Unadulterated Love

Part 48

SIDHARTH'S POV

It was a beautiful sunday evening, I woke up after taking a good cuddly nap when I Preeti complained of a terrible ache down there, she was on her labor!

I rushed down grabbing the car keys, Mom and Shehnaaz made her sit inside, while Ajay sat besides me. Calling her doctor to inform about her situation. It was a day ahead of her actual scheduled delivery date, we were told to be ready and we were. Cutting through the traffic, taking the shortest way to the hospital I drove with speed.

"Drive faster.. You fucking tortoise..! Mai mar rahi hu dard me..!" she shouted at me.

"Car hai.. Rocket nahi.." I replied. She has been unreasonably rude & weird through out her period.

"Sidharth!" Mom snapped. Fine.

"Aaaah! Mommmm..!" she cried.

"Just a few minutes more beta.. We're almost there.." mom consoled. The stretcher was ready for her as we reached the maternity ward. Ajay held her hand, accompanying her in but soon he came out with the nurse. She handed him a couple of papers clipped on a cardboard with a pen. He took a deep breath and kept staring at the form.

"Kya hua?" I asked, we got worried for he looked lost somewhere.

"It says the hospital does not take any responsibility of the complications and in case of any casualty.. How.. What do they mean!?" he asked.

"Beta.. It's just for formality.. Preeti ke case me koi complication nahi hai.. You've been with her on every appointment nah.. " Mom replied. He signed those papers with fumbling fingers.

"Sab sahi hoga.. You're just nervous.." I pat his back, he nods in understanding, but he still looked sceptical. We waited for the while, doctors prepared Preeti for it, they said it's still time for the child to arrive.

"Jaa andar.. She needs you.." his mother said. He nods, looking in the direction of her ward.

"...it's going to be fine.." she added, he nodded again, rubbing his palms but didn't move.

"Jeez!" Shehnaaz shook him.

"Ha?" he turned to her.

"Jao.. Champ ko leke anaa..!" cheered him with her sweetest smile.

"Champ.." he whispered and finally made his way in, we chuckled at his condition.

For the next half an hour, we only heard Preeti screaming her guts out. Believe me, Shehnaaz was terrified with it.

"Bohot pain hota hai?" she asked Mom. And then got answer in the affirmative, it only made her swallow a fearful lump. I raised my brows at her, I kind of knew what was going inside her head, of how much pain she would go through if she takes Preeti's place.

"Kitna pain ho raha hoga unko.." she sadly sighs, thinking about the same for sometime. I wanted to kiss her petrified face, my little brainy baby.

"It's...it's a boy! They're cleaning him.." Ajay came out to inform, we welcomed the new Dad with lots of warm  hugs. He shuddered embracing his mothers.

"He looks like her.. Big eyes..nose.. He's almost like her.." he told. 

"Mr Singh.." the sister came with a small baby in her hand, wrapped in a baby blue napkin.

"Oh! He's so tiny and pink and beautiful and pyaaruuu.." Shehnaaz whispered clutching my arms. Her eyes filled with love. She wiped her tears in my shirt and moved forward to look at his closely. Everybody took rounds to carry him, the new member, my second nephew.