A Medical Romance

Prologue

It was the season of spring. The city was blooming, harnessing the colors of life and nature, the birds were happy chirping, the newly-weds were joyous, the newborn were invited, there was pomp and prosperity everywhere.

Kavya, was jubilant and enjoying her newly gained freedom. She was almost all alone, in the city with no one to control her movements, give her statements of proper ordnance and always keep a watch over her.

She has joined the prestigious and one of the oldest professional courses of the world, ‘Bachelor of Medicine’. She is away from her small hometown, in a bigger city, with all amenities at the street corner, plush departmental stores, the big stores, the big shopping complexes, the boys and girls, all were new to her and she loved the city.

She is staying in the hostel and this newly enjoyed freedom of hers will be with her for the coming 4 plus 1 year of studies and there is a long way to go. Starting this Monday, she will be embarking on a new journey, a new leaf in her twig, a new bud in the node, she is going to be a Human Doctor, in years and she will be above a normal human being and has to acquire all the traits that help her in this process.

Who, knows what is in store for her in this small life of hers…..have to wait and see, today is Saturday, another day to go by.

Krish or Krishnan, as he is called, is a guy who has the geographical map of the city and never fails any street, whenever a dear one is lost in the city. He is like a walking encyclopedia of the city, comes handy in directors to the unknown corners of the city.

A rich dad and mom had given him all that he wanted. The freedom given to him, was well used and always brought him more and he enjoyed it, in spite of his friends feeling the sting of jealousy. He did not ask for or less, it was always there in enough quantity. He handled the amount of cash given to him as an apt business man and loved every moment of his.

He has a number of friends of both the genders and they all loved him for the liberty he gave them all in his company. They were all happy to be his friend but heart-of-hearts longed to be like him. There were around him and always gave him company but he looked for that one quality in someone that can give him the missing comforts of friendship and relations. It did not, happen.

His long standing desire to capture the nuances of human life, and be an able doctor to control the body along with the mind has been his passion. Interested in the science of medicines, he focused on doing nothing but getting into the prestigious college of medical sciences in the city. It is Saturday and he is expecting a lot from his Monday classes, new friends, new life, new study, new girls, and so on. Girls, yes he is excited about them, now, in a different way, he is dreaming of faceless girls, WOW, what fun it is.

Who, knows what is in store for him in this big life of his…..have to wait and see, today is Saturday, another day to go by.

I have created this piece of fiction on Sun 31-Aug-2008 and so far I have written 16 chapters with me and still writing it, a replica of it lies at my official blog too.


Short Stories by Kavitha Kumaresan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License