Chapter 20 –
Rehaan’s POV -
There was joy and laughter all throughout the car, it was very hard for me to believe that is my life. It’s not a dream but my reality, I am living a really happy life.
I looked at Shafaq in the back seat, she and Fariah were laughing and giggling. Her laughs made me believe that this isn’t a dream, this is reality. There is no pain, no worry, no wounds, just happiness and love.
I have everything now. I have Shafaq and Shavaan. I have happiness and I’m happy always when they are with me. I used to hate my past but now I’ve realized that there is something good has come from my past and that is Shavaan. I got Shavaan because of my past and he’s the reason I don’t hate it that much anymore.
We’re laughing and enjoying the journey. We were driving on a narrow road and there were mountains around us.
“Umer, you must be tired. I can drive the car now.”
“Yes, I was just about to ask.” He said. We stopped and switched seats. I was driving bit suddenly I saw a car coming from the opposite direction.
It was going full speed, I thought the brakes of the car must not be working correctly. I slowed down, and it was getting dark.
Suddenly we were hit.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
I heard shrieks and I fell unconscious, when I opened my eyes I was laying on a bed. I quickly stood up to see where I was and realized I was in a hospital.
“Shafaq!” I shouted and rushed out of the room.
“Shafaq!” I shouted again, and a nurse came running towards me.
“What happened, do you need anything?”
“Where is Shafaq? Where is my wife?” I asked restlessly.
“Your car was hit badly! Only four people survived, one didn’t make it.” She said.
“One? What happened to the one?”
“One woman in the wreck died.” She whispered.
I quivered, and my heart began to beat fast. I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t speak. I was shaken, I couldn’t imagine that one if us died.
“Who?”
“Shafaq Manzur.”
“Shafaq!” I whispered as tears rolled down my cheeks and I fell to the ground.
“Stop lying! Where is Shafaq? Tell me, where is my Shafaq!” I shouted. I was crying as she was saying that I lost my world. How could I believe her, this isn’t possible! She can’t leave me alone in this cruel world, we were going to have fun as a family. No!
She can’t die, she’s not dead! This nurse is spewing bullshit! My Shafaq must be waiting for me at home, I have to go! I have to go!
I rushed out of the hospital wiping my tears, my brain had stopped working. As I walked out I saw her parents crying and I saw Shafaq laying in a stretcher.
I rushed towards her, “Shafaq! Open your eyes, please, Shafaq open your eyes!” I shouted. She didn’t move. Some hospital workers came and dragged the stretcher inside the ambulance.
“Stop! You can’t take my Shafaq away from me! She’s sleeping, she will wake soon. Don’t take her!”
I tapped her cheeks, “Shafaq please wake up! I just got you and you can’t leave me. Shafaq you said that you would never leave me, please open your eyes! They will take you away from me, please Shafaq, please!” I yelled at her unmoving body.
No, she can’t leave me alone! I need her. I can’t live without her. The workers forcefully dragged that stretcher inside the ambulance and they left.
I rushed behind them, but I couldn’t catch them. “Shafaq!” I yelled out.
She left me. She left me forever.
I recalled the curse that old woman in the retirement home. She said that I destroyed the life of one woman, now my life will be destroyed. I took another’s happiness and now God has taken mine. I took someone’s life, God took my life.
God took my Shafaq from me.
Why!
If God wanted to punish me then he should have taken my life, why Shafaq!
Why?
He took my Shafaq from me, he’s punishing me!
I rushed towards the hospital and I was mad. I entered the pharmacy, it was empty except for a sleeping guard. I grabbed multiple pills and I was about to take them but a voice stopped me.
“Baba!” It was Shayaan behind me. I turned to look at him and he was injured. I left the pills and went to my son. I remembered what Shafaq said; He is Shayaan. Shafaq and Rehaan’s Shayaan.
I hugged him tight against my chest.
Remember everyone, no can live happily after taking someone else’s happiness. Karma is a bitch, everything you do comes back to you. Shafaq loved Rehaan, she brought out the good in him. She discovered the light inside of him.
She will surely be rewarded after death, but Rehaan, he was a bad person. He changed, but the past cannot be erased. He took Aaliyah’s happiness and now his has been taken. Now Shafaq and Rehaan are separated forever by God, their story is over. The story of a criminal and an innocent girl has ended.
