Slap!

AUTHOR'S POV:

The medicine tray near Karthick's hospital bed crashed down, he was the one who pushed it.

"Ahh!" "Ahh!" He groaned in pain.

"Karthick!" She called him.

"Ahh!" He groaned again.

She ran out to call the doctor.

She saw a nurse outside.

"Call the doctor!" She yelled and again ran to Karthick.

He was continuously groaning, she was speechless she didn't know what to do.

The doctor came in, in an urgency.

He went near him and patted his cheeks.

" Karthick! Karthick, can you hear me?"

"Ahh!"

"It's nothing relax Karthick, relax!"

The nurse patted his cheeks and stroked his hair.

"Relax, it's nothing slowly try to open your eyes. Come on try"

He groaned and rolled his eyeballs without opening his eyelids.

"Doctor, he is fine right?" Pari asked the doctor, getting nervous.

"He is fine! He is just traumatized, he might have forgotten the things that happened.

" Karthick you are fine, your sister is here; we are here. Don't worry try to open your eyes" The old nurse was still stroking his.

Pari went to the other side of him and stood beside the bed and his hand in her palms.

"Karthick! I am here"

"Pari is here, try to open your eyes brother. I am waiting for you to open your eyes, I want to hear your voice. Try to open your eyes" She said in a soothing voice and rubbed his hands with her thumb finger.

The frown on his face disappeared, his facial muscles relaxed he seemed calm.

" Good now slowly try to open your eyes," Doctor said to him.

He tried to open his eyes when he almost opened his eyes he again closed due to the bright light from the glass window.

"Nurse, close the curtain." The doctor said to the nurse.

She moved away from Karthick, to close the curtain; taking this as a chance Pari stroked his hairs.

"Karthick try again"

He slightly opened his eyes, then in seconds he fully opened. He looked at the surroundings in order to recognize where he was.

"Karthick!" Pari called him.

He turned towards him and gave a slight smile but she gave a bright smile to him.

"Karthick, how are you feeling? Any discomforts?"

The doctor asked he nodded as no.

"In words" The doctor demanded in words.

"No!" He said and smiled.

" Can you see everything clearly?"

" Yes!"

"Okay! We will run some general tests to check if he has any problems. But, there is only less chance for that. So, nothing to worry"

He said and smiled.

"Thank you so much"

"That's fine, my duty ends. I will inform neuro to take him to test, nothing to worry!"

"Thank you, doctor!"

"About meds, the nurse will explain you"

"Okay!"

He nodded and left.

"How are you?" Karthick asked Pari.

"I should ask! But, I am fine. How about you?"

"Good!" He said she pecked his forehead.

"Don't scare me like this ever again!"

He chuckled.

" I will not!"

The door burst open.

Slap!...

A slap flung over Pari's cheek, her hands were now on her cheeks.

Everyone's jaw hung down to the floor.

"Zara!" Karthick yelled in anger but still, his voice was weak.

" Dare to come between us!" She said in a dangerously slow voice.

"What do you think you doing? Didn't care to inform me?"

She asked in anger.

" No, Zara I thought you would get frightened seeing his state"

" Don't decide it yourself! Whatever happens to him, it matters to me! Don't dare to do this again!"

" Don't shout at her Zara, you don't know how his state was! The great Parinithi who never cries, yesterday sobbed hard rolling on the floor" Deepthi said in a serious tone.

She didn't like someone slapping her sister. She is a one who doesn't like other's taking rights or advantages unlike Pari gives them rights to certain limits.

" That's what I am asking, if she is his sister I am the one who is gonna marry him. Don't I have the right to ask?"

"You have but not this way!" She gritted her teeth.

The next was unexpected...

Pari walked out without saying anything.

Everyone was shocked, they expected that she will slap black or yell or at least say something.

But her reaction was totally unexpected.

Deepthi slumped on the couch present there started to scroll her phone.

"Deepthi! Can you get me my phone?"

"Uh! Your mobile is at home, I suppose?"

" I can't sit simply!"

" Hmm! I bought a book in the cafeteria, do you like to read that?"

"Yup! Sure, it's just I can't sit idol"

"Here!" She gave and continued scrolling whereas Karthick started reading the book only after giving Zara's parents a welcoming smile and Good morning.

Everyone was in shock they were in shock as these two started their work as if nothing happened.

Even Sid stood idle.

Zara and her parents stood not knowing what to do!

"What just happened?" Sid was the first one to break the silence.

"Don't you have eyes?"

"So it was real? Not a dream?"

"Of course it was for real, have you took any pledge to stand like this?" She asked.

"Uh! No" He went and sat beside her.

"Come sit uncle and aunty," Karthick said to them with a slight curve on his lips.

"How are you Karthick?" Mr. and Mrs. Mathews went near him, they spoke for 2 minutes. Mr. Mathews sat on a single chair near the couch whereas Mrs. Mathews sat with Deepthi.

Zara stood there frozen, she didn't move from there.

"What should I do now?"

"You said, I shouldn't come between you two!" He shrugged and resumed his reading.

" But did I do something wrong?"

"You are the first one to slap her, not even our dad had raised his hands on her," Deepthi said and continued her work.

Everyone gasped expect Deepthi and Karthick.

"What are saying?"

"YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON TO SLAP HER! DID YOU GET THAT? NOT EVEN HER FATHER HAS SLAPPED HER!" Karthik yelled at her.

Zara flinched at his tone.

"What should I do now?"

He shrugged,

"Deepthi?"

"I don't know, you were the one who went overboard. She just cared for you!"

"I didn't know what I was doing, I was emotional!"

"Don't I have rights on him?"

"You have but you shouldn't have slapped her, that was overboard"

" I said right? I was emotional!" Zara argued

" That doesn't mean that you should slap her!" Deepthi spat back.

" What should I do now?" She turned to Karthick.

" How much ever you ask, I have only one answer. I DON'T KNOW!" Karthick replied in a stern voice.

"For now, you cared for Karthick right? Continue your caring!" Deepthi was now annoyed by her continuous questions which however meant the same.

"Karthick?"

"Please, Zara stop these childish things first of all. Do you even remember she is an IPS officer?" He asked in a frustrated sigh.

"So what? It doesn't mean that she is not my friend?" She exclaimed.

"And in the same way, she is your friend but it doesn't mean that you can slap her" He snapped at her.

"I did it in.." She was cut off by Deepthi.

"You did it in whatever, we can't do anything! Did you get that? WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING! May be brother in law could help" She said and continued her work.

The nurse came in.

"Only two attenders are allowed in special ward others please leave as soon as possible, if the doctor comes for his regular check-up he will yell at me!" She said with a worried expression.

"It's okay sister, we will leave now!" Mr. Mathews replied with a small smile.

"Okay! Karthick take care, see you soon in a good state!" He said with a smile.

" Definitely uncle, you see me soon"

"Take care son!" Mrs. Mathew said in a calm tone.

"Sure, Aunty" He smiled at her.

"Okay! I will meet you in the afternoon Karthick, I have a meeting to attend" Karthick said looking nowhere.

"Sure, Sid!"

" I have to meet Pari!" Zara said everyone nodded.

"Okay! I will drop you then, your parents have to go in the opposite direction, right?" Sid offered to drop.

" Yup, thanks!"

"It's nothing!" He said she just smiled.

She went to Karthik and kissed his forehead.

"Sorry! " She muttered slowly.

"That's fine! Apologize to Pari" He smiled at last.

"Yes, definitely! I will ask about your health with her" Then everyone left.

Karthick was taken for his general tests.

Sid dropped Zara in front of Pari's office.

She asked for Pari there, a lady constable informed her that she was in a meeting.

She waited for her for about an hour.

She came outside shuffling her papers in the file.

Her face held seriousness.

She was about to enter her room.

"Pari!"

She didn't turn.

"Pari!"

She stopped where she was.

Zara was nervous, she didn't know what to do.

"What should I do?"

Pari turned towards Zara.

"Zara?"