It Was Only You

❣ It was Only You [17] ❣

'Mera vishwaas karo Zoya, mujhe koi idea nahi tha tumhare calls or sms's ke baareme. Jab mere paas mera purana sim card bhi nahi tha toh kaise'

'Mere bina apne aapko sambhal ne ki aadat daal lo Zoya, kamzor mat padhna. Maine bataya thaana, tum nazuk ho, kamzor nahi? Nahi toh mujhe bhi tumhari aadat padh jaayegi'

"Appi...!!!"

Zoya was oblivious to her surroundings when she drove back home amidst the rain that felt like a curse to her. She usually enjoyed the little drizzles of rain and loved being outside home, just dripping wet without caring about what others said to her about falling sick later on. But Zoya started hating rain the day she saw her entire world falling apart right in front of her eyes, on the 19th of March. She can never forget that gloomy day. But she again fell in love with rain surprisingly the day she let go of her past memories for a better future and started breathing fresh air once again and got soaked in rain to her heart's content.

But today was the day it all changed once again and this time she realized that she was never in love with rain but with some good memories that she had shared with a certain 'Azeez dost' in the city of Mumbai. The azeez dost whom she's going to lose forever.

Zoya didn't know how she managed to reach home when she was not feeling good and conscious herself with the dilemma she was facing. Her life has reached a situation where everything felt depressing, the day was more then brutal to her and tomorrow she is bound to leave the city of Mumbai, the city where she found a new identity for herself, according to her abbu's strict decision otherwise she would have gone somewhere else, some place else where she would have calmed down herself finally, where her heart would feel at peace, where her feet would take her literally. To Aditya's...

She arrived home past seven at night and Roshnaq and Noor were already tensed thinking about her condition since Zoya had already been through a cold at the beginning of the same week and today it was again raining and she was supposed to return home by evening. Neither has Zoya picked up any of the calls which Noor made continuously to her appi's phone nor has she replied to any of her messages and Waseem was bound to return home before ten pm and by then, if Zoya hadn't reach home Roshnaq was thinking of an excuse to build up to convince Waseem in order to stop him from checking Zoya's condition when they heard her car speeding up the alley.

The worried mother and sister ran downstairs to check with Zoya when they saw her walking inside the house closing the door behind her, looking nowhere in particular. Noor called out to her appi but unfortunately to deaf ears.

Zoya looked pale, fragile and numb when she headed inside her house. Her mind was only crowded with words uttered by Aditya in the afternoon. She had no hope left now. She kept on thinking about him and her miserable situation and her breakdown in the end while making herself through the living room of the Siddiqui house. Noor tried to talk with Zoya by shaking her shoulders but her head was feeling warm and uneasy. It was as if her world was spinning around at a high speed and there was nothing she could do in order to stop at one place.

Her heart was screaming at her aloud saying that she needs to go to Aditya back since he's her only destination in life but she couldn't comprehend why yet. The mere kiss has killed something strange within her and she was even more puzzled with all the tension. Roshnaq saw confusion written all over her elder daughter's face and knew that nothing would calm her down anymore.

"Appi, please say something. Aise chup mat rahiye aap please, kuch toh boliye!"

Noor couldn't take it anymore and shouted at her sister. At once Zoya stopped in her tracks and when she turned around slowly to face her mother and sister finally, she saw some lights dim in front of her eyes creating a headache and everything blackened out before she closed her eyes and saw Aditya's smiling face.