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She stared at his lips and forgot to breathe.
When their lips met, gentle like rays of the morning sun on a rose petal, it felt like the rightest thing in the world.
They kissed for a moment and for an eternity. He kissed softly, as if she were the most delicate, precious thing in the world and she felt every bit of her soul come alive.
She rested her forehead against his, his breath mint-fresh, brushing against her cheek, and began to feel the tears form.
This should ha
ve been her first, she thought to herself.
When she finally looked up, inexplicably shy and hesitant, hurriedly brushing away tears, her eyes fell on his face and she paused, taken aback.
His eyes were wet too.
How could this mean as much to him as it did to her, she wondered in surprise and hurried to wipe the lone tear off his cheek.
‘Atharv?’
He said nothing, just gently tucked back a strand of her hair.
‘You okay?’ he asked.
‘You okay?’ she asked at the same time.
They burst out laughing.
‘Are you okay?’ they asked in unison a few seconds later and again burst out laughing.
‘Are you… ’ They both started off again at the same time and now Koyal simply put a hand on his mouth.
‘Are you okay?’ she asked, smiling widely. His eyes, from over her hand, were smiling too.
‘Yes,’ he said.
‘Let’s go in now?’ he asked and she nodded. They got up, hand in hand, and walked in silence towards the hospital and into his room.
Without saying another word, for with them words were unnecessary most of the time, she helped him get into bed.
‘This is a bit pointless, by the way,’ he said. ‘My brain is too awake for me to sleep.’
‘Nonsense,’ she said and pulled her chair close to his bed.
She put her hand on his forehead. His skin felt more familiar to her than her own.
‘You will stay here?’
‘I’m not leaving till the operation is done,’ she said. ‘Now sleep. I’ll wake you when they call for you on the intercom.’
She bent low and planted a soft kiss on his forehead and, eyes closed, Atharv smiled a wide happy smile.
Mike Reynold’s operation was declared successful forty-eight hours later when he regained consciousness with all his mental abilities intact. Koyal was the first person outside the OT to get the news from a jubilant Atharv Jayakrishna.
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Kimberly stared at her computer and the words refused to make sense any more. Was she really doing this? Had she forgotten how hard she had toiled to get where she was?
Did that matter?
