms knowing he could not return her hug even if he wanted to. She wanted to tell me that everything will be okay she she will always be with him. Always and forever. But she knew she could not. For one he hated her and still not trusted her enough and secondly the words would sound hollow and insincere to him she was sure. She decided to prove it to him instead.
The next day when he woke up he found someone holding his limp hand and sleeping besides him on the cot even though he couldn't feel he could for sure sense Vidushi soothing him. He enjoyed the few moments he felt serene with Vidushi holding his hand but was shattered to see dried tears in her eyes. Vidushi woke up that instant and called for a doctor who checked upon him. "We have started him on prednisone ( an anti inflammatory corticosteroid drug). In an hour a nurse will come and change his IV bag and start him on high doses of Immunoglobulins. I will check up on him in an hour. The treatment will be pretty painful and there is no guarantee it will work and reverse his paralysis but I am hopeful. So take care of him." said Doctor in his practiced sympathetic tone to which before Vidushi could respond Parth said "Doctor I am the patient so you are bound to discuss my treatment with only me and not some stranger according to the Doctor-Patient Confidentiality. She is no one to me. Not my wife, fiancee, girl friend or even my friend so I would appreciate that you directly talk to me." "Ofcourse"replied the Dr. Karthik Ahuja, Senior Neurologist of Curtis Bruce Multi specialty hospital situated in Vasant Vihar, a posh area of Delhi leaving red faced by getting irked by his rowdy patient. Vidushi just stared at him, not believing that Parth would do something like that to her. "You are so shameless. Weren't you insulted enough or do you want to hear more. Look Vidushi I have told you before, I don't love you and I never will. So if you think, by visiting me once a week with a bouquet and a get well soon card in your hand and seeing your fake concern and misguided sympathy I will start to like you and feel differently due to lack of options. You are wrong. Very wrong. So get out of here before I call for security and have you removed and banned from ever coming here." said Parth in a straight and bitter tone by keeping a rock on his heart and trying his damn hard not to break down in front of her and beg her not to leave him alone. He was trying his hard to hold the dam of emotions seeing her and seeing the love, concern and pain in her eyes but thinking he might mistake it for infatuation, care and pity. He didn't want her pity and he would die before becoming selfish and ask her to stay. He would rather face this alone then ask her to sacrifice her future for his sake as he can envision his to be dark and bleak.
"Do you know I have become immune to you being an ass to me and ignore and filter all your insult so stop trying because you will tire by wasting your breathe insulting me but I will never be tired by taking them. Who said anything about visiting you once a week? I am going to be here everyday and if you even think for one second you can get me thrown off here you have another coming your ways. I have left FITE. Who do you think is capable of even touching me? I have permitted only one person to touch me and drag me anywhere with him is you and I don't see you escorting me out of this building in anywhere in near future. So you are stuck with me until you are healthy as a horse and fit enough to throw me out yourself." said Vidushi in a tough voice masking the inner turmoil going on inside of her, panicking at the thought of Parth sending her away and leaving him alone and no one to take his care. Knowing him to be a stubborn prick, she shuddered at the thought if he refused his medication or any treatment for no one to there and police him by preventing him to make any foolish decisions. "Why do you care so much about me? You should get out of here as this soul sucking disease will eat me soon" said Parth in a low voice showing his disappointment and despair to which Vidushi sat on his bed and took his face in her small palms, bringing them closer as she kissed him gently on lips. She moved her lips against his shyly at first but then Parth took the lead and poured all his aggression into that kiss nipping at her lip and tongue trying to scare her off but failing miserably as she gentled the tone of the kiss and murmured against his lips "I care because I love you. Even if this disease suck your soul I am sure it's not strong enough to break down my spirit. So please Parth let me stay. Let me take care of you and hold your hand. Let me be here to take your pain when your demons may haunt you. This is not just your battle for it is mine. My future is tied to you however dark or bleak you may find or not like. So let me be here next to you and watch you sleep at night and rise in the morning. Let me..."
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So hey you guys...I want to let you all know this was the most draining piece of work I have ever written. It was emotionally very draining and very demanding so please guys do press the like button and comment to let me know if you liked it. I know not many people would like to see a crippled Parth but this is in an alternate universe where maybe Parth doesn't hate Vidushi as much as he would like. So bear with me and I dedicate this OS to Ash aka Burn The Ashes from whose juke box this idea is from. Also I want to thank Chandni, Ayesha, Antu, Annie, Manu, Rashi, Riya, Rea, Suprabha, Sree, Aimy, Pari , Jiya and everyone else who reads, likes or comments on my ff 😊😊😊
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