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Part 5

Arnav entered the RM. He saw that everyone was seated in the living area. He moved towards them and stood there in front of his family but no one lifted their head to acknowledge him. He tried to say something but none came out.

"Where is my sister, Arnav ji?" Payal shot, as she descended the stair with Aakash.

Arnav turned towards Payal.

"Payal, I...I..."

"You what Arnav ji?" Payal came and stood in front of Arnav.

"Payal...she...she refused to come with me..." Arnav said , his eyes downcast.

"Refused?...But...But...How?...She...She told that...She told me that she loves you ...She told she wants to live only with you...So why?...Why will she refuse to come with you?" Payal spluttered, her heart getting heavy with every second.

Arnav closed his eyes. He has no answer to that! How can he answer when he himself has no answer? The image of Khushi furiously shouting at him and telling to go away from her life, flashed in front of him. He felt his eyes filling with tears but controlling the tears from falling down, he opened his eyes.

"Payal...I ...I don't know...she told...she told me to go away...that...that she wants to live alone with her Arnav ji..." Arnav gave his answer to Payal, who stood there looking at him with a confused look.

"She...she told that to me too...but...but I thought that if you will go than she will be ok...and ...and she will come with you..." Payal siad in a barely audible voice.

Arnav looked at Payal's confused face. He needs to find answer to that. He will have to find the answer behind Khushi's behavior. She was acting weird and he will have to find the reason behind her weird behavior. Taking out his cell, he dialed a number.

"Hello, Aman! I want an appointment with Delhi's best psychiatrist! Do it as soon as possible and call back"

Payal's head snapped at Arnav.

"What?!!

"You think my sister in mad?!! How can you even think of consulting a psychiatrist?! I will not allow you to take her to any psychiatrist! Do you get me?!!" Payal snapped at Arnav.

Arnav moved towards Payal. He tried to put his hand on her shoulder but she moved back. Arnav looked at Payal through his hurt eyes.

"Payal, please. I need to consult the Psychiatrist. I need to know why she is behaving this way. But I promise I will not take her to any psychiatrist" Arnav tried to make her understand.

"I don't need your any promise, Mr.Raizada! I just want my sister back. Dare you think that she is insane!" Payal warned the man who has ruined her sister's life.

"Why you came in our life? Why did Devi Maiya sent you in our life? Aagar aap humare zindagi main nahi aate toh sab kuch theek hota! Na Khushi Shyam ji se milti, na who insaan humse jhoot bolke Buaji ke ghar ata, na woh aapse milte , na hi uske saath aisa kuch hota. Sab sab aap ki galati hai. Sab kuch aap ki wajah se hua hai" Payal lamented, cursing the moment the man, standing in front of her entered their life.

Aakash went towards Payal and looped his arms around her shoulder.

"Payal, you need to rest. Please let him try. I know you don't trust Bhai, but please, you know that only he can bring Khushi back. You tried, right? But she refused to come with you" Akash tried to console his weeping wife.

Payal nodded her head at Aakash and giving a last look at the man standing in front of her, She allowed Aakash to take her to their room.

Arnav saw Payal ascending the stairs with Aakash, closing his eyes for a moment to compose himself, he turned around to face the other members of his family.

He saw that everyone was seated on the sofa, looking down. His eyes searched for his Di but she wasn't there. He looked at his Mami, who was sitting there quietly. And then his eyes rested on his Nani, her one hand on her head, eyes downcast, looking defeated. Swallowing hard he moved towards her.

He came near his Nani and sat beside her knee on the floor.

"Nani...I ...I...I am..."

"Your sorry is of no use, Chhote" came Nani's blank voice.

Arnav looked at his Nani, she wasn't looking at him. This was the first time he is looking at his Nani's defeated self. Every time he had made a mistake, his Nani has berated him, admonished him, scolded him, tried to put some sense in him but today she did none. Was this time there's no forgiveness for his mistake?

"Nani...Please...I ...just ...please..." the lump in his throat making him unable to speak.

He tried to put his hand on her knees but she swayed it away and got up.

"I don't know what to tell you. Everyone use to tell me that my grandson has no heart but I never believed them. Because I always knew that how much you deny, you still care for other's feeling, you respect other's emotions, but now? Now I don't know what to think about you. Go. Try to mend some pieces because I know, what you have done cannot be mend completely. Not for anyone, do I for yourself, do it to get rid of the guilt I can see in your eyes because guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not" and with that words Nani left for her room with Manorma Raizada following her.

...

Arnav knocked at his sister's door but didn't get any reply. He tried few more time but the reply never came. Tired of trying he pushed the door open. He entered the room to see that the room was engulfed in darkness but he saw the silhouette of his Di sitting on the bed. He moved towards the bed. He stood in front of his Di, who was sitting on the bed, her knees down and both the hands resting on both side of her. Arnav kneeled in front of his Di. He kept his head on his Di's lap.

"Di, ...I ... am...I am sorry, please...please mujhe maaf kardo...please?" Anjali heard her brother's muffled plea.

"Why?" Arnav heard his Di and lifted his head up from her lap.

"Tumne aisa kyun kiya?" Anjali asked to her brother.

"Di...I thought that they love...they love eachother...I thought that...they are going to...going to hurt you...and so...so..."

"So you thought of hurting them instead...then why haven't you done justice My Lord? Why is that you sentenced one to living hell and other was out, clean? You should have done full justice, Mr.Raizada..."

"Di, please...I...Please try to understand...I thought ... Thought...that..." but Arnav's explanation was short lived as Anjali flunked Arnav's hand away from her knees.

"You thought?...what you thought, Arnav? That you are securing my future by marrying Khushi forcefully? By ill treating her? By punishing for no crime of hers? By pushing her to the fringe, where she is on the verge of losing her sanity? And all this because YOU thought that she is having an affair with that good for nothing Shyam Manohar Jha, who was cheating on me from God knows how many years?!... And what if she really had an affair with that man, Arnav? Who are you to punish someone?! Are you God?! And I don't think that if at all they were having an affair, anyone should have a problem with that! Everyone is allowed to love anyone! Or was it for YOU? "

Arnav's head till now downcast, snapped at that.

"No...Di...I ... just wanted to keep her away from Shyam for...Y.."

"Don't!! Don't you dare say that it was for me!! I have nothing to do with all this! Don't you dare call me the reason of your deeds!! Because it wasn't! Are you listening to me?! It wasn't for me! It was for YOU! Yourself!! Because YOU felt cheated, don't you Arnav?!" Anjali asked her brother by pulling his collar, making him look at her.

"Di...I..."

"You what, Arnav?! You thought, how can a girl whom The Arnav Singh Raizada loves, dare to love someone else! Hum jisse pyaar kare, jaroori nahi hai ki who bhi humse pyaar kare. This is how the world works, Arnav! But she loved you! And what you did? You broke her heart and as if it wasn't enough, you went and stomped on that broken pieces! I don't know what to say anymore. Just go from here. Just go away, you aren't my Chhote anymore!" Anjali pushed him away from her.

"Please Di. Don't say that. Please, I want you both! I need you both. I love you both, Di!" Arnav again came back to his Di, pleading in front of her.

"And you have lost both! By your own deeds. So now go away" She swayed him again.

Anjali got up from the bed, leaving her brother still kneeling in front of the bed.

"Go and bring Khushi back. Bring the old Khushi back than may be. Just maybe I can forgive you!" Anjali said, facing her back to her brother.

Arnav got up from the kneeling position, wiping the few tears that has escaped his eyes.

"I will , Di! I promise that I will bring her back! Just don't go away from me. I need you. I promise I will bring her back" Arnav hugged his Di from back. It pierced his heart when his Di's hand didn't come to rest on his cheek, as she always does. He closed his eyes, as few more tears made their way down. He loosened his hold and moved back. Taking a last look at his Di, he exited her room with new determination. Determined to bring his old Khushi back to him, to everyone.

...

"Dr. Raphael?" a sweet voice called.

A man in a black trouser and a white shirt with Doctor's coat ON, lifted his head to look at the nurse standing in front of him.

The nurse looked at the handsome Doctor in front of her. He was handsome, no doubt there. With his thick black hair, blue eyes, sharp cuts and little foreign look, he was an eye catcher.

"Yes, beautiful. Do you need something?" The man asked, giving his handsome smile.

"Dcotor, that...your next appointment...he is waiting for you..." The nurse stammered, slyly.

The man got up from his chair and giving a thank you to the nurse, making her smile bashfully, he made his way to his cabin.

Arnav was seated on a chair, in the cabin of Delhi's best psychiatrist. Dr. Raphael D'mello. That's what Aman had told him. And now he was waiting for the Doctor to make an appearance. And a few moments passed when he heard the door crack open. He moved his head to see a man, around mid 30's, enter the room, and humming a song? Was he really a Doctor?

"Oh! Hi, Mr.Raizada. Are you the patient?" the Doctor asked as he sat on his chair.

"What?! No!" Arnav replied, looking at the Doctor sitting in front of him.

"Oh! But you look like one!" The Doctor quipped.

"What?! What do you mean?!" Arnav asked, his anger rising.

"I mean if you are not the patient then where is the patient?" Raphael asked, crooking his eyebrow.

"She isn't coming here?" Arnav replied to the Doctor.

"Than what are you doing here?" Raphael asked, taking out his phone from his trouser's pocket.

"I need your help, Doctor" Arnav said, controlling her anger. No one dares to talk to him like this!

"Oh! So I was right. You are the patient..." Raphael replied, nonchalantly, still looking in the phone.

And Arnav's last thread of patience snapped. He got up from his chair and thumped his both hand on the table in front of him.

"I said I NEED your help!! Do you want to help me or not?! If you don't, then I think that I better leave from here!" Arnav said through his gritted teeth.

Raphael lifted his head from the phone and looked at the enraged man in front of him. He pocketed his phone and looked at Arnav.

"When am I denying to help you, Mr.Raizada! But if you will not bring the patient here than how is that I am going to help you?" Raphael asked in a calm voice.

Arnav sat on the chair defeated. How can he bring her here? She will not come with him! And he himself don't want to bring her here.

"See, Doctor. I can tell you everything about her. And you can ask me questions and I will answer your all queries. But I can't bring her here. Just tell me what should I do to bring her back. I will do anything.."

Raphael looked at the man sitting in front of him. His tone giving away his helplessness.

"So tell me,Mr.Raizada. Tell me everything about the patient. Let me try this new thing, too. Till now I have never given any suggestions, before having any sessions with the patient so let me try something new this time. Let's see I can help you or not!" Raphael placed his elbow on the table and kept his chin on the palm, as if preparing himself for a story, smiling.

Arnav took in the smiling face of the Doctor in front of him. Does he thinks that, he is about to tell him a bloody bed time story?! Arnav grinded is teeth but he is really helpless. Aman had told him that he is the best Psychiatrist in Delhi. He will have to control his Anger. Taking a deep breath to control himself, he prepared himself and began.

"I ...Today I went to meet her, my wife, Khushi. She is mad at me. I ...I said some hurtful things to her. And when I went to meet her, she told me to go away from her. She told that ...that...she has her own Arnav ji. She told me to go away and never come back. She wants to live alone with her Arnav ji..."

Arnav looked at the Doctor. He was looking at him curiously.

Raphael lifted his hand from the table, he leaned back in his chair, thinking.

"Hmm...So who is this Arnav ji?" Raphael asked, moving his head to look at Mr.Raizada.

Arnav looked at the Doctor.

"I ...I am Arnav..." Arnav replied, her eyes looking at the floor.

Raphael's moving chair suddenly stopped, his curious eyes gazed at the man seated in front of him. His lips stretched into a smile and soon he found himself in a fit of laughter.

Arnav looked at the Doctor in front of him, through his ragging eyes. He suddenly got up, the chair moved back due to the impact.

"Dr. D'mello! Do you think that I am cracking some kind of joke here?! I thought that you will help me. But I think that I was wrong! I will just leave now. I had enough of your weirdness" Arnav blustered at the crazy Doctor in front of him and turned around to leave the cabin.

"Mr.Raizada, wait! I am sorry for laughing. Have a seat please. I am ready to help you." Raphael said controlling his laughter.

Arnav turned around and looked at him.

"Sit, Mr. Raizada" Raphael gestured him to take his seat.

Fisting his palm, Arnav went and sat on his chair

"I am sorry, Mr.Raizada. But you see in my 10years of medical career, I haven't seen a case where a patient hallucinates of a person who is very much alive. People hallucinate about person whom they have lost or they make some imaginary person but neither is the case with your wife. She is hallucinating a person who is not any imaginary character nor is he dead." Raphael completed with a smile.

"Hallucinating??...you mean she is hallucinating me??" Arnav asked, confused and frightened at the possibilities.

"Most probably. But before giving my final verdict I have to meet the patient. I don't know what is the real disease she is suffering from. I can help you only when I see her..." Raphael said.

"I will not bring her here! She is not mad!" Arnav said with all possessiveness.

"Then I will come to meet her.." Raphael gave the other option.

"I don't think you are getting me, Doctor! I don't want any psychiatrist near my wife. She isn't mad!" Arnav gritted his teeth.

"Oh! Then don't think of me as a Doctor, Mr.Raizada. You can introduce me as one of your friend to her. See, no Doctor will be ready to help you without seeing the patients themselves" Raphael replied. He is always ready for something new and no way in hell he is going to leave this opportunity. Time for some new adventure.

Arnav looked at the Doctor. But how will he introduce him when Khushi isn't allowing him to be near her?

"Doctor, she isn't allowing me to be near her. She is telling, she doesn't need me anymore. She told me, she has her Arnav ji who is better than me...who trusts her, loves her, will never break her heart..." Arnav said dejectedly.

"Oh! So she says she has a Arnav ji , who does things you can't. Whom she finds better than you?"

Arnav just nodded his head in reply.

"Then be a better Arnav than her Arnav ji, Mr.Raizada! Show her that you are better. Show her that you can do things, HER Arnav ji can't" Raphael gave his suggestion.

"But...But Doctor...how?...I mean..."

"That's your look out, Mr.Raizada. You know her better than me. Just anyhow convince her to come with you, Mr.Raizada...I am sure you will find some or the other way. Ask her to give you a chance, convince her somehow. And once she is ready to come with you, I will visit your place. For now I am very curious to know the cause of her state but I will not ask that to you. I want your wife to tell me the whole thing, that way I will be able to help her and also will be able to name her illness" Raphael got up from his chair and extended his hand for a handshake

Arnav too got up and extended his hand.

Whispering a thank you, Arnav exited the cabin.

Raphael leaned back in his chair with a smile.

"I think not only his wife, he too needs a psychiatrist" Raphael laughed at his own joke. Life had became little boring but he can see that this new journey with Mr.Raizada will be fun

Precap---

"Khushi, just one chance, just one week, please...please...I promise...I promise that I will not bother you after this one week...please...please say yes...please..." Arnav pleaded, cupping her drenched cheek in his palm.

"You will not bother me?" came Khushi's barely audible whisper. She looked in his eyes.

"Never...just one week and then I will go away from your life ...if ...if you don't want me in your life...after ...after this one week..." Arnav spoke, with little hope shining in his eyes.

So, what do you think about Dr.Raphael D'mello?Please can you imagine Ashton Kutcher as Raphael? With little short and black hair, because I can only imagine him when I think of Raphael's character. Will be waiting to read your views!

And I almost forgot to tell you..The Guilt thing Nani said in the end of her convo is a quote I have read some time ago..I am not taking credit for that line :)

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shona_arhilover2014-08-10 05:15:17