He Came to Rescue Her Once Again!!!!

Suddenly she heard a knock at her door and she jumped up…. She felt like fainting on the bed with fear when she heard the knock again, it was a slow knock as if somebody was afraid too….. She looked around her switched the bedside lamp and while holding a vase in her hand she slowly headed towards the door…. The knock came again and this time she heard her name called out as well…. Softly in a cautious whisper and Maryam’s heart came in her throat….. Shehryaar!

She opened the door with trembling hands and somebody hurriedly came inside, closing the door again, maryam stood there all frozen in her place the vase still in her hands… she couldn’t move. He turned slowly and faced her….

They were standing there facing each other… both breathing heavily, both saying nothing but looking at each other.

“To is gamley se welcome kerne wali then begum ap mera?” shehryaar said in a whisper and bent forward to take the vase from her hand but she backed off

“q aaye hen ub ap? Abhi bhi na ate na” Maryam said with eyes wet again. Shehryaar felt his heart racing he stepped forward, but she again took a step back

“acha…am sor

“nai ap jaen… go from here, I don’t need you, I need no one…I…..

“Maryam stop….stop it!....” she kept on backing off and saying whatever came in her mouth when suddenly shehryaar grabbed her from her arms and pulled her close to him.

“Look at me….. look-at-me-Maryam” Shehryaar said, emphasizing every word and she slowly looked up into his eyes, tears rolled down

“Am sorry Maryam…. Am so sorry to let you go, am so sorry to let you come here alone….. am sorry that I let you cry” Shehryaar looked deep in her eyes and said, each word filled with sincerity, love and concern. She felt her world was holding her at the moment and she hugged him, wrapping her arms around him tightly, he hugged her back, snaking his arms around her, he slowly patted her back with one hand while the other in her hair, fingering her locks feeling the softness and inhaling her scent. Maryam cried on his chest, grabbing his shirt in her fists tightly, she emptied herself, but didn’t leave him as if she was afraid of letting him go…as if she was afraid that she would wake up from her dream and there would be no Shahryaar.

“mein aa gaya hoon na… all will be fine begum, don’t worry” Shehryaar tried to calm her down and said softly still holding her in his arms, slowly she felt a bit shy and let him go slowly but reluctantly…. She looked down on the floor while shehryaar was still holding her hands

“yahan dekho!” he said softly and she looked up at his face

“begum! You cry a lot…..what am gonna do with you” Shehry said seriously and she smiled… smiled after so many days. She kept on looking into his eyes, she never felt so safe, so secure before.

“kab se nai soi ho tum?Shehry asked, looking at her puffed eyes and dark circles

“pata nai….. I just couldn’t sleep shehryaar, I …I was so afraid of loosing you…I

SShhhh…. Chup, am here Maryam, with you, and there is no way am gonna leave you. You are my life, my happiness….everything. Never think like this again” Shehryaar said and bent down, he kissed her forehead.

“ap yahan kese aaye?” Maryam asked him and he smiled

“I will tell you everything… but right now am hell tired man” Shehry said, stretching his arms wide and maryam felt like hugging him again, but she at once slapped herself mentally and hid her smile.

“You sleep here, I will take the couch” Maryam said pointing towards the bed

“Um, that’s not fair and you know that I am such a just person, so lets sleep together…what do you think?” Shehry said mischievously and winked

“You never stop joking Han!” Maryam tried to hide her blush and said

“Joke?..... Sleeping with me is a joke for you?.... My God Begum! You are just so heartless” Shehry said in a sad tone and maryam  chuckled

“It seems your brothers had earned a lot here man! They are filthy rich kind of” Shehry walked around the room and observed the interior, Maryam felt sad

“hey! Kia hua?” he looked at her face and asked

“Nothing, tell me how did you enter the house?” Maryam asked

“I gave your watch man a bit of a treat… a perfect blend of Epidomate and Porofol” Shehry said calmly sitting on the bed and started taking out his shoes

“han?..... What's that?” Maryam asked, confused and he chuckled at her expressions

“yar behoshi ki dawai….. I bought it today from a medical store and it felt so good to know that people are still selling things in black here in Pakistan, kitni sasti hea yahan insaan ki zindagi, asool even laws” Shehry explained sarcastically and Maryam got worried

“What?..... Or if anybody gets to know this then?” Maryam sat near him and asked seriously

“Then?... then nothing! Kal to wese bhi mere saalon (Marysm’s brothers) ko pata chal he jana hea that I am here. So doesn’t matter” Shehry said calmly

“You hungry?” maryam asked and a naughty smirk appeared on his face

“Hmm, very much, but not for food begum” Shehry said and Maryam rolled her eyes hiding her blush, she was about to get up when Shehry held her wrist and pulled her towards him… they fell on the bed, with shehry down and Maryam half on bed, half on top of him, her eyes closed breath heavy.

“Do you know begum! How much I have missed you there…. I couldn’t even concentrate on the movie, couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep” Shehry said almost in a whisper and Maryam opened her eyes, he was staring into hers, his face all solemn

“All I was worried about was you, all I wanted was to hold you and never let you go again… and… and that day when I got your message…”his voice broke,Maryam could feel his heartbeat racing

“I felt …I felt…” Shehry broke down and Maryam put a finger on his lips

“Ssshh… I know Shehryaar, I know what you must have felt, I was going through the same. All these days what I wanted was you…. Nothing else, you are my life shehryaar, I just can't imagine living without you now” Maryam’s eyes went wet and Shehry flipped over, pinning her on the bed on her back. He stared into her eyes and then kissed away the tears from her cheeks. He lay down beside her holding her hand in his, they closed their eyes

Maryam told him everything happened here, since her arrival at the airport meeting Arsalan till his snatching her ring… everything. Shehry heard everything and felt like killing him right at the moment.

“Don’t worry begum! I am going to fix everything inn shaa Allah! And moreover, that git Arsalan……”Shehry assured her, pressing her hand in his and she smiled at him

They kept on lying there, saying nothing but listening to eachother’s heartbeats, and soon both fell asleep. After so many days Maryam and Shehryaar slept like, no worries and burden on their shoulders…. All calm and relaxed!

Next morning Maryam woke up, sleeping next to shehry. She felt heat emitting from her body, they were facing each other. Shehry was sleeping so calmly Maryam smiled at his cute childlike expressions… she kept on looking at his face, then slowly she bent down and kissed his forehead, she turned and got up from the bed, remove the curtains… she knew this day was going to be really hard for her, how would Ali and Asad react finding shehry here… and how would Shehry react to whatever happening here. She looked at her finger and felt a void in her heart. She was lost in her thoughts when she felt his arms around her torso and she smiled, he rested his chin on her neck with eyes closed.

“Good morning!” Maryam smiled

“Hmmm morning” Shehry mumbled, still sleeping and maryam chuckled

“Shehry I was wondering what would happen today?” she asked sounding worried. Shehry came in her front and stood there with arms crossed

“Maryam, we are husband and wife… there is nothing they can do about that, and as long as I am with you nothing is there you should be afraid of. I promised everyone back at home before coming here…. I promised them that I will bring you back safe and sound… you don’t have to worry begum! Mein hoon na” he said seriously and very softly. Maryam felt her brave knight was here so now she has nothing to worry about

“You trust me?” Shehry asked, cupping her face in his hands

“More than anyone one else Shehryaar, more than even I trust myself” She said solemnly and he smiled warmly at her

“bus fir tussi vekhe jao hun…. Shehry da kamala”  Shehry winked and she smiled at him

They were standing there when they heard loud knocks on the door, Maryam jumped up while shehry looked at the door. Maryam mouthed him to hide in the washroom and hurriedly picked up his small travel bag and hide it in the cupboard, Shehry holding his shoes went inside the bathroom. Maraym opened the door and saw Ali and Aasad standing there

“kia…kia hua bhai? What's wrong?” Maryam asked stammering

“Who was here?....”Ali asked ignoring her question

“What… nobody Bhai” Maryam said her palms sweating

“Maryam tell me the truth or I will check your room myself….tell me who was here? Somebody broke into the house last night” Asad said and maryam knew they had come to know about the watchman

They almost pushed maryam aside and stepped inside her room. Aliya and Sara also came and maryam shivered inside

“Maryam tell me who came here?” Asad asked her again

“I don’t know….”

“Maryam tell us or …….Ali asked angrily and right when he was about to slap her or something the washroom door burst open and Shehry came out

“Enough…… am here, ask me whatever you have to ask” Shehry said, standing in front of Ali, coming between him and maryam. All of them went numb in their places, Sara and Aliya were about to faint

“Who are you?” Asad asked, controlling his rage, maryam held his shirt tightly from behind, hiding behind him

“Well, my mistake I should have introduced myself… I am Shehryaar Asif, Maryam’s legally wedded husband, and if am not wrong, you both are my salaas….right?” Shehry said so calmly as if they were  going to kiss his forehead and hug him back

“So you came into her room like a thief in the darkness of night….and you call yourself her legally wedded husband?” Ali spatted sarcastically and Shehry laughed back. Maryam stood there worried

“That’s normal here you know…. Just like you almost tried to settle your very sister in a business deal and still you have this audacity to call yourself her brothers” Shehry looked right into his eyes and spatted back.

“Shuttupp…. Ali yelled and raised his hand to slap him when maryam jumped in the middle

“Bhai please… stop it! Please, let us live our life. We are a husband and wife and I won’t marry anyone else” Maryam said almost pleading

“You get out of my house… right now” Ali ignored her and addressed Shehry. Shehry took out his bag from under the bed and put it back on his shoulder.

“Shehry! Where are you going?” Maryam asked him worriedly

“Not me begum!... we are going, come on lets go, tomorrow is our flight due” Shehry softly and took her hand

“She is not going anywhere….” Ali burst out in rage and Shehry stopped in his tracks

Asad who was standing there saying nothing, came close to Ali and put a hand on his shoulder to stop him

“okay, wait! Don’t go… we don’t care about you, but our sister is precious to us and we don’t want her to get upset. You can stay here” Asad said calmly and maryam along with everybody else stood there petrified by what he just said

Asad left the room and slowly they all went out, leaving them behind, after coming out Asad called Ali in the study to discuss something important.

“What the rubbish you just said?” Ali burst as he entered the room and closed the door behind him

“Calm down yar… I just said this so that he won’t be able to take her away from us and out of the country. Ali they are husband and wife and there is no law present, which can separate them.” Asad said

“So what do you want? We let them live like this? And let Muzaffar ruin us?” Ali said angrily

“Ali look! Maryam is our only sister and we love her no matter what the current situation is, jahan tak is larke ki bat hea to let us handle him to Muzaffar Sahab, you know he has his resources. Wo kahan idher udher ker den ge ise pata bhi nai chale ga. And once he will be out of the screen, then we will make Maryam marry Arsalan” Asad told him the plan and Ali calm down a bit

“You mean…. Once he would be gone then our problems will be over?” Ali asked and said smiling at him.

He picked up the phone and dialed Muzaffar’s numbers….

“Hello! Muzaffar Sahab” Ali spoke and he greeted back

“G bus ahsan hen ap ke…… Muzaffar sahib ek zaroori bat kerna thi” Ali said

“yeah go ahead Ali” he said in a businessman like tone

“Actually Muzaffar Sahab there is a boy….he is not related but ap ko to pata hea aj kal k larke ajeeb hen, bus Maryam k peeche para hua hea hath dho ker” Ali told him

“hamari bahu ko pareshan ker raha hea????.... nam batao us ka” Muzaffar said angrily

“Shehryaar…. Shehryaar Asif aj kal yahan he hea, kal rat mein us ne airport nikalna hea and he is taking Maryam with himself…zaberdasti ker raha hea Muzaffar Sahab do something” Ali said very ardently and Muzaffar kept quiet for fe moments

“kab nikle ga time batao…..” he asked

“umm I think rat mein kisi waqt ki flight hea I will text you the timings” Ali said

“Okay! Don’t worry, us k liye Arsalan he kafi hea… he will fix him up” Muzaffar said proudly and they hung up

"Am relax now... Muzaffar Sahab will take care of him now" Ali said his expressions relaxed now