"Paas aye...Dooriyaan phir bhi kam na hoyi

Ek adhuri si hamari kahani rahi

Aasmaan ko zameen, ye zaroori nahi

Jaa mile...

Ishq sacha wahi, Jisko milti nhi manzilein..

Rang thee, noor tha Jab kareeb tu tha

Ek jannat sa tha, yeh jahaan

Waqt ki ret pe kuch mere naam sa

Likh ke chhod gaya tu Kahan...

Hamari adhuri kahani...

Hamari adhuri kahani"

The waves are moving beautifully making the sunset more beautiful, Sunsets are like kaleidoscopic canvases that show our past, present, and future.

It is the junction where the trio meet! It is what we call the bigger picture.

This is nature's Bigger Picture, full HD, and 3D ability that could only touch your heart, only if you have the sight.

Those lights make me feel so good about myself, about this universe, about our existence, It's speechless.

"Mahi stop... I will catch you...,"

He was running behind the giggling girl to catch her.

She ran away from him after throwing sand at him as they were making a sandcastle.

Now they were running and enjoying their most favorite game of chase.

She was giggling running faster but he with his long legs caught her and twirl her around as she squeals in his hold.

He chuckled at her screaming and laughing and stopped to pull her cheeks.

"How many times I have told you to not run baby? It's not good for you...and you throw sand at me that's mean Mahi,"

She pouted at him as she looked at him with her innocent eyes that melt his heart.

He leaned toward her and kissed her forehead embracing her close to his heart.

She was his only solace in this whole world now. After everything, he went through he only has her.

He chuckled when she pulled away and hold his cheeks like she always did and spoke in her cute voice.

"Baba... Let me play na... You bring me here after a long time and you didn't let me play or run... I promise I won't do anything naughty now,"

She looked at her Baba with the most cutest pout and doe eyes that he sighed in defeat.

"Ok fine... You can play but remember no running... Nahi Tu tabiyat kharab ho Jaye gi and your Phupho will kill me,"

"Yeah!!!... You are the best Baba... I love you,"

Affan smile at his daughter and kissed her cheeks making her squealing as his beard tickles her and he also laughed at her.

"Baba also loves you, baby... Now go and take pictures here is your camera... go the sunset is waiting for the best photographer to be captured... Then we have to go your phupho was waiting for us,"

"No running Mahi... And stay away from water,"

Baby Mahi giggles as she kissed her Baba's cheeks and take her small camera from his hold and dash toward the shore.

But still away from the water as Affan stood by and keep an eye at his daughter.

He closed his eyes as he remembered the one soul on the earth that took his everything with her, his peace, his sleep, his life, and his love.

He was devastated with her gone but he handles himself for his daughter.

He looked at the sunset feeling the pain he has been feeling for years.

There have been times, he had tears rolling down looking at the sunset, it knows what's inside him, and it's not hidden.

His best friend, his support system, his everything was that one person his Jhalli, and when she left him it was like life was taken away from him.

He still remembered the day, the worst day of his life when he lost her when he came to know about his true feelings.

Affan and Naseem beghum came back from the sheikh house late as Minal maternal family is big and they have invited a big crowd for the ceremony.

He frowned when he didn't see his father, sister, or Maham thereafter everyone was waiting for the family photos.

He called his father but no response, he wanted to go home as his heart was pounding against his chest feeling different a certain fear.

He with much difficulty made his mother agreed that they should go home now.

Naseem beghum didn't get surprised when he told her about their missing family members that made him suspicious.

He was worried so after much pleading, they go home after midnight.

As they reached their home, everything was locked and lights were off, Affan heart was restless.

He ran inside after opening the door, his mother shook her head at her son getting worried but she only smiled as she knew where her husband and daughter were.

She smiled and went to her room to sleep peacefully as now she got rid of Maham and throw her out of her house and save her son.

Affan called Maham but her phone was switched off, his worry rises tenfold, what if his Jhalli was ill or something as she was looking pale at the function.

He cursed as he found Hina and Maham's room empty, his father was also not attending his calls.

He moved toward his room, he in his frustration didn't notice that Maham's room did not have some of her stuff.

He tried to call his father but the same response greets him again, he throws his phone away in anger.

He was going to open his side table drawer when he saw a paper tucked down his favorite photo frame as it has his and his Jhalli clicking perfect selfie at their favorite spot, sea view.

He frowned as he took the paper and opened it, he was confused when he saw Maham handwriting but what he read shook his life and turned his world upside down.

He stumbled as he fell to the ground. The paper fell in front of him, he can't believe his eyes, the words piercings his heart.

A lone tear escapes his eye and fell down his cheek but his heart was paining so much that he found breathing much more difficult.

He felt suffocated as his eyes once again moved on the paper, as every word of that paper was stabbing him.

The paper was a letter his best friend, his Jhalli wrote as her magnificent cursive writing was prominent.

He again read it to ensure that he was reading correct or if his Jhalli was pranking him.

My dear, cute, kind, loving, and supportive loser...

I know you will curse me and blame yourself when you read this but Affan I have to do this... For you, for me, for us...

You wanted me to be the most successful and famous doctor and I can't do that here... I am offered to do a residency program in aboard and I accept it.

I wasn't going to at first but when you decided to marry Minal... I thought why not... She will come in your life and you will never feel my absence.

You will be so busy with your family that you will never have time to remember some stupid friend like me...

I know you will be angry and maybe crying putting your male ego aside... Winking at you... But yar... I have to do this for myself... Maybe like you find your love I will also find my Ishq Kamal there...

Maybe this is our destiny loser... So just accept it like the brave person you are and start your new life with your beautiful partner...

I wish you a happy and content life Affan... I will always be indebted to you for being in my life and protecting a broken soul like me but now you have someone else to love and protect so don't worry about me... Your Jhalli will always remember you loser always and forever Haina ...

Also, don't fight with everyone because yes they know but I made them swear that they will not tell you...

I didn't want to spoil your nikkah day for you because I know you like a cranky sulking baby would have ruined it...

Just be happy... Ok... Because I will live my whole life knowing you are happy and living life to the fullest...

I love you my best friend, my soulmate, my support system... I will always love you Affan Ahmed Qureshi... You are the only family I had... Except Hina and taya Abu Don't tell them that I said that...but I will always cherish the moments we have spent together...

Allah Hafiz Affan...

Allah miyan tumhain dunya ki tamam khushiya de aur tumhain tumhara Ishq Kamal mubarak ho...

Dua Karna main bhi kamyab ho jaon es imtihan main...

Fi'amaan Allah...

Yours Jhalli...

The whole paper has tear stains on it, and it breaks his heart more. He kept sitting there for a few moments just staring at the paper.

Now his mind was joining the dots, Mahi paleness, her tears, and the last moment she came to meet him that's why he was feeling like she was saying goodbye to him.

Tears kept falling from his eyes but suddenly he came to his senses.

He ran toward the side table picking up his phone and car key, as he dashed outside speeding toward the airport.

No, he won't let her go away from him, with that thought he reached at the airport in mere 30 minutes breaking all traffic signals like his life was on the line.

He ran toward the international flights terminal calling his father.

He stopped abruptly when he saw a crying Hina and Ahmed Sahab coming out.

His heart was palpating so hard that he felt suffocated.

He moved toward them with trembling body and when they saw him.

They got shocked looking at his disheveled appearance, his messy clothes, and teary eyes.

"Affan what are you doing here?"

Ahmed Sahab was already broken because of his Mahi departure but Affan condition shook him.

Hina just kept silent as she was blaming her brother for her api going away but soon Affan shaky voice melt her heart as his pain was flowing down his cheeks.

"Ba... Baba... Mah...Mahi ... Where is she?...where I...is my Mahi?"

Hina sobbed silently as Ahmed Sahab moved toward his son and hugged him.

Affan body lost the battle and he fell into his father warmth asking about his Mahi repeatedly.

"She is gone beta... She is gone,"

"No... No... no... She can't... How can she? We promised always and forever to each other... How can she go so far leaving me... Her best friend alone. Why Baba?! Why!!!"

Ahmed Sahab holds him tightly as the first time saw his grown up son crying and this broken.

Hina was also crying as she knew these two souls will be broken because they were complete with each other and being away will break them more.

Affan was still crying when Ahmed Sahab took him to his car and they went home as Affan was not in a good mental state.

Maham was a big part of his life since childhood but now when he lost that part of him he knew he can't live without his Jhalli.

She was like the air he breathes and now when she went away from him, he was feeling suffocated.

Just like that his life was hell after Maham left.

He was depressed and angry at everything but his trials have not ended.

Naseem beghum was very happy because Maham was gone from her life but her son's condition was scaring her as he was getting lost in the abyss day by day.

She suggested that his marriage should be done soon but another shock was waiting for them.

Minal and Affan were to go on a business trip for their company after their nikkah but because of Affan unstable condition, he didn't go.

Minal came back from the trip and when Naseem beghum asked for the wedding date, the new drama started.

Minal said she didn't want a mentally unstable person who was so lost in his best friend's loss that he did not care for his wife, so she filed for divorce.

Naseem beghum and Ahmed Sahab tried to resolve this matter but Minal didn't care about them.

She wanted to marry a rich businessman she meets on the trip.

After three months, they were divorced and Affan didn't care about Minal.

He was more devastated when Minal told him that she just married him to rub it on Maham's face that he will forget her for someone else.

She also confessed that his mother was also involved that made him so angry that he left his home after a huge fight with his mother and bought an apartment.

He still remembered Minal's words as she said last goodbye and went away with her new fiancée.

"I just married you to destroy Maham... You are just a plaything for me Affan... I wanted to break Maham so much that she will curse her life but she like always ran away... So I don't have anything to do with you now...,"

Minal was jealous of their bond as she always tried to flirt with Affan but in Maham's presence, he always ignored her.

She planned all this to show Maham Shoaib Qureshi that when Minal Sheikh wanted something she will get it.

But now when Maham was gone, she divorces him and gets engaged to another billionaire.

He thought that he will be ruined as Minal left him but he can't be more heartbroken as the gap his Jhalli departure left in his heart made him forget about the world around him.

He thought that he loved her but soon he came to the realization that he never loved Minal.

It was just fascination nothing more but his mother's persistence made this fascination toxin for him.

After 6 months of mourning, Affan started his job again but he was just like a robot. He eats, works, sleep, and repeat, nothing else.

His father and sister often visited him as he was living in his apartment and never once gone to his home because of his mother in all those months.

Naseem beghum tried calling him but he never picked it up. She was the reason his best friend was gone.

He hired a private investigator to know about Maham whereabouts but he didn't know where she was.

Her phone number, her social media accounts, everything was blocked.

He didn't know why she was doing this to him. Why this punishment, but he just prayed to his LORD to protect her and keep her safe until they meet again.

He was so angry and devastated that he stopped socializing with everyone.

He was lost but one day he got a new purpose of living, his baby girl.

He came back from his office, he parked his car in the parking lot as he was moving toward his apartment building he heard something.

He frowned as it was quite late which was normal for him as he was always over timing in office coming late and going early in the morning.

He moved toward the voice as he moved close to the wall, he now clearly hear the loud wailing of a baby.

He got tense and quickly ran behind the wall to see a barely one-year-old baby crying out loud.

He looked around and picked the baby up hushing it and holding it close to his chest providing his warmth to the freezing baby.

"Hey... Baby... Sssh... I got you... I got you... It's ok,"

He kept the baby in his arms as it gets quite and soon sleep in his arms.

He smiled at the baby but soon get worried that what an innocent soul like it was doing here all alone.

He picked the basket in which the baby was sitting and moved toward his apartment.

He took the baby to his room and tucked her in putting the duvet on it and placing various pillows around it and goes out after kissing her forehead.

"Goodnight baby,"

He moved toward his living room and checked the basket to find some baby essentials and a letter that said that her parents can't afford her expenses because she was ill and that's why they are leaving her here.

He was angry after reading it but it also pained his heart that how can someone abandon a part of them this easily just because they can't afford the expense, how people didn't fight for their loved ones, and leave them that again reminded him of his Jhalli.

He shook his head and moved toward his room where the cutest baby he ever saw was sleeping.

He smiled at her, after so many months this broken soul was able to heal a part of his broken heart.

He laid down with her and soon sleep came to him after so much time, he sleeps without any thought.

He reported the issue to the police as it's his responsibility and called his father to come to his house with Hina as soon as possible.

They came soon and got shocked as they saw him with the baby busy feeding her and doing work simultaneously.

Hina took the baby from him and he tells his father everything and his family was so proud of him.

They took the baby to the hospital for her check-up and the doctor told him that they have to do check up and she was fine but he will do some tests and then informed him.

They go to his home and the police called that they can't find out her parents so he can send her to an orphanage.

But his heart was not ready for this, so he talks with his lawyer and started the process of legally adopting his baby girl.

He named her Maham, silly but it's somehow soothed his pained heart and that's how his baby girl becomes his second solace in the earth.

He smiled at his daughter who maybe not his biologically but he has accepted her as his with his soul and heart.

His Mahi was busy clicking pictures of her surroundings, he saw her bouncing around but still not running as her Baba warned her.

He looked at his watch and looked around, he notices that the sky was dark now.

He has to go home before his sister came with the rescue team.

"Baby... Mahi come we are getting late,"

He called his baby who came toward him and hugged his legs.

"Baba, can I have my favorite treat please?"

His baby girl looked at him with pleading eyes and he chuckled because she knew his weakness, her pout, and doe eyes.

"Ok beta you can have it but just one... No more,"

She pouted at his words but soon giggles as her Baba picked her up and moved toward the car.

His daughter was just like his Jhalli, she also like donuts and sometimes she took his coffee mug sipping it and rushing around him.

But he didn't let her drink more as it was not good for her.

She also likes the beach and he took her there whenever he was missing his Jhalli.

So he can enjoy his moments with his daughter and relish the memories of his best friend.