The Truth Unfolded ✔️

Many Things Happen

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CHAPTER #20

Hafsa's POV

A few days passed and I am missing zafar a lot!
I thought it's time to tell ammi that I'll take my leave.
I walked down the room. I was quite healthy now. Ammi was watching tv with samreen and abba wasn't at home.

"watching tv?" I asked and sat down beside samreen.

"yeahh" samreen replied

"ammi, where's abba?"

"he's gone out for some important work" she said

"important work? What is that work?" I asked

"you'll know by today evening"

What can it be? Ughh

"ammi I wanted to say that I wanna go home today" I said smiling. Ammi glared at me for a moment.

"which home?"

Ammi stop joking! My own home where zafar and I live. I wanna go back to him cuz now I'M FINE!!

"I want to go back to Zafar's home. I am fine now so I think I can take my leave"

"you aren't going anywhere now" she said

"but ammi.."
"go to your room and rest. No need of your advance thinking and I won't tolerate it" she said that without looking at me

That shut me up. Ammi had changed a lot since a few days and I had never seen her like this before. Surely, something was going on.
Abba was also not staying at home so much recently and after what ammi said, it seemed that he is going out for some work which is somehow related to me.
I went to my room and took my book to read. That study was roaming in my mind again and again so I thought I would take a tour there too when ammi will be in the bathroom, bathing.

After a while, ammi called out to me and samreen. We were watching doreamon since half an hour. "I'm going to take bath till your abba comes"

This was my chance!

"you watch, I'll be back in 5 minutes..don't go anywhere ok?" I said to samreen

She nodded. She was literally dug inside the tv.
I ran up the stairs and walked opposite of my room to meet the study.
I slowly rotated the handle and opened to see a nicely organized study.
I walked in. There was a thin layer of dust covering all the things. Maybe it wasn't cleaned from a few months.

I walked towards the book shelves. There were many files and books piled neatly in the shelves. I slowly ran my fingers on the books and fascinated how fun abba might have had reading them!
I moved on to the lower rack where a few papers were inserted in between of random pages in the magazines. I took the magazines and slowly placed on the table. I opened them and removed the papers one by one and placed on the table piling them up beside the magazines.
I was running out of time as I suspected ammi was almost done with her bath so, I took the papers, closed the door slowly so that it doesn't make sound and slowly tiptoed fastly to my room and hid them in my handbag which was big enough for the papers to adjust in.

At night, after dinner, I cleaned some dishes before going to bed. When I was walking to my bedroom, I heard ammi and abba talking something in their room.
I know it's wrong to hear secretly to someone like that but it was something I had to hear.

"the papers are ready, I'll get them tomorrow"

What papers is abba talking about?

"great, today hafsa had been telling she'll go back but I refused it straight on her face"