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               54. SIRF TUMHARE LIYE

Tum aa gaeen! tum aa gaeen Mannat!….. lo tham lo hath mera, or le lo sara dard, q k ub berdasht nai hota muj se… bus buhat ho gaya! bus ub tham lo mujhe is se pehle k bikher jaoon…. Tham lo hath mera.

My gaze fixed on her as she stood there at Shehroz’s back, her head hanging down… she was wearing a white kurta but it looked raged…her dupatta was carefully placed on both of her shoulders and hair tied up in a loose bun, few strands spread across the sides of her face.

 My eyes as if scanned her from the distance… the officers started walking ahead and Shehroz took a seat in the front row while Mannat followed the officer silently looking down to her feet.

She slowly walked past me and my gaze followed her… she didn’t look up at me when she came near my box but my heart just stopped beating as I had a close look at her face which was still hanging down.She looked pale… as if all the blood was sucked up from her face… her forehead had a scar and her lips… her lips swollen having a scar at the corner.

I clenched the wooden brim tighter, I felt the coldness was increased….every inch of my body wanted to just jump out of that box and hug her… hold her in my arms and never let her go. I so wanted to touch her face, her hands….. her lips.

I could sense something was wrong… something was terribly wrong. She stood in the box and held the brim, just as I was holding. Still looking down, she gulped down I could feel her body was shaking a bit… as if she was going to collapse any minute.

Her face plane as a white cloth, there was no expression I could read, I so wanted to look into her eyes… I knew… I knew her eyes would tell me everything….. but she wasn’t just looking up.

Bus ek bar dekh lo meri taraf, bus ek bar Mannat! khuda k liye…. Just look at me once, please! Ek bar dekh lo shaid kuch sakoon mil jae is dill ko…. Slowly Mannat raised her head and looked at me… looked at me as if.. as if she was afraid to meet my gaze, as if she didn’t want to look at me…..she slowly looked down. My heart beat quickened.

WAQAS’S POV

“I just hope Minahil won’t get confused… this Hareesh Mehta is just so cunning, I hope he won’t trap her into his cheep techniques” Rida whispered bending a bit towards me and I looked at her, shaking my head.

“Don’t worry… she will be awesome, I know” I said, assuringly and she blinked eyes.

She looked tense… her eyes swollen and face all worried. I could feel her pain….. Mannat is more like a sister for her and she is missing for like 4 days now, what she must be going through was beyond explanation.

“I hope… I hope Mannat mil jae” she almost said to herself and I looked down at her hands… she was rubbing in desperation. I slowly raised mine and held her hand….making her go stiff.  She looked at me at once and I smiled at her assuringly. She looked back at the front as I felt her hand relaxed in mine.

That prosecutor, idiot hareesh Mehta was doing shit over there and the jury was looking at him as if he was singing some Arijit Singh romantic number. I literally wanted to kill that man, I couldn’t get how on earth that watchman lied… maybe Shehroz stuffed his mouth up or something.

“Your honour! I have the most important witness and the evidence herself… here in the court… after having her verdict I don’t think there would be any need of more witnesses and evidences” I heard the prosecutor said.

“may I have your permission to call her in the court, your honour!” he asked and the jury permitted, with that Hareesh Mehta called someone in and we all looked at our back….

Along with a few officers Shehroz entered into the court and I mentally hit him hard on his face, almost dislocating his jaw line. My eyes fixed on him, suddenly I felt Rida’s grip over my hand went tighter and I looked at her face… she was looking at something with her mouth half open and my gaze followed her.

“Mannat!” it came out of my mouth as my eyes went wide in shock, in relief.

Rida looked at me and I looked back at her, her eyes were shinning ….at last… and a huge smile plastered on her face, I wish I could hug her tight. she just looked at Mannat when she slowly headed towards the box, following an officer.

Mannat walked past us slowly, her face hanging down and pace slow… as if she dose not want to reach where she was going. I felt all eyes were fixed on her as she reached the box, I looked at Hussain and found him standing there as if he was statue or something…. his gaze fixed upon her and she was still looking down.

She looked weak…. Broken and those scars on her face…. I just looked away from her face, couldn’t bare to look any more. I saw Minahil who was looking much relieved and relaxed now.

“so, Miss Mannat Salaar!... or should I call you Mannat Hussain now?” Hareesh stood in front of her and asked, she was looking down at her hands.

For a couple of moments she didn’t reply back.. then slowly she uttered something I couldn’t get….

“am sorry! Come again… could you please!” Hareesh asked, bending a bit towards her and she slightly looked up.

“Am… am Mannat Hussain” she said, slowly. My gaze shifted to Hussain who was still staring at her but there was a frown on his forehead.

“oh so you agree that you and Mr Hussain Asif… got married?” Hareesh asked and she nodded her head.

“so… it means you love him? as Mr Hussain has just claimed in front of the court that he loves you and you are his wife” Hareesh asked narrowing his eyes and Mannat slowly looked up… as if trying to look at Hussain but I guess her gaze stopped at his hands, she didn’t look up any further and again looked down.

“Mannat! we need your verdict…. Court needs it,  don’t waste time” Hareesh said, looking at the jury.

“yes.. yes we… we got married” She stammered a bit.

“we already know this bit, we want to know if this marriage had your consent in it?” He asked and Manant just kept quiet.

We all were waiting for this moment and now she is there in front of us… only she could save us and I know she definitely will, as I know she wants nothing but Hussain’s happiness.

“Mannat kuch keh q nai rahi?” I heard Aunty spoke with trembling words, so much worry and tension in only one sentence.

“She looks so messed up” Asif uncle looked at her and said worriedly.

“N… No” Is this what I heard? No……

For a moment we all just stared at her face, still hanging down… I could sense her body was shaking and her hands holding the brim tight. I looked at Rida who was also looking at her with a frown on her forehead and her mouth half open.

My gaze shifted to Hussain who was looking at Mannat, his eyes fixed on her face and his forehead wrinkled into a deep frown……

HUSSAIN’S POV

Q nai dekh rai ho meri taraf Mannat? Naraz ho kia?.... mein ne buhat dhoonda tumhen, tum nai mileen mujhe…. tum nai janteen kitni takleef mein guzre hen ye din … ye ratein meri. Please look at me, ek bar dekh lo meri taraf…. Shaid mere dil ko sakoon mil jae.

“yes.. yes we… we got married” She stammered visibly, I hated it… I hated all this,I wish I could stop all this with her. she has to face this because of me.

“We already know this bit, we want to know if this marriage had your consent in it?” He asked and Manant just kept quiet again.

“N…No” She stammered again and I felt I heard wrong… I couldn’t believe my ears, my senses…. my throat went all dry at once, my grip over the wood went tighter, I blinked my eyes for the first time since she was standing in front of me…. just to make sure I wasn’t in a nightmare or anything….. no, this was worst than a nightmare.

“Mannat! could you please speak a bit more loud and clear?” Hareesh asked and Mannat slowly looked at him.

“I… I didn’t want this” Mannat said in a plan tone, without any expression on her face. she looked pale as if there was no blood in her body.

“So, you mean…. Mr Hussain actually forced you into this marriage?” He asked.

“He did” she said shortly and I gulped down.

Q ker rai ho aesa Mannat? why? Khuda k liye mat karo aesa… waja jo bhi hea… mat karo aesa…

“And will you tell the court how did you get all these scars on your face? and where were you for last 4 days?” Hareesh asked his next question and my heartbeat quickened.

“I … I was” she stopped and looked up… for the first time she looked at the people sitting in the court, her eyes were full of fear… I know there was something eating her up…. Please Mannat! look at me…. she looked back at Hareesh.

“he took me out…. He… he wanted to take me somewhere” Mannat said, her tone a bit firm now.

“Yeah! we were informed you left a message on your dresser mirror that Hussain is taking me out” Hareesh quoted and she said nothing in return.

“will you explain… where he took you and why were you missing for these days?” He asked.

“he took me somewhere… I had never been before” Mannat said looking down….. “he kept me there and… and didn’t let me go back” She added and I just kept on looking at her, trying to figure out what was happening.

“why? Why would he do that?” Hareesh asked raising his shoulders.

“Because… I … I wanted divorce” Mannat said and every word of her sent shivers to my spine, is this what she just said? I felt I lost my senses.

I could hear whispers and even few noises from the people sitting in the hall… definitely they were equally shocked…. Maybe hating her right now, but… but I cant hate her…. I know something was wrong… terribly wrong!

“”you wanted divorce?... and he hit you? like he didn’t want to give you divorce. You got all these scars…..” hareesh pointed towards her face.

“He did” She said in almost a whisper and I gulped down the lump in my throat…. I felt I just died.

“your honour am done, and with my last evidence and witness I think this case is as clear as water......” Hareesh turned to the jury who were documenting down something, I couldn’t look away her face… she looked in hell pain, I could see that… feel that. In her words… on her face. but why? Why Mannat? don’t do this.

“Mannat Hussain! you just said that my client forced you into this marriage” Minahil was standing in front of her now and Mannat was looking down again…. “and you don’t love him and you wanted a divorce?” She added and Mannat remained silent.

“Mannat Hussain! answer me” Minahil asked in a stern tone.

“I think I have cleared myself… I don’t need to repeat myself” Mannat said in a firm tone and Minahil went a bit closer to the box.

“Mannat! I have a hell of evidences and witnesses who can come here and prove that how much you and Hussain love each other” Minahil said, her voice raising….. “why are you doing this? Why are you lying to the court” Minahil said and Mannat looked at her.

“I am not lying” she said slowly.

“you are lying Mannat Hussain, you love my client and that’s the truth….” Minahil almost yelled pointing her finger at me and Mannat shut her eyes at once, there was pain on her face…. I couldn’t bare….

Dekho to sahee meri taraf ek bar Mannat! tumhara dard nai dekha jata muj se…. kun itna khof, itna dar hea tumhare chehre per?…. Ek bar maang ker to dekho Mannat! sab sehh loon ga… sab berdasht ker loon ga Mannat mein… tumhare liye! Sirf tumhare liye….. bharosa ker k dekho!

“I have told you am not lying…..” Mannat yelled out a loud….. “I don’t love him… I didn’t want this marriage, he forced me in to it… am not lying… am not” her breath heavy as she kept on yelling and then held her head in her hands.

“if you don’t love him and this marriage is a forced one what the hell you were doing with my client in your apartment that night?.....” Minahil asked loudly and Mannat at once looked at her, her breath messed up and face full of fear…. “what were you doing with him there the whole night…..

“Enough!......” with a loud bang I smacked my hand on the wooden, cold brim and Mannat at once looked up at my face.

MANNAT’S POV

Hussain was standing in the box…. It was so painful only to look at him like that, and he was the one who was bearing everything…just because of me. I had never thought of him in such state… couldn’t even imagine Hussain in this situation. Oh God! Please…. Help him… please don’t make him suffer.

The moment since I entered in to the hall… Hussain’s gaze was upon me, I could feel the heat… that concern his gaze was emitting. I couldn’t look up at him… I knew I would go all weak if I will look at him and I don’t want that.

I had never hated myself that much in my life before, why I had to do this? why? Why I hadn’t any other option?..... Itni bari saza q? Ya Allah! Q?

“you are lying Mannat Hussain! you love my client and that’s the truth….” Minahil said firmly and I shut my eyes tight….. yes! yes! I love him… I have always does Minahil, I love him, more than you can imagine…. But don’t do this here… kill me and bury me somewhere but don’t do this….. I  can’t bare it, I can’t bare this pain. I have to end it… I have to end this pain!

 “I have told you am not lying…..”I yelled out a loud unable to bare it any more….“I don’t love him… I didn’t want this marriage, he forced me in to it… am not lying… am not” I started panting as I yelled out aloud… I felt my head was spinning, I held it in my hands and put my elbows on the brim.

Tumhare liye…. Hussain! sirf tumhare liye. I have to do this Hussain, I love you and I know you are going to hate me for this….but I have to… I have to.

“if you don’t love him and this marriage is a forced one what the hell you were doing with my client in your apartment that night?” Minahil asked and I looked at her face, she had disbelief and hatred in her eyes… hatred for me. oh please! Please…. No.

“what were you doing with him, there the whole night…..

“Enough!......” Minahil asked yelling when Suddenly Hussain shouted at the top of his lungs as he smacked his hand hard on the wooden brim….. my breath hitched up in my throat as I looked at him.

He looked angry… furious, his chest going up and down heavily in rage… as if something was boiling up inside him… maybe hatred? Hatred for me? I gulped down the lump in my throat as he kept on glaring at Minahil with his eyes emitting fire.

“Enough!....” He repeated, his hands still on the brim… oh! His hand must be paining … please don’t hurt yourself Hussain! please… I beg you.

“Hussain you just….

“NO, you stop it….” Hussain cut Minahil in the middle and after glaring her for a couple of more moments his gaze turned to the jury, he didn’t look at me. what was he up to? My heart beat quickened.

“I agree upon what so ever she said…..” Hussain said in a very firm tone and my heart stopped beating, my eyes pooled up and I couldn’t just stopped my tears.

The hall went into whispers and I could hear… Shehry, Aunty… Uncle everybody got panicked.

“She is not lying… yes! I forced her into this marriage, I… I” Hussain stammered a bit as if he would break any moment, stop it Hussain! no… you cant do this to yourself. Don’t make me hate myself ever more….. tears started rolling down my cheek and I didn’t care to wipe them away.

“I kidnapped her, I agree on what she said….. I hit her” I could hear his words trembling… but deep down his heart was trembling even more and I could feel that.

“Hussain! stop this” I heard Shehry yelled out and I just couldn’t look at him….. “bus ker yar! Khamosh ho ja…we all know you are lying” Shehry shouted, pain and rage was mixed up in his words.

“Order! Order… please calm down” Somebody from the front desk said in a stern tone, Hussain just kept on looking at the jury members, my eyes couldn’t leave his face….

“I rest my case….” He said and looked down slowly to his hands again….

“do you want to add anything else to the case?” Somebody asked on a mike and no voice was heard…

“After listening to the verdict of Mannat Hussain, we don’t think there is any more need of witnesses or evidences…” Somebody said, I couldn’t properly hear anything now… my senses were numb and vision blur, I blinked my eyes but in vain tears just kept on coming into them… my heart was crying, yelling… yelling in pain…. But I couldn’t utter a single word.

“Mr Hussain has to divorce Mannat Salaar.... the court declares a three years imprisonment to Hussain Asif in the crime of forcing Mannat Salaar into a paper marriage and kidnapping her” my senses went numb and heart just sank as he slowly looked up at my face…..his eyes bored into mine.

Yun laga jesey saans tham gai ho….dil ki dharkan ruk gai ho,un aankhon k siwa sab dhundla ho gaya tha….wo ankhen jin mein ajeeb si ranjish thi… ajeeb sa gussa tha… piyar bhi, wo piyar jis k liye Hussain ne apni izzat, apni zindagi… apni anaa… kisi cheez ki perwa nai ki thi…

Tumhari Annkhen to meri rooh tak mein jhank leti hen Hussain!.... Aesa na ho k kaheen!....... Naheen! ….Mat dekho Hussain! mat dekho aese… k mein kamzor parr jaoon… ye tumhari Mannat nai hai Hussain…. tumhari Mannat ko to maar ker dafan ker aai hoon…. Mat dekho aese! I slowly looked down and shut my eyes tight, letting the tears roll down my cheeks.

“The court is adjourned” I heard a firm and stern voice and I opened my eyes.

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