Part 6
Raman and Ishita arrived at the doctor's office the next day. Raman felt out of place at the doctor's clinic. There were a lot of woman not as many men as he expected.
"where are all the men Ishita?" he asked softly.
"I don't know ...I'm not liking this place Raman" she said anxiously rubbing her arms.
"Miss.Iyer?", a nurse called. Ishita stood up, her and Raman followed the nurse to a small examination room.
"please remove your top and put on this gown, Dr.Khanna will be with you shortly." and the nurse left. Raman cleared his throat.
" um..I'll be outside"
"no, it's fine you could just turn around". Raman turned around and heard her undress. " Can you tie it up for me" she asked.
Raman turned, seeing a glimpse of her exposed back , awaken a tiny desire in him. He mentally slapped him for thinking such when she trusted him to be gentlemen. With shaking hands he tied up the cotton strands.
"thanks" Ishita said as she sat down on the examination bed. Raman walked over to the corner and busied himself looking at photos of babies hanging on the wall. He smiled knowing that in less than a year he will also get to hold such cute baby in his hand, his very own baby.
"Miss.Iyer?" a handsome man walked in, he looked like he was in his mid thirties , quite tall and well built.
" Hi, I'm Dr.Ashok Khanna" He announced holding onto Ishita's gaze. "Wow has anyone ever told you, you have such beautiful brown eyes" he said putting on his blue latex gloves and flashy smile.
Raman took in the smile and Ishita's brief smile and cleared his throat making the doctor aware of his presence. "Actually it's soon to be Bhalla, Raman Bhalla...I'm the father" He said extending his hand to the doctor. The doctor looked little embarrassed as he shook Raman's hand.
Ishita looked puzzled at Raman's behaviour." We were expecting a lady doctor" Raman said glaring at the doctor. Dr.Ashok gave little laugh. " Blame my wife, she had a medical conference so I took over for her. Don't worry here after it will be her , you'd be seeing"
Raman happily nodded. He didn't like this man.
"well Mrs. soon to be Bhalla, let's get started shall we?"
Ishita laid back on the patient bed as Dr.Khanna set up the ultra sound machine. After he put the prope on her abdomen he moved till he found the right spot. "Here it is", he pointed to a tiny spot on the screen about the size if jelly bean.
"That's the baby?" Ishita asked
"Yup, it looks like we are in about 4 weeks of pregnancy"
Ishita looked over at Raman and the look on his face warmed her heart.
"I can't believe it" he whispered , she extend her hand and he held on. " I think the baby has your eyes" he said, making her laugh.
" Here I recorded it for you guys" Dr.Khanna held out a dvd and printed sonogram image toward Raman.
"Thank you"
" Everything looks good and normal. Also Mrs. Soon to be Bhalla," Dr.Khanna emphasised on the name " you would have to come in every month for a check-up. I'm going to prescribe some pre-natal vitamins. Any questions you can always call"
Raman and Ishita nodded and thanked him as he walked out to see his next patient. Raman said he'll go to the pharmacy while she gets changed.
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They were on the way to work when Ishita asked."What was that about?"
"what was what about?"
"Soon to be Bhalla?"
Was his Madarasan that dumb. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what he meant, what he wanted. He felt her stare, she was waiting for an answer.
"Umm... well we can't have people thinking this is some unplanned mistake"
Ishita gave him a confused look "is it not?" she asked.
She had him cornered. Though he did it in act of jealousy another reason was he didn't want any judgement against her character, from anyone.He knew about the stereotypes for a woman who had a baby without marriage. Of course he couldn't say this to her, not knowing how to go about it he surrendered. "sorry, I wasn't thinking when I said that."
Ishita wasn't convinced she felt an unease in his voice. Before she asked anything further , he distracted her with a question of his own " So you told your parents about the baby?"
Ishita's mind went blank for a moment. This was a thought she was trying to avoid. She couldn't even imagine what her parents would say , how they would react to such news. Her mother has been pressurizing her about getting married for some years now. But Ishita always avoided the talk and it's because of that very reason she even stopped visiting them. Now telling them she is pregnant without being married and on top,that too with a Punjabi guy all because of a one night stand ?!? Her head started to spin, she could already hear her mother's melodramatic screams and her dad holding on his chest. She decided she was going to avoid this at all cost.
"Ishita?" Raman's concerning voice interrupted her train of thoughts
"Not yet..." she said staring into open air, avoiding to even look at Raman. She didn't even bother asking him the same. Raman felt the stress his question brought and he chose not ask further.
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Once the pair arrived at the office, they showed others the DVD and the sonogram pictures the doctor had given them.
"I still don't see anything" Romi said squinting at the computer screen and Bala laughed as Raman once again pointed out the spot that was their baby. "Are you sure, it looks a like jelly bean."
"It's only a month old" Ishita said smacking the back of his head. All laughed as they moved to their designated desks, leaving Raman and Bala alone.
"So you getting excited Bhalla?"
"Yeah it kind of weird but I already love it" Raman said with clear enthusiasm in his voice.
Bala smiled " yeah that's the same way I felt about Aditya" he said " so how are you going about the other thing?"
Raman let out a heavy sigh "I think we should get back to work" he said closing the video screen, Bala rolled his eyes and walked to his seat leaving Raman alone again.
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