Haider and Humaira series ~another chance # last ep 17a @p16 [26/5] - Page 10

Surprises never cease to surprise me...it's their unpredictability... their charm... that adds a special flavor to the magic of moments...dont they?

It was the unpredictability of that moment of togetherness that had left an undeniable impact on them. They were the same people but somehow something had changed within them, there was a spark of liveliness that was radiant from their faces. Haider turned the keys in and looking at humaira said that "its time to go home". Humaira looking into haider's eyes smiled and nodded head in affirmation, then looking outside the window she closed her eyes and a sudden smile broke on her lips at the recollection of that moment. Haider saw her smiling and shaking his head smilingly drove the car away.

The farewell party had gone till late and it was already dark as they drove towards home. Haider had taken the long route to home that day. She had told her parents that she would be back by 9 but since she had left early and it was still 8:15 she didn't mind. It had been a long time since she had taken that route to home. The place had changed, many new houses had come up and the place had become lively with lights. There were lights on both sides of the road that lighted the way, but as they drove in a lane, the lights were no more to be seen, haider put on the lights of the car and putting on the FM hummingly drove away to humaira's amusement.

After a few miles , haider stopped the car and moving out of it went to humaira's side and quite chivalrously opened the door and giving her his hand asked her to come away. Humaira was surprised. What was he upto? She looked questioningly at haider and haider smilingly asked her to trust him. Humaira reluctantly held haider's hand and slowly moved out of the car. Humaira looked at him in surprise and asked him that wasn't he supposed to "take her home"... but...haider promptly silences her by putting a finger on her lips and slightly turning her around points to a brightly decorated house a few paces away saying that "I kept my word".

Humaira looks at him in disbelief...did he...was he...could it be...she open mouthedly looked at him as if to affirm that what she was thinking was right. Haider smiled and nodded his head in affirmation. Humaira couldn't believe it, she covered her mouth with both her hand in astonishment and was stunned beyond words. Haider chuckles and holding on to her hand slowly guides her to the house.

Was it a dream, could it be true??

The house was like a living replica of her dream house... the house she had always dreamt of, with garden filled with the fragrance of roses. Haider gave her the keys to the house and leaning on the wall persuaded her to proceed .

The moment she opened the door a shower of rose petals welcomed her. ... looking up she saw two smiling faces...could it be??...were they??...on close inspection she chuckled in excitement...indeed they were... nuzat and nikhat bajji ...showering her with roses...

Humaira with wide opened eyes looked at them in disbelief ...was it a dream ?...she quickly turned towards haider who moving close to her put his hand on her shoulder and smilingly nodded in the affirmitive...humaira slowly turned around to find nuzat and nikhat baji stand infront of her. Both were smiling at them and nuzat going to haider's side spoke aloud as to how did she like haider's surprise. Humaira didn't know how to react, nikhat kindly held her hand and asked her if she liked the surprise. Humaira speechlessly looked towards haider who questioningly raised his eyebrows, humaira with moist eyes and a broad smile looked at him...she had yet to decipher what was going around her , it was all so unpredictably quick and unexpected.

Nikhat baji for her part had arrived a month ago and had keenly observed the duo, she had always been on humaira's side who was for her both a sister and a friend, she understood humaira more than herself and had been the one to make ayaan realize humaira's feelings towards him. When she heard that ayaan had left she knew what humaira would have grown through, and wanted to be by her side ; but due to farhan and haseena bi's insistence she had to leave the country to settle abroad. She however kept in touch through calls andused to chat with humaira and nuzat every once in a while and it was through nuzat that she came to know all about haider. At first, It was hard for her to accept anyone besides ayaan as humaira's partner but after observing them in person she eventually realized that they were perhaps better off with one another. If humaira had found her happiness with him, it was enough for her, for she too had a right to be happy. Once she had realized that they both loved each other but weren't ready to admit, she took upon her the role of a cupid. She tried to make humaira realize her love and confess to haider, but humaira wasn't sure about haider's feelings for her and by confessing didn't want to loose on his friendship too. On the other hand nikhat saw that haider had feelings for her but wanted to know first about humaira's point of view. So in order to break the ice, nikhat devised a plan. One day when jameel, the servant was taking haider's file from the study to his room she distracted him by sending him off to fetch clothes from the roof. Then taking the files to haider's room she swiftly hid humaira's personal diary in between the files. Haider planned to finish off the files that night but the glittering cover of the diary caught his attention, at first he thought about returning the diary to humaira as he had often seen her scribble in it but a half visible photograph caught his attention, as he opened the page he realized it was his pic and the entry was dated as 29^th November 2013, the very date on which he arrived in siddiqui mansion. While humaira spent the night restlessly looking for the diary in her room, haider spent the night reading the pages of her diary.

However it was on the next day when he saw nikhat stealthily taking away the diary and placing it beneath humaira's pillow that he realized that she was the one behind all this. As nikhat saw him questioningly stare at her, she came out clean as to why she did what she did. Haider thanked her and later he, nikhat and nuzat sat together and helped haider plan his surprise.

Allah!!...baaji...aap bhi!!!😲 ...with these words humaira burst out laughing 😆😆😆to the amusement of everyone

for their part...they all had expected her to be grumpy, annoyed or angry (after hearing their story) but the laughter was undoubtedly a welcome relief. 😃

Finally the charm of misfortune seemed to have been broken...

Nuzat and nikhat hugged humaira 🤗and then wiping their tears slowly escorted her to haider's side, who lovingly held out his hand to her 😳. Humaira looked towards nikhat baji who smilingly held her hand and placed it over haider's hand. Haider placed his other hand over the joined hands and addressing nikhat and nuzat promised them that he would take care of her and never belie their trust👏. Nuzat meanwhile saw humaira intently looking at their joined hands, as if to reaffirm to herself that it was not a dream, nuzat deliberately coughed and as humaira looked towards her , her raised eyebrows made poor humaira feel like a thief caught in the act of stealing, nuzat smiled back and taking nikhat with her said aloud that it was time for the next surprise😉.

"Another surprise!!"..😃.with these words humaira looked at haider who was caught in the act of giving a stern look to nuzat who was being simultaneously nudged by nikhat for not being able to keep a secret. Nevertheless, taking cue from nikhat, he gently made her walk towards a closed door and in his usual style addressing her as "hunera ji" asked her that since nuzat had so efficiently killed the suspense so to atleast feign being surprised for their sake😳. Humaira smiled at him 😊at looking at nuzat said that she needn't worry as by pre empting her about the surprise she had increased her curiosity , nuzat smiled and making a face 🤪at nikhat and haider hugged 🤗humaira and said that "see you people were being so mean but humaira baji still likes me". Haider teasingly held her by the ear and nikhat shouted "well done that serves her right", nuzat quickly hid behind humaira who rescued her from the duo and they all started laughing.😆

With hands in hand haider and humaira walked inside the room which was brightly light by candles, nikhat and nuzat came to their sides and directed them to a table for two🥳. Humaira looked awestruck, it was all so filmy with petals strewn all over the floor, candles light everywhere, it all seemed like a dream. Nikhat and nuzat cleverly excused themselves on the pretext of getting some water and left the two alone. With only haider by his side humaira turned towards haider who by this time had held out his arm towards humaira, humaira giggled and putting on a brave face quite courteously put her hand in his arm and walked with him over to the table. Haider kept talking to her but all she could hear was her throbing heart beat, it was so like a dream, few moments ago she wasn't even sure if he was interested in her and now within a moment her life had changed.❤️

Haider slowly slid a packet towards her, humaira suddenly became conscious and questioningly looked at him but he just kept on insisting her to open it. Humaira nervously opened the packet, it contained a small box of her favourite chocolates along with a enveloped card. The sight of the chocolates made her heart melt away and she gave a big smile to haider😃. He on his part smilingly bent towards her and unwrapping a chocolate offered her a bit and then quickly popped it into his mouth while humaira open mouthedly looked on😛. Humaira hit him on his arm while haider laughingly apologized and slid another piece of chocolate into her mouth before she could complain. Humaira was caught off guard and both laughed uncontrollably..😆😆😆.

Amidst the laughter Haider slowly caught her hand and looking into her eyes said that:

" I want to be the reason of your smiles for the rest of our lives".

Humaira was really touched. 😳 She could see that he really meant it, it was a promise that she too like every girl dreamt and desired to be fulfilled. To be loved and cared for by the one you loved. ❤️

She suddenly rose and turned away to hide her tears from him. 😭Haider knew exactly what she was going through, he quickly rose and went close to her, then turning her towards him in a serious tone said that :

"Allah!!"

"what is with you girls??"

"you cry when you are sad... which is understandable"

" but"

" on happy occasions too????" 😆

Humaira open mouthedly looked at him 😲 and slightly pushed him away for being so mean 😵 but Haider quickly touched his ears and said that he was just kidding 😉 and without another word quickly held drew her to his side and held her in a long caressing embrace 🤗

After pacifying Humaira, Haider reminded her of the unopened card and insisted her to open and read the card. Humaira agreed and slowly opening the card began reading it when after a while tears filled her eyes, 😭 she looked at Haider who just blinked his eyes in agreement.

placing a hand over her mouth and slowly sank into her chair.

Haider sitting down on one knee and sweetly held on to her hand and said that:

" Humaira siddiqui kya apko Haider sheikh ke saath nikaah qubool hai?"

Humaira lovingly looked into his eyes and sliding the card aside [which was actually a nikah nama with her and Haider's name written in place of the bride and bridegroom] went down on her knees and embracing Haider spoke aloud:

"qubool hai...qubool hai...qubool hai" 🥳🥳🥳

"Humain bhi"

was the loud mixed reply that she got from the nearby window , turning around she saw to her astonishment not only Nikhat and nuzat but farhan jeeju, badi bi and gaffur sahab too 🥳

Humaira blushingly 😳hid herself behind haider, half burying her face in his shirt.

Everyone barged inside as haider desperately tried coaxing humaira to stand up and come in front. 😆

Aaaw 😳...baaji!!!... so cute 😳 replied nuzat , as everyone broke out laughing amongst the giggles of the khan sisters

Humaira grew conscious and quickly rose behind haider.

seeing her all fluttered he on his part slowly slid his hand in humaira's hand and softly drew her to his side.

The sweat in her hand was enough to make him realize that she was nervous. Seeing her so nervous and worried he quickly put his other hand over her shivering hands and looking down at her face said that:

Hunaira ji...its alright...apko mujhpe bharosa hai na?? ❤️

Humaira sheepishly looked towards him while he blinked his eyes as if to affirm to her that he was there for her.

She calmly tied to steady herself a bit and for the first time looked at the smiling faces that greeted and adorably looked at the couple.

Gaffur sahab smiled looking at his little girl, the apple of his eye and held out his arms towards humaira, haider sensing her nervousness held on to her hand and made her walk upto her father, who with teary eyes hugged her.

Humaira calling him "abbu" clenched tight to her abbu while he caringly stroked her hair and calming her down said that he was happy for her.

while Haider adoringly stood looked at them gaffur sahab holding humaira in his left arm opened his left arm towards haider. Haider smilingly 😃walked upto them as humaira turned around to see himstanding infront of her . The smile on her lips put him at ease and he winked at her 😉...humaira smilingly looked back at him 😊

Gaffur sahab then put his hand on haider's shoulder and announced that he was happy that she had found such a life partner who had brought back her old humaira to life, 👏 and had made this day special for all of them...🥳

suddenly a loud voice broke his speech mid way

"Accha ji"!! 😲

Spoke aloud a girl in blue jeans and white shirt,

"Haider mian!

"Ye badya hai mehnat kare hum aur sari tareef akele aap le jaye" 😎

Everyone open mouthedly looked at the door to see the girl standing grumpily besides it with a tablet and a pizza in each hand respectively. Humaira questioningly turned toward Haider who without a moments hesitation went and simply hugged that girl. 🤗

The girl soon noticed the hurted look of humaira 🥺 and questioning look on the faces of the others and quickly freed herself from his embrace and with a slight cough hinted haider to look in there direction.

The fear of losing the one you love is a fear that always overrides all other fears...especially if one has been through that phase ...

Haider slowly turned around to see all the questioning eyes directed towards the new girl. Sensing the tension around he quickly addressed humaira (who with tear filled eyes looked at him):

Guessing the reason behind her moist eyes he quickly added:

Hunera ji'

'Aesa kuch bhi nhi hai ...yeh to...yeh meri'

The girl in jeans cut him short and intervened:

Allah mian!'... what is wrong with you'

Let ME handle this,' saying so the girl placed her hand on haider's shoulder and shoving him aside walked straight upto humaira

humaira ...tum to mujhe jaanti ho na', the girl spoke with such familiarity as if she had known humaira since ages

Humaira with a puzzled expression looked towards her, she had never seen this girl and here she was claiming that she knew her, Who was this girl??

Gafoor sahab concernedly went to humaira's side and firmly holding her in his left arm inquired if she really knew this girl

Nahi abu'... humaira spoke in a broken voice, main...main inhe nahi jaanti'

Gafoor sahab sternly looked towards that girl seeking an explanation

The girl in turn turned towards haider and pulling up the sleeves of her shirt ordered haider to clear the air.

Haider smiled at her uneasiness and asking everyone to relax went straight upto humaira and told her:

Hunera ji...aap isse jaanti toh hai'

Humaira shockedly looked at haider

what??...why was he lying??... When on earth had she met THIS girl??

nahi haider ji'

Haider laughed and putting a hand on her shoulder told her that:

Hunera ji... yehi zoya hai,' haider spoke in quite a matter of fact manner

Zoya??'... humaira didn't understand and gave him a blank look

haider looked confused but soon after recollecting something spoke aloud:

ooh...zoya...mera matlab...Chutki...u remember CHUTKI...haider stressed the word...my cousin...meri khala ki beti...you remember !!'

C"h"u"t---k---i!!...

...Oooh.. yesss...chhhutkiii...your chutkiii...'[Haider and zoya breathed a sigh of relief]

Humaira recalled everything...how he often used to narrate their childhood tales of mischief... their friendship with tamatar and asad, the charming neighbor and zoya's love interest back home, she had indeed talked to her once before for two straight hours [for chutki was quite a talker] ... besides haider always referred to her as chutki so the name zoya hadn't sound a bell at first...

Humaira ashamedly bit her lip at realizing her mistake and touching both her ears with her fingers apologized to zoya and haider. The duo chuckled and zoya went ahead and warmly hugged humaira.

Nikhat and nuzat hugged zoya too while Gafoor sahab and badi bi blessed her on being formally introduced by haider .

haider ,' a women called out his name

Ammi', Haider smiled and rushed to hug his mother.

Dilshad' ...gafoor sahab whole-heartedly smiled on seeing her:

aap sahi moke pe aayi hai'

Dilshad hugged humaira and haider as the others made themselves comfortable in the hall. Gafoor sahab then narrated how they seemed destined to be together, recalling how dilshad had asked for humaira's hand a year ago but he had refused then as humaira had undergone a break up and he didn't think that she was in a position to enter a new relation.

Dekhlije gafoor sahab' dilshad spoke while looking towards haider and humaira who stood holding hands in hand near a pillar

Kismet main bachu ka milna hi likha tha, tab nahi to ab sahi...'

Everyone smiled as Gafoor sahab pleasedly nodded his head in agreement:

Ji...shayad allah ki yehi marzi thi'...

Haan aur humare haider mian ki bhi', chuckled zoya

revealing for the first time that haider was indeed quite keen on marrying humaira from the very beginning . It was the deal that luckily brought him in the siddiqui household where after slowly realizing that more than what was at first a case of attraction he was now indeed falling in love with the person rather than her appearence. she revealed how he had made every effort to prolong his stay, making tireless efforts to win all the members to his side, making humaira realize his love for her, convincing his mother to finalize the marriage in a week's time , made all arrangements of marriage and even made cards to the effect with only humaira's consent left to be sought.

Everyone including humaira [with wide opened eyes] looked at haider in utter disbelief

haider just smiled and then leaning towards her spoke in a low voice:

aaj aap mere saath hai ...so I feel all the effort was worth it

humaira blushed and closed her eyes in disbelief while Nikhat, zoya and nuzat who were keenly evesdropping on the duo teasingly spoke in sync:

aa...haan...kya baat hai!!'

As the night proceeded so did the rush inside the siddiqui house. It was all-in-all a mad party, where on one hand badi bi shared with dilshad and her close relatives some rib tickling stories related to marriage, while zoya on the other hand left everyone in splits with her impromptu shayri that literally made people roll on the floor.

Gafoor sahab, farhan and Rashid were busy greeting the small assembly of close relatives and guests that had been called on such a short notice. Haider was busy making last minute calls and arrangements for some important guests that were coming from dubai while humaira was being surrounded and bugged by her curious friends and relatives who tried making her reveal the details. Zoya and Nikhat come to her rescue and on the pretext of dressing her up whizzed her past the anxious crowd . humaira hugged and thanked them for the well timed rescue and all of them stealthily run towards humaira's room and locking the door burst out in laughter.

While Razia was busy dictating orders to the servants to make sure everything was perfect on her daughter's wedding her close buddy haseena bi and her sister chand were as usual busy with the gossip gang of ladies discussing a range of possible [scandalous ]reasons as to why this marriage was taking place on such a short notice, for they belonged to that rare but prominent category of loudmouth women who couldn't miss a single chance to spread animosity and create drama at the drop of a hat. Staying true to their nature they did indeed try to rake up an issue by provoking shireen by preventing her from being a part of the function by reminding her of ayaan.

To be fair, It was indeed, hard for shireen at first to accept this reality, hurt by haseen bi's heartless comments she just ran away and closed herself in her room, but Rashid who was by far a reasoned person tried to made her understand. Hearing the noise outside Nuzat and Nikhat asked zoya to stay with humaira as they themselves went and tried to make shireen see things from an unbiased perspective, they knew their mother well, she was a very sweet lady who loved ayaan dearly . They tried to make her realize that since ayaan and humaira were grown ups and humaira whom she loved like her own child had now taken a decision which she ought to respect. Haider on hearing about the matter went to humaira's room and together with humaira and zoya went and tried calming her down.

On seeing humaira enter hand in hand with haider shireen being her usual nave unthinking self remorsed as to how she had always wanted to see humaira as her daughter- in- law. Humaira was hurt but haider sweetly taking humaira by the hand sat near shireen and reminded her that hadn't she always said that he was like ayaan for her, so her wish will still be fulfilled if only she considered him to be worthy of being her son. Shireen was touched by their gesture and finding it as an appropriate time Nuzat and Nikhat also went to shireen's side and asked her to happily give them (haider and humaira) their blessings like the rest of them so that they could start a new journey with the blessings of all.

Shireen with moistened eyes and heartfelt love looks at humaira with flashbacks of humaira's childhood when she adoringly used to run around the house calling her phuffi in an innocent manner, recollection of all those sweet moments softened her heart as she now looked at a grown up humaira who with hopeful eyes was looking at her phuffi . shireen looked towards Rashid who nodding his head asked her to do the needful . Shireen made haider and humaira rise and kissing humaira on her forehead puts her hand on haider's head. Looking at the duo with affection she hug them as the others including dilshad got emotional.

Shireen then asking them to wait proceeded to her almirah and taking out a green bridal dress handed it over to humaira. She with hopeful eyes looks towards dilshad and tells her that she had always wanted to see humaira in this bridal attire and if she would allow she would want to see her son's(addressing haider) wife wear it. dilshad is touched but seems a bit disturbed as she alongwith zoya had brought a bridal dress for humaira too. Seeing her all so ruffled humaira concernedly looks towards haider, haider asks her to trust him and going by shireen's side tells her that humaira would wear her dress, dilshad seems hurt but humaira quickly going to dilshad's side says and urs too.

As everyone seems confused, haider proceeds to explains that since they were planning to hold only two functions mehandi and the actual nikah ceremony so humaira would wear shireen ammi's dress on the meandi to which humaira quickly adds and dilshad's ammi's dress on the nikah. Everyone seems pleased as both shireen and dilshad seem satisfied.

While shireen and dilshad hug and make themselves ready for the function zoya and nuzat make sure that haseena bi and chand are taught a lesson and annoyed to the core. As a lesson for trying to ruin the celebrations zoya and nuzat serve extra spicy food to the duo till tears fill their eyes. As hassena bi approaches farhan to complaint Nikhat cleverly takes him away while zoya and nuzat serve them salt loaded sweets through the waiters to annoy them further. On being caught red-handed by razia, chand and haseena bi, farhan and gafoor sahab come to their rescue and save them from the deadly trio hence preventing another explosion. While farhan reprimands zoya and nuzat for their callous attitude, gafoor sahab jockingly advices them to try it on razia the next time and try not being caught.

With dilshad, shireen and zoya bringing in the mehandi from the bridegroom's side, zoya insisted on applying the mehandi on humaira's hand since she had surfed the coolest design on the net. when a voice speaks aloud :

"be careful!! you can never trust miss farooqui on this count as she considers herself to be the jack of all trades"

Zoya angrily turned around to find a handsome guy leaning besides haider cracking up at his own joke

Mr. khaaan???...aaap...yahaaan?? Zoya chuckled and clapped her hands in excitement while humaira, dilshad and the other ladies with raised eyebrows and open mouth looked at her

Suddenly a girl almost of humaira's age stood infront of zoya

Tamaaatar?? Saying so zoya hugged the girl. Zoya couldn't believe her eyes and before she could inquire anything haider clarified that since asad and tamatar was their closest buddies so he had made sure that they were present at his wedding.

Seeing her all blushed up haider quickly went to asad and pointing to zoya asked him if he would still like to marry her knowing very well her outbursts of maddness. Zoya rebuked haider while asad blushed and gave haider a stern look as dilshad laughed at his uneasiness saying aloud that mayebe its time for her to bring one bride (humaira) and send the other (zoya) out from her house. Then addressing asad she asked him if he doesn't feel the same away?

While humaira looking at the blushed up zoya says that atleast "our zoya baji is ready" , tamatar quickly adds "so is our asad bhaijaan". Asad and zoya sternly look at tamatar and humaira respectively while haider along with the rest sweetly tease them for blushing so much. Haider then proceeds to formally introduces tamatar and asad to humaira amidst all the excitement and laughter.

While haider and asad seem busy trying to check out humaira and zoya every now and then, Nikhat, nuzat and najma make sure that their efforts were thwarted. It was almost midnight and haider, dilshad, zoya, asad and najma took leave humaira and rest of the members so as to arrive as part of the bharaat that was supposed to leave from haider's new house, the place where the next day humaira was to enter as Mrs Humaira Haider Sheikh.

After endless talk with the girls who had dozed off in humaira's bed, humaira ventured out of her room to look at the house for one last time, how many memories where associated with this house, the house which was her world, her parents, uncle, aunt and cousins her life, so many years of love, affection, so many memories to cherish. As humaira walked past each room reminiscing about old memories, she noticed the door to ayaan's room was open. It had been raining all night and looking at the open window in his room, humaira understood that it was perhaps on account of the strong wind blowing outside that the window and the door were ajar. Humaira looked inside, it had been a long time since she had come into this side of the house, she avoided the room for it reminded her of ayaan, so much had changed in this time, new people had brought new memories that although hadn't erased old memories but had made a special place for their selves. It was covered all around in darkness except the path that led to the window, it too was visible only due to the moonlight that peeped inside through the window. Steeling herself she set inside the room. The darkness was a welcome relief for the sight of the familiar could cause her more pain. She extended her hand to close the window , when all of a sudden a hand caught her wrist in the action. Terrified out of wits humaira tried screaming but a hand closed her mouth and pushed her inside the room. With terror written all over her face, humaira for the first time closely looked at the man...

Humaira woke up with a heavy heart as the lights from the window fell on her face. Her red eyes and moist pillow made her felt all drained out. Placing her right hand between the sun's rays and her face, she looked around her bed to find nuzat sleeping besides her. She gently stroked nuzat's hair and placing her feet down the bed saw Nikhat baji lying on the sofa with a light shawl wrapped around her. suddenly a flash from last night came to her and her heart sank. Pacing toward the window with a heavy heart she looked across the hall. She recalled how she had entered the closed room last night and how within second her life had changed. As tears rolled down her face, she fumbled in her drawer to find her phone. As she looked in it she saw 20 missed calls from haider, the phone being held on silent mode. Seeing the wallpaper on the phone (of haider and herself) made her breakdown.

Nikhat baji woke amidst the sighs and cries of humaira, pushing the shawl off her body and quickly rushing towards humaira, to engulf in her embrace.

Its going to be fine humaira. Trust me...

Stop crying...i m here for you...

Nuzat woke up to see her sisters in a disheveled condition, placing her spectacles on she rushed to humaira's aid.

Baji please don't cry. Please baji

Humaira looked at her and simply showed her bare fingers to her. Remembering how Ayaan had roughly pulled off her engagement ring (one given by haider) the last night and how he had said that if there was going to be any marriage in the house. It would be his and humaira's. He had in a state of agitation blamed humaira for not waiting for him. He said that since he had come back she needn't go ahead with the marriage, that he would make the elders understand that she was HIS. All the while, when he had kept talking to her she held onto her ring. Seeing her totally distracted, he had held her hand, the ring seemed to his a reminder that humaira was not his, so without a thought, to rid humaira of haider he violently removed the ring as humaira tried to protest in vain. He held her face, looking into her eyes reminded her how she had loved him like forever. As Ayaan pleaded his case before her, she felt the ground beneath her giving way and she collapsed, but just in time for Ayaan to hold her in place... (to be continued)