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19. Love Always Finds a Way

I opened my eyes to find a nurse fixing an IV in my arm.
‘Ouch,’ I gasped.
My eyes were wide open but I was in acute shock. The nurse started
patting me on my back, then offered me a glass of water and narrated
everything. All of us were airlifted to the Military Base Hospital located in
the Badami Baag area in Srinagar. We were unconscious, bleeding, and three
commandos were grievously injured. They were immediately admitted to the
ICU and were still being operated on.
Miraculously, none of us was dead.
I was stable but had opened my eyes only after two days. The other
commandos were admitted to different wards. It took me a while to process
the information and I slowly pulled myself up to a sitting position. My head
hurt and my limbs felt sore. There were numerous stitches all over my body.
Though the pain was dulled by the drugs, it felt as if there was tons of
weight over my shoulders.
I closed my eyes and slept instantly. My body and mind were still in
acute shock.
I got up again in the middle of the night and it took me a minute to
understand what had happened a couple of days back. I sat up at once.
Something was missing around me, something very important, something
important for my survival… Then, suddenly, I realized what it was…Virat!
Where was he? Why was he not here with me? Did he leave me
again?
No! I would die this time. Was he dead? No! He was with me all the
time. Then, where was he? I had to find him.
The IVs were no longer attached to me and I instantly ran out of my
ward into the hospital corridor. Everything was hazy and blurred but I had to
find Virat. I noticed the clock on the wall and it was way past midnight;
everybody would be sleeping.
Where was he? This could not happen to me again! I wandered
around like a mad woman through the various corridors and departments, hid
myself whenever I would see a hospital attendant and then I located the ICU.
I sneaked in, my heart pounding in fear, glanced into a few rooms and then I
found him.