Destined

chapter 12: and i met him

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*Ruby*

I was still wondering who would send me the envelope, I haven't given the address even to my parents, with that confusing thoughts I opened the envelope, inside there was a card, somehow I knew what it was even before looking at it,

My stomach started churning its contents, I could taste the bile, the feeling of dread consumed me, I wanted to burn it like the memories I did, I wanted to destroy it like my happiness,

But something in me compelled me to open it, and I did open it with my hands trembling, my heart thudding, and my eyes tearing,

Yes, it was a wedding invitation card, of Mudassar and Sofia, they were marrying. How could he do that to me, I always knew this day was going to come , but I never expected it to be so soon,

In one month they will be married, I felt shattered, no amount of time helped me, I still felt the same agony which I had felt on that day,

At the back of the card, he had written something, I knew his handwriting like the back of my hand, so many of my records were filled with his handwriting during school, so many letters we had written in the class,

"Ruby, I am sorry I hurt you,
I know you are upset with me,
But I want my best friend to be there at my wedding.
Please come baby
I miss you so much."

_Mudassar

How dare he? How could he ask me to do this? Didn't he hurt me enough? Does my emotions and pain means so less to him? How can he be so selfish? How can he still call me his best friend? I am nothing to him?
How can he lie to me again and again?

I felt betrayed, whatever little hope I had of him and me died then and there, I finally understood we are never going to be together again, I so wanted to get over him,
But I didn't know how,

That night i again had nightmares,  whole night i was tossing and turning in the bed, waiting for the brightness of sun to shine on my life, to mark it as a new day,

The next morning was what I call the worst mornings, I missed my coffee, as I was getting late for the hospital, had a killer headache courtesy of my sleepless nights, to make my day worst I had to work under Dr. Dhyan for a whole week.

Let me tell you that would be the most cruelest torture one could face, Dr. Dhyan is one of the most reputed psychiatrist but he is an incarnation of Hitler, and I am not exaggerating,

He had no compassion/humanity/ tolerance towards people , I still don't know how he councelled his patients, he hated every one and every thing in the world,

My collogues wished me luck, o entered his chamber reciting all the prayers I learnt and asked Almighty to give patience to deal with this satan's pawn.

As soon as I entered the room, first thing I heard was

"YOU ARE THREE MINUTES LATE, I DON'T TOLERATE TARDINESS DR. RUBY, YOU ARE HERE TO LEARN, EVERY MINUTE OF A DOCTOR IS IMPORTANT AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT YOU CAN LEAVE MY UNIT AND NOT SHOW YOUR FACE AGAIN"

See I told you he is pure evil right, I wasn't kidding.

"I am sorry sir, I just came from the office, just now they changed our posts, and assigned me here"

"STOP MAKING EXCUSES, AND TRY TO ACCEPT YOUR MISTAKE WHEN YOU ARE AT FAULT HERE, I KNOW PEOPLE LIKE YOU, AND I DEFINITELY KNOW HOW TO DISCIPLINE YOU, SO LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY GO TO THE COUNTER AND ASK NURSE JULIA, TO GIVE THE LIST OF I.P.D PATIENTS WHO NEED COUNSELLING, AND GET IT HERE IN FIVE MINUTES"

I didn't even bother replying him, I darted out of his chamber, and sighed, I knew I had no time I had go to the ground floor, where as psychology unit was in 4th floor, actually this is the work of attender, but Dr.Dhyan made us do all the work here,

When I met nurse Julia, she gave me the files of the patients I needed, there were six of them, and I could see everyone giving me pitiful expression, and this time I actually felt glad to see their pity,

I went back and handed him the files barely in time, thank the almighty he didn't say anything, he just asked me to read the cases

Case no. 1 a girl aged about 16, tried to kill herself by drinking phenol, her reason was her parents disapproved her affair with her lover.

Case no.2 was about a patient complaining of sleeplessness since two months,

Case no. 3&4, were about anxiety nuerosis

Case no.5 was about OCD

And case no.6 was a little intriguing, history says, patient was drunk and driving and met with an accident, he was aged about 31yrs, suffered multiple commuted fractures of RT. Tibia and fibula, grade 3 ligament injury of left knee, fracture and dislocation of RT. Clavicle, multiple fracture of both the nasal bones, with active bleeding continued even after surgery,

What I didn't understand is why would they refer this case to our unit, there was no history of suicide attempt/ depression.

I was so into that case I didn't see Dr. Dhyan was already up and leaving the cabin, when I tried to follow him he stopped me and said,

"Well Dr. Ruby, since you look so interested in that case I will do a favour and ask you to handle that case, he is going to stay here for another one month, so I will let you handle him, every week you should show me the progress reports and at the end of this month I will judge you.
Oh and I forgot to mention this case will be into your thesis study, and you get max. Marks  from this case so good luck"

I was very relieved to hear that, I mean all I had to was one case then I would get passing marks for my thesis work, it won't be so bad right??

That gave me a little bit of happiness, so I took the file and went to his ward, I was shocked to learn he was admitted in VIP wards,

As soon as I reached his room, I knocked thrice on his door, when I didn't here any reply from inside I asked the nurse who was accompanying me for the session to open the door,

When I got in I saw he was sitting on his bed facing towards the window and looking at the sky, I cleared my throat with an attempt to gain his attention , but it didn't work,

So I said,

"Hello, I am Dr. Ruby, and I am a psychiatrist  today will be our first...

"GET OUT!!"

_Rebelridz

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