Empowered

18 | Emotions

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Hamdan

Sabeen was ten years younger than me.

I still remember when I just entered my teens, and everything annoyed me, and I often found myself being followed by Sabeen, who excitedly loved to act like my shadow.

"Dado, stop her! She follows me everywhere!" I used to moan, while my grandmother just laughed.

"She just wants to play, Hamdan." Dado used to replied. "She adores you." 

Appi used to give Sabeen more care and affection when Sabeen was very young, but my little sister somehow always found her way to me.

"Bhai..." Currently, she was huddled up behind me, terrified.

"We'll be fine, In Sha Allah." I kept repeating, even when the gun was aimed straight at me.

But even in the face of danger, it kept bothering me that Sabeen thought her life was less valuable just because she didn't have a spouse and/or kids. I knew that she always had insecurities due to lack of parental love, but to this level?

The sound of the police sirens made me weak with relief.

"Bhai, police aagayi hai." One of the men told the leader, grabbing his arm.

*"Bhai, the police is here."

But the man with the gun kept staring in my direction, an inhuman coldness in his eyes. "I want Gillani blood on my hands."

"Bhai, chal!" His companions started to run out, panicking.

*"Bhai, let's go!"

"This time you got lucky." The man with the gun muttered, before running off.

"I'm sorry, Bhai." Sabeen started crying harder. "I am the one who got you trapped here with me." 

I turned and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "It's okay. I'm glad you weren't alone. I'm glad I was here with you." 

When Sabeen had contacted me that she was being followed, she had already been caught by this psychos, and they had used her to lure me. Once I'd reached the location, I had been ambushed by the men, and brought here along with Sabeen.

"And if you ever say that your life is less valuable than ours, I will shave your hair off." I teased her. "You mean so much to us, you have no idea." 

"Is Appi okay? I didn't get a chance to contact her for obvious reasons."

"I hope she's okay. She's not here, which is a good sign." I glanced towards the only door, where the army of idiots had escaped from. "Let's go." Cautiously keeping Sabeen behind me, I headed out. 

"Being a Gillani has more disadvantages than advantages." She muttered, clutching my arm. "I really thought that we were going to die today." 

We would have, had the police sirens not intervened in their plans. "Let's not think about it anymore, Sabeen. We're okay, Alhumdulillah. And we are almost out of here." 

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"Your friend is a very capable man, Mr Gillani. He has a potential to be in the police." The policeman in charge of our search shook my hand, as he nodded towards Ashar.

"Nah, uniforms restrict me." Ashar grinned. "I'm good the way I am. And besides, it's not me. Thank the manufacturer of the smartphone."

"Don't act modest. I know what a show-of you really are." I shook my head at him, smiling.