Deluged - The Teenage Love ✔️

Chapter 31

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~Ivaan~

"Hello! Am I speaking to doctor Drake?"

"Wait a minute sir, I'll be diverting the call to his no.", maybe his personal assistant I thought,waiting impatiently for the doctor to answer the call.

"Who is there?", the old man spoke, while I quickly checked the patient list.

"It's Ivaan here, I wanted to enquire about the patient 117.", I told him.

It is a weird custom of the hospital to refer patients by a number, instead of their name.

What else could you expect from the biggest hospital in the city, but it still sounds lame.

"Are you talking about Nova?", the doctor asked, I was glad that he remembered her name.

"Yes Sir, it's Ivaan this side. She is my beautiful wife."

"Indeed Mr. Ivaan. I am summing up her recent check up. To say the least, we have to continue with the coronary artery bypass surgery as soon as possible. There isn't much time left for the surgery and I hope you are understanding the seriousness of this statement.", he informed me and I could feel my jaw dropping at this.

I hadn't expected all those things to pass soo soon, without even giving a knock at the door.

"Will everything be alright?", I asked him, hoping for some positive response while he just told me that he cannot say anything and hurried up to check the next patient, disconnecting the call and leaving me behind in a state of oblivion.

I am not prepared for this but I need to prepare Nova soon. As soon that it would be possible.

It was just two years, when Nova had experienced drastic symptoms of the coronary artery disease. She used to have severe chest pain and often had the feeling of nausea.

It was the biggest mistake of our life that she ignored the signs and hid it from everyone including me. It was later that I realised how fast her heart beats used to change from fast to low and her constant sweating in everything that she did.

It made me to take her to the doctor the second day itself and that's when we realised that she's been diagnosed with the heart disease.

The Deadliest - Coronary Artery Disease.

The doctor had already given the time of 3 years as her condition had been worsened because she had kept it a secret and we had no other chance other than supplying her with the right amount of medical treatment.

I had decided upon quitting my job for her. Being an employee was never my choice, but I wasn't the sort of person who would love a lavish life, spending the money of my parents.

Most of all Nova had always supported my decisions and I couldn't let her deal alone with things. I remember how much I had bursted the day when she had forgotten to take her medicines.

That was the first day when she had shed a tear because of me and that was the day when I had promised myself that I would never let her cry.

Never ever again in my lifetime. I just want my chirpy Nova back who is somewhere behind the dark clouds.

I remember how much Ryan and Sophia had cried the day they heard me talking on the call with Drake, and how well they had maintained themselves not to let their mother know any of this.

Since then, Ryan and Sophia have been spending as much time as possible with her and sometimes I feel jealous for the fact that Nova loves them more than me.

I was the first one to enter her life and how could she love her children more than me.

But I feel happy, when she smiles with them. I notice her many a times, trying to bake things for her kids and how both of them try to help their mom and the  spark in her eyes just make my day.

I haven't imagined living without her. I know I cannot. I don't even want to imagine a life where Nova isn't there.

I've grown up with her and I am sure that I wish to die the same moment that Nova leaves me. In fact I don't even want her to leave me alone. I just wish to live with her and I don't have any plans to let her die.

I don't even know how I'll manage to inform her about her surgery. I know she's been brave all this time, having those bitter medicines just because she sees me smiling when she takes them, but I know how much she's afraid to go the hospital.

She just thinks that she would never return back. I just wish to assure her that , yes Nova, you'll live with us. You'll live a good life. You'll definitely return back. I won't let anyone steal you away from me. I won't let anybody do this.

I can even fight death for her. And I am sure about that.

A tear fell down from my eyes and I wiped it off before anyone sees it.

"Ivaan. There's a call from the hospital.", Claire looked at me with teary eyes.

"Ya! I'll be going there in some minutes. You didn't tell them?", I asked her and she broke herself on the threshold.

"What happened Claire. Are you going to tell me.", I asked her, and her sobs grew louder and louder.

I rushed back to the hallway, and picked up the landline.

"Who is it?", I asked in a harsh voice. I wasn't prepared for anything at this moment.

"Sorry to inform you, but Mr. Bagels left us before a few minutes.", and there was silence in the air.

It seemed as if the world had stopped and I wasn't able to take it inside me.

"I met him just an hour back.", I told that person, but the call had already disconnected.

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It was just a few minutes after the phone call ended that all of us were heading towards the hospital. Claire had booked the taxi in a minute and was sitting in the front seat with Ryan, clutching his hand tightly in her fist.

Brenda had been crying since then, there isn't any emotion on her face, there's just pure horror. Pure death that has taken place inside her.

I held her hand inside my palms and looked at the driver at the inner mirror. The driver was scared, seeing the broken condition of her family as he drove as fast as his license could permit.

Mother's tears kept falling on my hand, while her gaze was fixed on the long road to th hospital.

"I wish I wouldn't had left him alone tonight.", she mumbled and tear after tear kept falling from her eyes.

I could feel her pain, after all that was the soon to be pain of my life.

I took out the phone from my back pocket and dialled Nova's number.