#Riansh -The path of thorns- 1 (IMMJ-2)

Mumbai,

Life shine hospital,

Vansh had come along with his dadi for her check-up as she was facing abdomen pain and the doctor who had checked her had advised taking the scan.

He sat along with the waiting area for his dadi’s turn with patience and his dadi kept gulping the water from the bottle slowly with a steady pace.

” Is it paining dadi,” he asked his dadi looking at her.

” Little better Vansh,” said Dadi.

” Hopefully the scan would let us know what is the problem,” said Vansh with a slow tone to which Dadi nods her head.

Meanwhile, his thoughts were disrupted with an attractive giggle in the nearby waiting room. His heartbeat just skipped a few beats where he voluntarily stepped towards the giggle and his whole existence shook harder as he saw her almost 5 months of time.

” Whyieeeee,” said Ridhima with a childish tone where she was busy letting the boat float on the fountain in the middle of the room. Along with her, few more kids were present, where they were also enjoying themselves with her.

Her innocence seemed to be reflecting upon her eyes very well and Vansh felt fallen in love with her once again with her innocence.

And that was the reason which he can never admit because he claimed to hate her.

” Didi, this boat is so cute,” said the small girl with a smile.

” Is it? let me make another boat,” said Ridhima taking a paper and making a boat for the little girl.

” Here you go princess,” she added with a beautiful smile of hers.

” Ridhu,” said a sharp voice making her little flinch at the tone. She closed her eyes tightly to get scolding from him.

” Get up first,” said the voice where he helped her to get up.

” Sorry, Sorry,” she said holding her ears with a cute pout.

” Always this won’t get well with you, ” he said pinching her cheeks lovingly.

” Pakka next time, I won’t, I would be careful Adi,” she said holding her neck making a promise.

” Good, Aliya called you in for a scan,” said Adithya.

” Thank god, I am unable to control Adi,” she said in a worried tone.

” Come let’s go,” said Adithya hugging her at the side where he led her into the scan room.

Vansh glared at her with harshness as he wasn’t able to tolerate the happiness in her face which she is having now. He isn’t able to digest after all he has been in the deepest pit of hell every second after he had thrown out of his life.

How could she be so happy after all this he thought in his mind where his fury doubled seeing some known men with her.  As he was lost with his thoughts, dadi came towards him at the meantime as the nurse had called

At the same time, dadi came towards Vansh for calling him as the nurse announced that they were also called.

Vansh came out of his thoughts where he led dadi inside the scan room where a curtain was kept to partion the two scanning machines.

” Ridhu,” shouted Adi as he sensed her all wet as she wasn’t able to control her urge.

” Sorry,” said Ridhima with tears in her eyes where her doctor came towards her.

“It’s fine Ridhu, there is a spare dress in her locker, I would ask the nurse to bring it okay,” said the doctor looking at Ridhima’s perplexed form.

” I didn’t mean it,” she said in a vulnerable tone.

” It happens ridhu, this is very common in this state, so no worries, just relax,” said Adithya hugging her to relax her. He knew how much vulnerable she gets when she gets stuck in situations like this.

“But then,” said Ridhima.

” Who are you?” asked Adithya.

“Ridhima Raichand,” she said.

” And Raichands,” said Adithya.

” Never gets defeated,” said Ridhima.

“So no more tears,” he said wiping her tears where Ridhima smiles a little .

” Go to washroom, Nurse would bring the dress,” said the Doctor where Ridhima nods her head and left to the washroom.

” Sorry doctor,” said Adithya.

” Its fine, I know what state she is in, so no worries. Let her take some juice and repeat the process. The bladder needs to be full to take a scan,” said Doctor.

” Sure doctor, I would take care of her,” said Adithya where he waited for ridhima to come outside.

At the other side of the curtain

“Poor girl, I could sense from her tone that she was broken,” said Dadi to vansh where they were waiting for the doctor to come.

” Poor and she. You don’t know who is it,” said Vansh to himself.

” Mrs. Raisinghania, sorry for the delay, please lay down,” said the doctor where Dadi laid on the bed silently

” How is that girl, it must be so awkward right,” asked Dadi.

” Yeah but don’t worry, till her adi is there, she could be handled so well,” let us now see what us the problem with you,” said the doctor taking her instrument in hand where Vansh told would wait outside the screen where he went there.

Ridhima meanwhile came along with Adithya but she failed to see Vansh. She and Adi both went out of the room.

” So again the process repeats so drink water, we can have a scan after 1 hour,” said Adithya.

” I am late for work already,” said Ridhima.

” You go and do your work, but same time keep drinking water. Take 10mins break in between where you can come for a scan,” said Adithya.

Ridhima nods her head.

” I would go and come back soon, I have some work outside. Let me lead you to your cabin,” said Adithya.

Ridhima nods her head where they both went to the 5 th floor of the hospital where Ridhima’s cabin was there.

” Take care Ridhu, anything phone up,” said  Adithya leaving after bidding her a bye.

Ridhima came inside the cabin and sat with a sulky face.

” You are an idiot Ridhu,  can’t even control anything. Now drink this tones of water again,” she said to herself where she drank some water. As she drank the water,  she let a huge sigh where she called the nurse to make her appointments available from now on.

She had her regular patients where she enjoyed a lot in helping them as well as gossiping with them. As she called for the next patient, her heart started beating faster with a huge speed.

She felt restless for some unknown reasons where she gulped the remaining water of the third water bottle.

” May I come in Doctor,” called a manly voice which she could recognize so well. But then she maintained her stance as to how she used to be because she didn’t want to let her past get affected in her present.

She has to do that at any cost because of her baby residing inside her.

” Yes please,” she said with the sweetest tone as she always used to use.

” Ridhima control. Don’t react, don’t let yourself weaken, baby, needs you, you are not that weak ridhima” she said to compose herself

Vansh and Dadi came inside the room where they were literally shocked to see her there.

” Ridhima,” said Dadi with a shock.

” Yes my name is ridhima, please have a seat Mam,” said Ridhima with a smile making Dadi and Vansh shocked with her behavior.

She mustered her face with just as full of happiness as she used to be, making Vansh and Dadi burn a little seeing her happy and glittery eyes.

” So what’s the issue?” asked Ridhima being casual. Treating them as just one of her patients.

” This is the reports, gynecologist had asked you to guide over the exercises to be taken to reduce the pain,” said Vansh handing over the file where Ridhima took the file and looked on to the report keenly.

As she was engrossed in the file, the door clipped open and a boy came running to ridhima calling her loudly.

” Ridhima didi,” said Vidhaan letting a huge relief.

” Relax, relax, Vidhaan, take a deep breath,” said Ridhima holding him.

” I told you many times right, not to disturb when I am attending a patient?” she asked him with a little frown.

” Sorry,” he said cutely by making some expression.

” Okay fine, so tell me, what happened,” she asked ignoring Vansh and Dadi.

” How is my princess,” he asked.

” You know, I felt her movements just sometime before, wait let me make you feel,” said Ridhima taking Vidhaan’s hand to her stomach leaving a completely rooted Vansh and Dadi.

Is she pregnant they both thought with a wide look where Vansh then noticed her chubbiness and her little bulky stomach which her dress was hiding perfectly.

” Did you feel it,” asked Ridhima as she felt the baby move inside her.

“No,” said Vidhaan with a disappointed tone.

” Don’t worry just few more days and you can feel the baby very well. It would start kicking me as if I am a football,” said Ridhima.

” Really,” asked Vidhaan.

“Yes, now go as a good boy to the playing area, I would be there after finishing my appointments, Okay,” she asked to Vidhaan.

Vidhaan nods his head obediently where he ran off the room immediately.

” Sorry for the intervention, that little boy is my friend and he is allowed here anytime, so let me make a few notes of exercise to be done, and then I would demonstrate,” said Riddhima with a little smile where she made few notes on the report and then got up her seat.

” This way please mam,” she said kneeling down on the position.

” Is it fine if you do at this situation?” Dadi asked her a little worried about seeing her stretching.

“Mam,  why bother about me and my baby unnecessary. Don’t worry I know each and every move I make, so please do along with me now,” said Riddhima where she showed the stretch

She flinched a little in pain with tears in her eyes as it pained a little. But she managed to withhold herself and show herself as strong.

She completed doing with a smile and got up to her chair.

“Do this exercise 5 times a day, and report to me next week, Okay?” said Ridhima.

” Ridhima can I have a word with you,” asked Vansh wanting to clear some of the issues between them. He needs to know if the baby was his. How dare she could hide it if it was his?

” Sure,” said Ridhima by nodding her head.

” Is it my baby,” he asked looking at her.

” Excuse me,” she said looking at him with wide eyes.

” Tell me Ridhima,” he asked.

“What the hell did you think about me.  A stranger like you questioning me and asking to answer without any shame” blasted Ridhima with a loud tone

Vansh was taken aback by her words.

Stranger and him????? He is her husband for god’s sake!!!!

” He is your husband Ridhima,” said dadi.

Ridhima just stared at the duo with an unbelievable look.  Husband and he, her foot!  With which right he is claiming himself as her husband when he did throw her away claiming her to be a stranger when she was exactly his wife.

” Oh god, what type of people I am meeting. Mam, you are mistaken. I am not this man’s wife. I think you all are in some kind of illusion and you need a very well psychiatrist treatment,” said Ridhima with a huffed face where she took a deep breathe to calm down.

” Ridhima why are you lying? I know whatever happened between us was something worse but don’t bring the baby’s life in between, it is my baby right?”asked Vansh nonchalantly.

” Wait, I have a solution to this,” said Ridhima picking up her phone and asking the nurse to enter in.

They would get their deserved lesson now!!!! she thought where she picked her prescription pad and wrote something in it. Meanwhile, the Nurse entered the room

” Yes mam,” said Nurse.

” Is Dr Zoya available?” asked Ridhima

” Yes mam,” said Nurse.

” This is my recommendation form for these two. I think they need psychiatric evaluation and tell zoya that she didn’t need to collect fees as I would be the one paying for them as this much I can least do for questioning me like that, please do this help” said Ridhima glaring at them where she face a smile to Nurse.

It was an invisible slap on their face which they got for their deeds they had done to her.

And Vansh for the first time felt how it would have felt for her when he threw her out and hurt as if pretending to not know her.

Dadi was numbed and shocked seeing her like that. She wasn’t the ridhima she had known at all.

“Sure Ridhuu,” said Nurse where she led them both outside voluntarily.

Ridhima heaved a huge sigh of relief as they both exited where her hands hugged her stomach with her hands tightly.

” Relax baby, nothing has happened. I am there right, no one can do anything to you. Mumma is there na” she talked to her baby trying to console her baby and herself. Suddenly her thoughts drifted to the other possibilities.

What if Vansh came to know the truth and he snatched her baby away from her. He already snatched her identity, her everything from her, and now what if he snatched the last piece of her hope too brutally?

Her heart was beating fast and she was feeling restless and nervous with the thoughts. Sweat broke through her. She wiped her sweat and drunk some water from the bottle.

She fisted her hands and played with them anxiously.

” Ridhu relax, nothing has happened, no one can snatch your princess from you,” she said to herself but the nervousness didn’t go.

She immediately called Zoya on her telephone.

” Zoya, please,” she said in a panic tone heaving huge breaths

” Wait let me come to your cabin,” said Zoya in a worried tone where she came out of her cabin and headed towards the stairs to reach the 5 th floor as the lift was on the ground floor and she in 8 th floor.

She panicked came down the stairs where on the 5 th floor, she could see a nurse arguing along with Vansh and Dadi.

They were arguing for not seeing the psychiatrist doctor whereas nurse was saying it was her duty.

” Nurse,” said Zoya in a panicked tone.

” Yes Doctor,” said Nurse concentrating on Zoya leaving Vansh and Dadi behind.

” Bring XYZ medicine quickly to Ridhu’s cabin and make a call to Adithya. She isn’t well,” said Zoya quickly giving her instruction and marching towards Ridhima’s cabin.

“Ridhu,” she screamed out in a loud tone as she entered the cabin….