Falling For Haneef

29.

His hands and legs were cuffed to the bed as he slept, I can't imagine how he must be feeling. His mother wasn't the best but of course, he still loved her, a lot. His favourite memory of her was how she'd brag about how handsome he was to her friends all the time, at least when she did that, he felt loved and appreciated. He missed her and for her to come back solely with the purpose of ruining his life, it must be devastating. " Excuse me, can I come in?" A police officer asks, slightly opening the door to Haneef's room. " Yes please"

" I'm so sorry for your loss,.." he starts and I simply nod. " We found your car in the estate, we took a look at the camera footage around and noticed that a car had intentionally crashed into yours in order to kidnap the lady driving your car" you have got to be kidding me. " kidnap?" I snap. Which kain wahala be this now?. Ya Allah.

" We're trying to identify the car used to take her but it had no plate numbers and the men who took her were heavily armed with masks on" I told her to stay calm and wait for me and now look, oh my goodness. Why would anyone want to kidnap her?
I shouldn't even be asking that, but why in the world immediately after this incident?. " We're going to have to wait for them to call"

" did they hurt her?"

" she suffered a blow to the head from the butt of a gun and was unconsciously taken" this is seriously messed up. I probably should have considered listening to her outburst, she had a bad feeling about all this and she's paying the price already.

" is waiting the only thing we can do?, we can't locate where the car went?"

" unfortunately, not all the houses on the street had cameras that we could look at to know exactly the route the kidnappers took" he says and I let out a heavy sigh.

I can't believe I failed to protect her, Subhanallah. " We're going to keep you updated" of course.
I really shouldn't have left her alone. What's her father going to say?
I can't honestly sit here and wait, I really need to find her, they can literally do anything to her.

Haneef suddenly begins to blink his eyes and try to move until his eyes slowly meet mine. " Why are you here?" He manages to ask, voice laced with weakness. " How's Ameerah?" He asks again and I try to hold myself back from crying. " she didn't make it" I respond and watch him fix his eyes to the hospital's white ceiling.

" I thought I was the only one seeing her again" he says under his breath and I manage to pick it up. " seeing who again?"

" Mama. She has been coming to see me ever since I lost Ameerah back then, she'd sometimes cheer me up and tell me what to do. When things went wrong she became violent" Habeebah has been the imaginary person Haneef has been having to deal with, oh my, Subhanallah. " I was excited to see her again, even if no one could see her. So I was confused when she actually showed up and everyone could see her" I can't believe he didn't mention all this to me. Things wouldn't have escalated if he actually confided in me. " Ameerah's alive I'm certain, Mama just got angry with me, that's why she said we're siblings and tried to stop our wedding. We can still get married" oh no. " Haneef she really didn't make it"

" Then why's she at the door waiting to see me?" He says and I instantly turn around to meet an empty door. I really think I shouldn't be here now, things can get out of hand.  " I should let you two talk then" I say, getting up from my seat. " Thank you Saleem. Thank you for always being there for me" Seeing Habeebah in reality again I'm sure has made matters worse for him. It's going to be hard for him to differentiate between what's real and what's not now. " I'm sorry you had to end up this way man" I say as I watch him smile at thin air.
He really deserved better.

I find the doctor that attended to Haneef arranging his transfer papers back to Kaduna right outside his room door, and my heart finally drops, making me fall to the ground, literally letting all the tears I've been holding back fall.
How exactly am I going to start searching for Zakiyah?. Is Haneef ever going to get better?. Is going back to living a normal life with my bestfriend ever going to be possible?. Oh ya rabb, it all hurts so much.
Right now, I can only hold on to our beautiful memories, with the hope of him getting better.