Chapter 11

Aditi

@desidillse

With this, the same time someone opened the door and she shrugged in fear, looked at the door and found Asad. She jump on the floor and embrace him crying, put her head on his chest she was weeping and the tears were kissing the chest of the man to whom she has hated so much and the same who has loved her even more than that.

He hesitated to wrap his arms around her but witnessing her pain, his love couldn’t stop him, and he wrapped his arms around her, with caressing her back and she started complaining, “Don’t leave alone again, I get afraid”

He looked into his eyes and wiped the tears with his thumbs,“I wouldn’t sorry!”, and touched his forehead with hers.

The same she realized the reality and hit her chest with which he trembled backwards, luckily he didn’t fall and she started cursing him, “How dare you coming closer to me”. She pointed finger in his direction while chewing her words, and tightening her other palm into a fist, “How much time I have to tell you that hit me but don’t come nearer haider”, and shrieked.

Asad who was hearing all these curse words for himself but he became alert when he heard Haider’s name, that too for hitting and not coming closer to her being her husband.

“Kya matlab?”, he obliviously asked to her and come a step forward but she took a step backward and wiping her tears asked, “kyu aaye the”

“Did Haider hurt you Zoya?”, Asad coming nearer and kept asking and she too hide it, by chanting “why are you here?”, and before Asad could react negatively Najma came and gave a message, “Your father isn’t well,phone aaya tha aapke ghar se”, and left.

A lone tear fell and kissed her cheek and they all reached to the hospital to have a look over at the health of Gaffur.

When they reached hospital Zoya ran to check how her father is and looked from the glass door, he wasn’t well, counting his last breath as declared by doctor. Humeira wept in her elder one’s arm that kept consoling her by kissing her cheek, “Everything will be fine Humi! Abbu will be back”

“Don’t lie”, and wrapped her arms around her crying like an alone child of 5, who was going to lose her everything with her father.

The person standing nearby noticed that Zoya wasn’t fine enough to make her understand so Asad moved and hugged Humeira taking her from Zoya’s arms and cupped her cheeks, “Humi is brave na! Daddy’s girl right?”, at which she nodded her head positively like a child and hugged his brother like brother in law, “Abbu ko pata chalega Humi itna royi, to baba mujhpe to bahut gussa karenge”. She looked into his eyes and asked, “then I wouldn’t cry”,while crying she wiped her tears and mouthed, “I love you”

Zoya looked at the person, for her was him the person who loved her but left, who knew everything about Haider’s character but didn’t tell her a word about him. The person who could stop her life being hell, she was in trance but came back when heard, “Patient wants to meet you all in his last breathes”

Tears were falling down from everyone’s eyes but as per humanity they tried to not cry, and entered inside. Gaffur called Dilshad and Najma firstly, “Please forgive my daughters in their faults and be like a family”

Hearing this Najma ran crying, as she could understand the feeling of not having father, and Gaffur indicated Dilshad to follow her and console, which she followed.

“Asad! My daughters are your responsibility, and being a filthy father I am giving you”, while joining his hands said Gaffur, and cried one the fist which Asad held and bowed down, “Aapko kehne ki zarurat nahi hai,aur aap bahut acche abbu hain….I know that”

Humeira came near to her father and cried on his lying body,“I am sorry abbu, main chah kar bhi aapse nafrat nahi kar sakti”, at which Zoya scrunched her brows.

He smiled lamely and asked, “Maaf to karega na mera baccha mujhe?”

Humeira cried and ran again in Asad’s arms as she was regretting her words now.

“Zoya”, called Gaffur and she came nearer to him. She looked down and her father asked, “Mera beta hai tu, fir bhi maine….”, he narrated her marriage truth and she realized that Asad wasn’t at fault, it was Gaffur’s trick to separate them.

The tears fell down from her eyes and she clenched her jaw but he hold her fist tightly and tried to stop her saying, “Nothing new”, whenshe was leaving the room Gaffur called, “I don’t expect apology from you because I don’t deserve, but I will not get heaven, although I don’t deserve it as well without giving you something”

He joined Asad’s and hers hands in an intertwined fist, “Haider ke aane ke pehle, bhi ek life thin a tumhari ek saath, kam se kam wo to ho hi sakti  hai mere jane ke baad”

AsYa looked into each other’s eyes there was a very beautiful friendship between them which deserved every sort of blessing and love which was Gaffur saying about, but before they could answer Gaffur has left the world, leaving the three children of his in the complicated world and lives.

Humeira ran towards her father crying and Asad consoling here in tears, with the Zoya who was not crying with eyes but with heart. She didn't even believe his death but his betrayal was nothing new to her. After few minutes, everyone tried to make her cry but she didn’t, as this was the second death in her life of a cheater, and this time as well she was broken as in she was betrayed by those to whom she believed she was close not the one with whom she believed as he did betrayed, with whom she used to feel to be close from the childhood.

She caressed her fist as she realized Gaffur has given something to her written in a paper, a message or something else. She was about to throw it but for awhile believing her sixth sense she noticed the paper and her eyes popped out.

Days passed, Humeira has shifted to Khan Mansion, Najma was also feeling the Farrooqui sister’s pain as she was informed with this reality that Asad has left India, and Zoya was herself betrayal from her father and a friend.

Zoya was as usual in her room which Humeira knocked and she welcomed her sister, “aap room mein kyu hain aapi?”

“kyuki mujhe accha lagta hai, anything else”, a tried to be rude Zoya asked at which Humeira giggled, “I don’t think ke aapki zidd jayegi”

Zoya faced her back towards her, “tu saaf saaf nahi keh sakti”

Humeira held her elbow and make her able to look at her, “Abbu ki akhiri khwaish thi wo”

“Wo abbu jinhone mujhe jaan ke samajh ke apne so called status ke lie Haider ke paas bejh diya”, she asked with wrath. A lava of hatred for her father was overloading in her eyes when she said at which Humeira argued, “No. the one who was regretful, wanted to see her daughters happy”

“Aur phir Asad bhai ki galati kyat hi, ye ki wo sirf apni ammi ki khatir chale gaye sab chod-chad ke?”, Humeira continued in a same breath.

At which Zoya looked down as she didn’t had any point to argue but Humeira did continued, “Aur agar Haider ke bare mein aapko nahi bataya…to kya hua…bata dete to kya ho jata…kuch kar sakti thi aap?”, she was speechless and Humeira took a deep breath and asked, “Aaj tak aapne mujhe nahi bataya kya hua haider ne kya kiya….ek baar apne husband ko bata ke dekhiye shayad gham kam ho jae, afterall wo aapka best friend tha”

Zoya looked at her sister who was requesting, “Husband wife nahi at least dost to ban hi sakte ho na aap ek dusre ke”, on the some point Zoya was agreed with Humeira but was fearful how to tell the truth and withthis Humeira left and she looked at the paper piece which Gaffur forcefully handed over to her.

She heard some foot step and kept the paper on the same safe place as it was used to, it was Asad who slept on the one side of the bed and partitioned with the pillow so on the other Zoya can take her bed. She did the same and after lying down the slumber hugged deeply.

Hey Zoya! Meri pyaari legally married wife….I love you…but I hate him…because I love her more than anything else in this whole world!! But why you always make me angry and he hit her on face, with which she fell on the floor and a piece of glass stung in her toe, she winedand looked down, but he mercilessly even more stung the piece, “Accha laga” andwith this she wined again, “Aaah! Haider stop please don’t”

And with this she screamed in her deep slumber, everyone ranto her room and asked about what has happened.

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A/N: An early update because i wouldn't be able to update the next week

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Aditi