Nothing will happen to you.....

I will not let anything happen to you.....

Please don't lose hope.....

I cannot live without you.....

Please open your eyes......

She jerked up from her sleep. She again heard those words.....

She doesn't know who is that person and how he is related to her but she knows that he is definitely related to her past. She cannot see his face, all she can see is a blur image of a person.

Past

She smiled bitterly.

As she cannot remember anything from her past.....not even her parents.

She still remembers that day when she had woken up from the coma. When she had woken up.....tears were flowing from her eyes and she fainted.
And again when she opened her eyes, all she saw was a bunch of unfamiliar people standing in front of her.

Everyone were having tears in their eyes and all were looking concerned at her. Then she blurted out the first thing that came to her mind which made everyone look at her in shock.

"Who are you all?"

That's when the Doctor came in and checked her. He asked her some questions and showed those people in front of her asking who are they. She said she doesn't know them and doctor made some tests on her.

He concluded that she had lost the memory. He told her that she has parents, a family, friends and.....he was about to say something but stopped himself sighing sadly.

He told her about her disease, surgery and loss of memory.

Doctor told her to take rest but she couldn't especially when she had known that she had lost her memory. She tried hard to remember but her mind was blank. She heard the cries of the people whom doctor introduced to her as her parents.

She felt bad for hurting them and tried hard to remember them. In frustration she used to throw the things and shout on the people who tried to calm her. She even shouted at her parents to leave her alone as whenever she sees their worried faces it reminds that she is the reason for that and that made her more angry.

She used to get blur images of her past in her dreams and when she tries hard to remember, it stresses her brain so much that it causes her to faint. She tried to accept the truth of her life but her blank mind didn't allow it.

Their love and concern made her run away from them. She avoided them and stayed alone to avoid all the anger, frustration and pain. She knows she is hurting them but she is hurting too by not remembering them.

That's when Dr. Ramesh said that she needs some alone time to sort out things and gain some courage to face the situation. For that she needs  treatment from an expert therapist who would train her to deal with things and so he took her to Mumbai with him for her treatment.

She was so thankful to him for bearing her and helping her. Now, he is like a big brother to her. Treatment and therapies for 3 months helped her to get out of that unknown sorrow and accept the truth of her life.

She understood that she had to leave her past behind and start a fresh chapter of this new life given to her by the God.

She started to get adapted to the fact that she had lost the memory and she has a family with whom she had to live. But somewhere she always feels this emptiness. Although she had many people in front of her, she always craves to see someone but she doesn't know who. She always tries to remember the person in her dream but ends up with an head ache.

So she thought she would go back and be with her parents so that this emptiness would go away. She felt relieved after she met her parents, it was like some weight has lifted off from her shoulders.

But the weight in her heart didn't go away. It's like her heart wanted something but she couldn't get it.

She sighed and got up from her bed. She freshened up and went to the kitchen to eat something as her stomach was growling in hunger. Her mother said that she had prepared her favourite food and she looked at the food. She thought that maybe it's her favourite food and tasted it. Now she understood why it was her favourite because it is so tasty. She thanked her mother and ate until her stomach was full.

Her mother smiled at her and her thoughts immediately went to Siddharth which made her smile drop.

Anu talked with her parents and came to know about many things.....her school, her college, her education, her job everything. She learned many things about herself and that made her realise how much they love her.

She smiled for the first time in months and that gave her strength to deal with the situation.

In the evening she thought of taking a walk and went outside. She looked around while walking to see whether she can remember any places.

She walked a little too long seeing the places and when she took a right, she stopped in her tracks. She felt the place was familiar to her and walked towards it. It was a park and she felt like it was pulling her towards it.

She walked inside and saw watchman smiling at her. So indeed she know this place. She smiled at the thought that she knows atleast one place from her past.

She walked inside waving at the watchman and sat on a bench. She liked the park very much and she also felt a familiar feeling here. She sat there for don't know how long looking around until her phone rang.

It was her mother asking her where is she and that's when she realised that it has been an hour since she came outside for a walk. She hurried to her home and scolds herself for making her parents worry again.

She walked into the house to see two people, a boy and a girl sitting on the sofa talking to her parents. She felt like she had seen them somewhere and she realised that she saw them in the hospital.

" Hey Anu! Good to see you again....How are you?" Girl asked with a low voice and hugged her.

It was an awkward hug.

Anu hugged her back hesitantly and said she was fine.

" Hi Anu, how are you feeling now?" Boy asked cautiously and she remembered now that he was the one on whom she had shouted in the hospital.

" I am good, how are you?" She asked him smiling to clear the awkwardness.

He smiled at her a little and said he was fine.

But still there was awkwardness in the environment.

" I am sorry.....I wasn't nice to you people when you came to meet me at the hospital. You people are so nice....you came to meet me even after what I had done to you people. I am ashamed of my behavior, please forgive me and I promise that from now onwards I will be in my best behavior." Anu apologized feeling bad and her parents smiled at her.

They both looked at her blankly and didn't said a word.

"Why you both are quiet? Please say something." Anu asked gulping.

" Raj! Didn't I say to you that being quiet doesn't suit me? And what you said to me that day in the hospital she was about to slap me because of my too much of talking and told me to stay silent if I didn't want to get slapped today. She is our Anu.....our Anu, she can't even hurt a fly." Neha said and hugged Anu tightly while Raj glared at her.

And no it wasn't an awkward hug now.

" Don't tell me Neha, that you didn't look like a scared cat when Anu shouted at me and you are the who hid behind me in fear. You were the one who shook with fear and today also you were the one who was afraid even to meet her." Raj said and Neha glared at him.

Neha stomped on his feet and he groaned in pain.

" Idiot! Why did you do that?" He asked rubbing his feet.

" Because you revealed that we are scared of her!" She exclaimed.

" You are scared of her, not me!" Raj exclaimed back.

" Why would I be scared of her? She is my best friend." She hissed angrily at him.

" Hey! she is my best friend too." He also hissed at her.

Suddenly they went calm realising that there are people around them. They saw Anu's parents no where maybe they went away unable to bear their childishness and they saw Anu whom they thought will throw them out of the house was instead looking amused at them.

" Are you two done with your fight?" She asked smiling at them and they nodded at her looking down.

" Good, we can have food now.....come." She said going inside.

" Did she just said food?" Neha asked him.

" Why do you behave like you didn't eat food for days when you hear the word food?" He asks annoyed and walks inside.

" What did you say to me?" She gritted her teeth following him.

" Truth." He shrugged and earned a smack on his head.

And before he could say anything, they heard a laugh and saw Anu laughing loudly. All of them looked at her stunned as it had been months they had seen her laughing like this.

Her parents were very much happy to see her laugh like this as they hardly ever saw her smile.

" Are you people always like this fighting?"She asks them sitting on the dining table.

They just looked down while Anu's mom answered the question in yes.

They all ate together chatting with each other. In all this also, they couldn't fill the void that is created due to the absence of that one person. They all except Anu looked at each other and immediately looked away as they know what they are thinking.

"Shouldn't we tell her about Siddharth?" Anu's mom asked Neha while everyone are in the living room watching t.v.

" She just became alright aunty.....we don't know if she would be able to bear....." Neha said sadly.

" But she has to know, it's her right." Her mom had tears in her eyes.

" Yes aunty......but you had seen na how she behaved when she got know that she had lost her memory.....she couldn't cope up with the fact that she has parents and friends whom she had forgotten then how would she react if she comes to know that there was a person whom she loved the most and who loved her the most.....and that too in such situation......" Neha said and she herself had tears in her eyes.

" I spoke with Dr. Ramesh about this yesterday. He said just leave it to the fate.....when the right time comes every thing falls into the place."  She said to Neha.

" He is obsolutely right aunty......we have to wait for the right time." Neha smiled and hugged her.

Anu started to grow fondness towards Raj and Neha and regrets for pushing such amazing people away from her that day.. She became close to her parents too.....its been a week since she came back and she is totally enjoying her life.

She started to spend more time with Raj and Neha. They went for shopping, restaurants, malls......and in this time she came to know a lot about them.

But still somewhere in her heart, she feels this emptiness and voidness.....she doesn't know why. Like there is something she wants to know, there is someone whom she wants to meet, there is something that everyone is hiding from her.

God hasn't gave this new life to her just like that.....there must be a purpose, a reason for it she had survived that dreadful disease.

And she will know it definitely.....soon.

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To be Continued...........

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