It's true that Zoya had never understood Mr. Khan, and didn't think she ever will. One second he is saying that he wants to punish the person responsible for causing his Ammi pain, and the next second he's giving her the biggest pain of her life. Even tough she too along with Mr. Khan had seen Rashid take out that skeleton from the Gudiya Factory, she somehow believed that Rashid was innocent and that he was being framed! She may not personally know Rashid but every time she met him, there was a sense of regret, loss, pain, guilt, and above all fear in his eyes! The time they had met at the darga, he had seen her in pain and helped her, even tough being a complete stranger. She may not be the best judger in the world, but she could tell by looking at Rashid that this man was nice and gentle and he couldn't even hurt a fly in his life, he wasn't capable of murder, no not one bit, but she had still stood by Asad and helped him in doing what he thought was right! She knew that like she told her API that she has to find her past to move forward in life, so did Mr. Khan, he needed to be straight up confronted about it so that he could just deal with it and move on in life, and unfortunately at the moment, this was the only solution. That is the reason she had stood by him, and of course lets not forget that it felt like the right thing to do in her heart, and she still couldn't figure out why that was!??
Lost in her thoughts, Zoya took the cup of coffee she had made for Mr. Khan in her hands and walked towards where she knew he will be at this hour, in the backyard! Wow! she when did she start knowing Jhapana Six Packs so much? And then as if frightened by her train of thought, she scolded herself, "That's it Zoya! Stop thinking bout irrelevant things, you didn't know that he was there, you just saw him going out his room towards the backyard. That's it! Nothing else!"
Zoya smiled as she reached the backyard and found him standing there arms folded and taking the warmth of the fire. Fire! Her smile dropped as she made out what was in front of her, and just as if on cue, Mr. Khan turned around. She didn't want to show how weak she was to Mr. Khan. She had once let her guard down when she had told him how much she relied on him, but she would never let her guard go down again! Forcing the smile back on her face, she said, "Coffee, Mr. Khan."
He just stared at her as if he knew something was up with her, but she continued with her blabbering. She needed something to distract her from that fire! So she decided to criticize him, "Mr. Khan, muskurana koi buri baat nahi hai! Bhalahi muskurana se musibaat door nahi hoti, Lakin us ko face karne ki himat to aajati hai!" And then she saw that Mr. Khan smirked a bit, she felt her stomach do a little flip and heat rushing up to her cheeks, she quickly looked away, but that away led to fire, and she got what she didn't want! All those unwanted memories, memories? she didn't know if they were memories, so nightmares, all those nightmares came crashing on to her as she stared into the fire! The noises, her screams, the flames, the hurt, everything! She felt her feet just got wet with a really hot liquid and she realized that she had just dropped the coffee cup and Mr. Khan was looking at her with concern in his eyes towards her. She had to get out of there, out of there before it got too late and she actually started living her nightmare and started yelling like she did in her nightmares! This hadn't happened in a while but she used to do that every time she saw fire when she was little! So before all that came out, she turned around and ran out of there into her bedroom and quickly jumped onto her bed.
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