LOVE AND BETRAYAL

Chapter-6

The curtains open up at sharp 06:00 in the morning, sunrays scatter along the whole room and as soon as they hit my face my headache double's up. It feels like someone is pushing sharp needles near my eyebrows and temple region, I am very much tempted to close the curtains and sleep in for a good hour but the thirst to conduct my plan makes me get up.

The puppy is asleep at the corner of my bed, deep in the satin sheets. He looks comfortable and I dont want to wake him up because he has been up all night, his constant barks dint let me sleep a wink So I took him out of his crate  and fed him and after that he must have climbed up the bed and slept here.

Who enjoys sleeping in a cage, No one.

My assistant has already fixed an appointment with the clinic where Raavi works and while showering I practice my monologue of how I rescued him and want to know if he is okay after the fire accident, the cold water hitting my skull eases some pain but I have to pop in an aspirin to get through the day.

As I exit the bathroom, the small dog is still sleeping and from this distance, the bones of his rib cage are extremely visible and a part of me wants to assure him that he won't be hungry now neither he would be forced to live with other dogs in the shelter, but I shake off any emotions and start getting ready for the day.

The drive to the clinic is easy and the I fed the puppy beforehand so he wont make the car ride difficult for me and to my luck he hasn't barked a lot other than his whining about something that I don't understand.

I feel confident about my plan still I am a bit hesitant to face her and I have still not figured out the reason behind it. Her presence makes me feel something foreign, something alien, things churn around in my stomach and those emotions overpower me in a way that I can't control my mind.

One last glance in the mirror and I exit the car with the puppy and walk over to the clinic and the board reads Dr Raavi Singhania and in parenthesis there are lots of degrees, how has she studied so much she doesn't look that old I ask to myself, shrugging all the useless thoughts I open the glass door.

After giving all the details about him and the contact details I wait in the examination room for her, they already told me to wait for 5 minutes as she was attending another of her patients, So I settled him on a seat next to me because the thought of keeping him on the floor doesn't fits with me very well and he is cozily sleeping on this small arrangement.

"Hello there" her voice interacts with me before my eyes could register her presence in the room and I standup for the greeting, but I am unable to break the eye contact I have established with Raavi, her brown eyes are looking into mine and I hold her gaze for longer than a patient - doctor courtesy.

Her little smile and a small command to get the puppy on the table puts full stop to whatever gaze holding condition we were dancing into, and I am glad. "So, he is a rescue?" She asks despite knowing his background because as a doctor she must have read his details and now hundreds of questions bubble through my mind, is she trying to make a conversation with me? Was she staring at me intently? are the ones winning the race.

"Um, yes " I answer with a pause, but her focus has been diverted away from my answer towards the puppy, "Is he showing any specific symptoms apart from the regular checkup?" She asks with a laser focus.

"Since I have got him, he is sleeping and eating a lot, I don't have a lot of experience with dogs but yes that's the two things he is doing a lot. " 

She performs an x-ray on him with great care and empathy and the puppy is happy in her embrace not fidgeting nor trying to run away," Have you named him yet?" She asks while checking his dentation.

"Umm, no Dint really get around that part of having a pet" I reply looking at her, "Don't worry the name will come around" she says calmly.

After few more checks she hands the puppy back to me and writes a prescription letter with at-most focus, trying not to miss anything from her diagnosis, "I have written down some tonics and medicines for his general health and also have scheduled him for his vaccination course which will run for three months, so try to be on time" As soon as she hands me the letter our finger brushes and she looks up to me and locks her eyes with mine and the foreign feeling which I felt when I stalked her emerges from my navel and travels throughout my body.

But an incoming call on her phone breaks our graze and she excuses herself out of the room and finally I feel free to be able to breath, I dint even knew I was holding my breath until she left.