Emir And Feriha - The Journey Continues

Part 15

On stepping the US soil, feriha couldn't help but remember her last visit. 3 years back, she set her foot first time on this foreign soil. Heart broken, full of deceit and uncertain future. While closing the door of their house she left emir's feriha behind. She promised herself that she will never ever look back. The man she saw who was raising the toast with Mr. Ahsan and Ece was not Emir that she loved, he was somebody else. Levent was by her side, he helped her in this time when she was alone. He stood by her through all her trials and tribulations, encouraging her to be successful, to fulfil her mother's dream.
She worked day and night relentless. She lost her smiling and loving demeanour all that remained was bitterness. Levent cajoled her into speaking her heart many times, but she couldn't get herself to ever talk about Emir much. All that she felt always remained inside. At her school or workplace none knew about her bitter past. Every time she wrote her name, the surname made her winch with pain. So she finally decided, on insistence of levent, to remove that surname and that's when she sent for divorce. She wanted freedom from his bitter memories. But, a divorce is mere piece of paper it does not wipe someone away from your heart. She always lived with Emir's memory. She didn't know how to love? From the time she understood the word love she knew only Emir. Levent tried all his ways to take Emirs place in her life, but he couldn't ever do that. With time he learnt, he can never try to take his place. His love will always be shrouded under Emir's memories.
Today, when she looked around the airport, the place looked different, because this time another feriha had landed, Emir's feriha.
She did not waste much time and reported to office as soon as she could. She didn't want to stay too long. Her office colleagues congratulated her and wished her a happy life ahead.
Her friend azra, came and hugged her and said "I am really happy to see you. you look so different so beautiful" feriha blushed on hearing that. "where is levent?" feriha understood she is mistaken.
"I have married my ex-husband" she said. Azra quickly said sorry for having mistaken and asked her "how did this happen?" Feriha had spilled few pains of her heart to azra, after her divorce. Feriha told her story in breif. They were sitting in the room that faced a garden of the office. After sometime feriha observed a rose plant and said "azra, when did they plant this tree? I don't seem to remember this"
Azra smiled and answered "it was always here, you never noticed it feriha"

Koray and hande:

Koray and hande had planned their wedding after 2 weeks. Before leaving for Istanbul koray had called his parents. His mother in particular was very happy with his decision. Over the years they had accepted Gulsum; but they found it difficult to form a parents-in-law and daughter-in-law rapport. She was a daughter-in-law for namesake. Koray's mom had also guessed that all was not well between the couple. Though koray never spoke about the relation he shared with gulsum. When koray told them about divorce they weren't much surprised.
After meeting Emir, koray and hande went to hande's house. Koray' parents were expected to come to Istanbul from Ankara. And in  the evening, koray' parents and Hande's mom met formally to decide the wedding. It was the most awaited moment of koray's life. He had spent endless night lost in oblivion, for the lady who sat infront of him today as his would be life partner. There was no night he spent since he knew fancying hande. He dreamt of this day but had lost hope it would ever come true. It felt like the time today was ticking very fast. He wished he had control over time.
For hande, marrying koray had become a mirage. The journey so far had been like a rough sea, their ship of love almost sank but today finally it reached the shore safely.
In the night, koray took Hande to Emir's club. They danced like old times till wee hours of morning. They were drunk and laughing. Emir suggested to them to stay at the hotel. He escorted them to their room and he too stayed at another room in hotel.
In the morning when koray woke up, hande was sleeping like a baby in his arms. She had a serene and calm look. Her face glowed like golden streak of morning sun. He lightly stroked her hair and smiled at his fate. He slowly slipped his hand out and got up. As he sat, his head felt heavy from yesterday's drinking. He got up to drink something to relive the ache and checked his phone. He remembered it was Saturday and he had to meet kaan today. With that he also realized his son also has to know about changes in his father's life and he had to do that very sensitively. It is always difficult for a son to accept a step mom. This was a difficult predicament but he was afraid if it was not handled properly he may lose his son. He looked at hande and thought 'I know you will love kaan like me'