His Heartbeat

Chapter 52

"What happened to him?"
Samahir asked while Ayla shrugged.

She was trying her best to not show that she was aware of the reason.

After almost half an hour Ayla was done applying mehndi on Samahir's palm.

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Wali was sitting on bench hearing the screams of silence.

It was 4 in morning and he was still awake.

He couldn't sleep after all!

Just then someone came beside him and he looked up.

Ayla handed him mug of hot chocolate ehich he took without saying anything.

"How's she?"
Wali asked after few moments breaking the silence.

"Just slept. This girl can't get tired if talking about him."
Ayla sighed.

"And that man loves her insanely but had never told her."
Wali smiled slowly  and sipped on his coffee.

Ayla looked at him for a brief moment and then nodded.

"Sometimes life becomes so chaotic."
Wali murmured.

"And all one wants is a break from all those chaos."
Ayla said while looking at the sky.

They both again went silent.

"I never thought that I will witness all this.  Trust me when I say that Ali bhai is the strongest man I have ever come across not from outside but from inside too."
She sighed.

"Yeah life becomes so surprising sometimes.  Same in our case."
Wali murmured.

"Our case?"

"Yes! I never had am idea that I will drink hot chocolate made by you with you and that too under these sparking stars."
Wali let out a sad laugh.

"Yeah! There is too much impossibilities in our case."
She smiled sadly and turned her head towards sky.

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It was 2 in afternoon when Samahir was standing in front of mirror whole dressed up in red frock which was touching the ground.

"Perfect!"
She smiled and took those red bangles and duppata  which Ali bought for her on their Lahore trip.

She was wearing bangles when she heard horn of car.

"He came!"
A smile made its way to her face.

Her heart started beating crazily as if trying to pounce out of her chest.

She quickly threw duppata on her shoulder and ran out.

She was running in whole house and within a moment she was standing in front of main gate.

Wali and Ayla also ran out.

The thing that surprised that was army jeep and a van behind.

Ali was so used to his car that he didn't like to travel in any other car.

Just then someone stepped out of the car.

Samahir smiled at army boots.

Her gaze travelled from toe to head but her smile dropped when her eyes met with the face.

He was not Ali!
He was Zain!

"Zain bhai? Assalam o Alikum! Where.. where is Ali?"
She quickly put duppata on her head.

Zain spared a glance at her mehndi filled palms where bangles were dangling and then at her red dress.

"Zain bhai??"
She almost shouted bringing Zain from his tiny world.