Riansh Short Story - A new beginning

Chapter 5 - He needs to know

Author's Note: Hey guys, sorry for the late publishing of the next chapter. Festivities, health and work caught me up. I hope I could live up to the wait for this next chapter. I will try and update atleast one chapter per week from now. I would really love if you could like and comment on the story and tell me what things I could improve or work on. 

Vansh could just not believe it. No medications, no treatment, nothing, just 2 weeks of bed rest and monitoring. He questioned the doctor regarding her logic and if there was no other way to treat this since he knew, keeping Riddhima 2 weeks on complete bed rest wasn't an easy option and neither could he see Riddhima in this state for any longer time.

The doctor told him that they prefered to use such methods to treat this condition unless or until it wasn't life threatening. Also it was not easy to give medications to pregnant women. With this she excused herself and told them to make their decision and let them know.

"Riddhima, mujhe lagta ha ki -- "

Before he could even finish his sentence Riddhima interrupted

"Vansh please mujhe ghar lekar chalo. Yahan par rahungi to better hone ki bajhae aur bimar hongi. Yeh deewarein, woh boring sa khana nahi Vansh mujhe nahi rehna yahan par. Dekho I promise, jho doctor bolke gayi hai main wohi karungi. Bed se hilungi bhi nahi"

Vansh wondered if Riddhima had already sensed him saying the total opposite that she straight away asked him to take her home. Although he felt making her stay here might be better in terms of taking care of her but he knew, arguing with her in this condition could just make things worse. Plus he needed to know what was bothering her as well and it would be better to do so at home.

"Theek hai Riddhima ghar chalte hain"

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A week had passed since the incident and Riddhima came back home. Even though Vansh was still believing that it was better she would stay in the hospital he knew there was no point in arguing over this since all he wanted was for her to feel better.

He had decided to work from home in order to take care of Riddhima and more to make sure she didn't start doing any work.

All day she would be told to rest in bed or atleast keep sitting down just like it was instructed by the doctor. The midwife who was appointed to Riddhima through the hospital came every second day to check on her. Her blood pressure had improved a lot and the rest was helping to stabilise everything slowly and the midwife even suggested she start moving around a bit but not do too much strenuous work.

Riddhima was feeling much better now and Vansh was glad about this as well but he somehow sensed some sort of tension on her face all the time but whenever he asked she brushed it off with the excuse of her pregnancy complications and just being tired of sitting around doing nothing. Not entirely pleased by her explanation he decided to ask Angre if he had any information if someone was by chance in contact with Riddhima but even he had no clue about it.

One day Vansh was busy on a call which took longer than planned. Some urgent work had to be completed for a release and things were not going as planned. He had planned to take a longer lunch break and spend some time with Riddhima as the last couple of days he had been busy day and night with work but again today wouldn't be possible unless some miracle happens.

After 3 hours of non stop calls, Vansh looked at the watch and was shocked to see it had already been 2pm. He had not even cooked anything and rushed to the kitchen to find Riddhima cooking up some cheese and ham omelette with some brown bread.

"Riddhima tum yeh sab kyun kar rahi ho. Main ah hi raha tha. Doctor ne kaha hai na ki tumhe aram karna chahiye. Toh phir tum yeh sab kyun kar rahi ho."

Riddhima replied saying she was getting hungry and knew he would be the same as he was working all morning without even a single break. And as such a little bit of work was allowed as told by the midwife.

Even though Vansh wasn't convinced by her reply he didn't want to argue and his stomach making growling sounds suggested to him to best just eat and not argue since the food was freshly out of the pan.

They were quietly having their meal sitting on the couch when Vansh decided to end the boring silence.

"Riddhima, I am sorry, maine kaha tha tumhe ki main tumhara dyan rakhunga aur time spend karunga lekin kya karun itna kaam achuka hai na. Na mere paas tumhare liye time hai na humare bache ke liye"

He hugged her with one hand and placed the other on her belly and looked her into the eyes.

"Lekin don't worry, maine boss se baat kari hai, after this release is over I will get a few days off. Aur phir maine delivery ke time ki leave ki application bhi dal di hai."

Riddhima held his hand that was placed on her stomach and said

"Vansh maine pehle bhi kaha hai aur abh bhi wohi keh rahi hoon. TUmhe in sab cheezon ke liye mujhe sorry nahi bolne ki zarurat hai. Tumne meri aur humare aane wale bache ki khatir sab kuch chod diya, business, money, family and country too. Abh yeh choti batein koi maine nahi rakhti. Tum mere saath ho, I don't need anything else"

Vansh wanted to say something when Riddhima interrupted him:

"Vansh I need to tell you something that has been on my mind since a few weeks"

Vansh looked at her with surprise as he never thought she would herself open up to what was bothering her for weeks. However the moment he had been hoping for had finally come. He nodded slightly in response and let her speak her heart out.

Riddhima told him everything that had been going on since last month. She had contacted Siya as she was feeling lonely at home and knew that she was the only person who was worth still keeping contact with as her fault was only that she got influenced by the wrong doings but had mended her ways. While she was having a hearty talk to her, she realised that Siya and Ishani were living together since Ishani's divorce. Ishani has been upset over Vansh abandoning her and the family to an extent that even Angre left her. She saw Riddhima's picture in the facetime call and took the chance to bad mouth her and Vansh. However Riddhima managed to control herself at that time and not spoil her health over someone whom she didn't care about anymore after all what Ishani had done to her. However Ishani now had her number and despite blocking her she found new ways of contacting Riddhima until one day she sent a message that shook her to the core. She didn't know how to react or what to do as she felt their past would come back haunting them and she felt scared for their baby once again being under watch by their enemies.

Vansh sat next to Riddhima, full of anger not knowing how to react or what to say as he just couldn't believe what Ishani was upto. He knew she could never change but stopping so low that she even wanted to harm their child yet again, was all too much for Vansh.

"What was that message Riddhima that Ishani sent to you?"

Riddhima showed him the messages Ishani had sent to her and Vansh boiled in anger. He knew exactly what to do and told Riddhima to not stress about this any further and he would now handle it his way before it was all too late.

"Usse pehle ki baat aage bade, main iss chapter ko once and for all ke liye close kardunga. No one dare come near Riddhima or my baby"