Synthesis of Scattered Pieces ✔️

55

Just like a peaceful night that holds many secrets in itself this room was dark and silent, the dim light of a lamp representing the moon who plays hide and seek with clouds. And a figure was laying down on the left side of the bed covering himself with a duvet. A book was resting near his pillow indicating that he might be reading that before sleeping or maybe just seeing, not reading.

But his peaceful slumber and the warm temperature of the room both were disturbed by the opening of the and a loud call.

"Daniyal... Daniyal, wake up." he open his eyes lazily when his mother shook him forcefully. "What's wrong Ammi?" Mumbling in a sleepy voice he again covered his face.

"Daniyal, Shifa is not back yet!" Mrs Kazmi almost shouted, she was more stressed now because Shifa's mobile was switched off. Daniyal glanced at the clock lazily which was reading half past eight of night and his slumber was gone. "What? 8:30?" Sitting up with a jolt he grabbed his mobile to call Shifa but it was off! "Where is she?" he muttered. Smacking his forehead he stepped out of bed. ''How could I be so careless?'' He muttered one more time and his mother furrowed.

"About what?"

"Shifa ki chhutii thi aaj, main soch rha tha use college se pick kr lunga magar pta hi nhi chala kitaan parhte parhte aankh kab lag gyi," Daniyal explained and his mother gave him a disappointed look.

(Shifa had a day off, I was thinking about picking her up from college but didn't even know how I dozed off while reading the book,)

"Daniyal, mujhe kam se kam aapse itni laparwahi ki tawaqqo nhi thi."

(Daniyal I wasn't expecting such irresponsible behaviour from you.)

Daniyal called David to ask about Shifa and got to know that she already left many hours ago, he furrowed and informed this to his mother while looking here and there as if a solution for this problem was resting in the corner of the room.

"Maryam ko call kariye, Shifa waha to nhi chali gyi?" Said Mrs Kazmi who was panicking by now.

(I'm calling Maryam, maybe Shifa is there.)

The call was made just to get information that Shifa bunked her college to come to meet her parents and she was crying out because the outing was cancelled. But Maryam was worried.

"She's not there also!'' Mumbled Daniyal and Mrs Kazmi's faces turned pale. "Where could she go?" She asked and Daniyal shook his head.

"She doesn't go anywhere else!" mumbling that he again dialled Shifa's number but it was again switched off.

"Daniyal aapne kuch kaha hai Shifa ko? Wo subah bhi roo rhi thi." Mrs Kazmi was glaring at her son, and Daniyal realised that last night he was so lost in that pic that he almost forgot Shifa's presence, maybe she was hurt after seeing Adeena's pic.

(Daniyal, have you said something to her? She was crying in the morning too)

Daniyal's silence said it all, but the tongue didn't dare to tell anything.

"Now, Where are you going?" Asked Mrs Kazmi when saw her son walking towards the door. "Umm... I... Let me see...," Daniyal did not even know what he was saying, just mumbling in a hurry he picked up his car keys and left the home. Mrs. Kazmi looked at the clock which was reading quarter to nine.

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"Shifa why are you looking upset?" Asked Afifa with a serious tone but she wasn't willing to listen to anything disturbing, she was already over the moon because today only Rani and Musa came to her home with Shariq's marriage proposal. Though Rani wasn't looking happy. Well, who cares?