Chapter 15 :: Physiotherapist meets the Royals!
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At Bikaner Palace,....
outside at the lawn area Rana Alok Singh Rathod was strolling around in his wheel chair with his butler Gyan Singh behind him, when he heard some very very girly squeaks. He turned around only to see the back of a probable round faced, slim, straight ponytailed girl in hoodie, sweatpants and neon colour sneakers with her right hand sticking infront of her face with her phone's front camera on, making weird faces and taking pictures of his Palace with herself.
''what on earth!.......who is she Gyan Singh, who let her in! i thought you said no visitors today'' He grumbled and Gyan Singh started looking around for guards frantically......
He wheeled himself towards her, she was still busy in her own world.
''And who are you'' She jumped and almost had her phone screen broke as his voice boomed in her ear
''Oh! Umm..hi! I'm Dr.Madhulika Iyer'' she answered pulling her hand out to shake
''Oh! Dr.Iyer, the 35th physiotherapist, you are quite young, i see!'' Alok Singh Rathod said narrowing his eyes at her, as if trying to intimidate her,.....so far that worked fine with other doctors.
bullying them into running away!
''Umm...may i'' She asked right away and just squatted down to check his leg
and somehow that managed to made him jump away with his wheelchair as if her mere touch will poison him and started shouting at her......
''What on earth are you doing!? Get away,..... get away from my feet'' He shouted, glaring at her with eyes bigger than the Rajasthani thali
''Ummm..sorry!'' She muttered looking slightly flabbergasted by the sudden outburst...
''take her inside Gyan Singh'' He ordered
''please follow me, madam'' Gyan Singh muttered looking down
And, with that, she walked away behind the butler.
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inside Bikaner Palace,.....
Gyan Singh just left Madhulika inside the huge living area which was full of different era's historical artifacts.........never in her entire life she thought she would come in touch of some royalty.
All thanks to her pushy punjabi mother!
In her excitement, she forgot and took the wrong flight and came one day earlier, not only it's Sunday, It's transport strike going on in this part of the city for some reason so she could not even hail a taxi,.....she had to come all the way to the palace in a bullock cart!
So, here she was,......
looking around with a wide open mouth and a pair of round eyes, taking pictures of everything that was in her view.....and in daze she didn’t realize there was a Knight's decoration of plate armour behind her.....until she tripped on it and it almost started leaning on her of it's holder, she let out a horrified scream for how heavy it was that it would have crushed her under it's weight if not for Gyan Singh to come running in time and holding it's weight back with Raanisa Umma Singh Rathod behind him......
Any suggestions about making the first impression on Royals !? feel free to give her that......!
serious so much for that!
As the butler sets the Knight straight with much difficulty,..... Raanisa was looking at her appearance with a funny expression on her face......
frankly it was okay to be surprised because as a professional physiotherapist,..... Madhu didn't think think of contacting them before coming all the way to Bikaner a day before but it was quite another thing that as if this regal looking woman was giving her another look of disbelief as if wasn't really expecting a doctor would look like her at all.
which was true, Dr.Shilajit never mentioned Dr.Madhulika's appearance, only that her track record is commendable......so naturally Raanisa Umma Singh Rathod was expecting a middle aged, rimmed glassed nerdy, unsmiling lady!
But then, who wouldn't, with her name!
But there she was,.....showing all her white even set of teeth in a big smile, one hand over the Knight's shoulder and with another hand waving at Raani Umma Singh Rathod
''Err...hi, I'm Dr. Madhulika Iyer" She let out a nervous smile,....
"hai Raam kitna bhari hai yaar, mere pe girta to mera kachumber ban jata....purane jamane me kaise pehente honge log"
[ gosh! Its so heavy, i almost got crushed.....how did someone managed to wear this in old days! ]
''It's been in our family for almost 500 years!'' Raani Umma Singh Rathod proudly said
"itnaa puraana......Kabariwala nahi hain kya pure Rajasthan me ?"
[ Woahhh......that old!
don't you have a scrape dealer in Bikaner ? ] Gyan Singh stifled his laugh, but when Raanisa glared at him, he cleared his throat and bowed his head respectfully.
And turned to the Doctor to gave her a deadpanned look.....
'Err....bad joke' Dr.Madhulika Iyer muttered under her breath
''Gyan Singh! show Dr.Iyer her room, dinner at 8:30, see you there" she turned and just about go back when,
''Aunty ji! how old are you ? Almost 60 i guess !? You shouldn't be wearing those heels, you know! In few year, you'll have severe problem in walking" Madhulika said from behind......
The way Raanisa turned, she was lucky not to have a sprained neck!
Gyan Singh flinched from the way her eyes throwing daggers at the new doctor....
''you can either call be Raanisa or Mrs.Rathod!'' Raani Umma Singh Rathod gritted out
Then, she just eyed Gyan Singh and excused herself.
They walked out of that room and Gyan Singh showed her another way......
to the opposite direction when he told her that it was for this kind of visits and especially for tourists. It used to be the Kachari(office) once even used by Ranaji's father when he was very young.
They reached main building, to her room which was at the 2nd floor of it......it was so quiet all around, most servants were just busy in their work,
she looked around and sighed looking bored, though it was a relief that inside was not as hot and stuffy as outside nope!.....
it was nice and open and cold, well ventilated,....finally she can rest.
''thank you, Gyan Singh ji!'' She turned around and said cheerfully
''permission to leave Madam ?''
''Oh! call me Madhu, I'm much younger than you so, no need to be formal at all''
Gyan Singh just cleared his throat and blinked and asked again,...... "permission to leave, Madhu madam!''
Madhulika raised her eyebrows and sighed then gave him a nod.....
so much for meeting Royals.....she thought!
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