Posts: 1,796
Threads: 29
Likes Received: 937 in 482 posts
Likes Given: 538
Joined: Jun 2019
Reputation:
48
Shocked.."
"Now you're okay?"
"Yeah!"
By evening, the lady I had brought was able to wake up. I got contact numbers from her and contacted her family. They reached the hospital within an hour. Soon there was a crowd. Her husband, two sons and a daughter, her father and so on.
All of them thanked me. Her name was Alka, and she worked in an advertising agency.
Naina was watching as the people were hugging me and shaking my hands.
"You're really a good person. You got blessings from eleven people."
"Twelve." I looked at her and corrected her.
"Yes. Twelve. No. Twelve and a half."
She smiled, gesturing to Vinnee.
Again hers was a beautiful smile on the beautiful face of a beautiful woman.
Once Alka's family was there, I was free to go. But as I had promised to Naina, I stayed.
The doctor came again to Karthik. He checked the scanning result and was disappointed.
And he said Karthik needs to be admitted. For a few days.
He was awake by then. I went out and bought some food for him. Naina fed him as I stood outside holding Vinnee.
As soon as the sedation ended, Karthik was in pain. He was given pain killers as well as sleeping pills.
Posts: 1,796
Threads: 29
Likes Received: 937 in 482 posts
Likes Given: 538
Joined: Jun 2019
Reputation:
48
It was 8 o'clock by then and the night staff. They said nobody is allowed to stay inside during the night.
She was shocked.
I was with her and I argued with the staff saying it's his wife and child.
But the staff said she can go to the medical wards and look for some space there, but nobody is allowed to stay with the patients under observation.
We went to the medical wards and soon found out it wasn't safe for a lady. Maybe it was safe but we both were outsiders and we didn't feel safe.
"What will I do now?"
She was quite worried.
"We'll have to look for some hotel rooms." I said.
"Hotel room? No way!"
She said staunchly and stopped walking as well.
"What no? Do you have any other choice."
"No. I can't." She said helplessly.
Now I realize her problem.
"Are you worried that I'm going to stay with you?"
She looked at me. Without saying a word, her eyes told everything.
"Look, Naina! I'm not a moron to jump on you at every...."
I stopped talking as I saw someone walking towards us. I waited for him to walk past us.
Posts: 1,796
Threads: 29
Likes Received: 937 in 482 posts
Likes Given: 538
Joined: Jun 2019
Reputation:
48
"Look..., I'm here with you because of my sympathy. Not for my lust. By renting a hotel room I meant one room for you and another room for me. Now I'll stay in one hotel and you'll stay in another one. Is that okay?"
She had a very embarrassed look on her face.
"Sorry.."
"Oh please, don't!" I felt uncomfortable and insulted.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I've not meant..." She almost cried.
"Okay." I said.
"Trust me first. Else you're just pissing me off."
She nodded and walked behind me.
Then I thought about her. Though her response had almost pissed me off, she was correct. If she had agreed instantly to my suggestion with a smile on her face, what might have I thought about her? She was correct and indeed, had made a strong positive image of herself in my mind.
She was struggling with the child and the bag in her both hands.
"Give me the kid.” I told.
"Oh no it's okay."
"Oh come on, look at yourself, you're gonna faint soon. You're so tired. Forget the formalities, please." I said with a little bit authoritative tone.
She gave in and handed me the child with thanks.
I just nodded to acknowledge her and walked.
I hired a taxi and asked him to take us to a good restaurant.
(This post was last modified: 27-12-2021, 06:49 PM by
Blue Bull. Edited 1 time in total.)
Posts: 1,796
Threads: 29
Likes Received: 937 in 482 posts
Likes Given: 538
Joined: Jun 2019
Reputation:
48
"We can have food here also, can't we?" She asked.
I looked outside. There were many small dhabas.
"Oh these dhabas? Please, I don't want to go there. I'm really tired, I need a big fat dinner today. Please allow me.."
I replied, looking through the mirror. I saw her smiling. It was tiring, yet beautiful indeed.
*******
When I saw an ATM I asked the taxi driver to stop and asked her to withdraw some bills. She went in, and came out dejectedly.
Something was wrong.
"What happened? This one's also not working?"
"No. It's working..."
"Then what?" I raised my voice a bit.
"Please. Please don't be angry. I think Karthik has changed the password."
"Oh. Shit."
She looked down and stood like a student who was missing her textbook at home and misleading the teacher. I suddenly felt pity.
"It's okay. Did you block that?"
"No, I used it only twice."
She sounded a bit better, having done at least one thing correctly.
"You're looking like I'm your boss or something. Relax." I laughed.
I walked into the ATM and withdrew a couple of thousands with my card.
Posts: 1,796
Threads: 29
Likes Received: 937 in 482 posts
Likes Given: 538
Joined: Jun 2019
Reputation:
48
The taxi later stopped in front of a nice restaurant. I wanted to have a shower but I restricted myself to just washing my face. I then held both the child and her bag while she went to the washroom. By the time she was back, I had ordered the food.
When she came, I got up and pulled the chair for her.
She thanked me and sat down.
"I'm vegetarian." She said,
"Oh, no! You can't be."
"What? What have you ordered?"
"Chilly chicken and butter roti."
"Ayyo! I don't eat that stuff... No"
"No, we can't cancel our order. You'll have to eat.."
"Oh my God. We should ask them at least.."
"Come on. It's not Tamil Nadu."
She was quite worried. Eating chicken seemed to be the most heinous act to her at that moment. She watched horrifyingly as the waiter brought the food. She glanced at each item the waiter put on the table like that contained a live snake.
Well, the food was some paneer masala and butter roti. She looked at me and bit her lips.
"You liar!" She uttered in mock anger.
"It's a pure vegetarian restaurant, madam!" I laughed.
She smiled shyly. It was fun.
The food was awesome. We both felt our energy replenished. But she wanted to feed Vinnee as well. He was awake. I suggested she could do it in the hotel room.
Posts: 1,796
Threads: 29
Likes Received: 937 in 482 posts
Likes Given: 538
Joined: Jun 2019
Reputation:
48
As I have mentioned in the introduction this story is based on the theme of the story "Accident" by Krish_999 who is not well at present. Keeping the base theme intact I have tried to give the original story a different direction in which I emphasized the basic human instincts, their natural administration and the confrontation of will powers. Tried to make the situations natural and justified. So the base of the story is predefined and deviating that will be injustice to the main story and the writer ..........
Hope this will entertain you in a more natural and different way .........
![[+]](https://xossipy.com/images/bootbb/collapse_collapsed.png)