𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒✨

Chapter : 32🥀|I love you.

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❝To be loved deeply brings peace to the heart; to love deeply gives purpose to every beat.❞
-unknown

Aarish Yazeed Khan:

I slowly opened my eyes as I saw a nightmare. I turned to my left side only to find the left side of my bed empty. I frowned. "Mehrish" I called. My eyes move all around the room.

Maybe she's in the washroom.

Few minutes passed she didn't come out. So I got up and I stepped out into the hallway, the silence of the house pressing strangely against my ears.

"Mehrish?" I called again, softer this time.

No answer.

As I was coming downstairs a faint clatter reached me from the kitchen. Metal against marble. My brows drew together. I walked toward the kitchen, still half-drowsy, running a hand through my hair. The lights were on. And then I saw her.

She stood near the stove, her back to me, her dupatta loosely draped over her shoulders. The gas flame flickered beneath the kettle. A song was going on. Which made the scene more beautiful. I leaned on the kitchen door and just watched her. The lyrics of the song and her cutting the vegetables while humming and singing fluttered my heart in a way that I couldn't take my gaze off from her.

Dil ki daali pe kaliyan si khilne lagi~
Buds will bloom on the branches of the heart
Jab nigaahein nigaahon se milne lagi~
When my eyes connect with your eyes
Dil ki daali pe kaliyan si khilne lagi~
Buds will bloom on the branches of the heart
Jab nigaahein nigaahon se milne lagi~
When my eyes connect with your eyes

She froze, completely caught off guard. Her reaction made me made my heart skip a beat.

Ek din is tarah hosh kho jayenge~
One day, we'll lose our senses like this
Paas aaye toh madhosh ho jayenge~
We'll get intoxicated if we come close
Maine socha na tha~
I had not thought about that

We stood there, staring at each other, lost in the connection.

Ek din dil ki raahon mein apne liye~
One day, for us, in the path of the heart
Jal uthenge mohabbat ke itne diye~
Multiple lamps of love will burn
Maine socha na tha~
I had not thought about that

Ek din aap yoon humko mil jayenge~
One day, you'll meet me like this
Phool hi phool raahon mein khil jayenge~
And there will be flowers blooming in the paths
Maine socha na tha~
I had not thought about that

The moment lingered, but when the song ended, an awkward silence filled the space. I slowly walked towards her.
"You shouldn't be wandering the house at night," I said, my voice low, smooth, almost teasing as I came near her.

I noticed she swallowed hard, frozen in place, unable to speak. Looking at me with her big doe eyes like an innocent doll. I was about to say something but In a blink of an eye I noticed the edge of her dupatta shifted.

Too close to the flame.

And in one horrifying second, it caught.

My heart stopped.

"Mehr-!"

But she had already noticed.

Her scream tore through the kitchen.

"My orhna!"

The fire climbed fast too fast going upward along the fabric.

Everything inside me went cold.