Don’t Fall In Love With Me……..
This is the story about two people who once where classmates and failed at with their first love respectively. Start a battle of hearts when they encounter with each other after eight years since they graduated from college.
Veer Malhotra was in a live in relationship with Pragya against the wishes of their families. He met her where he was himself a patient after graduation when she was an intern in Savitri Devi College And Hospital. They got attracted to each other from the very first sight. With time their relationship got weaker as a result of circumstances they decided to get separated. However their relationship takes a U-turn within a drastic night where Pragya get admitted urgently into the hospital after depression. Despite Pragya’s family going against Veer , he never gives up to hold into her hand and to try to understand what went wrong with her. One day his encounter with Sanchi Misra at the same hospital, who was once his classmate during high school , gives him a moral support and strength to not to give up on Pragya.
Sanchi is a pediatric doctor of Savitri Devi College And Hospital. Smart, kind and full of ambitions she was the topper during high school and in college. She had a sorrowful past with her first love, Kabir, once the best friend of Veer Malhotra. Sanchi and Veer never got along , they were in fact poles apart. He was always in a mood to play pranks and was famous among girls , while she had no interest in him. Eight years later when they meet in an uncommon place, things have changed so much in their relationships and in their inner selves. He doesn’t have time for pranks anymore , there are no sparks in her eyes , they are silent.
Sanchi and Veer rebuild a friendship during a hard moment of their lives. Together they try to get up but things get complicated when those two lonely souls get deeply attached to each other… Is it just friendship ? Sympathy ? Attraction ?
Will they give a second chance to their first love ? Does Pragya still has a soft corner for Veer ? What happened between Sanchi and Kabir who were once the ” perfect couple” ? Can first love last longer ?
CHAPTER 1:
It’s almost midnight and it’s raining outside the hospital. Veer is waiting in the waiting room he is walking restless from right to left, left to right. After a few minutes a doctor and a nurse came from the emergency room, it’s 1.30 a.m. Veer was running towards her when Pragya’s parents came to the doctor, her father pushed him from behind shouting ” get out of here “.
Veer is taken aback, he is trying to control his emotions. He finally feels relieved when the doctor announced that Pragya is out of danger now. Her parents thanked the doctor and then thanked God. Veer closes his eyes and finally sits up with a heavy heart. When he opens his eyes, Pragya’s parents were standing up in front of him. Her father is angrily staring at him.
Pragya’s dad : ” – We had enough of you, you better leave our daughter for once before another storm comes. This is my last warning to you !
Pragya’s mother tried to calm down her husband as other people were looking at them creating a scene. She begged Veer to leave but he tries to makes her understand that he’ll only leave once he’ll see Pragya’s face. A few hours later, while her parents were looking at her sleeping in her patient’s room, Veer was looking at them through the small window.
What happened last night after their phone call, why was she crying, why did she hid him about her depression, he thought. He then steps back and leaves there, passing by a long corridor while remembering every beautiful moments spent with Pragya, his first love. How he flirted with her when she took care of his wound in this same hospital, their first date at a coffee shop during monsoon, him playing silly jokes to cheer her up, dropping her every morning at the hospital in his bike, then them moving in together against the wishes of Pragya’s parents…He finally thought if he was ever responsible of her depression, was it because of their break-up, was it because he didn’t called her back yesterday night…
Veer finally reaches the entrance of the hospital, he steps out without even realizing that it’s still raining. Someone who is walking towards his direction, wearing a salwar suit and an umbrella in her hand goes by him, she then turns back to him within a few seconds. She goes to him with her curious eyes and puts the umbrella above his head to protect him by getting wet. The young man could feel someone’s presence and a lavender scent, which is Pragya’s favorite one. He then comes to his senses calling Pragya’s name to only see an unknown young woman standing next to him who is holding an umbrella covering both of their heads. She gave him a small smile by saying that he needs it more than her as how he wont probably manage to take care of the patient if he gets sick. She then makes him hold her own umbrella and leaves him by entering the hospital with heavy steps in order to avoid the pondering rain. Veer watched her going with a confused expression saying to himself ” ajeeb hai…
Two days later Pragya finally started to talk to her parents, she started to recover. Veer went to meet the doctor in order to know the whereabouts of her condition before visiting Pragya.
Doctor : – As I told you Mr. Malhotra, Pragya showed several symptoms of a deep depression, we even contacted her psychiatric she confirmed to us that she didn’t prescribed her any pills that could harm her health. We assume that she got some prescription illegally and took the big step on her own, which actually happens most of the time.
Veer : – But doctor…How can we know what…what made her take these pills ?
Doctor : – Fortunately she is out of danger now, the answers to yours and her family’s questions are up to her. First of all she needs to recover, to continue her therapy sessions. Meanwhile we need to be patient and to support her so that we can help her and prevent her to harm herself again.
Veer nods his head with sad eyes. The doctor then cheers him up.
Doctor : – Pragya’s family and yourself need to be strong in order to support her. She is lucky to have you in her life…Well mostly in such situations when a couple if affected her or his partner tend to get weak in their relationship. I can say just by watching you the past two days that you are a very good partner. All the very best Mr. Malhotra and be strong, everything will be fine !
Veer was taken aback by his words and advice. He thanks the doctor and went out from his office to join Pragya. He is both excited and anxious of meeting her. After that conversation, he reaches to her room, enters after knocking, thankfully none of her family members are their to trouble him. A nurse is feeding her, while seeing Veer coming towards her, Pragya asks the nurse to leave them and that she had eaten enough. Veer takes the platter and assures the nurse that he will make sure that he finishes her meal properly. The nurse smiles him back and leaves them alone in the hospital room. Veer sits on the chair next to her bed to speak to her.
Veer : – Tum kaisi ho ?
Pragya : – It’s burning inside me…
Veer : – Chalo eat well, take your medicine on time, rest well so that you can get well soon !
Pragya : – When did you started to sound like a doctor ?
Veer : – No more arguing Pragya. Here, eat.
Pragya turns her head on the left avoiding the spoon which contains soup.
Veer then insists again, she still refuses.
Veer : – Ok then, at least have some fruits yaar.
Pragya then stares at him angrily.
Veer : – Kya hua ? Dekh if you won’t eat then I will eat all these !
Pragya : – Please help yourself…Dekho Veer, I know why you’re doing all these…Stop making me feel uncomfortable !
Veer : – Maine kya galath kiya Pragya ? Aur…why…why did you do this?
Pragya : – Oh please, you wasn’t even there for me when I needed you the most !
Veer : – This is not the time to argue about what happened between us. We’ll talk about it later when you’ll recover but try to understand that even if we’re together or not if you need me I will be there for you…I…I wasn’t able to answer you on that night as I was out of town but trust me yaar, if I knew that you was so unwell I would rush into you!
Pragya : – I’m tired, I wanna rest if you don’t mind.
Veer : – Ok then I’ll see you, take care.
He closes the door behind him taking a deep breath and take a glimpse at her through the door’s window before leaving, Pragya is already lying on the bed.
When he was about to take a step ahead, a young lady doctor bumps into him, her hand collides with his. As a result, her bracelet get stuck to his watch, her bracelets tears apart. She just said sorry to him and rushed behind a kid who apparently is a patient. Veer looks on the floor, he collects the bracelets and it’s plastic pearls and small butterflies. While collecting them one by one, he realizes that she got back to the kid and that she is reasoning him calmly while he is crying. Veer closely looks at her from afar and then says to himself : ” Yeh wohi hai na…the one who gave me her umbrella that night…”
Veer finishes up with the bracelet, he gets up, the young women and the kid are already gone. Veer then wonders what to with the bracelet now that it’s half broken. There was a dustbin a few meters from him. He takes a few steps ahead to throw it in but then stops himself saying : ” Nahi, she works here, I will give it her back along with the umbrella.
On the other hand the kid who was running in the corridor reaches into his mother’s hand who was waiting for him in the pediatric ward of Savitri Devi College And Hospital. She gave him a big hug saying to not run away from her and his treatments anymore otherwise he wouldn’t be able to come home. She wipes her son’s tears and notices that his doctor is looking at them from afar with emotional eyes. Sanchi comes to them and caress the kid’s head.
Sanchi : – Don’t worry, we doctors are trying our best. Your mom is there with you and God is also with you. You need to be strong in order to fight with all of us, tik hai ?
Kid : – Aur papa ? He won’t come na… he left us…
His mom doesn’t know what to say, she feels sad and embarrassed. Sanchi tries to cheer him up again.
Sanchi : – Mummy hai na aap ke saath beta. There are some kids who don’t even have both parents with them, but look how lucky you are. Get well soon so that you can take care of your mother also, tik hai ?
Kid : – Tik kai doctor Sanchi !
The kid’s mom thanked Sanchi and Sanchi leaves the mother and son alone in order for them to spend some quality time before the kid’s therapy starts.
” One needs to take care of himself in order to protect his dearest ones.”