Hi friends, hold ur breath and tears for some minutes while reading this chapter. ..
Tarika has become the part and parcel of abhi ' s life. His day starts with tarika and ends with tarika. He is mostly seen in his chocolate aunty home with his little girl friend. Abhi would be there in every page of tarika ' s growth book. Her first try to sit , she first crawl towards abhi , she learnt to walk holding abhi ' s hand on one side and nandini ' s hand on other. Abhi would cry for no reason when tarika cries, even after she stops crying, abhi s sobbing will continue.. she would clap her hands and laugh when abhi talks non stop to her, only god knows what she understood. The first word she spoke was ati ( abhi ) . both the family would be incomplete without these two children. They both had two mothers and two fathers. Love pours from every side to them. They were happily growing without knowing about any hardships of life .
Tarika resumed going to school. Her parents were scared of how she would tackle her first day. But to their surprise she went more excitedly because her abhi is with her. Yes she is endorsed in the same school with abhi. Abhi would go and take care of her during his leisure hours even though he is not matured enough. Their friendship is getting stronger with their growth.
Abhi is 7 yrs now and tarika is 4 years.
Both were playing in abhi s garden. Abhi s garden ? yes . he has developed interest in gardening of flowers because tarika is always fond of beautiful orchids. Abhi demanded his father to make one for him so that he can make her happy. Both were watering the plants when tarika shouts in excitement .
tarika - abhi buttelfly….
She jumps in excitement seeing the multi coloured beautiful butterfly and runs behind it to catch it. it is out of reach from her hand due to her height.
Tarika - abhi wo buttelfly mujhe chayiye..
Abhi - hmm tum yahi pe rukho. Main pakad tha hun usey.
He also ran behind it but it is faster enough to fly far higher than his height too..
Tarika - shouting abhi pakado..
Abhi - haan haan. Wait..
It rested on a tree near the staircase of his house. So he too climbed the stairs and try to catch the butterfly but his leg slipped and he fell from the stairs on his back. His head hit with the floor badly creating an injury . blood is oozing non stop from the back of his head.
The poor little tarika shouts like anything hearing which anita and aravind came running.
Anita - tarika kya hua bacche ? looking around , abhi kaha hai ?
Tarika points her finger in one direction crying by seeing which anita and aravind heart stopped beating.
Abhi is lying in his own pool of blood unable to move . his eyes ready to close anytime. His hands trying to hold his mother. Abhi could not even cry in pain.
Anita ran towards him screaming - abhi abhi kya hua baccha.? Haan . she took him in her lap, abhi mujhe dekho mumma ko dekho beta. Abhi eyes were half closed. Abhi aankhe kholo. Kuch nahi hoga tujhe. Mumma hai na haan. Kuch nahi hoga.
Aravind patted his cheeks, abhi papa ko dekho , mere sher ko kya hua. ? yeh dekho mujhe. Abhi aankhe band mat karna. Khuli rakho. Kuch nahi hoga tujhe. Papa hai na tumari sath.
Abhi s body jerked. He tries to talk but his pain doesnot allows a word from his mouth. His eyes closed fully . anita and aravind screamed , abhi? Abhijeet ?
Where tarika understanding nothing was crying with voice . nandini also came running from her house hearing the screaming voice and tarika crying sound. She stopped on her tracks seeing her tiger bleeding badly and fighting for his life. She came out of shock by the pull of tarika , maa abhi ko ka hua ? wo uth nahi laha hai maa. Aap bulao na usey. Maa aap abhi ko bulao na..
She ran near them ,
Nandini - bha bhabhi kya hua haan abhi aise.
Anita cried louder hugging her son, nandini mere bacche ko dekho. Wo aankh khul nahi raha hai. tum bulao na usey. Mere bacche ko bulao na tum. wo tumari aawaz ko sun kar zaroor uthega. Bulao usey.
Nandini - patting his cheeks, abhi ? dekho chocolate aunty ko. Mere tiger ache bacche hai na. aankhen khulo beta. Abhi ? her voice choked.
Aravind realizing the situation took him in his arms and ran towards the car,
Nandini - bhaiya aap jaldi abhi ko hospital lejayiye. Main Praveen ko inform kardunga.
Praveen - jaldi karo nandini pl..
Anita crying seeing her lap and hands which is wet with her own life ' s blood.
Nandini - controlling her choking voice and tears , bhabhi abhi ko kuch nahi hoga. Aap himmat rakhiye. Kuch nahi hoga hamare abhi ko. Aap jaldi jayiye..
Nandini made her sit on the back seat of car holding abhi head in her lap. Aravind drove the car as fast as he could. Anita is holding her son in a possessive way not willing to give him to the hands of death.
They reached hospital where Praveen is ready with the stretcher and a medical team.
Praveen feels his heart is bursting seeing the little ever charming first kid of him struggling to free himself from the cunning hands of death.
Pushing aside his emotions he patted aravind shoulder giving him a silent support and quickly changed into dr mode. He wiped his tears, checked the pulse of his charming prince which is very low and took him immmeditely to the emergency.
Meanwhile nandini came with tarika who is continuously asking about abhi…
Nandini went near anita who is seemed lifeless looking at her own hands still feeling the touch of her baby.
Aravind stood leaning on the wall with unexplainable pain in his heart. Nandini holds anita s hands which has turned cold now in the fear of losing her only child. Nandini fear is also not less than anita but she realizes that was the situation to stand strong for a poor mother whose life is revolving around her abhi.
Tarika went near aravind and pulled his pant. Aravind looked down and took her in his arms.
Tarika - uncal, abhi kaha hai ?
Araving - controlling the emotion in his voice, wo ander hai beta papa ki sath.
Tarika - kyun ? usey ka hua ? wo nalaz hai mujhe ? mujhe buttelfly nahi chayiye. Usey aane ko kaho na uncle. Main kabhi buttelfly ko pakadne ko nahi bolega. Sach. Usey bulao na uncle. Mujhe buttelfly nahi chayiye. silf abhi chayiye.
Aravind - unable to answer her questions , just hugged her patting her head letting his tears flow down.
After around 40 min, Praveen came out with heavy heart.
Arvind , anita and nandini goes to him
Aravind - Praveen kaise hai abhi . wo theek hai na ?
Anita - bhaiya abhi ko hosh aagayi kya ? main ander jaake dekhtha hun .
Praveen stops her.
Anita - kya hua bhaiya ? abhi theek hai na. haan batayiye mere bacche kaise hai .
Slapping her head main na pagal hun. Mere bacche ko kya hoga. ? wo mujhe dekhar mere paas bhaag aati hai. aap dekhiye.
Nandini - Praveen kya hua. Kuch tho boliye.
Praveen - helpless tone . abhi ki condition bahot critical hai. sar mein bloot clot hui. aur loss of blood bhi. foren operation karna hoga .
Aravind - tho der kis baat ki ?
Praveen - bhaiya abhi ab bahot chota hai. wo isey tolerate karna hoga . iss major operation ki baad ( paused ) kuch bhi hosakta hai.
Anita - kuch bhi matlab ?
Praveen - controlling his tears, uska jaan bhi…
Anita - nahi , nahi nahi mera abhi ko kuch nahi hoga.. aap jhoot bolrahe ho na. haan batayiye yeh sab jhoot hai na. mujhe pata hai mera bacche mujhe chodkar kahi nahi jayega.. nahi aise kaise hosakta . mere abhi mere pass hi hoga. Main usey kahi nahi jane dunga kahi bhi nahi.. she sat down on the floor murmuring same words.
She remembered him calling her as maa for the first time.. his each and every actions , naughtiness , love towards her , his ever charming innocent pure smile …
Aravind sat with a thud on chair . How could he even imagine his life without his abhi. Abhi will always stay awake to see his father who comes late night after his duty. Without getting a good night kiss from his father he wont go to bed..
Nandini stood looking at some unknown point. Every memory of her with this little prince started revolving around her. His sweet energetic voice calling her chocolate aunty is ringing in her ears continuously. She looked at praveen , hold his collar - mujhe mere tiger chayiye. Mujhe mera abhi wapas chayiye bilkul pehele jaisa .. suna aapne , mujhe mere abhi wapas chayiye. She cried out loud where Praveen took her in his hug unable to control his tears.
Little tarika just understands that something is terribly wrong with her abhi . but her age couldn't interpret what dangerous and difficult phase they are in …. Still in aravind arms she wiped his tears with her little finger , who is not in sense now.
Praveen - holding his tears back, in a determined tone . bhaiya , bhabhi, nandini, main wada karta hun abhi ko main kuch nahi hone dunga. Wo zaroor wapas aayega. Aap sab himmat rakhiye . bhagwan hamare sath hai. kuch nahi hoga abhi ko. Main operation ko taiyyar karta hun.
Feeling the positive energy and determination in his tone everyone gained some lost hope…
A / n : wait for the next...