Falak’s POV
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‘I shook my head vigorously and slapped at his hand. And was about to scream when he placed his palm over my mouth.
“Don’t you know that Daddy hates bad baby girl, huh?”, He said, coming dangerously close to me.
“Mmmmm” I tried to call for my mother, but I couldn’t. He started touching me in an improper way. All I could do was cry and be scared of this monster.
“Oh, you have a phone now! I didn’t remember my sister mentioning anything about it!”, He said, taking the phone from his other hand. I tried to fight back but failed miserably. After all, I was just thirteen years old; that monster was no less than thirty years old.
“Now that you don’t want me to tell about your phone to my sister, then behave and let me do whatever I want to. No one will know a thing.” I felt something hard against my thigh. I was so frightened now that I couldn’t even tell the exact word. He forcefully kissed me.
And there he took my first kiss from me.’
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I immediately woke up because of the familiar nightmare. I couldn’t help but wonder whether these nightmares would ever end in my life or not! I checked the time; it was still two in the morning. I drank water before trying to sleep again, but I couldn’t.
The incident from the last night was still fresh in my mind. The moment HE was about to kiss me, I panicked, pushing him with all my force, making him lose his balance, and we both fell to the floor. However, I didn’t get hurt but couldn’t say the same for him.
‘I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I want to leave.’ I apologized and wanted to leave that place and that situation as soon as possible.
I still couldn’t believe that I did THAT to him.
But only God knew that I wasn’t thinking of hurting him in any way. If I wouldn’t have been panicked at the last moment, then nothing like that would have been happened, but everything happened all of a sudden; I didn’t realize that that horrible night of my life would turn my first kiss into a nightmare. Now, I doubt that I could even think of kissing someone on the lips or would let anyone kiss me.
Leave the kiss. Could I ever let anyone touch me where that monster touched me forcefully?
I held my pillow tightly and just at the mere thought of it. I sobbed silently until the darkness consumed me again.
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I didn’t work even for a second on the report after leaving the office premises yesterday. I knew that the devil was going to give an earful lecture for not completing the work in the limited time period.
‘God’
I wanted to slam my head somewhere because of the headache on top for the first time; I hadn’t completed my so-called homework.
‘Please, Lord, save your child today. I promise I won’t repeat the same without any valid reason. Please.’, I prayed.
When I reached the office, I received Jacob’s call that he wouldn’t be coming to the office today, so I had to handle all his work which was in my hand and arrange everything on his desk in such a way that he wouldn’t take time in reviewing all the things in the morning.
I couldn’t be happier when I heard that, but I couldn’t express this to him.
‘Thank you, Lord.’
I rescheduled his meeting in which his presence was important and attended those meetings in which his presence was not required, and took all the important notes so that I could give a summary about it tomorrow morning.
“Soooo?” Ashley initiated the conversation with me when it was break hour.
“So what?” I asked, raising my brow.
“Will your lover send lunch for you today as well?”
No!
Not after what I did to him!
He would not even try to contact me after last night. I made him fall on the hard floor and then ran from there without asking how he was, nor did I explain why my sudden behavior!
“I don’t know.”, I muttered. “By the way, I don’t want him to send lunch for me. Because I have brought my lunch.”, I added, showing her my tiffin box, which I had just pulled out from my bag.
“Oh, okay!” Ashley said, and we started walking toward the canteen, holding our lunch boxes. “By the way, what was that?”
“What?” I asked in confusion.
“You took a while before answering me. What were you thinking at that moment?”, She asked like a detective.
“Seriously, Ash? With whom are you spending your time nowadays? Sherlock Holmes, huh?”
“Well, what can you expect from me when all of a sudden a mysterious person enters my best friend’s life?”, She exclaimed. She sighed before continuing, “For your happiness, I won’t say a thing against that man, but still, for your safety, I will try to find out who he is! Because whoever he is, he might have a big reason to hide his identity, and I’m afraid, Falak. I’m afraid with the thought of what if…what if that reason is big enough to hurt you?”, She said.
“I just don’t want you to be left heartbroken at the end. You’re too good for anyone.”
I bit my inner cheek to stop myself from crying. I couldn’t thank Lord more for sending such an amazing friend in to my life.
“Don’t worry about that. I’m sure that he wouldn’t hurt me.”, I said, recalling yesterday’s event; even though he realized that he was going to fall, but instead of protecting himself, he protectively hugged me so that I couldn’t get hurt in any way.
“And what if he does?”
“See, Ash, everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life. Just the certainty that the lord’s got his eye on us, that he knows what we are made of, what we need to grow on. Asking questions from him about WHY and WHAT is a sin, and it’s pointless. He will show us our path in his own time. And long as I remember, I’m doing fine and thankful to the Lord for this beautiful day.”
She opened her mouth to say something but then closed it like a fish.
“What? Say something.”, I said, on which she raised her hand in the air and bowed her head dramatically.
“I don’t know what to say. I’m speechless.”, She said.
I laughed and pulled her arms close to me, “Stop this and let’s go. We still have lunch to finish.”
“Yeah! Whatever.”, She said.
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When I returned from lunch, I saw a parcel at my desk again.
“I’m already full. I can’t help you with eating all those things he has sent for you.”, Ashley commented, thinking he sent lunch from me. Well, I wasn’t thinking anything different from her. More than food, I wanted to read the note he would have sent for me.
Did this parcel from him mean that he wasn’t mad at me for the previous night?
I padded toward my desk.
“Ahem! Ahem! Someone’s too excited.” I ignored her comment and opened the parcel and found a small cubical box in it. “Let me open this.”, She said, and I gladly gave it to her because that was not my first priority.
And there it was!
A note!
I took it out from the parcel.
“Wow! It’s cupcakes.”, Ashley chirped. “There are three. I’m having one.”, She said but again ignored her.
‘Getting impatience for reading my note, huh?
I’m not writing anything today. Instead, it is written on cupcakes.
-Your Mysterious Love’ with a smiling face at the end.
“Show me.”, I said, taking or say snatching the box from her.
“Patience, sweetheart!”, She teased, showing my eagerness. I looked at the cupcakes, ‘I’ was written on the first cupcake a small ‘HEART’ shape was made on the second one.
‘Where was the third one?’ I thought and assumed ‘U’ to be written on the third cupcake when I heard.
“Cupcake was tasty.”, Immediately, I glared at the girl standing in front of me.
When she found me throwing daggers from my eyes, she looked at me in confusion. “What did I do?”, She asked and then looked at the note that I had kept on the desk. After reading it, her eyes traveled to the remaining two cupcakes and then gulped her saliva nervously, realizing what she had done!
“Hehe!”, She laughed nervously. “Hehehhe!! I think washroom’s calling me.”, She made the most ridiculous excuse on the earth and almost ran from there.
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#TBC