Chapter 40: Chapter 40

Areesha’s P.O.V.

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Early in the morning when I was about to get out of my room, I got bumped to someone.

It was Khushi and she was about to fall getting all startled. When I held of her, I got shocked. She was just burning up.

She tried to speak up but when I saw she was having problems for talking, I spoke up, “No need to say anything now. Keep quiet.”

I took her to her room and made her lie on the bed. While looking around the room for Arhaan, I called Dr. Roshni who was our family doctor.

She directed me something and said that she would come after sometime. Cutting off the line, I turned to her and asked, “Where is Arhaan?”

She tried to speak up between her cough. Seeing that, I spoke up, “Forget it. You stay. I am coming back.”

Saying this, I left the room only to get back after getting some food and the medicine which the doctor instructed to give her.

I made her take the medicine after eating something and then I kept caressing her hair to get her some sleep and I didn't know why but she kept looking at me every two minutes with teary eyes until she fell asleep.

Then I put the comforter properly on her and got downstairs. I was walking in the living room while thinking what happened to Khushi all of a sudden as she was all right last night.

The chain of my thought got interrupted when I heard Arhaan uttering, “Api?”

I looked at him properly only to understand that he was coming back from jogging.

Getting near, I asked him, “What happened to Khushi all of a sudden?”

He answered casually, “What happened?”

Hearing his casual tone, I spoke up with a little bit of anger, “What do you mean by what happened! She is sick. How could you go for jogging leaving her alone like this!”

He tried to say, “Api, I didn't know” but cutting him off, I uttered again, “Oh, now please don't tell me you didn't know she fell sick!”

When he kept quiet, I started yelling at him, “No matter how you got married but she is your wife now for goodness sake. How could you be this indifferent to her? What if it was Esha or me? Would you still be like this careless?”

He was about to say something but right then Dr. Roshni entered and spoke up, “Mrs. Areesha?”

After giving Arhaan a last glance of glare, I took Roshni to Khushi's room.

She was still sleeping. I asked Doctor whether I should wake her up. She forbade me as she went near her.

Dr. Roshni spoke up after checking her fever, “Don't worry. It's nothing serious. I think she was just exhausted enough and somehow got cold to get to this point. I am prescribing some medicine. If necessary, give her this.”

Nodding at her, I took the prescription and giving Khushi a sad look, I got outside with Dr. Roshni.

She left our place and I entered the kitchen for regular stuffs. Arhaan was still in the living room. When he saw me, he got near me. He kept trying to talk to me but I kept myself busy with my work.

When he understood, I was angry enough, he uttered, “Api, I am sorry. It's not going to happen again.”

When I tried to say, “Arhaan..”, he cut me off and spoke up, “Api, I said sorry.”

I gave Arhaan a pleading look remembering Khushi's look being all teary and spoke up, “Vai, please. Don't be like this. For me at least.”

He kept staring at me for some moment and then nodding at me, he left from there.

Arhaan's P.O.V.

Entering my room, I saw Khushi sleeping peacefully. As I kept staring at her, the memories of last night started coming to my mind...

When Khushi left the room after getting yelled by me, I got to do change and fell on the bed to sleep without bothering about her.

But only when I was about to fall asleep, her phone started ringing which made my sleep go far away.

When she wasn’t answering the phone though it kept ringing for a while, I got up and took the phone while thinking who could be it at this hour.

The caller ID wasn’t from our country but it didn't took me much of time to understand from where she was being called.

Without thinking too much, I just cut off the line and was about to lie again but to my irritation, it started to ring once again.

Then I answered the call thinking whoever it was, he also deserved to get some yelling for calling this time.

But to my luck I couldn’t get to utter anything as a girl spoke up as soon as I answered the call.

The voice was filled with concern as she spoke up, “Khushi, are you okay? I just had a horrible nightmare. You aren’t thinking of doing something stupid, right? Like hurting yourself or something like that?”

I wasn’t trying to get her words properly at first but her last sentence caught my attention and I got thinking why was she asking something like that and by the way why Khushi, being herself would do something like that!

When I didn’t utter anything, she spoke up again with the same tone, “Khushi, you there? Why aren't you speaking anything? Is everything alright?”

And then she got stopped as I uttered, “Hello? Who are you?”After keeping silent for some moments, she spoke up, “Arhaan?”

I spoke up being surprised realising she knew me, “Yes, it's me, Arhaan. But who are you?”

Without bothering to answer my question, she spoke up, “Arhaan, where is Khushi? Is she alright? Can I talk to her, please?”

I looked around the room thoughtlessly and answered, “She isn't in the room now. Talk to her in the morning.”

Saying this, I was about to cut off the line but got stopped as I heard her uttering, “Vai, please.”

It was for the first time for a girl to call me Vai after Api. The word was alone enough to make me listen to that girl and here she was pleading and I couldn't help but said, “Wait some moments. I am getting her to call you back.”

Saying this, I cut off the line and started searching for Khushi.

I checked every possible place where I thought she would be but there was no sign of her. Then I got to give that last sentence of that girl a serious thought and got somewhat worried.

The main gate of the house was locked from inside so there was no way for her to get out of the mansion this time.

It's been a while she got out from my room. So then where she could have gone! I have searched every possible place except terrace.

But why would she go to terrace unless she really thought of.. Cutting off my thought, I forwarded towards terrace and I understood she was really there when I found the gate of terrace was wide open.

With a fearful mind, I got there and looked around only to get shocked as I found her standing by the railing looking at the ground.

And she was really looking like to jump from the terrace to my utter surprise.

I immediately got near her and spoke up, “Hey, are you out of your mind?”

She just turned to me and kept looking at me blankly. I again yelled at her, “What were you planning to do here now, haan? Turning me into a murderer or what!”

To my utter surprise, she spoke up without bothering my questions all blankly, “What are you doing here?”

I gave her a confused look and uttered, “What the?”

But leaving me unanswered, she again turned forward and looked down. I was going crazy while thinking what was just happening!

I was busy with my thought whereas Khushi was being like earlier again. Leaving my thought at rest, I uttered to myself, She has gone crazy and for now I need to divert her mind anyhow.

I forcefully made her turn to me and uttered, “What am I doing here! You tell me what are you doing here this time? Have you gone mad or what!"

She spoke up blankly, “You told me to get lost. You told, I deserve to get punishment. You told”

Hearing her, I got paused for a moment and then I spoke up, “I didn't” only to get cut off as she spoke up, “I know, Arhaan. I am at fault. I am at fault like always. Like always.”

Her words were getting to whispers and to my utter surprise, she lost her conscious at some moment.

I held her immediately before she fell on the terrace.

I called her name for sometimes but got no answers. Then taking her in arms, I got to my room and made her lie on the bed and kept staring at her for a moment.

Seeing her weird self and remembering my phone conversation with that girl, I got this much that I was missing something. There was something with Khushi.

Forgetting that for a moment, I got near her to check if she was okay. When I was about to put my hand near her nose, all of a sudden, she started chiding as she kept moving her head and there was something very painful in her voice, “It's all my fault. I am sorry vai.”

I got startled hearing that and uttered under my breath, “What is she talking about?”

Finding nothing to do, I started caressing her hair and uttered, “It's okay, Khushi. It's okay.”

She seemed to get normal after sometime and fallen asleep.

I kept staring at her sleeping face and kept thinking, “What was she talking about? What's the problem of her actually!”

Right then the phone in my hand started ringing again and it was the same caller ID as earlier.

Without bothering to think to otherwise, I answered the call and uttered, “Khushi has fallen asleep. Don't worry, she is okay. Talk to her tomorrow.”

Saying this, I cut off the line before she could say anything.

Putting the comforter properly on Khushi, I got near the couch and fell asleep at some point while looking at her and thinking of the earlier happenings...

Early in the morning when I woke up, Khushi was still sleeping. Setting up my mind to talk to her when she wakes up, I went for jogging.

After getting yelled by Api, I got back to my room and saw Khushi was still sleeping. I got near her and put my hand on her forehead and she was really having fever.

I uttered under my breath, “But how come!Wasn't she well when she fell asleep last night!”

I didn't get to know whether I was uttering that loudly to disturb her sleep as she opened her eyes slowly.

Getting startled, I immediately moved my hand away and took few steps back whereas she kept staring at me confusingly...