10 # Caring for her

Samarth woke up all of a sudden. He walks towards the bathroom and suddenly reminds, she didn't have nightmares tonight, he doubted, he switched on the lights through his phone. He doesn't found Aradhya on the bed. He frowned and worried about her. It's 3.10 am, He checked the time. He looked at the door, the door was closed from inside.

He slowly walks towards the bathroom. The door was opened. He looked inside, he saw Aradhya was laid on the floor, his tore Tshirt was between her legs, her cheeks showed that she cried. She has squeezed hard his stomach, she is crying and her hands are covering her belly. He found blood on her clothes around her thighs.

He understood what happened to her, he called to Sakshi. She was surprised and received a call. She directly asked, "What happened Sam?"

"Di, Aradhya needs your help, please come fast," Samarth replied.

"What happened? Tell me Samarth." Sakshi asked worriedly and turn on her room's lights.

"Di, I think ... she got her periods and that's hurting her. So..."

"Okk, wait I'm coming." Sakshi rushed to the wardrobe and took a pack of sanitary pads and ran to his room.

Samarth hurriedly removed duvet from the sofa and threw it on the bed. Sakshi knocked on the door, he opened.

"Where is she?"

"In the bathroom."

Sakshi goes there and wakes her up. "Aradhya, let you get up, change your clothes and these are for you," Sakshi said and help her to stand up.

"Di, This is the first time, I felt so much pain, I can't bear it." Aradhya started crying.

"No, no. Don't cry. Please take a bath, I give you your clothes. I arrange a pain killer for you." Sakshi said and moved out of the bathroom.

Aradhya turn on the shower and took a bath. Here Sakshi asked Samarth, "Have you pain killer in your medicine box?"

"Yeah Di."

"Ok, then give her when she came. And give her a pair of clothes." Sakshi said.

"Di, please wait. I think, she would feel better, if you are with her."

"Sam, I think, she needs you. Please take care of her." Sakshi said and left the room.

Samarth opened her wardrobe and found a pair of the nightgown. He knocked on the bathroom and said, "Take your dress."

Aradhya hesitantly opened the door and hid behind the door. She took a dress from him, she noticed, he was not looking at her, even he was standing cross, so his gaze was not on her side.

Samarth sat on the sofa and he angrily rubbed his hands in his hair, "How can I forget about this?" and slipped in the thought of the day, when he saved her...

# Flashback....

In the doctor's chamber...

"May I come in?"

"Of course Mr. Goenka. Please come in." Dr Sandhya Kelkar welcomed him.

"Mam, I want to talk about something. This is odd but necessary." Samarth said while sitting in front of Dr Sandhya.

"Yes, don't hesitate, you can ask me anything." Dr Sandhya said.

"You knew what happened to her... she is just 18. I think...." Samarth stopped for a while and Dr. gave her a confused look, why he hesitates.

"Dr. is it possible....? Means, she might be pregnant, because of last night incident. Can we stop this ?" Samarth said with heavy words, for him asking this question was too much awkward. He never talks with anyone on this type of topic.

"Yes, Mr Goenka. We can stop. In the market, so many contraceptive pills are available. Generally, we never prefer to take them. But in her case, we can give her. This type of pills must be taken within 72 hours of having a relationship. We can give her when she will be conscious. But...." Dr. explained to him but hesitated.

"But... what Dr?" Samarth looked at her confusingly.

"But this type of pills also have side effects sometimes, like pain in the body's different parts, early periods, bleeding more than regular periods etc types problems." She explained.

"But it's much better than conceive," Samarth said.

"You are right, she is too small, and she suffered a lot last night. I will give you a prescription for medicine." The doctor said and wrote in the prescription pad.

"I have written name of contraceptive pills and also pain killers, if she will feel pain, she can take them and.." she stopped for a second.

"When you left her with her family, please tell them not to misbehave with her, as whatever happened with her, there is not her fault. In India, generally, girls have to suffer when something wrong happens to her." The doctor turned emotionally.

"I can understand, but she will live at my home from now, she already tried to suicide. So I don't wish that she should try again." Samarth said and stood with a prescription in his hand.

"Thank you, doctor." He said and left.

# Flashback Ends...

He noticed, she is out from the bathroom and laid down on the bed. Her frowned face shows that she had pain. He walks to her and gave her a pain killer and a glass of water. She up from the bed and gulped. Her eyes filled with tears. She is rubbing her stomach.

"Why didn't you wake me and why didn't you close the bathroom door?"

"I felt a sudden pain, and I fell down on the floor, so I couldn't."

"It's okay." Samarth covered her with a duvet. He switched off the lights.

She slept after a few minutes, he was looking at her in lights of the night lamp. He took his place beside her and pulled her nearby her and started rubbing her stomach. She feels better and snuggles with him.

Samarth doesn't want that she would have again nightmares. So he stayed near her. Soon he slept.

Next morning...

He woke up at his regular time and went to his private gym. Then he got ready for the office. At 8 am, he is at dining for breakfast. Sakshi asked him when he is eating breakfast, "How is she?"

"Fine and sleeping," Samarth replied.

When he is done, Ravi came at home with some luggage. Samarth took all things and went to his room. After some time he left for office.

Aradhya woke up with laziness. She walks towards the bathroom with sleepy eyes. She did her business and then bath, and then got ready, she wore light green and yellow coloured saree. She came out of the closet and noticed so many stuff in her room. A huge box was placed on the table. She opened the box. she found another small box inside. She took one of them and opened, her mouth remained open. There are sandals for her. She remembers that she had only one and that was broken. She checked all pairs, all different type of pairs for her. There are more than 20 pairs and perfectly fitted for her legs. She thanked Samarth inside her mind.

She found another two small boxes on the table. She opened the first box, it is new iPhone, iPhone 11 pro max. Her hands are trembling while opening the box. The box was unsealed, so she easily opened. She touches slowly a brand new silver iPhone 11 pro. It's too expensive. "How can she touch it?" She hesitates.

She unlocks it and check but didn't find any message or tag. She checked the box from outside, a mobile number is written on it, she understood that this is her number.

"Mr. jerk, can't he drop a message or letter?" She mumbled.

She opened another box, she found a car key, "It must be too much costly, why the hell, he is giving me too much expensive things?" She closed the boxes and arranged them. She found a gold card on the table. "Now, what is this?" She irritates.

She couldn't understand, so she kept everything in her wardrobe and kept her phone on the bed. She went to the kitchen, she checked the food and had her breakfast at 10.30. Sakshi saw her and came to her, "How are you? Feeling better?"

"I'm better now, but I will take again the pain killer. I never felt pain during my periods, why this is happening, I don't know." Aradhya said and drinks water.

"After marriage, it's happened with ladies. Husband loves her, so changes in hormones are normal." Dadi said while sitting beside her. She threw out water, which she drank and coughed hard, hearing Dadi.

"Slowly slowly" Sakshi rubbed her back.

"I think I have done. May I go? I want to take rest." Aradhya sighed.

"Yes, take care and take your medicines in time," Sakshi said.

"Dadi, anything, poor she is, how can you tease her like this?" Sakshi scolded Dadi when Aradhya left.

"I didn't say anything wrong," Dadi said and both laughed.

Aradhya took her medicines and laid down on the bed. Her phone buzzes, a name displayed, 'Samarth Goenka'

She received, "Hello."

"What the hell are you doing? It's the third time I called you, can't you pick up?" He yelled from the other side.

"Look, Mr. jerk (she spoke 'jerk' silently), I was busy, so I couldn't receive."

"Yes, and I'm free here for you. right?" He shouted angrily.

"Will you please tell me, why you are calling me?" Aradhya irritated.

"I have left my gold card on the table, take it and go shopping, buy the needful stuff for you. The driver is waiting for you there."

"Anything else." She yelled.

He hung up the call.

"Mr. attitude." She yelled and wanted to throw the phone but she reminds, it's too expensive.

She thought, "Should I go for shopping? I don't know where to go? If I don't go, he will not send me again, and last night I needed the help of Dii, I think, I should go."

She took the car key, the gold card and went down. She felt weakness due to a pain killer, but she doesn't feel pain or hurt in her body.

"Di, would you like to come with me for shopping?"

"No, I can't. I'm busy, actually, I'm going somewhere." Sakshi informed her.

"Okay, if you don't mind we will go tomorrow," Aradhya asked.

"Sure, and you can go with Samarth, in the evening," Sakshi said.

"No, no. We will go tomorrow." Aradhya said and came back in her room.

She spent her day in exploring the phone. more than 10 times, she dialled a number of Shivam, her bro. But she didn't have enough courage to talk with him. So she cut the call, before rang. She called Uttara, they talked for long.

In the evening, Sakshi came and took her out for shopping at the biggest mall. Sakshi forced her to buy so many things, she also purchased some dresses with an open neck, some sarees, because she had only clothes, that contained full necked dresses and full necked blouse. Her scars are curing, she can wear anything after a few days.

They came back home, at that time, Samarth is at home. The servant carried the shopping bags and left them into Aradhya's room.

Sakshi asked while coming into the house, "Sam gave you a car, how is it?"

"How you know, Di?"

"I saw in the morning, I understood that everyone has owned a car so that the new one is for you," Sakshi said.

"Di, Actually, I don't know driving, so I didn't take interest and not see it." Aradhya hesitantly said.

"off..... o.... let me show you." Sakshi said and pulled her by hand and show her car parked in the left side.

She caressed the red coloured car, a gasp escaped from her mouth.

"How is it? Do you like it?" Sakshi asked with a smile.

"Di, it's amazing."

"So, learn driving, and get the license. Then we will go shopping in this car." Sakshi said. Aradhya just smiled.

They got freshened up and came for dinner. After dinner, Aradhya and Samarth went to their bedroom.

Again Samarth starts his work on his laptop. She laid on the bed and tried to cover herself with a duvet.

"Which type of people in this world, who never know to say thank you?." Aradhya heard the same words, she told him yesterday.

She narrowed her eyes at him, "Why should I thank you?"

"Think of yourself." He replied without looking at her.

" I think, No need to thank you. After all, Mr Goenka gave a new phone, a new car, his gold card to his wife, Mrs Goenka, it's his duty and responsibility to take care of the needs of the wife. Right?" She turned back and covered herself.

Samarth gave a death glare at her. After some time she slept, he slept beside her and pulled her to near him. His intentions are not wrong, just he is caring for her.