It had been days since they had last visited doctor, the medications were still on ,but Sidharth was better.Fever had not returned since morning, but he was still very weak.
"Kaushal kuch din 2-4...i need all work cleared. " ,he had told his manager.
The last 3 days ,Shehnaaz had cared for him like his own.Though preeti and neetu had been there ,Shehnaaz's had nit left his side for a moment. She would stay awake with him ,and when he would sleep she would work.She had been going to hospital."Essential services me off nahi hota...", she told him.Day in and out she had been working hard, both at home and office.
Eversince Sidharth had known Shehnaaz, he had never seen her wear anything that woukd reveal her arms.Her sleeves would always be long, probably hiding her secrets. He knew those?He had seen them; but she still hid them.
"Sidharth apni arm seedha karo..",she said as she sat on the bed.She was going to set up the line for infusions.A small prick and it was through.
"Tujhe blood se darr nahi lagta?",Sidharth asked.He knew she wasn't scared of blood ,but he wanted the back story to maybe her.
"Nahi ...isme darr ka kya h?" ,she asked as she carefully loaded the injection into the infusion.
Medicines ran through is his vessels,killing the little monsters in his body."I m scared of blood...dad k saath ek baar hospital me tha...unko IV laga rahe the...i fainted seeing the blood."
"Ya...pta nhi...i don't know...",She answered, not quite understanding his line of sentences.
Sidharth wanted to talk ,he had seen her .Her kind fascinated her.Something about Shehnaaz had stirred him the moment he had laid his eyes on her.Eversince he had wanted to know more, he knew a lot ,but it wasn't all .A person like Shehnaaz is not forged in a day,Sidahrth knew that.
"Why are you so brave?",he asked moving his eyes to her ,and then his arm where she had put the cannula and then back into her eyes.
She looked at him .Lifting her eyes quickly to confirm that she had heard it correct. It cane again,"itni himmat kyu rakhti ho?"
She smiled..."Matlab ?", she didn't need to ask ,but she did .It was polite,instead of answering. She was brave ,a very brave woman.She was courageous and determined, but bold and brave were her hall mark.She was independently doing it all .But was it necessary?To put up a brave front?
"Sana ...itne dino se...u have been doing all this...maine notice kia...baby you just put so much effort into everything....kabhi kabhi mujhe lagta h tu khud to samet k rakne me bhi ...u out so much work!Shehnaaz u are sacred of it na?",he asked .There was a lot on his mind,but she had deep rooted problems and they couldn't be answered all at a time.
"Sidahrth nahi...meko blood se dar nahi lagta!'",she got up from bed.
Sidahrth extended his arm to hold her ,the tender swollen arm hurt.
"Ahh...",it came out of his lips.
Shehnaaz turned back abruptly, "kya hua ?"
He held her arm .making her sit.She placed her hand over his arm ,just above the point where his cannula lay.She kept moving her fingers there,along his vessel,soothening it.
"You are scared of losing people? Hai na?"
"Your behavior is not correct Shehnaaz, tu muje full time de rahi h apna, full time tu clinic bhi jati h...rest of time you attend to your family, and you are doing all of this at your own cost".
Shehnaaz looked away, Truth had no faces in real.Like always ,it was always axiomatic and self sufficient. And it was bold.
"Bacche you understood that this behavior of yours is nit healthy...tune meko 1 mahiha pehle bola.. that you will start with therapy, but you haven't..."
Shehnaaz stooped the fluid, she left the cannula as it was.
"Nahi Sidharth...", she was about to frame a long excuse, when he interrupted..," I understand your work is important and you can't be on an off.,but then you must realize that you can't attend me like this all day long.Tu full time meko de gi...toh where would you go...baby bhot jaldi thak jaegi ...otherwise. "
Of course if you love people, you tend to care for them.Shehnaaz was like that.Looking after people came ti her naturally Shehnaaz caring for Sidharth was not just that ,it was a lottle girl ,reliving her past where she would care for her ailing mother.Shehnaaz had eventually lost her mother , but that had sccared her ,She had made up a habit to care for everyone even at her cost, hoping that she does not lose them.Not that she ever thought of Sidahrth like that, but this was so deeply imbibed into her conscious by evolution that she had acted from it. Sidahrth understood that ,he had to be true to her ,he wanted her as his own ,so he couldn't use her ,nor could he let her be used by anybody including himself.
"Kal ma kab aaegi?"
"Adith pick up kar lega.",he answered before she could reach to the question.
She looked into his eyes.,they had deep dark circles and he looked awful .,but he had great genes to his luck and even in a Condition like that, he was the most perfect face she had seen.A hulk with a face of romantic hero,soft face, he was a rare beauty.
"Beauty",her mind repeated it again, she chuckled.
He placed his arm over her and pulled her inti him.She came close and then closer,snuggling inti him.If you looked from exterior, they would look one.
"Sidharth....aapki kitni girlfriends rahi j aaj tak.....lije how many do you you could have dated.?"
She was still snuggled into him, he was unwell and here she was completely snuggled into him, asking absolutely stupid questions that made no sense of timing.She was one of a kind.
"Agar paise gino ge toh kam hote h!",he bit his tongue saying that.
"Kutta!",she hit his arm ,still snuggled into him.
"Aisa mom kehti h!",he was quick to add.
"Of all the wise things she says....you heard this!",she turns to the other side moving out of his hold.
"Moti...mere haath me dard Hoga,and tu bhi moti hogi...but I can still pull you with a single arm",saiyng he pulls her back to him.
They had been sleeping together, in the same quilt ,all cuddled up. Sidharth had never been like this with anyone,he was an infamous hot lover, with a Heart breaker kind off attitudes There was absolutely no woman who had slept in his arms, on his bed and most importantly no woman had ever called him kutta.
"Kutta !....it was weird for an abuse.",he felt homely.
Life can be anything to anybody. It is absolutely its choice, but life to Shehnaaz and Sidahrth had been tough and merciful. They were blessed with each other.Just like magic happens when the galaxies collide,magic was happening with both of them colliding. The power that would transcend was going to change their journeys for ever, they were the two souls of sufi world colliding to exchange all they had known .The web of charm was being spun, trapping them into it, until they fell head over heels.To be blessed with knowledge of the universe, you must have loved,and felt pain;they say .These two people were on that journey ,where they would experience the laws of sky in love and it was just begging, the journey of love to the sky
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