Tears In Heaven

SHORT TWO

"Sir your wife met with a deadly accident. She is critical" and the phone from his hand dropped. After this as if everything went numb. He was not able to hear anything or any voice that surrounded him. The phone from his hand drop as he himself landed to the ground with a thud. He placed his palms on the ground as if providing him the support to access the information that he just received. 

"She is critical"

He hurriedly picked up his phone and started scrolling through the screen with shaking hands. Twenty missed calls and a voice message. He opened the message Gauri send around an hour. It read:

I am going to bring Bhavya's mother's watch because she can't. I will be back.

I will be back... But she said she will be back...

In other few seconds Shivaay and Rudra rushed to him with worry written all over their faces. Omkara was still not able to understand how to react.

"Om... Om... what happened?" Shivaay asked placing a hand on his cheek."O kya hua?" Rudra asked with the same tone. Still processing what happened he was not even able to speak. Shivaay snatched the phone and dialled the last call.

"Hello Shivaay Singh Oberoi here. Iss number pe aapka call aaya tha?... Main uska bhai hun... Kya... Kaise... haan hum abhi aa rahe hain" he hung up. 

"Bhaiya kya hua?" Rudra asked amidst all the confusion in his mind. "Gauri... Gauri kaa accident" Shivaay spoke in a whisper. "Kya?" Rudra wanted to confirm what he just hear "Gauri ka accident... She is critical..." This brought him back to reality.

"Mujhe jaana hoga Shivaay. Voh mera... Gauri.." Gauri he stuttered. "Tu akela nahi jaega. Main chalunga tere saath" Shivaay came to him. "Main bhi" Rudra joined.

They rushed out of the room but before they could cross the gates a voice stopped them "marna toh ACP ko tha... Bechari fizool mein bali chad gayi". Turning their heads they found Saumya and Veer standing with their hands crossed over their chest. "Kya matlab hai tumhara" Shivaay asked with a glare. 

"Yehi ki uss driver ko bola tha ki dulhan ko le jaaye. Par voh gadha Gauri ko le gaya. Arrey haan" she swapped her head to Omkara "voh bol raha tha ki voh bechari aapko kai baar phone kar rahi thi... Apne uthaya nahi?" she questioned with a mocking tone. 

"Areey busy hoga, dekha nahi bechara kal se apne kamre mein bhi nahi gaya" Veer too joined Saumya in the same tone. "Ohoo haan... Shaadi hai... Taiyyariyan hain... Par bhaiya" she turned to Veer with her one palm under her chin "yeh" she glanced to the three "ab bhi jaenge yaa nahi?" "Jaa rahe hain naa Saumya. Jaa rahe hain teeno dekho. Aaj iss ghar mein ek bahu aane waali thi ab dekho shayad ek ki arthi (dead body) aa rahi ho" Omkara's fist tighten as his head was shaking in anger. 

He moved to Veer as his fist landed on Veer's face. "Kahi nahi jaa rahi hai voh..." He shouted. "Ha..." Veer got up clearing the little amount of blood on the side of his lips "rok sako toh rok lo" he laughed.

"Om, iss waqt Gauri ko humari zyada zaroorat hai. Inse baad mein niptenge" Shivaay held Omkara's arm to stop him. "Haan O, abhi chalo" Rudra too joined. 

"Omkara chalo" Shivaay said as he started dragging Omkara with him. They went to the car as Shivaay started driving when Omkara was still in his trance.

After a long 20 minutes drive they reached the "city hospital" when without thinking Omkara pushed the door and ran towards the main door of the hospital. He almost bumped himself to the reception. "Ha...how can I help you sir?" the receptionist asked with a feared expression. "Gauri... Gauri..." he was only able to utter this. "Yes sir Gauri what?" she asked calmly.

Shivaay and Rudra joined in in few seconds. "We are Gauri Omkara Singh Oberoi's family. We were informed that she met with an accident" Shivaay spoke. "Wait sir let me check" she started typing something on her desktop "No sir there is no Gauri Omkara Singh Oberoi here" she informed as Shivaay sighed in disappointment. "But umm..." they stopped their moving feet as she held her chin up "sir we recently have a accident case"

The three brothers turned around "sir recently there is a woman in her twenties is admitted. She had a car accident she told. "Where... where is she" Omkara asked hurriedly. "The OT.. take your right" she signaled towards a pathway. Omkara, Shivaay and Rudra rushed to the path as all the three were rotating their eyes to find her somewhere.

They finally reached the OT as a ward boy came out. "How is she?" Omkara asked. "We are her family" Shivaay answered seeing the ward boy confused. "She is still critical. Rest only the doctors can tell you" he answered.

"I.. I need to see her..." he murmured "I need to see her" he said heading up. "No sir, it's against the rules" the ward boy informed. "To hell with your rules, I need to see her and that is it" he brought her hands up to push the door. "No sir, we can't... please understand" the ward boy said again. 

"I said let me in... let me in damnit... She is my wife.. I need to see my wife" he punched the door once more before few hands held him back.

"I need to see Gauri. You don't understand... you don't know what have I done" he shouted and shouted. 

"Omkara calm down... they cannot let you in and you know that" Shivaay placed a hand on his shoulders. "Sab meri galti hai Shivaay. I wasn't there for her. Main haar gaya Shivaay. I don't even know how she is" he hugged Shivaay and started crying after the other men left him. "Teri galati nahi hai Om... voh toh bas"" Shivaay didn't knew how to continue...

He left Shivaay as they thought that Omkara calmed down. But he was not. He felt defeated. The kind of feeling that you lost something precious and you cannot do anything to retrieve it. He was not able to hear anything. Shivaay and Rudra kept telling him soothing words but he had no attention to it.

He cried and cried until there were no tears left. He used them all. Being a man who was more emotional than his brothers he had cried many times but none were of the fear that maybe he could not do anything. All he thought was that at this time he was ready to give everything of him, his name, money, fame... Everything but not her... not at all her.

A tap he felt on his shoulders as he saw Rudra signaling that the doctors were out. He tried to get up but stumbled when Rudra helped him.

"How is she?" he asked rushing towards the OT gate. "You are?" doctors asked. "Her husband" he answered.

"Sir, your wife is alive but she had a very heavy bleeding leading to injuries on many parts of her body. Also she has a head trauma from the accident..." he hesitated but continued looking at curious faces. "She is in coma and we had to put her on life support" he completed.

"Li... life support..." he stumbled in his words. "Doctor any thing that we... we can do?" Shivaay asked him. The doctor looked at Omkara who already had wet cheeks "pray for the best and be prepared for the worst" he tapped Om's shoulders and went with the other doctors.

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