23 Trap for whom?
Part 22: Trap for whom?
Arnav started the car and headed to the hospital.
"There is a clinic near Platan Bazar... Please take me there." Khushi said.
Arnav nodded and changed the gear. Arnav stopped the car outside the clinic and took Khushi inside. No crowd in the clinic as it was Sunday. They waited for their turn. Khushi leaned on the chair and closed their eyes.
They were called. Arnav took her to the doctor and made her sit before him. The doctor looked at Khushi, who looked tired.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Fever Doctor," Arnav answered.
The doctor checked Khushi with his stethoscope.
"What did you eat today?" he asked, by ecking her.
"Nothing, doctor," she answered in a low tone.
"From when you have a fever?"
"From this morning..."
"What did you eat last night?"
"Ice creams..."
Arnav rolled his eyes.
"How many?"
"Only one family pack..."
Arnav looked at her in shock.
"Family pack? You mean half a kilogram?"
She nodded yes.
"Yesterday's climate was not good. It rained a lot. How did you feel about having ice cream in that climate?" The doctor asked.
"I felt like eating ice cream while drenched in the rain..."
Arnav was more shocked.
"Did you get drenched in rain while having ice cream?" The doctor was also shocked.
She was silent.
"I don't know why this generation of guys is so irresponsible..." the doctor sighed and stood up.
"I will give an injection and prescribe a few medicines, follow them. If there is no improvement, come to me the day after tomorrow."
Khushi nodded. After taking the doctor's prescription, Arnav brought her out. She made her sit in the car, and he took the driver's seat.
"Did you have ice cream while drenched in the rain?" He asked angrily.
Khushi was silent.
"Don't you have a sense? Don't you know we should not eat ice cream after getting drenched in the rain? It all feels nice only for movies. See what happened now..." he said, disappointedly.
"What happened? You are with me. If you are with me, I will eat ice cream daily while drenched in the rain and get injected." She smiled dizzily.
"Shut up. Don't be stupid. Is everything a game for you?
"Neither it's a stupidity nor a game... You can understand my perspective only if you are me..."
"Exactly, you can understand my perspective only if you are me."
"I understand you well. You're struggling between your career and me. Your profession is stopping you, yet you can't hold yourself from taking care of me. You are SLAYING me with care, Varnie. My heart fell out of my chest whenever I saw you. How could I stay away from you? How could I forget you? The day I forget you will be the Last day of my life..." she said in a croaky, feverish voice and choked.
Arnav mellowed down.
"Relax... You have a fever. Don't get emotional."
"No, Varnie... people say anger will kill us, but love is doing the same. Your love is killing me every second. You are tearing me with a knife called care." She leaned on the seat. Tears rolled down her cheek.
Arnav did not know why she suddenly became emotional. He thought it was because of the fever effect. He started the car. In a few minutes, Khushi felt like throwing up. She closed her mouth and gestured for him to stop the car.
"What happened?" He asked, panicking.
She signalled him like vomiting. He stopped the car at the side of the road. She got out of the car and pressed her head. Taking the water bottle, Arnav also got out. Khushi tried to vomit, but she didn't. He passed the water bottle to her. She washed her face and mouth.
That was when a man in his early fifties came to him.
"Good evening, sir..." the man greeted him.
"Good evening," Arnav reciprocated.
"Do you recognise me, sir?"
Arnav nodded no.
"I am the father of Bhuvanesh. You came to our house once to complain about my son..."
"I see... I'm sorry I couldn't remember..."
"You couldn't remember, but we can't forget it. If you had not taken that timely action, my son's life would have been spoiled. Thank God you have alerted us. That's why we could save our son's life. Thank you so much, sir."
Arnav nodded.
"What happened, sir?" He asked, looking at Khushi.
"She is my student. There is no one at her house. She has a high fever. So I brought her to the hospital..."
"That's nice, sir..."
At the same time, Arnav got a call from an unknown number.
"One minute, sir," he excused and attended the call.
"Hello..."
"Sir..." a woman said nervously.
Arnav frowned, hearing the shaky voice. It sounded familiar, but he couldn't recognise who she was.
"Who is that?"
"Sir, I am Seema..."
"Seema ma'am, you? What happened?? Why are you sounding nervous?"
"Sir, I am alone at home. My parents are not in town. Someone entered my home and tried to misbehave with me. I am hiding in the Loft. Please save me, sir. Please do it thinking of me as your sister. I'm so scared..." She cried.
Arnav gripped his phone, hearing the word "sister". He could not stop thinking about his sister,
"Don't worry. I'm coming. Don't get down from the loft until I come. Put your mobile in silent mode. Dim its light. I'm in Platan Bazar only. I will be there in ten minutes."
"Thank you, sir."
The man in front of him asked,
"Is everything alright, sir?"
"She is my colleague. It seems someone entered her house and is trying to misbehave with her..."
"Do you know her house?"
"Yeah, it's in the second lane from here..."
"Okay. Let's go, I will also come with you..."
"Thank you so much, sir..."
Arnav made Khushi sit in the car. The man took the back seat. Arnav headed to Seema's house in top gear.
He stopped the car in front of her house with a screeching sound. Without wasting time, Arnav got out of the car and rushed inside. The door was not locked, and he didn't mind that the man who entered the house would not have locked it, he supposed.
"Seema ma'am..." he shouted.
Seema came from the nearby room. Her clothes were torn, and her hair was messy. Arnav was shocked. He thought he was late. But he was confused when Seema started shouting,
"Help me..."
They heard footsteps. Seema smiled inwardly, seeing their college principal entering the house with a police man. Seema rushed to the principal.
"Look at me, sir... What he had done to me..." she cried, closing her face.
"Who?" The police man with the principal asked.
"He..." She extended her finger towards Arnav.
"What rubbish are you talking about? He just entered the house. We came here together from Paltan Bazar. He was with me when he received your call. How liar you are...! Don't you have a shame to utter such a lie?"
Seema was shocked to the core. Did the police man come with Arnav? How blunder she had done! She thought the principal brought the police to her house to save her.
"When did she call Arnav?" The principal asked the police man.
"Ten minutes ago, sir. He came to the hospital with his student, who has a fever. The girl felt like vomiting. So he stopped the car in front of the police station. That was when I saw him. He helped me protect my son when he was studying at your college. For that, I thanked him. That was when this woman called him and said someone was trying to misbehave with her. To save her, only he came here, sir. But she turned the tables against him, accusing him of the mistake he didn't even think of..." The police man shouted angrily.
"What is all this, Seema? To accuse Arnav, only you called me here?" The principal asked furiously.
"Did she call you, sir?" the police man asked.
"Yes, she called me and said Arnav was trying to misbehave with her."
Arnav was horrified. How cheap Seema was! Didn't she say she was like his sister? He gulped down hard.
The police man looked at Arnav and said,
"Sir, give me a written complaint, and I will care for this woman."
Arnav looked at Seema sharply.
"I am going to file a complaint, whether you give it or not, because I don't want such a professor in my college," the principal said.
"Sir, please don't do this to me...I did that out of control..." Seema pleaded.
"Shut up... I don't need an uncontrolled professor."
The principal looked at the police man and said,
"Arrest her, sir..."
The police man removed his phone and called the woman police to arrest her, didn't give heed to her plea.
Arnav stood motionlessly. He could not understand what was happening with him. How big the humiliation would have been if the police man had not accompanied him? He looked at the entrance coincidentally and saw Khushi smirking at Seema with an attitude.
To be continued...
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