“Are you ok?”
“😊”
“Apno ko kya sirf acche waqt mein yaad kiya jata hai, Ishqi? Bure waqt mein unpar haq nahi hota?”
She was staring at his message when his voice fell into her ear, making her instantly turn back only to find him standing in front of her.
Her eyes went to her Maasi lying on the hospital before going to him for a brief moment.
He quietly followed her when she gestured to step out of the ICU.
“Aap yaha kaise? Kisne bataya?” she asked as they reached the hallway.
“Kaha maayne rakhta hai! Maayne to ye rakhta hai ke tumne kyun nahi bataya!”
“Pareshan nahi karna chahti thi!”
“Par tum to jaanti ho ke tumhare liye pareshan hone ka haq hai mujhe. Ya phir shayad ab nahi hai?”
“Aisa kuch nahi hai, AVM.” She sat on an empty bench in the waiting area for the relatives of the patients. Her emotional exhaustion was evident in her faint voice.
“Jaanta hoon,” he said, taking a seat beside her, “kabse ho yaha?”
“Kal raat se.” Clasping her palms together, she looked away for a second to blink back her tears. “Bol rahe hai…” She cleared her throat, hating her cracking voice. “Surgery…”
His hands reached out for hers. As he held her shaking hands in his firm hold, he wrapped his one hand around her. “It’s okay. Rehne do. Main doctor se puch lunga!”
As her head fell to his shoulder, she shifted closer to the indescribable sense of strength that his presence had brought.
She had no idea how he had found out that she was here but then again, he was AVM. He had somehow always figured out things on his own even when she kept mum.
“Aapko humesha pata chal jata hai na jab-“
“Tumhe meri zaroorat hoti hai?” He smiled, completing her words before she could. “Bhagwan thodi hoon! Aise hi kisi ko kuch nahi pata chalta, Ishqi. Hum to sirf koshish karte hai. Jiske jitne maayne hote hai zindagi mein, uske liye utni koshish.”
Uske
Liye
Utni
Koshish.
💜
This is a random piece of fiction. Absolute imagination. Kind of a random mini tale based on the picture on the characters named Ishqi and Aahan, fondly addressed as IshqAan from the show Ishk Par Zor Nahi that starred Param Singh and Akshita Mudgal as protagonists.Â