ISHQIYA

Dard-e-Ishq VIII

Mahnoor frowned at hearing this and looked toward Zeenat's room from where her voice came.

She went more close to the room and kept her ear at the door to listen to Zeenat's conversation carefully. Maybe she is talking to someone on the phone.

"Hello, yes Saman, yes, my plan is working, he already talked to his family that he will marry me, but he still has feelings for his cousin. But don't worry he will obviously start loving me after marriage, I will not let him go him from my hand"

What plan is she talking about? Mahnoor looked here and there and again tried to listen to Zeenat's conversation carefully.

"I will not let him divorce me, I will threaten him that I will kill this child or I will say I will not let him meet his own child."

Child?

What child is she talking about? Mahnoor shakes her head, she knows Hamid is not like this.

"Ya, he is so foolish, he thinks I'm pregnant with his child, foolish, I just played a game with him and he is already into him."

Mahnoor couldn't decipher what exactly Zeenat wanted to say.

"Yes, I love him, I love him so much. You know Saman, it was three years ago when he entered college, I started liking him since then. I still remember, it was my first day in college and I was stopped by some seniors. They wanted me to kiss the guard, really the guard, Saman, then he came in between and stopped them, then they started kicking him and the macho man he is, he fights them back, and all of them were in hospital, usually Hamid would have been rusticated, but his family is so powerful. Do you know Saman, he lives in a haweli, a palace, it's so beautiful, so big, they are so rich, and who will not like family like this. I understood then that Hamid was from a rich family and I started falling for him. But he was always digging his head in his books, he never looked up to me. I tried traditional dresses, short dresses, I was ready to walk naked in front of him but he never glanced my way. Then second year I came to know that he is already engaged. He always wears a big ring in his ring finger, he still wears it even after breaking his relationship with that girl. And I never noticed it in my first year, how could I? I was lost in his love, but the day I came to know that he was engaged I was devastated. But then I took more steps toward him, I started sitting with him, I started asking him doubts, but still he never talked to me, leave about talking, he never looked at my way. Do you know how my blood boils going to close to him, seeing that ring on his finger then getting ignored by him. Then a day came. It was a farewell party when I showed some courage and proposed to him, do you know what he said, he said sorry, I'm someone else's. How can he say that? That too in front of me. Then again I tried to approach him. He shouted at me, shouted at me in front of the whole campus, he said he was already taken, don't follow me ever. Then one and a half months ago, we met again at a common friend party. Well, not a common friend, I literally begged that person to let me come to his party. And in that party, he ignored me like a plague, I was waiting for an opportunity, he was not drinking any wine and I tipped the waiter to give him a heavy wine. And it worked, soon, he got unconscious and the next day he woke up in my arms. He even didn't know my name. You know I said thank you for the beautiful night, but he jerked me away, he said I'm lying.."

Then Mahnoor heard the maniac laughter of Zeenat.

"Yes, I was lying, but I wanted him in my life, then after one month I said I'm pregnant with his child, he said I'm lying, he wants a paternity test, I was ready for it too, I gave him a false report of a non-existent paternity test of non-existed child. Do you know, he believed, he said we have to marry, and now we are here. And I will become his wife soon, only problem is Mahnoor"

Tears started brewing in Mahnoor eyes, closing her mouth tightly with her hand, Mahnoor let out a whimper.

"I have a plan for her too, I will go and say him that I had a miscarriage, and the culprit is Mahnoor. Then out of guilt he will not leave me and Mahnoor, he will forget her, probably hate her to kill his child, and then he will love me, only me. Oh, what a culprit mind I have, Saman."

Mahnoor slumped down on the floor. She was shocked with this new turn of the life. Hamid is marrying Zeenat only for the child, which is not even present in Zeenat's womb. And how cunning Zeenat is, to get Hamid, she said a big lie, how can she do this?

How can Zeenat play with their life?

"You?" Someone's voice takes her out from her thoughts.

Mahnoor blurry eyes looked up to Zeenat. Who has now opened the door and was looking at her with fear.

Mahnoor gets up from the floor. Stare at Zeenat for a few minutes.

Zeenat was about to say something when she staggered due to a hard slap on her face.

Zeenat narrowed her eyes and looked up to Mahnoor, who slapped her. Before she could ask her again, another slap came toward her face, then another, then another. Then giving her a last slap,

Mahnoor shouted "How can you do this, Zeenat?"