Ifraheem dropped Saliha at her place and while leaving the car she asked him to come and have a cup of tea but he refused to do so and said;
Jazak Allah! We'll have it some other time, I'm getting late.
Saliha stared his car for a while and then she moved inside with a questioning gesture on her face. Later she went to sleep but her night was miserable. All she thought the whole night was that what could be between them? On the other hand Ifraheem was in a great shock, willing to know about the curiousness of Manal's mom that how did she reached me and what will she get after knowing the truth?
The very next morning, Saliha was in a very sound sleep when eventually sunlight strikes from the window to her face and let her awake. As she wide awakes she called Ifraheem..
He answers the call and says;
Who's this?
She reminds him of Manal and says;
I want to show something about her so come over and meet me in the noon.
Ifraheem: But Ma'am ..
Saliha: I'll wait for you and drops the call..
*at 06:30 pm*
Saliha is waiting desperately for Ifraheem because all she aimed was to know every inch of Manal. Then suddenly her eyes moved towards Ifraheem's car, and now eventually he started to move towards Saliha and demands for what Saliha was talking about. So, Saliha shows him the last belonging of her daughter which was not more than a letter. The letter was having a picture of Ifraheem in it and by showing it to Ifraheem,
He asked him; "what is it..??"
After reading the letter he got stucked into his flashbacks, goosebumps were there. Now controlling his gestures he comes towards Saliha and says;
Ask for what you're here!
Saliha: How did you knew Manal?
Ifraheem: Saliha! Standing on a grave and cheering up many don't brings one back..
Anyways I'll let you know all but please wipe your tears.
Saliha was totally speechless with watery eyes :')
(Ifraheem interrupts) *sighs* Never mind but you go first and do let me know about your last conversation with Manal..
Saliha controlling her breathe and says;
The very last morning I talked to Manal was about her father. She was forcing me to tell about him..
*Our conversation somehow started like this*
Manal: Mom?
Saliha: Yup honey?
Manal: Where's Dad? I'm missing him badly.
Saliha: Baby! He left to a trip from his office.
Manal: Mom! I asked you the same thing exactly six months ago and you replied the same, who goes for such a long trip, hmm?
Saliha: *sighs*
Time to sleep dear! You have to wake up early morning. Now go to your bed! :')
Manal: Don't I have the right to know? At least tell me where's Dad? (Manal with a frowning voice)
*Saliha's face decorated with smile turned into sorrow*
Saliha: Your dad is no longer with us. And I ... (Starts to mumble)
I don't even know how everything just ended..
I tried my best but all in vain...
*Manal; with a blank expression on her face staring at her mom with tears, words came out like a syllable*
Manal: Why didn't you tell me about all this before?
Saliha: I don't want you to get affected by all this. I don't want you to be the victim of this matter..
Manal: Then why now?
Saliha: Though I'm a women, fragile creature. Who can't resist emotions so long .. So, that's the only reason I uttered all to you.
Manal: *sighs*
I won't ask for whose mistake I'm being endued today but if your's tears are still shedding in love and solicitude for him then I would really like to know every tit and tat of this issue..
Saliha: Aah!
(Her controlled tears now started to snore in her throat, stopping the words to came out. Finally, she managed to exit a choked voice)
Manal: Your worries seem nothing to him??
Why don't he feel your tears??
Why don't he cares for you??
Saliha: Ssshhh..!! :')
Honey if all would be like this; if he would care, if everything did meant something to him??
Then why would all this happen?
Why is he not with us?
Wouldn't your laughter echoed in this house?
(Manal kept staring her mother wet eyes for a while, when her mother opened her arms in a way posing to come and hug her, She raised from her place, watched her mother in a perplexed expression, turned and left the room. Her mother's voice followed her, she locked the room and sat on bed seeing her face in mirror; just placed associate with her bed. She kept sitting about eleven minutes, stood and still, like a statue. She was feeling numbness in her body very clearly. She was continuously staring herself in mirror with a complete blank expression)
At that moment; her mother knocked her room, she started to beat the door strongly with her hands. Her eyes were shedding tears very rapidly, she didn't stopped. Meanwhile she was shouting too, she was calling her name, convincing Manal to open the door.
"Open the door my child! Just for my sake! Just listen to me once! Open the door, please!"
(Manal was listening to all plaints of her mother but she was unable to move even an inch from her place. It was like she'd been a marble statue or like she had been in comma. She was all alone with her tears there, full to the brim of her eyes. With the blur image of her in mirror because of so much tears, She drowned with her cruel thoughts...)
*When her mother was tired of knocking the door, she sat on the floor, tacked her head against the door and closed her eyes...*
(While listening to Saliha Ifraheem goes into many thoughts)
Ifraheem was understanding Saliha's pain but what actually he should understand...
There are a lot many things to understand like he should understand Manal's absence or her diary... Or should understand Saliha's tears or his own sleepless nights. What actually he's up to?
As 'Noman Saab' says:
"We human are like plants that plant which needs water for living; Similarly human beings seek love, care, attention so they can live happily. If you stop watering the plants they wither, on the other hand if you stop paying attention or stop giving care they become hopeless from world and then slowly and gradually they die and there are some people who put the plants and forget to look after them. Humans and plants are hungry for love! :')"