CHAPTER-2
The story briefly
Williams was a thirty years aged clever, rich and educated businessman. Something he had seen in their old palace made him lost his mental balance. He became mild mad, just remained staring ahead blankly. He had been admitted in Black Ant Mental Care where he was entrusted to Rose who was the practicing psychiatrist there. Rose could make Williams to come to his senses but he forgot everything that happened before that incident. Rose and her senior Charles strongly opined, forcing Williams to remember either that particular incident he had seen in the old palace or about his past before that incident would have serious damaging consequences to him. During the treatment Rose and Williams fall in love and Rose later became Williams' wife. As the time gone by, a situation has come that Rose has to make Williams to remember that particular incident along with all his past by putting him in deep hypnosis. How his life was affected and her life was affected was the story of the novel ‘Rain Flower’ A spicy Romantic Thriller.
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“You want to say something important to me but troubling to say it” After talking with Jasmine, the sister of Williams, Rose said. Even Jasmine was the sister of Williams, there was not much resemblance between them both. Williams resembled mostly his father and Jasmine resembled mostly her mother. The common thing between them both was both were beautiful and attractive! It was not unusual but the love and affection Jasmine was showing on Williams was fascinating and interesting to her. She always remembered her own sister who was nearly ten years or so elder to her and who was so affectionate and loving to Rose. In fact, her sister Liza was the reason why Rose wanted to become a psychiatrist.
Jasmine nodded her head and smiled. “You can read people, are not you? You are a psychiatrist, I forgot.” There were frowns instantly on her forehead. “You are right. I just don’t know how to talk about that with you.” Got away from the chair she sat and went into the middle of the room, Jasmine said again. She clipped her lower lip between her teeth frames, closed her eyes and started thinking hard how to say what she wanted. Then the touch on her shoulder interrupted her thoughts flow. Then the squeeze that followed assured her that Rose also knew about it.
“It is about your brother, right.”
Jasmine turned back and looked into the face of Rose. “If you were just his psychiatrist now, it would have been easier to me to ask. But……….” Jasmine paused for a moment before saying again. “……….you have become his wife.”
“For that I am so happy in fact.” Rose heartily laughed. “One good thing that your brother’s madness did is; it made him my husband.”
“Not just that.” Jasmine too laughed. “It made a wonderful woman like you as my sister in law.”
“You are also happy. What is the matter then?” knitting her brows together Rose asked her.
Jasmine went near to the sofa and slumped herself in that again. She breathed deeply and closed her eyes. She opened them again only after Rose sat beside her on the sofa and put her hand around Jasmine’s shoulders.
“Tell, what you really want to tell. I am feeling you like a friend to me, if you feel reserved to say anything to me, I do hurt. What you really want?”
Jasmine immediately kissed on the cheek of Rose. “My feeling is also the same. Now I come up with everything.” She paused for a moment before continuing.
“You just don’t know about my brother, how he used to be, before he struck by madness. He was a charm. He was a wonder. He was a sports man. He was a superman to me. Everyone liked him.”
“He is like that now also.” Rose said.
“No. He is not even half of that now.” Jasmine said. “You don’t know my brother before his madness, so you are completely ignorant of his real personality.”
“Still he is impressive, intelligent and not disappointing at all.” Rose really meant what she said. “He might be more skillful, more intelligent before becoming mentally imbalanced like that. He may not be like that now. He came out of his madness and got his sanity back. Is it is not enough to us?”
“Of course enough. More than enough. I agree. But……” Jasmine knitted her brows. “But what was that? What that was made my brother a dummy for one month? What made my brother to forget his past this much? My brother was never a weakling to become mad with some stupid happening.”
Rose did not know what to say and it had become increasingly difficult to convince the brother and sister that some lack of oxygen or nerves damage caused the mild madness in Williams. In other circumstances they would have believed that, but Williams was in that palace in that room at that time was quite puzzling to all of them. Williams very seldom would visit that old palace and never at such time.
“I cannot agree much with your saying that it is because of lack of oxygen or some other inner damage of the brain caused the madness to my brother. Even I am not a doctor, I can say it would be known in scans and other tests if it was the reason.”
Rose was thinking furiously what to say to satisfy this girl. As Williams forgotten almost all his past it had not become difficult to her to convince him with the reasons she herself knew absolutely false. But this Jasmine was intelligent, educated and pretty well could remember each and everything to be convinced easily.
“The only thing beyond my purview to comment any is why Williams was in that room in that palace at that time.” There was a hissing sound as she breathed deeply and hissed out heavily. “But it can happen to anyone as it happened to your brother. There were instances like that.” There were no instances like that to her knowledge, she did not hear about even a single patient became mad like that, not to say treating him.
“May be you are right, maybe there was some reason for your brother to become like that. But……” Rose paused for a moment to give stress to what she was going to say. “………it is not at all better to force him to remember anything. Especially he should not be made to remember that particular moment. If we do like that it may cause even more damage.”
“Oh! No.” Jasmine hastily said. “My intention is not at all to involve my brother in it. I am more concerned than anyone with his health. I just cannot bear something like that happens to him again. Is there no way at all to know what happened to my brother without his involvement?”
“I cannot think of.” Rose had thrown her charming smile. “I don’t bother either. What all I want is Williams in a good and healthy condition.”
Jasmine smiled too. “Really I am happy that my brother has got a devoted and dedicated wife like you.”
“At the same time that he has got an affectionate sister like you also.”
“It is reciprocal.” Jasmine said with a small voice. “He used to love me as much as I loved him. But after this madness I virtually became a stranger to him.”
The distress filled voice moved Rose. She put her hand on Jasmine’s shoulder “It is not so, Jas. Even he had forgotten all his past, even he cannot remember you fully, subconsciously he has love and affection on you.” Rose paused and squeezed Jasmine’s shoulder. “It is not going to be permanent. Soon he recovers all his memories and becomes all normal.”
“All our hopes are on you.” Looking straight into the eyes of Rose, Jasmine said. “Nearly one month my brother remained like a dummy. You could make him this much. Considering that I am having full confidence that you can make him normal as usual.”
“Thank you for your confidence on me.” Her charming smile once again danced on the lips of Rose
Talking in between themselves so, they had forgotten how much time had passed
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Rose was reading an ebook in her tablet and completely engrossed in it and she did not come into this world until she felt the familiar touch on her shoulder.
“Is it is that much interesting to you, you are reading it like this?” trying to observe what she was reading, Williams said.
“Yes, it is a romantic novel and I involved in it fully. I have completed it in fact, only one or two pages left.” Putting that device on the table before her she said. Now her full attention turned towards Williams and she earnestly looked into his eyes.
Williams slumped beside her on the sofa, took that tablet from the table into his hands and started observing it carefully while his forehead was with full of frowns. “Are you interested in reading fiction?” it appeared that his mind was trying to push up something to the surface.
“Of course. From my childhood itself. Fiction gives me a sort of joy. What about you?” without changing her gaze from him she asked.
“I don’t remember. I don’t remember whether I have interested in reading fiction or not.” He breathed deeply. “Did you purchase this book?” he asked her.
“No. I did not. I subscribed to an online library. So I read it for free.” She leaned back in the sofa and said.
“I too want to read it.” He said. “After I read this, we discuss about the story.”
Rose laughed beautifully. “Who would say a no to it? I feel delighted to discuss this with you.”
“Why did you want to become a psychiatrist?” putting that device again on the table he asked her.
“Because from scratch, the most interested thing to me is the mind. So I have started learning about it from childhood and decided to become some specialist in mind and eventually that led to make me a psychiatrist.” She smiled again. She was enjoying the chain of questions. “In fact, it is my sister Liza who found my interest in psychology and encouraged me to become a psychiatrist. Without her encouragement I would not have chosen to become a psychiatrist.”
“A skilled and efficient psychiatrist indeed!” He smiled. “Who influenced you most in your life?”
“Cannot you understand? My sister Liza.” There was no hesitation at all in her voice when she said that.
“That lawyer sister! I have guessed that you are much affectionate towards your sister but did not think she is the person who influenced you most.”
“Yes, she influenced me also a lot.” Her voice was firm while saying that. “After my parents tragic death one after one while I was studying eighth, she took the whole family burden. She did part time jobs, looked after my education and educated herself. Not only she could make me a psychiatrist but herself became a successful lawyer!”
“There is no surprise that she influenced you a lot.”
“It is not just that.” Her voice left some of its firmness. “I like her revolutionary views. I like her lifting the veil and seeing the things in the way they ought to be. She always tries to be pragmatic while enjoying dreams and fiction just like me.”
“Interesting! Very interesting! May I hear some of her revolutionary views?” Williams asked her.
She put her hands around his neck and kissed on his cheek. “Sometime later. Not now. I am feeling exhausted and want to sleep for some time.”
Then she adjusted herself on the sofa put her head in his lap and closed her eyes. At whatever angle, in whatever position, she was amazingly beautiful to him. He remained staring at her with fascination.
(……to be continued)
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