KTBM_The New Dawn || Chapter 1

The New Dawn

Chapter 1 :

Karan Khanna

Alone!!

"Are you mad? " squealed Karan Khanna.  "I am not going to leave her alone for Radhika and Trisha.  They are my responsibility and she is my love.  Better you don't show me your face again." he once again shouted at his PR before thrashing the newspaper on the floor.

"They are all over the place Karan.  You can shut me off how can you shut the media who even prints the never thought voices too." calmly replied the lady.

"I just don't care. If this non sense doesn't stop in a day..." the raging eyes spoke the pain.  "I am going no where, not even for the shoot and that's final."

"Karan you can't endanger your career for just another girl who walked into your life."

"Dare you again say that. She is not another girl she made me know who am I. So better you don't speak." Karan dailed a number in a hurry.

"Who are you calling? "

"Hi! This is Karan Khanna. May I speak to Dr. Nagarajan please." there was no voice from the other side that was heard by the lady present with Karan. The whined face of the latter told the other part off story,  something is undesirable. "What? She resigned?" his voice echoed through the hall shivering the calmness.  "But why?" his Adam's apple danced against the skin of his throat.  "Ok don't tell me but can you provide me her address at Bangalore?" The part of conversation remained muffled away from Karan's PR. "Okay fine...  Don't need your help I will find her out." Thud!! The iphone kissed its death as soon as it thumped against the glossy sandstone floor of the hall. 

"Karan!!" the lady dropped down along her length to collect the pieces of the phone. "Are you mad? "

"She left!! She left!! " The red eyes popped into its place drowned within the pool of saline water. "She left!!  Do you hear me?? She left. " clinging against his own length with his hands fisting hair from both the side of head Karan screamed out the words before having a free fall on the ground underneath. 

Dr Tripura Sundari Nagarajan

Destroyed!!

"How long would be your stay Tirupu? " asked her mother oscillating at her place to and fro in her daughter's direction.

"Don't know Amma." Dr.  Nagarajan settled in between the contents of her two bags emptied on the bed. "Why? Is there a problem if I stay? "

"No.  I was thinking about your job." The lady sat at an edge of the bed.  "How is Karan? "

"Haan.?" she quaked at her place with the name of her just found and lost love. "Haan Karan must be good."

"You are not in touch with him? "

"We are not allowed to be in touch with our patients mother. He was my patient and I was his doctor. That's it! " Tripura consolled herself with the words.

"I never asked for an explanation." Mrs. Nagarajan declared. "Shall I get you a filter coffee? " she asked.

"No. I want to sleep" Tripura looked at her phone which laid on the side table lifeless, not because it has lost the fuel but because she wanted it to die. "Need some time alone."

Looking at the lost eyes of her daughter Mrs.  Nagarajan accounted the turmoil that Tripura was trying to hide. She was quaked out of her thoughts with the phone screaming. "Karan?" Mrs. Nagarajan said with screen popped up with his name. 

"No amma!!" Tripura tried to snatch the wireless from her mother's hands. "No need to answer him."

"Stop it Tirupu. He is your patient not mine. You can't stop me from talking to him. Stop forcing me into your comfort zone." denied the approach, she answered the call.

"Hello beta. We were just discussing about you. Kaise ho? " sweetly asked Mrs. Nagarajan.  "Oh! I see.  Yes she is here only. She dropped in suddenly. She is staying here only." Her eye brows narrowed. She frowned looking at her daughter. "No she never said me." Tripura's blood pressure rose, sweat beads on her forehead dispersed. Those traced down to her brows in serpentine curves. "Yes.  Sure. Please write it down." Tripura heard her mother contexting their address to the man on the other side of the line.

"What was the need to give him our address? I told you he is my patient and I am his doctor."   Tripura scowled after her mother ended the call with Karan Khanna.

"Did I informed you about the reason behind his visit? " Suspicious of her daughter's emotional shift,  Mrs. Nagarajan asked again, "Why even his name is bothering you Tirupu?"

"No it is not."

"He is getting married and wants us to join him. Vishal is coming to receive us. He is re-uniting with his estranged wife Radhika. He wants my blessing and your best wishes." the revelations pulled away the ground beneath. She felt weightless for a moment and the gravity pulled her in its direction making her fall on the bed.

"Tirupu!!" Her mother ran towards her. "What happened bacche? " she asked lovingly.

"My blood pressure might have fallen mother." Tirupu lied. "Can you get me some water please. I need to splash water....." she ran towards the washroom. Soon the door closed behind her and tears spoiled her beautiful face exposing the turmoil inside her heart.