Tere Saath (One Shots)

Ishq (2)

Other side murtasim entered his room and slumped down on his couch. He sighed and closed his eyes but meerab's words rang in his head.

"tumhari biwi kaisi hai?"  Was that all she wanted to ask him? Ofcourse she would. you dumb, you said the same infront of her 3 years ago. His mind chided him. He remembered how they were happy in their own world. How they dreamt of their future together. But not all dreams can come true.

Flashback

Meerab waqas khan the outspoken, fierce along with shyness clouded in her, she stood by what's right and loved everyone whole heartedly. Murtasim Khan was one of them who won her heart. They grew up together and murtasim treated his cousins equally. But he was extra protective towards meerab. Firstly everyone thought it was his cousin instincts but only meerab knew how he cared about her. He never took chances when its about meerab. Mariyam used to occasionally tease her about his fondness towards her which meerab used to slide it off. Murtasim never paid any heeds to mariyam's teasings but his heart used to flutter when he observed how meerab used to blush because of her teasings. He knew meerab had liking towards him but didn't express it to him. It was her birthday where he confessed his feelings to her to which meerab accepted it. It was obvious that only mariyam knew about their proposal and was happy for her brother and cousin.

But they say that happiness doesn't last long. Haya. She was obsessed with murtasim since childhood. She always dreamt of being his wife, having control over gaddi, haveli and over him too. She can go to any lengths to get what she wanted. What she didn't knew was murtasim wasn't any object to possess. She was possessed to another level that she used to act as his wife and rule over people in haveli. Maa begum used to slid it off as one of her madness but anyone could see it was not any mere madness. Murtasim who knew this tried shifting her to dadiyal. But her grandmother couldn't take her madness and used to send her to haveli for every 2/3 days. Maa begum somehow manofied murtasim to let go of the matter. Meerab was still skeptical but kept quite knowing murtasim will deal with it.

One more bane for their relationship was maa begum. She never liked meerab and murtasim wandering together. She always used to lecture meerab to not entertain him and keep her distance with him. But meerab being herself didn't discuss this with murtasim and also didn't keep her distance. If she did he would ask her the reason and she would blurt it out in front of him. Then there would be rift between him and his mother. She tried limiting herself in meeting him but he was adamant of being with her. Sighing she used to give up. It was one fine day when murtasim and meerab were at their fields. Murtasim was under inspection work so he dragged meerab along with him much to maa begum's dislike. He was done with his work and was resting himself with support of a tree with meerab supporting her back with murtasim. He was back hugging her and kept his head on her shoulder while she was in deep thoughts.

Murtasim: what are you thinking about?

Meerab was startled but shrugged at his question.

Meerab: thinking whether maa begum will accept our relation or not.

Murtasim: hmm. Why wouldn't she? After all I am her lovely son.

Meerab: but she don't like me.

Meerab blurted out in her thoughts.

Murtasim (frowning): why?

Meerab came out of her thoughts and looked at him.

Meerab: I said generally. What if she doesn't like me?

Murtasim: mein hoon na manaa loonga maa ko.

Meerab nodded her head but was skeptical. Murtasim looking at her sighed and said,