New Asya SS:Crossing time, chap 14 (LAST); 08-11-15 - Page 60

Chap 13

-let's proceed to the end of this chapter, he said pulling the trigger

-May I ask a question before you proceed? Asad interrupted him and Aaron huffed annoyed, rolling his eyes. He glared at him impatiently.

-Shoot, he said curtly

-after you are going to kill her, are you going to kill me? Aaron frowned, he didn't think that further. Asad continued , well, I will be eyewitness of your crime, so I was wondering if it was my last day or will I be able to live many years again, I need to know to plan for my future, you know. Asad finished and continued to eat like what he said was the random thing to talk about.

-it was not about you, it's just about her, I won't kill you. I just want to take revenge and that's it.

-So it will just stop after she's going to die, you don't have any other plan after?

-A plan? Aaron and Zoya was stunned by his question, Are you for real, man? I am going to kill her and you are asking me about my plan after? I didn't think further and I...You know what just shut up, you are annoying me. He turned his attention to her. Zoya tried to control her smile, she knows Leo better than anyone and when he was in this mode, he can be really really annoying. He always knew how to light a heavy atmosphere.

-You should think about, because once you will pull the trigger, you will have to react quickly, the gun shoot will alert everyone and you will be trapped. Did you think about your evasion?

-No, Aaron put his gun down and looked at him, he couldn't help but to think about his question, indeed, he wanted just to take revenge and after, he had no idea.

-What do you mean no? You didn't think about your plan B, C and D. What kind of criminal are you?

-HEYY, I am not a criminal, ok? He pulled the trigger to his direction and Zoya sucked her breath.

-Hey man, relax, calm down, Asad lifted his hands to reassure him.

-You know what, Aaron massaged his forehead disturbed, I know what you are doing, you are gaining time to stop me from killing her, but you won't succeed because I-will-kill-her and I will escape after that or I will kill myself.

-this is a good plan, but if I was you, I will just run away instead of killing myself. Please go ahead. Asad sat confortable and Zoya and Aaron eyes grew up widely, they faced each other agape by this stranger, who took the situation lightly.

-What I was about to do? Aaron muttered

-you were about to pull the trigger, Asad reminded him and he was stunned again by him. Zoya rolled her eyes, was it really useful to remind him? She threw him a death glare.

-May I ask you a question? Asad nodded, why don't you try to stop me from killing her?

-Well you have the gun and I am with the one who had the gun. Asad simply replied and Aaron once again stayed shock by his reply. This man and his self-control amazed him.

-It's logical, Aaron softly said, I had the gun, he looked at the metal that he was holding a bit lost. Reluctantly, he pointed to Zoya and took a deeep breath. When he came earlier, he was determined but why now, he felt it hard to hold and to pull the trigger on her. He looked into her eyes and she didn't show fears or panic, she only showed kindness to him.

-May I ask you a question before you started? Asad interrupted him, and for the first time, Aaron felt relieved to be stopped. You didn't tell me why do you want to kill her?

Aaron suddenly started to shake and his anger rise like volcano inside of him, all his doubts flew away with his question.

-because she killed my daughter coldly, she took my daughter's life, she was so young and ...He sobbed, she will pay for this. She will pay for taking my life away

-but you are still breathing

-what was the need to breath when you lost the person that you love the most? TELL ME, WHAT WAS THE NEED, he shared his pain with Asad and his eyes dressed with tears, telling him all those emotions tiring his heart and making him suffocated for the loss of his daughter unfairly. Asad and Zoya eyes locked together, they knew better the feeling of seperation, the distance that life can put between people, diving into a long and lonely road of misery. Asad let out a mock giggle, he can't blame a man who searched for a reason for his loss, a man who lost a part of himself, forever. He didn't know his story but now, he had to deal with him differently, a man who has nothing to lose, can be more dangerous than anyone else. A minute of anger can give you a life of regrets, Asad knew about too much.

-but you are still breathing and your life is still here, Asad said again

-I am but how I wished it was me who stopped to breath instead of her, she was too young, too young, she will never fall in love, she will never be a mother, and she will never live her life. Aaron looked in pain at Zoya and she just held his gaze, giving a supportive look. She...She broke all those beautiful memories, she trusted you, SHE TRUSTED YOU, BUT YOU FAILED, YOU FAILED AND YOU JUST LIE, YOU JUST LIE AND SHE JUST HAVE TO DIE, he approached her dangerously, pointing his gun carelessly.

-did you ask yourself if she's going to be missed by someone? Asad tried to calm him, and to force him to think and Aaron froze, do you know if she had a mother, father, a child, or even a husband? Did you ask yourself about her? About her life? About her dreams as woman, as mother? Asad stepped slowly to be close enough if he had to interfer.

-No, he breathed

-the moment you will kill her, you will kill all those persons who loves her, you will just take a last breath with your bullet, but you will put in agony all those persons that are closed to her, and you know better what it feels to lose someone you love, right? Asad stood now between him and Zoya.

-I..., Aaron shook his head frantically, he didn't see this side of his revenge.

-you are just trying to find a reason, a logic reason for losing the one that you love, searching a culprit, but no one is responsible, no one, not you, not her, not even your daughter. It was just her time and it was written this way. Asad spoke soflty to him, using a slow and soothing voice. He didn't need to brusq him or to stop him, Aaron should know by himself what to do, he just wanted him to share his pain out loud and to make him talk. Aaron needs to extort his pain and to find peace in someway.

-I should have protect her, I should have saved her, I am her father, I should have...Aaron blame himself, he felt so guilty. Asad turned to face Zoya, looking deeply into her eyes.

-It was not in your hands and you know it. I know that you always promise yourself to protect her, to love her and to be here for her, but you couldn't stop destiny from taking her away, you couldn't do anything to change your faith, you felt so guilty for not being here to save her, but it wasn't your fault, you didn't fail, you were just helpless. You might have made promises for a future that never come. You didn't wish to lose her or to leave her side, but destiny got another plan for both of you. You can delay some episosde but thing happened out of your hands. Zoya's tears flew abundantly now, those words were not only for Aaron, but for her too. Asad turned his front and faced Aaron this time.

-You should not blame yourself from something written for both of you. You can't blame yourself or blame her for something you didn't know it was coming, stop feeling guilty, you were helpless as she was. She did nothing to deserve and you did nothing to deserve to go through but it just happen. I know what it feels to lose someone you love, loosing someone you love it's hard, but killing someone is harder, because yes, if you killed her, you will kill a part of you, a part of your humanity, a part that your daughter loved about you, you will kill her strength, her admiration toward you. Once you will pull the trigger, all the good memories will be tarnished with her fears, her blood, you will lose all the image of daughter's smile and you will always see her sad, asking you why you did this. Why did you chose death for Zoya when she knew about it better? Your guilt will be more and more and you will not be able to look into your daughter's eyes, you will try to find excuses that you know, will not convince your either. Once you will realize that you take a human life, you will not be anymore you. You will try to lie to yourself, you will try to build walls around you, convincing you that it was the good thing to do and it was the only road to take but inside, you know that it's not the truth. You will roam in this life, and realize that not your anger, not your sadness, nor your revenge or nor your guilt and not even her love or her memories will help you to survive, you will live your life like dead body wanting to kiss death than your daily agony, asking for a minute with her to be able to tell her about your heart, you will be angry on her, so angry, you will want to tell her why she didn't stop from going away? Why she didn't look back? Was it better to be away from me? Why you didn't take me with you? Why did you reject me when I was only having love for you? He chuckled sadly, the answer was simple, she was like you, she didn't know and she was too young to realize what it was happening to her.

Zoya cried and couldn't help but to feel those words for her too, Asad described both of their agony during all this years of separation, there was no answer, it just happened this way, changing both of them forever. But destiny gave them another chance today, like Aaron, they are still breathing and they can have another life, if they decided to look straight and not in the past again. The reasons for some events are sometimes hard to understand and are below the knowledge of human's mind and it takes time to digest some decisions already written in the sky. A peace always came after any war.

-but why her? She was so kind, so devoted, she was so young, she had all her life in front of her, Aaron asked in pain, he can't accept yet and he needs answers.

-some loss don't have meaning, as human we are just facing damages and tried to live with. We can live with everything, we live with love, with pain, with loneliness, with loss, human can live and face anything. Time is our best companion. I don't know why you lost your daughter and I don't know why we have to get separate from the person that we love, and I don't know why she was supposed to sleep forever today, but all I can see, it's that you are still breathing and you have your life still. It must be a meaning for this, all those things that she couldn't do, you can do it for her, you can have another life, another children, and you should not feeling guilty for living another life without her. She is a memory print in your heart forever. Where she was, she was in peace, she didn't suffer and she just closed her eyes today, but yours are still open so don't shut them so soon until you are still walking on this earth. Be her eyes. Don't emprison yourself in pain you didn't ask for it, don't stop to live because she left you.

-I can't do this, I can't live without her, Aaron choked.

-I don't ask you to forget her, I am just asking to live, ask yourself if you can see her for a minute.what she would have told you?

-I would have hold her and she ...she would have...told me not to be...worry for her...She would have ask me to...stop to cry...She...Aaron let out his tears and he started to shake with his sobs. Asad held him in his arms and let him cry, he needed to release from all this pain and to free himself this sudden tragedy.

The atmosphere went from stressful to emotional one, Zoya could help but to cry silently with Aaron, sharing with him his pain. She also couldn't hold the feeling to be proud of Asad, the way he handled him, with serenity, while he could have neutralize him easily, but he didn't, he talked to him and helped him to face what he didn't want to accept.

-Come on, let's go for a walk, Asad tapped gently on Aaron's back and he nodded in approval. He took his gun, slowly from his lossened grip and put it on the floor. He held him by his shoulder to give him support and they walked away. Asad looked below his shoulder and glanced at her, asking her with his eyes, if she was ok.

She just nodded repeatdly at him, conforting him that she was fine.She blinked giving him the blessing to leave and to take care of Aaron. His lips lifted slightly and he moved away from her. Once, both left, she fell on the ground, holding herself, she was shaking. He shook her deeply, again, with his words, with his presence and with the love that he just show to a man who was holding a gun. She realized that she didn't deserve to talk about love, when she didn't show any love for him, she felt low and miserable and she was feeling guilty, but in the same time, she was happy to see him so serene. She didn't know what happened to him in this night and how he changed all of sudden, but her love for him was stronger as her guilt from leaving him all alone to face this life. He just did for Aaron what she was supposed to do for him, and she cried more.

Aaron finally calmed down and he was standing in front of Asad, grateful that he saved him to commit a crime. He looked up at him sadly and shook his hand with him.

-Asad, I...

-don't say anything, I understand, Aaron nodded and he was about to leave when he asked him a question

-who did you lose, Asad? Asad smiled soflty at him and replied

-The love of my life.

Aaron shook his head lazily, giving a comfort look, and understanding glance, he knew about, he knew it better. Asad looked at his silhouette moving away step by step, and with each step taking him to his healing, he will need time for sure but, now he found acceptance and peace. He turned away and there she was, standing in front of him, with her moisty eyes, and her lips trembled and sealed in insaid words.

They stood in front of each other, silent, while their hearts were racing a marathon and their eyes kept talking in their own and secret language. They stared at each other, petrified and expecting so much. They didn't talk since their last argue, and almost two days separated them until today. Her heart wanted to say so much but her voice betrayed her. She was shaken, but not by Aaron's incidence, she wasn't scared once but she was scared to face him, to face his love. She finally found him, found a part of Leo after so long and she didn't know what say.

-You ok? He asked her softly

-ya, she whispered to him, his voice seemed so serene that brought tears to her eyes. She gulped to restrain her emotions, she can't break down now, and you? She asked in turn.

He simply smiled and nodded at her, looking down. He was searching for his words too and she can feel him. She couldn't believe her eyes, he was back and she could feel this aura that she always loved to feel, he wasn't angry anymore and she can see it in his eyes, this sad Asad seems far. She missed him so much, that the weight of all this years came suddenly to tie her throat. She came closer to touch him but he started to talk, stopping her in her track.

-Zoya, I just came to say sorry, he grabbed a bag from the floor and put it on his back. Zoya froze and her mind tried to register what he was saying and what he was doing. Zoya, I am sorry for what I said and what I didn't say to you. I wasn't...You were right, I was too angry, too bitter and too sad, too stubborn to understand what you were asking me to do. I thought you were just crazy to ask me to be someone who broke your heart, a part of me that you forgive while I didn't forgive myself and I didn't want to forgive. I didn't undertand how can someone like you can show so much mercy to me, so I did what I was supposed to do, punishing myself for I did to you. I never get the chance to tell you, but I am sorry for what I said that day, I shouldn't have said this but it just happened. I should have trust you and not him. But what I did was wrong and it was unforgivable. You came into my life like a breeze and I never thought that a girl like you can love someone like me, nerd and ugly physcically like I was. I used to pinch myself sometimes to convince me that it was real, that you loved me and that we kissed in real, inside of me, you can't imagine how I was feeling each time, you were in my arms, I was so...It was too beautiful to be real and your love just for me. So when Akram trapped me, I told myself of course Leo, how a girl like her, can fall in love with you, look at you. I preferred to believe a lies that a true dream, I destroyed this dream with my own hands, because this is what supposed to happen, a girl like you was not for a boy like me. It was just for fairy tale and not for my life. And then I lost you and it's when I decided to change for you, to fit with the reality, where image became more important than emotion, where we have to be confident because life and people don't show mercy. The Leo inside of me loves you with his heart but I wasn't enough confident about me, to deserve you then I became the man that I am now, he pointed at himself. A confident, arrogant and selfish man, I became what I though I had to be, I became a man that can deserve a woman like you, intelligent, beautiful and successful but I forgot the essential, it's the heart that used to beat for you. I negliged the essential, it's how to love you like you deserve. I tried to force you to be with me, while Love can't be forced. Leo loved you like an adult and Asad like a teenager, he chuckled soflty, ironically, Zed was a teenager and Zoya is an accomplished woman today, we just swim in opposite current. And today,

-Asad, I

-let me continue, I have a lot of thing to apologize for. I shouldn't have hid my identity to you, but I didn't want to loose you, I shouldn't have forced you at anything, but I thought this is what I was supposed to do to get you back into my life. I thought that my love in the image of obsession for you was enough but it wasn't. I shouldn't have made you cry and broke your heart again and again, but I only know how to destroy and not to love. And I am sorry for this, Zoya. I should have take care of you like you did to me.

-Like I did? She asked surprised, how can he say this when she just left him, giving him ultimatum, when she only forced him to get back to what he was without showing patience and love, how can he say this? She didn't know.

-of course, you didn't stop calling me to come back, you were stubborn enough to stay firm in your conviction, you treated me like I deserve to be treat. I was blind and deaf to your calls and I didn't want to listen like a spoil child. I though you were just blind but it wasn't you who refuse to see the truth, it was me. And I am sorry for this.

-Asad, let me, she held his arms but he shook his head from side to side and grabbed her hands in his.

-I wanted to say sorry for something else, Zoya. I am sorry it took me time to understand but I understand what you ask me about, but, I have to tell you however, I can't be what you ask me to be and I am sorry because I can't be Leo anymore.

-What?

-As much as this Leo, this old part of me that you cherish, was a joyfull personality, you can't ignore his loneliness, I can't ignore the fact that this part was weak and too much sensitive to face this life. I agree that Asad was not less with his flaws but now I see life as it is, I am not blind anymore with human and his different shade. I can't be just Leo and I don't want to be just Asad. I just need to be me, but for the moment, I am still searching for myself, for the perfect balance between what I was and what I am and what I want to be. I guess you are right, I need to travel to fill my dreams, maybe to be a doctor one day, he chuckled amused. For a change, I will listen to you and I will have to find my own road, where my final destination will be your heart, he rubbed her cheek tenderly. I loved you when I was Leo, and I loved you when I was only Asad, and no matter what I am going to be, I will always love you Zoya. Always. A lone tear fell on her cheek, covering his thumb. Live your life, do crazy things and forget this past, we were just young to understand. I don't know what life has for us, but I hope that when we are going to meet again and this time, I will be the man to deserve you and...Who knows, maybe you will want to be with me and fall in love. Take care of you, Miss Ziddi. He kissed soflty her forehead, staying longer to kiss the last seconds before his leaving. He smiled at her with teary eyes and left without looking back. She needs a better man and he went to look for the best part of him, just for her, for him and for them.

The time has stopped for a second, she watched him walking away, looking at him retreating back. She stayed deadpan recalling his words, his goodbye. He confessed and said everthing that she wanted to hear, with sincerity, he became what she wanted to be, serene with his past, then why did he decide to leave her? He loves her and she loves him too, then what was the need to leave? She wanted to ask for apologize but he didn't let her talk, like years ago, he talked and she didn't reply. Why did he always want to have the last word? Did he really understand what she asked him? Years ago, he asked her to leave but today, he just left her. Why was it hard for her to open her heart? Why his love tied her throat? This time, she will talk to him, she can't let him go without listening to her, and he can't do this again to her.

He can't let her go and she can't leave him. He had to apologize, begging her to forgive him, asking her to stay with him, because a life without her was not worth to live. She taught him to smile, his heart to feel life again, she filled his loneliness with her smile, her craziness but if she had to leave, what was the reason for him to live? He can't imagine a life without her and he was suffocating at this vision.

-I have to stop her, she can't go, she can't, he scrubbed his hair in panic, he had to reach her right now, he looked here and there. His eyes fell on Akram turning in pain on the ground and it clicked in his head. Give me your keys. He ordered him.

-haaa, what? He winced

-give me the keys of your bike, I said

-f*** you, Akram replied harshly

-I don't have time to pamper you, he pressed his wounds and Akram yelled in pain, I-said-give-me-your-key, Leo said with low and threat voice sending shiver into Akram's skin. He searched in his pocket and threw it at him. Leo took it and ran to Akram's bike.

-I am coming, wait for me, Zed.

She ran as fast as she can, she grabbed her keys and joined her car, it was her emergency, the most important emergency she had to face today. Two lives were involved with two heart which were apart for years, who beated seperatly for so long that today, it was the day for them to get unite, and she will do it, with her own hands. Her hand was shaking with adrenaline, when she inserted her keys, but to her surprise, two ambulances were blocking the entry and she can't move her car.

-NOOO, not now. She hit the roof of her car. It seemed that they were bringing injured persons. She slidded her hand in her hair, what to do? Her love or her duty? She looked up at the sky. Please forgive me. She walked slowly and hide behind the ambulance, she sneaked discretly and finally joined the street without being seen. TAAAXXXIII.

A brake sounded and stopped at her feet, she jumped inside and asked to reach the airport.

He was finally in front her house, his heart was beating faster. He didn't know what to do and how to proceed, what if her father or her mother opened the door? What if she didn't want to talk to him? What if he came late? He shook his head and blew away. He messed up and he had to fix, it was no time for hesitation today, no time for regret but only for forgiveness and love. He rang on the bell and waited, but his heart didn't stop while its beats increased madly. After some seconds, no one came, he rang again and again but nothing moved. He looked throught the window, but he could see no one in the place. He knocked this time and called her.

-Zed, Zed, it's me, open the door, please, open the door, ZED, ZEEEDDD, he stepped back and took a stone, throwing on her window, ZEEEDDD, ZEEEDDD,

-Hey, what are you doing here? An old man came from behind stopping him.

-I...I am looking for Zed, do you know where is she?

-Zed? He looked weirdly at him, who's Zed?

-The young girl who is leaving here, I am her college friend, I need to talk to her, do you know where is she?

-you means Siddiqui's daughter? They left hours ago

-they left? Where? Where did she go? He grabbed him by his shoulder, where I can find her? Please tell me? He shook him frustrated.

-to the airport, they are moving away

-airport? Moving away? Leo uttered to himself, trying to decipher the bomb that blast into his face.

I will go far from your life, Leo, forever, but one day you will realize what you did and I will not be here anymore.

When she said this, he didn't know that she meant it, that she was leaving physically, going far away from him, forever. His heart skipped a beat and he ran to the bike to reach the airport. He prayed that he wasn't late, that she will not leave him because it can't be. The race against the clock was launched, it was him agains the time.

-please, can you drive quickly, please, it's an emergency. Zoya moved nervously on her seat

-I can't drive faster Ma'am, you can see that it's dense. He replied nonchantly

-I can't lose him, please, ya Allah, don't let him go, she prayed, and her eyes fell on the clock, the time seemed running mocking her. Asad, I can't let you go. Stop the car, she ordered the driver.

-What? He turned his head toward her

-I said stop the car, NOW, and he did what she asked. She went out and opened his, move on

-what the ...

-MOVE, she pushed him to the next seat and took his place

-Ma'am, you are not allowed to drive, he started to protest. She glanced at him with her murderous glance and replied harshly.

-I am a doctor, she gave him her card, and this is an emergency.

The road was full with cars, with impatient drivers, shouting to each other. He was lucky with his bike, he roamed between each cars, recalling what he told her and how he broke her heart. The image of her crying face constricted his heart. She was his only destination and he had to stop her from going away. At least, he needed to apologize or he will live with this guilt for the rest of his life. He couldn't believe what he said and why he didn't trust her or her love, she was too perfect for him and he just screw up everything, everything.

Finally, he arrived and jumped from the bike, leaving it flatly on the ground. He ran looking at the screen for the departure and suddenly, he realized he didn't know where she was going, what was her flight? He scrubbed his hair frustrated why he didn't ask this man earlier. He yelled angrily. Only God knows if she was still there or already left, his heart stopped, did she left? His breath increased and went hurtfull out of his lung. He ran like a mad man in the airport, he had to do an announcement, it was the only solution. The queue was long and he tapped his foot impatiently, he didn't have time to wait. He crossed all the customers and stood in front of the hostess.

-please Ma'am, I need to make an announcement,

-sir, please, could follow the line? You have to wait for your turn

-I CAN'T WAIT, he hit the table, I need to do it now,

-Sir, please calm down, could you please wait for your turn? She asked again trying to sound calm, but discreetly, she push the emergency button under her table. Leo noticed her gesture and grabbed her mic.

-ZED, ZED, IT'S LEO, ZED DON'T G...Before he could finish, he was plastered on the floor with strong hands on him, the mic fell with him. He struggled with all his force, calling her again and again.

-ZEDDD, ZEDDD, DON'T LEAVE MEEE, ZEEEDDD

At the same moment, Zed took out her earphones from her ears, she thought hearing him. She stood up, looking here and there expecting to see him, but it was nothing.

-Zoya, what are you doing? Her father asked her.

-Nothing Abbu, it was nothing, she put again her earphones, and sighed sadly, how she wished it was real, how she wished he would have come to stop her from leaving.

Gaffur looked at her confused and opened his journal again, mumbling in his beard.

-Who's this Zed? He raised his eyebrows and he went back to his reading.

Leo fell on the ground, after have been dragged out forcely. The guard threw him out and threated him to come back. Because of his young age, they didn't call the police, they managed to control him. Leo knew that he came late, it was his punishment, his redemption was not enough to keep her with him, and it was too late for both of them. She left without knowing the truth and she left leaving him all alone again. He cried loudly, sitting four-footed, his tears spread on the concrete.

-Zed, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. His eyes red and swelled with tears, he stood up and wiped those drop of regrets. I make you a promise Zed, that I will change, I will never be anymore this weak and useless guy, not anymore Leo, this Leo who treated you bad. I will be someone else, someone that you will be proud of, someone who will know how to protect you and how to love you like you deserve. You deserve the best and I will be the bestest. And I promise to find you and to never let you go, no matter what it will cost me. My life has stopped today and I will breathe again the day I will find you, Zed. This is my promise to you. And I promise to love you for the rest of my life.

His tears stopped to flow and his eyes darkened like never before, he was not anymore Leo, Leo was a joke, a dreamly face, Leo was just his way to ignore this life, but today, he tasted the bitterness, he didn't need to hide anymore. Leo was no more again and will never be, today, he was born again as Asad, Asad Ahmed Khan.

He sighed deeply, opening his eyes. He was a new man today, he can feel it. This life was really strange, he was today at the same place, where he decided to leave Leo behind, and today, he was about to find himself, the perfect part of Leo and Asad. He will try to reconcile his past and his present, to hope for a better future. The only hard part was to walk again alone without her, he didn't know what he will find in this travel, it was benefic for Zoya and he hope the same for him. He didn't know if she will wait for him or if she will still love him. He didn't know if she was thinking about him right now like he was thinking about her? He held his necklace, carrying her red heart around his neck, he needed her, he needed to have her, and she was his best companion. He wished she would come to stop him from going, he wished she would have stop him earlier, but she didn't say anything and she just let him go. He wished she could have change her mind about him. He sighed deeply again, closing his eyes, smiling at the image of her under his eyelids, he wished she could have come on time. It was the time for his flight, the time for him to land to his destiny.

-Since when do you listen to me?

He froze, was it her voice? He looked up and he sucked his breath. She was standing in front of him, breathing repeatly. He stood up, unexpected to see her, a myriad of emotion crossed his face, she was standing in front him or was it just dreaming? His mind was playing with his sense for sure, she can't be here. He was shocked and his mouth opened but no sound came out.

-Since when you do what I ask you to do? She came closer, looking angry at him. Tell me, Asad? He closed his eyes and inhaled her scent, she was here, now he was sure that it wasn't his imagination. He couldn't hold his smile and his fresh tears, she was standing in front of him.

-Since I broke your heart, he said sincerely. She chuckled sadly.

-you are just an idiot, Asad Ahmed Khan, do you know this?

-I know, his lips lifted slightly. Why are you here, Zoya?

-because you didn't let me talk, you just left and you didn't let me tell you what I want to. You talk too much, you always used to talk and you never let me talk, and for a change, I want you to listen. You will close your BIG MOUTH AND YOU WILL HEAR ME. Her face showed anger and pain, but her voice was shaking with emotion. I came to say sorry, sorry for making you feel that you are the only one at fault, sorry for forcing you, sorry for forcing to change while I was the first who was supposed to change. Sorry for never say what I feel, for make you feel that your love for me was wrong. Sorry for pushing you away, for being selfish, for not understanding your pain, for not giving you ALL the love that you deserved, sorry for not saying right words to heal you, for not being enough patiente with you, with what you went through. I am sorry for not being enough good for a man like you, so sorry for wanting you to be someone else. Sorry for changing you and let you all alone while I just need to be by your side. You did for Aaron what I was supposed to do for you. I was never good with words and you were always the good one. I am just a doctor, Asad, I only know how to heal physical wound but the pain of heart, I don't know how to do and I never knew. I though Leo was the only solution, I though if I ask you to be again Leo, it will solve everything and we can be happy together. I was scared and I didn't know how to do and what to do. I am clumsy and you know about. How can I ask you to be Leo again when I was not anyore Zed, so how can I ask you to live in the past if I want you for my future? Leo was a moment of my life when I was happy, when WE were happy together, so I though... I did what I though it was right for you. I don't know how to express what it's my heart, but the only truth of my heart is that I love you, I love so much and all this years, I've never forget about you. I used to hate you, I used to cry thinking about you, I used to laugh because of you and I dreamt about you all those years, and I couldn't forget you, I've never spent a day without thinking about you, Asad. I am sorry for not recognizing you, making you believe that what matter was your plastic, but in my heart, the day I saw you lying on the floor, injured, I knew it was you, my heart recognized you but I failed miserably to trust my heart. Like you did years ago, I believed my eyes and not my heart. I blame you and I did the same mistake. I didn't trust your eyes, maybe I was scared to find you again. You don't need to say sorry, I forgave you long time ago, Asad, I forgave Leo, we were just young and the love was too much for us, for two persons who craved for love and didn't know how to take care of it. Both of us fell dismally. I...Her sobs tied her throat and her tears fell from her eyes with her confession. Asad was no less, he didn't expect first to see her and now, her confession was other thing that he didn't predict.

-Zoya, I... He tried to reach her face to wipe her tears but she was fast and held his hand into hers, aligning her body with his.

-don't go, don't leave me again, Years ago, I didn't understand how to do and today either, but I will be fool to let you go away from me, please don't go away, please

-Zoya, his call came out as a whimper

-I know, Asad, I know, she touched his face, lingering her fingerprint on his skin,I know that you are scared to hurt me, but we hurt each other enough, this life hurt us enough. Let be adult once, let us be together, let's try to fix each other and let me love you. I can't erase those years of separation, but I can give the rest of my life. And...If you want, I will not hide anything to our children about this life, I will protect them like you want, I will do anything you want but I can't do it without you, I can't even do children without you. He chuckled crying, I don't want to do it without you and I don't want to live a single day without you Asad, it was too hard, it will be too hard now that I found you. This time she cupped his face staring into his eyes deeply, Stay, she whispered.

-do I have to do what you ask me? He smiled through his tears

-this time yes, because if you don't, she caught him by his collar and shook him, I will kick your ass, both chuckled and held each other, leaving no inch between their bodies. They finally found each other, after so long, finding the missing part of their life, of their past and of their heart. They laughed and cried in each other arms, leaving their heart knocking into other cage rib, able to breath freely now.

-I miss you so much, so much, Asad blew in the crook of her neck, getting intoxicated by the scent of her hair and her touches, he felt alive after so long. She was in his arms, he though he will have to wait but the sky showed mercy for his so long wait.

-I miss you too , I miss you more Asad, she covered his neck with plenty of small kisses, and then her lips travelled along his jaw, his cheek, his eyes. Before she posed her lips on his, she muttered, I love you, looking deeply into his eyes, both smiled and closed their eyes in unison, to finally let their lips meet in real kiss of love.

-there she is, a threat voice interrupted them, Zoya was the first to open her eyes and she hissed.

-baby, can we continue this later? She stepped back reluctantly. Asad still his eyes closed, and his lips parted waiting for the kiss, he blinked slowly when he didn't feel her.

-What? He asked confused

-I will be right back, her smile was wide and rigid. Two gards caught her wrist and handcuffed her.

-What are you doing? Asad tried to stop them but they pushed him away, Zoya dare to explain?

-Well, I was in hurry and I wanted to stop you, but those gentlemen didn't let me go to find you, so I had two options or to seduce them or to...You know, she pointed to the eyes's guard. I took the quicker one.

-No, you didn't, Zoya, Asad said desperately, and she nodded.

-I didn't have choice and I didn't hurt him that much, she said nonchanlatly, the guard eyed her angrily and he winced when he narrowed his eyes. She made a weird face and apologized to him, I am so sorry, but it was an emergency. Im doctor, I can see that the blue will go quickly, you just need some ice and it will be done.

-Let's go, they held her by her elbow and dragged her away

-I swear I am a doctor, I have my card in my pocket, she tried to convince them but they kept deaf

Asad followed them without knowing what to do or to say to convince them. It was really embarrassing, all were watching them.

-please, is it really need to handcuff her?

-yes, she hit me and she is dangerous, he retorted. Asad decided to call his lawyers, it was the only solution to save his lady love. The only thing that it didn't change, it was her impulsiveness. No matter who she became, she will always put herself in trouble and he will always have to fix it.

After 2 long hours of negociation, she was finally free. Zoya stepped away letting Asad finishing his discussion with his lawyer. They shook hands and he walked toward her with hardened features.

-Was it that bad? She asked shyly

-yes, it is, Zoya, it is, how...Why...But...He couldn't find his words, as much as he wanted to scold her, he was touched by her gesture.

-Sorry, she mumbled, but look at the bright side, I stop you from going away. Her face lightened with victory and happiness and her smile reach her ears, giving him her most and breathtaking smile he had ever seen. He shook his head at her antics and relaxed, he can't resist at her beautiful face.

-Mr Khan? He hummed, I was wondering, she wrapped her arms around his back, coming closer and closer to him, teasingly, can you remind me what we were doing before those gentlemen interrupted us?

-Oh, if I remembered well, I was holding you like this, he clasped his arms around her, she hummed, and you were saying something like I was the sexiest man that you have ever seen

-really? She said amused, I didn't remember saying this

-or maybe you were saying that I am Greek god, he said seriously and she chukled

-and what else? Her lips were closer to his now

-that you love me, he whispered

-mmm, I remember this well, she giggled and she captured his lower lips between his, tenderly and he responded back at her invitation. They kissed softly the other, their moves were slow, and gentle, and they didn't fight or ask to other for submission. They just both shared what they craved for years, lips and tongue found a partner to dance with, exploring each other mouth. They danced together talking about love and every moves were words that couldn't be found in any dictionary. Everyone was watching them again, after the drama, it was the kiss now, but they were just lost in their world of love and they didn't care about what the world can say.