It was a rainy day. Usually rain does washes away all the pain from everyone's life , but it never did for muskaan. She sat on the recliner and watched how the downpour was effecting the plants. Though she was busy with a patient's bio data , she was lost in the thoughts of the rain. "It rained then , and its raining now...but the difference..." she a voice say. She got up in horror to see NK standing in front of her. She looked away. "Aleayah...how much more do you need to hate me???" he whispered. "NK , i stopped fighting you some years ago...but that doesn't mean that i stopped hating you!!!!" she exclaimed. "Why do you hate me..." he asked , as he cornered her and trapped her near the wall.
"Aleayah...your eyes says the whole story do you know that?!" NK whispered near her ears. Muskaan gulped. She pushed him away with full force resulting NK to stagger. "Don't come near me..." she whispered. "Just forget the past please...you know we both were young then...and..." before he could continue , there was a knock on the door. It was Sid. "Umm...i'll come back later..." exclaimed Sid as he was about to go , but muskaan stopped him. "You don't need to go...and plus , i need to talk to you..." muskaan huffed. NK went out of the room dejectedly.
"What's with that guy and you...???" asked Sid. "Nothing!!" she squirmed. Sid understood that it was best to let go of that topic. "So...what did you want to talk about...??" he asked. "Sid...i want you tighten the security around the house...espcially the kid's and khushi's room..." she whispered. "Hmm...ok...i will call the police force by 4.a.m..." sid concluded. "But muskaan...don't you think that we are missing something..." asked sid. "Yes we are..." she huffed.
"Oh...by the way...here's your gun license...i renewed it..." he exclaimed and handed it over to her. He saw the files piled up on the desk. "Muskaan...are you joining the hospital from tomorrow...??" sid enwquired. "Yep..." she smiled. "Ok then...goodnight..." sid was about to go when suddenly muskaan caught hold of his hand. "Can you stay here with me...tonight...i will be leaving for the hospital by 4a.m...and..i need compa..." before she could finish , she felt sid's lips on hers. He kept on nibbling her lips and finally kissed her. As they broke the kiss , muskaan felt a bit uncomfortable , which didn't go unnoticed by sid. "Shit...what did i do?!" he muttered to himself.
Sid grabbed her hand and looked into her eyes. "I don't want to loose you...i can't afford to loose you muskaan..." he cried and hugged her. Muskaan too hugged her back. All this was watched by NK. He sighed sadly. "I lost her...forever..." he thought and went away to his room. After sometime , muskaan continued to study whereas , Sid was talking on phone with the police commissioner.
It was half past 3.a.m. Everyone was sound asleep. In arnav's room , where both the arnav's were sleeping , there was someone who could not sleep. It was arnav. He was having a dream. Or maybe a nightmare. He could hear the 'Cham Cham' of the payals and he could feel someone was running , he heard a woman scream "Chottey..." and then a boy's scream..."Maa..." and a gunshot..."Nooo!!!!" he screamed in his sleep and woke up. He was panting. Junior ASR got up in horror and saw him panting. He quickly jumped out of the bed , turned on the lights and brought arnav some water. "Thanks kid..." arnav whispered as he drank the water. "Are you ok ASR...???" he asked.
"Ya..im fine...go back to sleep...you have school tomorrow right..." huffed arnav. But junior was stubborn , he insisted to stay awake till arnav falls asleep.After sometime , junior fell asleep on arnav's lap. 'He is so cute...and very caring..." arnav thought , while he caressed his back and put him in a comfortable position over his pillow. "I need to talk to muskaan...now!!!" he mentally decided and went to her room. He knocked softly , because he didn't know that she was awake. Muskaan was talking to another doctor about her case and as she opened the door , she was shocked to see arnav , at that time. She looked at the clock. It was 3:45a.m. "Umm...doctor stewart i'll catch up with you later , bye...!!!" with this she disconnected her phone.
"Arnav...wha...what happened...you look...dishevelled...!!!!" she exclaimed. But arnav was stumbling and was about to fall when muskaan caught him. "What the...are you ok??!!!" she asked him. She got worried instantly as she saw sweat on his forehead and he looed paler than before."Come...sit here!!!" she made him sit on the bed. "Now tell me...what happened???" she asked. "I..i..had a nightmare..." arnav stammered. Muskaan didn't expect this to come so soon. She remembered how arnav used to have dreams about his accident and often used to get scared like this. "Its returning again..." she thought. She listened to each and everything arnav told her.
"So...you couldn't see anything...??" she asked. "Noo...no...i could only hear the voices..." he exclaimed sadly. "What type of a dream is this...i need to talk to Mrs.anjali about this..." she mentally promised herself. She gave his some medicines..."Shit...he might have a panic disorder...if this continues..." she thought. But he thoughts were interrupted by arnav's feeble voice. "Can i sleep here??? please..." he pleaded. Muskaan agreed as she knew that she had to keep an eye on arnav. She sat on the recliner and resumed her work , while arnav went and lied on the bed. He covered himself with the duvet and fell asleep instantly.
Muskaan went out by 5.a.m. in the morning. It was cool and she could see the rays of the sun , peeing in through the curtains. She smiled and looked up at a sleepy arnav. "Good morning..." she whispered and went away. As she was going , she bumped into naniji. "Oh...im so sorry naniji...im actually in a hurry..." she exclaimed herself. Nani smiled. "I know your going to the hospital , right...???" nani enquired. Muskaan was shocked. "But...aap ko kaise pata chala...(how did you know)??" she asked her. "NK bituya ne bataya..." nani told and checked muskaan's reaction. She saw how she scrunched her eyes and huffed. "Hmm...anjali bitiya was right...there is something between them..." she smiled inwardly.
Muskaan bed naniji goodbye and signalled anjali , who was not far , that she was gone. "Now...lets try this on NK!!!" smiled anjali. They saw that NK was coming down for the puja. "Hi...goodmorning!!!" he exclaimed but it was crystal clear to the two ladies , that he was looking for someone else. Because NK never wakes up before 10 o'clock...everyone knew that. Nani and anjali grinned as their plan had succeeded. "But nani...we have to bring them closer right...!!!!" whispered anjali , and at that time , nani came up with a plan. "This is awsome nani...!!!" exclaimed anjali and she hi-fived nani and smiled.
Khushi went up to muskaan's room to give to her breakfast. She didn't know that muskaan was already gone , and she found the door open. She stepped in and saw arnav sleeping peacefully. She was horrified , she was on the verge of tears. She didn't want to wake him so she went away from the room while covering her mouth , to stop her sobs. But the noise of her payal , woke arnav up. It was like music to his ears. When he got and sat properly , he saw that it was already 6 o'clock. As he was about to get off the bed , he saw a huge lump on the other side of the bed. "What the...what is that???" he thought and pushed it. It was Sid.
As sid opened his eyes , he expected to see muskaan , but what he saw instead made him scream in horror. "Ahh...rathore...what...what the hell are you doing in the bed...with me...!!!" he screamed. "Woah...control your emotions mr.Kapoor...im not...im not gay...!!!" arnav exclaimed as he was tremendously embarassed. Sid was furious. "Yaa...so when did i say that im gay??? how dare you sleep with me...!!!!" he screamed. Arnav was horrified.
"Excuse me...you slept with me..."
"No...you slept with me...i was here first..."
"Oh really...and what's the damn proof sid???"
"I don't need to show you any proof rathore...!!!!"
And by the time , they were starting to have their fistycups , the whole family entered. "What's with all this noise...??" asked anjali. Their eyes now focused on anjali. Both looked up with an apologetic face. "Sorry..." both said together , which again made them glare back at each other. They both got up and went to their respective rooms to have a shower. As arnav was going , he remembered that he hadn't seen khushi for a while , since yesterday. "Where could she be...maybe in the kitchen...but...why am i feeling so restless for her??" he questioned himself. Even if his conscious didn't know the reason , his subconscious knew it. The fact that khushi was upset.
"How could she...how could he???" she thought. The fact that muskaan and arnav slept together was killing him. "Devi mayyiya , am i becoming a hindrance between arnavji and muskaanji???" she asked and cried again. But she didn't know that she was misunderstanding the whole issue. She decided that she would talk to muskaan once she would be back home. She wiped her tears away and went down to see a police force standing in the corridor and sid was instructing them.
Sid had done as he was told by muskaan. They really needed to have greater security. Because the henchmen are really dangerous. On the other hand , muskaan had joined her work from today. "So...how did you like your case Dr.Bharadwaj???" asked the chief. "Chief...i respect your thoughts but i would like to continue with the patient..." huffed muskaan. The chief was shocked. "Dr.Bharadwaj , the patient is having an inoperable tumor..." the chief exclaimed. "Which...is spread through the whole spinal cord...and if i take it out...he can have paralysis...i know that sir...but i want to save the patient..." she exclaimed.
"Dr.Bharadwaj , i gave you this case so that you pass on a statement in the media about it since you are currently the top ranked doctor globally...and not to take up your own decisions..." with this , the chief went away. "No ways chief...im not gonna play with his life...i will save him...and that's promise..." she huffed and went to prepare for the operation. It would be the toughest surgery of her life after arnav's brain surgery. "Gale...what does the MRI scans show???" she asked on of her interns. "The tumor is spread all over his spinal cord..." gale concluded. "Which means we might need to cut down a portion of the spinal cord...which might result to paralysis!!!!" she exclaimed.
"Schedule a surgery for tomorrow...i need to look inside the thing before i come up with something..." she ordered her fellow interns who ran here and there to get the patient , that Amit , to the ICU.
At night , when muskaan was back home , she went up to the kitchen to grab something to eat only to be taunted by an angry , hurt khushi. "So...you slept with my husband right???" khushi asked muskaan. The color of muskaan's face drained. She was utterly shocked and disgusted by the thought. "khushi...how could you think like that??? Why are you saying this...wha..." before she could complete , khushi rose up in fury and yelled. "Well...i found my husband on you bed this morning...how do you explain that???". Muskaan was disgusted. "Oh...so you think that i slept with your husband...well guess what...i didn't..." she exclaimed. "And you think that i will actually believe that...and how will you understand my sadness...you were always in good hands???" khushi cried.
"Look...i don't care or give a damn about you believing it or not...when you jumped to the conclusion of the whole thing then why will i waste my time in explaining you..." she sighed , her voice had immense pain in it. The fact that she thinks that her childhood went blissfully and for the fact that she thinks that she slept with arnav. She was about to go from the kitchen when she turned back to khushi again. "I never thought that i would be accused of such a thing...by you atleast...though im acustomed of being accused for something or the other anyways...!!!!" she whispered as he own tears threatened t come out of her eyes. She went away quitely and khushi sank on the floor. Arnav came to the kitchen to have some water but he found khushi on the floor. "Mrs.Raizada...are you ok???" he asked. Without wasting much time , he picked her up gently in his arms and took her outside.
"Please...stop crying..." arnav whispered. And the next thing they heard , was a gun shot. It came from muskaan's room. Arnav left khushi in horror and jumped through the stairs.
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