•||Ch15: Truth Of Arfa's death||•

||Third Person POV||

Fives months later~

Five months had passed and no one tried to talk to Maheen. She locked herself in her room in those five months. She hardly ate anything. Her mom and dad hadn't talked to her and why they wanted to talk to her when she put them down. No parents want to talk to their children when they did something wrong which is also something big and put them down. There is nothing important than the pride of your own parents.

Nor Zoya or Rehan once called her. No one in the family knew anything about the fight between Maheen and Zoya except Saif. Their result was coming in this month but Maheen didn't care about it. All She cared was the repent of her sins.

She started offering fiver prayers regularly now and made du’a specially for Zoya and Rehan. She knew her mistake was so big that no one would forgive her easily. She raised her hands up and looked at the sky.

“Ya Allah! You are only One who can forgive me easily. Please forgive me for all my sins and for my mistakes. I know I was not on a right track before but please forgive me. If not forgive me but please make Rehan and Zoya one. I am the one who separate them but You are the One who can make them one again. Please Allah I beg you.”

She cried and cried on everything. She laid on her bed and looked up on the ceiling. The phone of her house was continuously ringing but no one answered. She got up and went down to answer. She picked the receiver and answered. Little did she knew that phone call was going to make her in the state of shock.

“Hello!”

What she heard made her zoned out. She was not expecting whatever the person on other side said. The receiver fell from her hand on the floor. She turned around and ran to her room. She locked her room and breathed heavily.

“Arfa is no more,” was the words which the person on other side said.

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Zoya was sitting in her room and looked out of the window. She was in Canada for the higher studies but the main reason was to live far away from Maheen. Everyday her heart called Rehan but she was helpless to call him. She was not blaming anything on Maheen because she accepted it already that it was her fate.

Every night she cried for heart to let it feel relaxed but her heart was not at peace. Saif called her everyday and gave her every little report. Zoya knew Maheen was sorry about her behavior and about what she said.

Zoya was staying in Canada and would study here. Zoya was still looking out of the window when her phone rang. She answered with a smile because it was from her home.

“Assalam-o-Alaikum!” Saif voice came from her phone along with his face which appeared on the screen.

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“Walaikum Assalam!” Zoya answered cheerfully.

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“How are you?” Saif asked.

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“Alhamdulillah! My lil champ, how are you?”

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“Alhamdulillah all good! I am missing you so much,” Saif said with a sad pout.

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Zoya smiled sadly and they both started talking with each other. Saif told her what he did all day and what their parents did all day. It was 9 pm in Pakistan and 12 pm in Canada. In the end, when Saif told him about his day then he remembered one more news.

“Appi, Arfa is dead,” Saif said.

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Zoya became a statue after hearing this news. She was not believing her ears. She blinked many times and a lone tear escaped from her right eye.

“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un!” Zoya mumbled silently.

(The above line is used in Muslim community when someone dies. It means, We belong to the God and to Him we shall return)

“How?” Zoya asked after gathering her all strength.

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“She was on drugs and it cost her life. The drugs affected her body and spread cancer,” Saif told her.

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Zoya hanged up the call mumbling a quick goodbye. One by one tears were streaming through her eyes and fell on her lap. Zoya asked Allah for His mercy on Arfa. Zoya was a kindhearted and was one of them who forgave everyone.

Never think that time will not show everyone their real place because when it comes to time, time shows a better place which you never imagine.

Never think that fate will always let others play with your feelings because when it comes to fate then fate plays with their feelings. Fate has different and unbelievable ways show it's plan.

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Rehan was also feeling same as Zoya. He was tried his best to forget Zoya but his brain was not letting him. He wanted to hear Zoya voice and wanted to see her.

He opened his laptop and played a video which he made on his sister’s wedding. In the video, Zoya was talking with Eshaal. Seeing and hearing Zoya’s voice bought a smile on Rehan lips which was disappeared from many months.

In Dubai, many girls tried to gain his attention but no girl was like Zoya. He was not interested and how could he be interested when his heart belonged to Zoya. Zoya was the queen and owner of his heart.

He knew Zoya was in Canada. He talked to Masooma, his elder sister, everyday and she gave him every news of Zoya. Masooma knew that her brother loved Zoya but she didn't know why Rehan and Zoya was not talking.

Those got ruined or destroyed who were innocents. What was their mistake that punished them so badly. The people they never counted to hurt them, hurt them badly. They all were the only one who could heal each other but their ego came between.

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Faheem was also restless and silent. He was not talking to his parents and any of his friend. He tried to forget everything but his how could he forgot Maheen when his heart fall for her and her attitude. Faheem tried to tell him heart to forget her but his heart was damn stubborn to forget anything.

His parents tried to marry him with Fabeha but he rejected her. He was not ready to give his heart to anyone except its owner who was Maheen. Faheem wanted to go back to his Maheen but he was not ready.

For Faheem, Maheen was still young and he knew people would raised their finger on Maheen; and told her that she trapped a teacher who was older than him. He was just scared of this society.

Have you ever heard before that something never go back to how they were used to be. But maybe things can go back if the time wants. How helpless he was like others in front of fate only he knew.

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Maheen was standing in front of her whole family including Zoya’s family except Zoya and Rehan, they both were just missing. They all came from the funeral of Arfa. “You knew about Arfa taking drugs? Don't you?” His father asked in angry tone. Maheen looked at her father and searched for any sign of emotions but found a cold face.

She was feeling terrible and guilt. Her eyes was telling them everything but they wanted to hear from her. She slowly nodded her head and received a hard slap by her father. A father who first time raised his own hand on his child. How hurt her father was feeling by doing this only he knew. “Imtaiaz!!” Everyone stood up when her father, Imtaiaz raised his hand.

Her mom looked at her in shocked and gasped. “Oh God!” Masooma gasped. She was looking at her sister in disbelief and yelled, “Do you also know she had a serious and dangerous type of drugs in her body?” Everyone gasped loudly at this new information. “Her parents doesn't tell anyone but I know this because I saw her medical reports in the hospital,” Masooma informed everyone.

“I think we should,” Masooma was trying to say but words were not coming out of her mouth. “I think we should run a medical test of Maheen,” Finally, she said after gathering a lot of courage. Maheen was shocked and felt that cloud fell on her shoulder.

Masooma took her in the hospital and run test. They all waited for her reports to come. Few days later, after running test, her result of 12th grade announced in which she hardly passed and Zoya topped in her college. Zoya and Rehan was unknown to Arfa’s real cause of death.

The day came when her reports from hospital came. Everyone was present in her house again. Masooma opened the envelope and read the report. Every eye was on Masooma and Maheen was scared. She hardly slept and isolated herself. No one in the family was talking to her. Her parents were feeling so ashamed because of Maheen.

Masooma looked up at Maheen without any expression and said…

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