समय

Jane Pehchane Ajnabee..

"Mumma!! Ammiii!! Areh Malikk jiii!!!..", Rukhmani shouted shaking her mother's arms as few cars behind them started making noise to move them up.

Haseena snapped out of her thoughts exhaling deeply as She glanced towards her daughter, "Haa... Ha babyy.. I am sorry...".

Haseena changed the gear and moved her car forward entering inside the venue parking lot. And soon other cars behind her followed her behind reserving another parts of the lot.

Haseena parked her car and got outside along with her coat and the copy of her book. Rukhmani meanwhile got outside too with her tablet coming towards her mother She asked worriedly, "Malik Ji aapko hua kya tha? Aap thik hai?".

Haseena breathed out deeply her anxiety kneeling down infront of her daughter She replied, "Yes pumpkin! I am all fine.. Chaliye ab anadar hamari book se sabke hosh udane hai!".

Rukhmani smiled widely but deep down knew her mother was hiding something but She decided not to push it and went along with her mother. Of course excited to meet all her favorites there.

The venue was a simple decorated hallway with different corners having different books and their authors lined up. It was indeed a huge event for both writers and their admiring readers. Haseena's employees were ready setting all the first edition copies around the stall in attractive way with a small nice pictures of author aka Haseena Malik herself on the front banner.

People were glancing around taking note of the new writer's entry into the writing world. But aa expected most of the crowd was surrounded around the famous ones.

"Malik ji, event shuru ho usse pehle chaliye na hamari autograph lene mai help kariye na please!", Rukhmani insisted and Haseena scrapped her neck knowing this will be heavy task for a introvert and rude person like her.

Eventually She agreed to her daughter as last thing She would want hurting her. As they reached near the first stall and Rukhmani's excitement reached at the peak point seeing her favorite fantasy novel writer. (I will also jump if I see JK Rowling there LOL!)

"Kuch jyada nahi uchal rahi aap? Bhuliye mat ham bhi writer hai!", Haseena said shrugging off shoulder while looking at her excited kid.

Rukhmani calmed down a bit and then said with her baby tone, "Ammi... hehe You know I love you right? Ab unki novels khud aapne bhi padhi hai na? You know She is the best in her field!".

"Ha ha ab hamare hi logical statements se hame hi mat fasaye aap! Laiye aapki diary!", Hasseena took the autograph diary from the latter and walked towards the author passing the long queue behind while Rukhmani following her behind holding her mother's another hand.

"Arehh look who's here!!! Sexy author of Hottest Youth!!! Aajkal young generation mai tumhare bade charche hai bhai..", JK said standing up to hug the latter happily.

Haseena smiled a little and hugged back the latter   and replied, "Itni tarif!! Publication nahi mil raha ya aagli book ke liye plot?".

JK laughed at the known witty replies of the latter and excused herself from her readers to talk aside with the latter. "Areh ab kya batau Ms Malik! Hamare fantasy world ki kahani ab jyada pasand aa nahi rahi kisiko! Jo hai wo famous hue padi peheli  das kitabo ki wah wahayi hi lut rahe ham bas.. Kuch sochna tu mere liye if possible?", JK asked looking towards the latter hopefully.

Even though Haseena was just a beginner in this world where her first book was launched mere two years before and second one was going to be launched today, the person as a author was pretty famous among all. Her first book had set the bars so high that every author admired her for that.