Asya ff In The Shadows Chapter 25a page 94 3/11 - Page 3

Originally posted by: Drea_QH1fan

Dont make me wait too long for the next chapter
I was rooted to the spot while reading this!
Omg my poor Zoya 😭
You write really well and give nice longgg chapters too. I LIKE that!!

Originally posted by: Saralicious

😭 😭 😭...pls hurry asad...hope zoya r not in danger zone!!!!pls update soon dear!!!😉

Chapter 6

Her mind is lost in the darkness, pitch darkness….. in some blackness, in a murkiness, without color, without any iridescence or intensity, without any vibration, resonance, intonation, modulation or movement. It's a silent darkness. Darkness in darkness. A curtain on a curtain.

Her consciousness isn't bound to any place or reservation. Its flying, floating on water, swimming in the clouds, somewhere between the sky and the ground, in a cloud. slowly the cloud gets a jerk and bursts into pieces, it vanishes in the air.

Soon there is brilliance everywhere, a brightness, light. A sharp clear and glimmering light. Its like a flood of light. An ivory yellow light.

She gently opens her eyes. A blurred vision is seen. White walls, white ceiling, a fan hanging from the ceiling. Its wings rotating slowly, spinning, spinning, again and again. She stares at it for a long time.

'Who am I? Where am I? why am I?'

She glares at the ceiling with empty eyes. Then starts looking here and there. There are white walls all around her. A couch to her right. The fragrance from the fresh flowers on the side table grasp her nose.

The blinds of the windows are open through which she sees the sun shining brightly. Soon dark heavy clouds prevail; the room is now dimly illuminated. Strong winds make the trees dance in joy. The birds chirp and sing happily.

She pressurizes her elbows in an attempt to get up but it's like her body is lifeless. Maybe she is very tired. She gives up trying. She can feel a tube connecter to her nostrils. She looks down at her arms; there are also many tubes and wires connecter to different machines to her left.

'Perhaps it's a room in a hospital and I am…. Perhaps… no surely I am Zoya.. Zoya Farooqi.'

How can one forget himself? Soon all memories started bouncing in her mind, one after the other, one face after the other. She remembers all.

She closed her eyes exhausted.

'What was the last thing which happened? Which brought me here? Maybe an accident.'

All incidents are flashing in her memories, slowly and gradually.

'I was crying, walking aimlessly, there was this boy with the cards, I crossed the road, something falls on the road, I pick it up, something hits me, there was blood, shouts cries, a some what known face, a card on the road…card… Asad's card…'

Remembering the card she cries… "Asad!" she opens her eyes and then looks here and there but there is no one in the room. She is all alone. She is again searching the room for him when the door opens.

A nurse in a white uniform, a medicine tray in her hands is walking towards her. She stops dead in her tracks the moment she sees Zoya.

She gasps. "Thanks God." She says astonished. She goes back almost running out of the room.

Zoya in complete chaos and bewilderment stares at the door for a while and then starts looking out of the window. The clouds would start showering any moment.

After a while a doctor comes in with the nurse. He is young, handsome with intelligent looks. He smiles and seats himself on the stool beside the bed. The nurse helps her to sit straight.

"How are you?" he asks pleasantly.

"I am fine." Zoya's voice is hoarse and broken. She clears her throat.

The doctor holds her wrist in his hands and checks her veins. Then he checks her eyes. The light he throws in her eyes is stinging. He then asks her to breathe heavily while he checks her chest through stethoscope. He takes some points on his writing pad and then addresses the nurse.

"Did you inform her family?"

"Yes sir."

'So no one was here yet. She feels bad. The doctor read her mind.

"Don't worry they will be here any minute."

He encourages her. The same moment the door slams open and she recognizes Dilshad in the doorway. She rushes towards Zoya and embraces her in a hug. Crying.

"Zoya….. Zoya my baby."

The doctor and the nurse leave.

Dilshad asks hysterically , "Zoya can you see me? Hear me? Do you recognize me?... kia tum bol sakti ho?"

Tears, like a waterfall pouring down her face.

"Of course phupho… why won't I recognize you? "

Dilshad cups her face in her hands and kisses her forehead gently.

"Zoya I am so happy you are fine, awake and……I've informed everybody they will be here any minute." She continues after a while…."Tum kitni kamzoor ho gai ho Zoya."

Zoya smiles and asks shaking her head "itni jaldi kamzoor kaise ho sakti hun phupho?"

The smile on Dilshad's face fades a little."Let me talk to your doctor… I'll be back."

After she leaves Zoya leans back on her pillow and closes her eyes.

'Something is out of place.'

Asad parks his car in the hospital parking. Jumps out of the car and starts running like a mad man, rushing through the people who are getting annoyed. Taking two three steps at a time he climbs the staircase as if running for his life. Finally, he stops at the doorway panting. He gazes at Zoya's weak and fragile existence. Different emotions take over him. He calls out "Zoya"

Zoya's eyes flutter open. She sees Asad in the doorway. Her eyes fill with tears as she stares at him. He in his wayfarer glasses and light beard looked a little different from the last time she saw him. She cries, "Mr. Khan."

Asad runs towards her and takes her into his embrace. Both close their eyes. Zoya starts weeping loudly where a tear drop rolls down Asad's cheeks. He caresses her hair gently.

Zoya cries, "mr. Khan."

"Shhh!" Asad quitens her. "Everything is fine."

He pulls her back after a long time, fixes the lose strands of her hair which were trickling on her face. He rubs away the tears from her face. They look into each other's eyes for an eternity.

He breaks the eye contact and straightens himself as Dilshad enters the room.

"Oh! Asad you are here."

Asad is sitting in the bed so she seats herself on the stool. She holds Zoya's hand in hers and rubs its back.

"Zoya do you remember everything?" she asks slowly reading Zoyas's face intently.

Asad's eyes are also fixed on Zoya.

"Gee phupho…. I was crossing the road when a car hits me and….."

Dilshad interrupts her, "No…. I mean everything after that."

"After that?" Zoya asks in bewilderment.

"Yes everything I said to you when you were here in the hospital? Do you remember any of that?" Dilshad asks

Zoya is lost in thoughts.

'Yesterday I was hit by a car, then brought here… I don't remember Dilshad talking to me…. What did she say?' she shakes her head.

"Nai phupho…. I din't hear anything… all I remember is that yesterday I was hit by a car… and then I wake up today in the hospital. What did you say to me anyway? "

Dilshad and Asad exchange a anxious look before their eyes fix on Zoya agin. There is a long silence as Zoya waits for Dilshad to reply. Finally Dilshad says,

"It wasn't yesterday Zoya……it was…. It was two years back."

Originally posted by: Drea_QH1fan

Oh my gosh...does she have short term memory?? 2 years back!!
PM me for the next part again Pleaseee!
This is really good!

Originally posted by: Saralicious

omg!!!zoya has lost her memory???i mean short term memory only!!!poor her!!!😭 😭...realy enjoy reading ur ff dear!!!dun forget to update soon!!!😉