Written in the Stars

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"I can tell you one thing, jail is no fun." Momin Bhai began, as his fingers drummed themselves on the steering wheel.

"You've been to jail?" Dina questioned, arching her head towards the man.

Even Yaseen lifted his sleeping mask slightly to see what Momin Bhai's answer was going to be.

"Yeah---Once in Monopoly."

This caused both Dina and Yaseen to groan and slump back to their usual position.

They had been on the road the whole day, all the while Dina's phone was continuously buzzing. It was supposed to be her nikkah to Zeeshan Abdullah today if she hadn't escaped.

She felt guilty for leaving without informing anyone. But, she had no other option. Her mother hadn't paid any heed to her, when she had voiced her queries asking for a little more time.

Her mother's exact response each time was, "Ye sab chonchale hai tum ladkiyon ke, jab tumhara time aayega tab tak to sab acche ladkon ki shaadi ho jaayegi"

(All these are unecessary dramas that you girls do, until you finally agree to get married all the good guys will already be settled)

Dina got only frustrated whenever she heard this. Why was it so necessary for life to be unbelievably annoying?

She was dragged out of her thoughts when she heard Yaseen's undeniably loud snores and Momin Bhai coughing loudly spitting his saliva everywhere like rain.

Dina looked at Momin Bhai in disgust causing his to smile sheepishly as he wiped his mouth with a kerchief.

She shook her head and glanced over the back seat where Yaseen was sprawled asleep.

That is when it struck her realisation.

She was in this khanjar's nikkah!

The irony here was she ran away from marriage to get married. That clearly wasn't what she wanted.

But, it was Yaseen. Just him. He probably didn't even care.

And that disappointed her, she didn't know why, but it did.

God! Why is she even thinking about all this?

She should have thought about all this before running away.

She wanted to scoff at herself right now.

The had stopped at a gas station now, and surprisingly enough Yaseen had woken up screaming that his bladder is going to tear.

While he ran towards the bathroom, Momin Bhai got down to feed some diesel to his Gul-e-Rana.

Dina walked towards the small store that was connected to the gas station, stretching her limbs.

But, her eyes widened in shock when she saw Inspector Zeenat and Dilbar interrogating the shopkeeper with a photograph.

How did they even reach here before them?

She wanted to run towards the van, but she saw Yaseen exiting the bathroom.Which was inside the store.

He then walked towards, the food aisle, scratching his head. The aisle was right behind Dilbar.

Dina wanted to scream at Yaseen, but that would only get him caught.

Then something awfully strange happened, Dilbar turned around and made eye contact with Yaseen. Before turning back towards the shopkeeper.