Asad and Zoya reached their room after their dinner and Zoya started feeling a bit dizzy because of the effect of the drinks they had. She turned and looked at Asad and found him normal.
Zoya wondered what was wrong with her and why was she feeling weird and dizzy. She took her night dress and went to the washroom to change.
Asad was looking at his mobile and checking his mails, when his vision started getting blurred and he felt dizzy as well.
"What's wrong with me??" Asad asked to himself and pressed his eyes and continued looking at his mobile.
Still feeling uncomfortable, he kept his mobile aside and closed his face with both his hands and sat on the bed.
Just then, hearing the door knob open, he looked up and found Zoya in her night dress. He looked at her from head to toe, and found her ravishing in her simple black night dress.
(Manmarziyan in Background)
Zoya too looked at Asad looking at her without a blink of his eye and she felt a bit shy at Asad's gesture and his intense look at her continuously.
Asad had a slight smile at the edge of his lips and he stood up from the bed and started moving towards Zoya, while Zoya too kept looking at Asad, in her intoxicated state.
"Yun toh solah saawan, aaye gaye...
Gaur Kiya Hamne..."
Asad took small steps and went near Zoya, while Zoya too took little steps and moved backwards. Asad just couldn't take the gaze away from Zoya and was too lost in her to notice anything which was around him.
"Bheega mann ka aangan is martaba...
Kya jaane kya kiya tumne..."
Zoya stopped at the mirror which was behind her while Asad too came closer to her. Unknowing to Zoya, her heart raced faster with Asad's advances.
"Allah Miyaa, what's wrong with me??" wondered Zoya in her mind, "What is happening to me?? Why is Mr. Khan's proximity disturbing me?? And why don't I feel like turning away from him and just look into his eyes...why do I feel his eyes are trying to tell me something...and even I want to listen that??"
"Ab talak se...kuch alag si...Manmarziyaan...Manmarziyaan..."
Asad rested his hand against the mirror, which was behind Zoya and moved closer.
"Zoya..."
"Yes...Mr. Khan..."
"I want to tell you something..."
Zoya kept looking into Asad's eyes as they were just an inch apart.
"What is it Mr. Khan??"
"Your eyes..." Asad said pointing at her eyes with his fingers, "Your eyes always make me weak...it just makes me forget everything..."
Zoya just looked into Asad's eyes and wondered if it was Asad speaking or someone else.
"Well...Mr. Khan..."
Just then, the file which was kept by the window fell down in the wind and Zoya looked at that.
"Mr. Khan...window is open...AC is on yeah...I will go close it..."
Zoya stammered and sneaked out from Asad and went to the window to close it. Just then Zoya felt Asad's hands on hers and he pulled the window pane and closed it with his hands on hers, while Zoya looked at Asad.
Zoya turned to go to bed, while Asad pulled her back and brought her closer to him.
"Zoya...I want to let you know something..."
Zoya stood with a gasping breath and looked at Asad.
"Yeah??" asked Zoya with an anticipating look.
Asad just looked into Zoya's eyes while tears started filling his eyes slightly.
"Zoya..." Asad said and took a long breath, "Please don't leave me and go!!!"
Zoya just looked at Asad with a surprised look and stood over there being confused.
"Please don't leave me and go...can't you stay with me itself Zoya??"
"Mr. Khan..." Zoya said with sadness in her face hearing Asad's statement.
Asad left Zoya's hold, and sat on the bed looking down with a depressed look, and Zoya just stood opposite him, unable to understand why Asad said that to her.
"You know something Zoya??" asked Asad sitting in the bed looking at the wall, "I never got anything that I wished for...and things which happened to me too didn't work out as per my wish. The best examples being you and Tanveer!!"
Zoya sat next to Asad hearing that with confusion brewing on her face.
"I never wanted to marry Tanveer. I was happy being single, just as son to my Ammi and a good brother to Najma. Why did Ammi have to bring her in my life?? Why??"
Zoya looked at Asad getting emotional thinking about it, but at the same time she was curious to know the story too.
"Ammi made a proposal to her to marry me, and she accepted it telling she would do anything that pleases my Ammi. Ammi was happy and I was happy looking at Ammi. And then the day of the marriage arrived, Ammi was all happy and delighted about it. The wedding preparations were done in a grandiose level, every single person arrived to attend it. The Qazi came, even Mr. Rashid Ahmed Khan, my Abbu had come, and even I came down for the nikaah...but..."
"But??" asked Zoya with a curiosity in her face, "But what happened Mr. Khan??"
"But the bride didn't come!! Tanveer was nowhere to be found, and all we could find was a letter from her room!!" Asad said closing his eyes recalling that moment.
"What was written in the letter Mr. Khan??" Zoya asked.
Asad narrated Tanveer's words in the letter:
"Asad,
I would like to let you know with deep regret that even after forcing myself a lot for the sake of Dilshaad Khala, I cannot just digest the fact of marrying you and leading a life together with you. You are my good friend and I don't deny that. But I feel...according to your character, you can neither be a good husband nor give your wife the necessary love, happiness and contentment, because you have seen a rough life since your childhood and expecting such things from you would be wrong of me.
So knowingly, I do not wish to ruin my life by marrying you right now, for your Ammi, and regret about it later. I shall pray to Allah that you get a girl who can accept you with this behavior of yours.
Sorry once again!!
-Tanveer"
Zoya was completely heartbroken knowing about Tanveer's act and felt angry at her too for insulting Asad.
"I became the talk of the town after this incident. Ammi was completely shattered, and so was I. Not because I loved her Zoya, but why did she accept to marry me if she found me a bad example of a husband?? And due to that step of hers, I faced humiliation from everybody. She could have rather rejected me on face, instead of this humiliation" Asad said with teary eyes and Zoya too had tears in her eyes hearing it.
"And then when I had lost all interest in life, you came into my life!! And that made a heavy impact on me!! And now even you are planning to leave me and go!!"
Zoya looked at Asad hearing it, while Asad was starting to feel drowsy.
"Tanveer left me on the day of the wedding, but it didn't matter to me much as I didn't love her; but when you leave me and go, I might not be able to take it easily because I..."
Asad dozed off before finishing his sentence and falls on Zoya's shoulder and Zoya just holds Asad and makes him lie down on the bed pulling the duvet over him, and went to her side of the bed and lied down recalling Asad's words and his unfinished sentence.
She turned to the side and looked at Asad sleeping, and was lost in thoughts.
"I always thought you are an insensible person and you don't value others feelings only much. But I never thought you would be having such a pain in your heart Mr. Khan...a pain very similar to mine!!!" Zoya thought about it and she moved towards Asad and felt a strange feeling towards him.
"Mr. Khan has already faced a very bad rejection from Tanveer with her leaving him just like that. And now when I too leave, won't it create even more humiliation for Mr. Khan?" wondered Zoya as she recalled Asad's lines:
"I never got anything that I wished for...and things which happened to me too didn't work out as per my wish. The best examples being you and Tanveer!!"
"Tanveer left me on the day of the wedding, but it didn't matter to me much as I didn't love her; but when you leave me and go, I might not be able to take it easily because I..."
Zoya looked at Asad recalling these lines and wondered, "What was Mr. Khan about to tell me?? Why would not Mr. Khan find it easy when I leave him and go??"
Zoya placed his hand on his torso and as she was about to lie down, Asad caught her hand, and Zoya looked at him.
"Don't leave me...!!!"
Hearing Asad's words, Zoya was totally disturbed and closed her eyes with a huge dilemma being born in her about Asad.
Asad and Zoya reached back to Bhopal after their Delhi trip, and Dilshaad and Najma welcomed them both.
"Welcome back Bhaabhi!!" welcomed Najma, "So tell me, had fun??"
Zoya looked at Asad hearing it, and she recalled her encounter with Asad that night, while Asad just smiled at Dilshaad.
"Yeah Najma. Had a lot of fun, and I clicked a lot of photos too. I shall show them to you!!" Zoya said while Najma gave a wide smile.
"Alright, you both go and take rest. You must be tired after the journey, yeah?? Go to your room." Dilshaad said, and Asad and Zoya went to their room.
Asad sat in the bed, disturbed in thoughts and tried to recall what happened that night after he went to the room with Zoya, but in vain.
Zoya took her towel and took a glance at Asad, and moved to the washroom, while Asad's eyes followed her till she entered the washroom.
"What happened that night??" asked Asad to himself, "Why is Zoya behaving in a strange way since that night?? I just remember me and Zoya reaching the room at night and me sitting on the bed and then...what happened?"
Asad rubbed his eyes with his hands and stayed with closed eyes and could see sense some blurred visions of him standing close to Zoya and nothing else.
"This is seriously screwed up!!!" Asad got up from the bed and took his mobile and dialed a number.
"Hey Bhai!!! What's up!! How's your trip going on??" Ayaan asked watering his plants in his room.
"I am back to Bhopal."
"Back to Bhopal?? You didn't even tell me you are returning. I would have reached at the station to pick you up yeah??"
"That's alright. Well, listen...I want to meet you up!!"
"Meet up?? What time Bhaijaan??"
"At 1, at the park we usually meet!!"
Ayaan reached the park in his bike and saw Asad standing next to the fountain and looking at few kids playing over there.
"Yo!! Bhai!! Ayaan is here!!!"
Hearing Ayaan, Asad looked at him and they shared an affectionate hug. They then sat by the fountain and Ayaan looked at Asad's disturbed face.
"What's the reason for your cloudy atmosphere Bhaijaan??" Ayaan asked.
"Stop it Ayaan, I am not in a mood for jokes!!" Asad responded with an uneasy face.
"Alright Bhaijaan!! I can see that very well. That's why I am asking you what is the issue?? Any problem with Bhaabhi??"
Asad stood up from the place and walked towards the bush and Ayaan followed him.
"It's like something is not the same!!" Asad said.
"What is not the same??"
"Something between us...something in her..."
"Between us...in her...what are you trying to tell Bhaijaan?? I don't understand dissected dialogues and you know that!!"
"I mean...we had gone to Delhi yeah..." Asad said taking breaks.
"Yeah. I know that. What's about it now??" asked Ayaan.
"Something unexpected stuff happened while we were there..."
Ayaan came in front of Asad in a jerk, hearing that.
"Something UNEXPECTED STUFF happened???" asked Ayaan stressing on the words unexpected stuff'.
"Yeah..." said Asad in a hesitated tone, "It's like there was something wrong with the cool drinks I had ordered, and I went totally blank in some time, as I had the drink a lot more than Zoya, and then after reaching room..."
"Mubarak Ho Bhaijaan!!!!" exclaimed Ayaan and hugged Asad, while Asad was giving a confused look and hugged him back without understanding anything.
Ayaan broke from the hug, "I knew it!!! I knew this would definitely happen when you both went for a trip itself!! I am so happy that finally you both entered your marital..."
Just then Asad stopped him, "Hello!! Wait wait!!! What are you speaking about??"
"What am I speaking in the sense??? Like you said some unexpected stuff happened...that means you both..." started Ayaan while Asad pressed his temples.
"Ya Allah!! I didn't mean that!!" Asad said, "I meant something else."
"Damn!!! You made me happy for a moment!!" Ayaan said with a disappointed face, "Well...what is the stuff you are talking about??"
"That's what. I went blank in sometime and I have a vague memory of telling something to Zoya and being next to her...but I am not able to recall it. And the next day till we reached here, Zoya is behaving strangely with me."
"Strange??"
"Yeah...feels like she is hiding something from me. And I am scared thinking what if it is because of that night...did I misbehave with her or something...or did I tell her my heart's feelings..." Asad stopped over there, while Ayaan caught hold of the words.
"Heart's feelings??" asked Ayaan with a smile, "What are those feelings supposed to be??"
"You know what I mean..." Asad said looking down.
"That's the issue Bhaijaan!! Only I know!! If she has known it that night too, its good yeah?? She has to know it!! And why this confusion?? Just go and ask her the reason of her strange behavior...clear cut simple!!"
"You mean...ask Zoya??" asked Asad.
"No!!" Ayaan said and pointed out to the sweeper lady over there, "To that lady. Go and ask her, "Mohtarma, why is my wife not talking to me and what did I do with her that night. Go and ask her!!"
Asad stared at Ayaan hearing it and gave a puppy look sitting down.
"So you mean to say, I should ask her directly??" Asad asked, while Ayaan too sat down with him.
"Yes!! You should!!!" said Ayaan in a commanded tone, "And now get me an ice cream!!!"
Saying so, Ayaan pulled Asad with him and they walked off from that place.
Back at Khan Mansion, Zoya was lying down in the bed in her room, and watching TV, and saw a couple in the movie going on a bike drive all over the city. Zoya's mind suddenly shifted to Asad and she recalled the bike drive she had with Asad at Delhi, their funny accident and how Asad laughed looking at her condition, and a smile came to her face thinking about it.
"How good Mr. Khan looks when he is happy, but situations in his life has snatched away all the happiness from him" thought Zoya, "But now I am there yeah?? And I will make sure he gets back all the lost happiness before leaving..."
Zoya stopped her sentence and sat up from the bed slowly, and said in a low tone, "Before leaving to New York..." and took a break, "Till we get...divorced..."
Unknowing to Zoya, a tinge of pain came to her heart thinking the days are nearing for her to leave the place. She looked at her and Asad's wedding photo on the wall and kept looking at it.
"I forgot for some time that my days are getting numbered in this country, this home and...in Mr. Khan's life..."
Zoya stood up from the bed and walked to the photo frame, "When I knew already that I would be in this place for some time only, and deciding mutually with Mr. Khan to call off this marriage, why am I feeling bad thinking about it now??"
Just then she recalled Asad's sentences that night, and his request to her:
"Please don't leave me and go...can't you stay with me itself Zoya??"
Zoya's thoughts got disrupted with a reminder beep in her phone and she went to remove it from the charger and looked at the phone:
"Zahir's Proposal Anniversary"
Zoya clenched her phone reading it, and deleted that reminder at once and threw the phone on the bed and sat down, panting with anger.
"How much ever I try to forget you, some or the other stupid things remind me of you!!!"
Back at Asad's friend and manager, Zahir's residence, he was sitting by the pool side with a sad and distraught face, looking at his mobile.
"I know what I did with you was really bad and I will never get any forgiveness for it" says Zahir looking at a photo in his mobile and continued, "But every person can be given a second chance if he repents for his mistakes yeah? Won't you too apologize me and accept me in your life again Zoya????"
Zahir looked at his photo with Zoya in his mobile with a guilt ridden face.
"I was a situational victim and I had to ditch you, but you just broke all contacts with me. But after some things happened, knowing that you came to India, I too came here and thanks to Asad, I got a good job too" said Zahir looking at her photo and caressing it, "But I have no idea where you are and I keep enquiring all your friends about your whereabouts."
Zahir closed his eyes, letting the tears flow from his eyes, "And now if I see you again, I swear I am not going to leave you...because I still love you Zoya!!!"
Precap:
Zoya is with Asad at the terrace of their home.
"Are you serious?? Dance party??" asks Asad with an unbelievable look.
"Yes Mr. Khan!!! Trust me it's going to be fun...and I will show you what a fun place is this world to live in!!! I will show you the actual world!!! Ready for it??"
Asad extends his hand to Zoya and he smiles at her.
Meanwhile, Ayaan and Humeira, while in a shopping complex, spot Tanveer over there.
"Tanveer??" exclaims Ayaan.
"That too in Bhopal...again??" asked Humeira and they exchanged shocking glances at each other.
"Party??" asks Zahir to Ayaan on phone, "Yes Zahir, it's like my senior is getting married and he is throwing a party at his resort. There is going to be games, dance and so much fun!! And even Bhaijaan and Bhaabhi would be coming for it, you didn't meet my Bhaabhi too yet yeah?? So come for it, it will be a blast!!"
"Alright!! Count me in!!" Zahir said smiling.
So, how was this fusion update friends?? 😃 Well, this update had love, emotions, fun and confusions too I guess. And how was AsYa's romantic Manmarziyaan sequence at the starting?? 😳 And yeah...precap is having a lot of story to tell yeah?? 😉 So, Zoya has started to get a dilemma about Asad, and now if Zoya and Zahir meet at the party, is it going to make a difference to Zoya?? And why is Tanveer back to Bhopal?? To know all these answers, stay tuned and looking forward to your likes and comments!! 😊 New readers, please buddy me for pms!! 😊
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