Mein to dekhta hi rah gaya.Wo aayi aur usne ticket kharidne aayi par houseful thi so woh waha khadi reh kar such soch rahi thi aur dupatta bandha aur ...nikal padi parking ki aur ,uska mere par dhyan pada hi nahi tha aab tak.Phir maine turant apne friend ko bola kki bhai aaj ka program cancel movie nahi dekh sakte aur mein wo aunty ke sath parking mein ja kar apni bike le kar nikal pada uske piche piche .Wo ek ice cream parlour mein ruk gai aur ice cream aur coldrink le kar beth gai table par mein. He’s in ICU right now.”“I’ll be up there in a bit. I’m just turning down our road.”Pickles gave me a stern look when I opened his carrier. I filled his water and food bowls, dumped a handful of treats out, gave him a couple from my hand, left the rest atop his dry food. “You watch the place, knothead,” I said. “I gotta go take care of our Gee.”“Mrrrouwww.”“I know. I’ll tell ‘er you said so.”I left, rushed back to the hospital, stopped at the information desk, got directions to the ICU. I met. I laid in bed all day, didn’t sleep much, didn’t eat much, didn’t talk at all, I couldn’t. Or at least I couldn’t for a little while. After some time I started to be with others again, be with family. I still didn’t say much, but I was coming back around. A couple months after she died, I was stilling outside with family, listening to them talk about things happening in their lives. When my grandmother turns to me and asks ‘So what happened? Why did she die so suddenly? Couldn’t they have. She told ‘ ok.ahhhhhh,ohhh ok we ..ahhhhgo to the sssssbedroom’. I turned her and kissed on her lips and i removed her sari threw it aside in the hall. She was an angel for her age in that jacket and the petticoat and bent down and kissed her belly and licked her navel. She again urged me that we shall go to some other room. I lifted and carried her with my left hand under her back and and my right under her thighs holdin her legs together and she was less in weight than i imagined. I kissed.