A long wait

" My dear daughter, I hope you wake up soon"

A man in his 50's was sitting beside the bed of a young woman who was sleeping peacefully on the hospital bed.Her face was pale, eyelids shut, lips sealed...not even a slightest movement was seen in her.

There was many medical equipments attached to her body to keep her heart beating...or you can say to keep her alive.

Though it was a hospital room but it didn’t look like one.The bedsheets were white and neatly tucked.The room was glowing with bright sun rays flowing through the big glass window and a mild fragrance filled the entire room.

No... it was not the smell of disinfectant, but the smell of roses.Beautiful fresh roses. The room was decorated with roses in flower pots.

"See Evelyn, i have bought your favourite flowers like always". The man said in a half broken tone. "Please wake up and look." Tears rolled down his cheeks.

A man was watching all this through the glass door.He remembered she loved flowers, every morning she used to pluck them to decorate the house with it. She used to decorate each and every flower vase with her own hands.And the sweet smell used to flood the whole house Though at first he found it useless and waste of time but gradually he liked it.

He came out of his thoughts and stood there with a cold and expressionless face.He watched them for sometime and without uttering a single word or entering inside he left.

It has become a part of his regular routine now.. Everyday before going to work he stops by, looks at her through the glass door, and leaves quietly.

All the hospital staffs have become familiar with this for these past five years.

Yes five long years... Evelyn has been lying on this hospital bed and Leon has been visiting her.

Five years of their marriage and five years of their staying apart.

Life has been unfair to both of them. An arranged marriage, two completely different persons bound together by their parents and forced to spend their lives together .Though at first they had problem to communicate...but gradually they started to grow feelings for eachother. Love had just started to bloom in their lives when suddenly a tragic accident shattered everything. Leaving behind a father with a broken heart and a husband surrounded with loneliness.

Leon had tried everything to cure her, to wake her up from this neverending dream...but failed.

He has turned into a person no one recognises.He doesn’t complain...only waits... a neverending wait...when she will wake up?

Fate...was it really their fate? Were they fated to meet? Were they fated to be together? If yes...then why are they apart? Why inspite of being together they are so far away?

Leon came out of the hospital got into his car and asked his driver to go to the company.

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