Coincidence or Destiny? -10

 EPISODE 10

Ryan

My eyes flickered, resisting the LED lights of the hospital and I moved my heavy head here and there. I sensed an IV drip attached to my right hand and the liquid in the bag -hanging besides me- was flowing through a pipe, the drip and then through all over my body. My head was so heavy to get up and I can just sense all these equipment but can't see them. 

All I can recall is that I passed out last night and before that I was chatting with Siya. In these few days, she has been the person whom I needed the most right now- a listener. I can share anything with her, it doesn't matter where our relationship can go- ways part, friendship, love or even worse the third bad break up,- no one knows. But I'll be thankful to her for hearing my pain and trying to heal my wounds by her soft talks in the middle of the night. We talked on a call after so many ages! I've always missed her melodious voice more than anything and now it is acting like an ointment on my wounds.

Today is the day when I'm entering an OT(Operation theater) for the very first time in my life - I hope it's the first and the last time of my life. If I was allowed to move, I'd jump from the stretcher and run away from this hospital, the one which has rotten me for over a month and now they are cutting my head as if they want to know how much genius I am! 

As we entered the OT room, I saw my mom crying, but eventually she fought back her tears and that's what makes her strong and genetically me too. I tried not to get emotional and just stayed calm as instructed by my doctor. 

'I don't know what will happen to me', I murmured as the surgeon came. 'Don't worry, relax. Have faith in us.', he said. After few minutes, he said, 'Now we're gonna give you anesthesia, Mr. Ryan.' Before the anesthesia hit my nervous system, all the memories of my life flashed in front of me- Mom, dad, my friends, school, holidays, enjoyment and fun, beautiful places where I visited, cherishing little moments and...

Siya: the most beautiful thing happened to me.

SIYA

'Is he out of danger?', I messaged Rohit, one of Ryan's friends who is in touch with me. I pressed my thumb on the power button to turn off the phone and let myself stay in the darkness of the terrace. It's the night of 1st May and still I'm unable to get an update on Ryan's surgery? Is he good? Was it successful? Whom should I ask? Oh God, I should've asked for an emergency contact from Ryan only and now my negative assumptions are bouncing in my head making it non-resistant to burst out. Oh come on Siya, what are you saying? You silly! He must be in observation, right?

The phone screen lightened up, interrupting the darkness of the night and the darkness in my mind and a notification flashed on my screen. It was from Rishika.

Rishhh : Do you know this guy? It's in your friendlist!?

*sends a profile called 'i.am.sam'*

I know this guy. I have talked with him for months. He was just an "Insta Friend" first but then I avoided him as I was focusing on my exams. After few weeks, He told me that he's suffering from leukemia(blood cancer) plus he has no family. He's all alone and I couldn't ignore his messages anymore so as a human I've tried to console him.

Siya143 : Yeah. He's that leukemia guy. What's going on?

Rishhh : WHAT! Then you need to see this.

*sends a screenshot of her chat with sam*

I squished my eyes to read those chats. Oh God, why does she have small fonts on her phone! Eventually, as I read it, my squished eyes became wider and I was shocked to know that this guy was ranting his life traumas to Rishika, saying that her mother has Dementia(a mental illness in which a person losses his memory very often). 

Siya143 : WTF! NO. He said he has no family!

Rishhh : Siya, he is a guy who pretends to be traumatic to gain our sympathy so that it will be easier for him to cajole girls like you and me- who are sensitive and kind.

 I exhaled and my shoulders dropped as if they're not strong enough to carry it all at once.

Rishhh : He is chatting with me since 2 days and the way he talked at first I believed in him. But just as not all shiny things are gold, not all darkness is real. People can lie for their benefit.

Siya143 : But he seems to be a nice person.

Rishhh : Yeah, he may be. May be he liked you at first and you started talking. May be you avoided him in between and he lied to gain attention. May be he doesn't want you to lose touch. But there are other MAY BEs too. May be he is a guy who flirts with every other girl but he chose this dark method for attention or May be he is a part of a fraud company who hacks our accounts and misuse it. I am sure he has talked about his financial issues, hasn't he?

After reading that paragraph, the neurons in my brain started linking this situation with some old memories. I can visualize a box named 'memory' is opening automatically and some photos are flashing in my brain.

I remember Ryan used to ask me if he can borrow some money and I couldn't deny as we were in relationship at that time. I used to pass the money(from my savings) to Jay and he passes it to Ryan. He was a postman for us- just the difference was that he was passing the money and not letters. It was very often but the fact that he returned it after our first breakup is not gonna change. 

No Siya! He's not like that! He said he has a clot in his brain? What if he lied? How can we trust people on the internet? No we can't. I've seen an example right now! Is that line- 'All boys are the same'- true? What the hell should I do now!?

*Phone vibrates*

_.Unknown._ : Hi Siya.

Siya143 : Ryan? Are you okay?

 _.Unknown._ : Umm.. Siya, this is Saurav, Ryan's brother.

Siya143 : I guess you should stop pretending now... RYAN.

To be continued...