(DISCLAIMER : The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this story are fictitious.
No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places is intended or should be inferred)
Anvitha finished off her work late night and hit the hay. She was a progressive working girl, pursuing research on quantum mechanics. She woke up hearing a notification on her mobile after two hours of her sleep at 3 o'clock in the morning. The text read, 'Ashvath admitted in hospital due to over dose of cocaine'.
She thought that it was her dream, rubbed her eyes to recheck the text once again. It read the same. She was startled not because of text at early dawn but because of Ashvath and drugs in same text!
She woke up immediately and founds her way into the washroom along with her mobile, to book an early morning flight to Mumbai. She was fortunate enough to get the flight at 5 o'clock in the morning from Delhi to Mumbai. She grabbed her mobile while travelling to the airport to send an email to her colleague, that she could not attend the lab due to a medical emergency to one of her friend.
The way she responded to the text, shows how much Ashvath means to her, even though he was not in touch with her for past 7 years. She cared him a lot. She wanted to see Ashvath in better positions. She could not believe that Ashvath consumed drugs, because, in her mind he was a nice guy. Many random thoughts flashed through her mind about Ashvath and drugs, but she brushed off everything not to get lost in her thoughts.
Anvitha touched down at Mumbai airport on time and rushed to the hospital to see her friend. 'What happened to him, how is he now?' she starts with a flurry of questions to Darshan.
'The doctors told that they could not confirm anything until 12 hours from now', says Rishi.
Darshan, Rishi, Anvitha and Ashvath were close friends from their bachelor's degree. They shared most of their days together in their four years of bachelor's degree life. Ashvath arranged many tutorial sessions to their friends before assignments and exams to make sure that everyone among them score well in exams. Meanwhile, Ashvath observed that Anvitha didn't concentrate much on tutorials as her entire concentration was on Darshan; she came to tutorial just to see Darshan.
On a fine day, Ashvath asked Anvitha about Darshan and she opened up everything to him about her feelings for Darshan. She also asked Ashvath to help her. Ashvath promised to help her in this context.
As time progressed, Ashvath and she became so close as friends, even more than of what she became with Darshan (yes!!! Darshan accepted Anvitha). Anvitha had a special reverence and admiration for Ashvath and it continued till she came to the hospital to see her friend.
Darshan and Rishi were worried about the escalation of usage of drugs to investigation, as the doctor warned them to control their friend just two months ago, otherwise the doctor would register a complaint for investigation on drugs! They were equally worried because, if a case is filed against him on drugs, it would ruin his career. They put everything in Anvitha's ear.
'Who is the doctor in charge of Ashvath?', she asks Darshan with a commanding voice, as his girlfriend.
'Dr. Arjun is looking after him'
'Dr. Arjun Patel ?' she enquires.
'Yes!'
'Oh! I know him. Come, let us talk to him about Ashvath', they proceed to doctors lobby.
'Hello Anvitha, how are you doing?' Dr. Arjun was elated to see Anvitha in the lobby.
'I am doing fine! How are you doing doctor?'
'I am fine too, meanwhile, why are you here? Any problem?'
'One of my friend is your patient, so I came in an early morning flight to see him.'
'Who is that?'
'He is Ashvath'
'Oh! That rouge! Why did you come to see such a drug addict, he is just arrogant!'
'Please doctor! He may be a drug addict now, but he was a nice guy, I am not aware of circumstances that made him like that. Please give me one chance, I will talk to him after he recovers and makes sure that he doesn't take drugs another time, please have belief in me!'
'No Anvitha, you doesn't know about him, he is such a bastard consuming drugs all the time. I really don't understand why are you standing for him?!'
'Please doctor, you know me very well, please give me a chance'
'Okay Anvitha, it's just for you! I am leaving him this time because of you! Take care of him!'
'Uffff!!!', they three sounded in unison in a state of relief after a heated conversation with the doctor. 'This wouldn't be possible if you are not here today,' Darshan says to her.
'Shut up! You are his friends and what the hell are you doing here when he was in that state of mind. You didn't even tell me about this mess,' she shouts at them.
'We didn't think that this would go to this extreme level, so we didn't tell to any one about this issue,' Rishi tries to calm her down.
'Now do you care to tell me what has happened to Ashvath? Why is he like this now? What circumstances pulled him this extreme?'
'It's a long story!' Darshan says in a sarcastic tone.
'It's you guys who had introduced alcohol and every bad thing to him, and now you are making sarcastic comments on him while he is suffering,' she says to them in stiffest of her tones.
'You are sounding as if we had spoiled him,' Darshan tries to counter his girlfriend.
'Just shut up your mouth and don't talk to me now!' she affirms.
Anvitha was worried about her friend on bed fighting for life. She wanted to know what made Ashvath to consume drugs. She thought that her friend went though some serious bad phases in his life during the past 7 years. She wanted her friend back in full life. She wanted to take care of him and help him in rehabilitation.
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