"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will." -W.Clement Stone.

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Tani's POV

I slapped him? Now I'm dead, I'm totally dead, Tani what did you do?

But why am I regretting? Whatever I did, he deserves that. He deserves to be punished, he hurt my best friend, he hurt the only person who was with me, who was on my side, he hurt Sami. Now, it's his turn, he should be punished, he should be dead.

I was looking straight in his eyes and tears of hurt, fear and anger were continuously streaming down my face but I tried to hide my fear and showed him my strength but how can I become so strong before someone who is so cruel, who has no heart, no feelings, who is a kidnapper, a murderer, a stalker and when I do know that I'm nothing before him, I can't fight with him, it's not easy and I know, I'm just gonna die, he will kill me with this--- this horrible knife in his hand. I just haven't expected my death like this.

I saw him taking steps towards me with anger and rage filled in his eyes and that same feeling came back to me that was last time shown on my face when he'd kidnapped me and he came close, so close that his breath was touching my face, he grabbed me by my waist and pulled me towards him, then he put the knife on my face and slid it from my face to my neck while saying,

"How dare you to do that to me? Now, whatever I am going to do, you'll regret raising your beautiful hand on me ever." He said huskily but in that same muffled voice like someone has shoved some cloth in his mouth and then he squeezed my arm so tightly that I flinched with pain, I quickly moved my face to the opposite side of him so that he couldn't see the fear in my eyes, so that he won't think that I've given up the fight, and he has won this, so that he won't think that whatever he did, he did right. No, it was wrong, it was totally wrong, and I know he has to pay for this and he will.

It was a weird and mixed feeling, there was a hope and hopelessness, when I felt cold steel against my skin, and then I thought now it's the end, the end of my life. It was really a new, a weird, a horrible feeling of knowing that you are going to die and you can't actually do anything about saving yourself or your life. That's how Sami would have felt, helpless, complete helplessness and hopelessness would have filled his mind, thinking about him, my heart started sinking in my chest. He would have felt the same, that he is going to die and he couldn't do anything to save himself.

'Same same feeling, Sami! I can feel your pain.' I said to myself not knowing what am I actually saying, what am I actually thinking, who am I actually talking to, but I was talking with myself, or maybe with Sami or with my Allah. Please Allah just save him, give him strength to fight with his pain, please don't let him die, please.

Please help me and save me too, please, I don't wanna die like this, I don't wanna die.

I know I know, what you all are thinking that everyone and everything is mortal, everyone has to die, I know I too have to die someday, but not like this, not this way, right? I have never imagined my death like this. But what can I do if it's planned? If ALLAH has decided to give me this type of death so how can I change his plans? How can I escape from it ? If it has been written. But He is not cruel, He can't be so cruel, it'd be surely the test of my strength that how much I'm strong and how much I can take it, but ALLAH it's enough, I can't take it anymore, I can't bear this pain, please I wanna come to you too but not like this, I don't want to be murdered by the dirty hands of this devil. Please ALLAH.

I was lost in my thoughts when he removed---no almost tore my stole roughly from my head with the help of that knife which spoiled my hairstyle too and my eyes got wide and I turned towards him and saw him looking at me with so much lust. His eyes were raking all over my body and I felt disgust. Right when the realization hit me that whatever he is going to do with me would not be good. I started panicking, my breath stuck in my throat. No, no. He can't do this, I won't let him do this, I'd save myself or else I'd kill myself before he could take my innocence from me.

I started panicking from inside thinking about any way to escape and when his grip loosened on my arm while observing my body I took it as my chance to try, to do something, so I slowly took few steps back and when I hit the dressing, I saw my phone on it, I grabbed it and hid it behind my back so that he couldn't see it and started dialing Iqbal's number carefully, but I was wrong, he was smarter than me, and he quickly snatched my phone from my hand.

"Not so soon baby." He said while looking at the caller ID and I quickly moved towards the other side of dressing while pleading.

"Who are you? why can't you leave me alone? why are you even doing this? Look! Please, please let me go. I won't tell anyone that you had come here, please."

"You've lost your chance Tani by hitting me, now no one can save you, no one!" He said while coming towards me and I quickly ran besides my window and by holding the railing of my window, I said,

"Stop, stop, don't you come near me, stop right there, otherwise---" I said raising my hand and pointing towards where he was standing to stop him from coming near me.

"Otherwise what?" He said angrily but realizing my next move he quickly changed his expression and after putting his knife inside, he said softly,

"Tani don't---don't you think about this, you'll only hurt yourself." He said stopping me but I'm not gonna listen to him, I'd better off dead than letting him do that to me. I showed him my best evil smile and said,

"You underestimated me, you don't know what I'm capable of, I don't care what will happen to me but you better stay away from me or I'll jump from here." I said sternly.

"You'll not do that."

"Ohh I'll." I said and seeing him taking slow steps towards me I quickly climbed over my window but before I could jump on the other side he grabbed me from my dress.

"Leave me." I said struggling but his grip more tightened around me and then he grabbed me by my waist to carry me inside and I started panicking,

"N--no, no, no leave me, you bastard, you jerk." I said angrily and hitting his hands, elbowing him and kicking him but nothing worked and he quickly pulled me inside once again and threw me on bed and before I could run again he pulled my leg and climbed on top of me. The feeling of horror washed over me and I felt helpless. No, I can't let him do anything to me, no, no. I again started struggling, I kicked him in his stomach and tried to get away from him but he grabbed my both wrists in his one hand and wrapped his legs around mine to lock me with him and with his free hand he grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him but I continuously moving my face to other side.

"TANI LOOK AT ME!" He shouted and I froze, I froze at my spot, my eyes glued with his but when he leaned into kiss me I quickly moved my face to the other side and his lips touched my cheeks, he stayed like this for a while, then he buried his face in my neck and started kissing.

"You are so beautiful." He said huskily and between kisses on my neck and I felt disgust, I felt nasty, I again pleaded while crying,

"Please don't do this to me, It's not right, please. PLEASE!" I shouted but my voice cracked in the end and he said,

"I'm not gonna do anything now, but it's your last chance Tani, LISTEN!" He again forced me to look at him.

"YOU'LL NOT MARRY TO ANYONE, DO YOU GET IT? IF YOU'D TRY TO MARRY ANYONE AGAIN, I'LL NOT THINK BEFORE RAPING YOU AND KILLING YOUR SO CALLED FUTURE HUSBAND, GET IT?---"

"YOU ARE ONLY MINE AND YOU'LL ONLY MARRY ME." He said while caressing my cheeks and when I realized what he just said I blurted out,

"What?" What the hell did he mean by that?

"I'm sorry, but you go and fuck yourself, I'm not gonna marry with you at any cost." I said without realizing that what I just said, 'at any cost?' Maybe he realized my expression cause he laughed and said,

"AT ANY COST? huh?" He asked,

"What if I kill your whole family first and then I'd marry you?" He said this whole thing so calmly but then he grabbed my hairs so tightly that I hissed with pain,

"Think before you speak baby, I won't give a second thought before killing your family and won't even regret it."

"No! You can't do that." I said shaking my head.

"Ohh! I can do anything." He looked at me intensely when we heard police sirens and then he barked,

"FUCK! Who the hell called Police?" He asked irritatingly and quickly pulling away from me. He lunged towards window but then stopped in between, turned and said,

"Remember, it's your last chance." And then he jumped out of my room through window and I was still lying on my bed in shock that what he just said? When I realized he's gone, I quickly stood up from my bed, ran towards my window and after locking it, I grabbed my stole from the floor and ran towards the door, after unlocking it, I ran downstairs and found Ghannu at the main door, I quickly went towards her and hugged her, I felt her body tensed but then she hugged me back.

"What happened Tani?" She asked while hugging me and caressing my back and I pulled away to tell her everything but before I could say any word, her eyes got wide when she looked at my face,

"What is this Tani? Whose blood is on your face? What happened? Are you hurt?" She asked while moving my face aside to get a better look on my face and neck.

"H-he--- he was here." I spat out those words hardly. She frowned but then quickly her expression changed and she said,

"Th--that person w-w-ho had kidnapped you?" She asked with wide eyes and I nodded and then I asked when I saw Iqbal running towards us.

"Who called the police, you?" I asked ghannu but she got confused and said,

"No, I didn't." I nodded but I was confused too, she didn't know what was going on in my room and except her and guests no one is in my home, then who had called the police? I saw some of the guests started coming outside of my house maybe after hearing sirens, they'd have got curious. When Iqbal reached us, he said,

"Move move, where is he?" He asked and I got confused,

"Who?" I asked,

"That kidnapper, that criminal who was in your room." He said quickly while entering in my home and running towards stairs, me and Ghannu exchanged same confuse looks, how the hell did he know that? We quickly followed him with some other police men who were behind him. I shouted from behind,

"How do you know that?" I asked but he ignored me and quickly entered in my room and started checking everything then he said,

"We were going hospital for the statement of, you know, um-- Sameer aka Sami's parents when someone called me on my phone and told me to go to your home cause someone is in your room and he'll kill you if I'd not reach here on time." He said and again started scanning my whole room.

"W-who called you?" I asked.

"I don't know, I asked him, but he said, I should focus on saving you rather than an unknown caller and that's why I'm here." I was confused, who was that? and how did he know everything? When I saw him again checking everything right when he got that letter, he asked,

"What's that?" Then I said,

"It's his and --- He has gone."

"What?"

"Yes, whoever called you said the truth but he has gone now, thanks to the sirens." I said sarcastically and when he looked at me confused, I explained everything that why he came here and how, what he said and also that he attacked Sami, everything. I saw both of them with shocked expression on their faces. Ghannu was beyond just horrified and when I explained them everything, suddenly from nowhere Faiz came into my room.

"What happened Tani?" He asked and before I could say anything Iqbal said,

"Who are you?" He asked Faiz with frowned expression on his face.

"He is my cousin." I said to Iqbal then he said to me, completely ignoring him.

"It's not safe for you to be here alone, I'm going to the hospital, you two should come with me." He said to me and Ghannu. I nodded then I quickly gestured Faiz to go downstairs and he went.

Before going to the hospital, first, me and ghannu went downstairs to tell the guests that party is over, means engagement is not gonna happen and then when everyone went out, we locked our house and was about to go with Iqbal when Faiz stopped us in tracks and said,

"I wanna come with you too." I agreed and told Iqbal to let him come with us.

When we reached hospital, me and Ghannu quickly ran towards the reception and then to our family but my day was gonna be more worse than it was before that's why Sami's parents stopped me, not letting me to see him and started cursing me for Sami's condition, I saw mom and Pop but they were silent, no one was saying anything to save me from them but Ghannu came forward and started fighting for me and then Iqbal,

"It's not her fault, you can't blame her like this." Ghannu said angrily to Sami's mother.

"I agree, she's already going through so much, you can't blame anyone for your son and we're here to take care of all these things, let us do our job." Iqbal said when he saw them going out of control but I was crying and lost in my thoughts, does my parents think like that too? do they also blame me? I was looking at them to get any answers when Hamza came from somewhere and said,

"What the hell is going on here? It's a hospital not your home that you all can fight here."

"Also your son is admit here and you are busy in blaming my sister? I hadn't expected that to you both." He said to Sami's parents and then Iqbal started asking them what had exactly happened and they told him that when they were about to leave for my home, someone called Sami to come on the roof and after a while he was lying on the floor before them, he's thrown from the roof infront of his parents. I can understand what would be their reaction then, how'd they've felt, I can't blame them if they are rude with me.

It was the last day when I last time saw Sami lying in his bed unconscious and then after two to three hours when I returned home, I found in my room another chit on my mirror.

"Today I saved you again, but not always, you've to fight for yourself, Remember, no one can hurt you if you've power to fight back.

So, FIGHT!"

- Your Angel

And with that I realized that surely he'd have called the Police and I'm so thankful for him. He is really an angel for me from Allah. I thought and smiled that here is someone who cares for me, who saves me, who want me to fight, but who is this angel ? I wanna know everything about him, how does he know about me? how did he know that anything is going to happen with me?

These were those questions that only he could answer me, so I moved them aside for him to answer me. I have to find him at any cost, if he knows when I'm in problem, he would surely know who is behind my problems, yes--- means who is behind my kidnapping and Sami's attack.

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The next day my mom told me that I'm going to the hostel next week and it gave me a big heart attack but I bear that pain and when I got the news that Sami is in Coma, I understood why my family is frightened with my living here with them, maybe I thought like that, but whatever the reason is, they should have thought about my safety, but they gave me an excuse saying that this is the best option for my safety to be shifted in a faraway place from here, so that he won't get to know that where I am and he won't follow me again. But was that possible ?

After lots of fighting arguments and excuses, I silently said my final good bye to all of them including my friends and my family and went there and started living there alone but with my room mates.

The days spent, then months, every night I cried for Rezay, prayed for him to come back, but he never showed up, not even a single day. Then there was my sister, everyday Ghannu texted me or called me and always gave me updates about everyone even about Sami, she told me that everyone has changed after that event, after that night everyone is acting weird, I got her she was my sister, just like me, i know how she'd have felt so I always told her that no matter what take care of yourself and everyone too.

That's how my life went, without my family and without my friends, everyday I wait for anything bad to happen with me then there was some hope in me that maybe he'd have forgotten me. So maybe he'd never come back but still there was fear in me and I use to fight daily with my own fears. I became maniac thinking about someone is following me, someone is watching me while sleeping, while changing, while eating, while talking with anyone, while working. Even in my dreams he never left me. He was always there with me in the form of a horrible nightmare, in the form of a horrible reality and then I always thought that I have an angel who want me to fight back. Also, Rezay told me to fight back, so I kept my fears aside and fought back and I'm still fighting and I know I'll always, no matter what.

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*PRESENT*

So.. That's how my year went and I'm here now standing in the hallway waiting for my kidnapper to attack me, but he just vanished, I know he'd never let me get away from him and now I'm waiting for him, for his next move, cause I know I've to deal with him, and now I'm ready to fight back and fighting him back means marrying him and I'm ready for it cause I have no other choice, I'm just waiting to make sure that in the near future I'll just make his life hell, he thinks that he'll marry me and he'll win me, ohh no! Never! I'll make him regret that how did he even think about marrying me?

"I'm waiting for you my sweet devil, just to make sure that you're still alive."

I said out loud, don't know to whom I was saying these things. But I was saying and I know from somewhere, he is listening too. So, I guess I've successfully delivered my message to him and with that I started moving towards Sami's room. Without thinking that his evil plans could bring my death.

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New update, long update, how was that?

So here is my Tani is showing her strong side, but would she act really strong before him? before her devil? & why he is behind her? any thoughts? any guesses? what does he want from her? why do he wanna marry her? & who is that angel? I think you already know the answer of this question, Guesses guesses ? ;) xD

Don't forget to read, votes and comments. :) (*-*) silent ones, it's time to show yourselves.

-Fatima.