LET ME LOVE YOU

Chapter 6 - hell hole

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AYA

You know how digestive biscuits literally turn into powder after being crumbled right? That's exactly what I felt like inside. My heart was just numb, my soul is empty and my thoughts are clouded to the max.

It felt as if the oxygen inside the room was completely sucked out as I kept gasping and struggling to breath, all as a result of the tears that refused to fall. I wanted to cry, I wanted to scream and shout until all the pain inside me goes away, I wanted to throw fruits at the wall and watch them get ruined, I wanted to mess everywhere up, just anything that would help me get rid of the pain, but I found myself doing none, I was just numb, as numb as a sore thumb. Just seated on the floor, staring at nothing in particular and breathing heavily while my heart was pumping faster than that of an athlete's after running in a 1000 meters race.

"Aya.....please say something" came Adda Mimi's voice as she sat next to me on the cold tiled floor. After she dropped the bomb on me, she quickly moved me to Hamma Adnan's room, where it was just me and her to keep me away from the chaotic atmosphere all over the house, which I was very thankful for even though it was the least of my worries.

I slowly lifted my head up and looked at my sister, then looked at the henna on my palms before lifting them up to show her "I had the first letter of his name written. He...he said we would play a game where he'd find it"

Adda shut her eyes tightly, which caused the tears she had been holding in fall freely down her cheeks. I wish I could do the same, I wish I could cry but for some reason, I just couldn't. The pain I was feeling was on a completely different level that is way beyond the laws of physics we know, my emotions were just frozen and eyes as dry as the Sahara desert.

"I'm so sorry Aya, I'm really really sorry, I can't even imagine the kind of pain you're going through, and it kills me to know that I can't do anything to help you get rid of it" said Adda, her voice cracking.

I didn't have it in me to talk, I just looked at her and then turned back to the wall I had my eyes on for the last thirty minutes, keeping my silence. Just then, the door was pushed open and Hamma Adnan walked in, his condition same with Adda Mimi's, just that he wasn't crying.

"Abba wants to see you, Aya" he said as he came towards me and helped me stand on my feet "you too Mimi"

He held my hand tightly before we walked out of the room, Abba's section was just a few miles away from Hamma's room so nobody was really there. When we arrived at Abba's living room, I felt like disappearing into thin air, Abba looked so shut down, Mammie was sitting beside him with bloodshot red eyes, His excellency, the minister of finance and Majeed's father was seated on one of the one seater's and his wife Hajiya Rabi was on the other, him looking so guilty and disappointed while she looked exactly like Mammie, just that her eyes portrayed guilt too. Maleek was also there, but he was looking down, not letting me even see his eyes, and then last but not least, the man himself, my 'husband' Hafeez was seated next to Maleek, his expression was really hard to read so I didn't even bother, but one thing I know for sure is that we were both terribly broken inside.

Mammie stood up and pulled me closer, making me sit on the floor next to her and rest my head on her laps. Adda Mimi sat near My mother in law while Hamma sat next to Maleek and Hafeez. The tension in the atmosphere was insanely thick that one could cut it with a knife, so stuffy and uncomfortable.

"I want to start by giving thanks to Allah for sparing our lives to witness the wedding day of our children, without a doubt that is every parent's biggest dream, but not all parents get so lucky" said Alhaji Ahmad, earning a couple of nods from his fellow parents.