U And Me Will Always Be Together

Chapter 3

          Santhosh reached his destination, quite early not able to control his excitement. As he stepped inside KIMS, his joy knew no bounds.

Was his anxiety due to the fact that he had been accepted as an intern in KIMS or due to the fact that he had proved his father wrong. Only God knows that!

Santhosh remembered that day well when his father, kind of humiliated him saying that he could never make it to KIMS.

He had decided at that very moment, that he would prove his dad wrong.  And now he stood here, with an acceptance letter in his hand.

He closed his eyes for a moment and thanked Raji, who had been by his side in achieving his target.

Smiling to himself and eyeing all the beautiful nurses, he moved to the reception. "Excuse me" he said to get the attention of the nurse at the reception.

The nurse glanced at him, while he striked his dimpled smile to her. He was quite sure that the young nurse was bowled with his charm and he enjoyed the moment.

"Ahem" he distracted the nurse from her trance "Hie beautiful. I am Santhosh , new intern. When is the orientation session?" While the young nurse took her time to compose herself from blushing, he scanned the corridor for any familiar faces. But to his bad luck, there was none.

"Sorry Sir. The orientation session is delayed by an hour. It will be at 11 am in the conference hall. It is this way. You may wait there" the nurse said as she pointed to the direction of the room.

He looked at his watch. It's only 9.30 am. He thanked the nurse and went in the opposite direction of the room, indicated by the nurse to have a tour of the hospital, all by himself.
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Rishika kicked her bike, pep+, frustrated. It's her first day at KIMS and her bike had been giving her a good trouble.

She looked at her watch. It showed 9.45 am. 'God, only 15 min left for the orientation meet' she cursed her bike once again and thought to give in one last attempt.

"Baby!" she pleaded her bike folding her arms "I promise you, I'll never kick you again. I'll feed you with 'Extra mile Petrol' very frequently and will get you washed every week.

I'll drive you as gently as possible. Please. I beg you to start quickly." She prayed to God for one last time and pushed the start button of her bike.

As if the bike had ears to listen to her pleadings, it started off with a gentle jerk. Rishika thanked the bike and quickly got onto it and left for KIMS.
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Santhosh, after his brief tour of the hospital, went to the conference hall. It was all empty. He glanced at his watch. It's still 10.10 am.

He walked out of the room and headed to the parking lot as he remembered he forgot his certificates in his bike.

While walking towards the parking area, he noticed a girl with a red bike coming straight in his direction.

He stepped aside to save himself and shouted at the girl. She stopped her bike suddenly while he moved towards her.

"Sorry" she mouthed without looking up a she was struggling with something. He noticed that she had been trying to free her dupatta which had stuck in the handle of her bike.

He moved forward and helped her remove her dupatta. When he was done, he stepped back and looked at her face.

"Than…." Her voice trailed off as she looked at him. Her eyes widened in surprise and so were his.

"Basket!!" he said quite surprised to meet her. How could he forget her innocent face and she could recognize him even in her sleep after the trouble he had landed her in, with her father.