I'll Be There - 1

Hey the first chapter is out..Hope you like it..It's a bit of mystery...
Ok..For all those who read my New life and also the prologue of this, I know I told I would be posting this after I complete with New Life..But hey just got an idea..and here it is...Hope you like it...

Guyss I really need good number of comments for this because I really wanna know how good or bad it is..Read it and do comment please..looking forward for your response..here you go read.....
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I'll be there-1:

"A girl seen falling from a 20storied building in the north of Andheri East-Mumbai on 20th Jan."

That caption got Siya's attention in the newspaper early in the morning as the picture of the boy beside the heading looked familiar to her. As she went through it she've learned that the girl was seen falling from a building while there was a man with her on the top of the building. It also said that he was in literal shock and was brain paralyzed after the incident. It was two days ago and he still wasn't speaking anything about it. The interrogation was going on from then, but it wasn't leading anywhere. The police were unable to decide whether it's a murder attempt or a suicide, while most of the evidences are against him.

"interesting"
She thought as she took another sip of her coffee while taking a closer look at the pictures.

"Holly crap.!!" She exclaimed
"What's the mater babe?" her boyfriend asked her as she almost spills the coffee out of her mouth recognizing the picture in front of her.

"Irfan come here now!!" she called him her voice almost trembling.

"What is it Siya-" his words couldn't come out any more as he observed the picture in the newspaper.
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They reached the hospital as per the address mentioned in the newspaper and they directly reached the ICU floor as told by the receptionist in the hospital. As they walked in the corridor, at the end of the floor there they found him sitting on the visitors' chair straight with his head leaned against the wall and looking deep into the distance. There were two guards opposite to him on either side of the ICU.Siya immediately ran at the sight of him and approached him.

"Rishi.... " She called out as she stood beside him.
No response.

"Rishi.." she called again and still there was no hint of reaction in him. she sat on her kneels as Irfan walked to her.

She brought her face down in front of him and called out again. His face was blank and pale. There was no sign of a single expression in him. She raised her hand and waved in front his eyes. He then blinked them and looked at her. Still there was no sign of any recognition nor reaction in his face. He was completely blank. He looked at her but still didn't look into her eyes. He looked past her eyes into the distance. She waved again calling out his name..

"Rish..Siya..You know me right?" She said pointing out to herself and making him look at her as she caught hold of his chin.Her voice broke. The thought she should actually introduce herself to her friend saddened her. Tears started building in her eyes as she looked up at Irfan.He patted her shoulder and then looked at Rishi who was still staring into distance.

"Rishi..." Irfan called out as he thought he should even give it a try if he recognizes him..

If Siya's voice just reached his ears didn't even reach his brain, Irfan's voice reached past his ears into his brain. It was as if some sub conscious memory of him got alive at once and found some connection with that voice that he just heard. He blinked his eyes and tilted his head a little as in response and looked up at Irfan who was standing beside him. He stood up and looked straight into Irfan's eyes.

This is what the exact kind of reaction that Siya expected. It hurt her that she couldn't get it out of him but still she was glad that he did respond. Sure Irfan was his best friend and they both knew each other since they were kids.

Rishi stood in front of Irfan and then stretched his hand straight towards his side pointing out something. Both siya and Irfan looked in that direction. They almost thought that it's a nightmare when they saw Ashitha lying on the bed with all medical equipment over her in the ICU.But it's only reality and soon they realized it as they tried to adjust themselves to the reality.

Early in that morning when they saw the news they just thought that the picture could be of Rishi and so they immediately reached the hospital, little did they expect that it was Ashitha who fell from that building. Siya couldn't control any longer the steaming tears that she was trying to hold back. She at once rushed inside the ICU and reached Ashitha. Irfan followed her while Rishi didn't move. He was steady in his position with his hand still stretched out at Ashy and his eyes just looking at her deeply.

There was oxygen connected to her nose, her head was surrounded with a bandage, sure it must have had a big injury falling from such height. She was lying lifeless and there were all machines connected to her may be to keep the heart functioning. She read the pulse there at the screen and it was slow and not steady. She reached her hand and touched it gently.

"Ashy..." she called out.

Tears were all over her face and she was literally sobbing out of pain. It was really hard for her to see her best friend lying there and she being completely unaware of what exactly happened. Irfan moved close to her and hugged her tight. She cried more in his chest and watching Ashy from the corner of her moist eyes. Even he,was in complete shock. He didn't know what to speak or what to do. It's like one fine day you wake up and find out that both of your friends are in serious trouble, well one almost dead and the other lifeless, and the worst part is he wasn't there to help them when they needed. He is not even aware of how these two happened to be together and end up in such a situation all of a sudden from nowhere after almost a year of parting away.

He was confused, shocked and literally in great sorrow and he didn't know how to get to the bottom of this mystery. He was so depressed at the sight of Ashy lying there lifeless and Rishi his childhood friend is nothing better than her. He only had his physical organs working better than her. He rubbed Siya's back trying to console her while he himself found it hard to digest what they witnessed. He swallowed the hard lump in his throat and pushed back those tears that were urging to come out.

"We should be strong Si, at least to take care of Rishi and sort out this.." he said against her hair more to himself rather than to her.
He was deep in his thoughts that he didn't notice the door open.

"You know her..?" A deep feminine voice probably in her mid-20's brought Irfan back from his thoughts. He instantly let go of Siya and nodded a yes to her.

"Yeah we... We are her friends..." he found his voice utter those words in a low breaking husky tone. His hand reached the corner of his eye to wipe away the small tear that escaped with his finger and that simple small gesture explained the lady everything.

"Oh..I am so sorry. Am I disturbing something? Well, The nurse just told me that some one's here to visit her and I thought I could meet you guys and.. and talk about something...." She shrugged her shoulders.

"Oh..yeah sorry again, well I am a doctor here.." she added. The white apron around her should explain that to him already if only he wasn't too busy in his thoughts to notice that.
"I am Jessica.." she stretched her hand but then immediately thought it as such an unthoughtful gesture for a doctor to introduce herself to a patients' attenders while they seemed to be in great sorrow watching their friend lie there like that. Her expression turned into kind of annoyed as she noticed that he was taking forever to reach out for her hand. Noticing the awkwardness between them Siya reached out for her hand and gave a brief shake-hand.

"Siya.." she faked a smile.. "And he is Irfan..As he just said we are their friends.." she said as she tried to regain herself from the pain shes going through, because she knew she have to know about Ashy's condition and there is a doctor in front of them right now.

"Their friends..?" Jessica asked while Siya pointed out to Rishi standing outside.

"Oh..You are all friends? I mean even he is her friend??" she widened her eyes pointing out to Rishi.."Then why did he do this to her? I can't believe a friend can be such a desperate,lustful, shameless jerk??" she added.

"Excuse me..?" Irfan was getting on his nerves now.How could she even talk about Rishi like that when she don't even know a single thing about him

"I'm sorry..But it's true..Shes being RAPED and being attempted to murder..You know in what condition she is right now?? Shes almost dead...She is in a deep stage of KOMA...." the doctor yelled out completely forgetting that she is in a hospital.

"What are you talking about? He would never do such a thing to her?" Siya exclaimed.

"Let's go to my office and talk about this. Shall we?" Jessica asked.

Both of them nodded and headed out the room.
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Published: 4/3/2010
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