FAITH

CH.3: Lady Thief!!!

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"From the earth we created you, and into it we will return you.
And from it we will extract you another time.
- Al-Quran 20:55

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As soon as Efah saw Ahyan in her doorstep, she hurriedly picked up her dupatta and hid herself behind the window curtains.

Ahyan got confused on seeing her reaction. He walked inside the room saying "you forgot to close the box" but looking inside the box he was shocked.
There were jewelleries in the box. Ahyan was confused.
'what is the girl doing with a jewellery box in chaachi's house.' he thought.

When he had gone to meet Amna just a while ago she was telling him
about a a gang of lady thieves.

Previously Ahyan had  thought that Amna was just saying it. He did not believed it to be true. But on seeing the girl, her hurriedly hiding on seeing him and seeing the jewellery box Ahyan sensed something was wrong.

Sooooo now it hit Ahyan, she is the one of the lady thief who was trying to steal his chaachi's jewelleries.

He felt proud on himself as he came on time otherwise she would have stolen everything. He mentally high fived himself for his victory on catching a thief and that too a 'lady thief'.
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Efah on the other hand  had hidden behind the curtains because she was afraid on seeing an unknown person enter her room. Thankfully the curtain on the window was a long one which touched the ground.

Peeking from the curtain she sensed that he was thinking something. His face was turned towards the bed where he was seeing the jewellery box.

She thought it to be the right opportunity to run away from behind him and go and inform others, as it was not safe for her to be here as he had seen her hiding.

'who knows who the boy is' she thought to herself.
She slowly tip toed and came out of  the curtains and had taken only few steps when Ahyan gripped her wrist.
Feeling a hand gripping her wrist Efah was terror struck.

She tried to get free from Ahyan's grip but he was much more stronger than her.

"U were trying to run away in my presence, huh?" Ahyan asked smiling on his victory.

On hearing this Efah got panicked, she was very frightened on Ahyan's question. "Turn around" ordered Ahyan. Efah did not move. She was too frightened to even move. Her heart beat fastened. "I said turn around you thief" Ahyan ordered again, this time more sternly.

As soon as Ahyan said 'thief' Efah turned around,
"what" she said giving a confused and angry look to Ahyan.

'How can an unknown person come in my house, my room and call me a 'thief', she thought.

As soon as Efah turned, on seeing her Ahyan forgot what he was talking about. He stood there silently looking at her, mesmerised.
Her dupatta her fell from her head and some of her hair strands fell on her cheeks.
Seeing Ahyan staring at her, Efah felt very awkward putting the dupatta around her head she once again tried to remove her hands from Ahyan's grip.

Ahyan was brought back from his thoughts when Efah tried to remove her hands from his grip. O my Allah, what am I doing" he thought mentally smacking himself. He washed away his thoughts, still holding Efah's wrist so that she doesn't run away.

"so you were planning to take all these,right" Ahyan said pointing towards the jewellery box. Efah became too confused.

"What"

"Do you know any other word except 'what'?" Ahyan asked mimicking her tone.

It is then Efah realised that she had said it aloud.
She was too confused and frightened to even speak anything. Efah was not a shy type girl, but she was having a strange feeling in Ahyan's presence. She was unable to say something and Ahyan's continous gaze on her made her feel even more uncomfortable.

"so you will not say anything, right? Ok let me take you to Amber chaachi, she'll only deal with you" saying this Ahyan took her out of the room pulling her behind him.

"No I'm not what you are thinking, I........" Efah said slowly but was cut in between by Ahyan, he turned and said "I know who you are, you are the lady thief, I have heard about your gang, don't try to give your explanations."

"This is the first time I'm seeing a lady thief, see nowadays girls have started stealing" speaking to himself Ahyan dragged her downstairs making sure that he was not hurting her too much.

"Amber chaachi, Amber chaachi" Ahyan called out.

Ahyan remembered that no one was there when he came. Efah once again tried to get rid of Ahyan's hold. On this Ahyan turned around, seeing her face it became very difficult for Ahyan to concentrate on what he was doing. He once again had to wash away the thoughts coming to his mind. Efah tried to avoid Ahyan's gaze. His gaze was making her breath heavy. To stop these strange and awkward feelings she decided to speak to Ahyan. "I am..."

Ahyan cut her in mid sentence "Listen girl, I know you may have escaped from different places, but don't try it now because u don't know me, I am not going to leave you" Ahyan said looking straight in her ha eyes which was staring back at him.

It was becoming very difficult for Ahyan not to look at her "never have I seen a thief so beautiful" Ahyan said coming closer to her which sent shivers down her spine.

Efah could not understand why this stranger was calling his mother 'chaachi'.

Moving a little away from Efah, Ahyan thought what to do, he cannot stand there holding her wrist until Amber comes because it was creating problems for him.He did not take her to others in the house because he thought it would be better if Amber chaachi sees her first and decides what to do with her as the girl was caught in Amber chaachi's house. So he decided to lock her in of the rooms and wait till his Amber chaachi comes.

Ahyan took Efah in one of the rooms, he left her wrist. Efah closed her eyes from the pain of her wrist, it had turned red. But before she could process something else in her mind she heard someone locking the door. The stranger was no where in the room. Efah went to the door, she tried to open it but it was locked.
She was too tired to do anything else now. "I am stuck alone at home with this stranger who is acting too weird thinking me to be a thief. I think this is some kind of trick this person is playing" Efah mumbled irritatingly.

So she thought to wait for her mother to come. Stamping her feet, she went and sat in the bed.

Ahyan had left her in the room. He sat down in the nearby couch waiting for Amber to come. He sat there for a while. He didn't know but he was feeling uneasy so he poured a glass of water for himself from the bottle kept in the centre table.

He was drinking water when Amna entered chirping happily "Efah aapi where are....." she stopped when she saw Ahyan. "Ahyan bhai what are you doing here" she gave him a confused look.
"Amna I have caught a lady thief, I think she is the only one you were talking about. She was stealing Amber chaachi's jewelleries but I caught her in time" Ahyan informed Amna.

On listening to this Amna's eyes grew wide.
"O my Allah...where is she" Amna asked getting curious and looking around the house.

"come here I'll show you. I have locked her in the room and was waiting for chaachi to come" said Ahyan motioning her towards the room where Efah was locked. Ahyan unlocked the room, took a sip of water and opened the door.

On what Amna saw, it left her totally shocked for a few seconds.