The way I used to live novel Chapter 42

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Daksha came back to consciousness after a while and opened her eyes to observe the surroundings. When she noticed that she was in the hospital, all the previous happenings flooded into her mind and she sat up with a jerk who;e thinking about Teju. She hissed in pain because of the wound on her arm.

She removed the IV needle from her hand and slowly walked outside. When she went outside, she saw her Mom was sitting there on a chair silently. She slowly went to her and nudged her a little.

"Maa? Where is Teju? She is okay, right?" She asked her mom in a low voice and her mom shook her head a little.

"Doctors aren't saying anything. She is still in the operation theatre." Her mom sighed sadly.

"Maa, please take me there.. Let's go." Saying this, Daksha grabbed her mom's hand weakly, urging her Mom to take her there.

"You are so weak. You can see her but rest for a while." Her mom suggested after seeing her daughter's weak countenance.

"No, Maa. She is more important to me now. I can't calm down until I assure myself that she is well and safe. Please take me there. I beg you." Daksha said agitatedly and her mom took her to that floor after thinking for a while.

When they reached there, she saw that her brother was standing at the corner of the hall and was looking outside the window calmly. But his tensed shoulders clearly indicated that he was anything but calm and her father sat on the chair silently while covering his face with his hands.

Daksha didn't know what to say or how to console them when she herself wasn't in any better condition. She took her seat silently and started looking at the operation theatre without blinking her eyes.

Suddenly the doors of OT opened and Adi was the first one to rush over to the doctor and started bombarding the questions in anguish.

"Doctor, everything is okay, right? Is she alright? Can I see her now? When will she regain consciousness? Please discharge her soon. She doesn't like hospitals. We will get her treated from home itself." Adi said hurriedly in a hopeful tone but all he got was silence as an answer from the doctor.

"Doctor, why are you not answering? Tell me. Nothing is serious, right?" He again asked him. This time his father intervened in between and let the doctor say his words.

"I am really sorry. By the time you guys brought her here, she had already lost so much blood and suffered from hemorrhage. And on top of that, her blood group is RH -ve which is very rare. Though we have her blood group in our blood bank, we couldn't save them." The doctor explained everything clearly.

Daksha's mind was stuck at the line 'we couldn't save them.'. After hearing it, she just sat there like a doll without paying any heed to what was happening around her.

"What did you just say? What do you mean by 'them'?" Adi asked in a pained voice, praying in his heart to not let it be what he was thinking.

"Don't you know? She was three months pregnant and the miscarriage is the main reason why we couldn't save her. She lost too much blood from the fall." Doctor asked in confusion and soon it turned into sympathy at the loss suffered by this family.

"I am really sorry. We tried our best to save them but still, we couldn't. Please excuse me. I'll look into the further procedures." Saying this, the doctor excused himself from there.

"God! What sin had we committed that you punished us so cruelly?" Mrs.Indraja started sobbing while holding her chest. Adi just rushed inside the room to see the love of his life lying on the bed lifelessly with a pale face.

He went to her. After kneeling down to the bed level, he took her cold hand into his hand and brought it to his lips.

The emotions which he was holding till now erupted like a volcano. He stretched his hand and placed it softly on her belly where there was a symbol of their love alive until the tragedy hit their family.

After that, he held her so tightly as if he wanted to immerse her into him as the tears left his eyes endlessly for the first time in his life after he became a grown man.

"You are a liar. A big liar. What a fool I was! I believed your words when you promised that you will be with me forever." He accused her while weeping badly. The staff around the hospital looked at the family with sympathy in their eyes.

All the rituals were done so quickly and they couldn't recover themselves from the loss they had suffered. What worried them the most was Daksha and Adi.

While Adi completely started living a secluded life, Daksha hadn't uttered a single word from the time they heard about Teju's death. She was just like a lifeless doll, always spending her time alone.

She didn't even allow the girls to help her. The glint in her eyes disappeared. Her cheerful persona changed into a muted one. Her nights turned into sleepless ones. Her dreams changed into nightmares.

Seeing her children become like that in front of their own eyes, the older couple's worries increased. So Daksha's father consulted his friend who was a psychologist, working in the U.S. They shifted her there for a change of environment and for her treatment too.