Chapter 29
LATER THAT EVENING, Zainab and Dilshad engaged themselves in the kitchen preparing the dinner. Rashid, Zehan and Asad got into preparation of next day's party. And the others with no task in their hand sat in the living hall catching up with long times gossips.
"By the way Aayan, where's Tanveer these days?" Zoya asked suddenly.
"You won't believe me." Aayan rolled his eyes at the mere mention of her name.
"Try me." Zoya insisted.
"Well she married some boring, bulged stomach-ed but rich man-who is the age of her father." He said distastefully.
"WHAT??" Zoya shrieked at the thought. Despite of what she had done to Asad and Zoya, Tanveer Beig was one of the hottest girls of the University and she had boys wrapped around her little finger. And her marrying someone like Aayan had said was really hard to believe.
Najma started laughing all of a sudden.
Zayn joined her knowing what she was thinking about.
Aayan, Humeira and Zoya stared at them bewildered, with a "What?" look on their face.
"You guys should have been there. It was one of the scenes DTU and its students had neither witnessed nor would ever witness in the future." Najma said as she controlled her laugh.
"What are you talking about?" Humeira asked confused.
"Obviously Tanveer's last day in college. What else?"
"Oh damn! The scene we had missed, because of this stupid guy." Humeira glared at Aayan, who had back then, insisted on staying in Nepal for some more days.
"Accha? Stupid?" Aayan asked smirking to which Humeira tried to hide her blush.
Aayan had for the first time realized that he felt something for Humeira in a gliding tour they had taken during their tour to Nepal. He fell for her a little by little each day since then. And when he couldn't take it anymore he decided to propose her, and coincidentally they were in Nepal at that time. To make it special for her, he had asked her to take a gliding tour with him. And when they were somewhere between the land and the sky he had proposed her and Humeira had without second thoughts said that she loved him too.
"Oh yes. You guys have never told me in detail about how you found the video clip and what happened to Tanveer. Ah! Entertain me now." Zoya asked curiously and now that she and Asad had talked to each other, she wouldn't have that bad feeling surround her.
Humeira was the bridge between Asad and Zoya, when they were apart from each other. Each night Zoya would call her and cry her heart out. On the other hand she was the one to witness Asad break down a little by each passing day.
One such day, when she was going to the Drama section to give Najma the notes of the classes she had missed, she heard Tanveer talking to her friends. She was shocked when she found out that Tanveer was planning on getting back to Asad, in real, during the Christmas party. And now that Asad was alone, since the little act she had put up had ended up into Zoya breaking up with Asad, he would obviously ask her to be his date.
In real? What was that supposed to mean?'
She didn't think much about that because the next thing she heard made her smile wide and at the same time curse her and her stupid friends for their silliness.
She ran back to the Music section in search of Aayan. They needed to take an action. After all it was about the life of two of the dearest people in their lives: Asad and Zoya.
"Aayan" She shouted as soon as she spotted him.
"Yes Humeira Begum. Bataiye kya kar sakte hein hum aapke liye?" Aayan bowed his head in front of her.
"Ughh! Stop being a dramatic. Inform Armaan and Zayn that we are going to have a meeting in an hour and be there at our secret place at exactly 1 PM."
"Meeting? Anything serious Humzie?" He asked getting serious in the span of seconds. How mercurial!
"Yes." She said while messaging Najma and Riddhima to inform them about the same.
Precisely at 1 PM, the six of them gathered in their secret place. Humeira had not enclosed anything to any of them and they were curious about what she was holding behind. As soon as they took their place, they started to question what the meeting was about.
"Its about Asad and Zoya." She dropped the bomb.
"WHAT???"
Now that she had everyone's attention, she told them about what she had heard in the Drama section.
"Asad bhaijaan's innocent. I knew it." Najma said in a voice barely above a whisper.
"Tanveer's a bitch." Armaan hissed.
"I will kill that witch." Riddhima stood up and stormed towards the door.
Humeira ran to her, holding her by her arm. "We can't expose her yet. Listen to what I have to say next." She winked at Riddhima.
As they sat back, Humeira said them what she heard next.
"Suno kahani Tanveer ki jubani", Humeira started in a reporter style. "Well kind of." She smiled sheepishly.
" It was only after Asad had run after that Zoya, did I notice the CCTV camera. Ya allah, I was so panicked. Even the manager refused to help me out saying that it was against the rule of the hotel and the cameras were for emergency cases only. And when I said it might have captured a private moment of mine with my boyfriend all he did was assured me that they don't see through the records unless there was an exigency. And I thought those idiots were smart enough to at least think about it. But NO."
"Exactly, CCTV. How could we be so silly." Riddhima face palmed.
"And hell, it is an emergency case. It's about the life of two people who are intensely in love with each other." Aayan pointed out.
They concluded the meeting with the decision of sending Aayan and Humeira to Nepal, just in case they hadn't sorted out the old records. While the others were to keep an eye on Tanveer and her plan about getting back to Asad.
TWO DAYS later, Aayan and Humeira stood in front of the same hotel, where all this had started. As expected the manager refused to let them have access to the records. When no requests worked out they demanded the manager to let them meet his boss and if that didn't work they would have no choice but to involve police. And as they had anticipated, the mere mention of "police" had shaken the manager and he instantly informed his boss.
To their luck, the owner of the hotel was a sweet middle-aged lady, who listened to them with keen interest. They narrated entire story to the lady and she instantly said that she was okay with them having access to the records in her presence. They didn't understand whether it was their story or look in their face that prompted the lady to help them. All they had to do was give her the precise date so that they didn't violate the privacy of others, which they had no problem with, since they clearly remembered the date, day and even the time.
The CCTV recording had captured exactly what they had expected; Tanveer's evil plan of trapping Asad. She had used a minor drug to make him fall unconscious and the syringe could be seen clearly. She then had unbuttoned his shirt, made him lie on the bed and slept beside him, making it look like they had been intimate to the final base. They, including the lady had tears in their eyes as they witnessed Zoya's break down and Asad running after her. And to Tanveer's bad luck, she had herself voiced what she had done, once Asad had gone after Zoya.
As soon as they had the video clip in their hand, they emailed the clip to Armaan, Asad and after a long debate, to Zoya as well.
Once Asad had got the e-mail, back in Delhi, he was furious with Tanveer. He had trusted her and inspite of her deeds, had forgiven her every single time. But this was beyond limits and he needed teach her lessons. Armaan and RIddhima were equally infuriated as they saw the video. Armaan wanted Asad to take the step but Riddhima stopped him and planned to expose her in the Christmas night.
On Christmas night, Tanveer Beig was exposed in front of the entire university. What she did was totally insane and the sudden disclosure of her deeds through a video clip had shocked her out of her wits. So shocked, that she didn't even flinch when Riddhima had slapped her in front of everyone. Her lack of response had further enraged Riddhima and she had gone to a Jungli Billi mode, which in a way was hilarious to witness.
Not being able to face the humiliation, Tanveer had left the University and had flown to other part of the world for the time being.
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"Woah. That sounds thrilling. You know like a detective show. And aww Ridz. I miss her right now." Zoya said excitedly.
"Yep. It was in a way." Humeira admitted.
"Thank you so much guys. If you weren't there, Allah knows what would have happened to us."
"Wait wait wait...You mean to say, you and Asad Bhaijaan are back to us?" Najma asked wide-eyed.
Zoya didn't need to answer that question since the blush in her face said it all.
"Oh my God. Oh my God." Najma and Humeira bounced into Zoya, engulfing her in a bear hug, which was soon joined by equally glad Aayan and Zayn.
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Edited by Aneezarp27 - 10 years ago
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