Haunted Love...!!! AsYa FF #2 - Updated Chapter 26 - Page 29

"Zoya!! Hurry up Zoya!!"

Asad said coming out of his shower, while Zoya kept the dishes in the dining table and came to the room.

"I am ready Asad..." Zoya said coming in front of the dressing table and brushing her hair, while Asad came behind her and took his hair gel.

"It's been so many days since a proper shoot...I am going to shoot for 14 hours at least today!!"

"14 hours!!" Zoya exclaimed looking at him through the mirror.

"Then what?" Asad took a break while brushing his hair and asked, "Sitting at home 24/7 won't complete our movie...I want to plan for a dupe actress for Tanveer and change her ending track...then that forest sequence...so much pending works!!"

Zoya murmured putting down her brush while Asad moved aside to take his shirt "Should never marry workaholics and especially should never work under them!!"

"You said something?" Asad asked, while Zoya shook her head in denial with a sarcastic smile.

Asad winced in pain as he tried to insert his hand through the sleeve, due to the injuries in his hand caused by Zoya in that ghostly encounter.

Zoya turned back looking at that, "Give me your shirt..."

Asad gave the shirt to her, and Zoya helped him wear it, while she caressed those nail marks with her fingers with a guilty look.

Asad looked at that and pulled Zoya close to him, "What??"

"Sorry..."

"For??"

"Everything..."

Asad lifted up her chin. "Sorry doesn't suit you...your killer attitude is what defines you!"

Zoya smiled as she started buttoning up his shirt, "It's been long since we spend some quality time together yeah...and it all happened because of me..."

Asad kept pushing back her hair which was falling in the front as she was buttoning the shirt.

"Had I not gone to Aditi..." Asad placed his fingers on her lips.

"No...we are not going to discuss anything about the past now...especially about her..." Asad said as he brought Zoya's face closer to his face, "Nothing is changed between us...we are still the same...we still love each other as before...forget the bad events...just relish the good ones..."

Zoya smiled at Asad hearing that, while Asad pulled her closer and pushed his face into her nape, while Zoya asked with a laugh, "You have time for all this?"

"Yeah...workaholic husbands are the most romantic too because they make-up for all lost time altogether!!" Asad said as he pulled out his head from her nape, and Zoya bit her lips and laughed hearing it.

Asad hugged her while Zoya said, "Your hands are paining yeah??"

"No pain can disturb Asad while he is with Zoya..." Saying so, Asad kissed Zoya's cheek, and moved his fingers through her hair.

"Asad!! I just now brushed my hair...and you just now came from a shower...move...it's time to leave...you were hurrying me up...remember??" Zoya pushed him while Asad grabbed her by her waist from behind.

"No problem...we can get ready once again and maybe shoot's starting time can be pushed little bit...!!"

"Asad...you are so..." Zoya blushed with a laugh, while Asad jumped with her in the bed, "...so romantic and naughty...I know!!"

"Cut it!!"

Ayaan closed his eyes in that scream, while Asad walked to the artists.

"Are you concentrating what I am saying?? Haan?? How many times do I tell you...Arjun, you must look at Mahadev while saying the last two lines...this is the 6^th take!!!"

"Sorry Sir..." Arjun, the supporting artist scratched his head.

Zoya was smiling looking at all that and sat next to Ayaan, while the latter was checking out the screen and checking the lighting.

"Not to the extent I heard last month from him yeah??" Zoya asked, while Ayaan giggled focusing the camera.

"No...I have heard worse from him when my focus lost during that rain sequence...remember??" Ayaan asked looking at Zoya with a smile.

Zoya gave a hi-five to Ayaan and said with a laugh, "He literally doesn't even remember who is whom while shooting...he totally gets into that grumpy director mode...the moment he steps into home, he is back to that romantic hero types!!"

Ayaan laughed "I guess we both are the only ones who have seen the dual personalities of Asad...otherwise to the world he is SPR!!"

Ayaan and Zoya said in unison, "Six Pack Raavan!!"

They both laughed while Zoya signaled him to be quiet, and watched Asad explaining the scenes.

"And Ayaan...thanks a lot for your help too yaar!!" Zoya said with a smile, "Asad said me that you were the one who sensed my issues and showed him the way...thank you so much!!"

"From when did you become so formal with me??" Ayaan asked knocking Zoya's head in a friendly manner, "I am indebted to Asad and his loved ones...for some strange reason... Ayaan looked at Zoya, "Be it my life too, I will give it for Asad!"

"Ayaan!! Shot ready!!!"

Zoya smiled at Ayaan, as he continued with his work.

"I somehow managed to complete that long scene...so tiring!!"

Asad sat in the caravan pressing his temples, while Zoya was sitting in the seat in front of him, getting ready for next shot.

"You know what Asad...people literally are scared to breath when you are around...why do you behave with this grumpy attitude??"

"Because the world needs attitude Zoya..." Asad said looking at her reflection in the mirror, "Being sweet and everyone's favorite only makes you a loser...people take advantage of it...best example is my so called father...so I find this the preferable way..."

Zoya nodded her head and asked in a smile, while touching up with her lipstick, "What if I take advantage of your sweet side??"

Asad smiled and got up and bent down to her, folding his hands covering her neck gently, resting his chin on her head.

"I want you to take advantage..." Zoya looked at him through the reflection with a smile while Asad added, "Asad Ahmed Khan surrenders and bows down his head only to one person in this world...to my love!!"

Zoya smiled while Asad cupped her face looking at the mirror, "I want you to be the only person who gets to see a special side of Asad...I want you alone to have that privilege!! That's the prestigious gift I can gift my wife!!"

Zoya caught his hands which were on her neck and kissed them, while they looked at each other in the mirror with a smile.

"Sir!!!" Someone knocked the door.

Asad bent up and looked at the door, "Come in!!"

The cameraman opened the door, "Sir, we are ready...when will you be coming Sir??"

"I am coming...!!"

The guy left, while Asad said, "It's your shot next...get ready soon...okay babe??"

Asad gave a peck on her lips and walked out, while Ayaan was explaining the person about the shooting angle on a particular location. He then walked towards the shot area and waited looking at Asad talking with the cameraman.

Just then he heard a vibration sound. He looked around and saw Asad's phone vibrating on the desk nearby.

"Asad your phone is ringing!!" Ayaan said calling out to Asad in a loud tone, but Asad failed to hear it. He looked at the display and it showed "Unknown Number". Having no choice, he attended the call:

"You are very happy aren't you??"

Ayaan took back the phone startled hearing that whispering voice. He kept it back in his ears and listened:

"I am away...but I have not gone...I will not go either...I will come back...and this time my destruction will be severe!! You might have secured your wife...but I will return...Aditi Sawant will definitely return...Darling!!!!"

Ayaan cut the call in horror, and looked at Asad over there. He quickly deleted the call from the log, and placed it back, with a tensed look.

"Aditi Sawant??" Ayaan thought, "I thought her chapter is over...was this prank call or...was it really her??"

Rashid was drinking in his office, while he was leaning on his seat and looking at the ceiling.

"This sand is waiting for you...accept it as my Shagun...!!"

Rashid sat up abruptly and finished his glass in a gulp.

"How...how did that message...and who came portraying as Tanveer while she was dead??"

Rashid clutched his hair, as he thought, "Except me and Aditi, no one has the slightest chance of knowing what happened that night...it can't be Aditi as she died right in front of my eyes...then who...who sent me that message??"

Rashid stood up from his chair and walked towards the window in thoughts, "Is it that someone else too knows this secret?? Even Imraan and Tanveer didn't know it...then who is trying to do this...Zoya? Asad??"

Rashid clutched the window rails, "I have done so many mistakes like this...but not even one bothered me this way...none of the people affected by me ever dared to come back to me...but Aditi...just like how you were breathtakingly beautiful...you are disrupting my breath too now!!"

Dilshaad walked past the office room, while she saw Rashid drinking more than usual.

"Rashid, is this a bar or home??" Dilshaad asked angrily.

Rashid looked at Dilshaad with bloodshot eyes, with the drinks effect on his face.

"You!!" Rashid stood up and walked to her, "You are the reason for all my miseries!!"

Dilshaad gave a stern look, while Rashid came near her. Dilshaad turned her face away covering her nose.

"The first mistake I did was falling for your beauty..." Rashid said as he walked around Dilshaad slowly in circle, "The next mistake...marrying...that too someone like you...boring, irritating and good-for-nothing!!"

Dilshaad turned away her face, while Rashid turned her face towards him, "And the last and biggest mistake, having a son from you...such a son who went and loved an illegitimate woman going against his father, and now wagging his tail behind that manhoos girl!!!"

Dilshaad stared at him in anger, while Rashid said coming close to her, "If these things didn't happen in my life yeah...nothing would have happened...no wife, no son, no bahu...and even she wouldn't have entered in my life uselessly!!"

Dilshaad gave a confusing look at him hearing that, "She?? Who is that??"

Knowing Rashid's weakness of forgetting things what he did while drunk was the thing which popped up in Dilshaad's mind.

"Who are you talking about??"

"That girl..." Rashid sat down at the chair, "At first I never planned all that...but she provoked me to do all that...none of you let me be good...you all provoke me to do crimes and then Rashid Ahmed Khan is the villain!!"

"Which girl are you talking about??? Tell her name for God's sake!!!" Dilshaad shrugged Rashid, while he uttered, "Uhhh...Aa..."

Rashid passed out in the table, while Dilshaad shrugged him, "Rashid...Rashid!!!! Damn!!"

Dilshaad walked out to the living room and called out, "Mohit!!"

The servant boy came out while Dilshaad said with a tensed look, "Take Rashid to his room!"

"Yes Ma'am..." The servant walked inside while Dilshaad was walking out in small steps in thoughts.

"Which girl was he talking about?? It's not about Zoya...who entered his life?? He won't speak about Tanveer too like this...then who...Aditi?? But Aditi...Tanveer and Imraan only dealt with her...he just made the plan yeah?? But the way he speaks..."

"This is not a house...but a graveyard!!!"

Dilshaad got startled hearing that and she came out of home.

She saw a Peer Baba standing out of her home. A shocked Dilshaad walked towards him.

"There will be bloodshed in this house...many shocking secrets will come to light...to the whole world!! Atrocities which must not be done to a woman had been done...she won't leave without a corpse from this house!!"

"Ya Allah...!!" Dilshaad exclaimed in horror, "What are you saying Baba...I don't understand anything..."

"The child of this home will face deadly trouble because of the parental sins!! Other than Allah no one can save him!! There are chances of two deaths in his house!!"

Dilshaad placed her hand on her chest with a distraught look and whispered, "Asad!!!"

"Baba...you are scaring me...what do I do for this??" Dilshaad asked in tears.

"What has to happen will indeed happen!! It's in His hands!!" He raised his hands upwards as he said, "Death will definitely happen in this house...she will finish off her vengeance!!!"

The Baba walked off from there, while Dilshaad fell on her knees at the steps with tears flowing down her cheeks.

"What else does Asad have to face because of this man?? Ya Allah...please don't punish my child because of Rashid...he did no sin other than being born as Rashid's child..." Dilshaad looked up in tears and said, "If you have to punish him for being Rashid's son...then punish me instead...I was the one who gave birth to him...I am the reason that he is sharing Rashid's blood...punish me...not my child!!!"

"I am sorry Humeira!!"

"No Ayaan...don't be sorry...I was the one who started this...so I thought I myself will end this...I have taken this decision after giving it a lot of thought only...I can't bear me forcing a relationship with you Ayaan!!"

Humeira was in the living room with Ayaan, late night after the shoot.

"Humeira...I tried a lot...I mean...not that you are not a good girl...but...just that...I can't strike the cord with you...I don't know why...please don't think I still have Zoya in my mind or..."

"No Ayaan!" Humeira said with a smile, "I will never suspect you that way again...Ayaan, I always did emotional drama and convinced you for this relationship...I now realized that relationships can't be forced...I want you to be happy Ayaan!!"

Humeira held Ayaan's hand and said with a smile, "I will be there for you always...what if you are not my boyfriend...you will always be my best friend!"

Ayaan smiled and said, "I am sorry I could never be what you always wanted me to be...I am..."

"No issues Ayaan..." Humeira said with a smile, "This had to happen some day or the other...especially when you are not happy with me, it's wrong of me to force your feelings anymore...I am happy we didn't have a bad break-up...so it's okay!! You tried your level best to keep me happy...that's enough!!"

Humeira hugged Ayaan, while Ayaan too hugged her back with a disturbed worried look.

"Alright...I will leave now Ayaan..." Humeira said and took her purse and walked out, while she stopped at the door and looked back at Ayaan with a smile.

"I am always there for you Ayaan...!!"

Saying so, Humeira walked away from his home, while Ayaan walked to the door and saw Humeira waiting for the lift. Humeira entered the lift and smiled at Ayaan as the lift closed, while Ayaan was feeling guilty for things having turned out weird and the fact that he had hurt Humeira unintentionally.

Humeira stood in the lift, with tears flowing down on her cheeks.

"This move off mine might bring a change in your life Ayaan...I want you to be happy!!"

Asad was sitting at the swing in his home, putting on his reading glasses looking at the laptop. Zoya was cleaning the kitchen, while kicking the football to Bruno and playing with him.

"This film shooting will end in 8 more months...why not execute my plan as the next installment of Haunted Love??"

Asad closed his laptop and thought, "I want all the replies for the torture Zoya and I went through because of Rashid Ahmed Khan...I want to show it a visual to everyone and proclaim to the world what a father he is...the best way things would reach people is...movie!!"

Asad looked out through the balcony, while swinging, "And I need some answers too...why does Aditi want to trouble me and Zoya?? Why is she haunting us both?? Aditi never loved me...she was just acting that way for money...then why did she attempt all this...and now..."

"Tanveer and Imraan are no more...now only one person can give me the answer for all these questions..." Asad moved his finger over his stubble lost in thoughts, "Rashid Ahmed Khan!! But he is not gonna reveal anything easily...I will have to make him do that...using his weakness...hmmm...it's a long plan...I know I am taking a risky move...but I have to do this...I will plan it in this one year time!!"

"Asad Ahmed Khan!!"

Asad quickly came out of thoughts and looked at Zoya who was staring at him.

"Don't tell me you are still in director Khan mode!!"

Asad smiled hearing it and he held Zoya's hand and made her sit with her back resting on Asad's chest.

"Why?? You don't like director Khan??" Asad asked removing his glasses, and wrapping his arms around Zoya's arms.

"No...he is an idiot!!" Zoya said putting back his glasses with a serious look.

"Idiot?? You fell in love with him only first...remember that pool sequence we did...our first intimate scene shoot..." Zoya blushed thinking about it as she said, "You were utilizing the chance and seducing me...not me!!"

"Really?? Who was staring into my eyes after Action command too...and during the 3^rd take, you were..."

"Okay okay!!" Zoya stopped him while Asad smiled and asked, "Babe, what would be it like to see our love story once again...live it once again!"

"I would love it!!" Zoya said clasping Asad's arms some more close along with her body.

"Well...I have a surprise for you!!"

"Surprise?? What's it about??"

"I said you surprise...it will be a surprise!!"

"Asad, you know I can't handle surprises...what surprise is it?? Tell me nah...please!!"

"Just wait for one year...by then Haunted Love would be complete and it will be the premiere of this film..."

"Okay...so that day you are planning to reveal this surprise as an announcement...correct??"

"Yes...and I won't back off from that decision too Zoya...you will know about it pretty soon!!" Asad said with a smile, while Zoya nodded her head, "Alright handsome!!"

Asad smiled, while they were swinging, as Asad thought, "You played so many moves at once...now it will be my turn...Daddy!!"

Just then Asad received a call from Zoya's mother Radha in his phone, and coincidently Zoya got a call from Dilshaad.

Zoya sat upright from Asad's chest and both of them excused each other without informing about the call, and walked in opposite directions.

"Ammi, everything okay?? You have called at this time??" Zoya asked looking back at Asad and saw him busy in a call.

"Zoya, I just wanted to enquire how you are...and inform you something as well..." Dilshaad said standing at the terrace of her home.

"You reached Pune yeah?? You have called at this time...that too to me??" Asad asked, "Listen, I know you don't trust me...but that doesn't mean that you call me at late night and enquire about it...wait, I will give the phone to your daughter itself...confirm with her..."

"Asad!! Stop teasing me and listen...this is something important and serious!!" Radha said with a serious look, "Look...I know you don't believe in all this...but I couldn't help myself from telling this to you too...and I don't want Zoya to know all this and get tensed..."

Asad gave a confused look hearing it.

"What is that important that you don't want Asad too to know it Ammi??" Zoya asked with a perplexed look.

"Beta...a Baba had come to our home today..." Dilshaad started narrating it, while Zoya listened on keenly.

"Radha Ji!! I accepted with your dhaaga belief...but doesn't mean that you keep insisting me on such beliefs again and again...kundli?? Why are you people so superstitious like this??" Asad asked in a low tone controlling his anger, taking glances at Zoya.

"Asad, I am not forcing you with anything...and trust me this person is a very learned person...he doesn't do this profession for money...as of date he has predicted everything right in Zoya's life..." Radha said, "Her marriage with another religion boy...separation from husband in women matters...everything he said has happened...and now since Zoya was into too much trouble I went and checked all this..."

"Fine...what is his latest prediction??" Asad asked with an irritated look.

"Asad...he said me that...that evil spirit is still not gone from your lives!!"

Asad opened his eyes a bit wide hearing that, as he went into thoughts.

"What???" Zoya asked with a shocked look, "Did he say exactly like this Ammi???"

"Haan beta..." Dilshaad said with a worried look, "Since the time he left, I am all shattered...you both must be really careful beta...I don't understand what he was meaning too...which woman is he speaking about...why will death happen??"

"He also said you must be careful in your every single move you take in life..." Radha added up to Asad, "Like...whom you meet, whom you have in life...taking risks...it can turn against you and Zoya too..."

"Radha Ji, we can't live in such fear each day...I am there to take care of your daughter...nothing will happen to me or her...you please stop visiting such people and relax...!!"

"I know nothing can happen to you both beta..." Dilshaad said, "But still...I am feeling scared...Asad doesn't believe in all this...that's why I am telling you...please be alert in life both of you...okay??"

"Okay Ammi...don't worry...we won't have any more tensions in life...we will live happily...prophecies can go wrong too sometime...take it that way...okay??"

"Okay Zoya...take care of yourself and Asad!! Allah Hafiz!!" Dilshaad cut the call, while Zoya too cut the call and was disturbed.

"Asad...please understand...please be alert and don't take this lightly..." Radha pleaded while Asad said, "Radha Ji...I too love my wife...I too want to live with her for long...I will take care...there's no evil spirit or anything here...please relax...and take care!! Allah Hafiz!!"

Asad cut the call and turned back and saw Zoya standing there with a tensed look.

They walked towards each other, and Asad asked with a smile, "Shall we go sleep now?"

Zoya nodded her head with a smile as they walked towards their room.

Zoya was lying in Asad's arms, while Asad had his arms wrapped around Zoya.

Asad wasn't sleeping and he looked at Zoya. He slowly lifted her head and made her lie down on the pillow and sat up. He was in thoughts as he walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.

He went and sat in his study, and recalled Radha's words to him on phone:

"Asad...he said me that...that evil spirit is still not gone from your lives!!"

"I know that Radha Ji!!"

Asad closed his eyes as he recalled an incident which happened some hours back at night:

"Give me that list Rahul!! Asad asked looking into some papers, while the Assistant Director, Rahul handed over that bunch of papers.

As Asad went through the sheets he stopped at one sheet, which had something written in it:

"Sun doesn't set till it's time...life doesn't end before it's time...similarly I too won't leave till my time ends ...and Aditi Sawant's time hasn't finished yet...it is just about to take a time lapse!!

Asad looked up in shock realizing the horrifying fact that Aditi Sawant's chapter hasn't ended as they thought to be. He caught a glimpse of a woman looking at him from far holding the window rails.

Asad opened his eyes and said, "This is exactly the reason why I want to shoot this movie...I know...directing this movie can be the biggest risk in my life and maybe I would be provoking Aditi some more...but that's exactly what I want to happen...!!"

Zoya woke up in between and saw that Asad was not in the bed. She sat up and looked around.

She got down and walked to the door while she saw light from Asad's study.

Zoya closed the door and came back to her bed. She poured a glass of water from the jug and walked with the glass towards the window, as her leg hit the side cupboard of the bed. She walked forward and stood near the window recalling Dilshaad's words.

She looked at the dhaaga in her hand and said, "What are your plans Bappa?? Why do I feel problems haven't ended completely? Dilshaad Aunty's words are still echoing in my mind...and somewhere inside my mind says Aditi Sawant hasn't gone away from our lives!!"

Zoya sat near the window, "Mom has always said such souls don't leave till their aim is not fulfilled...and that Baba mentioning about atrocities to a woman...God!! I can't tell this to Asad too...he has asked me not to talk about Aditi anymore...but I feel there's so much left in our life...more revelations!! But how will we come to know things about a dead person??"

"Bappa!! Please be with me and Asad...whatever might come in our life, give us the strength to fight it together...and please try not to make us suffer more...or if you want us to suffer, at least show us the reason why we are suffering!!" Zoya said with closed eyes and pleading hands.

Zoya was looking out worried, while the diary was seen through the open drawer of the side cupboard; that diary which Zoya had taken from Aditi's flat.

"I must not make Zoya aware of any of these till everything gets revealed by its own..." Asad said and eyed the photo frame in his table.

"Let's revisit our story Zoya!!" Asad said looking at the photo frame, "I am going to take you to a rugged journey soon...we might face many horrific incidents...but the fact is this is inevitable...we are in the middle of an ocean...we can either drown or try swimming the remaining journey too...but neither would I drown nor let you drown!! So just hold my hands...and trust me...we will reach the paradise amidst this rough journey!!!"

Asad placed down the photo and said with folded hands, "Alright Aditi Sawant!! I am ready for this battle...let me see how you are going to ruin my life...for mine and Zoya's happiness; I am ready to fight against an evil spirit too...!!"

Back at Blue Hill Cottage, the window doors tapped against the wall in the wind in the room which Zoya uses.

The old caretaker came around to check the place after finishing his cleaning and then lock the place till the next shoot begins, shutting off lights around, with just a torch in his hand.

He stopped at the room, and saw the things swaying violently in wind in that room. He looked out and the other rooms, which were all silent.

He came inside and looked at it strangely.

"What is this?? Wind in this room alone??"

He stepped forward but felt he had stepped into some liquid. He looked down and saw some thick liquid coming out from under the center carpet.

He pointed the torch towards that area, and lifted the wet carpet slowly.

Suddenly, a blood dripping body sat up from the ground with a scream, startling the caretaker knocking him down unconscious.