Hi guys😃! I have a study holiday in between my next exam so thought of doing an os. Before u start reading, I'll warn u, its a sad os, so don't read it if u don't want to. Before I start, here r a few imp points to note:
1. Asad and Zoya both have found out about Zoya's dad being gaffur(don't ask me how, they just do😆).
2. Zoya's ammi was gaffur's second wife so zoya's illegitimate. (again, don't ask me how, it just is, I can't come up with any logical explanation for this 😆)So here it goes:
(Banner credits: Me)
Asad gazed at her face. He couldn't help but notice how ethereal she looked under the rays of the full moon. Despite the tears trickling down her face, she looked like an angel. His angel. He stared at her petite form for a little longer, before taking a step forward. Just as soon as he stepped forward, he stepped back into his original position. What if she rejects you, Asad? What will you do then?, asked his mind. He shook his head, in an attempt to dismiss those thoughts. The very thought made him shudder. She won't reject me, he convinced himself. He slowly took a step forward and sent a silent prayer to Allah to help him. He took his time, in reaching her, for after all, who knows what destiny had in store for both of them? He stopped walking when he was just a metre, or so away from her. She was sitting on the bench with her back faced to him. He didn't know if she'd acknowledged his presence yet, or not. She was just staring at the moon, with salty tears sliding down her cheeks. He didn't think she'd want to face anyone, at that moment, let alone him, but he couldn't hold back for any longer. Not after seeing her after one whole year. His eyes brimmed with tears. Tears of anger and sorrow. If it hadn't been for his irrational thinking, he would have been married to the love of his life, they might have even had a child by that time. He slowly drew the courage to speak to her, he whispered, just about loud enough for her to hear, "Zoya..."
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One year ago:
"You bloody murderer!" Zoya stared at him. To say that she was shocked would be an understatement. He had literally killed her. The tears slowly slid down her face. He'd just called her a...murderer. "What did Tanveer ever do to you?! Why the hell did you wanna kill her?! You would have been dead by now, if something had actually happened to her!", he bellowed at her. Her voice cracked as she spoke, "Mr. Khan, I promise you, I didn't do anything like that. Why would I do-" "Why are you even trying to prove yourself? I saw everything with my own eyes. Even a blatant fool won't fall for you explanation!", he screamed at her. "I didn't do anything!", she whispered. Asad glared at her and gritted his teeth. He strode towards her and pinned her against the wall, "Are you trying to say that, that knife you were holding came into your hand out of nowhere? Or are you trying to say that you don't know how Tanveer was assaulted even though you were standing right in front of her, with that knife?", he asked her, sarcasm coating his bitter tone. Zoya whispered again, "I swear on my ammi, I didn't do anything!" Asad let go of her and smirked at her, "Your ammi? You mean Gaffur's second wife?" Zoya's lips quivered, as her eyes filled with fresh tears, again. She stared at him, unable to believe that he had just said that. Tanveer smirked at her, slyly in between the facade she was putting up. Check mate, Zoya. She said in her mind. She hung her head in shame, as she heard the gasps and whispers of people. Asad continued, "I guess, bad blood will always remain bad blood." Zoya's head shot up, she stared at him in shock. Among all the hushed whispers of the guests, she heard someone say, "Besharam ladki. Thank God Asad found out about her true nature." She clasped her mouth and turned around to flee to her room, but she felt a strong grip around her wrist. She turned around and found Asad string at her hatefully with blood shot eyes, "You have an hour."
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"You?", she bit out, anger surfacing her eyes. Asad could clearly notice the obvious bitterness grasping her voice. "What are you doing here? Need to insult me more, do you?", she asked him coldly. Asad bit his lip and tried desperately to stop those damned tears from spilling. It pierced his heart to see the very girl who brought light into his dark life, living a life like his. He was not pained by her harsh words, he was more pained to see that she'd become like how he used to be. An unsmiling, cheerless human being. The only difference was, Zoya was not an arrogant or a judgemental person, like he was. He shook his head slightly, in disagreement what she'd just asked him. Zoya continued staring at him unfazedly. Asad had expected her to scream at him straight away, telling him to go away, but she did nothing of the sort. A whole year of separation, yet she showed no signs of surprise, or shock. He would have rather preferred if she'd screamed at him. He didn't know what to say to her, he knew that apologising was no good, but he did it anyways, "I'm sorry for everything I said and did to you on that day." Zoya's eys brimmed with tears of anger, she whispered, "Sorry's not good enough." Asad hung his head and replied, "I know it isn't, but still I needed to tell you. I needed to let you know that whatever happened on the day of our Jashn-e-Bahaar was an accident." Zoya chuckled, sarcastically, "An accident? That's nice to hear!" Asad squeezed his eyes shut, trying to ignore the fact that she hated him and just try and convince her, he said, "Please, just listen to me for a minute, I-" "Did you listen to me, when I begged you for one single chance to explain myself?", she asked him. Asad stared at her, tears starting to slide down his own face. Even though the answer was a blatantly obvious 'no', he couldn't bring himself to answer her. Zoya continued, her voice wavering due the fact that she was trying to control herself from breaking down, "You insulted me in front of a hundred people and you also manged to insult my dead mother, for no fault of mine. Was that fair?" Asad let out a soft sob and continued staring at the concrete ground. Zoya bit her lip and squeezed her eyes shut, trying to stop the tears from flowing. She looked at the ground and slowly said, choking on her tears, "You trusted Tanveer, more than you trusted me and I guess you still do." "No!", Asad snapped. "I hate her! I frickin' hate her!", he yelled. Zoya stared at him, blankly. Asad clenched his fists tight, as he remembered the very same woman who had managed to separate him from Zoya. He reluctantly started to explain, about how she'd tricked them.
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A week after Zoya had left the Khan Villa:
Asad stared at the screen, completely shocked. He replayed the video recording again, just to make sure he'd seen it right. He clenched his fists in anger, as he watched his so called 'best friend', approach Zoya steadily with a knife. His muscles tightened as he watched her smirking at her, the knife readily adjusted in her hand to throw at Zoya. Zoya was standing in front of the fuse box, oblivious to danger creepin up behind her. Just as Tanveer was about to fling the knife at Zoya, the lights came on, she quickly hid behind the curtains and gritted her teeth, her jaws automatically clenching. "That bloody b****", she muttered under her breath. She stared at the knife in her hand and slowly brought it up to he other hand and dabbed the knife into it. Asad gritted his teeth as he realized what Tanveer had done. She continued cutting herself and when she looked assaulted enough, she quickly stepped from behind the curtains and thrusted the knife into Zoya's hand. Zoya stared at her, bewildered for a second. Shock replaced her bewilderment as she saw blood trickling down Tanveer's face, she looked down at the knife that Tanveer had thrusted into her hand, she asked her, "What's all this, Tanveer? How did this..." She stopped as she realized that Tanveer was smirking at her, she scrunched her eyebrows in confusion as she watched Tanveer feign an expression of pity at her. Before she could realize what was going on, Tanveer shrieked, "Ahhh!!! Jammy! Bachao!"
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"I kicked her out, after that. She was a treacherous old witch. I'm ashamed that I ever trusted her." Zoya stared at Asad, with no expression playing up on her face. She'd not taken any sort of liking to Tanveer, from since the day she'd stepped into the Khan Villa, most likely out of jealousy, but still it had took her more than tolerance to put up with her overly sugar coated tone. But none of that mattered to her anymore, she didn't share any sort of relationship with then, neither did she want to. "You trusted her so much, that you insulted me in front of so many people." Asad bit his lower lip hard and took a step forward, he reached out to grab her hand, but Zoya quickly jerked away. "Just go away.", he heard her say. Asad looked into her stony eyes and said, "I shoul'vd told you this a long while ago, but I didn't. I don't know about you, but I know one thing for sure. I love you. I always have and I will do so till my very last breath." Zoya stared at him, shocked by his sudden confession. She sobbed quietly and said, "Please, just leave me alone. Go away." Asad stepped forward and grabbed her by her shoulders, she didn't retaliate. He wiped her tears away with hsi thumbs, he whispered softly, "Just give me this one last chance. Please. I'll never hurt you again." Zoya stared at him for a while, whilst a myriad of emotions played on her face. Asad gazed at her hopefully, definite that she'll agree. Zoya looked away after a couple of minutes and replied blankly, "No." "Please.", Asad begged. "No, go away, just leave me alone. We're just not meant to be.", Asad squeezed her hands and pleaded once again, "No, don't say that! Please, just give me one chance to correct myself. I will never in my life hurt you, again. Trust me, just this once." Zoya gritted her teeth and retorted, "Trust, huh? When has 'trust' ever lasted between us?" Asad face crumpled up, he was at the verge of a break down, he heard her yell at him, "I hate you! Leave me alone! Go away and never, ever come back!"
Asad grabbed her by her shoulders and shook her. "Why?!", he yelled back into her face. Zoya gritted her teeth and tried to shrug his arms off her shoulders, but he gripped on to her firmly. She screamed at him, "Because, we were not meant for each other!" Tears were flowing down both their face, stead fast. Asad loosened his grip on her shoulders and asked, choking on his sobs over and over again, "But why? Why can't you just give me one chance? How do you know that we are not meant for each other?" Zoya stared at him, her whole body gripped with fear. She turned her head away and stared at the ground. Asad tightened his grip, again and shook her, "I asked you something!!! ANSWER ME!!!" She retorted back, "Because, I'm gonna die in like a month!!! Happy?!"
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Asad stared at her, shocked beyond his wits, a lump had formed in his throat, he asked quietly, "What? Zoya, this is no joke for me. Please, don't say anything like this again." "Its the truth.", she replied bitterly. Asad's face scrunched up in confusion and a gut feeling of terror. Zoya looked away and said, "I have Alzheimer's disease." Zoya turned her head back around and saw Asad go stiff, she turned back away, unable to face him. "Liar.", he mumbled, as if in a trance. Zoya stifled a sob and said, "I'm not lying." "Yes, you are!", he yelled at her. Zoya looked at him and said, "Now, don't you understand why we were not meant to be?" Asad screamed, "No! No! NO!!! You're lying! It can be cured, right? I'm not letting you go anywhere!!!" " Alzheimer's disease can't be cured." Asad stared at her, petrified beyond a point he could imagine. Zoya bit lip and squeezed her eyes shut a her crumbled up, "I'm sorry, Asad. I'm so sorry!" Asad whispered in between his sobs, "You're not dying, I will not let you die. I will not let you die! Do you hear me?! You're not dying!" Asad ranted the same lines over and over again, like a chant. Zoya brought her hands up to his face and caressed his face. She gently wiped away the tears from his cheeks. She looked at him directly in his eyes and said, "I love you." Asad pulled her into his chest and sobbed, he begged, "Please, don't leave me! I can't live without you! Please, I love you! You know that, right?! Then why do you wanna leave me?! You were just joking, right?! Say, yes! Please, just say, yes!" Zoya pulled away and cupped his face, Asad continued crying. She whispered into his face, "Asad, listen to me. You have a whole life ahead of you, you can find someone way better than me, for yourself. I'll always be watching you from above. I know we can't be together, in this life, but I promise. In every single other birth of ours, we will be together, no one will ever separate us. Just remember this, I love you, I always have and always will."
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5 years later:
He laid the flowers down on her grave stone and prayed for a little while. He opened his eyes again and smiled slightly. He traced his fingers over the letters engraved on the grave stone. "Zoya Farroqui. 1989-2013. A loving sister, a dutiful daughter and a caring fiancee.", it read. Asad still waited patiently for the day, God would claim him, the day he could be reunited with Zoya. She often came in his dreams, she would say, "I will wait for the day, when you'll come to me. Don't ever forget that I love you." A lone tear slid down his cheek, as her beautiful face flashed in his mind. He took out his wallet from his pocket and opened it to look at the photo of Zoya he'd kept with him ever since Tanveer's truth had come out. He smiled at the serene angel in the photo and said, "I will love you till my last breath."
The End
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Ok, ok! I know it was total crap! This probably the worst story ever wrote on asya. Ur more than welcome to throw ur eggs and tomatoes, but if ur gonna throw shoes or slippers, size 4 plz 😆. But on a serious note, I know its nowhere near good, I typed this up in a rush. I just wanna clarify a few things u guys might be confused abt. First of all I myself don't know where zoya went to when asad told her to leave, I cudnt be bothered to explain 😆, secondly in the first flashback scene, it was the jashn e bahaar ceremony of asya and tanveer blamed zoya for assaulting her with the knife and thirdly for those of u who haven't heard of Alzheimer's, it is an incurable brain disease. Ppl who have it die eventually. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Plz leave ur comments behind! Hope u liked it! Au revoir!
Ramya
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Edited by ..Ramya.. - 11 years ago
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