Few days before Mission Bff

Mah Laaj was attending the classes as usual when at the end the professor called her name.

Mah Laaj Khan meet me in my office with Aftab and Minhaaj. You guys haven't submitted your economic assignment yet. If you guys wanted to pass my exams you guys better show up in 10 minutes otherwise you all three would get F for your economics paper.

The professor said it and went out of the class.
Mah Laaj was dumbfounded by what just happened because according to Aftab " The next to be a promising politician" he had already submitted the assignment last week.

She opened her phone to call him and suddenly something hits her mind.

Oh, shoot! I didn't have his number. Great Mah Laaj. You deserve an award for being so stupid for not saving his number.

She glanced at her watch while biting her lower lip to think of a way to find Aftab in this whole damn big university.

Mah Laaj didn't want her marks to get deducted because of Aftab's stupid pranks and jokes. This assignment contains 50% marks of the final and she was so ready to beat up Aftab if she gets just one glance of him.

She searched almost every part of the cafeteria because Aftab was always lurking around here with his friends but she found nothing.

Suddenly she felt someone presence behind her back. She glances at the dark side of the storeroom for food but there was nothing. Mah Laaj felt the same thing when Minhaaj dropped her around Uncle Qasim's house when they came back from Umar's house. Another incident happen when she was in the library two days ago. She felt like someone was following her.

Mah Laaj it's just all in your head. Don't think about it right now. Just try to find Aftab. She said to herself.

Mah Laaj peeped at her watch again only two minutes left. She tried calling Minhaaj maybe he could help but miraculously he was stepping inside the cafeteria right at that time with his emotionless face.

She ran towards him and just took his hand in hers and dragged him towards the economic professor's office.

Can you tell me why you hauled me here Mah Laaj? He asserted in irritation because he hadn't eaten anything since morning. And after pulling out one whole week without sleep and making a plan to get into Asad Bukhari house Minhaaj was not ready to be into any stupid games of Mah Laaj.

"Minhaaj just shut your mouth for once and listen to me. Aftab is nowhere to be found and he didn't submit our economic assignment. I don't have his number so I couldn't call him. This assignment contains 50% marks and the professor gave me a warning in the class where you both were missing. Now come up with a plan or else we are done for." She uttered it all in a panic state.

What does this have to do with me? I have done my job by completing my part and it's your fault that you gave our assignment to an untrustworthy person. If my marks get deducted I'll not spare you. So you better clean your mess and don't expect anything from me.

Minhaaj expressed his annoying side to her once again and ambled back to the cafeteria side.

Aish! I so wanna beat him to a pulp but I don't have time for that, urgh! Aftab Bukhari you better don't come in front of me or else you'll be dead meat. She clenched her fist and pushed back her hair in frustration.

She was walking to and fro in front of the office door as she didn't know what to say to the professor.

Calm down Mah Laaj! You can do it. Use your brilliant mind to get out of this mess and then deal with both of them later.

Suddenly she remembered something and a very apologetic smile appeared on her lips.
She sighed heavily and knocked at the door with fake tears in her eyes.

Yes! Come in Miss Mah Laaj Khan.

She heard her professor saying it.

May I?

Mah Laaj asked permission to sit.

Yes! Have a seat and tell me why didn't you guys submitted the assignment.

T-That is because...... my grandfather died.

She stuttered but came up with a plan on time.
The professor was so ready to scold her but this hauled him to say a word because she looked genuinely devastated.

I've been so attached to him...

She halted and started crying which make the professor to panicked.

That's why I couldn't do anything. Can you give me three days professor? I promise I'll give you the assignment on time. I don't want my scholarship to be canceled.

The fake tears have cascaded down to her cheeks now.

Although the professor couldn't identify whether it was a lie that all the students make to get away from punishment or not so he found a solution in between.

I'll give you 24 hours. I want your assignment tomorrow at 4 PM on my desk or consider yourself and your group to get an F.

He said it and shu her away.
Mah Laaj just nodded and went outside.

"I swear I'll kill you both. Allah Pak, please forgive me. I promise I won't lie again. Just forgive me this time." She batted her eyelashes and asserted in a cute tone into a thin air.

She wiped her fake tears and ask for forgiveness from Allah and also from her alive grandfather.

Now let's get our first prey.

She strode towards the cafeteria side while doing something on her phone where Minhaaj was having his first meal of the day at 4 PM.

May Laaj sat opposite to him with a cheeky smile.

Is it delicious? She asked innocently.

Minhaaj looked at her with one raised brows. Something was definitely odd. Without letting him give any response Mah Laaj took the burger from his plate and eat it half in one go.

She knew Minhaaj didn't like it if someone eats his food and he also lost his appetite if you eat from his plate.

"It's delicious just as it looks."Mah Laaj said it, waited for a while, and ran away from there because she knew the storm was coming soon.

Minhaaj also whined because he literally lost his appetite.

Mah Laaj if I laid my hands on you, you are done for. You better have a good reason to do this. He shouted and went after her.

Mah Laaj stick out her tongue while teasing and ran ahead.

Everyone was looking at them strangely because they were running around in the whole cafeteria.

Although she was fast but she forgot whom she was dealing with. Minhaaj grabbed her in no time outside the cafe.

Mah Laaj was gasping for breath while he was standing like he just walked here.

Are you.... a.... marathon runner? She leaned against the pillar for support and spewed it out while catching her breath.

Stop with your nonsense and tell me why did you do that? Minhaaj didn't get why she did that when she clearly knows he hates those things.

This is the 15th time in their 12-year friendship she did it.

What did I do? She grinned and avoid eye contact.

You don't know what you did in the cafe?

Minhaaj leaned forth and put his hands on both sides of Mah Laaj with a smirk. She was trapped between his hands.

I... did nothing.

She gulped softly while becoming red because of the proximity. Her heart was beating insanely.

You know what you did, right? He whispered near her ears this time because he knows that his presence affects her a lot.

It's not like Minhaaj has not been noticing it. He was just ignoring it.

This was also Mah Laaj's limit she pushed him away and confessed it with a pout.

Yeah, I deliberately eat your burger.

And...

Minhaaj put stress on it.

Because you didn't help me. Friends are meant to help each other but you are an antique case. I wonder if you consider me as a friend because-

Minhaaj cut her in the middle.

Yes, I don't consider you my friend. You are more like a stalker or someone who forced others to be their friend. He asserted it with a poker face.

Mah Laaj felt like she was talking to an emotionless, rude, and arrogant guy who doesn't give a damn to anyone's feelings.

But still, his blue orbs have something that makes Mah Laaj not leave him. Like those shiny blue orbs are begging her to stay with him. Because if she did he would be left alone. There was a mystery in his eyes since childhood that Mah Laaj couldn't figure out till now.

Trust me only you can get away by saying these harsh words to me. If there was someone else he would've been on the floor groaning in pain. So Mr. Not My Friend we have 24 hours to get our assignment back from Aftab.

Why do you think I would help you? Minhaaj was now curious because just a few minutes ago he clearly said "No" to her.

Mah Laaj was so ready to smack his head because now Minhaaj was testing her patience but she controlled.

"Because Mr. Minhaaj Sikander your pictures have been upload on my Twitter account. And if you want me to delete them before many people see them, help me out". She flipped her hair a Lil and utter it with a large grin.

Minhaaj eyes widened because it was the first rule of undercover agents/ soldiers not to upload any picture on social media. If their Chief see it they would be stopped from doing any secret missions because the special agents are never meant to go public.

What!

He tried to snatched her phone but all in vain.

Mah Laaj delete those pictures now. He told her in a warning tone.

Do you think I would do it? She wiggled her brows because she was having the time of her life teasing Minhaaj. She never knew why he always panicked whenever she tried to take a photo of him but she knew this always worked.

Okay, I will help you, just delete those pictures.

He uttered nervously because he didn't want to get scolded by the chief and wanted to put Mah Laaj in danger again.

Mah Laaj was shocked to see him this nervous but she had to play her naughty role.

Good boy! You should've done it sooner. She rolled her eyes playfully, opened her phone and deleted the pictures from her private account in which there was no follower.

Her plan worked. She knew how to handle Minhaaj.

Mah Laaj showed him that the pictures were deleted and then he noticed that she tricked him. A lock sign was there which means it was a private account. It was hard to say but he admitted in his mind that only Mah Laaj Khan could shake him up.

He shook his head and a Lil smile crept on his lips which vanished in a second too before Mah Laaj saw it.

So what's the plan? How we'll make the assignment? Minhaaj asked.

Not "we" you. You will go to Aftab house and get back our assignment. Simple!

Minhaaj thought for a bit and nodded his head Lil because it would do him good before Mission Bff.

He could get more information than what he got from Izza and Umar.

Great then come let me buy you something from the cafeteria otherwise you will eat my brain that I owe you one meal. Sometimes I wonder are you perhaps "The Miser Sheikh" from the old tales.

Minhaaj showed his eyes to her and she just giggled and started walking.

Minhaaj walked behind her because he finally got his appetite back. An appetite for his prey.

He was walking ahead when he felt like he heard a clicking sound of flash.

His all senses alarmed him someone was following them. He took the earpiece out from his pants pocket and called Ali.

Rat alert! Minhaaj just said two words in a low tone that even Mah Laaj couldn't able to hear it who was just walking ahead with a Lil distance.

Roger that! Ali replied.

Minhaaj went ahead with Mah Laaj because he knew that Ali would handle that person easily. After all, Ali worked in that University as a professor.
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Asad house

Dildar came inside with an envelope in his hands and handed over it to Asad.

Sir, this is the new girl which is behind Aftab Sahab's (sir) weird behavior.

Asad's gaze went to his hands with a vile smile. He opened the envelope and saw a beautiful girl with long hair with milky white skin. The lips were plum and pink. She was wearing a shawl over her head. A beautiful damsel he could ever see in his whole life except one who made his inner beast come out.

Asad suddenly remembered the hijabi girl from the past.

PAST

Asad was rushing towards the school because he got a call from Aftab's school that he fought with his classmates and was badly beaten up by a Lil girl.

This news was spread like fire and reached towards Asad's father in no time.

Jabbar Bukhari!

He was known for his ruthlessness in the dark underworld but very sophisticated in front of society. Even if Asad, his son was on the wrong side he would punish him like he punished his servants. Severely and ruthlessly!

When Asad reached school he saw Aftab's face scratched as a cat did it. A Lil blood was coming out from the corner of his lip and his head on one side was swelled.

He sighed and was mentally preparing how to save his son from his father's wrath.

Aftab was doing this to get his attention because his grandmother died recently and he was so attached to her.

Asad was starting his political career and was so busy that he couldn't take out time for him.

About his mother, she was never home. He didn't know why she changed drastically. Before Asad's mother died their family was normal but he didn't know what happened that his wife started to keep herself away from them.

Putting all his worries aside he took Aftab in his hands and apologize to the principal for his son's bad behavior.

He took him near the hospital to get check by a doctor.

Asad was looking for a doctor when he saw a beautiful girl talking to two kids while smiling. She was wearing a hijab and was looking like an epitome of beauty.

His heart missed a beat. He came back into reality when Aftab said that his face wounds were hurting.

Asad looked down at his son and give him his warm smile but his heart was messing with his brain.

You're my Lion, right. Lions don't feel pain. Be brave and wait for your turn to get checked up.

He pinched his nose and looked around again but that hijabi girl was gone.

Asad went towards the emergency room along with Aftab. The doctor jotted down some medicines and pain removing gels.

All that time Asad was not listening carefully because in his head only one face was roaming and that was that hijabi girl.

They took the medicines and went back home. Asad's father beat him to a pulp because he said that he was not bringing up Asad right.

How could let your son beat up by a girl? Do you how much you and your Lil boy put disgrace our family name? I shouldn't let you marry that gold digger. Because of her, you have started to become mindless. Jabbar Bukhari shouted his lungs out while banging the bamboo stick in his stomach.

Asad fell to the ground and spit out blood from his mouth. Aftab was looking all this through a see-through window. No one knows he was watching his father beat up brutally by his grandfather.

I'll... make...him... just... like... you... want... Dad. Just let him... go... this time.

He tried to stand up and spewed out with immense pain.

Asad never liked Jabbar Sahab's ways to teach "How to be a man?". He struggled a lot when he was a child but after he met Aftab's mother, he was beginning to change his school of thoughts about " What real man is?".

But the sudden change in his wife's behavior is making him think back again "Maybe his definition of Real man is wrong".

After the fight of Aftab, Asad changed his school and started teaching him to never kneel in front of anyone. And that you can get whatever you want because that's what man is about. The man could hold every power on earth although he never deciphers it himself.

After the visit to the hospital that day he was restless. All-day and night only one face was coming before his eyes. That Hijabi girl.

She looked like a delicate piece of a necklace that needed to be safe and sound at any cost.

He started to feel agitated towards his wife. They fought a lot that at one time he felt like he would murder her with his own hands but he was not that kind of a guy so choose a better way and that was divorce.

But what he not expecting was the custody of Aftab. His wife got it because Aftab said that he didn't like his Dad.

He was in a very unstable condition because she was the love of his life. The girl he fought for. The child he yearned for was now taken away.

But the depressing matter was he was not feeling upsetting instead he was happy, happy to find that hijabi girl. Because she now becoming his obsession.

He wanted her now.

As a new politician, he usually does lots of charity work. So in those excuses, he started meeting her.

The more he saw the girl, the more he felt like his inner monster was about to barge the door of vileness.

And one day he asked a very bizarre question which in result he got a slap on his face. And what happened next was the first step to his devil work.

Present

Asad saw the picture of Mah Laaj with Aftab and he remembered that hijabi girl right at that time.

The inner demon who never came out after that incident was knocking at his door again.

Asad Sahab, should I do a background check on her? Maybe she is some kind of trap by our enemies? Dildar Khan's voice brought him out of his trance.

Khan! I want to know everything about this girl by the end of this week. Do it by yourself and keep it confidential. No one! I repeat no one should know about it.

Something happened to Asad which Dildar Khan was not able to read it.

He just nodded in happiness that he didn't need to be underground but soon Asad pour the water on that Lil hope.

And don't forget that you are underground. Don't do anything rash and just find about this girl legally. Is that clear? He cocked his left brow to let him know what he should focus on.

Dildar Khan just nodded in rage because Asad was still thinking about the nonsense of Sherry.

Okay, now it's time to send Aftab away from Lahore. Asad uttered it and went out of his office.

Only he knows what dirty plans were working in his mind.

So I'm back with another chap! Yay🎉
So tell me everyone especially my silent readers how was the chapter!

Mah Laaj is the best trickster ever, didn't she? 😂 You guys missed her naughty side, right? So I bring it back for y'all.

Don't you think Minhaaj is dumb around Mah Laaj? Like he lost everything around her his special identity and his training. I know he is a bit rude but we all know he is a Lil messed up case that needs to be solved by Mah Laaj. 🌚

Okay, a quick question too!
Who do you guys think is this Hijabi girl? And why suddenly Aftab's mother changed?

A whole pack of mysteries will open in the next chapter so stay tuned!!!

Till then vote comment and share! Bye-bye cupcakes meet you guys soon ❤️