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Ch 19: Setting Free

HELLO!!

I am finally here !! :D
Hehe!!

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~~~MADIHA'S POV~~~

Kasim,

It has been a few days since we moved back in to our house again and Amma suggested I stay in Aziza's room. I had thought it would bring us happiness, feeling closer to you and Aziza, but, staying in this house has done nothing but refreshing some old wounds so far.

Right now, I am sitting beside the exact same retaining wall where I had last seen her— living and breathing. I could have pulled her back instead of just watching.

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A drop of tear fell from my eye, smearing the black ink, as the memory of blood flashed in my mind. I shivered slightly, touching the chipped edge of the paint that was caused by her heel that night.

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I have only been staying here for a couple of days; I wonder what Faisal Bhai has to go through everyday, living in the same colony. Walking past this house every day.

You know what's worse? Baba's house is right next to it but I can still not go there. It's locked. Why did he have to shut me out like this? Even amma doesn't talk to me nicely anymore. She says I am wrong But, What's my fault? That I want to be here for them?

Honestly, I tried to let go but it's not that easy. If it was, then I would have been in Karachi with my family. I miss them sometimes. Iqra api would have helped me out of this mess if she was here. I thought about giving her a call but I know baba won't give me her number.

I have lost so much only because I wanted to stay here with amma and abba. Now I can't leave them. Something inside me keeps stopping me.

But, then there is Hussain on the other side, still waiting for my answer. Sometimes it feels like all I need to do is reach out and hold his hand but then something pulls me back.

And then it's you, who doesn't even want to talk to me anymore. You hate me like she does, don't you? Or maybe you are just sick of me and my constant complaints. I don't blame you, no one sticks around me for long anyway.

I just......

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"Bhoo!" I startled, losing my balance as two hands pushed me. My diary fell out of my hands and landed on the grass, two floors down. I gasped, looking back at Zariya, and found her mouth slightly opened. I narrowed my eyes at her and Faisal Bhai, who stood beside her, before running towards the door and down the staircase.

I didn't want anyone to get to it!

"Madiha, sambhal kar!" I heard Hussain's mother yelling from downstairs just when I missed a step. I instantly reached out, trying to grasp on to something- anything- for support but nothing came to my rescue and I tumbled down the marble stairs.

My head banged against a rough edge and I could feel the blood oozing out. Amma's face came in my view as she kneeled beside me. I tried not to let my eyes fall but Soon Everyone's voices blurred along with my vision.