PART 5: Care to explain Dr.???
After few hours, khushi regained consciousness. As she opened her eyes, she noticed two pairs of eyes staring at her. And they belonged to the father and son duo. Muskaan, who was looking at khushi's chart, saw how khushi was becoming a bit uncomfortable. "Will you guys please stop staring at her like that?!" she said. Arnav looked at khushi, he didn't know why, but he wanted to ask her something. And he did too. "Are you ok?!" he whispered. Khushi's cheeks flushed with a colour of soft pink and she looked up to him with her big saucer like eyes. "Arn'.arnav'arnavjii'." and she swooned, this time again in her husband's arms.
Muskaan heard it. "Did she just call...him???" she thought. She expected a shocked arnav too but as she turned around , she saw him talking over the phone. He had gently kept khushi on the bed and was talking to rohit on phone. "Muskaan i need to go...i have a conference call right now...see a laters...bye...!!!!" he flashed a smile and went away. But little did he know that now his past and present are going to collide with each other, destroying something of each of them. Muskaan turned nervously to khushi..."IM IN A BIGGG TROUBLE..." she huffed. The little boy had already dozed off to sleep beside his mother.
AFTER SOME HOURS...
Khushi wakes up with a jolt. She scans the room. "Where am i...???" she thought. She looked at the saline bottle attached to wrist. But before she see more, she saw the door crack open. Muskaan entered the room..."Dont worry...i have informed your family...they are on thier way...!!!!" she smiled. But khushi couldn't control her anger and hatred for this women. The women who had snatched away her arnavji from him. She got up from the bed and went towards her. Muskaan was startled to see this. "Umm...mrs. Raizada you should rest..." but before she could finish, she saw khushi's hand rising...to slap her.
But muskaan stopped her hand middway. "Dont you dare touch me...and why the hell do you want to slap me anyways...???" she asked furiously. But before khushi could say anything, anjali entered and hugged khushi. "Khushi are you ok??? Arnav kaha hain???" she asked and khushi pointed towards a snoring arnav. "He is so cute!!!!" anjali squealed. "Ya...just like his father right???" muskaan asked sarcastically, her gaze not leaving khushi. "What do you mean beta???" asked a tired nani who entered with mami and NK.
NK was shocked to see muskaan. "She is still alive...???" he thought. "But how...???"
"Ok i need to clear up a huge mess...!!!!!!" exclaimed muskaan. "What mess??? and why did you call the whole family here???" asked a worried anjali. "Well...you do owe us an explanation..." whispered khushi who talked for the first time after she regained concsiousness. Everybody was confused but muskaan really wanted to clarify everything before she could start further treatment of arnav.
"Your husband...that is Arnav is still...ALIVE!!!!!!!" she revealed. She waited for the family to blast at her but to her dismay...they were too shocked or maybe horrified to hear that. "What did you say???" whispered anjali. "I...i said...that...that arnav is...s...still alive..." stammered muskaan. Everybody turned towards khushi for her reaction but hearing this she cried even more...
"Where is he...how is he...why didn't he..." anjali couldnt continue as she too broke down. Khushi went near muskaan and shock her hard by her shoulders. "Why didn't you let him meet or contact us...but the doctors said that...he was dead then how...???" she sobbed harder. Muskaan was now frustrated and irritated. "How dare you??? You were the people who threw that innocent soul out of the house...you people are responsible for this...i dont think i owe you any explanations...but you people do owe him one!!!!!!" she huffed. "What the hell are you saying...why are you saying..." Now muskaan screamed. "Will you people just shut up and let me speak...im his doctor for god sake!!!!!!!". And everybody looked up at him.
"He didn't come to you people becoz...he..." she stammered. "Becoz what damnit?!" screamed NK. "becoz he doesn't remember you all...he is having an amnesia...a post-traumatic amnesia..." she revealed. Khushi fell back on the bed and anjali stumbled. "What???" asked nani. "Naniji...it means that arnav doesnt remember you people at all...his memory is blank before these five years!!!" she stated. The room was now filled with silence. "I think i should give them some time to think..." muskaan thought and she was about to go when NK grabbed her wrist..."Why didn't you tell me..." he asked. She glared up at him.
"Stop thinking you are a part of my life...and why do expect me to call you up and tell everything about my damn life when i had specifically broken all my damn ties with you long ago...?!" she said acidly, her voice devoid of any emeotion and went away.
AFTER HALF AN HOUR...
Muskaan returned to her cabin and saw everybody still blank. She came up to anjali and placed her hand gently on anjali's shoulder. She got up and looked at her, her eyes brimming with tears and hope. "I...i dont understand...why did the doctors..." she cried and hugged muskaan. "I will tell you everything but right now...plz have some water..." and she gave her a glass of water and made her sit on the couch. Muskaan didn't sit. She was about to start when a call came...
Her landline was on speaker and she didn't check the number..."hello???" she said. "Muskaan..." arnav said on the other side. She became alert. As she saw everybody walking over to the phone she signalled everybody to keep quite. "Ya arnav...what is it???" she asked sweetly. "Ummm...just called to say that...have something for lunch...dont starve becoz i wont be able to come today for lunch ok...!!!!" he said and cut the call. Everyone was now highly pissed, especially khushi. "will you speak up...for heaven's sake???" she hissed acidly...
"Ok...this started with me being an intern...i was sent to this hospital from new york...just 2 days before i found arnav in the OR...in that dreadful condition..." she said. The whole family was listening carefully. "That night...i was looking for my frend who is a doctor now...he was working on arnav's case...i entered the OR but i saw that the patient...that is arnav was having irregular heartbeats...something which not a good sign...espeacially if the patient is in the OR...as i moved towards the patient i could see his fingers moving a bit...but his heartbeat was lost...they were announcing him dead but i took his responsilbility..." she huffed. "But then...why did the doctors say that..." muskaan didn't let anjali finish as she said "Wait...im coming to that..."
"The doctors went away...leaving me with the nurses...these doctors came up to you and told you that he was dead...you all rushed inside the OR and literally pushed me aside and were trying to wake him up...his body was responding a bit but i think...at that time...khushi collapsed and it was another problem...so when you people went away with him i gave him shock treatment to recover his heartbeat...and i did it..." she said. Anjali and khushi were just staring at her blankly and nani and mami were still crying. Whereas NK was curious to know what happened next.
"As he regained his heartbeart...i started his surgery...i was a trainee neaurosurgeon and i did my second operation quite successfully...but as i was a about to call you people i saw you all were gone...then a man approached me..." she said suspiciously. "Acha...who told you that...we threw arnav out of the house...???" asked mami. "That man!!!!" she said. "Which man???" asked anjali...Muskaan tried to remember the name and she did. "ummm...it something...um...oh ya...shyam...shyam jha!!!!!!!" she said. Everybody stilled. "THAT A**HOLE!!!!" screamed anjali...and muskaan was surprised to see this reaction. She got up. "Now tell me...why the hell did you people disown him???" she asked.
"How could believe such a random dude anyways???" asked NK. "Excuse me...but i had to go to australia that very night day he said that since he was the son-in-law of your house so i have the permission to take him away,...and he signed the papers..." she said as a matter of factly. "And i took him with me...even though he was in coma for some 10 to 11 months!!!!!" she added and everyone squirmed. "what???"
"Yes...i dont know whar happened in the accident sight but...his brain and spinal cord was damaged badly...so since australia had better equipments...we flew there...!!!!!!" she said. "But why doesnt he still remember anything???" asked khushi. "Thats becoz first , his recovery chances are just 46% to 59% which makes my job a lot more difficult...and second..." she stops. "And second what???" screamed khushi. Muskaan looked up to her eyes. "Second is that he does not want to remember anything...which make my job...next to impossible...!!!!!!!" she concluded and yet again silence filled the room. With some sniffs and sobbes...
"And it took arnav nearly 4 to 6 months to recover from coma and paralysis...!!!!!" she added. "Enough...we dont want hear anymore...just hand him over to me...now!!!!!!!" screamed khushi. "Im so sorry...Mrs. Raizada...but i cant...!!!!!!!" she said. "What?? Why??? Im his wife!!!!!!" she exclaimed. "yes...a wife, a family he doesn't even recognise...if i hand him over to you now...things might get even more complicated...plz try to understand!!!!!" she held khushi's hand and reassured that everything will be fine...as she had a plan!!!
"What plan???" exclaimed NK.
"A plan which might help him recover quickly!!!!!!!" she smiled at khushi...avoiding NK!!!!
On the other hand , arnav was still restless about khushi. "who was she??? and why am i thinking about her??? should i ask muskaan about her...??" he picks up the to call but only manages to talk about thier lunch. "Damnit Arnav Singh Rathore...you are nervous...that to for a stranger???" he thinks and walks up to his bed and tries to sleep...
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