The Diary

IX: "Refuge from Darkness?"

"He (the Satan) makes promises to them, and he tempts them with hopes. The Satan does not make a promise to them but to deceive."
— Mufti Taqi Usmani

"Zee, which looks good?"

"go for the green one, it might go better with your heels"

"Seriously? You gonna wear heels and green dress for dinner with your fiancé's parents?"

"Oh come on, help me out here instead of commenting on everything"

Zeenath starts to laugh wholeheartedly,

It was a feeling she had forgotten, or she thought she had forgotten, her reality was different now,

Her world was different now,

She was in a world where everything was made perfect, she had everything she wished for,

Her reality was warm,

It wasn't painful,

It wasn't hurtful,
It was... just too perfect, yes, too perfect, just like an illusion.

It wasn't just a statement written here,

it was something Zeenath thought for herself,

Her world was different from the world she knew so far,

And soon the seed of doubt had planted in her,

Zeenath carried on with her life...

There she saw Inayah's wedding,
She saw Sabrina starting her own band,
She even saw her kid starting to walk,
She saw how happy life could have been,

Then she hears something else,

Something calling out to her, she couldn't hear it but sense it,

It sounded like human but not human.

Something that spoke, but not with words,

A voice that was strange yet familiar,

Her world fell into darkness,

the light started to fade slowly

She starts to run with her everything towards the fading light,

It was her instinct that made her run towards the light, it was feeling she had,

A sense of danger.... A sense of evil in that darkness,

She could sense it mocking and laughing at her,

Humiliating her to make herself unsightly,
And it was enjoying it,

She kept running till the light that was fading and now gone..

And there it was, the darkness spreading around her,

No light reached there, it's as if light had never existed there.

It wasn't like the darkness inside a closed off room,

It was the darkness itself enveloping around her,

When it touched her, she screamed....

"Help me!!!!!"

"Someone please...!!!! Help me!!!!"

"Anyone????"

"Please I beg you please!!!"

"Someone save me"

She screamed so much, yelled so much, yet her voices wasn't heard,

She tried to run but she couldn't feel her legs,