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<div align="center"><font size="4" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">SS: That Extra Mile, for Love</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="4" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chapter 1</font></div>
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<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">Disaster, was the site, air smelt of blood. Screams and shouts for help, men, women and children crying near the bodies of the dead, injured being rushed on stretchers, running nurses and doctors, urgency and emergency written everywhere. Amid the chaos, near the boulders made from the broken bridge, looking at the logs of wood of the railing floating in the stream of water before them, broken pieces of the bus they were travelling in barely an hour ago lying here and there, were two pairs of eyes brimming with tears, not because of the relief that they just survived the accident their bus had met, not because they suffered minor injuries that hurt like hell, not because there was devastation around them, but because their hearts bled, their existence pained them, they were two teary eyed women embracing each other, giving one another solace' knowing that the soothe they were searching was far away, the peace they expected in their lives was nowhere to be seen now</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">Still both of them were trying to calm each other, both of them had left comfort and luxury behind them. Little did they know that what they shared at present was an ages long bond' a bond that created when both of them came to this world. Though they thought that they had met only recently but that's what Allah had decided for them, to meet now'at this point in their lives. Had the situation and time been different, they would have grown together, heard same lullabies, shared candies, confided into each other in growing years, protected each other, eaten together, slept together and what not' had the time been different'. But fate and destiny brought them together, as they held each other in this tough time, outside and inside'</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">" Mera yakeen karo Humaira, us mithai mein maine zeher nahi milaya tha" said Zoya staring at the rock in river which was cut by the course of flowing water, breaking the long silence</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"Main Jaanti hoon Zoya Baji, aap aisa kabhi nahi kar sakti, infact, us din aap se mil kar mujhe bahut sukoon mila tha, aisa laga hi nahi ki aapse sirf dooesi baar mil rahi hoon'. Aur zeher jisne bhi milaya ho baji, hua to mera faida hi, mujhe pata chal ki'. Ayaan ko '.meri kitni fikr hai" Humaira said hesistantly, </font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"main tumse mohabbat nahi karta, na karta tha, na karta hoon" Ayaan's words echoed in Humaira's ears, breaking her heart again, resulting in a fresh trail of tears run thrugh her cheeks</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"magar ab apne aap se poochti hoon, ki kya vo meri galatfehmi thi" she said, sobbing</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"Nahi Humaira, aisa nahi hai, trust me, Ayaan ko tumhari fikr hai, aur kahin na kahin uske dil ke kisi kone mein tumhare liye jazbaat bhi hein, chaahat ke, mohabbat ke, bas ye hai ki use khud nahi pata ki vo kya chahta hai, jaise Mr Khan ko'.." as soon as Zoya took his name, she felt weak, she felt disgusted, she felt helpless, she felt angry, most of all, she felt betrayed.</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">Hearing Zoya's incomplete sentence, Humaira forgot the pain she felt at the moment, the sting that Ayaan's words had left on her heart didn't seem to matter for that while as she knew that Zoya's pain was bigger, deeper, her heart was more damaged, holding Zoya's palm and looking at the name engraved on her hand Humaira said in softest of voice "Zoya baji, main Asad bhaijaan ko bachpan se jaanti hoon, aur mein ye daave ke saath keh sakti hoon ki vo jaan boojh kar aisa nahi kar sakte' aap jaanti hein, us din nikaah ke liye jab Asad bhaijaan ravana hone wale the tab hum sab unse milne gaye the, jaise hi aapka zikr kiya to unki aankhon mein jo jazbaat dikhe the, vo unki mohabbat ki kahani khud hi keh rahe the, jaanti hein'.vo aapse'"</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"please Humaira mujhe unke bare mein koi baat nahi karni, sach to ye hai ki.. ki.. vo ek kamzor insaan nikle, unhone mera dil toda hai, mere bharose ka qatl kiya hai unhone'" said zoya crying uncontrollably, between hiccups</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"nahi Baji, please rona band kijiye' chaliye uthiye" said Humaira standing up, still crying Zoya got up, Humaira tried wiping her tears, while her own started to fall down' as Zoya looked at her, she hugged her tightly, and they cried in unison'. Both of them cried over cruel life that brought this on them.</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"beti aap log theek hein? Kahan jaayengi aap, jaldi kijiye, Bhopal ki bas intezaar kar rahi hai" Zoya and Humaira broke their hug and looked at the retreating figure of the kind elderly lady who left them to convey the same to other waiting people</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"ji? Wo'. Hum'." Said Humaira, confused looking at Zoya</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"Are you sure Humaira, tumhe vapas ghar nahi jaana hai, sab log tumhe dhoondh rahe honge, tum kisi ko bina bataye aayi ho" asked Zoya, sounding worried</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"nahi, mujhe nahi jaana baji, agar jaana hota to main aise ghar chor kar nahi aati" Humaira said</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"lekin tum' sab pareshan honge tumhe le kar'" Zoya said</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">"Aur baaji aap?? Aap bhi to kisi ko bina bataye aayi hein, aapki bhi to raah dekh rahe honge sab" said Humaira, leaving Zoya speechless.</font></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="4" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Weren't they so alike'.. kind, soft, sweet?? Both the girls, who now took the bus back to Bhopal together after the accident, sat side by side, at times talking, at time sharing the silence. As if it was natural for them to be together'it was natural that for another, one momentarily forgets her pain, to give strength to the other, one talks about love, hope, and life...they shared a lot in common, their nature, their beauty, their eyes, their smile. They shared the same softer side of a man, who once was a man in love, who once had emotions in his now mostly dry, ruthless eyes' which have the same glint of love and longing when years ago he gifted the music box to a toddler, with pain in his heart of separation from her, and at present when he gifted exactly the same box to a young lady right before her engagement. They shared the biggest truth of their lives, which when revealed would change their lives forever, they shared the same father, </p>
<div align="left">links to my pervious works
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<div align="left">OS (complete): The Trail of Subconscious: <font color="#006dca">https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/qubool-hai/3480181/asya-os-the-trail-of-subconscious-complete-pg-5</font></div>
<div align="left">TS (Ongoing): Love finds its way: <font color="#006dca">https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/qubool-hai/3622100/asya-ts-love-finds-its-way</font></div>
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