Elysian

sickness

Aditi.

We sat in car and he started driving, I looked at him as he asked "what?" Without even looking at me. I looked down as I said "nothing!".
"you had lunch?" He was cold ice while saying that. I've just opened my mouth to say something he interrupted "no you didn't!" I looked at him as I said "yeah, but I'll have something I reach home." He nodded. We didn't talked the whole way.
He stopped his car in front of my apartment, I put out my seatbelt knowing that I couldn't walk. I exhaled and went out of the car, I turned towards the apartment as he stopped me, "call me if you need something!", I didn't knew how to answer this and again I chose to be rude, " do you think I would?" He shook his head in disappointment as he left.

I turned towards the apartment again and walked in, even my eyes weren't opened properly, I was still dizzy and WEAK, somehow, I came to my room struggling with my body, it was aching like hell. I closed the door and lay down on my bed, and somehow I slept.

Raghav.

I had left her there in my pride, but I was worried about her. My guilt, anger and tension forced mye to speed up the car, I stopped my car as my head rested on steering wheel for a while. Then my eyes fell on the medicines which were kept on the back seat, "Abe yar!" While exclaiming this, I took a u turn.
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Aditi

"Listen, don't you trust me?" An 17 years boy asked while the girl who was her almost same age as the boy answered "y-yes, yes.. but-"
"If you trust me then there are no buts and ifs." And came closer to her....
"huh-" I stood up as I gasped, and gulped, "bad dream." I wispered My face was all covered with sweat, tear dropped from my eyes as soon as I realised it, I was in a shock and the bell rings, I immediately moved my head towards the gate and the bell rangs again, I exhaled as I stood up to opened the door, and was about fell down, afterall, I'm a brown girl with low iron.
Somehow I managed and opened the door, it was Raghav. He was panting as dogs do.
"Hehhyee.." continued gasping.
"Why I'm seeing you here?"
"Voh actually" he panted, "I (gasped) forgot to give you the meds." And gasped again while giving me the meds. I took meds from his hand as I exclaimed, "oh!" He gasped and smiled in the answer, I we looked at each other and he's still gasping, he broke the eye contact and asked "why are you sweating like that?"
I went nervous as I answered "nothing it was just a minor electricity  cutoff, do you need water by the way" although I was struggling standing but I can't show myself weak in front of him.
"No thanks" he said and noticed me staring at him in a damn strange way, but the truth is, I wasn't staring, I went zoned out because of my dream. He widened his eyes as he raised his brows in interrogation which brings me out from my thoughts, "u-uh, come in, I give you water." I walked in the fastest way I could walk, "but I said n-, okay."

As soon as I reached the kitchen, I layed my body on the left wall of the kitchen and been like that for a while, this was all happening because I was lacking energy. Somehow I gathered courage and stood straight, as soon as I stood up, I inhaled and until I regain my composure, I fell down, RIDICULOUSLY.

Raghav.

I came in as saw the situation of her room, MESS. I sighed and sat on the chair, I looked towards the lane of the kitchen, "pani lane gyi hai banane gyi hai."I murmured.

I heard something falling heavy, I sighed then I realised that something's wrong, I ran towards the kitchen. I reached at the gate as I saw Aditi was spread like water. I took her in my arms. Those seconds were the slowest seconds on earth (for me atleast). I lay down her on her bed, and touched his forehead, she was boiling.

Aditi.

I opened my eyes and took a look around, everything was clean, I realised I fainted again. I screwed up, like how can someone could faint twice a day, and coincidently the same man was there, but I didn't had enough energy show that anger. I saw Raghav cleaning something, I guess it was my study table, realising that there's a wet cloth on my forehead and a thermometer near my hand, I saw the temperature, it was fucking 102°, I moved my eyes from that bitch thermometer as it was giving me chills as the cloth on my forehead drawed my attention towards it, I removed that cloth from head and stared at it, I squinted.

"Hey hey hey!" Why did he said this word thrice? Idk, don't ask me. I looked at him as he snatched that wet cloth from me and put it in the bowl of water.
"How are you feeling now?" While saying that, he continued squeezing that cloth, I gulped twice as I had no energy to talk. He put that white cloth on my head.
"What's this." I said it in my low voice.
"What??"
"Why are you putting this wet cloth on my forehead?"
"I had no choice, you fainted as you were boiling."
"Ye karne se bukhar utar jayega?"
"Badhega nahi!" And we heard a sound of whistle of cooker.
"Ye-"
"Wait." He went to the kitchen and maybe turned off the stove.

He came out after 15 minutes with some hot khichdi in the bowl. HELLLL!! THE SMELL WAS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!. I knew I was Hungry. He came to me.

"Have this." I squinted. He knew how to cook?? This Statement wasn't digestible, so I asked him, "you cook?"
"Yes I do, I like cooking, even, I don't even like law, I'm doing it because of my dad. Merko toh hotel management  karna hai." He smiled.

But Raghav I didn't asked for it. I just asked that you cook or not. But okay, this information isn't useful to me. I stared at him as I nodded.

"Well, you just have this." He gave me the bowl.
"Why are you doing this ?" I asked him because I felt strange, I mean, no one in the world had ever took care of me like this.
"Cause I'm a nice person" I said nothing as the other second he murmured "unlike you, chidokli." I heard it but I pretended I didn't.
"What?" I asked him.
"What?" His answer was interrogative. I said nothing.

I started having khichdi as he was talking nonsense whole session, even my stares didn't worked. I don't know what he was talking about, but at that moment, I really wanted to slap him, doesn't matter how much, how much he helped me.