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The Accident
With the same
excitement, jai speed up the car.
After a neat fifteen
minutes journey, jai took a halt at the side of the road and saw Vignudha who
seemed to be thinking something.
Yes, she was sunk in
thoughts. Whenever she get a chance, she is thinking about her past days,
friends and about how she finally managed to take a decision on her own. If
everything was perfect, she will now be in a flight completing almost half of
the journey to U.S. But just because of her changed decision, she is now in car
with jai in India. She thanked herself coming out of thoughts and realised that
the car gets stopped.
“Jai, what happened?”
He showed her a crowd
on the opposite road. They both headed towards the spot and an old man covered
in blood. Everyone was looking eagerly at the old man and murmuring about the
accident to their next person. One among them said that he called an ambulance.
It looked as if the accident happened minutes before. He is still alive. Jai
and Vignudha, who saw him in severe condition, thought that it would be a waste
of time to wait for an ambulance. So, both decided to take him to the nearest
hospital in their car.
When jai asked some
people to lift the old man in to the car, all of a sudden, a ‘press’ van came. In
fraction of seconds, a lady with mike and a bloke with a camera got out of van,
came to them and started shooting the entire scene. Lady was enquiring the
people about the accident and what’s been the situation. Jai requested the
helpers to ignore them and shift him swiftly in to the car. Cameraman is
shooting the scene focusing on old man, jai, Vignudha, some helpers and the car
until they moved to some distance. Then he shifted the focus on to the lady
with mike, got into the van and started following the car.
“Public here saying
that this accident had happened ...” cameraman was focusing sometimes on jai’s
car and sometimes on the lady while she was speaking. She is speaking in such a
hurry as though she need not to take a breath.
“... twenty minutes
before. Witnesses are saying that when the old man trying to take a slow and
neat turn, suddenly a truck hit the back edge of the car with a very high speed
which makes the car to hit the divider. Truck driver had not stopped. They got
stunned on seeing the accident and so no one noticed the truck number. We can
see that the old man was fully covered in blood and still alive. Public called
to an ambulance long time ago but there is no sign of it. So they are taking him to hospital in car.
You can see the car breaking the speed limit to save the victim. Hope he is
still alive. Watch exclusive on Livelife channel. With camera man Suraj, Maya.
Livelife channel, stay tuned for more updates.”
In a very short time, they
reached to the nearest hospital. As soon as they entered inside the hospital,
three nurses understood the situation and hurried towards them. Vignudha went
to the reception, filled the form and signed it. Next minute, the old man was
in the operation theatre. Both jai and Vignudha sat in the waiting hall while
the others who came to help left the hospital. Live-life channel van found
nowhere near the hospital. They might have got other exclusive news to cover.
Blood Donor
Jai and Vignudha are
waiting in the hospital. But why are they waiting? Aren’t they on their way to
C.S? Why then? Is he, the old man, relative or neighbor to any of them or any
of their friends? Who is he? Actually he is no one to them. He is just an
individual waiting for help and they are his help.
After five minutes, a
nurse came to them and asked for blood donors as the patient lost lot of blood.
Both said, “I can’t”
because in a difference of two to three months they both gave blood.
Then nurse said, “Ok,
no problem. Please sit. We will make the arrangements” and left.
Within five minutes, a
car took a halt at the entrance and a person in suit hurried to reception
speaking in mobile, “I will be there in thirty five minutes. Mr.Mohit will
handle the meeting until I get there.” He asked the driver to wait outside.
Anyone can understand
with his behavior that he is in a hurry. But why is he in such a hurry? He
said to someone in mobile that he will be back for meeting. Which means, he
walked out in the middle of the meeting. But, Why?
He went straight to
reception and then along with the nurse. After about a half an hour, he came
out of the room folding up his hand tightly and started speaking on mobile,
“Can’t he handle the meeting at least for half an hour. Ask them to have a
small break. I’ll be there soo ... Cancel the meeting. Do as I say prakash. I
know what it worth.”
On seeing Vignudha and
jai in the waiting hall, his heart made a jolt and his eyes filled with tears
of happiness. He ran and stood in front of them.
“Ajay”, Vignudha cried
as she saw him. His name echoed in the
silent hall.
Jai hugged him the
moment he caught sight of Ajay.
“How are you, da? It’s
really been long time.”
“Actually, not as
always, Jai, I thought you would have changed. But you’re still the same.”
“Ajay”
“You too, Vignudha”, he
embraced her.
“I have tried to reach
you in all possible ways. But I got no response from you. Why is it, Ajay?”
asked Jai.
He hesitated for a
moment and said “I was angry on you, Jai. I thought that you would support ‘Him’,
not only you, everyone of us. But it happened the other way. You all made ‘Him’
feel guilty. I tried to speak to him. Everything happened just like that. I know
that this day will come. I am just waiting.”
All three of them sat
there.
“How is ‘He’?” Ajay
asked Vignudha, expecting her response will solve his deep-rooted questions.
But again, silence filled between them.
Ajay tried to
understand and for a change of topic asked them, “Anyway, what are you doing
here?”
When Jai was about to
respond, she asked Ajay, “let’s all unite again.”
He smiled and said “I
am dying to, Vignudha. I ...”
Doctor came to them, said
“He is alright, don’t worry. Minor injuries all over the body, but lost lot of
blood ...” turned towards Ajay, “Thanks to you Mr. Ajay, you are always on
time. Your service needs to be appreciated”, Shook his hand and left.
“You came here to
donate blood?”
“Vignudha, don’t be
surprised. I’m a regular blood donor for this hospital.” He took a moment and
said “I’ll always keep my promise to ‘Him’. I believe, you both too.”
All three had just a
glimpse of past taking an oath to ‘Him’ that they will donate the blood as
frequently as possible.
Ajay continued “So, you
have admitted the old man. Who is he?”
“We don’t know. We are
on our way to reach you. When he saw a crowd ...” Vignudha said every detail
that had happened.
“This is what we are, Vignudha.
Not everyone will be like us. ‘He’ already made us to realize that we are not
like others. We can be the change and we can bring the change.”
“You are right, Ajay.
But it took two years for me to realize what I want to do.”
They went to saw the
old man, who is in the ICU, took his mobile and informed to his relatives. They
felt everything was OK, So they came out of the hospital.
“Ajay, why you are not
attending your calls?” asked Vignudha, who is unexpectedly observing him
ignoring the phone calls.
“It’s nothing.” He
lied.
Yes, Ajay lied to her.
He is actually getting continuous phone calls from his office about his
Meeting, from the start of their conversation. He said to cancel the meeting on
seeing jai and Vignudha. He has not given any other details to prakash. He
doesn’t care about anything. It’s really important for him to stay with Jai.
‘We are on our way to
reach you’ Does Vignudha lied to Ajay?
No, she hadn’t. She
returned from airport aiming to unite his friends for ‘Him’. Based on her
possibilities and distance, she made a course one after the other, starting
with Jai, then C.S, Ajay, Saveena and Chandana.
It’s like a quote “if
you help someone, help will come to you.” Vignudha and jai helped the old man,
which in turn, they got Ajay without any effort. Sometimes it happens instantly
where as in some other cases it will take some time, like it took two years to
put an end to the Ajay’s waiting to hang around with his best ever chums.
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