Friday, September 10, 2010

When A Tree Branch Felt On Me!

'Where are you?' the voice reached my left ear, as I received a call on my phone.
'I'm at my place,' I answered.
'Why did you not go to your college,'
'If your attendance is going to be short, then don't call me, I'm not going to your college,' the voice continued.
Yes, it was my di's call and she had started flashing these unanswerable questions.
'I'm studying here, papers are going to start from Monday,' I said.
'Wow, my kid has started studying, I've to distribute sweets in our society, after all you would have been touching your books first time' she said.
'You appear in exams but have never shown your results to me,' she had started with these nice words.
'Ho gya!  kya kaam hai?' I uttered.
Go and recharge my number, I don't have balance in my phone and I'm busy in kitchen making lunch,' she ordered.
Yes, I had just opened my books after returning from G3S, but....
I don't know why people around me think that I don't study.


'What the hell is this, how can it be possible?' I asked myself locking my door. 
'Is it evening?' I asked myself checking out the time in my phone. 
Yes, it was dark enough, the black cloud had covered whole Rohini, as if it going to turn this noon into midnight. The storm was at its apex and it was producing different sounds, the lightening was flashing lights continuously.
''Thank god, it's going to be sexy noon,' I said to myself crossing the road.
Yes, god is very happy on Delhites these days, he was about to shower Delhi heavily. I started thinking about getting wet and enjoy god's heavy shower. 
It was around 2:15 and its the time when kids came out of their school. So whole road was covered with small kids from near by schools. Some studs were flying their bikes circling girls, few guys were showing stunts without helmet. Then suddenly my phone started vibrating.


'Hey what are you doing, I've just finished E-R model,' it was a message from, who has become a book worm these days and love to send me updates of her finished chapters.
'I'm going to market, have come.........
'Oh fuck, what the hell is this,' the voice came out of my mouth. My phone felt down on the road , as something hit me hardly on my chest and left hand.
The nearby people started running towards me, as if the whole sky would have fallen on my chest.
Yes, a heavy branch of a roadside tree had fallen on my chest and it hit me so hard that I felt down on the road.
What happened, what happened, are you okay. The different voices with different tones started vibrating my eardrums.
'Look at the branch its heavy enough, are you okay,' the voice reached my ear. Two of the gathered crowd came and helped me getting up.
'He was playing games on his phone when the branch felt, I saw him,' one of them said, as if he would have seen me plying games. 
'You ass, there is not any game in my phone,' I wanted to shout back, but my voice got chocked.
'Yeah, you are right, I saw him busy with his phone and he didn't see the falling branch  and it hit his head badly,' a lady's voice came out of the crowd.
'It hit my chest,' I corrected.
I don't know why people were guessing what was I doing in my phone during falling branch.
'I'm okay,' I said. 
I saw the crowd had circled me and they were gazing at me, as if the fallen branch was heavier than the Himalya mountain, so I could die anytime.
'Bring water for him,' one uncle said.
'No thanks, I'm alright,' I said.
'He is okay, let's go,' the uncle said and the crowed started disappearing.
'Beta, are you okay, you need doctor,' one aunty said when I was holding my chest tightly.
Yes, it had started paining and it was becoming out of my control.


'What happened to him,' the doctor asked checking my wrist.
'You ass, check out my chest, I got hit here,' I wanted to say it to doctor, who was checking my wrist despite checking my chest.
'A tree branch has fallen on his chest,' the aunty said.
'Weather is going to be worse day by day, the rain is not going to stop,' the doctor said putting a device on my chest.
'I don't know how will this common wealth games take place here,' the doctor continued.
'Due to continuous heavy rain and water logging, the number of dengue patients is increasing day by day,' he continued.
'Good for you,' I uttered.......