Vywaswi is still laughing when Shresht returned, seeing that laugh remembered him of crazy laugh of Mansi the day before and he spoke slowly "Vywaswi?"
Vywaswi looked at him strangely and again started laughing " Your girl friend is a really funny character you know."
Shresht looked confused before he spoke "Does Mowlika come here?"
Vywaswi shrugged trying to control her laugh "Just tell her not to cross with me, I am in no mood to tolerate anny sort of nusiance."
Shresht looked startled " What did she say?"
Vywaswi shrugged again "Its between us. Anyway it will be really appreciated if I get to see less of her. Or else may be I might forget that she had a surgery not long back."
Shresht sighed in exasperation "I apologise and will inform her." Vywaswi nodded to him, when they heard commotion out their cabin and emergency code is announced. They both immediately took their steths and ran towards emergency department, where every one is standing out side , none daring to go in. Vywaswi asked some other doctor "Whats happening?" "There's some people from other country, one of them has a sudden acute abdomen, they are saying some thing but we can't understand and their english skills are not good." Vywaswi looked at him strangely "What language are they speaking?" He shrugged and looked at his colleague "Is it Korean or Chinese?" Vywaswi let out a sigh of relieved and pushed the crowd aside to go inside but some one stopped her " Hey You can't, they are some sort of celebrities in their country it seems. We will be buggered if some thing happens to them." Vywaswi didn't listen and shrugging her hand off she went inside...
There are four people whom Vywaswi know very well, not personally but by seeing them a lot of times online, but sadly one of them is on table apparently unconscious. Nurse seeing her went to her side to aide her and she gave her a smile of thanks, then she turned to other three and spoke "Annyeohaseyo, Dr.Verma mnida. " They looked relieved seeing her and one of them approached her "You speak korean" She shook her head " I know very little, but its better than nothing at present situation. So what happened to Mr. Kim" Other guy spoke in Korean " He ate some food on road side and a canned sea weed food. From then he became like this. "
Vywaswi muttered to herself some thing and looked out and called out loud "Case of food poisoning, I need some one to assist."
No one moved , she looked at Nurse "Where are all Professors, why only pgs are present here?"
Nurse spoke " All Professors are in administrative building in some chief conference. All call lines are cut asking us not to disturb them"
Vywaswi wanted to curse when she saw Shresht standing beside her " So?"
Vywaswi spoke " They are from South Korea apparently, and he ate Canned sea weed soup along with our road side food. The palm oil which is used in making road side food, doesn't react well with sea weed. Probably a case of Gastro enteritis or Food Poisoning. Since symptoms are acute in onset and not associated with Diahrrhoea I am hoping to assume it might be a case of food poisoning. " Shresht nodded and he instructed nurse to get a kit for Gastric lavage and emptying, also antibiotics while Vywaswi updated the situation to the other three. She convinced them to go out side and stand as they will be in the way . Both Shresht and Vywaswi started to work on the person , they completed the basic resuscitation when his vitals started to improve and Vywaswi gave a sigh of relief. Shresht also sat there relieved , but Vywaswi continued to take all samples of his body fluids and process for lab tests to see the reason. Shresht looked at her strangely "Why so precaution?"
Vywaswi looked at him strangely "That guy you treated now , he is a famous pop singer in Korea and is famous across nearly 15 countries world wide. If some thing happens to him and he proceed to sue us , our lives are smash.I would prefer to be safe than sorry. "
Shresht gaped at her " And how do you know? Also I see you speaking Korean before."
Vywaswi shrugged "I don't know much, I follow Korean serials and music, so am bound to know this guy , also the other three. What I doesn't understand is what they are doing here in India? Anyway since I watch their serials, I learned their language and also read a lot about their culture and all. About this food reaction I saw it in a show, from there I remember it. Never thought it will help me like this."
Shresht looked at her intrigued when one guy came in barging , she looked at him and bowed "Annyeohaseyo Sungnim"
He bowed back in respect " Doctor nim, I know a basic english, so I can converse in english. I am manager of this team, I mean their Indian trip. "
Vywaswi smiled " Oh! I know who Mr.Kim is, I follow your culture. Nothing to worry, his vitals are recovering, he has a bad reaction to food, thats it."
Manager nodded " Its really sad , its his birthday today."
Vywaswi nodded sadly "I understood, Mr. Choi told me that Mr.Kim consumed Seaweed soup, so I suspected it might be his birthday today. Nothing to worry, he is just here for observation. He can be alright by evening. Just a night stay and all will be fine. "
Manager nodded "Kamsamnida Doctor nim. I will make sure that Mr. Kim recognise your debt."
Vywaswi shook her head " Its my duty as a doctor. By the way I am Vywaswi Verma. Don't call me in a formal respect ful tone, you are older than me ."
Manager smiled in thanks "Can boys come and visit him."
Vywaswi nodded " They can come in and meet, but please make sure that he should not be disturbed. We arre sorry Professors are in a meeting, as soon as they come, Professor Kumar will come and check Mr.Kim" She bowed and looked at Shresht who too bowed along with her and dragged him out, giving instructions to nurse.
Vywaswi came out and others looked at her strangely she shrugged and walked towards her department, Shresht stopped there to explain what happened to others and he went to cafeteria in hospital to have a nice cup of coffee, however he stopped and took two cups of coffee to their cabin where Vywaswi is typing some thing furiously, he silently gave her a cup of coffee and she asked him " Hey do you want a hoarde of reporters asking you all sort of weird questions?"
Shresht looked at her weirdly "What?"
Vywaswi shrugged " Well I am sending a mail requesting that person whom I spoke earlier not to highlight our names at all if he release any details about that singer to their press. If you want media attention , I will delete your name."
Shresht snorted "Do I look like an attention seeker to you?"
Vywaswi raised her eyebrow "Aren't you. Once upon a time a senior I used to know used to thrive for attention a lot."
Shresht retorted " A junior I used to know never know how to clean things behind her."
Vywaswi grinned to her self " Speaks that senior who used to maintain a gang in college"
Shresht grinned raising his hands up "I give up. People do change. Look at your self , you too changed a lot , even now you are hiding a lot of secrets from me"
Mansi got irritated, no matter how much she tried to act like Vywaswi, this guy do irritate her a lot , she closed her laptop shut " I hide those secrets from you because they are not yours to know. I am leaving. Please give the required details to Professor Mishra." She left from there leaving a gaping Shresht.
Shresht came rushing behind her "What got you so much irritated? I continued playing the banter you started.. "
Mansi looked at him " I am not in a mood to argue with you. I wanna go, so will you leave me" realising that he was still holding her hand he left it, and she started to move. But he got a doubt "Mansi?" she turned back and he smirked leaving her to curse her self, he again rushed to her taking hold of her hand 'Apologise me'
She looked at him leaving all pretense of being Vywaswi "Why should I?"
"You kicked me yesterday night, you should apologise me ."
"I won't because I need not."
"How can you justify your violence then"
Mansi sighed and glared at him "Fine you apologise Vywaswi for all the deeds you had done against her and I will apologise you twice"
Shresht looked at her funnily "Why should I apologise to Vywaswi and why will you apologise me twice." As he completed that he felt a kick at his groin and doubled over in pain to see a rushing Mansi leaving him alone.
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Misha looked at Shresht who called her to meet at a restaurant "Why did you call me?"
Shresht looked at her "I need to speak to you."
Misha glared at him angrily "You need not speak to me"
Shresht sighed " Misha can we both try to be adults for once, instead of acting like children with grudges"
Misha sighed , she know this is the only way to help Vywaswi so she sat down "Tell"
"Mansi didn't leave " Misha nodded "She won't leave till Vywaswi is ready"
"What do you mean by that?" Shresht asked her curiously
Misha spoke smoothly "Vywaswi and Mansi co exist, there's no domination between them as it will be in case of other personality disorders. Mansi is Vywaswi's protection mechanism. When Vywaswi has a strong attack which she can't face or feel frightened Mansi comes out and set things. "
Shresht nodded silently "When did this start."
Misha looked at him for a while "When you left her."
Shresht was baffled "Why? "
" You know it Shresht, why keep on asking me"
Shresht thought for a while and his eyes widened "It can't be... She .. she can't love me"
Misha glared at him "Why can't she love you Shresht? Why do you think so?"
Shresht felt confused however he spoke out loud "She just can't. She know what I am. She know every thing she can't love me Misha. I am not a good person."
Misha sighed while she felt her eyes watering she stood up and dragged him along with her "Come with me , I need to show you some thing."
She took shresht along with her to a small house seeing which Shresht gasped " Why did you bring me here."
Misha raised her eye brow "You know this place."
Shresht nodded "This is childhood home of Vywaswi, she brought me here once, she had many memories of her mom here. "
Misha nodded and took him inside the house where every part of the house is filled with photos of Vywaswi's mother and Shresht smiled "This place is just like I remembered . "
Misha smiled faintly " Come with me " she took him upstairs into a room which shocked him, every crook and corner of the room is filled with his photos and his achievements.. he looked at Misha "What is this? Even the room is decorated as I like how my bed room to be."
Misha spoke "She wanted you to show this room if you accepted her proposal that day. " She went near one of the cupboards and took few diaries out "Read them. "
Shresht looked shocked "Why?"
Misha spoke calmly " She loved you and accepted you as you are Shresht. She never wanted to change you. She loved you wholly and truly. She still loves you. Read those diaries , you will understand."
Shresht took those books hugging them to his chest , Misha seeing him like that felt confused but she kept keys on the desk beside " Lock house and handle me the keys tomorrow when we meet."
Shresht shook his head "I can't stay here, Vywaswi won't like it."
Misha sighed " Shresht, Vywaswi's life is you. You are the only person she wanted to share this home with. Please stay and read them. If you can help her I will be really thankful to you. But please don't make a mockery of her feelings. I am taking a big risk giving them to you. "
Shresht silently lifted the sleeve of his hand showing a tatoo on his forearm , Misha gasped " You had her name in sanskrit tattooed on your arm?"
Shresht spoke calmly "Sanskrit is her favourite language."
Misha asked him "You love her don't you?"
Shresht looked at her "She is my life."
Misha asked him "Then why , Why did you reject her proposal"
Shresht had tears in his eyes " I doesn't know at that time what my feelings are.. I am confused.. You know very well that all my relations till then didn't last, I thought I loved them while I just felt an attraction to them. I doesn't want that to happen to Vywaswi. I don't want to ruin her life because of what I perceive to be attraction. Also I don't want to bear it if she didn't love me truly and it turned out to be a casual attraction." Misha felt shocked she doesn't even know what to say she sat on ground " You ... idiot.. You know how much she suffered because of your foolishness. Why the hell did you go out with Mowlika if its that?"
Shresht hung his head low " I want Vywaswi to hate me. I am not a good person Mish, she deserved much more than me. I don't want her to ruin her life because of me. I doesn't want her to get destroyed in my love.My love is just that it destroys people."
Misha started crying she doesn't even know what to do.. for years her friend suffered because off this person, she hated this person for making her friend suffer..in few seconds all her perceptions shattered ... how much would he have suffered.. what should she do now... She will help this guy if that will be the last thing she will do. She wiped her tears off "Read this books and give me a proper answer to me by tomorrow. You have only two options Shresht, either to stay in her life as a partner or get away from her life. These complications won't work. I need your answer by tomorrow. Bye."
She didn't turn back, if she turned back she would have seen him on his knees crying his heart out clutching those books to his chest tightly.