Over-looked Love

CHAPTER-28

Tuba's POV:

I woke up the next day and looked into the mirror . My eyes were puffed out and had turned red . Lips were cracked and traces of tears were left on the cheeks . I felt so hollow . 

I got dressed , went to school and sat quietly in my place . Seeing my conditions , the girls started murmuring among themselves . "Why do you look so miserable ? " Zara asked looking at my eyes . "Tuba what happened ? " Hania asked holding my hand . "Guys please , I don't want to talk about it . I have already cried a lot , don't make me cry more . " I said my chin trembling . 

"At least write it down on a piece of paper . " Salomi said handing over a sheet . I wrote down every thing and handed it to Zara . As I was resting with my head on the table , I felt a tiny arm wrap around me . "Tuba , it's fine . You are strong right then how can you cry for this asshole . " Zara said in her soothing voice . 

I couldn't hold back my tears anymore so I hugged her and broke down . I literally cried out my heart as Zara hugged me tightly . "Shh now stop crying . Get over him and live your life to the core . " Hania said lifting up my face . 

"And you deserve some one much better . Forget that boy and you will be over him . " Zara said wiping my cheeks . 

Zara's POV :

My heart sank after hearing what happened with Tuba . She was totally broken . She cried like a baby in my arms . She looked so sick and pale . I handed over y water bottle to her as she drank . 

"Thank you so much guys , you filled the space f Esha , Amina and Fatima . I don't know what would have become of me without you people . " she said with a weak smile . 

After seeing her condition , I promised myself not to fall in love as I couldn't face the two biggest fears of my life - 1. Loosing a person whom I love  and 2.Getting back stabbed by a person whom I trust .  "Hania you don't have to talk to that dickhead anymore , block him straight away once you are home . " I whispered to her . 

Tuba's POV:

I felt so light after crying my heart out . We all were having our breakfast and playing dumb charades . Salomi was the joker of our class , her sense of humor was to the next level . After attending all the classes , we headed home and I fell asleep as soon as I reached . 

"Tuba , Amina wants to talk with you . " Mom said waking me up . "Am sorry for not listening to you and talking harshly with you . " I said . "From when did you start apologizing to us ? " Esha's voice came from back . "How are you Tuba ? " Amy asked . 

"Much better , thanks to my Indian friends . " I said . 

"Am happy you got such good friends . " Amy said . We spoke for a while and then I cleaned up my room , did my homework , tried some new makeup looks and did many other things to get distracted from Mustafa . Everything reminded me of him , especially my phone . I started coming online very rarely as the person for whom I used to come online wasn't there . 

After one week of our breakup , I opened Esha's account and Shezan's message popped in "Esha , Muss met with an accident . " it said and below were some pictures of Muss admitted in the hospital . 

"How ? Is it a major one ? How is he ? " I asked panicked . 

"He is fine now . Left hand is fractured . " came the reply . I couldn't control myself so I opened my account , unblocked Mustafa and texted him "How are you ? "

"Alive , unfortunately . " he replied . 

"Stop talking shit . " I scolded.

"Am sorry Tuba please forgive me . I have sadden you a lot and made you cry and that is why Allah has given me this punishment . I am really sorry . " he said as my heart melted . 

"I already forgave you Mustafa . Now take care and get well soon , bye . " I texted . 

"Don't say bye , please talk to me . Can we be friends at least ? " he asked . 

"I always wanted to be with you through thick and thin , but right now at least as a best friend ?" he texted back . 

"Hmm...get well soon . " I replied and went offline .  

I asked Esha , Amina and Hania to unblock him and talk to him as he had realized his mistake . 

"Hey , what's up ? What you doing ? " came Hania's message . I was smoking vape so I sent her a pic . "Wow , do you have that ? Get it to school tomorrow . " she replied . 

"Are you mad ? What if we get caught , Princi will literally kick us in the ass . " I said to which she assured that we wont fall into trouble .I kept it for charging and went to sleep .  

The next day I entered into the classroom and closed the door behind me . "I wanna show you guys some thing . " I said as I blew a puff from the vape and everyone gasped . 

"Even I wanna try . " Hania squeaked . Then it was Zara's , Salomi's and a few other girl's turn . As we were busy smoking , there was a knock on the door . Salomi started dusting the chalk filled duster to show that the smoke is the chalk powder and Zara sprayed the room freshener to get rid of the flavor smell . 

"Bring it daily . " Hania said . "Are you mad ? No need Tuba . " Zara said as Hania frowned . 

As we were heading home , we took in puffs from the vape and exhaled it and all the old women on the streets looked at us with weird looks and stares . "Look at the way they are staring at us . " Salomi said .

"As if we are doing sex in the open . " Zara said as I choked on the smoke and started laughing . 

"Get your phone from tomorrow and even the vape , I wanna take loads of pictures . " Salomi said .

I reached home , went to sleep , woke up and did my assignments and then went to sleep again . 

"You have brought your phone right ? And what about the vape ? " Salomi asked as we went to school . 

We took many pictures and boomerangs . I started getting my phone daily . Me and Zara would sit in the last bench and listen to songs during the boring lectures of social .