"Are you alright?" - Anika asked the person who was sitting in front of her in the plane when she felt the jerk in the seat. She rushed to the seat when she saw him struggling to speak. Her son requested her to have a safe journey, That too, in the covid time, But the doctor in her never let that happen. She was in his help over the next second and he opened the eyes and looked at her. A chill passes through her veins when she saw the tears in his eyes looking at her unblinkingly. He was struggling to breathe. Over then, the Air hostess came to help and treated him.

"I am a doctor, Let me handle it." - She took control and gave him an injection. She checked his blood pressure which was coming to normal looking at her. She couldn't understand the meaning of the gaze but her mind and heart both went to a restless state when she saw him struggling. For the first time in history, Her hands started to shiver while treating the third person. When she was about to move away taking the blood pressure machine, He held her palms and tears crossed his eyes looking at her. 

"By any chance, He might have affected by covid 19."- One of the air hostesses asked Anika when she stared at his hand holding her wrist tightly. 

"He don't any symptoms. It's just a panic attack." - Anika explained it to them when she saw the blood pressure rating becoming normal holding her hand and looking at her face. Even she felt some sort of freshness in the air when she saw him. She neither moved away nor stopped looking at her. Her legs stopped working. 

"Shall I take this seat? What if anything happens to him again?" - She asked the air hostess to permit her. They glanced with each other and at last permitted but asked her to take the seat in the corner. But she took the seat next to him when his palm shivers when she slightly left his hand. They didn't say anything but left leaving all the emergency to her. 

"Relax. I am right here. Close your eyes, You need sleep." - She said caressing his palms. It was not a new thing for her. Comforting the patients is a part of her job. He nodded no with teary eyes, No words came from his mouth. But she understood and continued to caress his palms and wiped the tears which crossed his cheeks. Over then, She noticed the tears in her eyes. 

"I know this covid situation got into our nerves, But If we are strong mentally, No virus or disease has the courage to give tough to us. You know why?" - She asked him while holding his palms. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes holding her hand tighter. She sensed the relaxation in his health condition and decided to talk more. 

"If it's a normal journey, I might have sat next to you. And you must have known something about me. Normally, I am a talkative person. You might have heard this phrase, More you talk the more you're stress-free, But my daughter, Uff, She didn't like my habit. Whenever I travel, It will be my daughter's strict warning, She used to say, Please don't share our family history with the whole world. For my daughter, I am a mini radio system that broadcasts everything about my family to others. But you know one secret." - She asked with a smile, He smiled closing his eyes. 

"I never listen to her. I can live without eating or drinking, But I can't live without talking. And she hates that." - She said chuckling. He opened his eyes chuckling looking at her. She smiled back looking at him in a normal state. 

"No covid or corona had the ability to kill confidence in humans. So relax! Just 7 hours left to reach the destination." - She said in a confident misunderstanding that he got the anxiety attack due to the covid situation and even he didn't want to clarify anything to her. He merely smiled at her. 

"Water!" - He asked finally. She took the bottle and opened the lid and gave it to him. Taking a deep breath, He sat up comfortably in the seat and drank the water blinking away at her. She don't know why she wanted to smile so badly that too When he's not well. His small antics tickled her to the core but gulped off the smile every time. She gave him the medicines, He slightly turns towards the windows and gulped the tablets one by one in a tongued out state. 

"I saw many patients taking medicine tongue out. You don't have to feel embarrassed." - She said smiling, Looking at her smiled widely, He smiled back at her. 

"Do you... Do you know me?" - It was his first question to her. 

"Even I have to ask the same question to you. Do you know me?" - She asked looking straight into his blue-grey orbs. She felt the blast sound in her heart when he refused to take his eyes off from her. Even she couldn't take her eyes off him. 

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Shivaay didn't speak much, Whatever happening with him enough for him to cherish the rest of the life. After the whole 17 years, She's finally here, He could see her, He could hear her and out of all he sensed her when she tried to calm him. She asked him to take care and not to take any stress, Hereafter, There's no need to get panic or for any excuses for getting panic attacks. Because she's here, In front of him, Healthy, fine, and most importantly happy. He could read it from her face that she's happy. The stress he had in his heart of taking a wrong decision on that day finally faded away from his heart looking at her happy face. Especially when she told him about her daughter. 

"Are you a doctor?" - He asked her even he knew the answer. She smiled at him and nodded yes to him. He knows she loves her job, and she's proud of her whenever she calls her with the doctor's prefix. She used to blush whenever he calls her doctor. He uses this trick whenever they have a fight and whenever he comes late to their dates. And every time, It works. 

"And you're?" - She asked him. 

"I am having a business here. That's it. Nothing special." - He said calmly having all his excitements in his heart. 

"Sort of?" - She asked him. 

"Mobile phones. Airvoice." - He replied to her. She looked at him without blinking for a while, He snapped his fingers before her to bring her back to reality. 

"SSO?" - She questioned him confusingly. He was quite surprised when she knows his name and calling him by that name. 

"It means you know me." - He chuckled. 

"My daughter takes your name more than taking my name. She inspires you a lot." - She said in a surprised tone and the smile in his face didn't take the name of fading away. She started to blabber and told him how her daughter takes him as an example at least three times a day. He silently took his phone and pressed the record button and recorded her voice to cherish it later. On the other hand, He was totally impressed to know about her daughter being a fan of him. 

"She saw you first in her school in her middle school. From that day, The whole Gyan started." - Anika decided to stop talking after the whole hour. 

"Thanks to my internal memory of my phone." - He whispered but nodded no when she asks what's about. 

"She never gonna believe me if I say I met you in the plane." - She said. 

"Let's take a selfie for it." - He asked her. She nodded while pointing her index to him in the gesture of a good idea. But he's taking it to prove to him that it's not his hallucination or dream. 

"But I broke my phone while getting into the plane. It's not switching on." - She said in a low tone, He remembered the incident when she broke his three laptops in a row while they were dating. She's always been so clumsy, That too, With the gadgets. He suppressed the smile and confirmed, It's neither his dream nor his hallucination but the certified Anika Ramaswamy who stole his heart once and owns it forever. 

"I have my phone. I will send it to you." - He said taking out his phone and turning on the camera. He clicked a few pictures and gave it to anika to click the picture from different perspectives. 

"Don't you have filters?" - She asked him, He nodded no when he didn't install any of those apps for security reasons in his phone. 

"My daughter uses doggie filter, I look cute in it." - She said and clicked some pictures. 

"Mail me, Please." - She said giving the phone to him. 

"Okay," he said and opened the mail app to draft it in the mail So that when he got his signal back, The photos will reach her mail. 

"Its [email protected]."- Anika said, His hands stopped typing due to a sudden jolt of reality in his dream world. He never forgets that she got married to someone else. And now, He come to know she has a daughter with him. The smile in his face faded away. She didn't notice that. 

"For a long time, I was telling about me, Tell me about yourself." - Anika asked him when he kept the phone aside. And returned the food brought by the air hostess and asked them to bring light food. 

"I have a son, Name, Anirudh." - He said taking a salad bowl. 

"Nice name. Anirudh. And your wife?" - Anika asked casually while unwrapping the spoon. 

"I adopted him when my friend and his wife passed away in an accident."- Shivaay said. Anika stopped asking questions to him when she felt the lowness in his tone. 

"My daughter's name is shanaya." - She said smiling. 

"Nice name." - He commented firmly. 

They had a casual talk, Anika stopped talking about the family, and even he didn't want to hear anything from her as it depresses him to the core. Anika felt that slightly in his changed tone and started talking about her patients and the fun time she had in her service. He totally enjoyed her company. Hated the moment when they announced that they are going to land. He made his mind, He never going to be in touch with her and disturb her peaceful life. They landed. Anika searched for a Phone to call.

"Use my phone." - He said giving her the phone, She thanked him and dialed the number in his phone. 

"Adhu. Naan Vanthutan. Yen phone udanjiduchu. Naane vandhudava? (Addu, I have arrived, My phone is broken, Shall I come on my own?)" - She said, He understood the Tamil she's speaking, He started to learn Tamil from her.  

"Oh okay Bye. Yeah, I will wait. Yup. Bye. Take care." - Anika said and rested the call. 

"My father-in-law sent me the car." - Anika said to him. 

"Father-in-law? Your husband didn't come to pick you up." - He asked her, She took the luggage in her hands smilingly but didn't reply to his question. He didn't repeat his question but badly needed the answer. 

"I am sorry if I ask anything wrong!" - He asked hoping for her reply. 

"You didn't ask anything wrong. It's just, He will definitely come if he's alive. He died before 13 years." - Anika said with a smile and shook him to an extent. For a while, Everything became blank. Before he could understand the meaning, She was already left. And his phone notified in sync. 

 "Mail ID didn't exist."

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