Prologue
Aliya's POV
" Astha " I say walking over empty street. Light is fading faster as its a sunny day, I lift my head to gaze at Sky , Sun is almost off to bed. Fear grips me , I looks around , peek into every corner, walking with fumbling legs.
A jetblack cat jump's on me from its hiding spot , I jerk back in fear muffling my screams , I hate it to let Astha know I'm sacred. As cat walk on road A dog appeared from nowhere and dashes to attack cat. Screams of Cat and Dog are so horrific, still I don't break into fear.
" As..tha " I say gain , composing my tone .I hear nothing other than whizzing sounds of wild wind and screams of two crazy animals.
" Astha ,I will find you " I say in a chirpy tone hiding my fear.
I walk around glancing at every possible place, recollecting her hiding spots. I remember Astha last time hiding in aunt Grace garden. Dislodging my fear I run to graces home.
"Astha ...Astha ..Astha " I run chanting loudly her name .
aunt Grace is watering plants , her back is facing me, I hold her elbow and pull her to look at me, she screams in horror with my sudden attack, gushing water from pipe she is holding drip me wet.
I Gaze up to look at her face ,She holds her head with one hand , pipe in other hand is still dripping me wet
" Aliya " she yells , flips water rushing pipe to ground ,kneels down to reach my height and continues " came to find your sister like every time ? " I nod my head . She huffs, rolls her eyes then a small smile escapes her lips.
" Astha just left before your arrival. " she says and waits for my reply, but I don't wish to waste time in replying her, i need to find Astha . I run not replying her .
" Aluuu, you are wet darling " She yells from back, I don't heed of my wet state, I run to our home damping path I am walking with water dripping from my dress. Fading light is fearing me more , although I'm scared to enter backyard of my home alone , I silently steps in like a cat. I hear nothing except to my breath and rustling sound if I stamp on dry withered leaves.
I gaze around , I hear tweets of young birds, they are not humming ,they are calling their mother out of fear. I turnaround and walk to Oak tree, it's trunk is big , so big that it can fit both me and Astha.
" Astha " I giggle , I jump clapping near its trunk anticipating her presence , but she is not here.
I can no longer hold fear, " Astha " I say in a cracked tone.
I tweet her name like a young bird calling it's mother , walking everywhere in the backyard.
Only spot I'm left with is spot near old well, I am scared of that spot , my neighbour friends always scares me saying there is a devil in well. So I never dared to cast a glance of it too, but now with trembling legs, shaking body I walk towards well expecting Astha . I peep to other side of it maintaining safe distance from it, unsure of who will pop up from other side, what if it's a devil with long sharp teeth stained with blood , I shut my eyes and call Astha in most fearful tone of mine.
" Aluuu, you found me " hearing Astha I open my eyes gasping for air.
" You found me Nandhu "she says again stamping her leg in disappointment.
" I thought you will not find me, so I hid here, where u will not dare to come, but you came bravo ! " she says patting my shoulder.
" you scared me Astha " I say sniffing .
" Ohh Aliya , I thought you will not come here , finding me ! " she says in concern.
" Don't do it Again Astha , I will come anywhere to find u " I reply with a smile , she smiles back appreciating me .
" come let's walk away from here " I say dragging her away from the most horrific place .
" I found you Astha ,I found you " I say again and again barreling my win.
" okay, that's enough , let's play again, you have to hide this time " Astha anounces.
" No, no I will not hide " I reply , taking large step towards home yelling ' I found you ... I found you ' denying her offer to play again.
"Aluuu..., Aliya " I hear screams of my name , I jerk back from sleep opening eyes widely, it's Ayat , not Astha !
I shut eyes tightly trying a way back into my dream! No memories in my dream.
" Aliya " I hear Ayat again, I prop up supporting to head rest,
" Aliya ,You were screaming ' I found you Astha ' " she says offering me a glass of water.
I nod my head sipping water. astha is gone , that's the only cruel fact. My heart shrinks , my only family , my sister is Gone.
" don't worry aliya everything will be okay " She says patting my shoulder.
" Nothing will be fine without her " I say bursting into tears, I remember that fateless day , the state I was in , I thought it was some prank and like every time I kept searching for her , it took hours to realise, she was Missing.
She still is missing! She is missing from 3 long years . 3 years weighed as 30 years. It has thought me so much
Never mind ! What about Astha , What happened to her ?
" you will find her Nandhu " Faith says reassuringly squeezing my hand.
I know , I will do that, I can go any end to find her, Astha is my everything and I lost everything when she Vanished.
Zain POV
My life has changed , Every dream shattered into million pieces, life I aspired from my childhood seemed unreachable, impossible for some period . Loving her truly sent me to place none wishes to go. I was blamed for nothing I did.
I can never do of what I was blamed for! I am over it, but still I am thinking those rough days of my life . I lost me, my family lost me. Life turned upside down.
Dad's sweat, years of hard work , Reputation he earned faded to many shades, just because of me, I stoop so low in my Dad's eyes, he never asked me to become perfect, but never expected me to be of how I was pictured by everyone.
I saw disgust , defeat in his eyes. When I was absolved , faded reputation gradually enhanced. I was entombed in rubble of blames and people who stabbed with their blame slowly tried clearing me from rubble but, it hurt me more than when they hit me. I dint know why!
It took many months to position back my wits, to align my life to normalcy.
Now every one feels I am out of it , I wish even I feel same . Maybe my indifferent behaviour made them feel I am free.
I laughed at nothing, I behaved normally like nothing happened, letting my inner turmoil to twist and twirl every part of me . I let time to cure me, I made no efforts to come out of it.
As I expected intensity with which feelings attack reduced to a great extent.
I thought I am over Astha ,I thought Astha was my past.
I went out , tried to hang out with my friends, enjoyed like before after 3 years.
After when I was back to home, I lied on bed savouring taste of enjoyment. I tried recollecting, counting few moments. Few among them were with Astha .
Astha was special, especially that day with her was so magical. Intensity of pain boosts little. Till then I made no efforts to forget but after that I tried forgetting her. It's not simple ! It's not easy to forget memories whose end result were misery .
Trying to forget is nothing but digging ! I dig ways , ways to come out of memories. More I dig , more I am falling in them. It's hard for any one who knows Astha to forget her.
this vague promise I made her Shoots into my memory back while I am digging ways . vague ! Very vague ! But I saw trust in her eyes though she knows I made promise playfully, without any serious intention to keep it.
" Do you like travelling ? " Astha asked me once .
" yes, I like " I replied her.
" but, I love it, what if I go missing in my adventures ?? What will you do??" she questioned dramatically.
" I will find you darling " I said kissing her.
" if you cannot find me ,then ? " Astha questioned looking intently.
" I will search for you , until I find you . " I said .
It was not a promise ,an assurance , a vague word, never expected of a situation to arise where the vague word shapes as a promise but ,I saw that admiring look and trust in her eyes listening my words.
Intensity of pain redoubles, we made attempts to find her , but I never made any efforts personally finding her. I was busy untaming me.
unintentional promise I made is slaying me . Assurance might not be serious but, love and trust I saw in Her eyes were true, so true that thinking of it an acute pain booms out of heart.
I should find her at least for the trust she had on me.
End of update .
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