Zara returned home after visiting graveyard, her eyes red from crying . Her mind was still wandering, lost in thoughts of her father, it was dinner time she came downstairs, and seeing roohi on the staircase with a fruit bowl she stopped.
Roohi approached zara, and placed her hand on zara's shoulder
"Tumare baba coward the zara isliye tumhe chordkar chale gaye, mere baba duniya ke best baba hai wo mujhe kabhi akela nhi chordte, mere baba ko apne baba na samjhna, wo sirf mere hai" she said gazing into zara's eyes.
Anger rushed through zara's body.
"Mere baba coward nahi hai"
She yelled at her, and jerked her shoulder causing the fruit bowl in roohi's hand to slip and fall, the glass bowl shattered, a small piece peirced roohi's skin.
"Ouchhh" she screamed, zara stood there frozen in shock.
Maria and Ahmed rushed towards roohi
"Roohi"
Ahmed yelled causing zara to flinch.
"Kaise hue yeh beta" Maria asked roohi looking carefully towards her feet.
Roohi pointed at zara.
"she pushed me baba, and bowl broke, she even said that you are coward" she said, her tears seemingly fake, as zara noticed a hint amusement in her eyes.
Ahmed's expression darkened and he turned towards zara, his voice shaking with anger.
"You did this? You hurt my daughter?".
He slapped her hard that she slipped down from stairs.
"Maine aisa nahi kaha" she said knowing that he wouldn't believe her.
"Maria dekh rahi ho is ladki ki himmat, mere muh par jhut bolrahi hai, aur isne mujhe buzdil (coward) bola, maine kaha tha tumhe ise apne bhaiyo ke paas chord aao, mai aaj is ladki ki jaan lelunga"
Bhai?? Zara frowned her eyes.
Maria took roohi to lounge where zara was lying on floor holding her face, Ahmed rushed down and held zara's shoulder in a tight grip, his nails digging deep into her flesh.
"Mujhe buzdil kaha, repeat it again" Ahmed's rage was unrelenting.
Zara always had answers ready in back of her tongue but she always prefer silence, this time without even knowing words spilled from her mouth
"coward" she replied, gazing him with same intensity.
Ahmed nostrils flared in rage, he scanned the room and grabbed a vase from nearby table. With a swift motion, he has thrown it in zara's direction, before she could realise what he did, maria pushed her out of the way, the vase shattered on floor, the sound echoing through the room.
Meanwhile zara's forehead crashed into the edge of the table, blood gash streaming down her cheeks like a crimson river, the cut was deep that zara stood frozen, her eyes wide with shock.
But Ahmed's anger showed no signs of calmness, Without warning, he dragged zara to the driveway, his hands rough and unyielding, maria widened her eyes with horror, she was not expecting Ahmed to behave in such way, as Ahmed grabbed a kerosene bottle from cabinet, before she could even think of intervening, he doused zara's head with flammable liquid soaking her hair and skin, zara stood there frozen, her mind was so blank that she didn't cared to protest or run
Maria came running and pushed the bottle away, she saw the anger in Ahmed's eyes and she knew she had to act fast. Ahmed stormed into the kitchen to get a match box to set zara on fire, Maria dragged zara from the house quickly, they ran out into the empty street. Zara was so blank her mind reeling from the sudden violence. She turned toward her mother and for once she thought to hug her and cry. But maria kept pulling her along, Zara's leg moved automatically to match her pace.
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A beautiful mishap
General Fiction"Step into the world of Malik mansion, where two brothers unaware of their sister fight with their own battles,meanwhile their sister is trapped in a family she feels abandoned from, she has a dream to escape from the world she is living, but instea...
