Abhijeet was busy in adoring his brother when his past haunted him..taking him back to the reason to stay in that hell..otherwise he must have runaway someday.
"Dekho (jerking his head to clear his hazy vision) tu..m is tar..ah aur (controlling his breathes) m..muj..he yahan nahin (breathing heavily) rkh saktin..mm...main sabko bata doonga...bata doonga ki tum pagal ho...haan..sab sab ko..."
She came near him and hold his hand tightly: sabko bataoge tum...aur mujhe pagal keh rahe ho...(caring tone) apni halat dekhi hai tumne..na theek se bol paate ho na khade ho paate ho..aur yahan se bhag jaoge..(coming dangerously near him) yahan se koi nahin bhag sakta...jab tak main na chahun..samjhe
She distanced herself noticing a person entering their room. She held Abhijeet and forcefully lied him on bed who was completely drained after shouting and struggling so lie down quietly.
Sarika noticed that the maid who just entered was glancing at her in regular intervals with suspicious gaze. Sarika gulped and ignore her. She prepared an injection for Abhijeet who got fast asleep instantly after that injection.
The same evening when Sarika went out from the house to buy grocery leaving Abhijeet who was still sleeping due to that morning's dose...she feel suspicious gazes and murmuring around her by her neighbours and acquaintances. She hurriedly purchase all stuffs and return home closing door behind her. She overheard few of them while purchasing her things and what she heard was making her afraid.
"Kuch to gadbad hai behen..kehne ko to ye bohot sewa karti hai apne pati ki phir aaj tak koi baccha kyun nahin hua"
"Are kya pata kya karti hai suna nahin iske ghar ki kaamwali ne kya bataya...iska pati ispe chilla raha tha aur ye use jabardasti dawaiyan khila rahi thi..wo bhi to har waqt kisi Tarika ka naam leta hai..wo to ye kehti hai ki isika naam hai humein kya pata kya sach hai"
Sarika shouted loudly and threw away all the stuffs anger.
She in insane way: ye sab..ye sab us Maina ki wajah se hua hai..usine subah jo dekha wo jakar bahar sabko bata dia...agar inhein kuch pata chal gaya to (scared way) nahin nahin nahin mai to acchi hoon..bohot acchi kisiko kuch pata nahin chalne dungi main. Mujhe intezaam karna hoga kuch aur wo bhi jald se jald.
He snapped out from his thoughts feeling tingling sensation in his brothers fingers whose hand he was holding till then.
He wanted to take his hand back but the harm was already done. His brother's eyes were open and he was looking at him with fixed gaze.
Abhijeet couldn't saw those blank eyes staring back at him to get some color of life back in them. He couldn't jerk that hand once again, he couldn't broke his brother once again. He just can't!!
He asked softly: kya dekh rahe ho??
Daya nod his head in no slowly when a lone tear escaped down from his eyes..Abhijeet look at that tear in pain and wipe it softly from his smooth hands.
Daya ask in low tone: kaise ho Boss tum?
He felt himself blessed after so many years...after so many years he was listening this where someone was asking that HOW IS HE?? Did he really want to hear that or it's just a weak moment. How can he be after all these years where his life was no more than a hell?? He don't know from which ink God had written his fate before sending him in this world...why this much pain to him?? Why these sufferings in his life only?? And then also no one asked him in all these years that HOW IS HE??
He somehow controlled his emotions and says: theek hoon..(he turned his eyes and was about to move away from Daya by pressing button of his wheel chair when Daya almost jumped out from bed and sit in front of him on his knees.
"Main jaanta hoon ABHI (Abhijeet's heart got SUKOON hearing that magical ABHI after ages) tumne jo saha hai mai wo soch bhi nahin sakta par aaj itne saalon baad jab tumhara BHAI tumse pooch raha hai..to kya tum apne dil ki baat use bhi nahin kahoge?"
Abhijeet look at him with strange eyes..he says: to itne saalon baad us (stressing) BHAI ko apne is bhai ki yaad aayi...itne saalon tak kahan tha ye bhai..itne saalon tak to akela chhod rakkha tha naa (tears started falling from his eyes as he was complaining to his pal about his absence in all those years) to ab kyu haal chaal poochne aaya hai ye BHAI..itne saalon me khayal nahin aaya ki kaisa hoga Abhijeet...zinda bhi hai yar marr gaya...tumne to maan bhi liya tha na mujhe mara hua...??? Kya ek baar bhi tere dil ne mere zinda hone ke ehsaas ko mehsoos nahin kia?? Kya ek baar bhi tune mujhe dhoondne ki koshish ki?? (Tears started falling down from his eyes breaking Daya's heart into pieces) kya ek baar bhi tune (he started breathing heavily due to much crying and exertion on his mind) Tu..nee ek baar bhi...(his head start spinning and he jerked his head..Daya realised his uneasiness and he instantly stopped him)
"Boss chuppp..ab kuch bologe nahin tum"
All those who were witnessing them from CCTV monitor room hurriedly rushed to them.
Here Abhijeet was feeling so much uneasy due to heavy breathing and dizziness. Daya hurriedly got up and took the wheel chair near his bed. He lift him up in his hands and lie him down pressing the emergency bell continuously. He was getting more and more tensed seeing his brother sweating profusely and having difficulty in breathing.
"ABHI...shant ho jao..(grabbing his hand with teary eyes) main hoon na yahan tumhare paas...jitna jee chahe ladd lena mujhse par abi shant ho jao please Abhi"
Sonal till then rushed inside and attach nebulizer to Abhijeet while side by side checking his Blood pressure too.
After sometime Abhijeet started feeling better. Daya was sitting just beside him holding his hand in his own while Abhijeet was drained up so lying quietly with closed eyes.
Sonal to Daya who was looking at her in tention: ye ab theek hain..(in serious tone to Abhijeet) aapko kya jaroorat thi itna exertion lene ki?? Kya jaante nahin hai aap ki aise apki tabyat bigad jaati hai.
Abhijeet said nothing just closed his eyes a little more tightly.
Daya smiled tearily seeing childish acts of his pal while Tarika look at him in awee..Ansh who was witnessing this side of his father for the very first time was mesmerized seeing him. He was so sweet and gentle even after being a victim of hell for years. And at the same time he is so harsh too when he got angry.
He sat on his knees near his feets looking at his father with teary eyes. He noticed his wrinkled and dull face. The same facial muscles, same smile but different eyes. He got eyes of his mother. People compliment him so many times that he got beautiful hazel eyes but today he want to adore his father's eyes which were much expressive, beautiful and intense.
Here Sonal jerked her head in dissapointment seeing those tightly closed eyes. She murmured: humesha aise hi karte hain ye. Koi pehli baar nahin hai. Chaliye ab aankhein khol lijiye...aapke soup ka waqt ho gaya hai.
Abhijeet wide opened his eyes: mujhe nahin peena wo sada hua chukandar ka soup.
Sonal: apke liye wo medicine hai aur wo to apko leni hi padegi (strict tone) mai bhijwa rahi hoon bina nakhre kare chup chap piyenge aap.
Abhijeet made a face and an unexpected laugh came out from Daya's throat.
Abhijeet look at him with fiery eyes and Daya instantly shut while Ansh was amazed seeing those eye talks even after these many years.
"Mujhe bitha ke jao" Abhijeet said in stiff tone from Sonal
Daya intervened in between: aap jaiye main ise bitha doonga..Abhijeet looked at him but said nothing. Daya came forward and make him sit.
Ansh was looking both of them but no one was paying attention to him. Everyone was acting like he is even not present there. He don't know but he was feeling very hurt. He want to talk to his father, to say him sorry but his father was not giving even a glance to him nor his Dada was. He got up and hurriedly moved out wiping his disobedient tears harshly. Abhijeet instantly look at the direction but averted his gaze.
Tarika came and stood beside Daya.
Abhijeet look at her and smiled a bit. She too smiled back.
Abhijeet asked: kaisi hain aap TARIKA JI.
Tarika felt a ball of tears stucked in his throat while so many precious pearls fell down from his eyes hearing that TARIKA JI after ages.
She somehow controlled herself and wiped her tears with her fingers: main theek hoon Abhijeet..tumm...
"Poochna mat ki kaise ho..(in pain) please Tarika"
Tarika look at him in pain while Daya come and sit beside him holding his both the hands in his own while Abhijeet was looking down.
"Hum nahin jaante the ki tum zinda ho..Sarika aur usko pita ne humein bhi dhoka dia...kisi aur ki body ko tumhari (he stopped in mid feeling anger on them) aur Abhi tumhare hone ka ehsaas to umr bhar raha mujhe..sach kaho jab jab bhi maine tumhein yaad kia tumhare dil ne tumhein bataya nahin. Yaad karna to chhodo mera dil to tumhein kabhi bhoola hi nahin Abhi...(tears falling down from his eyes) sach kaho kya tumhein ehsaas nahin hota tha jab tumhara bhai tadapta tha tumhare liye...apne dil pe hath rakh ke kaho..aur tum..(angrily) tum itna naraz ho gaye mujhse ki pehchan ne se bhi inkaar kar diya...jab jab bhi tumhein takleef huyi us takleef ko kum nahin kar paya main...main janta hoon main shayad is duniya ka sabse bura bhai hoon par..."
"Bas..bas bas...ek saans me aur kitna bologe tum...dil je mareez ho ab..thoda kum bola karo."
Daya look at him in shock: Abhi tum...
Abhijeet opened his arms and nodded in yes with teary smile on his face.
Daya nod his head in no and hugged him tightly where Abhijeet too hugged him back so tightly...he was shedding so many tears on the shoulder of his pal..a shoulder he wanted from long and get after ages. They both were enjoying each other's love while Tarika was busy in clicking their pictures on which they seperated and smiled, hugging again with eyes full of tears but lips curved in beautiful smiles.
Here on the other hand, few miles away an old man was lost in past thinking about that haunted night when his daughter came back to his home with a small baby in his hand when he got a phone call.
It was of none other than the baby himself who is now grown up.
He picked up the call and before he can say Hello he heard: Nanu mera janm kaise hua..jab Papa ki ye halat nahin thi aur na hi wo Maa ko pyar karte the to phir mera janm kaise...mujhe jaan na hai Nanu.
The old man find himself standing in front of a person lying lifeless in front of his eyes.
"Ye..ye kya hua Abhijeet ko...ye aise kyun...kya kiya tune iske sath..tu to keh rahi thi tumhare beech sab theek hai..yahi soch ke main tere sath yahan tak aaya aur yahan ye sab...kya hua ise..aur ye is tarah se hospital me kyun hai"
Abhijeet was lying on hospital bed..his face was completely pale..his eyes were little bit opened due to weakness making him look more horrible...his shave and hairs were totally messed up. Only the beep sound coming from monitor attached to his body can tell that he is alive.
He was looking at Sarika with questioning gaze when doctor come from behind.."Maine to inse pehle hi kaha tha ki ye is treatment ke liye tayar nahin hain...phir bhi ye nahin maani..aur ab dekhiye inki halat"
Mr. Verma bewilderedly: kon sa treatment...bataiye mujhe
Doctor: inhone ek TEST TUBE BABY conceive kiya hai...(Mr. Verma look at Sarika in shock) uske liye jo treatment hota hai wo itna harsh nahin hota par Mr. Abhijeet already bohot weak the...wo is treatment ke liye tayar nahi the..unki body ready nahin thi. Ye sab usi treatment ke side effects hain.
Mr. Verma stopped in his words and Ansh was completely stunned at his place.
So sorry for much late... really sorry /\ Next update will be soon for sure as my exams are approaching and I want to end the story before hoing gayab till my exams..is baar ke liye maafi.Guest: I can understand dear that you want to read about Abhijeet sufferings but being a writer I have to place scenes in a sequence of events to create an aura of the upcoming. I am sorry if you are dissatisfied..I hope this chapter was satisfying for you. Do let me know :)