The Hospital (Part II)

I penned this story, The Hospital (Part II), a few years ago while taking an educational course by correspondence.

The Hospital (Part II)

Senior Inspector Keshav Pradhan realized the emergency and spoke to one of the doctors. “All doctors need not attend the prisoner. One of you can take care of this girl.” He even got Radha’s complaint registered. She had jotted down the license plate number of the motorbike, which would help the police later to nab the biker.

Soon, Asha was out of danger. The badly wounded man was being operated upon. Keshav had played a prank with Radha to solve a case and she had been offended by that. She was still angry with him. But for the sake of her friend, Asha, she had to request his help.

The prisoner, after the operation that lasted more than 5 hours, was admitted to the ICU on the same floor as Asha’s room. Two constables wearing plain clothes were on duty in the prisoner’s room.

By evening, Radha got the various test reports that were done on Asha. They were normal. Asha must have lost consciousness due to the sudden shock of the incident, according to the diagnosis of the attending doctor.

As Radha was returning from the specialist doctor’s clinic in the OPD, she heard Keshav talking over the phone. He was inside the nurses’ office. She was about to pass the room when she heard him say, “She pulled me by the arm and took me to her friend. She has guts! And such beautiful eyes! She had determination when she took me to her friend. Asha is lucky to have her as a friend… Kartik, I wanted to speak to you about this for a long time… Oh, yes. Why not? I decided that she was the one for me, since the time I set my eyes on her for the first time. Don’t worry about the language difference. I will take care. She is cosmopolitan and I am cosmopolitan… She could come back any minute. I’ll sign off, now.”

She could not understand much, but she knew that Keshav was talking about her to her brother. After waiting for a few seconds more, she passed the office to go to Asha’s bed, as if nothing had happened.

To be continued…