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chapter 10

  THANK YOU FOR THE SUPER AMAZING SUPPORT ONCE AGAIN. HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS CHAPTER AS WELL. APART OF ISHU'S PAST GETS REVEALED IN THIS CHAPTER I THOUGHT IT WAS TIME I DEALT WITH THAT A LITTLE BIT. SO HOPE YOU ENJOY IT. 

CHAPTER TEN

'Well first of all I would like to thank for coming to this event this year it really means a lot to me and my family. I will not take a lot of time because I know how everyone wants to go party and have fun so I am going to try to keep this brief.'' Said Mr. Iyer

Ishita watched her father on the podium talking and was quite surprised because he never gave speeches at these functions. It was always her mother who did and so when she saw her dad up there she knew something big was about to happen.

'Can I ask my three older children Ishita, Mihika and Jai to please join me on stage.'' He added

Ishita turned to Mihika as she got up and asked

'What is this all about?''

But Mihika just shrugged her shoulders as if to say she didn't know. When they all finally made it up to the podium there father continued

' I never really had a dream to start and orphanage until some years 16 years ago. My wife and I had been trying for years to have children and we had tried everything. IVF, trial drugs you name it but still nothing worked. We decided to just leave it to God's plans and we figured he will grant us what we wished in his own time. My wife and I left Delhi and we settled here in Mumbai after I was transferred and my wife bless her heart loves to help people and so when we moved she decided, I mean we decided to sign up for this volunteer work at Mumbai General Hospital. And it is here that our lives changed.'' Said an emotional Mr. Iyer

The room was so quite that one would hear a pin drop. Mrs. Iyer held her husband's hand and understood this was going to be hard for him to talk about so she thought it as better she continued while her husband composed himself.

'I had been working at the hospital for about 6 months when these 2 girls and this little boy came into the hospital. One of them was beaten so badly that she could barely stand or breathe. She had this stab wound and she was bleeding a lot. They looked like they had had a long night. Mihika was crying so hard for someone to help but the hospital wouldn't do anything because as hospital protocol treatment for such grave injuries was not to be administered to a child without parents consent or police report.'' Said now am emotional Mrs. Iyer

'Mamma why ...?'' Asked Ishita with tears in her eyes tried to ask but Mihika held her hand and tried to calm her down. And Mihika ended up finishing the story

'Jai and I sat in the hospital corridor with Ishita as she was bleeding to death and couldn't do anything. I really thought my sister was going to die.'' Said Mihika with tears in her eyes

' Abhimanyu, he is not here at the moment, had gone to get the police report but it was taking too long and besides to be honest we didn't think anyone would believe us. Then out of the blue came Mrs. Iyer without even knowing who we were put us in her car and took us to another hospital.'' Added Mihika who by now was also in tears

Raman looked at Ishita and couldn't quite understand or process this information he was getting. Everyone in the room was emotional but Ishita had this expression on her face that was blank. She had tears in her eyes but her expression never revealed anything.

'We somehow managed to treat her and when she got discharged we took her home just so until we figured out where they belonged and who their parents were. To be honest after a year of being with them we never imagined that we would end up adopting them. Like many people we thought it would have been a lot of work I mean there was a traumatized 12 year old girl, an 8 year old boy who would barely talk and a very very damaged 14 year old girl. So when Ishita's health improved we figured we would take them to an orphanage and hope that they got the help they needed.'' Said a now composed Mr. Iyer. He then continued saying