بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ
" In the name of Allah , the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful."
There was chaos all around the bus, screams everywhere, ear piercing screams.
Ringa Ringa Roses
I gripped the nearest seat to me, as I felt the gravitation dragging me down, I gripped it tightly and looked around to find the ladies holding on to something or another.
A Pocket full of poises
There were still screams everywhere, the lights blinked, and I could see in those blinking lights, the harsh light coming from the ipad that was on the floor of aisle, its speaker still blaring around.
Ashes! Ashes!
My heart felt like it's going to burst, and I honeslty felt like I was having a heart attack, my eyes clouded with tears.
We All Fall Down
The screams there were able to make people deaf, as the bus fell down from the mountain leading all of us to our ends.
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Five higschool friends, famous in all the high-school because of their friendship, drifted apart after graduation, all gone into their lives. After two decades they plan to meet again, plan a trip only to find out that the trip was not what they expected at all.
One of their friends was dead that they didn't even know about, so instead that friend's niece joined in their trip to tell them about her aunt's death and to meet the people her aunt always talked about, only to find that this trip is going to shake her whole world, literally.
After having their bus literally falling down the mountain, they find out that they landed in the middle of Nowhere, trapped in a weird game of death, the game of four death rounds, all becoming worst than the other.
Trapped in nowhere, distressed about their life, trapped in a death game, trying to find ways to escape and survive, also finding in the way the key of Tawaqqul.
Could they survive before the real game starts, the game of thriller and hidden secrets.
Join them in their thrilled journey
Warning :
"I don't get it! Why do you keep doing this to me?!"
His words were wrapped in molten lava, hands in his hair, eyes closed tight. My heart hammered at my ribcage. I knew where this was going.
"You pull me in, then you push me the hell away!"
He shook his head at me in disgust. I felt a piece of me break at every disappointed word he'd said, the panic was rising through every crevice of my body.
"I'm done Al, I can't keep playing this game with you. I can't keep picking up the casualties on my own. I am tired, I'm just tired of trying to make you love me."
He let out in defeat and waited for my response. Alarms started going off in my head but all I could do was look down in shame. When I didn't say anything, he looked at me a moment longer and turned to walk away. Everything in me was screaming at him to stay but no sound would come out of my mouth. He was walking at such a slow pace I knew he wanted me to call him back. But as I opened my mouth to scream his name, I remembered something Amirah had told me a few weeks ago.
"Allah sends you signs to show you that someone isn't good for you and when you still don't let go, he makes them hurt you so that you have no choice but to"
I wasn't good for him so I let him go.
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This is Alanna's story.
It combines the tragedies of her past, the trials of the present and what ties them together.
Buckle up because this is one hell of a story.