Maryam and Shehryaar

Arsalan Muzaffar!!!!

CHAPTER 20

Shehry’s End

Hussain can’t you drive a bit faster?” Shehry said, irritated he was sitting with Hussain in Waqas’s Mustang, Waqas and Atif remained in Brooklyn while they both headed back towards NewYork.

“bhai am driving …… and please relax hum puhanch jaen ge bhabi k check in se pehle” Hussain was assuring him for like 10th time and Shehry moved his fingers in his hair. Anxiety was evident on his face, he was mentally cursing himself for the way he behaved with Maryam.

“I should have listened to her, how the hell I can behave in this way with Maryam, man!.... am such a….. such a

“Retarded jackass?.... Yes, you are Bhai, I agree” Hussain completed his sentence and Shehry kept quite. He took out his phone and tried Maryam’s number, but she didn’t pick up, he tried Mehru’s…. And there was again no response. He then texted Mehru about his coming to airport

“sorry Shehry, we just left her on the airport, she might have checked in already… don’t waste your energy now, and by the way you didn’t do good to her at all” he read her reply and punched on the dashboard hardly. Hussain literally jumped in his seat

“Bhai! Cool down… what happened?” he asked entering the airport

“Drop me here, you just park the car” Shehry instructed him and Hussain slowed down the speed, Shehry didn’t even wait the car to get stopped, he opened the door and jumped out

“hey! Bro watch out steady…..” Hussain got really worried and shouted back, but Shehry was already crossing the entrance

Shehry kept on running and pushing people, he ran to the check in area and started looking here and there but there was no sign of Maryam around

He dialed her number, but her mobile phone went unreachable “Shittttt!” he went to the check in counter and inquired

“Excuse me! Emirates’s  flight to Lahore, Pakistan… when is it due?” his expressions all lost as if he just had lost his most precious possession

“Sir, you can just check the status slide”…the blonde pointed towards the big screen …… “the check has already been completed and the boarding will start ……. With in 20 minutes” the blonde replied, looking at the computer screen and Shehry without even saying a word stepped back when he suddenly bumped by something hard

“Hey bro! What happened?......” it was Hussain

“She has checked in” Shehry said in a very lethargic tone and started taking slow small steps outside the airport. Hussain kept on walking behind him in complete silence. Once they came out Hussain lead the way to the car where he had parked and Shehry silently sat in.

“Bhai….. Come on, that’s okay man!” Hussain put a hand on his shoulder and he looked out of the window, lamenting on what he did and knowing that it was too late to even lament now.

They were on their way home when Shehry’s cell phone rang up;

“I am so sorry Shehryaar, I let you down, I know I should have told you, it was my fault, but right now am feeling a hole in my heart as if am alone in this world, I needed you by my side. You lied when you said that you will always be with me…. You are not with me, you are not here when I want you to be with me. I wanted to meet you before going to Pakistan, I wanted to see you before leaving. Now I don’t want anything. I don’t know how I am going to spend the next whole month”

Shehry read the message and kept on staring at the screen, his eyes moistened and heart was aching…. He couldn’t reply at all, he was feeling heartless that moment. Hussain looked at his face, he looked torn and terrible, Hussain again puts a hand on his shoulder and pat him