And in the mountain area, some medical and civilian tents were placed. Medical camps has red crosses on them and civillian has none. several city people were gather there, checking for any health or injury.
Krishna and Chintu entered a long line of people, and they waited for Krishna's turn.
There was several people around Krishna's age maybe older and they looked different and well clothed, they were the city people that Chintu said drink blood. They were wearing gloves and face masks, which he felt little off about.
" Why are they wearing face masks?" asked Krishna to Chintu .
" Corona." Said the little boy. And Krishna nodded, Daadi told him it was a big thing year ago, she even didn't let him go outside for a whole month.
He looked at the long line that he was part of, he tried to look ahead at what people were doing, he wonder if they drink blood directly or they store it for later? He was looking ahead when he saw a city woman, face masked with long brown hair at the end of line checking people. He couldn't see her face, but he sensed that she was different. His eyes lingered And than shifted elsewhere. He looked around and saw a young girl holding a camera, taking pictures of everything, literally everything.
" Hay! Why are they taking pictures of sheeps." Asked Krishna to Chintu.
" Probably for dinner. " Said Chintu, and the camera girl like sencing there gaze looked at him, and they both turned back, ignoring her.
" Maybe we should leave. " said Krishna to Chintu.
" Yes, Daadi will love to know about your miracle of yesterday. " Said Chintu, and Krishna didn't look faced.
" How many of those letters have you written?" Asked Krishna, wanting to strangle this kid to death.
" I'm not gonna tell you that. " Said Chintu, and soon Krishna's turn came.
"Next. " And when Krishna heard that, he looked at the woman sitting in front of him.
And after seeing her, he paused, literally. All the sound in world faded, and melodic music stafyed playing around him. He didn't know what happened, but his heart beat started rise.
He looked at her black eyes with black kaajal on it. The whole world seems more quieter, it felt smaller and comfortable. Everything else vanished, become a bour. And now, he was just seeing the beautiful eyes of that beautiful doctor. He didn't care that she was wearing a face mask, her eyes were enough for him.
He would have kept on staring at for ages listening to that sweet music in his mind, if a shoulder to his back had not ticked him, broking him out of his dreamy state .
He looked around and saw that everything was normal and the beautiful doctor was looking at him, saying next.
He immediately sat on the chair and kept looking at her. And she, like a professional, did her job, and took a sample of his blood by an injection. He didn't hear her telling him to go, and Chintu had to drag him away. And he looked at him.
"Done, you said it will be long and painful. I didn't feel anything ."
" Because they took a drop for checking, and after that, they will take blood. "
" Did she drink my blood? " Asked Krishna with a smile.
" If yes. I wouldn't mind. " said Krishna.
" What happened to you why you acting like an idiot?" Asked Chintu and Krishna who was still leaving that moment didn't hear or didn't care what he said, his mind was filled with her image.
" Isn't she beautiful?" He said with a smile.
" What! Beautiful? Who? "
" That doctor, isn't she beautiful?" And Chintu understand what he meant.
" You didn't even saw her face." And Krishna said , still in his dreamy face.
" Who loves because of just looking the face?"
" Everyone." Chintu said matter of factly.
Krishna didn't heard that, he was still lost in the memory of her eyes. Chintu heard someone calling for him. He has to drag him away from that spot.
They entered a nearby tent and waited, waiting for someone to call them. Soon someone did, they entered another tent, and there that same beautiful doctor from earlier was sitting. Krishna's eyes where immediately on her, and that music immediately started to play again.
She was beautiful and a little tall. She had light wheat skin and black eyes, brown hair, with a beautiful eyes. She wore a doctor coat over her normal sky blue dress, with that doctor mask on.
Krishna who was still lost in melodies music and her eyes didn't remember anything that happened there. Only thing he remembered was her eyes. He didn't care how much blood they took, and how many ways they took, he didn't care at all. He was happy just to see her. He couldn't see her face, but he could imagine that smile of her. Gentle and beautiful just like evening.
The music was still on in his mind, and at some point of the time, they both had come down the tent and had sat on the chair outside of the camp. Rvening sun was high, beautiful as ever, but they felt nothing in front of her. He remembered her and her only. He remembered her touch when she was wrapping bandage on his arm. time was just like a blurr to him.
And when he reached home, those obsidian eyes were the only thing that he recalled seeing, and he fell asleep in his bed smiling.
" Maybe this days wasn't that bed. "
And the next morning when he woke up, something was hitting him. And it wasn't sunlight for sure.
He opens his eyes, and saw his granny hitting him with a stick. It took time to his brain to analys what was happening, and when he did, he immediately scorns under her beating.
" You idiot, where were you last day? I just got a little angry and you didn't show up for a whole day. Where were you Krishna....?, there was so many noises yesterday. I know it's was you, you were cracking fire crackers with kids I knew it." And she kept beating him.
" Daadi please, daadi please. Let me say. " And she didn't let him stay until the stick was broken.
" Tell me where you are." And she again grabbed his ear.
" You tried to sneak into the city, didn't you?"and he replied that he didn't sneak anywhere, he was with Chintu and they were just hanging near the pond, and he swore in her name. And after hearing this she loosens the ear.
" Why didn't you tell me that earlier? And don't think about going to the city sneakily or something." She said and then dropped him, and started leaving his room.
" Breakfast is ready and you can go anywhere without informing me," said the granny.
And Krishna looked at the broken stick at the ground.
" Old woman. "
" What did you say? " She said from downstairs.
" Nothing. " He immediately replied. He wanted to complain but who's gonna he complain to, Daadi? She was the reason he wanted to complain in first place.
He stood up, and saw a glass of bournvita there for him, and he immediately sipped that, and looked at the sky, when his spotted a small a plane flying away. He was wondering who was going to cuty again when he heard Chintu saying,
" Krishna, your beautiful doctor lady is going away in the plane." And he immediately woke up from his slumber, And he looked at the plane up above.
He took off.
He jumped from his balcony to a roof nearby, and immediately got into a sprint, started jumping through the rooftop to rooftops like a spring is attached to him. Each jump of his got longer and longer while the contact of him and roof become less and less. He was increasing speed with every jump , he looked up at the fast moving plane which will soon cross the mountains, he had very little time.
Snd after a long jump he was in the outskirts of town, and entered the forest area where the plane jas just crossed. He jumped from tree to tree like a monkey, not even putting both of his feet on the trees, his focus and eyes were on the plane. He took a right, and started to go a little off from the plane's direction, and started to climb a mountain with both hands.
He gripped the ledge and pushed himself upward with force. He repeated that few more times and soon with some effort, he soon got on the top, and now he can see the plane, flying just little further.
He starts to run on the hills and cliffs toward the highest peak. His goal was clear to reach highest peak where he can see the plan in eye level. And soon enough, he reached there.
He saw the plane flying just a few feet away from him, and he looked inside the plane.
He saw she wasn't there, the camera girl was there, maybe she was on another side. His mood dropped immediately . He missed it.
He sat down defeated, breathing heavily as he looked at the plane which slowly drifted to horizon. He looked at the sun above. And closed his eyes. Soon his breathing starts to come in control, and his heart cooling down. He lowered his head, and let the cool air of the top pass him.
Sometimes later, he jumped back to his room's balcony, sad and a little gloomy, when he noticed someone standing in front of him. And it was his grandmother holding his breakfast.
" Where were you?" And hearing this, he knew his fate, he looked down, and said in a meek voice, he totally forgot about the breakfast.
" I'm sorry." And he sighs ready for beating. But to his surpise, it didn't come. He was about to look up he heard he replying.
" I'm sorry. " He looked at her in surprise, not understanding why she was apologizing, when he noticed her sad face.
" I'm sorry that I couldn't allow you to go to the town. " And he kept looking at her.
"I'm sorry, beta... but I can't let you go to that city," her voice trembled. "I've already lost too much. I can't lose you too."