The grey canvas

📌Chapter 13- connected by hospital

Nitara:

Behind the shut doors of the I.C.U, laid an unconcious pale figure whose one mere sight drained away the life out of me.

Dev it was. His skin was flushed and his face, bloodless. He looked sick which he really was, infact his condition was pretty critical. He was down with acetaminophen poisoning!

Acetaminophen poisoining, a term as alien to me as much I was unaware of its complicacy. Adit explained it to me later on. He fluorished me with some points while I had the rest of my own and when I connected the dots together I discovered the actual story behind this crisis.

So the story goes like this-
The trio went to a nightclub last night where they filled their starving tummy with tequilla shots. Dev had vomitted on the way, but some alcohol was still left in his stomach. Then he reached home where he came across me, who instead of feeding him with something edible, got him engaged in completing the left out kiss from previous night. To our dismay, the kiss didn't stop beyond completion. Instead, it rolled on into a luscious love making session that turned all the equations away of our life upside down.
And as if it wasn't enough, when Dev woke up next morning, the first thing he did was to throw me out of his house. But as it is said, every action has got its after-effects, Dev got affected with guilt which added to his headache along with the ugly hangover he was already having. And as a remedy to these problems, he had to rely upon tylenol!

Tylenol is a medicine which doctors usually recommend for muscular cramps. It is a pretty strong medicine and having 2-3 pills in an empty stomach, combined with alcohol produced the dreadly effect of acetaminophen poisoining which resulted in this- the doctor was himself admitted to the hospital where he worked in!!

Was it too ironic? Maybe. Or maybe not. I found it foolish, absolutely foolish and stupid. Like being a doctor how could he do something like this? How could he not think about the consequences? ...... how could he not think about ME?

I was away from him. But was I really away?

I stood infront of the circular glass pannel curved on the door and kept staring at Dev. Streams of tears rushed down my cheeks everytime I batted my eyelashes. Those sticky, tired lashes still refused to retire. It was like if I missed his sight for a moment, he would just evaporate away.

And there he was lying peacefully on his bed, supported by a whole lot of medical equipments, breathing in through a mask with saline channels plugged in his skin. His peace, his carelessness hiked my irritation to its extreme limit. I so felt like slapping him left and right for having such a beauty sleep after scaring the shits out of me!

He never thought about me, even for once.

He was such a selfish giant!

Only that I still loved this giant, no matter how hard I tried to hate him...

"Di.."

A feeble voice called me and I turned back to find Ayan standing behind me.

Ayan was sleeping in the visitor's lounge when I came here. Adit told that the poor guy had been crying since morning and he dozzed off only few minutes ago being totally weared off.
His weariness got reflected in his tear stained face. That little boy was just our paying guest but he still had to suffer so much only becoz he was trapped in our complicated relationship! How I wish I could keep him away from this trap but it was already too late and the only option we had was dragging him him along with us.

"Di, you came to see bhai?" Ayan whispered in a choked voice and looked at me with his eyes sparkling in a strange happiness.

I nodded slowly and wipped my soggy eyes with my palms to have a better view of my little brother. He smiled as he came closed to me. His smile contaminated me in a moment. I smiled back and stretched my arms, to which he came in running and flung his arms around my neck, embracing me like a coccoon.
He trembled when I locked him in my arms and kept my palms on his back, only to assure him that everything was going to fine soon. He nodded in approval and tightened his clutches.