Maryam and Shehryaar

A Monkey In Her Room ;)

CHAPTER 18

“Chachoo… I had to talk to you” Maryam said, sitting near him, he was watching the evening bulletin and was too busy cursing Pakistani politicians

“Don’t know when they are going to do something for the sake of their country? It's always so disturbing watching these news” Aqeels said, he looked disturbed and Maryam also sighed

“Han you were saying something dear” Aqeel suddenly looked at her and asked

“Yeah chachoo… wo… I was thinking I should visit home back in Pakistan, I didn't even call them once since am here” Maryam’s anxiety was evident on her face

“Neither did they” Aqeel made a face

“But Chachoo wo to is liye because they don’t know where I am, they don’t have my contact” Maryam tried to defend them

“Beta actually they know…. They do know” Aqeel looked seriously at her face

“But how come Chachoo?” she asked all confused

“Beta I did call them once at the time of your divorce hearings” Maryam looked at him as if she wanted an explanation

“I called Asad, and I told him that You are with me and you are getting a divorce from that rascal Rohan. He told me that he tried to contact Rohan a lot of times but he didn’t reply” Aqeel continued. Maryam looked shattered, her brothers knew all this time that what she was going through, but didn’t even contact her once

“I know what is going on in your mind beta, I honestly didn’t want to tell you all this but then I thought k sachaai tumhen pata honi chaiye” Aqeel told her putting his hand on her’s

“Chachoo I loved them and I still love them… I don’t understand why they are so angry with me” Maryam said trying to stop her tears

“beta they don’t have any reason to be angry with you, they are perverts” Aqeel said angrily, Maryam felt he was hiding something from her, he looked so much angry with them

“Chachoo is there anything else? What did they say? How was bhabi? did they sale the house?” Maryam asked and Aqeel looked at her face in utter shock

“Do you already know about that?” he asked

“g Chachoo, though they didn’t tell me about that but I overheard them once talking about selling the house and making two separate units for themselves” Maryam looked down at her hands

“oh! I thought you didn’t know about that…. But Maryam why did you let that happen? That was not just a house made of mud and brick, it had the love and affection of Afzaal and bhabi… I was angry at them, but now am angry with you as well” Aqeel said his voice shattered. Maryam put her arms around his neck, hugged him, her eyes pooled up with water

“Chachoo I couldn’t stop them Chachoo, I was broken when I got to know that I was the hurdle in their happiness…. I..I just couldn’t do anything” maryam said in between sobs and Aqeel patted her back

“But Maryam, what about your rights, you should stand for that at least. That house had your share in that. I am not saying this because I am asking you to get greedy about money or getting materialistic, but it's about your right” Aqeel looked at her face closely and she rubbed her face, removing the tears

“Chachoo I don’t need anything, if they are happy like this then I don’t have any issue I don’t want to become a hurdle in their happiness once again” Maryam said a tint of bitter evident in her tone full of grief.

“Okay, it's completely your choice, but you still want to go to Pakistan?” Aqeel asked softly he didn’t feel like pushing the issue

“Um, I don’t know Chachoo am not sure” Maryam said and without saying anything else she stood up and went to her room