Abhishek got a call the next day. “What happened?” Rithika asked Abhishek. “I guess I'll have to go. I’ll tell you everything later. Hmm..” Abhishek replied and ruffled her hair. He packed his bag. “You will take time to return?” she asked. “Not sure” he replied and got into the car. “Where did Abhishek go?” Alax enquired her. “Idk. He said he will tell everything later.” she replied. “Oh, ok. Actually , I had something important in my house. I came to ask for one day leave” Alax said. “Oh, ok. No problem. Ask Vimal too.” she replied and got into the restaurant. After a few hours Alax went to his house.
At night Vimal returned to his room early. Neeraj was cleaning the floor. Rithika looked at him and bought a tissue. “Hey, you are sweating.” she said and wiped his sweat. She touched his head. “You have a high fever.” she added . He touched his head and wiped the sweat with his hands. “Look at it yourself” she said and stopped him from cleaning the floor. He looked at her eyes. “Don’t work now. Take a rest. Me and Vimal will clean the restaurant.” she said and made him sit on the chair. “You didn’t eat food. Right? I’ll cook porridge for you” she said and caught his hands. He stood up and both of them went to his room. “It will be hard for you. Right?” she guessed. He lied on his bed and she got out to call Vimal. She knocked on his room door. But Vimal didn't open the door. She opened the closed restaurant kitchen and started to prepare porridge. After preparing the porridge, she woke up Neeraj. She started to blow the porridge. “Don’t blow the porridge. I don’t feel hot” he said. “Anyway, thank you” he thanked her. “Even though you don’t feel hot , it will be dangerous
inside your body” she replied and took a spoon of porridge. She blew that and he drank the spoon of porridge. “I can have it myself” he said. She looked at his eyes and smiled. She continued to feed him.
Next morning Neeraj woke up and lay still on the bed. He touched his head and took the cloth which was on his head. He saw someone sleeping on his chair. It was Rithika. He moved her hair from her face. She woke up suddenly and caught his hands. “Oh, it was you? I’m sorry” she said and moved her hands from his hands. “How is your fever?” she enquired. She placed her hands on his head. “You got cold too?” she enquired and pointed to his nose. He took a tissue and blew his nose. “I’ll tell Vimal. Don’t come to work today.” she said and was about to go out of his room. He caught her hands and dragged to the chair. “Hey, what are you doing?” she asked. “That’s what I wanna ask you. What are you trying to do? Why do you care about me? Did I ask you to do this?” he raised all his doubts. “I’ve a reason.” she replied. “Reason? What reason?” he asked again. “Cuz, I can’t stand others feeling sick” she thought for a while and replied. She escaped from the chair and got out of the room. “What was it? He said thank you yesterday? Oh, it was really a golden word when I heard that from him” she blushed and talked to herself. “In any case, I’ve to take revenge. My first challenge is to cure him” she said to herself and walked to Vimal. She reached his room and knocked. Vimal opened the door. “Hey, goodmorning.” he wished her. “Right back at you. I knocked on your door yesterday. I guess you are not a sensitive sleeper.” she said and smiled. “Oh, yesterday? Was there any problem?” he enquired. “Yup. Neeraj was not well. So I was about to ask you to clean the restaurant. But you slept early.” she replied. “Oh, sorry. I didn’t hear. Is he not well? What happened to him?” he enquired. “He has a fever and a cold,” she replied . “I was about to prepare some tea and porridge for him” she added. “I’ll come and help” he said and followed her to the restaurant. She started to prepare medicinal tea and food.
“You are not well?” Vimal asked and touched his head. He then handed over the tea cup to Neeraj. After a few minutes Vimal returned to the restaurant and found Deepak working in the kitchen. “Hey, when did you come? Why are you doing these things?” he smiled and asked. “Alax and Abhishek are not here. Right? I thought that if I’m here, it will be helpful” Deepak replied and continued his cleaning. “Vimal is sick. So he won’t be there. So you will be really helpful” Rithika informed. “Oh, he is sick? Where is he?” he enquired. “He is in his room. I’ll call him for food. Would you like to join?” she enquired. He agreed and both of them left the restaurant.
