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Bring me back to life

Part 4:

To say I was shocked was an understatement; I was dumbfounded when I heard my name utter from her melodious lips. How did she know my name? Somewhere inside, I was happy that her first utterance was my name. "You know me? How do you know me?"

"Ice…cream" I glance at my hand and detect the ice-cream was about to melt. I recapture when I was 10, I spot a little girl crying on the bench and I gave her my ice-cream. At that moment it hit me, maybe she is the little crying girl. Was she asking for an ice-cream or is she trying to tell me that indeed she is the girl? "You are the little crying girl?" I asked her to which she nodded.

"Good girls don't cry so please don't cry. Here, have the ice-cream." I grin and gave the ice-cream in her hand. She smiled to me and took it from my hand. I don't know what was happening but all I understand was I felt contented. She begins licking it before it could melt on her hand. She even looks gorgeous while eating.

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I ate the ice-cream quickly not because it was melting but because I was hungry. He might think that I look like a wild animal locked up for ages but I couldn't care less, I was starving. I felt so out of harm's way when I'm around him as if I have known him for years. Just a few days, and he is already starting to win my trust. No, I can't do that! How can I disregard what my best friend did to me in collage when I had full faith him! The worst part was enemies were not the one who deceive you, but your own ones- your loved ones. I'm doing the same mistake again! I can't let him near me, definitely not! I immediately stood up from the bench creating distance between us.

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I gaze at her whereas she was enjoying her ice-cream but suddenly, something hit her. She moved away from me which left me puzzled. I can't understand this girl, at one point she let me near her while at the other, she is afraid of me. Why is she so confusing?

I stood up and paced towards her but she seemed scared stiff. She was fine awhile ago and now all of a sudden she- I wonder if I did anything wrong. I didn't know what to do to make her feel comfortable.

"Don't worry, it's me. I won't hurt you." I forward my hand to her so that she can shake hers with mine. "Friends?"

She moved further backwards with a horrified expression. I guess I couldn't force her, she needs time. "Please sit down, I- I'll leave" I motion my hands in the air as if I was at the gun point and took a step back which beyond doubt made her at ease. I moved back progressively and retrieve back home.

"Ammi! Ammi!" I shouted on top of my lungs the moment I step inside.

"What happened, Asad?" she inquired while walking towards me.

I seized her from arms spinning her around. "Ammi I'm very happy! She talked to me! Ammi you remember the ice-cream girl when I was 10? It was her."

"Okay okay calm down. Tell me from the beginning, how all this happened? What's her name?" she seemed more excited than me.

"Oh no! I forgot to ask her name…" my smile was totally gone astray.

"There is always a next time"

"No ammi. She won't talk to me"

"Why?"

I narrate about the whole unexpected encounter I had and how she got frightened in the end.

"It's okay Asad. She needs time."

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I don't know why but I wasn't pleased that he left. Maybe after decades, someone converse with me properly which is why I was having pointless hopes. "Asad" He is entirely different from his name. I remember there was this guy from my colony who was named Asad which means lion and he always roared like one to scare the kids. This Asad was completely out of the ordinary.

When I rouse in the sunrise, I note something written on the bench. I sit up with puzzlement trying to understand the writing. "What's your name? - xxAsadxx" There was black marker stuck between the rows of the bench. I grin and grab the marker writing my name on the row below "Zoya".

I got on my feet wandering around grabbing the marker in the hand. I arrived at a location where no one was around and set in motion to sketch on the wall. I drew a girl- a lifeless like me hanged with a rope to the tree. I glimpse a man hitting this little child brutally with the stick which brought me back to the time I had to endure similar things or even worse.

~ Flashback ~

"Please don't beat me!" I scream shedding my tears but he didn't bring an end to the beating. "I'm not being… dishonest, the teacher wants the… school fee by tomorrow." I explained for a thousand times however he was not geared up to listen.

"Do you think I'm very wealthy? I have money? If they are requiring for money, then just quit the college! I don't have money for you twat! Get that?!" He flings the stick on the ground and slammed the door behind me.

"What… should…I... Do?" For me, my house was the valley of death nevertheless I can't break away from here, I had nowhere else to go. Hence, I decided not to go to college after that. I was the type of the person who believed a penny saved is a penny earned.

~ Flashback Ends ~

The tears dripping down my cheeks while I roam around disheartened. I sat leaning onto the tree where I fainted last time and notice a cutter placed beside.

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I wonder if she'll tell me her name. I set in the meeting room thinking when I sense someone pat me. "Sir, what's your opinion?" I snapped out my thoughts and figured everyone in the room staring at me. I nudge my employee who was sitting beside him and I leaned towards him whispering. "Adeel, I wasn't listening. Make up anything and just say that I said it."

He nodded and begins speaking "Sir said he like your ideas and we should seal the deal as soon as possible."

"We are looking forward to work with you Mr. Khan" the clients shake hand with me and left the room.

Everyone left the room one by one while I told Adeel to stay behind. "Adeel I'm going. Help me take care of everything in the office."

"No way! The boss is going to kill me"

"I promise dad won't find out about this. Please?"

'No no." I can't believe he is so stubborn.

"Please?" I pleaded him.

"Okay but this is the last time."

"Thanks" I sprint out of the room with a smile on my face.

I hurried to the bench however the girl wasn't there. I glimpse something written on the bench. "Zoya" her name means "alive" then why isn't she alive? I sat on the bench for few minutes waiting for her to return unfortunately she didn't. I was walking home when I spot a drawing on the wall. That's vandalism, drawing on public property. The girl was wearing exactly the same attire as Zoya but she was hanged with a tree. A strain of anxiety ran through my vein. Is she all right? I scuttle around looking for her and I saw her- I standstill looking at her lying on the ground. There was blood on her wrist which I'm afraid means she's dead. She is dead?

I ran to her and held her in my arms, her eyes were sodden. She had been crying? "Zoya! Open your eyes, can you hear me?" she opens her exhausted eyes and the tear trickle down from her eye touching her silky-smooth cheek.

"It's… too painful Asad. The pain… won't go away. I… I didn't know… what to do so…" She stammers and her hand moved from my chest gripping my collar.

I gazed at lifeless Zoya in my arms, I felt numb and my tears drop on her face. I held her hand which seize on my collar securely. "I will make this pain go away Zoya. I will" and she fainted in my arms.

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