Ch 6

Clad in a denim crop jacket, top, and comfy pants, Priyanka booked a cab to her destination: the hospital.

Her mother looked at her worriedly as she had declined their offer for them to drop her off at the hospital and to support her while she was being diagnosed in the hospital. After all, they couldn't help but be worried as their baby girl would be alone and lonely when she didn't have to.

But she had declined citing that she was an adult now and knew how to take care of herself and they shouldn't abandon their work for such a small reason. She assured them that she would call Abhi if she needed anything as he was also in the city, and as for him getting disturbed she didn't care about that.

Busy in her dream world she started thinking about her plans, maybe she could place a small date in her schedule. While she was busy with her schedule, she didn't notice that her parents' expressions had soured upon hearing their son's name.

The reason for that was that they could not bring themselves to trust their son who never listened to them and always behaved sloppily. In their eyes, a piece of trash like him was not capable of taking responsibility for their precious and adored daughter.

But what they couldn't seem to admit was that they were jealous, jealous of the relationship between the siblings. They wanted that relationship to themselves.

But alas, their adored daughter was truly theirs and quite stubborn just like them. So, despite their attempts to bring them with her, or just call them if she needed anything instead of her brother, all that effort and their brainstorming was futile.

As soon as she sat in the taxi, she pumped her fist triumphantly, excited that she had succeeded in not letting them come with her.

Filled with jubilation, her fingers danced like winds as she excitedly messaged her friends, asking them for the time and place for their get-together.

'Thanks brother, your timing is always great. My lucky charm, I was just busting my head off, on how I am going to convince them for the get-together when you told me about the hospital visit.'

She murmured to herself as she wished her lucky brother a great time. " Hehehehe. " Laughter escaped from her mouth when she thought about the great time she was going to have at the get-together.

The driver who was subtly glancing at her through the mirror shivered and felt his hair stand upon hearing the beauty of strange laughter.

"Is she a witch or is she practicing for a horror movie? " The driver murmured as he took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Creep." Priyanka scoffed as she subtly glared at the driver, her hands tightly clutching her phone ready to send a SOS signal to her brother as soon as she saw something sus.

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Priyanka stretched as soon as she got out of the ride. She glared at her ride tiredly, as it disappeared off into the horizon. The ride to the hospital was quite eventful as the driver continuously sneaked glances at her, despite her confronting him about this twice.

' Like go to a brothel or something if you are so sexually starved. ' She thought to herself as she lamented that she should have opted to go with her brother instead.

She continued lamenting and cursing the driver while she swiftly got a prescription pad from the counter.

With the prescription pad in hand, she bypassed the line and went toward the doctor's room, confident in her brother's connection. She wasn't disappointed as she swiftly got the approval after the doctor and the staff heard her brother Abhi's name.

' His friends are the best. ' She thought to herself as she introduced herself politely and told the doctor that she had vomited yesterday and a month had gone by without her seeing her periods, which felt nice but it was worrisome medically.

The doctor asked her some questions related to periods gently and calmly, making sure she wasn't flustered by the mention of pregnancy. Now that her patient won't react excessively to the pregnancy test, she suggested the test citing that it would be safer to do a pregnancy test.

Priyanka didn't mind and gave her consent for the test without much thought. Looking at her confident demeanor, people might have thought that she was a virgin instead of the veteran soldier she was.

As her blood was being drawn for the test, she was busy thinking about other trivial matters. She has thrown the test at the back of her mind as she has used protection aka condoms while doing the deeds.

And even though recently a condom had ripped during the mating process, she has taken birth control pills. So, she was confident that the natural result of babymaking wouldn't be starting in her baby-making chamber.

She smiled merrily as soon as the nurse finished taking his blood sample and turned to the doctor trying her best to stop her voice from trembling and asked, " Are you finished with the checkup? "

The doctor nodded and stopped her excited patient from leaving quickly, reminding her that her reports could be mailed to her home if she wished and was too busy to visit the hospital a week later but in her opinion, it would be better if she looked at them first.

" But I won't be available at that time, so you should mail it to my address, or maybe you can send me a message. " Priyanka smiled politely on the surface while internally she was screaming at the doctor for wasting her time.

"OK, I will message you when the results come out but you have to download the results from our website, that's our hospital policy. " The doctor finished as she signaled the nurse to send other patients inside.

Priyanka receiving the signal happily left the room and high-fived the nurse beckoning the patient in while messaging her brother to pick her up repeatedly.

As the doctor saw her leave "This little bitch!", she couldn't stop herself from cursing behind her back. The reason for that was that she as an outsider was more aware than her incredibly dense patient and she couldn't stand it.

The female patient who had just entered the room frowned in displeasure upon hearing profanities as soon as she entered the room and the male nurse who was still staring stupidly at his hand, jumped a little and stared at her always elegant doctor, feeling his worldviews shattering.

"Sorry, Sorry. It was not directed at anyone, especially not at you. " The doctor laughed awkwardly while fanning her face, feeling that her room was extra hot today. But despite her attempts she could tell that she had lost what could be a potential regular patient.

At the thought of this curses inadvertently filled her mind and she cursed her patient brother Abhi too, for referencing a patient like that.

As she looked at her patient departing back a thought filled her mind, " No, let's finish this misunderstanding, my potential cash cow, how will I survive without you guys? " Her mind was soon filled with the cash cows she had lost in her career and she soon grew melancholic, startling her patients and the staff.