Heal Me

Scars That Don't Fade (10)

He cursed under his breath and without waiting anymore starts breaking the door. His hands hurt and one of them started bleeding but he didn't care. The door finally broke and he entered inside, looking around he found Khushi's figure lying inside the shower cubicle. He screamed her name and opened the glass door only to be left paralyzed. There Khushi was lying with both her wrists slit and blood flowing with water.

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Arnav looks at the red light above the operation theatre, feeling blank. He don't know how he managed to bring Khushi to hospital with the help of Akash, how he managed to hold her with all the blood surrounding her. Her blood, his eyes moved to look at his hands and he shivered looking at his hands covered in blood and his his clothes were also stained.

He looks around the hospital, some people were crying, some praying and some just plainly worried for their loved ones. He just wants to run away, the smell around him, making him feel nauseous but the only reason holding him back is the woman inside that room. He looked at Anjali and Lavanya who were crying, sitting on a bench and Akash who was pacing outside the door, they left worried elders at home only, promising to inform them everything.

He jumped on his heals as soon as he saw the red light turning off and was standing face to face with the doctor who just walked out from the door. "How is....." He gulped as he felt difficult to speak and cleared his throat before speaking again "How is Khushi? Can I meet her?"

Doctor looked at the messed up man, standing in front of him before looking at others behind him and with a tired sigh answered. "Fortunately, she was brought here on just right time, so she is out of danger. But she have lost lots of blood and her body is already week. It'll take sometime for her to heal properly."

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Everyone sighed in relief and Arnav rushed to look at Khushi but was stopped by Doctor "We are shifting her to another room in sometime, after that you can meet her." Arnav wanted to argue but Akash held him back so he just nodded and doctor left after giving some more instructions.

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Arnav ignores the questions of Nani and Mami and rushed upstairs in his room and closed the door behind him. As soon as Khushi was shifted to another room, he had rushed there to meet her and the excruciating pain he felt inside him after seeing her, lying there lifelessly, her skin pale and needles pierced in her skin. He caressed her cheeks with his fingers and moves her hairs behind her ears. He sighed, feeling her breathing and closed his eyes in relief before running away from there. It was getting difficult for him to stay there anymore, to look at Khushi lying there almost lifelessly.

He closed his eyes as a tear slipped from the corner of his eyes and his knees gave away as he slumped down beside the bed.

"His sister glowing in happiness."

"He is teasing his Anjali Di."

"Anjali Di laughing with her friends and blushing with their teasings."

"He is walking to call his parents as Baraat (groom side) will be arriving anytime."

"He stopped just outside the room as he heard their parents arguing."

"A sudden sound of gun shot."

"He opened the door to see his mother shooting herself."

"Before he can understand anything, his father followed the footsteps of his mother."

"Khushi lying between the pool of her own blood."

A painful scream left his mouth as he keeps his hands on his ears to stop those noises, his eyes full with tears. Image of his mother lying in blood shifting to Khushi and he felt cold. His posture hunched like a defeated man as the nightmares of the past came back with full vengeance with fear of what could have happened today.

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Akash looked at Anjali and Lavanya who was resting in the sofa of the VIP room which has been allotted to Khushi and played with the phone in his hands. Many times he almost called Payal but stopped himself in time, Khushi is still unconscious and Arnav could have said or done something really bad. Also, he don't know if Khushi would want her around after how she asked Payal to leave.

He looked at his phone one more time before pocketing it with a sigh and mouthed a "sorry Payal ji" in air. He'll wait for Khushi to become conscious and will call Payal only if she wants. He knows Payal will be very hurt but this time Khushi needs their support, she needs to feel that there are people who respect her decisions, who respect her wishes.

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Arnav caressed the picture of his mother while tears flowed carelessly from his eyes. "I again failed, Maa. I took her responsibility in front of everyone. It was my responsibility to protect her from any type of harm but I failed, ....again. I should have been careful. I should have expected something like this from her. After all, don't we know how much it hurts when our family betrays us? When the people we love betray us?"

He shivered as Khushi's image with blood around her, keeps flashing in front of his eyes and he started speaking again. "Khushi, she is like you in many ways. Selfless, loving, caring and giving but I always thought of her as a fighter. I didn't know that all these events will break her and make her hopeless to this extent that she will try to end her life like you."

"Just say thank you to yours and Khushi's God from my side for today because if I would have failed today in saving her then I can't even imagine what I could have done. But, I don't know what to do now. How to handle everything from here. I need you Maa, please guide me, please."

Khushi felt difficult to meet anyone's eyes from the time she is awake and others are hovering around her, taking care of her like she is some porcelain doll which will break. She knew she took very coward step but how can she explain anyone that all she can found is darkness whenever she looks around and no one to hold her and support her in walking through this darkness.

Her eyes snapped towards Arnav who was just walked inside the room. She knew he is the one who saved her from ending this life of hers but from the time her eyes is opened she didn't get to see him, even for once.

Arnav looked at her once and she gasped inwardly looking at his red eyes and the torment behind them. Before she can analyze him more, he instantly looked away and walked towards Anjali to give her tiffin brought from home. Her eyes keeps following him as he did everything mechanically and may be avoiding her also, which got confirmed in next few days.

She don't know why but Arnav ignoring her twisted something inside her. The way he used to take care of her and hover around her for every little thing from last few days, now she realized that she liked that Arnav. But here, he didn't even asked her once that how is she feeling. Though her mind is telling that he is pissed that after he whatever he has done for her, she choose to take this step and is back to his ASR mode but she knows that is not true.

He is constantly keeping tabs on her health and making sure that someone is around her making sure she have her meals and medicines on time. She closed her eyes, feeling tired of jumbled thoughts and thought of talking with Arnav tomorrow after she will be discharged.

To be continued...............

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