Hey Zoya! Meri pyaari legally married wife....I love you...but I hate him...because I love her more than anything else in this whole world!! These words echoed in Zoya's ears, she was getting devastated when the phone ring took her to the reality.

The phone was flashing, "Humeira".

Zoya picked the phone up and whispered her sister's name,"Humi"

Humeira finally took a deep breath of relaxation, "Finally! Main kitni der se call kar rahi hu aapko, where were you busy"

"No-Nothing. I was- I was in washroom", she stuttered and lied to change the topic, "Tu bol na kya hua"

At which Humeira replied, "Oh! Nothing I was just got worried aapne—aapne nikaah ke baad ek bhi call nahi ki so...", and reconstructed her words well, because she was worried after traumatized state and the sudden re-marriage, which she didn't make her realize.

"Mujhe call karna chahiye tha?", she asked sarcastically.

Humeira pressed her lips and sheepishly completed, "Aapi! Something which has happened, has happened...please try to move on in the life"

"Hmmm... jo mujhse nahi hota, aur sab mujhse wahi expect karte hain", Zoya rolled her eyes and looked at the skies at which Humeira immediately retorted back, "Aap ka pehla pyaar to Asad Bhai hi the na"

"The...ab nahi hai", and with these words she disconnected the call in mid and Humeira kept saying, "Hello", and finally understood that itisn't easy to move on for her sister after all every lock is different and the key as well, the same way it is different for every person to forget the past and accept the present in the same way.

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"Najma! This is so kiddish!", Dilshad clenched her jaw.

At which she rolled her eyes, "What ammi? What is kiddish?"

"Kal pehla din tha Zoya ka is ghar mein ek bahu ki tarah aur tum....tum use ignore karke nikal gayi", Dilshad held Najma's elbow and turned her face towards her.

"Maine reason bataya tha", Najma curtly replied.

At which Dilshad sarcastically replied, "Use reason nahi excuse kahte hain" and Najma closed her eyes tightly and opened them again,"Ammi! I hate her."

"Najma", she clenched her jaw again.

Najma gulped down the fresh lump of her throat, "Aisa to hai nahi ammi ki aapko reason nahi pata. Unke pyaar mein bhai ne saari yaadein guzar di....kabhi shadi nahi ki...aur to aur jab wo unke beloved husband ki death ke baad traumatized hogayi, unse shadi bhi karli", she stopped here and then took a deep breath to complete herself, "Isn't it enough to hate her"

"Najma tum bahut close thi uske", Dilshad tried to make her realize the memories of years back. At which she smiled, "Indeed I was. Par sabse zyada to main bhai ke kareeb thi na....haan sabse zyada main bhai ko zoya ka naam leke pareshan karti thi....and he used to blush too ... par", she vanished her smile and in tears said, "Par bhai mere abbu hain, aur mere abbu ko koi pain de I cannot handle that"

She snatched her bag and left the room.

Zoya was coming outside the room when Najma was passing the way, she tried to stop her but she didn't listen.

Zoya scrunched her brows, "Wallek-um-ass-allam aunty!", she wished when noticed Dilshad and continued, "Ye tamatar ko kya hua kal se mujhe ignore kar rahi hai"

Dilshad tried to cover it up, "Aisa nahi hai, kaam tha use hospital me"

"Oh! Abhi tak mili bhi nahi na mujhse, nahi to bachpan sabse pehle mere paas aati thi, she used to think ke Asad ki dant se use sirf main bacha sakti hoon", She giggled and continued, "Aur aisa hota bhi tha, after all I used to be a gundi, aur meri baat aapka gadha beta na mane aisa ho nahi sakta", she laughed sheepishly but her laughter vanished when she realized thatthe time has been changed and she witnessed Asad and all the nightmares Haider has given to her filled tears in her eyes. She left from there, Dilshad tried to stop but stop herself, as she thought she need time with herself, and turned back to witness Asad on the corner of the living area.

Asad marched fast and knocked the door of the room at which Dilshad objected, "Asad try and understand she needs time"

"Bahut le liya time usne apne room mein", he curtly replied.

He knocked again when she opened the door slightly and sneaked inside and closed the gate with a bang. He was not able to witness her tears, so turned her back to face her and took a deep breath, "Ye rona dhona band karo aur bahar aao"

"Nahi aana mujhe bahar", she rebelled and screamed at him,at which h pinned her to the wall and held her hand tightly on the wall, "Meri bhi family hai sab kya sochte honge", he clenched his jaw.

"Jaise kisi ko kuch pata nahi hai?", she questioned him and looked into his eyes as she wanted to pierce them with hers.

He chewed his words, "to kya jisse kabhi pyaar nahi kya ta-umar uska gham manaogi", and with this he loosened his grip.

"Haan! Kyuki kabhi na kabhi pyaar kiya tha maine usse", she retorted back.

He sarcastically replied, "kab... jab wo drunk hoke ghar aata tha"

"Haan", she confidently replied and he unpinned her asking,"Kyu...itna accha tha wo", asked in tears.

She smiled sarcastically, "kam se kam tumhare jaisa to nahitha, uski apni wajah thi"

"Oh really", he turned back again to hide his tears andasked, "main bhi to janu aisi wajah"

She confidently faced him and wiped her tears, "Aaj jaan hilo", but he was not interested and saying this left the room as he knew howmuch love worth Haider was.

Zoya lied down on the bed and the slumber overlapped her.

The scared Zoya, was sitting on the bed after the whole night, in fact she has never slept. She has collected herself in her embrace and was wishing to the skies that today she needs a miracle, and finally Allah did hear her.

The drunk Haider opened the lock of the door and she kept moving back chanting, "don't come close to me" and snatch a heavy paper weight and threw towards the door.

Her eyes were swelling and a cheek where he has hit her many a times was red swollen. She has cried a lot, and thought why her best friends did this to her, she has trust at least Asad more than anyone else, in fact more than herself and she didn't inform her about Haider, but he didn't.

"Don't come closer", she pushed her backwards and he bowed down caressing her fingers on her red swollen cheek at which she wined in pain.

She was gulping down the short breathing of fear when he huskily whispered in her ear, "I won't", and took the back steps. He smelled badly, so she closed her eyes tightly, but was really unsure that why did he just hit her and did nothing else.

Days were passing, at every instance at any small thing he used to hit her, but touched, never.

Once, Zoya was cleaning the room which was burdened with dirt. She started with store room, as in it was the garbage box.

A hard hand came towards her and snatched her towards her she lean on his chest with a jerk. The eyes were meeting he was constantly looking at her, who was gasping a little. He kept the wet hair strand aside from her face so he can look at the face clearly and then rolled;now she was under Haider.

She tried to loosen his grip and finally she was out of when he came to his senses, "What the hell are you doing?"

They collect themselves from the floor and Haider continued her, "Can I ask you the same?"

"What do you mean?", she was confused.

He clenched his jaw and pinned her to the wall holding her from the neck, "did I ask you to clean anything"

She was choking but he kept continuing, "Nahi na. kya zarurat hai ye saaf safai ki", and she wanted to say something but her hold was so tight on her neck that she couldn't.

"Main to bas..", she was trying to say something and then he pinned her hand and twist it to her back while chewing his words, "Jitna kaha jaye utna kiya karo...don't you dare to intervene in my things"

She was fed up with his deeds of domestic-violence, "It was just a store room, not your bed room", so he tightened his grip and screamed loudly in her ear, "Zaban mat chalana mujhse"

He lifted her in his arms and threw her on the bed, "isi main locked raho, this much you worth"

She cried and cried while observing her arm which was swelling, she searched for first-aid box, which was nowhere in the room so she leaned on the wall and kept crying, but it was sure that there was something hidden in the storeroom, otherwise this sort of reaction wouldn't have come out from him. She knew it was a regular habit of his but her sixth sense was echoing in her ears that there was something.

Days passed, and she was waiting for her acquittal and finally the day came.

Haider was drinking beside her to treat her badly,and an idea hit her mind, she broke his soda and water bottle.

"What the hell you have done?", he pulled her hairs and she apologize umpteenth times leaning back and with this the chair on which she was sitting, broke with one leg and in the deed of saving her she held her with tightly with her back and they rolled few times on the floor.

He looked into her eyes, and kept gulping the whole bottle of red while in a single breath. She was in a mood to ran away from there. So she snatched the keys tightened in his wrist and opened the room and was about to ran from there but he came to a little senses and whispered in her ear holding his bottle, "Pagal samajha hai, the keys had changed darling"

Tears start rolling down her cheeks and he uttered coming closer to her, and pinning her to the wall with his body. He kissed her cheek lightly and was coming to her lips but she pushed her forcefully and ran towards the closest room and locked herself in it.

She was gasping hardly and leave her body on the floor but the same time her eyes fell on the broken window, so she whispered, "Oh so this was hidden"

Haider was trying to break the door on the other side and there she was under burdening the window, so she can escape from there and ran from there forever.

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