Chapter 23
"zoya baji, ap kal se waha join karne wale hai na?" humera entered home with some bags and behind heard followed zoya and gaffur. Gaffur stayed shut , keenly listening to his daughters.
"yes I am joining it from tomorrow, may be." She said yawning in tiredness.
"what are you going to teach there?" humera asked once more as she kept her bag on table in living area.
"computers." Zoya said it closely and walked in to her room, letting humera and gaffur talk for a while.
Gaffur watched his daughter leave and with a soft smile he turned to look at humaira, humaira is struggling with clothes and other thing she purchased this noon for zoya.
"humaira?" he called softly, brushing her hair with love.
"ji abu!" humaira flashed her cute innocent smile.
"mere sath do minute baithogi?" he asked pointing at the couch.
Humaira noded in yes with a smile and leaving the bags undisturbed she sat back on couch , waiting for her father to continue.
"kahiye abu?" she says with a positive approach; Looking at gaffur with those curious eyes.
"beta, now it's the time to start with the preparations. Are you ready for it?" he asked,noticing her mild sadness on her face.
Humaira thought for a while with scrunch brow , trying to figure at what direction is her abu pointing at; and when she got the underline meaning , she relaxed her brow and with a deep breathe nodded her head in yes. "I am ready for this marriage abu. You can start with the preparation" she said quietly looking at her abu with thin line of water surfacing in her eye.
Gaffur smiled at her in proud knowing that her daughters are precious jewel. they can take any decision on his word, they accept his every word as their command with respect' he felt lucky to have them as his daughters.
"hameed sheikh kal ate he honge, kal ki sagai rakhe?" he says and humaira quietly nods pushing her tears with force before they could spill.
"abu, meri aankh me jalan ho rahi hai. Main abhi muh dhoke aai" humaira in hurry gets up and runs towards her room keeping a hand on her eye.
"tum aj bhi jhut bolne me kamyab nai ho saki meri bachi!" gaffur says looking at humaira till she got disappear in her room.
In her room, humaira went straight towards her closet and got out their family album. She searched all the pic of ayaan and her together and took them out of the book.
She hold them against each other and with a force she torn the pitchers as he mouth cried with the pain in her heart.
"ateet ke saye , mere kal ko zinda rakhenge. Or ab main mohabbat ki aag me apne ghar ko or nahi jalana chahti. Ye mera faisla hai" she says as she takes a matchbox from her drawer and burn it in front of her eyes.
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Next morning at university, "excuse me, I am looking for Farhaan qureshi?" could you please tell me where his room is?" asad asked administrator and waits on other side for answer.
"he had left college a long back sir. He is no more our student" the lady with specs and high bun informs asad with a twitch brow.
"oh, then can you atleast provide me his address or anyone name who can tell me where can I find him now." Asad asks restless literally hovering on the register the lady is searching in to.
This question alarmed the lady and she quickly suspected him narrowing her brow; " I am sorry sir . we don't share our student details with anyone its against the security rule of our university"
"I understand madam, but its urgent."he tried to pressure her but it gets back fire and she calls security for help, with in next minute asad is thrown out of the administration.
The proffesors coming to sign in on book, watches him in suspection and disgust but asad ignores it all, worry for dua is more than any insult for now.
He is trying to figure what to do next when tanveer calls him; " asad, kuch pata chala?" she asks in fear
"nahi ab tak nahi" asad says with hung head.
"ya allah meri bachi ko meri saza kyu de raha hai!" tanveer exclaimed praying to allah while asad shuts his eyes recalling everything from start and then when he opens he sees its replaying in front of his eye,
"ab sab theek hoga na?" zoya snuggles more close to him , sharing her warmth to him.
"ab sab sahi hoga!" she continues looking at asad and wiping his tears with her thumb.
They close their eye in surprise on the ringtone from asad cell; "hello" he says getting up from the place leaving zoya behind him.
"ji Doctor, ap jaise chahte hai. Waise he hoga."he continues looking down to his feet; "hello tanveer?" he says again knowing the phone is with tanveer now; "tum fikar mat kro , abu se kehna ki unka beta hai, or wo inki ye chahat puri kardega" he smiles looking at thin air with a sting in his eyes.
"abu, ap se kiya hua koi wada kabhi toda hai kya maine?" he says looking back at zoya, zoya smiles to him and raises her brow in arch to which he nods in nothing.
With a soft nod he turns to zoya and smiles with tears; "ab sab theek hoga zoya! " he says letting tear fall.
"kya theek hoga asad?" she asks with a frown..
"kitni mohabbat hai tumhe mujhse?" asad asks beating around the bush
"khud se zyada!" she says softly.
"main tumhare liye kuch bhi kar sakta hu. Kya tum bhi-"
"main bhi tumhare sab kuch kar jaungi" she says getting up from floor and walking at him the growl of her stomach made her worry about something , with a thought she hugged asad tight in her petite arms.
"mujhe bhool jao, agar mujhse pyar karti ho... to mujhe bhool jao zoya. De sakti ho ye kurbani? Bina kisi sawaal ke." He says wearing a mask of sadness.
Zoya wanted to ask him to shout at him to do something or the other , but she couldn't when practically he is waiting for her to prove her love, the anger in her built up, the dream of her started climbing down into pieces, the clouds of her wishes started flowing out in the form of tears, but she didn't cry. No matter how much her eyes betrayed her , emptying buckets! But she didn't cry.
Walking a step ahead close to asad she stood there for a while looking at his face for sometime, before she parts her lips and nods her head in yes; her vocal was gone with the demand he put forth her.
"promise me, that you will leave me , my dreams my memories forever here at this moment and never turns back to see me ever. Even if accidentallyIcomes to your way, you would not get affected of me. No matter how much weak Iget in this decision, you will always keep this promise. Tumhe kasam hai humare pyar ki!" zoya could not help but gasp with a cry openly as the last words fell out of his lips, why was he doing this don'tknow? But he did it, and it came as a shock to her. Trying to stand still on her feet she turns her back to him with a sob "I promise you! Mr khan."
After that day she was never found again.......
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