Too young to love???

Chapter 12

 Sara's POV

"On the day of your engagement, Ashar never turned up. We called him up several times but he didn't reply. His cousins went looking for him but they could not find him anywhere. His great grandma was becoming impatient and after much thought and discussion with your parents and his parents, they decided to get us engaged instead. Since you had a veil covering your face and blocking your vision, we knew you won't be able to see me so...look; I know it's not what you wanted and you pretty much want to smack my head against the wall and you can do that but before that please go and tell them your decision", he looked at me with pleading eyes. I turned and left without saying another word.

My body went numb on knowing the truth; my brain didn't send any reactions to my body so I ended up not reacting. In a normal situation I would have shouted at him or anyone who had deceived me. I have had enough of deception in the span of just fifteen years of my life, I didn't need any more not that I wanted it. I reached the big hall unknowingly as if somebody had driven me there; like somebody was controlling my actions since my brain was dead at that moment.

Instead of going inside and confronting them, I stood at the door contemplating. After about a minute, I saw Rehan bhai walk through the doors and as soon as his eyes landed on me, he sighed in relief.

"There you are, come on in, we can find a solution to your problem”, and with that he ushered me inside the big hall. All eyes turned to me but I didn't look at anyone. I went straight to one of the empty chairs and sat down, with my mind in a state of frenzy. I sat down and soon Alley came up to me. She kneeled down in front of me, taking my hands in hers. I looked up at her and found her eyes full of sympathy.

Had I not been around almost 50 people, I would have surely cried. Cause now everything made sense, I now knew why Ashar looked at me like that just before leaving. I knew now why he left in a haste and why he asked Shoaib to tell me that he was missing?

'All because he wanted to avoid me, he hates me because he thinks I didn't wait for him to come and lied to him that I didn't want to get married. He must be thinking that I am some sort of a desperate girl and that I don't like him so I jumped at the first chance I got to get rid of him, when in reality I wanted anything but to get rid of him; he was such a good friend of mine and I lost him too. Oh god! I lost another one of my childhood friends'.

"Sara, are you okay?",Alley asked me bringing me out of my daze. I looked at her as if I didn't recognize her. After all she too was in, a part of that stupid plan. I snatched my hands away from hers; she looked taken aback by my reaction.

"What's wrong Sara?", she asked looking genuinely worried, while reaching out to me, I quickly moved further back into my chair.

"Sara", Hamza bhai spoke.

"Is there any hotel nearby where I might find a room?", I asked Aaliya aapi.

"Why do you want to stay in a hotel? You know it's not safe".

"Doesn't matter, I am not safe anywhere, I don't feel safe anymore. How can I when I had been lied to for something that had to do with me, with my life? How am I supposed to trust you people, when I know that all of you were a part of that plan against me?", I spoke standing up and moving towards her.

"What are you talking about?", Alley asked from behind. I looked up at her, feeling my heart sink as I realised that the girl I thought to be my friend was never actually one.

"You people fooled me, and got me engaged to Danial when I was supposed to be getting engaged to Ashar. Is this some hobby of yours to play with others emotions, and their lives? Because if it is, I can bet you guys are doing a great job at it".