ESCAPING THE INESCAPABLE

CHAPTER 5

KHUSHI'S POV

The throat clearing voice made me turn towards him , the man i almost ...i mean i fully forgot about , but it wasn't my fault , my whole attention was grabbed by this cute little pumpkin .

"oh hi Mr . fill in the blank please"  really khushi like really , you just grabbed his child and made a run for a competition , threatened the cosmetic store and participated with your cutiepie lying that you were his masi and now this , he is gonna sue you . i kept looking at that man and he kept looking at me , i was nervous and the look he gave me was i kinda familiar with , he must be thinking what a crazy ass i am . 

"hello , i am Vivaan , Vivaan Khanna" he introduced forwarding his hand towards me for a handshake , i took his hand and then i almost jumped out of my place , the sudden wave of electricity from the sudden touch straightly travelled to my  heart numbing my brain cells .

when i looked him in his eyes , he looked as shocked as me , this shouldn't be happening , this is wrong .

 don't go where you have been already once , that path is not for you , you aren't made for something like that , get a grip on yourself ,  remember your past and learn from your mistake , khushi .    

i took back my hand hurriedly leaving his hand hanging in the mid air , he looked at me confused but when he realized his hand's position , he pulled it back and shoved it inside in his pants pocket . 

He had this blank expression back on his face for a second when his eyes softened again  . ok thankgod i thought he was mad at me. 

"no , infact thankyou , ish was sad when he was disqualified , when i went to talk to his teacher , ish ran away crying and bumped into you  , and i am sorry for troubling you , ish doesn't behave likes this with strangers but i-i umm i think he took a liking in you , otherwise he is not at all a boy who would trouble pe-" he kept rambling and i had to keep my hand on his mouth . 

ok wrong move done by me , i hurriedly removed my hand away from his mouth . 

because he froze just like me , he didn't blink because i wasn't blinking myself . 

"i-i am sorry , actually you kept rambling , and this is a habit of mine , you know my mumma , she keeps scolding me so much that i have to keep my palm over her mouth stop her rants everytime , and since i get a daily dosage of scoldings so i have this habit of doing this and-" 

"now you are rambling" he cut me off chuckling and i zipped my mouth instantly , way to embarrass yourself khushi , i mean who the hell tells someone let alone a stranger that you get scolded daily , he must be thinking that i must be some spoiled brat who keeps troubling her parents . 

he looked at me and then started laughing hysterically and i accompanied him by laughing nervously . 

"umm by the way , your son is really a cute kid and he didn't bother me at all, i just love kids a lot and i don't like them crying , they are a treasure and are only meant to be cherished ,loved and cared. tears don't suit them " i told him , he looked at me shocked for a second but then a smile plastered his face . 

"masi " i heard the voice that belonged to the little kiddo , he came to me and i crouched down to his level and ruffled his hairs . 

"what kiddo " i asked him and he just pouted , aww cutie 

"i am not a kiddo" he said in a grumpy voice and i just chuckled 

"ok big boy , happy now" i said and he gave me a huge smile nodding his head 

"come with us ,we are going to celebrate our victory" he said 

"yes join us " mr khanna said , i was about to answer him when my phone buzzed 

"oh s**t" i muttered under my breath when i saw it was dr. Mathews calling me 

"hello" i said in a very innocent voice , please don't make him mad at me right now , an angry mathew is never good , god bless my soul please . 

"hello Dr. Khushi come ASAP ,it's an emergency" Dr. Mathews said and hung up and since he just said that it was an emergency i needed to rush off and my job either can be done by someone else or this check up program could be post-poned , but right now i needed to rush . 

"sorry mr. khanna , sorry kindo , but i gotta rush right now " i said and didn't even wait for their response and rushed towards the parking lot , i just wish the emergency is not as huge as dr. mathew sounded which  is not the case , his tone was enough to tell me how important it was . 

rushing towards the parking lot , i unlocked my car and hit the ignition button but my luck , the car wasn't starting ...fuck 

i tried and tried and tried but this piece of metal won't work at all ...god what do i do now , even if i call for a cab it would take some time and i needed to reach the hospital asap 

"need help" i turned when i heard the deep familiar voice and i just nodded desperately . 

"can you please drop me to the lifecare hospital " i asked his face turned into concern . 

"come " he said and i followed him to his car and ok i know it wasn't the right time but damn from the looks of the car i could tell it was hella expensive . 

he opened the passenger door for me and murmured a quick thankyou .

"hey masi are you going to join us" i heard the chirpy voice of my little bunny again , oh how much it hurts to deny him everytime . 

"sorry baby but masi needs to reach somewhere asap i promise next time hmm" i said and he then didn't speak anything . god why ??????

Mr. khanna looked at me and gave me an assuring smile . 

we then drove to life care hospital , and as soon as the car stopped i jumped out of the car without even taking a glance on them or saying thankyou , hope they understand . 

i rushed to the surgery floor where i saw dr. mathew with other nurses . 

"Mr. Andres , this is our main pediatric surgeon Dr. Agnihotri " dr. mathew introduced me to Mr. andres who i guess was patient's father . it was heartbreaking to see such a well built tough man crying and almost begging me to save his child . 

"Mr. andres please don't worry , i promise you , our team will save your child " i assured him and then we moved inside the operation theater . 

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five hours later ...

finally the surgery was successful .. Mr. and Mrs. Andres were happy that their child was safe , oh god please don't make such small children suffer like this , the child who we performed surgery on was no more that 10 and was suffering from heart problem which needed an immediate sugery but now he is fine .

"good job Khushi" dr. mathew patted my shoulder and i smiled back ...

ok now when the surgery is done i am seriously exhausted ,  i just wanna go home and need a head massage from papa and a kadak adrak wali chai from mumma . 

(strong ginger tea)

i went to my cabin to grab the reports , i also had to check up on the other kids as well ...just say it took me another three hours ...now i really don't have energy left inside my body ...i need rest , as soon as all of my work was done i just grabbed my bag and exited the hospital only to smack my head because i have left my damaged car in the school parking lot , god what do i do now ,  i was calling for a cab when my eyes landed on the familiar person who was already looking at me  . 

"he......?????"