"doctor! tell me plz...Ammi will be fine, right?"
The hope in his eyes was so desperate that anyone would say yes only to that question but he was a doctor, his job was tough and merciless so he said ;
"we are trying our best Mr khan but I don't want to give any false hopes, blood loss buhat zyada ho gaya hai, its better k aap sab relatives ko inform kar den"
And the world came to end for him, his Ammi..she was the only world to him, she was the reason of his existence, she was the reason he was taking his breaths bcz there was nothing else in the world to attract him, to live for and now when doctor said that Allah is willing to take his Ammi away from him forever, he could not believe it, he did not want to believe he just collapsed on the sofa near him as his legs was not supporting him anymore, he had shown enough courage already taking Ammi from home to hospital he died inside hundred times but he had seen the continuous tears of najma, he knew he was the one to be strong here, he could not afford to lose it and that's how the life was cruel to him.
He was not allowed to shed a tear when his heart was breaking in to pieces, a tear slipped from his left eye, he rubbed it off instantly rather someone see it and someone did.
"Asad"
zoya was sitting next to him, for how long he did know, turning to her he saw same tears in her eyes but she was doing nothing to hide them unlike him , it was her phopi after all, her courteous host, her guide, her friend, her Ammi...yes she had accepted Dilshad her Ammi even she did not know when? But one thing she knew was the love Dilshad showered her with, it was the same her real Ammi would had given her and now she was fighting for life bcz of her.
"Ammi thek ho jayen gi na?"
These were first words he uttered to her after the shootout, that hope in his eyes and voice just shock her completely, she knew what She was to him if God forbid something happened to her today, she will never able to smile again in life bcz he will never live a life again. she had experienced the the loss of loved ones and still living that empty life without her Ammi, Allah cant do same with him, she wont be able to see him living the life she was living already, she knew the loneliness one has to face when you get scare in mid of the night and no one is there to hug you tight, no one is there is to say "it was just a nightmare, dont worry"
she had seen him depending on his Ammi, be it a cup of coffee or his fav spoon on table, she had seen him taking care of every need to his Ammi even before she will ask for it, he was guardian of his Ammi but emotionally how much he was dependent on her, she had seen them sitting at night outside at bench and talking for hours, she always wondered what was there to talk so much between them but then she realized she was the only person in the world, he talked his heart out, she was the only one for him.
Thats why,He wanted to hear yes only from her , he expected same from doctor but he was cruel and bound by profession but she was not, nor she had the heart to say yes to those tears and give a way to flow.
So she just took his hand in hers and said ;
"kuch nahe ho ga Ammi ko"
And he knew kuch nahe hoga Ammi ko, those four words of her was enough to give him all the courage and hope which he needed badly at that moment, it was the believe in her eyes or the touch of her hands on his that made him believe her each and every word, he was not worried anymore he was not praying in his heart anymore he was not stopping the flood of tears of anymore inside him, he was calm and he was at peace.
Ganesh Kartikeya
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