Hope

#41

Garima : shehnaaz tum change karlo, fir hume airport ke liye nikalna bhi hai...

Sana nodded her head positively and went inside her room... After their marriage at a temple in most simplest way they came back to her mama's house... in past 2 days Her mama mami had passed almost every bad words on her character for getting married just after a few days of her nana's demise...

They had not shopped anything than bride groom's attire and a mangalsutar, which was also selected by sid's sister Garima and Madhu... Boys had took care of all the arrangements like priest and holy things required for marriage.... Sana stayed with her nani for whole two days, she barely left her for some time... But now she had to leave her for always... Her hands had only a circle designed with henna as she was reluctant to get any designer henna.... Nobody forced her to do anything against her will as she was already getting married against her choice...

Sana changed into simple umbrella suit of peach color, she had washed her face to erase all the makeup but the vermillion in her hairline still made her look the most beautiful newly wed bride...

Sid knocked on her door making her realize that it's time to leave her childhood memories behind and embrace the reality and her future...

She opened door and saw sid standing there still in his wedding attire, he no doubt looked no less than a Greek God, but how good it would had if he had married her in good situation, but that is also impossible because they were opposite of each other... Sana was busy in her thoughts when Sid cleared his throat to get her attention....

She stepped back and gave him space to enter in room, he came inside and started picking her bag and than stopped and turned to look at her...

Sid : vo tumhe kuch rakhna to nahi hai na bag me?

Sana : hhh? Ha vo lehnga shadi ka...

Sid : ohh acha... Umm tum pack karlo or jab ho jaye to bata dena mai bags niche le jaunga, cab aati hi hogi...

Sana nodded positively and moved towards
loo to get her clothes and belongings... Sid also left and came in guest room to change his clothes... He changed his clothes while thinking about his encounter with sana, how she opened door and kept looking at his face blankly, how her eyes held storm inside them... She was clearly not happy with this marriage and how can she be happy being married with a famous playboy of college who had only bad impressions everywhere....

"naniiii" everyone present in house heard sana's scream from her nani's room, they all ran towards her room and found nani laying on floor unconsciously and sana trying to wake up her...

Vishal immediately called ambulance while sid carried nani and made her lay on bed, Madhu got water and sprinkled on her face, sana and Garima were rubbing nani's palms
and vikas & kushal rubbed her feets....

Soon ambulance reached their door and they all left for near by hospital, sana filled all the necessary details on reception while ward Boys took her nani inside ward... Doctor entered her ward and started treatment, a nurse came and asked about patients medical history, sana informed them about nani being diabetic and blood pressure patient...

Sana was loosing her every hope... She was unable to process anything, she felt her body loosing energy, she sat down on near by bench with tears falling from her eyes... Garima and Madhu sat on her sides trying to console her.... Sid felt history repeating itself, the time of nanu came in front of his eyes, he had not spent much time with nanu but the time he had spent with nani was priceless, she was the person who made his impossible dream come true, he being married to sana... He wiped his tears and went towards water filter and filled a glass with water, than walked towards Sana... Madhu and Garima looked at sid coming there and they got up to give them time to get back stronger together...

Sid sat beside her and moved glass of water towards her so she can hold and drink but she didn't moved, he called her name "shehnaaz" but still she didn't responded... He kept glass on empty space on bench and sat side ways facing Sana... He slowly moved his hand on her head caressing her hair softly...

Feeling touch on her head she closed her eyes tightly and remembered how her nani used to caress her hair softly and nanu used press her legs in her childhood and used to tell her stories... She felt same concern in touch, her eyes opened slowly and she tilted her head on right side to see sidharth in a vulnerable state, his eyes were red with tears, his lips were quivering, it felt like he had silently cried with her for whole time...

Without a second thought she hugged him tightly and started sobbing badly... Sid hugged her back and cried with her...

After some time doctor came out and asked about shehnaaz...

Doctor : aap me se shehnaaz kon hai?

Sana who was sitting silently resting her head on sid's shoulder with sid's one arm around her shoulder, got up quickly and came near doctor...

Sana : ji mai hu shehnaaz, kya hum nani ko i
mean patient ko ghar li ja sakte hai? Discharge kab tak karoge aap? Or aap na mujhe sari medicine samjha do kab deni hai or ek acha sa diet chart bhi bana do mai nani ka ache se khayal rakhungi or unko dubara bimar bhi nahi padhne dugi, kyuki agar vo bimar huyi to nanu mujhse naraz ho jayege na, or vo

She was speaking absent mindedly, her friends and Garima couldn't help themselves but cried looking at her condition, doctor looked towards Sid who was standing beside Sana, sid held her shoulder to stop her talking...

Sid : shehnaaz doctor ki baat to suno...

Doctor : patient ki heart rate kam hoti ja rahi hai or iska karan unki diabetes bhi hai, patient ka sugar level bohot kam hai, halat bohot critical hai patient ki, survival ke chances sirf 5% hai but don't worry will try our best, patient kisi bhi procedure se pahle aapse milna chahti hai, please meet her so we can treat her further...

Saying this doctor left from there, sana and sid came inside nani's ward... Their souls cried looking at nani's condition, the lady who was full of life once, was laying on a hospital bed with a oxygen mask on her mouth to breathe...

Nani : sheh....az
Nani called her in a weak voice, sana came near her and held her hand in hers and placed a kiss on back of her hand...

Sana : aap tention matt lo nani, sab thik ho jayega, aap wapis ghar jaoge haste huye...
Nani smiled and said : Maine kaha tha na tere nanu mujhse jyada din dur nahi reh sakte, dekh bula rahe hai mujhe apne pass, mere pass jyada waqt nahi hai shehnaaz, sidharth...

Sidharth who was standing near door letting granny and her grand daughter talk came near Sana and stood beside her after hearing his name...

Nani : shehnaaz aaj tujhe tere hi bare me batane ja rahi hu mai, teri jindagi ka sabse badha sach, tere papa zinda hai...

Hearing this sana couldn't understand whether she should be happy or sad? Happy for him being alive or sad for being away from him till now and being unaware of the fact that he was alive all the time when she thought herself as orphan...