zaya ff Koi fariyaad.. chap 30 - pg 141 ; THREAD 2 link : pg 1 - Page 38

Originally posted by: edwebllalover9

awesome update.i love aliya and barkat scene,i love their bond.aliya and kids scene was cute like always.
ayaan is great friend.zain is staying near aliya house.can't wait kid an zaya meeting.

Hello everyone.. how are you all ?? I am fine but a little busy, things are going so hectic... ufff... and I have all the sweet yet insane people around me.

Thanks to all of you who have been not only reading this story but also liking and commenting regularly. Thank u so much. One of these friends who have been always there for me and commenting is " meerachaudhuri " ( I hope I spelled your name right ) ... the sweetest rosogolla... hee hee.. love you dear... dedicating this chapter to you.

This is a very long chapter and also not rechecked.. so forgive the mistakes kindly.. please. please.

Koi Fariyaad

Chapter 12

Sammy patted ross' head smiling while sarah hugged it's neck giggling happily. Savanah gave both the kids a serious look...

Ross was savanah's dog, an oversized hound. It was a foot larger than sarah and sammy. Both the kids loved ross. Savanah named ross after her late husband, trust her to name a dog after the love of her life. No wonder.. all the neighbors called her crazy.

Sammy tried to restrain the grin from spreading across his lips, he was not too fond of showing emotions. Sarah enthusiastically replied...

Why she called mrs. savanah " dada " ... was an unknown mystery but mrs. savanah really liked being called that, not that she would ever confess that.

While savanah was locking her house door, sammy held the dogs leash... immediately that made sarah scrunch her brows. She pulled away from hugging ross' neck and tried to snatch the leash from sammy's clutch.

Now... how could sammy let that happen, holding ross' leash was a big responsibility that sammy couldnt let away from his hand. So he held his chin up and clutched the leahsed tighter...

Sarah again tried to rip it away from sammy's hand... making sammy to fall down on his back but still he didnt let go. Sarah was now over sammy fighting for the leash, ross made a desperate yelp pulling his tongue out and lolling... while they rolled over on the grass.

In a dash.. savanah was beside them yelling at the same time fiddling with her unlit cigerrate...

Sarah and sammy with embarrassed faces stood up. Savanh tapped her chin with her forefinger.. thinking hard about what to do that would satisfy both the kids. The problem was both of them wanted to hold the leash. And an idea immediately clicked into her weird brain.

So after a few minutes... sarah and sammy were both happy, smiling and satisfied. Ross had two leashes hooked to its herness, sammy was holding one leash and sarah was holding the other.

Savanah wiped her hands on the sides of her maxi dress with a proud grin.

Walking down her front porch steps she told in a strict tone...

Sarah and sammy were holding ross' leashes from both sides and trying to tow ross to two opposite directions.. ross looked quite puzzled, they were too busy to answer.. so they went on by just nodding their heads.

After savanah left... sarah and sammy were playing in the front yard for a long time with ross but soon they were bored, it seemed like ross was bored too. They looked at barqat sitting at their front porch steps, a book in her hands.. her head resting on a pillar as she slept over there.. oblivious to the world around.

Theres a famous saying - kids and dogs boredom.. equals to trouble.

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It was weekend but as usual.. being the perfect workaholic, zain went to office. Ayaan was at home trying to clean up the house as much as he could, they had to search for a maid soon. Zain decided to call the maid service agency after he return today.

He was driving the car while thinking about how to convert the losses of the companies here into profit. There were too many ideas but easy to say.. difficult to do. He had called for a meeting on monday, hopefully they will start sorting out all of the problems soon. But to do that.. he had to first point out the problems.

Ayaan seemed oblivious to all this tension. Since the moment they arrived to the new house... ayaan was behaving like a typical housewife. It was awkward. Zain recalled how ayaan was wearing a pink apron making pancaked this morning while singing a love song. Zain almost ran away to office.

Zain was close to the driveway of his new house. Thinking various things zain took the last sharp turn to his house and his breath got stuck in his throat.

There in the middle of the street... merely a few feets away from his car.. stood two kids and a dog in the middle of them blocking the whole road. The two kids were holding that oversized dog's... two leashes !! from both sides.. and trying to drag it away from the street from two oppsite directions. The dog was pathetically stuck in the middle.

Zain kicked on the break and the car stopped making a loud protesting screeching noise.. right before the nose of the dog. The two kids.. a boy and a girl shouted their lungs out opening their mouth as wide as they could... more than it was humanly possible...

All three of them had their eyes closed in fear.. the dog was whimpering covering its lowered head with one front leg.

Zain breathed heavily, that was close. Why the hell this kids were wondering along the road like this and who taught them to tow a dog with two leashes ?? Zain felt furious but not upon those kids, they looked like the two most adorable angels now hugging the dog by its neck.

Opening the door of his car, zain quickly rushed towards their side and knelt down before them.

Sammy and sarah.. both were hell scared, they slowly turned their heads to look at zain. While sammy just snorted.. saran answered in a shrill voice..

Sammy whispered but zain could hear him...

Saran looked away guiltily listening to that, the dog was trying to squirm away from their hold now.

A smile crossed zain's lips hearing sammy. He quickly looked at them from top to bottom.. to find out if they were hurt somewhere. He could see no signs of injury.. instead of their clothes covered with dirt and mud, for playing outdoor.. zain assumed.

He held out his right hand with a friendly smile...

The kids looked hesitant for a moment, it was sarah who first faintly smiled and gave her little hand in his and shook fiercely...

A chill of something unknown ran up to his spine.. right at the moment sarah's hand touched his, he felt an urge to embrace her and protect her from the world. A hazy feeling crept up his guts when he stared at her beaming eyes, those eyes.. they looked so familiar... but he couldnt point ou where he had actually seen them.

His haze was broken when sarah removed her hand from his. He cleared his throat...

Sarah's smile turned into a grin. Zain glanced at sammy to see him still looking a bit hesitant, maybe processing in his mind about what to do. A tough kid.. zain thought.

He now forwarded his hand to sammy with the same friendly smile. He watched sarah whispering something into his ear, zain couldnt hear it.

Sammy scrunched up his brow and placed his hand in zain's. It was just one shake but a firm one after which.. sammy quickly took his hand back and held sarah's hand instead. The same kind of feeling again swelled zain, the same feeling when he held sarah's hand.

Zain looked at the boy who looked a lot like... him ?? It was quite creepy.. how the boy was behaving. It matched so much of his own arrogant side.

Sarah bumped sammy's shoulder with her feeble shoulder placing her free hand on her tiny hip.

Zain wanted to laugh but held it back, it could prove to be a spell breaker when the kids are finally opening up.

Sammy had a scowl on his face when he said his name...

Zain patted the dog's head and sarah said quickly...

Sammy quickly nodded his head.

Zain smiled at the name sarah gave him... " mr. stranger " !! Well.. yeah.. he appeared to be the spooky stranger with that car alomost running over them. With that thought he the urge of protectiveness in him returned in ful swing, he couldnt let the kids wander around like this.

Sarah nodded and lifted her hand up pointing at their house. Zain looked at the direction, their house was right at the opposite of his one. Like a lightening he recalled the scene from last night when he saw two kids and a woman kneeling down on the ground and what seemed like was praying.

So these cute kids were his neighbours, zain smiled. He stood up and looked at the kids to see them now ready as ever to go home... while holding the two leashes of the helpless ross.. again ?

Zain sighed.. he had to settle that issue now.

So after a long minute zain was seen to be ushering the kids to their house, he was holding sarah's hand while sarah was holding sammy's and sammy was happily towing ross with it's leash.

Zain felt a tug and everyone stopped behind him.. right at the moment when they reached the frontyard.

Sammy pointed at savanah's house...

Zain looked at the house they were pointing at was right beside their house, he bent a little downwards to match their level and said softly yet firmly...

Sammy looked unwilling but he himself knew that zain was right...

Zain pointed at his own house across the street...

Sarah pointed now at their front porch step where barqat was sleeping resting her head on the wooden pillar... an opened book was resting on her lap, it's pages were flipping with the light wind.

Right at that moment zain's eyes fell on hose pipe kept beside the rose bushes a few feets away, he looked back at the kid to see their eyes twinking in mischief looking at what he was looking a moment ago. He raised his thumb up and sammy for the first time smiled at him... and what an evil smile that was, it reminded zain of his own childhood.

As he walked towards his car to get it in the garage, he heard a fierce.. ear shttering cry from behind. He couldn't help but to laugh out loud. Served that woman right, who the hell sleeps like that while five years old kids left to look after by her .. are wandering in the streets with a dog bigger than their size. What if he couldn't stop the car at time, fear gripped him like never before at the thought. And a pull so strong made him want to turn around and run back to those kids, instead he dropped closed the shutter of his garage and made his way into his own house.

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When barqat was complaining to aaliya.. how sarah and sammy had drenched her with that hell of a hose pipe, the children obviously stood up for self defense. One thing led to another.. the whole story was spilled out in no time ... and resulted into aaliya freaking out.. checking out her kids for any wound on their bodies. When the immediate shock was worn out.. it was transferred into an inevitable wrath of her motherly side.

She mentally thanked a thousands times to that mr. stranger who was their new neighbour.. and made a mental note to have a visit to his house.. to thank him properly.

Aaliya had her hands on her hips as she stood with a firm face before the three. She used her angry mom tone to announce their punishment, she hated to punish her kids and see their sullen faces but it was needed.

Sammy and sarahs faces fell as they made their best attempts to look innocent and helpless as much as they could. Barqat stood up and patted both the kids shoulders with compassion and was about to walk away.. when aaliya continued...

Barqat stopped dead in her track..

Aaliya crossed her arms not loosing keeping intact the firm expression.

Barqat guiltily glanced at the kids who were now a little relieved as the whole fault was not thrown up solely upon them, their mommy was the best mommy in the world. But they dare not say anything.

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Zain sat at the edge of his bed, he stared intently at her round face.. that little nose... her twinkling bright eyes. His hair was still dripping wet from the shower, a droplet of water fell on her photo right upon her reddish cheek... zain wiped it away with his thumb softly. Or was it a lone drop of tear ??

Tucking the photo safely under his pillow, zain walked out to the balcony turning off his room light after picking up his guitar from one corner of his room. The atmosphere outside was incredibly serene, euphoric was the best word to decribe.. how the moonlight fell upon all the contents of nature making them dazzle gloriously.

He leaned sideways resting his one hip against the railing. His eyes involuntarily travelled towards the house across the street to the room.. where he saw those kids.. sarah and sammy.. praying last night. He recalled the encounter he had with them this morning. The sides of his lips curved up into a smile.. remembering their cuteness and how adorable they were.. even when they were mischievious.

Their room was dark tonight, they might have gone early to bed.. he thought. Then his eyes fell on the room just beside their's, that room was also dark but under the moonlight he could figure out someone sitting on the window sill... a sillhoutte of a woman. Her hair was dancing around her face in the slight chilly but comfortable summer wind. He stared at the sillhoutte for a long time, then with a sigh relaxed his body as his fingers racked over the strings of the guitar creating a tone so passionate.. so heartfelt.. imagining that one face encraved in his heart.

As he played the tune.. he could something change in the air. Something so anticipating.. he had never felt before, a creepy feeling of being close to something so desired.

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The night was as usual... a night with flurocent lights lit all over the city. Aaliya changed into her comfortable pyjama's as she made her way over to the window, her favourite place to sit down and stare at nothing outside when sleep would deprive her at nights.

Aaliya thanked herself for choosing this suburb and buying this house, this area was a little peaceful and it almost seemed they wenren't actually in a city.. but it was as if a cosy.. quite.. typical town area. She felt the serene moonlight kissing her skin, as she looked up at the sky.. there were millions of stars looking down at her.

Pulling her legs up on the wooden sill aaliya hugged her knees close to her chest, her favorite position to sit here.. and her favorite time... when she could think about anything, sometimes taking a ride back to her past without risking her inner turmoil to get caught by anyone.

As she sat there under the moonlight, light breeze making the satin soft curtains to blow and her equally soft hair to float around her face... her mind too floated around with various thoughts. Always it had been sarah and sammy... when she thought about the coming days and years. Appointment with the doctor about their vaccinations, getting them new dresses because all their dresses were getting short, buying new shoes because they had ruined the older ones while trying to climb the big tree in the backyard, then they would be going to school soon and she had to also start making a fund for their higher studies...

Aaliya huffed but smiled, so much to do.

She thought back of jonathon, was he right for her ? Was he right for sarah and sammy ?

After the first date, jonathon and her had a few conversations over the phone... a few text messages. But all of it was still in a very platonic condition, their behaviour around each other were like friends and at the same time it wasn't. Jonathon had been patient and aaliya couldnt be more thankful to him for that. Because still a faint image of someone pushed far behind her brain would stir up and dig his way to the surface. How could he still be so alive in there.. inspite of the amount of hatred she held for him ?

No.. she shook her head to clear away those distructive thoughts, she closed her eyes tightly.. determined to think about jonathon... attempting to see a future with him.. her, sarah and sammy's life including him.

But it came out blank.. all blank. Right at that moment she heard a beautiful tone waving in the air, someone closeby... was playing guitar. Aaliya sat up straight and looked around to see who it was. As far as aaliya knew.. there was no one in the neighborhood who could play guitar.

Her eyes searched around before they suddely fell upon the silhoutte of a man standing in the balcony of the house across the street. Must be that mr. stranger... she recalled from what sarah had described him to be...their new neighbor.

After a while of staring in that direction with curiosity... she looked away upto the sky again. She could connect to the music he was playing, there was a strangely familiar kind of heartache in every stroke of the strings. It was as if he was trying to explain the depth of his wounds through the tone.

There was desperateness, pain and so much deep feelings which cant be described in words... aaliya was herself amused how she could read through all of this by only listening to the tone. Maybe because.. that similar kind of pain was contained in her own soul... from a really long time.

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Originally posted by: SunShine_A

Busy with exams... Not getting time

Will read all chapters after exams