Hello 🤗 Surprise! Surprise!! I am back with another chapter 😳
This chapter is dedicated to (akaswan) for her birthday. Her birthday was on last week and the gift is coming now. I am sorry for being late buddy. I miss our late night conversations but I am happy that you find the best way of your life you have cherished for long.
"The weight of loneliness stands on your feet
The cage already there around the bird!!!
What does tomorrow want from me?
What does it matter what I see?
If we all walk behind the blind,
Tell me where do we draw the line,
Tell me where do we draw the line?"
Chapter 3
Asad stood stupefied as he looked at a certain Zoya Farooqui intently, she lost much weights, had some dark patches under her eye, she was much skinnier than before. But the shine, the joy, the color she held for life were still there. He found him drawn again into her brown orbs, wait there was no happiness, no feelings after seeing him. She was looking at him amused as if he had grown two horns while standing back to her feet. He could not decipher her reaction at that time, he did not even care. Being a man of principal and extremely controlled type person he wanted to stop gazing as Farhaan was there.
Farhaan looked confused as he was looking from Asad to Zoya then again to Asad. Then the realization hit him hard that he was unwanted person in his own cabin. He excused himself suddenly busy with his cell phone and brushed passed Asad. Asad-Zoya did not even acknowledge his leaving. Asad stared at her and when Zoya tried to snap him out from the awkward situation by saying his name he looked like he was out off from the stupor! He ran to her covering the distance between them then landed on the plush carpet along with Zoya.
He fiercely hugged a shocking Zoya murmuring some unusual words, Zoya remained silent for sometimes but wriggling under his heavy weight in order to get away from him. When she realized Asad had pressed his lips to the nape of her neck. She could not take it anymore and pushed him with all her might. Asad was boggled at her reaction. Zoya glared at him thinking about the audacity he had shown to her. He thought Zoya was still angry with him. When she was about to leave, Asad took her hand saying sorry he took it near his lips again to kiss it, Zoya jerked it. She turned fully to him and slapped him hard with all her might.
"How dare you, Mr. Asad Ahmed Khan! How dare you to touch me?" Zoya shouted.
Asad open his mouth to say something, but he ended up gulping air like a goldfish! Why Zoya was acting so weird? May be she was still angry with me. But finally she came back to me. He looked around to stop her but she was gone again; an involuntary half smile was playing on his lips. The surreal feeling enveloped him with the color of his life. His life was back to him.
"Weird ladki?" He mumbled raking his hair with his fingers. A shy smile crept on his lips when he realized what he had done infront of Farhaan. He shot up to see where Farhaan was but felt relieved as soon as looked that he was alone in the room. At that moment Farhaan entered into the room with utterly confused face and was totally dumbstruck seeing a half smiling Asad. He was surprised would be an understatement. He just gaped at Asad. In his two and half years of knowing Asad he never saw Asad smiling and now he was smiling without any reason. He cleared his throat and Asad plastered the serious face and put his hand behind him with his signature posture. Farhaan's bewilderment did not leave him but increased. Asad thought he needed to give some explanation.
"Umm...Farhaan ...woh actually!!" Asad stammered, clearly he was feeling embarrassed. He again raked his hand through his hairs.
"Bhaijaan! You know her?" Farhaan wanted to confirm.
"Yes! Farhaan, can you tell me, where she is staying?" Asad inquired.
"Hotel Paradise, Room 503" he blurted, clearly shocked to see Asad's interest to Z.F.
Asad left from there hastily. He could not leave Zoya now.
He entered the hotel lobby and the manager greeted him. He was the architect of this five star hotel and he asked for Zoya Farooqui. The manager called Zoya and she bluntly refused to meet him. Asad was flabbergasted he was not getting why she was so adamant now. He decided to wait for her in the hotel lobby; she had to come out for anything. Once seated on the plush sofa he again went down to memory lane.
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Asad reached the office and gave the details about Tanveer to the investigator. He gave all the information that Zoya had gathered and gave to him till date. The investigator said he would update with the information through call phone as Asad would be in the function. Asad nodded and immediately got back to his house for the mehendi function.
In the function Zoya was looking serene with that white sleeveless dress which he gifted to her. He saw her painful gaze again. When his mother put the mehendi on her palm Zoya bit her lower lip. He asked her through his eyes what happened. She nodded her head in negative and plastered smile on her face. He concentrated on Tanveer more. She looked unusually happy. Just in the morning she was whimpering in pain. He scrutinized Tanveer's every move then. Tanveer said something into Zoya's ear but Zoya smiled widely at her as if there was some unspoken arguing going there. He was lost in his thinking when he saw a lone tear fell from her eye and she hastily wiped that away from the back of her arm. His heart was again stopped when he noticed the tear. Did he break her beyond repair? Did she still thinking that he did not want this nikaah? He looked at her, pleading inside his mind to look at him once. But she did not look back to him. Rather she concentrated on a glass of water. He frowned for sometimes and made his way to help her to take the water.
Zoya gulped the water and gave him a shy smile. He wiped the drop of the water from her lips, as soon as his finger grazed her lower lip, both of them shudders. But Nazma came to them running saying it was time to find out his name from her mehendi. Zoya washed her mehendi and came near to them. All were pestering her to open her palm but she was clutching it tightly near her chest. Everyone was puzzled about her reaction; Dilshad went near her and opened the clasp and shrieked loudly. "Ya Allah! Your hand got burnt" With that Asad's head whipped to Zoya and she ducked her head. Dilshad was surprised to see the badly burnt hand of Zoya. She was asking again and again how it happened; both Nazma and she had also adorned their hand with the same mehendi. It was then Zoya looked past her and glared at Tanveer's direction. Asad followed Zoya's gaze and this time he did not miss Tanveer's smirk which she hide immediately when she felt Asad was looking at her too.
Asad went near to Zoya, asked how was she and why did she have to bear so much pain, that her hands got burnt so badly. Zoya said that this was her marriage mehendi and would be one time only, and she did not want to miss it. Nazma came and asked him to search for his name in Zoya's mehendi. Zoya asked her to let be, as he would not be able to find it. Asad took it as a challenge and began searching amidst guests surrounding, waiting with impatience. They kept asking him to admit defeat. Zoya broke into her impromptu poetry:
"Ise gungunana nahi hain asaan, yeh aisi Ghazal hain:
Aap nahi dhoond payenge, yeh bahot difficult hai..!!!"
Asad could not find the name and was ready to give a gift to Zoya but Zoya asked nothing to him. When she said that she had got way more then she wanted Asad could not help but stared at Zoya.
Later that night Asad came near to Zoya but Dilshad asked them to go and rest in their rooms, as it was their marriage, and they needed to look their best. She also warned them not to meet each other till the nikaah done.
But both accidentally met on the roof and discussed about each other's dream partner and silent confessions and promises were done too by holding their hands through the fence.
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When Asad saw Zoya's numbness just before the nikaah, he sensed something was again wrong. When Zoya pleaded him to go with her, he sensed an unwanted fear over her voice. But when Tanveer accused Zoya about something he was sure Zoya's fear was related about Tanveer. So he made sure that Tanveer remained away from him till the nikaah. He wanted to convey Zoya that he trusted her and cared for her. Zoya was convinced too. Before leaving he called the privet investigator and he told Asad that he would inform him soon about Tanveer.
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When he heard Qubool Hai from her sweet voice he left the breath which he was holding for quite time. He was thinking at the end of the time Zoya would deny for this as she was considering it was a Nakli' nikaah. Then when Maulavi Saab asked him to say "Qubool Hai" his gaze captured into hers and he said it confidently, binding with her forever.
He was so happy. He was trying to say to her that this Nikaah was real for him after they sat together. He held her hand she was surprised and then blushing. He wanted to kiss her red cheeks right there. When they sat for dinner, he still was holding her hand then the call from the detective came to him and he excused himself from everyone.
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The investigator confirmed all information which was given by Zoya was absolutely right. Tanveer's factory was running smoothly, there was no fire incident but she was facing loss and was in debt. Asad was furious knowing this. Tanveer lied to him. Why, he did not know? He wanted to strangle her for telling lie to him. But he could not do that in the function. But what the detective had said next it took his ground away under his feet. Tanveer was never married but she was pregnant with a child by a guy named Imraan. But Tanveer wrote in every hospital slip that her husband was some certain Asad Ahmed Khan and the address she used was his house only. Asad was livid hearing this. He was angry with himself more than anyone. He defended Tanveer till date and ignored Zoya. His best friend was cheating him behind his back. Enraged he sat again for dinner but he was no mood for taking the food.
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He decided to tell everything to Zoya before he confessed to her at that night. He left the decision on Zoya if she is forgiving him or not. He was not worthy of Zoya at all. He said Zoya a mismatch but he himself was a mismatch for Zoya. With resolve he directly went to her as she was sitting on his bed but when did he can say anything directly against Zoya. So again his sentence went to a wrong direction which irked Zoya. He was trying to explain but Zoya suddenly did the opposite thing which he was anticipating. After that he could not look back to what he was saying as he was too distracted by her. He did not himself know that he possessed primitive feelings like these inside himself for anyone till date. His resolves, confessions all gone outside the window. Tanveer's betrayal was long forgotten at that moment as he thought he had the better things to do in his wedding night.
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Zoya was pacing in her hotel room furiously. She did not eat anything for the whole day only trying to make sense that had happened in Farhaan's office. Zerin had called her when she had checked in but Zoya did not say anything about it. Otherwise she would be worried about Zoya. Zoya was feeling dizzy from sometimes. She literally jumped when heard the knock on her door.
"Who is it?" Her voice was shaking.
"I am Asad Ahmed Khan." The confident voice came to her ear. Asad did not want to break the rule of the hotel but when Zoya had not shown her face within several hours he got panicked and inquired about Zoya. He was informed that Zoya did not even order her launch. So he decided to intervene and the manager easily gave in. He knew Asad for a long time and he definitely was not a liar at all.
"What do you want from me? You have no shame; you came after me after I rejected you. I am clearly not interested in you. You cannot buy me with money Mr. I will call the police if you harass me like this" Zoya tried to be strong but the last line came like a whisper.
Asad was angry by now. He found her after 4 long years and now he was in no mood to play. If she wanted him to pamper her then he was ready to do that but not in this playing mood of stranger people. He banged the door out of roar.
"Zoya open the damn door!"
"Go away from me, you looser. You are the most horrible example of a human being. You are harassing a woman whom you barely know" Came to her choking answer. She was in the verge of crying. She could not think properly what she was saying.
"I barely know you? What are you saying? If you forgot then I can remember you that we married to each other four years ago and you left me in our Waleema, just for a mere misunderstanding although you promised me you would never leave me." He roared and that very moment he heard the loud thud on the floor along with a tint sound of broken glass which came inside from her room.
"ZOYAAA!!!" He banged the door restlessly but no one gave him the answer. He called the manager and asked him to call the doctor and also bring the spare keys of her room.
The manager unlocked the door and he ran like a maniac to Zoya and cradled her head. Her hand was bleeding as a broken glass piece pierced through the skin of her left arm. She was not responding. "Please Zoya don't leave me again now. I got you after so many years" he pleaded and pleaded.
The doctor came and looked at the surrounding of the room. Asad had placed Zoya on the bed while he saw two pills inside her fist. He looked for the broken glass which was lying on the carpet. Doctor checked her and announced it was anxiety attack. He bandaged her hand properly and then asked if she was having this attack frequently or not. He looked at Asad and Asad stared at him blankly.
Asad decided to tell doctor the truth. After listening from him doctor told that Zoya may be had an accident before, he showed Asad the stitched line on her skull which gave the evident that she had an accident before, then her medicines also suggested something like that. Then he asked Asad to go through her stuff as she might have her medical reports with her. Asad got some medical papers in her handbag itself. He handed those to the doctor and observed she was having many pills in her bag. The doctor confirmed his doubt after sometime. He went through all the reports and stared at Asad.
"Mr. Khan she was in coma for about two years after she met a brutal accident in Delhi. The report is saying she could not remember anything about how she landed from New York to Delhi that time. They checked her and suggested that she was suffering from retrograde amnesia. The New York City Hospital then confirmed it and prescribed her with these medicines"
"Retrograde amnesia" Asad knew about it as he read about it in the newspaper before. But doctor provide him the fact that she would never regain this memory. She might be the same person, her characteristics' will be the same but the certain period of time she could never remember. The percentage is almost zero as much time had passed.
"So that's why she was acting like a stranger, she did not remember her last trip to India that means she...she does not remember me, does not remember us" Asad asked.
Doctor gave an affirming nod which gave a chilly shiver ran down his spine.
"What if I tried to make her remember those and tell her about those incidents? Will it help?" He asked almost in whisper. The doctor placed his hand over his shoulder to make him easy.
"I am afraid it is not going to help Mr. Khan. You can tell her this and she will listen to it as her life event but she is not going to remember it. Again we are talking about human brain the weirdest thing in this world. So I can suggest that you can try but please don't keep any hope."
Asad did not listen to the doctor at that moment.
"She does not remember me!!" escaped the helpless whisper from his lips.
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A/N- So that's for today! Sorry for being late. Hope some things are cleared by now. Well this story is going to have mostly flashbacks. Flashback will come necessarily with the flow of the story, mostly reminisced by Asad. One more thing you will feel bored sometimes as I will take help from the real story from the show.
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Edited by swapno - 11 years ago
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