Part 5: Chained to you: Safely

Karissa’s POV:

I walked out of the hospital… Thank God! Nobody saw me leaving after that nurse…

        I checked my watch and its 10:30pm… I need to go home quickly. I held a cab and sit inside while tapping my foot impatiently.

        When I reached home, no sounds were coming out from there and this is unusual for my home. I entered into the house and saw the lights were dim in the hall. And just besides the hall, on the dining table I saw my mom sitting with her head in her palms. She seemed to be worried with a pale face and body without strength. Dad was sitting beside her and was trying to explain her something which I don’t think she was giving any attention to.

        The moment they saw me, both of them got up from their respective places and came running towards me. The second she reached to me, that very moment she engulfed me into a tight hug and that’s when I felt like home. I were home with the people who loved me unconditionally and selflessly.

        And then was the turn for a most awaited round of questions and answers. Mom shot the questions at me like the bullets out of machine gun.

“Where were you since afternoon? Samantha also came in, after the school to enquire about you, when she couldn’t locate you in the school premises. Even your mobile is switched off! Do you have any sense of responsibility left? Even if you were busy with something important or for that matter something urgent, at least you should have informed somebody so that we could have taken a breath of relief.” Mom was just shouting at her highest pitch without realizing the situation of my heart who has just gone through this much.

“Mom I have been through the toughest time of my life today. As I got to know that Daniel was just playing a bet with my so called best friend Samantha to prove her that I can be trapped in anyone’s love and care. And against which he must have won some dollars but I had lost the faith and love and respect for him and also have lost the friend in Samantha. I think I have not known till now that what is good for me and what is not. You were right when you said that this guy is not a good person. But mom, what wrong I have done to deserve a friend like Samantha? I believed her more than my own self. I considered her as my sister and she have been doing such things against my back. I am completely broken and feel like as if I have lost everything in life.”

“My child! Please don’t lose heart. This is part and parcel of the life we are living. And the early you learn a lesson, the better it is for you to get up again and move forward. Just have faith in God and believe that whatever has happened, it is for good. But I don’t understand, where were you since then? As far as I know, you don’t have any other friend whom you could have been with.”

“Yes mom! I have learnt a lesson that it is not a world anymore where you can trust anyone and everyone with your full heart. You first have to be sure of the person’s intentions and then probably move forward with any kind of relation.” I replied to the first part of mom and my conversation. “And you are right that I have left with no one with whom I can share my sorrows and joys anymore. I were coming back to home via a bus, but then due to empty stomach and crying my lungs out since morning, I think I got unconscious in the bus and when I woke up, I were in the hospital. From there only I took the cab right now and came back home. I think I have been taken there by a nice looking gentleman who was sleeping besides my bed when I woke up in the hospital. But he was in deep sleep so I thought of not waking him up and I left without informing anyone.”

“But Karissa, you should have at-least thanked him for taking care of you when you needed it the most. I think you should call at the hospital and find out if he is still there or if he has left any contact number to be contacted on.” Mom said. And as told by her, I followed. I called at the hospital where I got to know that he has already left and without leaving his details.

I am now in my bed, and all that is coming to my mind is

the scene from the morning where in I have lost every relation of my life which I have chosen for me. I felt like crying for being so nonsense in life and for taking such rubbish decisions in life. Lesson I have learnt in the process is, when your parents are not very confident about your relations and decisions, it’s time for you to give it a second thought and reconsider your decisions. With these thoughts running in my mind, I drifted off to sleep, god only knows when!

Part 4: Chained to you: Safely

Kian’s POV:

This girl is really something… at the moment I saw her, all my problems are vanished in the air… Now all I can think about is why she is sad? What might have happened to her? May be abusive parents! Or may be an ex-boyfriend problem!

This girl has made me do all those things that I have never done or think about anyone, not even for my parents. Of course I were a fool when I asked her about her patient number of the mental hospital, but I were left with no option when she wasn’t talking to me. And when she told me that you can’t judge people from their faces, you can see sadness in her eyes. She tried to cover her sadness by a small smile but that somehow didn’t reach her eyes.

How I wanted to take away that sadness from her eyes! I wonder how her eyes will look when twinkling with happiness. She has very beautiful brown eyes… but sadness covering that beauty.

She is trying to get up for getting down at her destination. And I were tempted to hold her, I don’t know why but all I wanted was to keep her with me all the time. And I know that this is not going to happen anytime soon. Still I can try, with this thought at the moment I tried to hold her hand… with the thud… she collapsed on the floor unconscious.

What the hell has just happened?

I instantly sit beside her, trying to wake her up but no response… I am having so many negative thoughts in my mind. I take her in my arms in bridal style. I told the bus driver to take the bus at the hospital due to emergency. When we reach hospital, there were ward boys with the stretchers. I don’t want any boy to look or touch her. “I will carry her to room, no need for stretcher” I told them. “but… sir…” they said in unisom, “I said no” I said coldly.

This is how I am to the world… cold and ruthless. Except for this sleeping beauty in my hands.

My heart is beating so faster at the moment. I laid her on the bed at that time and a nurse come into the room. “Who is the patient to you?” she asked me while batting her eyelashes at me… trying to flirt with me. “I am her husband” I answered her coldly. Why I did that, I don’t know?

“Full name?” she asked not glad with the information.

“Mrs. Karissa Knight!” I said proudly. And one more thing, I just want a female doctor and all females staff. No male staff… understood?” I told her, without glancing at her, with my authoritative tone.

She flinched at my tone… “yes Mr. Knight” she answered and with that walk out of the room…

I sit on the stool that is placed besides her bed… take her small hand in mine… staring at her sleeping and pale face. With every passing moment… I am getting more worried about her. I hope doctor will come soon or else I will explode with anger.

“Cara, please wake up” I said sadly while caressing her cheek. And then, door opened and doctor came into view… Thank God!!! Doctor is female and not male.

I stood there while doctor checking Karissa’s pulse and eyes etc…

I am sweating due to tension… I hope she is fine and nothing serious. When doctor finished her work… I asked her “how is she doctor? And why is she unconscious?”

“Don’t worry Mr. Knight… your wife is fine, nothing serious… and the reason for her unconsciousness are over stress and empty stomach” she replied with a genuine smile and I sighed in relief.

When she reached at the door… she turned around and said “Mr. Knight, your wife is really beautiful… you are a lucky man” I just smiled at her…

When she completely walk out of the room, I took the seat beside her bed and again take her hand in mine… After a while I drifted off to sleep with the hope that she will wake up soon… my head is besides her on the bed.