Richa entered the doctor's cabin but Doctor Vinod was not in there, she decided to wait for him.
It's been six months and Rudra has not woken up from his deep sleep, he is still in coma. Richa missed him so much, his eyes..... his smile..... his voice..... his warmth...... everything. his absence besides her is creating a hollow inside her heart, and day by day that hollow space is getting bigger and bigger and now it is ready to swallow up her whole existence.
Richa hated to be alone, and from past six months she is utterly alone without Rudra. She daily goes to the library for her job, then to her house to freshen up and then she spents most of her time with Rudra in his hospital room. She sits there besides his bed, hold his hand and looked at his face. She prayed to god for him to open his eyes soon and look at her, talk to her, she was dying to listen his voice again.
Doctor Vinod entered his cabin, Richa got up and greet him politely
"Good Morning Doctor "
"Good Morning Mrs Shekhar, how are you today "
"I m fine doctor, how's Rudra's condition ?? "
Doctor sat down on his chair and folded his hands on the table infront of him, he looked at Richa and said
"I m sorry Mam, but his condition is still the same, he is not improving, though he is stable and his injuries are healing very well "
"but doctor six months have gone by and he is still not waken up "
"Yes, but we can't say or do anything about it, some patient wakes up in few days, some in few months but sometimes patients take years to wake up and sometimes they never do!!
I hope he will wake up soon but as time goes by, chances are getting lower and lower."
Richa's eyes welled up by listening this, she lowered her head and tried to hold back her tears.
" I will never give up on him, he will come back to me, I know"
She said in a determined tone and got up from the chair, bid goodbye to the doctor and walked out of his cabin. She was thinking about Rudra's promise to never leave her alone and she knows that he will never break his promise. He will be back, soon very soon.....
In Hospital Room
Rudra was confused.....
why the doctor called him Rishi ??
he looked at the doctor with squinted eyes, but decided to ignore it he was worried about his wife so he tried to talk again in his weak voice
"Dr My Wife must be here, did not you guys inform her about the accident, her name and number is on my insurance card's emergency contact list. "
Doctor stare at him with confusion and said
"Mr Rishi, I think your memories are effected by the accident, I think you should rest for sometime, then we will talk again about this matter, ok "
Rudra got impatient now, he wants to know about Richa immediately...
"No doctor, please call my wife, she must be going crazy with worry because of my absence for this long, please call her immediately "
"Mr Rishi, how can we call your wife ?? when she has died already, in another car accident a year ago along with your child, don't you remember "
Rudra was stunned after listening what doctor has said,
'Richa has died, along with our child a year ago, how can it be possible, i was with her before the accident and according to doctor that was six months ago, she wasn't even pregnant at that time.'
"Doctor you are mistaking something"
"No, Mr Rishi, I am not, because I was the doctor who treated you after that accident, you barely survived that time too, and I was the one who declared your pregnant wife Riya dead, along with your child."
Rudra looked at the doctor with wide eyes full of confusion
Doctor started talking again staring into Rudra's eyes
"My wife Dr Shalini was your wife Riya's Gynecologist, so I m not mistaking anything. Me and my wife knows you and your wife since you both have shifted here in Singapore."
"Singapore!!!!! ?????"
What the hell!!!!!
Rudra's mind was on high alert,
'What is going on, how come I am in Singapore, and why is he calling me Rishi again and again, and he is calling Richa as Riya and stating that she is dead. I don't understand what's happening '
Rudra thought.
he was not able to understand anything what was doctor saying. He thought for a moment and said
"Can I have my phone and wallet, do you have it ?"
" Yes, we have all medical records and your belongings at the time of accident"
Doctor asked the nurse to bring Rishi's medical file and bag of his belongings, nurse went out.
Rudra was in deep thoughts
' how come I was in a accident in Singapore ?....
'I remember clearly, I was coming back from my office meeting in Chennai and on the way of my home in Hyderabad '
Rudra thought and he was so confused right now, nothing is making sense to him at the moment.
"Rishi....Rishi.... Rishiiii?? "
Called the doctor
Rudra looked up with questioning eyes
"Rishi, I know it's hard for you to get over the loss of Riya and your baby, but you have to except the truth, it's been a year "
Rudra couldn't say anything, he just stared at the doctor with blank stare
Nusre came with a small bag and a file in her hand, she passed those to the doctor and went out again.
Doctor passed the file and bag to Rudra and pulled his bed up in a sitting position with the handle at the foot of his bed.
Rudra took those things with shaking hands, he was afraid what is he going to find out next ?
Rudra opened the bag first, there was a wallet, a broken screen Phone and a charger, a key chain with a house key and a car keys too, but the strange thing was, that they were not 'his'. Not the phone nor the wallet and also not the both set of keys. He took out the wallet first because definitely the phone would be out of charging, he opened the unknown looking wallet and he found a stranger couple photograph in there,
A beautiful woman back hugged by a handsome man, they were both smiling happily to the camera.
Rudra looked up and showed it to the doctor and said
" look I told you that you are mistaken, this is not my wallet nor these things are mine"
doctor looked at him as if he has lost his mind
"But these are yours Rishi, look, there is a picture of you n Riya in there "
Rudra was more confused now, how can this doctor say that, even after looking at this photograph , I m definitely not in the picture.
"But doctor it's not me, can't you see..??"
Rudra placed that picture close to his face and asked the doctor
"See, he doesn't looks like me at all "
"No, it's definitely you " replied the doctor in a calm and collected voice.
Rudra pulled back his hand and looked at the picture again,
'No, it's not me, how can he say that, is he out of his mind?? '
Rudra thought looking at the picture in his hands
Doctor got worried about Rishi's mental condition, he thought that the multiple accidents and truma of losing his family must have effected his mind.
He pulled out his phone from his pants pocket and called Rishi...
"Rishi.... look at me, I will prove to you that it's you in that picture "
Rudra looked up, and at the same time doctor clicked the picture of him and put his phone screen infront of Rudra's face.
Rudra's eyes went wide with shock and disbelief at what he saw on the phone's screen....
On the phone's screen,... It was the same face of that man, who was in the picture in the wallet, which was still there in Rudra's hands
' It's not ME .....
'but.... he clicked the picture infront of me'
'so.... It has to be Me.... '
But......
' How can I change into Rishi from Rudra after the accident ???
how is it possible!!!!???? '
To be continued.......