Part 4: Jab Dil Miley

As everyone headed inside the exam hall, the instructor was going to give them a quick run through. Riddhima spotted Anjali and Sunita and decided to head their way.
Anjali, standing with Sunita and another friend named Raj, finally saw that Ridhimma was here and heading their way.
Sunita=Sun
Raj=Raj

Anj - (to Raj and Sunita) Guys vo dekho, thank god meri behen pohonchgayee...voh jaise bahar itni zor zor se chillarahi thi,I thought ke koi chance hi nahin hai ke security guard usko andar aane dega, maine socha ke agar uski problem mein main parh gaee, tho mera tho reputation kharab ho sakta hai, you know, I mean ek late student ki behen and all. (Sees Riddhima approaching and stops talking).
Rid - Hi guys
Sun - Hi Ridhimma!
Raj - Hey Ridz!
Anj - (quickly seems concerned) Tu kahan rehgaee thi Ridzi?
Rid - vo di actually, maine aap ko bulayaa tha, lekin aap ne shayad suna nahin.
Anj - WHAT? Are you implying ke maine jaan bhuj ke tumhe nahi suna? I would never do that Ridzi!
Rid - Nahin Di, of course not.
Anj - Thik hai Thik hai (feeling guilty), we should take our seats now.

Anjali, Riddhima, Sunita and Raj all take their seats. Anjali and Sunita sit in the same row and Raj and Riddhima sit behind. The instructor starts talking.
Instructor=Ins

Ins - Yeh exam 6 ghante ka exam hai aur 2 parts mein hoga. Sab se pehla part written part hai jo ke akele hoga. (papers are distributed) You are not permitted to use anything other than the paper provided to you and your writing tool. This part will be fully monitored. Part 2 will be done with a partner. You will both work together and be given various situations in which you need to do various procedures,some more complicated than others. You have 2 hours for the written test and 3 hours for part2. During the one hour break, you are only to interact with your partner and no one else. All papers are distibuted and your time starts now.

Everyone in the room quickly gets to work, with many calculations to do and lots of writing involved. Before they know it, their 2 hours are up. The instructor tells them that they have 15 minutes to find themselves a partner for Part 2.

Rid - Anjali di, partners?
Anj - Nahi Riddhima, Sunita bura maanegi, maine usko promise kiya tha
Sun - You know, it's ok guys, main Raj ke saat chali jaoongi.
Raj - Main mana nahin karta lekin...I'm already partnered up. Vo...school se Pammi hai na, she already asked me.
Rid - Oh (thinking 'yeh mere saat hi kyun...')
Raj - Lekin...I have a friend, vo hamare college main nahin parta lekin I've known him for a long time. He was telling me he doesn't have a partner yet.
As Anjali and Sunita head to their station to put their name as partners on the list, Raj takes Riddhima to his friend.

In another corner of the room, Armaan, wearing his clean new lab coat (like everyone else) thinks who he should ask now 'hmm...thori planning ke saat ana chahiye tha, yahan to sub partnered up hain'. Right at that moment, he senses a tap on his shoulder and turns around. It's his old friend Raj. Riddhima had stopped to ask another of her friends if she had a partner.

Arm - Hey, Raj buddy boy what's up man?
Raj - Crazy worried about this exam yar, tu kaisa hai? Uss din Saman ki party main miley the lekin uss ke bad to...
(announcement that there are 10 minutes left)
Raj - Oh sun yar, vo tere paas partner hai?
Arm - Nahin! I'm so glad you asked (relieved) Dekh na, usually, I always have partners flocking around me (winks) lekin aaj...I'm kind of unlucky I think.
Raj - Main apneliye nahin pooch raha tha, mera tho taka Pammi kai saat fit hai (his turn to wink) lekin, I have a friend and she's got no partner.
Arm - Thank god! Kahan hai? (looks around the room eagerly)

Riddhima, with no luck finding a partner, walks up from behind. And as soon as Raj moves out of the way, Riddhima and Armaan see each other and realize that they were going to be partnered up. Horrified at this idea, they both scream out in unison
"NO WAY"!!!!

Arm - (Grabs Raj by the shoulder and brings him to the side) Maine tera kiya bighara hai jo tu mujhe aisi saza deh raha hai?
Raj - Kiya? What are you talking about?
Arm - Tu uss churail se mila hua hai na? Tum sab yehi chahte ho ke main exam fail kar doon?
Riddhima walks up from behind.
Rid - Main iss ke saat partners nahin ban sakti NO WAY! Yeh? (looks at Armaan with a disgusted face) Raj tumhara aur koi dost nahin hai?
Raj - Riddhima Riddhima, main janta hoon, not the best choice lekin kam chalana pare ga.
Arm - Guys..I'm right here.
Raj - Sorry dude and sorry Ridz, this is the only partner I've got for you both, and agar list ko dekha jaye, lagta hai aur sab to partenered up hain. Take it or leave it. I gotta meet Pammi now. Chao. (Raj runs to Pammi)
Arm&Rid - But..But...

Armaan goes to put their name on the list. He comes back and looks at Riddhima who seems rather uncomfortable. They start prepping their lab material.
Arm - Well you gotta make do with what you have right?
Rid - (looks at him, annoyed) Dekho...umm...vo jo..umm
Arm - Wow, tum doctor banna chahti ho aur tumhari vocabulary main sirf ek hi word hai: (goes close to her ear, Ridz inches a bit forward)...UMMM. Patient aye ga, aur usko ishemic cardiomiopathy hoga aur vo poochega uss ko kia bimari hai, aur tum kahogi: UMMM...? (pulls away from her ear) kyun (raises his eyebrows, but doesn't expect her to answer)?
Rid - (thinks to herself 'Yeh to apne aap ko kuch zada hi samajta hai')Dekho, main tum se ye kehna chahrahi thi ke..
Arm - I know I know (holds his hands up as if surrendering) kehne ki zarurat nahin hai, main janta hoon tum kiya soch rahi ho (goes back to screwing the clamp on the lab bench), mujh jaisa good-looking bike chala ne vala and plus I'm a doctor? I get that a lot (scrunches his nose)lekin kiya karein? It's life.
Rid - Just shut...(relaxes and takes a deep breath) Will you please let me speak, mujhe apni baat to puri karne do. I was ONLY going to say kai let's put everything that happened in the accident behind us, at least agle 4 ghanton ke liye, uss ke baad, tum apne raaste, aur main apne raste. OK?
Arm - (still turning his screw on the clamps, he's heard every word but given no answer, He's having a bit of a tough time screwing this screw on the clamp, it keeps coming off)
Rid - (Ridz starts walking away)
Arm - Hold on, kahan jaarahi ho?
Rid - Main? (ridz is surprised armaan even noticed that she's leaving)
Arm - Haan..I mean, I don't really care, lekin agar tum soch rahi ho kai main sara kaam karke tumhe credit dedounga tho...
Rid - (Shakes her head) Tum doctor kaise bano ge? Did you even hear a word that I said? I'm keeping this professional.
Arm - To phir, where are you going?
Rid - Vo kiya hai na...(She walks over to Armaan. His hand is closed into a fist because he is holding that screw that he was trying to put on the clamp so their lab equipment could hold together. As she walks over he wonders what she's about to do. She slowly takes her delicate hand places it under Armaans and with her other hand opens his fist. Armaan looks at her hand, 'so perfect with slender fingers and beautiful clean white nails' he thinks 'wait...main aisa kyun soch raha hoon' but he can't help think it. As she's looking down to open his hand, he catches a glimpse of her face [a dmg breeze blows] 'hmmm...larti bohot hi zada hai, churail si baatein karti hai...par dekhne main...itni buri bhi nahin hai.' he thinks. His fist opens without much force as all his attention is on her and Riddhima takes the screw from his hand and holds it up to him.
Rid - Yeh screw, it's not the regulation screw you are supposed to use to clamp the lab equipment to the bench.
Arm - (Armaan comes out of his daze)Wha..what?
Rid - Not regulation screw. (Riddhima says it slowly this time) iss liye nikle jaarahi thi. Main sahi vali lene jaarahi thi supplies main se.
Arm - I knew that. Vo..I was just showing you...what not to do. (scratches the back of his head thinking 'man...messed up on that one' he quickly grabs the screw from her) I'll go and exchange it. (he heads towards the supplies and thinks 'what was that? Uss pagli ke bare main aisa thought kyun...weird' and shakes it off.)

Armaan heads back to where Riddhima is. She's started charting the patient's case study.
Arm - Ye screw (holds it out to Riddhima and waits for her to turn and take it from him)
Rid - Idhar lab bench pe rakh do, main bas patient ke vital signs aur pulse le rahi hoon (Armaan is a bit disappointed for some reason...he expected her to turn around, hold her hand out and take it...and, don't worry guys, it's a dummy/manequin patient, not a real one).
Arm - Oh...to ab humay Misses Shahenshah-e-Akbar ka intezaar karna parega ke vo hate to hum screw lagayen clamp pe? (crosses his arm)Yar, I bet Jodha didn't even have this many nakhray.
Rid - (rolls her eyes 'kabhi nahi sudrega' she thinks) I'm almost done phir tum screw lagadena.
Arm - Oh shit (fakes it, but it seems real to Riddhima) Vo...Exam administrator araha hai.
Rid - Tho?
Arm - Tho kiya...vo dekhe ga ke abhi tuk hamare lab materials set up hi nahin hue
(Riddhima can't turn around because she needs to concentrate to get the pulse accurately)
Rid - Oh no...tho jaldi se lagao na...
Arm - lekin abhi to tum kehrahi thi ke...(he thinks it's funny that she believes him)
Rid - Vo sab bhool jao! Just hurry up already! Jaldi lagao, I don't want to make a bad impression.
Arm - Whatever you say.
Riddhima is by the corner and is standing there taking the pulse of the dummy patient, listening intently. In order to get the screw on the clamp, Armaan would have to go on his tippy toes to reach the clamp. He thinks 'I should just wait for her until she's done' but then turns around and this time, and although the benches are far away from each other, he actually sees the test administrator checking out the sheets and lab bench of the test-takers 3 tables down. 'Shit! ye to vaaki main yahan pohonch jayega...aur phir hamare marks kateinge!' so he decides to go ahead. He gets closer to Riddhima. Her shoulder is facing him. She has no clue because she's busy listening through her stethoscope. As he inches near, he hesitates. He doesn't want her to think that he's that kind of guy. He takes the screw and reaches up to the clamp. As he does this, he can't help but look at her. Those traditional shoes that always seemed so funny to him kind of...seemed to work for this girl. That dupatta he always thought was a useless piece of clothing was safely tucked on her neck and caught some of her hair and she wore it so importantly. He looked at her face. So much expression. So much concern for this patient that isn't even real 'kaisi larki hai yeh...kuch alag si' he thought. He was done putting the screw on the clamp but stayed there just for a bit longer. She smelled so good, like roses, his favourite sauce-vaale red type roses. He then sees that the clip she was wearing had caught some of her dupatta. 'Uss ke bal kich rahe hongay, maybe if I just take the dupatta from this clip, it'll be easier for her'.
Riddhima finally done with her pulse and vital signs takes her stethoscope off. She suddenly notices that someone is next to her. She turns her head to see Armaan standing there. He notices and quickly takes his hand aways from the clamp and realizes what he was just about to do.

Arm - vo dupatta...tumhara dupatta, it's caught in your hair.
Rid - (feels the clip behind her and releases her dupatta, her cheeks go a bit red)Thanks.('yeh isne kaise notice kiya?')
Arm - (clears his throat) no problem. (he feels a bit embarassed thinking of what he was about to do)
Rid - So...vital signs are all ok.

The administrator finally comes and Riddhima tells him about the vital signs and Armaan gives him an overview of their next steps and lab procedures.
Admnistrator=adm

Adm - Well done. Keep it up, now you just need to write down your diagnosis.
Arm&Rid - thank you sir.
(Adm leaves. They start writing up their procedures.)
Arm - Hmmm(back into his joking mood) not bad for your first run.
Rid - I know.
Arm - Wow! Overconfidence much? (he laughs)
Rid - Nahin. But I know when I'm right. And this time, I've got a great feeling. You did ok too.
Arm - (jokingly bows with his hands) Misses Shahenshah-e-Akbar A.K.A. Jodha-ji, aap ne mujhe complement dia. Aap ka sau bar shukriya.
Rid - Uff!! You're sooo irritating! Tum kitne..kitne...irritating ho!
Arm - You know, I'll provide you with a dictionary and thesaurus free of charge, bus tum pleaase yahan se nikal ne ke baad, mujhe stalk nahin karna!
Rid - You know what Armaan. You're just too much! I'm so glad ke humne sirf ye 4 ghante saat guzaare aur us ke baad...
Arm - (takes a quick step back) Nahiinnn!! Tum sab ko yeh to nahin batane walin ke hum ne CHAR GHANTE saat guzare...tum aisi larki hogi, maine kabhi nahin socha tha! (puts his hand together in front of her) Tumhare ghar main bhai baap nahin hain kiya?
Rid - (utterly annoyed, she gets Armaan out of her way and goes to hand in her report)
Armaan thinks 'muhahahha...tumhe nahin pata ke tumahara kissay pala para hai...Miss Riddhima, you haven't even seen the worse of me...uss accident aur apni "baby" ki keemat to main tum se lekar hi rahounga!'.