PART 3 zoya sat in her room getting ready for the day...her engagement with haider...HIS brother and was her's too ... as she kept on staring herself through the mirror, humaira, her best friend walked in, her heart burst out in pain for her soul sister ... zoya and asad loved each other and only humaira and ayaan were those with whom they shared about them till now humaira hugged her from back and by placing her face on her shoulder and consoled her like an elder sister caressing her cheeks... 'zoe..crying won't help you...please don't...it breaks my heart seeing you like this...please try to be strong you are doing it for your api' humaira said not sure herself of her words... 'I know humzi... but how will I ever be able to give asad's place to jee...haider? How will I face him everyday and too as his Bha..bhabhi?' She cried 'shhh' humaira wiped her tears not knowing what to say to make her feel light...she too didn't knew that How..How will it all happen? She did a little touch up to her to hide her tears sticken face and took her out with her 'zoya...tum khush to ho na?' Asked gaffur not knowing what else to say ...she felt a lump in her throat but keeping a storng face nodded a yes making her abu sigh in relief 'let's go' .. they all left for Khan Mansion zoya was made to sit in one of the room as guest were still not here, the room where she was taken was none other than there room...this was room where she and nikhat use to sleep whenever they use to come and stay at Khan Mansion..the room which was filled with their beautiful memories, of childhood, the room where they use to sit together and talk for hours, the room where they confessed each other about how much they love each other... the room which held all of there pictures on it's wall asad who too came to this same room to avoid whatever was happening outside stood rotted at his spot as he saw her in that beautiful purple lenhenga caressing at one of there pictures...his eyes welled up...he wanted to talk to her but not wanting to make any sound he decided to leave 'will turning your face away or walking away will make us forget our love for each other?' She asked making him stop in his track... 'i wa...was just...' he fumbled with his words making her chuckle painfully 'do you really think that excuses will help us at where we stand?' She asked not letting her tears to fall taking a deep breath he walked close to her and cupped her cheeks kissing her forehead... as soon as his lips came in contact with her body she couldn't stop herself from crying and threw herself in his arms which she always use to do whenever she was in pain 'it's too difficult asad...I am dying from inside' she cried as he shed tears with her 'my condition is no different zoya...it's also very difficult for me to see you marrying someone else...someone who is my brother...someone who always had considered you as his sister' he said it was the first time in last five months when he too voiced out his feelings in front of her...this made her cry more... 'zoya we can't do like this...crying like this...it's your engagement today...smile zoya ... your life is going to take a new path...' he said masking his emotions yet again while she smiled through her tears understanding the pain behind this and he too smiled painfully knowing that she knows him very well...freeing herself from him hold he kept taking step backs and as he was about to leave he looked at her once again 'always remember zoya...I love you and will keep loving you only all my life' 'I love you too asad...more than anyone in this world' she said back and with one beautiful yet painful smile he walked out 
an hour later she was brought out by humaira and razia..while dilshaad went to call haider... zoya didn't had the stamina to look up at him who was standing on the other corner looking at her only...she was scared to lose herself if she looked at him this time while he prayed for her to look at him one last time...not able to fight with her heart she finally looked at him...time stilled for them as they both once again were able to feel the pain there eyes carry...they cried silently feeling helpless... 'I love you zoya' 'I love you asad' were the only words there hearts were screaming but no one could hear them out humaira walked out of the mansion and sat in garden ...ayaan too followed her and as she placed his hand on her shoulder she hugged him and cried for there best friends who were in so much pain... 'ayaan they will die without each other...Ya Allah... please help us...please unite them Allah' she prayed looking at the sky and just then a loud shout was heared from the house...panicked they ran in but the hall was empty..no one was there so they made there way upstairs and heared noises from haider's room they stopped in there tracks as they saw haider lying lifelessly on the arm chair...a picture and letter in his one hand while his other hand lied towards ground ...they gasped as dilshaad shook him again and again but didn't got any response 'bhai wake up...please it isn't some joke' asad said controlling his tears but haider didn't moved a bit... he sat on the floor broken, zoya who too was shedding tears for her jeeju ran to him in order to console him forgetting her own pain...he cried like a child and she let him cry ... ayaan who remembered about the letter in his hands walked close to him and took that letter, opened it and red it aloud 'ami abu, I am sorry I am leaving without telling you but what can I do? ...my nikhat promised me that she will come to take me with her, that nothing can keep us apart...it was getting difficult for me to survive without her...can anyone live without it's reason of breathing? I tried but I failed and today I felt her, she was here ami...she came to fulfil her promise to take me with her...I have to go...ami, abu, asad and zoya we know that our fahad is in safe hands...you all love him more than us..take care of him...we love you all' 'why life is so cruel to US? Why? First bhabhi and now bhaijan...why this happened to us? Why Zoya?' He cried out aloud but she kept crying not having any answer of his questions...they were mourning they were crying but they also knew that haider and nikhat are together now... 2 Months Later Saying Good Night to dilshaad and rashid he walked in his room to find his newly wedded wife putting there son to sleep...she signaled him to be quiet while he nodded...he sat beside them as she finally made him sleep and put him in the cradle beside there bed...she then turned to him and raised her eye brow at his thoughtful expressions 'you wanna say something? ' she asked and he nodded 'what happened?' She asked again finding the topic very important because of his expressions 'yesterday when I went in bhaijan's room to collect some important files I got hold of his dairy' he said 'jeju's dairy...we all know that he use to write dairy..' 'Bhaijan stopped writing after one month of bhabhi's death but till then he use to write everything in the diary which he can't share with us..his feelings his situation his thoughts everything...' 'but what's there to be upset about asad?' She asked confused because they themselves knew that haider never shared his grief with family instead he use to behave way to much normally with them 'I red in the starting enteries which was about an year ago... you remember that time when we were fighting with our feelings' 'yes I do...how we misunderstood each other and then that confusion of you leaving India and I am getting married...thank God we cleared out it all that day otherwise we wouldn't had been together today' she said 'It was all bhabhi and bhaijan's doing zoya' 'what?' She thought she heard something else 'yes zoya...they lied to us about you getting married and I leaving India...because they knew knowing about each other we will realize our feelings n may be would tell each other too an..' 'and we did that only' 'then why did api asked me to marry jeeju?' She aksed confused 'may be she never meant that...may be she wanted you to look after her family which Is bhaijan and fahad like your own...may be she meant for you to be with them whenever they need you...may be it was all of us who took it wrong' asad said as tears started to roll down her cheeks 'she knew it all...asad I wish wouldn't had called her...then api and jeeju would had been with us' she weeped and he put his hand around her pulling her close to him and she placed her head on his shoulder 'zoya it was never your fault...blaming yourself will lead us to nothing because it was all destined to happen and we can't change what is actually written in our faith and bhaijan and bhabhi leaving us was something planned since always... we can't do something when it comes to HIS decisions...you shouldn't blame yourself' he said as he made her look at him and wiped her tears 'and bhaijan and bhabhi will be proud of us and a bit jealous too' 'and why so?' She asked trying to smile wide forgetting about the painful part ' because we love fahad more than we will love our own children and jealous because fahad is going to love us more' he said making her chuckle 'no one can love fahad more than api and jeju' she said emotionally but before she can cry he signalled her not to cry 'zoya bhaijan and bhabhi are together now and they are looking at us and do you want them to get sad because of us...we should remember the good time we all spend with her' he said and she nodded smiling through her tears 'by the way someone was looking really beautiful today' he said changing the topic making her blush 'thank you' she said looking down 'did I said that I was talking about you?' He asked receiving a smack from her making him laugh 'you think you can tease me...well Mr.Asad Ahmed Khan you can't...' she said placing her hand at her hips 'and why that so?' 'Because you don't wanna sleep outside of this room on the day you got married you know' she said smirking 'you mean to say that you will kick me out of this room?' He asked half shock half amused 'well any doubt...?' She asked innocently 'you are such a devil' he said while she pulled her imaginary collar up...he pulled her close to him with there faces inches apart making her conscious about there situation as he slipped his hand behind her back pulling her more close to him 'I love you' he whispered huskily in her ears making a shiver ran down her spine as she hugged him blushing hard he smiled lovingly as he broke the hug and leaned in to claim her lips while she too close her eyes awaiting for her first kiss... and the night went by with them creating some beautiful memories to cherish forever 5 YEARS LATER he placed the flowers on both of there graves as he stood in front of the graves of his brother and bhabhi who are peacefully sleeping for eternity beside each other 'bhai, bhabhi you know na what date is today? It's fahad's 6 birthday and I had brought him here to meet you two like every year' he said and then looked back at his little family who stood outside the grave yard .. he signaled for fahad to come to him..he did as his papa asked and came to him 'Assalam O Alikum Ami Abu...you know me na...I am fahad and today I turned 6 years old... I love my birthday's a lot because I come and meet you two... I love you a lot but I love mama papa more...' he grinned 'they promised me that we all will go out to celebrate my birthday today and we will also go for a family picnic this weekend...' he said and then put the flower his zoya mama gave him at both of there graves and intertwining his tiny hands with asad's he left the grave 'bhai...that's wrong...I too wanted to meet ami abu' pouted a four years old meher, his princess 'but you can't go inside meher but don't worry next time when i will come to meet ami abu I will tell them that you love them more than me' fahad said trying to make his princess 'happy?' He asked 'yes because I love ami abu more' she said jumping on her seat... Asad and Zoya chuckled at there children's cute conversation about there ami abu 'but who loves mama and papa more?' Asked zoya 'meee' fahad shouted 'she loves ami abu more so she can't love you two more than me' fahad said teasing his princess who pouted sadly not knowing how to fight back at this 'so bacha party...where are we going now?' Asked asad diverting there attention 'bhai's favorite restaurant..I am hungry papa' meher said 'ohkay bacha...let's go' he agreed and made his way to the restaurant while fahad and meher got busy in there own conversation...zoya placed her hand on his while he glanced at her in between driving 'I love you asad' she whispered not wanting the children to listen to her 'I love you too zoya' he whispered back as he patted her cheek before focusing back at the road and the life continued as the four of them lived happily with each other... 
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