" You may now see him Miss. He's in room 324" said the nurse. I thanked her and walked all the way to room 324.
" Sorry about that, Naina. I meant to show you my job at Fortis, but this little guy needed my help." He said hanging his arm around a beige skinned, blue eyed boy who by the way was probably the cutest little boy I've ever seen
" Mohesh, this is my friend, Naina. Naina, this is Mohesh."
I smiled and waved to Mohesh, but he in turn hid his face behind Aman's back.
"Ok Mohesh, you've been here for 2 weeks and have not been afraid of the hospital, yet you're afraid of this girl right here? Ok as soon as you get out of here, we're gonna meet some girls your age Ok?"
"Yeah!" he cried happily. Aman chuckled at the boy's response
"Ok, bye" I waved to him as Aman walked out of the room pulling me out of it as well. I couldn't help but ask
" Why is Mohesh in the hospital?"
Aman exhaled out deeply and put his hand on my shoulder. I figured this was gonna be a long story.
" Mohesh had a heart valve disease. He's young so there wasn't that much damage to his and all he needed was a artificial valve. I guess I feel close to him because I suffered from the same thing."
He took another deep breath.
" I found out I also had heart valve disease when I was 25. I wasn't expecting to have a heart attack at this age but, then I realized something was wrong. The doctor told me there was too much damage to the heart for me to get an artificial valve. I needed a transplant within the next year or else I would've died. Thank god there was a donor a month before my expiration date." He gave that quirky smile again.
He checked his watch "Ok you know what? We've got to go home now."
"What do mean go home now? It's only 3 p.m."
" Yeah, your Dadi wanted a minute by minute playback of what happened with us today. Is she...?"
" ...always this obsessed, than yes."
" How about this. Why don't we go to somewhere you want to go? Do like Bollywood movies?"
" Of course! I heard that The Guru's good. C'mon there's a theather on..."
ring ring ring It was my cell phone.
" Shiv, what is it?"
" Dadi's threatenting us. She said if she can't convince you to come home, we have to, and if not, she's gonna sing religious songs to us. Do you know what it's like when she sings? Even your friends Jazz and Sweet N Low are begging from NEXT DOOR!!!!"
"It's Sweetu, Shiv and I remember but,
" The whole town has headphones waiting for that moment"
" Ok, I'll come home. Tell her I'll be back in 20 minutes."
" Oh thank god! Bye!"
" Looks like we're going home."
" Why?" Aman looked so confused.
" Dadi's going to sing if I don't come home."
" Is it that bad?"
" It's so bad, the town had a petition to try to stop her singing."
" Ok we're going home now!"
We hopped on the next train and prayed that Dadi hadn't started to chase out the town out with her singing.
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We had reached home in time to see the streets filled with the sounds of Dadi's singing. I guess she hadn't got the message that I was coming home.
I walked inside my house and slammed the door, accidentaly leaving Aman out. I opened the door let Aman in and yelled my heart out for Dadi to know I was here. It all went silent...and Ma came in.
"What took you so long? She has been singing for 10 minutes on microphone. My business manager on the phone."
"What did you hear?"
"We have 3 weeks to make 3,000 dollars or we go out of business"
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