“ baaqi rahi hai dil mai

yeh hasrat tamam umar

'mahtab' ka dayar ho

uss ki gali ke saath ”

...

His fingers massaging her head effortlessly. He was looking at her and smiling. He didn't think that one day one of his many dreams will came into reality. In moment of adoration, he leaned in to kiss her on her forehead. He was about to put his lips on her forehead when he saw little creases appearing on them. She was waking up, but he didn't moved back.

He kissed her on her lips, he didn't knew why. He crossed a very thin line. Now she was fully awake, her cheeks turning red and her eyes looking anywhere but at him. And he was just busy watching her.

Her blushing face and her silent consent give him some assurance and he leaned in to kiss her again. Soon the kiss turned into a heated moment and then one thing lead to another.

Two love birds uniting and the moon, the stars, the universe witnessing their union in the middle of the night.

Finally, they found their seashore after swimming for so long.

...

Her body was aching with a different kind of pain. Sunlight hitting directly on her face and a realisation hit her, she always slept closing the windows. Her sleepiness long gone, she looked around her surrounding. And saw a man laying beside her, he was shirtless, then she looked at herself, then Their discarded clothes on the floor. Her head felt heavy and the collection of last nights started playing infront of her eyes like a movie.

Her went out to meet Rayyan.

Rayyan hugging her.

Then her fainting.

And after that.... that means it wasn't a dream, i was actually doing it...Afeerah what the hell you did....she thought and started crying. Hearing her weeping, he woke up too.

And the same realisation hit him in the guts, he got closer to her, but she pushed him away.

"Why did you do it?" She murmured in a breaking tone. Seeing her eyes Rayyan understood, she was blaming him, even though its a two parties cooperation act.

"Afeerah...We were just lost in the moment."

Rayyan placed a hand around her shoulder and tried to reason with her. But she pushed it away Harshly.

"I don't need your fake empathy."

"But i do need your empathy."

And he leaned in to kiss her, just the she punched him on his shoulders.

"Are you out of your mind?"

"Afeerah now you're abusing me." He Said massaging his shoulders.

"Stop it Rayyan. Its already 10 AM and I'm here in your room and in Khan Mansion. Have you thought what are you going to say to everyone out their." Afeerah was now clearly seeing the future and how she was going to be insulted.....

"Nothing." Rayyan got up from the bed, not before kissing her.

"RAYYAN AT LEAST WEAR YOUR CLOTHES."

"You've seen it all baby." Rayyan winked at her and then disappear in the bathroom.

At this point Afeerah has literally lost her senses. She couldn't believe what is happening with her life.

...

She was right now sitting in Khan Mansion's lounge, with Saman Begüm on her right and Salma khanam on her left side. They both were murmuring something and then blowing a hooo on her face meanwhile, Rayyan was sipping his coffee and enjoying this session.

She looked at Rayyan with eyes that were saying she'll kill him any moment and he just winked at her. She got more furious but couldn't do anything in her and his mother's presence.

"Shukriya Rayyan beta agar tum na hote. Tou meri bacchi pata nahi kaise wapis aati ghar. Lekin yeh tumhe mili kahan." Salma khanam looked at her son proudly.

"I was Just out for a run and then i saw Afeerah sleep walking and going towards the abandoned bridge. I followed her and the i saw her fainting near the Banyan tree. I didn't go to your house Saman aunty, because i Know people would have started gossiping about Afeerah again....so i take her with me here and arranged her stay in the guest room....and then informed you about her...." Rayyan was saying a white lie and Afeerah's face was getting Redder due to anger, she couldn't believe him sometimes.

"Ahh Rayyan." Şaman Begüm hugged Rayyan.

"Now Afeerah get up, your abba is waiting for us. Come on hurry."

Afeerah got up from the sofa and after saying goodbye both the mother daughter duo was ready to go.

Afeerah was in the corridor, when she saw Rayyan standing in her way. Her mother was busy talking with Rania.

"Aaj aaugi na milne?"

"Nahi aungi."

"Lekin kyun?"

"Jiss din tum apni family ko bata diya ki mai tumhari kya hun."

Afeerah didn't looked back and walked out of Khan Mansion. She never imagined her life would get knotted in so many knots one day, that she would lost herself in untangling them.

Afeerah and Saman Begüm were on their way to their house, when Afeerah saw the same cap wearing man standing on the far end of the pathway.

She got horrified. Her misconceptions and fear were turning into reality.

...

"Ammi."

"Hmmmm."

"Ammi."

"Hmmmmmmmmmmm."

"Ammi I'm talking to you, not to a cow." Rayyan said in a bizzare town and then Salma khanam slapped him hard on his head, destroying his hairstyle.

"AMMI." Rayyan got up from the bed, still massaging his head.

"Aacha accha ab ni marungi mera baccha iddhr aa...." Salma khanam muttered in a sweet tone and Rayyan sat beside her just to recieve a hard slap across his face.

"Now don't dare to say I'm a cow." And with that Salma khanam got busy in knitting the sweater again, that came into Rayyan's attention and saw she is knitting a sweater for a baby.

"Ammi?"

"Hmm."

"For whose baby you are knitting this sweater."

"Your baby, Rayyan."

"Ammi what?" He thought for a second he heard something wrong.

"I'm thinking about your marriage. Mashaallah you're now turning twenty nine this January." She affectionately patted her son's cheeks.

"And with whom?"

"Sumaiya, your Khala's daughter." She said like they're talking about weather and not about her future daughter in law.

"But i don't want to marry any Khala, Phuphoo's beti ammi."

Salma khanam looked at him seriously.

"You like someone else, Rayyan?" Her tone was more serious than her face.

"Yes Ammi." Rayyan's head bowing in shame.

"Who?"

"Afeerah Farid."

Rayyan looked up to see her face, a big no was written all over her face. He bowed his head down again.

"You know she's possessed by a jinn Rayyan and—

"Ammi she's not possessed by any jinn...and we have already done court marriage."

"WHAT." Salma Khanam shouted on top of her lungs and started beating Rayyan with her slippers.

"Ammi at least listen to me first—

She stopped beating him and then Rayyan started telling her everything.

....

Afeerah was sleeping peacefully in her room, when she felt a heavy burden on her chest it was like someone is sitting on her chest. Someone was choking to her death. She couldn't understand what is happening with her. She tried to move her body, but it was of no use, her body is numb.

"I WARNED YOU. YOU'RE MINE AFEERAH YET YOU GET CLOSER TO A MAN AND LOST YOUR INNOCENCE. WHICH IS MINE TO CLAIM. NOW YOUR LOVER WILL HAVE TO PAY." she knows whose voice it is.

Her body is betraying her and she didn't knew, what is happening with her. The pain on her chest is İncreasing.

"Leave me." She stuttered and with in a moment, it was all over.

She got up and turn on the bedside lamp, she placed her hand on her heart calming her self.

Your lover will have to pay.... that voice is keep on playing in her mind.

"Rayyan."

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