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Asad may roll his eyes, clench his teeth and fists as he sees his Miss.New York Hoity Toity litter his couch, laptop and table with wafers and coke. His OCD still on a roll but you cannot miss what you see below that surface. He is patient with Zoe, there was no howling 'Miss.Faarooqi' today. He himself puts her wafers aside, controls his OCD impulse to throw her diet coke out of the window - he doesn't tell her to go out of his room because she is a messy computer hacker. He does exactly as she says - without trashing her suggestions or doubting her brains. Even if its for his Mom's sake , its a big step for him.
Zoe may tease Asad about getting arrested because of his IP address , give him hacking tutorials and directions , but she is no longer ignorant of Asad's OCD with cleanliness - the way she cleans the couch off the wafers, makes 20 sorry faces at him for messing his laptop with wafers and coke even though he doesn't 'say' anything.
Asad and Zoe are becoming tolerant of each-other. But its not that the 'slap showdown' is exactly behind them. When both Zoe and Asad see the bandaid on Zoe's hand while fighting over the keypad, they do stop for a moment and more- their hands next to each-other but not linked together. Asad looks away, lowering his eyes and Zoe's face falls.
The whirlpool for them is their 'unsaid' , 'unspoken' relationship that hides behind diet cokes, wafers , laptops and some CID investigation. Asad wallows in a pain he doesn't want to share and Zoe wallows in a loneliness she doesn't confess.
Yet, Asad's face becomes a myriad of emotions on hearing that his Abbu is home and Zoe keeps on looking at his face , trying to read what he doesn't show.
Rashid has always been in a whirlpool. Because of the choices and decisions that he made . Because of the decisions and choices that others made for him. His own lack of voice and spine at the right time just dragged him deeper and deeper. His life is interwoven with his wives , his kids and the villains. He wants to come out of it , even if that means just floating and not finding the bank. He lives in a water tank where he cannot reach out and touch Dilshad, Najma and Asad and the ones who are with him , are alienated from him and no, am not counting Shireen in that. But Rashid's struggle against the whirlpool will land others into a thunderstorm - its just that he is ready for action, but what about the consequences ?
Najma lives a happy life of riches, comfort and cushions with Asad and Dilshad , but the void of her Abbu is that of a little girl who kept waiting for her father but he never came. Asad at least has decided what he feels for his father but Najma hasn't. So, she oscillates between love, anger , pain as she sees her father at home. Does she ever say this to anyone? Rashid doesn't make her happy when he meets her - he just reminds her what is missing in her life.
Ayaan and Humeira live in a water play of friendship, love, ignorance and hide-and-seek. Humeira loves him but dissolves in her one sided unrequited love that she sees no hope in. She shows courage and honour of a woman but gets hollow on the inside. Ayaan lives in a world that exists only of him and everyone else is on the periphery. His true love , as of now, is Ayaan. He has no idea that his Humeira Begum is his soulmate - which he will understand only after getting his heart thrown into a fire that belongs to someone else.
And so they all walk on. Showing courage, beauty , smiles but so broken and lost on the inside .
P.S- Badi Bii is underestimating Razia's devilry and over estimating her own bravery.
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