Mehrbano is a kind enthusiastic girl entrapped in a loveless marriage with a cold man Ehan Haider. She had fully invested herself in her marriage but she got nothing but pain. She never knew her heart would be shattered into pieces.
She: You have my...
I watched the faces of everyone who wronged my mother. Her mother was crying bitterly on the young death of her daughter. She was one of the people who always forced mama to not get divorced.
My mother's brothers had tears in their eyes but for what. A woman they never believed deserved happiness. Their wives had sadness on their faces who always made sure me and mama don't come into their house as an additional family.
And finally my gaze fell at my father. He was receiving condolences from everyone with a straight face. He had no tears in his eyes.
Why would he have wasted his tears for an unwanted woman?
He did come to me instantly when he received the news of death of my mother. He rested his hand on my head and asked me to have patience.
He came near me after ages. Maybe for a few times he had patted my head in childhood but I grew up in his absence. I didn't feel any kind of emotional attachment to him.
I wouldn't be hurt if he hadn't come to me all. He started arranging the funeral with Kabir Uncle. Ayesha walked into the annex, she came near to me, I was standing near the bed which had dead body of my mother.
"I am shocked to hear that. I still can't believe appa is gone" She wrapped her arms around me and patted my back.
I didn't wrap my arms around her nor moved away. She didn't matter to me at all. I didn't care about her. She was acting as if my mother was her friend. In front of her eyes, my father did injustice to my mother and she never spoke up. Why would she when he chose a married man for herself?
"Thank you" I just muttered when she moved back.
They wanted me to sit somewhere else but I sat with my mother and kept touching her hands. Her face. Because I knew it was the last chance to ever feel her. She won't be with me anymore.
I cried silently sitting next to her.
I couldn't believe she was gone forever. She was just forty-two. Two young to leave this world. She didn't have any illness. She never suffered any unusual pain. It was just it was her written time to leave this world.
She hadn't faced any happiness. She had to seen my marriage yet, it would have given her utmost joy but life doesn't move according to our planning.
That day I lost my mother and a chance to happiness. For next three months I stayed in the annex alone with the memories of my mother. I didn't feel scared, her warmth was there with me in the house. I kept myself busy in university.
After three months, when I was done with my final exams. My father decided to marry me off to someone he knew. I asked him that I wanted to do job and not marry right now but he just said he won't to get done with my responsibility as my mother had talked to him about my marriage before dying.
When he took Mama's name I couldn't refuse. Mama had made me understand that I had to move on. So it was better to start a new life and leave this house which had given nothing to me and my mother.
My father knew Ehan's father and that's how we got married and rest of this is history now.
"You were right mama. Papa had choosen a wrong man for me. Ehan is just like papa. Selfish and pathetic. I won't waste my life for him mama! I won't repeat the same mistake as yours" I nodded as if she could see me.
"You were right we are different individuals. We have different fates. I won't let same injustice happening to me. I will get my freedom" I removed my hands from the soil and stared at the gravestone.
"I will get divorce mama! I will free myself from a selfish man" I got up from the soil and looked at her grave for sometime.
I washed my hands from the tap at the corner and walked out of the graveyard.
I left the old Mehrbano there in the graveyard who loved Ehan Haider with all her heart.
After reaching his appartment, I started packing my stuff. I looked at myself in the mirror and pulled out the blue stone necklace he had gifted my few days back. I threw it on the dressing table carelessly as it meant nothing to me now.
I packed all of my useful things in a suitcase. I left all the jewelry I was gifted by his parents on my marriage in the locker. I removed the ring from my finger which he brought for me from one of his trip. I threw it on the dressing table beside the necklace.
I removed every piece of jewelry from myself which was gifted me ever by him or his parents. I removed the cash from my wallet and placed it in the drawer. I only left a few thousand rupees which were enough to reach my destination.
I took my suitcase in the lounge. It was when the bell rang. I walked to the door and opened it. It was Ehan. He had come earlier today.
"Hi" He mumbled and entered inside. He leaned down at my face to reach my lips but I turned my face. His lips landed at my cheeks.
"It was a long tiring day" He smiled at me. He thought I will invest myself to take away his tiredness like everytime I did in the past.
I think myself as a fool and nothing more for wasting my emotions at him. He deserves nothing but that women he was whoring with.
"Indeed" It wasn't also an easy day for me.
"Are you fine?" He must have sensed something was terribly wrong with the expressions on my face.
"More than fine actually" I glared at him.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Everything"
"Mehr! What happened to you? Is everything alright?" He asked seriously.
I looked into his eyes effortlessly today. Just one look of his face told me he was very happy today. His eyes twinkled today. His calm self pointed towards something that made him very happy. I knew him very well.
God knows what happiness he got after smashing my heart under his feet.
"I want divorce" I closed the door of my heart for him forever and asked confidently without feeling any pain.
He had already inflicted much pain upon me.
I was ready to get out of his cage in which I once stayed with all my will just in a hope that was shattered now.
Just like my heart.
She finally asked for divorce.
What do you think would be his reaction.
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