Affinity

A gentleman said," In which room is Emma Arora admitted? The nurse replied," Emma Arora, age 37 suffering from Brain Tumor, are you searching for her? Yes, the man replied. "She is in room no.8 on the 5th floor of the building", the Nurse said. The man thanked the nurse and went to the 5th floor to meet Emma. He searched for room no. 8 and opened the door silently. A little girl, around 8 years old was sitting on a sofa writing something in her notebook with her chewed pencil. The girl looked at the man and said," Uncle! When I and my mother are going home and away from these machines?". The man was her maternal grandfather. "Very soon, very soon we will be saying goodbye to these machines and will welcome a new life of your mother!"
The girl hugged him.

The girl was named Raya by her mother and father. They lived a pleased life until his father died of a heart attack and after that her mother, Emma Arora. She gave her best to link herself and her daughter with the future but the stress pulled her away from the track of her life. Due to infinite pressure and stress she unwantedly gave birth to a brain tumor. She was rich and had her bank balance in huge numbers, Now she was battling for the light of life, her daughter. She needed to go through surgery on the brain which would heal her and her life.

Doctor Williams, one of the most commendable, studious, dignified, and greedy doctors in the area was going to operate on her.

2 October 2025,

Dr. Williams asked," do I have any serious surgeries this week?" The Nurse at the reception replied, "This week you just have 1 surgery of a patient named Emma Arora, she got admitted to the hospital on 30 September and her surgery is planned to be performed on 7 October". "Surgeries are silly mental ability riddles for me, I can chill this week, just remind me about this task just a day before, okay?" Dr. Williams said. The nurse assured him with a smile.

Williams walked out of the hospital, his assistant around him, offering him coffee. When he walked out of the hospital, he saw Raya holding a red colored balloon in her hand. The doctor stared at her, Raya tied a letter to the string of the balloon, murmured something in her mouth, and said." The weather is clear today, your journey was about to start yesterday but due to heavy rain your flight was canceled, so today make sure you go up straight in the sky, meet God and give this note to him, Okay?" She smiled through her eyes. Her care for her ill mother could be easily seen through her eyes! She left the balloon, The balloon went up in the atmosphere, more up and it vanished into the clouds.

She looked at the balloon until it went invisible. The medic saw this whole act from his car's window. Dr. Williams didn't believe in God but in science and technology. She giggled at the pity of the girl. According to Raya, the winds would take his missive to God. Raya went close to this mother, picked her hand, and kissed her. Her mother smiled at her and a tear came out of her eye.

The door knocked, it was Raya's grandfather. Raya happily came near him and said," Do we have sufficiently rectangular notes that would cure my mother? "Of course dear, we have a tanker full of them they can not be insufficient", He said. Raya hugged her.

3 October 2025

Raya's grandfather took Raya outside the room. It was the time on which her mother was checked, whether she was recovering or not. A Nurse named Olivia checked Emma's blood pressure, and it was normal, the food given to Emma was finished. Breathing was normal. Olivia opened and checked the book that she used to record her weight of Emma. The weight was constant, it was a good sign. Emma was also suffering from a cold for a lot of days, there was an improvement in this area too. Olivia was happy!
Olivia checked her neck, little redness was spotted and that was fine but she was weak, too weak.

Olivia came out of the room and went to Raya's grandfather and said," Sir, I am happy to see Emma recovering..." As Raya heard the word recovering she came to the nurse and asked to repeat her words. Olivia said," Hey little angle, your mother is better and she is recovering but the surgery cannot be avoided, it is important to perform the surgery to ensure her better future, I will tell this information to Dr. Williams and he will decide whether to do surgery on the day planned or to postpone it"

"Thank you! Thank you, nurse! you gave me a sigh of relief.
Raya became so happy and went outside the hospital. According to her, God does not talk to anyone, he just receives messages through his agents and helps people, the agents namely; The winds, smoke, trees, and stars in the sky!
She went outside and faced towards the trees and skies and said," Thank you agents to transfer my messages to that almighty! Thank you, She poured some water on the roots of the trees as a return gift!" She returned to the room.
Dr. Williams entered the hospital gate, kept his foot outside the car, and again spotted Raya holding a balloon and tieing something to it, it was a thank-you letter to God! She had written it already because she knew God would help her.
She sent the ballon away into the sky and closed the window. Dr. Williams said," Peter look, just take that ballon for me, just go now" " Alright Peter said. The balloon was not able to his flight as its string was stuck in a tree near the window. Peter took that balloon and gave it to Dr.Williams.

He read the letter in his mind," Hi God! Thank you as you accepted my request and made my mother recover from a disease( sorry I do not know the name) but I know you know the name of the disease she is suffering from, Thank you once again!"
Dr. Williams busted out laughing. He decided to answer the letter and mimic God.
He wrote:

Up in the sky
Behind the sun and stars,
3 October 2025
Raya, I know you believe in me and you trust me, but I can't cure your mother without any advantage to me, let me be very clear... I want something very precious from you and your mother if you want me to cure your mother... That precious thing can be your mother's diamond ring too!

Will cure your mother if you fulfill my demand only!
God

Dr.Williams stepped out of the car and placed the letter outside the door of Emma's room.
It was midnight, Raya was sleeping on the sofa and her mother was sleeping on her bed. She woke up, she didn't feel like sleeping so she unlocked the hospital door to refreshed air to come in.
Raya saw the note authored by Dr.Williams, she took it into the room, closed the door, and sat on the sofa. " It might be the letter written by God! Yeah!!", Raya said. She unfurled the letter and read the letter.

Her happiness flew away somewhere in the dark, she became worried that how would she fulfill this demand. She said," To cure my mother, God would require money... he is asking for my mother's diamond ring because he would sell it and make money, and from that money, he will cure my mother! Wow! Wow! what a plan, Raya you are so smart.

Raya decided to complete the task, she took the diamond ring from her mother, folded it on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope, tied the envelope with a balloon and a string, opened the hospital window and she released the ballon to the starry sky... In hope that her mother will be cured.
Peter had no job other than catching the balloons and taking them to Dr. Williams, so he did the same... he took the ballon by catching it through a net and went to Dr. Williams.

Peter knocked at the door of his cabin. "Enter the space," Dr. Williams said. Peter entered the room and handed him the ballon. "Interesting story, isn't it?", He asked. Dr. Williams said," A daughter and a mother appealing for life, I like it, I didn't think that mimicking God would be better than being a Doctor!"
He opened the envelope and found the shining ring! "Wow, what a beauty," Dr. Williams said.
He took the ring and placed it in his pocket! and he said that he would hope for more balloons to be coming out of the window in the future.

4 October 2025

"Please start the procedure", Doctor said. Emma's kidneys were also very damaged, they were not able to filter the blood, and this is the reason she had to go through dialysis.
The hemodialysis machine's sound made Raya get away, she couldn't accept the pathetic sounds of the machines and even her mother weeping while in unconscious condition. Raya felt the same pain, as she is running through the technique! Raya went to the hospital park where she used to speak with herself and the agents of God.
She said," I don't know, I have this feeling that my mother is in pain, she is not cured thoroughly, tress! did you go to God and requested him, I am sure you forgot it, right? It's okay, he wrote me a letter about my mom's soundness. He liked the ring and I gave it." She opened her notebook and took a page from it and started writing:
God,
As you said, I gave you the ring that you demanded from us! now please cure my mother! please... I beg you for this, I can't see her like this with all those pipes and machines, please help me!
If you want anything more please tell me, I will try my best to give you the things you like
Thanks

She went up to her room, her mother's dialyzing was going on, she took the balloon outside and a string. Looked at his mom, and tears came out of her eyes and even out from her mother's eyes!
She went down and released the balloon again in the sky! and went inside.
As usual, Peter, the agent of Dr. Williams was ready to catch the ballon. He took his net and went to catch the balloon but suddenly the wind started flowing and took the balloon away! Peter said," Hey! Wait, where are you going, come near... Near, please". He stepped on a banana peel and fell. He glanced at the ballon in the sky going imperceptible and the ballon was nowhere now! Peter said," What should I do now?".

He was very worried and decided to write a fake letter. He thought," I saw Raya crying it means that she is angry with Dr.Williams, oh I mean God, let me write a letter in Raya's handwriting and pretend to be angry!
He wrote on a paper:
God!
I felt that you are the kindest of all, but you are the most untrustworthy person I ever know. You even cant cure my mother! I hate you!
He folded the paper in an envelope and went to meet the doctor.
Peter entered his cabinet. Dr.Williams said," Why are you looking so confused, Han?" "No, No! I am happy", Peter said. He gave it to him, after reading the envelope... Dr.Williams went mad and became so angry and said," What? How can that 4-inch can say this much! so arrogantly... She doesn't know how important I am to her, Okay? If she wants a twist in the story, so my dear Raya get ready for the twist and get ready to face the penalty of making me angry!"
5 October 2023

It was the final day of the checkup and the last day for Surgery.
Dr. Williams went to the hospital and said to the nurse," Emma Arora, you know her right?" The Nurse said," Yes, sir what is the problem". "When is her surgery planned on?", He asked, "Tomorrow sir", The nurse said. "Great!, which room no, she is admitted to?", He asked. The nurse told him whatever he asked and went to Emma's Room.
He locked the door, Raya was not in the room, she was outside, having her breakfast.

Dr.Williams said" You know! Emma, I know you for 5 years, you were a doctor doing an internship along with me. After you completed your course, you married Richard and had a very brave, extreme daughter, Raya! But you know what, she is overconfident, rude, abusive, and one of the most important things she abused God, I mean Me! God is the king of the world and has the right to give her punishment right? I also heard that you are being healthier and enhancing, that's a good thing and as a doctor, I praise you for this, no anybody can improve brain tumors! But the twist is If you recover completely so my and Raya's conversation would stop and I will be unhappy because I love answering the useless letters written y your daughter.

I don't want this thing to happen so I am doing some changes to your nearby machines, Okay!".
Dr.Williams made the following changes:
• He reduced the amount of oxygen supplied to Emma
• Reduced the no. of times dialysis practices.
• The radiation therapy of Emma was stopped.
• Chemotherapy was avoided.
• Regular injections of vaccines and antibiotics were reduced.
In the nutshell, he wanted to make Emma weak so that he could earn more precious things from her through her daughter.

The door opened and Raya entered. "Doctor?", Raya said. Dr.Williams was not a bit shocked because he was very clever! "Oh Yes! Just monitoring your mom's health", Dr. Williams said. "Will she be okay?", She asked. Dr.Williams was going to exit the room but he said, "Yeah! she will be okay! soon", and showed some giggles to Raya. Raya was a little perplexed about the behavior of the doctor. She came near to her mother and said," Mom, I am doing my best to heal you! and see I have also decided that I will be a doctor when I grow up, Fine?"
She hugged her mother and feel her heartbeats!

Midnight October 6

Raya was sleeping and so did her grandfather, suddenly they heard the voice of someone coughing. Raya's grandfather saw Emma coughing very heavily! He said," Emma, what happened to you? are you okay?, wait let me call the doctor" He rushed to call the doctor. The doctor arrived in the room and checked Emma. He said, "She was perfect for the last few days, what has happened to her?" Emma started vomiting a lot and the situation became much worse. The doctor called it an emergency. Emma's situation was very critical at that moment, Raya's grandfather took Raya outside the hospital.
Patients suffering from brain tumors must be provided with perfect remedy and supervision, even a slight misstep can take away the patient's life. Emma was suffering a lot due to Dr.Williams.
Nobody wanted to change the changes made by Dr.Williams and the cure procedure of Emma. Everyone believed that the changes were necessary as the changes were decided by the most perfect and intelligent doctor and even nobody wanted to question him. If anybody did, he or she may be forced to give a lot as a punishment.

Emma's Conditions:
• Continuous Vomiting
• Headaches
• Dizzyness
• Redness of skin
• Extreme hair fall
• he refused to eat anything and even didn't want to drink water
• High Blood Pressure and High Heart Rate.

Raya couldn't control her emotions, she ran after listening to the screams of her mother, She went to the temple near the hospital and took out the incense stick, and lit it. The smoke started coming out of the sticks and she said, "God! Please, Please take my life but save my mother! Please forgive anything I did wrong in my life, I will stop eating chocolates, I will stop watching my favorite cartoon, I will do my homework on time, I will give you all my favorite toys but please save my mother please!" After saying this she looked at the incense sick and the smoke coming out of it! She said," Hey condensation please tell God to save my mother" According to her the smoke of these incense sticks goes to the heavens and completes the wishes wished by people. He took those sticks and sat on the bench nearby. Crying, crying heavily, suddenly she saw a shooting star, she stood up o the bench and said," Hey fairies of the stars please accept my wish, please save my mother please beg in front of god that his child is crying, please!

Dr.Williams' House:

Dr. Williams was sleeping carelessly, with no strain on his patients, suddenly he felt something unusual. He went out and checked if everything was perfect. Suddenly he saw a lot of smoke in his room and started coughing, the smoke was immense and there was no visibility. He called his servant's name but nobody listened to him. The smoke kept on increasing, increasing and the whole room was filled with smoke. He fall on the floor because there was a lack of oxygen and air supply, He felt the same as how Emma felt the same night. His eyes became red due to the smoke.
The smoke was nothing but, the prayers of Raya. He started screaming for help. The smoke slowly started to reduce and shockingly it took the shape of a pretty woman. The woman wearing a salwar Kamiz, a bindi on her forehead, and Indian earing on her ears. The lady of smoke said," Hi, Doctor. Remember me? I am Marunal. One of your patients."

She got closer to the doctor and said," I was suffering from liver failure, in Blue cross hospital, room no.8, 5th floor". Dr. Williams stood up in fear, his eyes wide open and eyes full of fear. "How are you here, Am I dreaming?", He said.

"No, you are not! You in the most real-time, My mother begged in front of you to save me, but you and your money refused it! Dis she asked you for something more precious than life, she just asked you to do my surgery. A surgery just of 2 hours, but no you didn't and you know what, I also know the reason why you didn't do my surgery! because we were poor! We didn't have anything to give you extra, my mother sold her jewelry to collect money for my operation, for what, for Death! My situation became critical and on 10 October 2019, I left my mom's heart. Leavin mu mom alone in the world of people like you!", she said.

The smoke lady, Marunal cried and begged him to stop whatever he is doing. From another side of the room, an elderly man of age 47 made up of smoke came up with his stick. The voice of the stick became so harp that Dr.Williams could not tolerate it.

The old man said," Hi! Doctor, I am Albert. I was your patient in Fortis. I was suffering from Kidney Failure. I was a father of 2 young daughters, I had planned a lot for them, about their marriages, life, health, and education but my kids left me. Just a kidney transplant and everything would have been back to life, but alas! God made up the poor, our biggest punishment. You didn't do the transplant because we could not give you anything extra.

I left them but you know, They didn't leave my heart! They are within me forever".
More people made up of smoke appeared in the room and started crying in front of the doctor. The doctor was very scared and shouted for his life. He broke the window of his room and went out of the house.

He thought that he would be safe here. He looked down to breathe air. He noticed something burning coming from above. When he saw in the sky, the stars, from which Raya wished falling at a very high speed. The Doctor went purple with fear. He decided to take his car and run away! The stars started falling on the ground. The doctor ran for his life and was successful to reach his car. When he turned back the fire of the stars showed glimpses of Raya crying for her mother. The doctor decided to go to the hospital and operate on her mother.

He sat on the driving seat while wearing his night suit. He started his car and went to the hospital. He climbed up the stairs so hurridly and reached the room where Emma was admitted.
When he opened the door, he saw nurses covering Emma's head. Emma was DEAD!

After experiencing this event, he fainted and fall. Blood started coming from his mouth and he closed his eyes.
The shock that Emma is dead gave him the biggest shock of his life, his heart started pumping so fastly, and had severe palpitations his blood glucose level became so low that he went into Coma.

1 December 2045.

Dr.Williams opened his eyes. He was in a blue dress and was lying on the stretcher in the hospital. There were machines all around him and a lady doctor in front of her. He removed his oxygen mask and said, "Where Am I?" The lady doctor turned towards Dr.Willimams. Dr.Willimas couldn't recognize who was she. He asked her to introduce herself. The lady doctor said," Raya Arora". These words made Dr.Williams shocked and tremble with fear. Raya said," Hey! Doctor remorse! Raya Arora daughter of Emma Arora". When he listened to the name Emma he recalled the story he played with her. His oxygen mask fell and his fingers started to shake and so did her body.

When Raya came to know that his mother in no more, her heart broke and busted into crying. She didn't want to leave her mother's body. She cried madly and hugged her mother. The only person who took his care was his maternal grandfather, the real gentleman of the life. Raya was always spotted crying and sobbing in sadness, he refused to eat food, and stopped playing and even talking. He always kept her mothers' photo in front of her but one day his grandfather said, "Death is like a heartbeat, it continues to beat without you thinking about it. It is the same with the way you breathe, constantly happening unaware of itself. Death is a realization of all things that kept you there". Every day he made Raya strong from the heart, from the mind, and made her soul strong. Every birthday he gave Raya different exposures to life and reality. He taught the following things to Raya:
• Practice gratitude
• Meditate
• Have a growth mindset
• Spend time in nature
• Connect with something greater than yourself
• Accept everything

Her Grandfather was his teacher of life and made her the person she always wanted to be, A Doctor!

Raya told the story to Mr.Williams and said while crying," I waited for this day from a decade, that you will wake up and I will tell you my story. Doctor, I fought with almost 100 people and only me and I will operate on you. My grandfather taught me the most essential lessons of life but I am sorry to him, I would not be following the one lesson that he taught me. Raya gave him the Oxygen mask as Dr.Williams needed it urgently. "Which Lesspn," He asked. "To forgive someone", Raya said. "He wanted me to forgive you and he said that God would give will punish him, ad I said, God will punish God himself", Raya said.

Raya showed all those letters that she wrote when she was 8 years old. She cried and said, "Dr.Williams you don't know that these were not just papers, this was my affinity with God."

She wiped her tears and said, "Sorry Grandfather, I can't forgive this man". She came closer to Dr.Williams and said, "Let me check your report, oh! see you need plenty of Oxygen... so let's do one thing, let's just reduce it to ZERO!". Raya removed the oxygen mask worn by Dr.Williams, He could not even move because his half body was paralyzed. Raya said," Just experience what my mother experienced 14 years ago, you will be fine soon!" and she left. Dr.Williams fall off the stretcher in the struggle to get the mask but he couldn't make it and left.

Raya came out of the hospital, crying. She came out and felt the wind blowing, she felt that her mother is hugging him. She sat on the same bench where she sat 14 years ago. She looked at the trees, clouds and even a man selling balloons. She bought a balloon and wrote a letter to God:
Dear God,
This Story ends here, I learned a lot and the biggest thing that I learned is that Death is natural and a bitter truth of life! You wanted me to end this story, so I did it in my way!
Thanks,
Raya

She tried the letter with the Baloon and released it into the sky. Happily, she saw that ballon going to the Heavens...


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