Tears In Heaven

SHORT FOUR

After a ten minutes drive the hospital building started coming into view. He felt his body getting drained of energy. All this while what he did was just praying that he might not get late. He pushed the door and stumbling, bumping, getting bruises he got his way to her room hurriedly. 

Without listening to any words,he entered her room. As usual she looked with her weight lost during these months. The life support machine still attached to her. He took his usual seat. "Main aa gaya Gauri" he whispered like he did everyday. He started talking to her, telling about all that happened in his day. "You know what..." he stopped. "Tum pehle uth jaao, abhi bhi bohot kuch batana hai tumhe" he held her cold hands in his.

"Excuse me sir the nurse called him. "The doctor wants to talk to you she said as he nodded his head in agreement. "Main abhi aaya" he gently placed her hands on the bed and started moving out.

"Mr Oberoi, Mrs Oberoi cannot continue like this. Her body is getting weaker every single day. She is very tired. You have to understand that the possibility of her getting up is just 1%. Besides her organs may also stop functioning. I don't think other than the life support she could even survive like this for much time. I think we should pull..."

He cuts him off. He knew exactly what he wanted to say.

"So in other words you are telling me that letting her die is the best option" he said trying not to shout. "Yes... I mean no.. I mean.." the doctor stumbled looking straight into his eyes. "That girl must be a normal patient for you. Par meri biwi hai voh" he said coldly.

Shivaay, Annika and Pinky were also there with him in the room.

"Shayad yehi sabse achcha hai" Pinky voiced her thoughts.

Omkara's eyes snapped to her. This woman was actually telling the doctor to kill his wife.

"Sabse achcha hai? Do you even know anything about her. You never treated her as family and now you are saying that it is the best to let her die ?"

She stared at him in shock while Shivaay and Annika were surprised by his sudden response.

"That woman there is some one jisse main beintehaan pyaar karta hun. She is someone jisse mujhe jine ki wajah mili hai. No one in this bloody room has a right to make a decision apart from me. Voh meri biwi hai and she is my responsibility. So don't say such insensitive things. I am already at my wits end for God's sake" he shouted and slammed his hand on the desk before moving out.

"Par sachchai se kab tak bhagoge Om? It's not even a chance that she would survive ... What is even the matter to keep here here and worry?" Pinky said, a minute after she recovered from the shock

"Sachchai? kis sachchai ki baat kar rahin hain choti maa? Voh jo wahan pichle paanch mahine se maut se ladke abhi tak saansein le rahi hai naa? Wahi hai meri sachchai ... Meri sachchai yeh hai ki main uska saath nahi chod sakta, tab jab she needs me the most. She is the one who stood there with me when none of you even cared of how I was struggling, not wanting to marry Swetlana, she came back even though I had insulted her soo much, she stayed because I asked her even though I had failed to give her the place she deserved, yeh hai meri sachchai"

"Om-" Shivaay interrupted, but he didn't listen

"Jaanti hain choti maa, pyaar logon ke jeene ki wajah hota hai, par mera pyar mere vajood ki wajah hai. Main haar chuka tha, thak chuka tha, toot chuka tha; phir ek din voh aayi, jaise ek naya vishwaas leke. Mere bharose ko, mere dil ko, meri saason ko sahara diya hai usne.

Meri prerna hai voh choti maa, mere jine ki wajah hai, meri biwi hai, mera aadha hissa hai; ab aap bataiye, kaise jaane dun main usko? Kaise chod doon jab voh shayad kisi andhere se nikalne ki koshish mein hogi? Kaise jaane doon choti maa? Kaise?" he was about to fall when Pinky held him