Together Forever

Chapter 22: Flowers wither yet grow

As soon as the school was over, Sanskaar without waiting any time directly went to his house to keep his bag and after informing his grandmother, he started his way to the hospital where Swara was admitted not before dropping by the floristry.

Sanskaar almost pulled out all his favourite flowers hoping she would like it too. No flower was the same, everything was different - the size, the colour and the type. It was just a bunch of different yet beautiful flowers tied together and in his words, It was just a mess yet a beautiful one! He also attached a small card, wishing her a quick heal.

Swara with all her efforts finally managed to sit up on her own after a nap, of course it was due to the medical drugs that made her drowsy all the time. The entire day was very boring for her and she felt like an extended holiday since she didn't attend the school. Jay had took an off to be with her and give her company. Her train of thoughts were disturbed when she heard a knock on the door and it opened.

"Sanskaar!!!" Swara's face lit up and she beamed happily as she saw him. She was very bored of sitting in the hospital bed but thankfully her medicines worked up time to time that she was mostly asleep and she annoyed Jay whenever she woke up.

Sanskaar smiled as he sat on the stool, next to her.

"You are a sprinter, aren't you?" Swara's smile automatically dropped down into a frown when she heard him ask such a question.

"Is this the question you ask to a patient? No 'How are you? Are you fine?' nothing?" Swara chided at him, narrowing her eyes.

"Oh.. you look much better than the way you looked in the morning when you fell on me. So why ask the same question asked by all?" Sanskaar shrugged his shoulders as if he doesn't care. He would never be able to get over the picture of how he saw her in the morning, in seconds she turned pale as snow while blood dripped down through her palm. Moreover asking the same question everyone asks would make anyone feel annoyed and so he asked something else.

"Wait! I fell on you?" Swara was surprised. She didn't know anything after her brother called out her name, Jay pointed out her blood dripping palm and she seeing it, that's all she remembered and every other things went in a blur.

"You don't remember? You did but by then you were already unconscious." Sanskaar reasoned, "You didn't answer my first question though." He reminded her to which he received a glare.

"That I am. It was boring to get first and second in every activity and so I don't run. Being a winner everytime is too tiring and if I continue to be so then I'll forget how it is when I loose." Sanskaar shook his head slightly. He was amused everytime, be it her words or actions, everything did.

"Oh flowers!" Swara exclaimed as she noticed the bright flowers lying on his lap. Sanskaar slapped his forehead for forgetting that he brought them for her but when he entered the hospital, all he wanted to see if she was doing fine and totally forgot about the bouquet. He quickly forwarded the flowers while Swara took them a little hesitant.

"By the way why did you bring flowers?" Swara asked and Sanskaar was surprised by the question.

"Gifting flowers is a way to wish a person to have a speedy recovery and don't tell me that you don't like flowers?" He asked her impatiently as his eyes travelled to bouquet of flowers that was on her lap and then at her. 

"Mm.. it's not like I don't like them, I do! I like to see and admire of how they bud and bloom into colourful flowers amidst the hot sun, heavy rain and stormy nights but I don't prefer to have them for myself Sanskaar." Swara reasoned as she eyed at those vibrant flowers he got for her. 

"But why?" Sanskaar couldn't help himself but ask her the core reason. He knows she was someone who admires  every smallest thing she come across and the fact that she doesn't like having flowers for herself was surprising. Don't everyone likes to have flowers for themselves?