Asslam-o-Alaikum!

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P.S. guys here is a little change in plot; had no such chappy originally but I just felt like adding so...... hope that will be fine with u all :* 

we all just listen and talk about those savage animal acts happen around us coz partly we are helpless and partly we are used to of all that but trust me, my heart bleed on these terrorist activities getting so casual now days in my country.  May Allah destroy them from the face of earth and may peace be around us everywhere. Ameen!!!!

Chapter 7.6

Hussain's POV

"RUN!!!!"

"GET OUT OF THE CLASSES EVERY BODY!!!"

Sirens screamed in the air and my heart started to thrum inside my chest an unknown fear started to rush to my nerves.

I was alone in my lecture hall preparing for the presentation I was about to have in 15 minutes when suddenly university sirens numbed my brain.

"What the hell is this for?"......

 I heard hurried footsteps towards the door.

"Hussain! come on man! We need to get out of the building. What are you doing here?" one of my class mate Arif, yelled at the top of his lungs while panting. Before I could say anything he grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the lecture hall.

"Boys! Come on...this way" Mr. Naeem, our professor was shouting as he showed us the way running himself, I saw everybody was in a strange kind of panic and hustle as boys kept running out of the engineering wing.

There was a sudden uproar; guns beings screaming, bullets shot and people panicking. I could here girls screaming in horror and boys gasping in fear, everybody was running here and there.

"what is happening Arif?" I yelled as I found the main block crowded with commandos and their trucks parked in the main parking.

"Terrorists are inside the building" Arif replied, horror struck my heart and I looked back at the building now looking like a horror house.

We all followed our professor who took us out of the University from the back door, boys and girls gathered there as the policemen were trying to evacuate those places of the institute where still the terrorists hadn't reached.

"Move aside all of you! get back" an officer shouted, students with horrified faces got aside on the road.

Few busy dialing numbers on their phones a few already talking and crying over the phone talking to their parents probably.

"they are in the girl's wing Sir! A few of them has surrounded the main girl's entrance the rest are inside" I heard an officer speaking on his walki talki and my heart stopped beating.

Tehreem!!!

I took out my phone and dialed Samra's number as I didn't have Tehreem's but suddenly I remembered Samra wasn't attending classes today Mami wasn't well, I cut down the call hurriedly before I would panic them at home.

I looked ahead at the main entrance where now, no student could be seen only commandos in black uniform ready to step into action. I took a deep breath and walked up to the main gate.

"Abey kahan ja raha hea? Hussain! stop!!!" I heard Arif's cries as I walked up to the gate. "Have you gone mad! Come back Hussain!"

"What on earth you are up to boy? Get back. That way!" I tried to walk past those policemen when one of them caught my arm.

"Mujhey please ander janey dejiye" he gave me a confused look.

"She is inside Sir! I need to go" I tried to get my arm off his grip but he glared down at my face as if I was some stupid dumb.

"have you lost your mind? You are lucky to be rescued alive out of that hell. Now go!!" he jerked me leaving my arm and I stumbled back a little.

Media people were their in their vans, camera men and reporters with mikes. My head started to spin .

"Sir! please mujhey ander janey dejiye, wo akeli hea ander" I begged but he ignored me.

"Hussain come on! Chal yahan se" Arif grabbed my arm dragging me, my gaze fixed on the gates and heart thumping hard. "Ghar ja pagal mat ban. They wont let you step a foot inside, its dangerous man!"

"But wo ander hea yar! Mein kesey chala jaoon ghar usey yahan aesey chor ker" I pulled my arm out of his hand as he dragged me to the back of the campus where all the rest of students were gathered under the supervision of a bunch of armed men.

"Wo akeli nai hea ander, uski terha ki so or lerkiyan hen. I have heard they have captured them all in the conference hall"

"Sir please let me go inside. Please! My sister is inside. Please Sir! I beg you" both of us looked ahead us where a boy was almost begging the commando his face drenched and horror spread across his features.

"Boy! Stay there with them we can not let you go inside." The commando sternly replied. "ander khatra hea"

"Saif! Please calm down, they cant let you in. before you could reach to your sister they would kill you there and then. They are terrorists. Try to understand" Our dean Mr. Ahmad tried to convince the boy who looked shattered already and suddenly bullets shot as heard from distance and my heart dropped down to my tummy with a thud.

"Sir please! Do something, she is my only family, my sister is all I have. Please do something" tears rolling down his face and I gulped the lump down my throat looking away from his face.

"commandos are inside Saif! Your sister will be safe inn shaa Allah!" Mr. Ahmad assured him though his voice trembled himself. He took Saif to the corner where the students were gathered.

My eyes were fixed at the building huge wall, the back entrance was still open and I could easily walk inside but those commandos and Arif and everybody was just taking things too lightly.

Students sat down on the road all gathered close to each other, all scared, and a few broken like Saif and me.

Media vans were creeping here and there, a few stopped and covering each and every minute in their cameras.

"Humein khaber mili hea k dehshatgard abhi tak university k girls' wing mein maujood hen unhon ne lerkiyon ko yerghamal banaya hua hea. kaha ja raha hea k dehshakgerdon ne lerkiyon k mobile phones zabt ker liye hen jis ki waja se kisi bhi student se rabta na mumkin ho gaya hea" a woman was speaking on the mike in the camera.

"Wazeer-e-dakhila yahan moqa per puhanch chukey hen or unhon ne hamein or baki tamam students ko yaqeen dilaya hea k commandos phir se dehshatgerdon ko kamiyab nai honey den ge" she added and I held my head in my hands.

Pata nai kahan hogi Tehreem? Agar wo bhi un lerkiyo mein hui to.....? Oh Khudaya!

I stood up from the sidewalk and walked up to the back gate where a couple of men in black uniform and loaded machine guns stood all alert.

"Hussain!" I heard my dean called me but I ignored.

"Hey! Stop. Where are you going?" the commando stopped me with his hand over my chest.

"I want to go inside please! My fiancée is inside" I tried to push him but he didn't even budge a little.

"you want to die then go" one of them spatted angrily. "yahan kisi ki beti, kisi ki behen, kisi ki bivi ander hea, kia sab ko ander bhej den? Takey koi na bachey?"

I was about to insist when suddenly a blast was heard from somewhere near, which made my ears numb it felt as if stingy bells and sirens started to ring in my ears all at once and I covered them with both my palms hiding them from the unbearable shrieks of pain.

"GET DOWN EVERYBODY!!!!!!" I don't down know who did that but somebody pushed me down to the ground and I fell, my ears still numb and heart stopped beating as I covered my ears; firing and screams and cries were heard from near distance.

Tehreem!!!!

I looked up a little; students were running here and there the commandos no more on the gate, I got up a huge cloud of dust and smoke was seen coming out from the building and I ran inside.

"Tehreem!!!" reaching in the girls' wing I almost screamed her name and the next moment I felt something hard was smacked over my head from the back; my vision got blur as pain erupted like a warm lava from my head and my body went crashing down on the concrete floor.

Tehreem's POV

the door of the hall burst open with a thud as if somebody had kicked it and girls gasped on the floor, we all crawled even back as two of the terrorists entered inside, they were holding a body by his arms while his head was hung low and blood dripping from it.

"Ya Rabb!" I covered my mouth as a gasp escaped, tears soaking my face as I saw them dragging the man inside and the moment they walked past us my eyes narrowed looking at the man closely; those hair, that jacket, I could still feel the warmth of that leather around me....

My heart thumped inside and then it stopped beating as I realized who it was...

"Hussain!!!" a scream escaped my lips and my feet ready to move when girls held my arms and made me sit back, I almost fell into my place.

"Tehreem! Sshh!"

"Huss-Huusain! Hussain hen wo....." I pointed my trembling finger towards the body now laying all motionless on the floor, a little puddle of blood made around his head.

"Tehreem! Silent. Chup raho" Aasiya hushed me but I wasn't in state of listening anything.

"Hussain!" I screamed but my breath caught up in my throat as a man clad in dusty dirt brown kameez shalwars walked near me, I backed off my heart was trembling in horror as he pointed his long rifle towards my head.

"Awaaz naiii!" his tone stern and rigid like rocks and stones in throat. Keeping my gaze and head low I backed off trying to get disappear in the wall at my back.

The man moved back and then they started talking to each other pointing down at Hussain in some language I couldn't get.

"Hussain!!!! get up" it was a plea, a dying whisper in which I tried to call him but he just lay there all motionless.

What had they done to him? why was he bleeding?

I couldn't feel my heartbeats anymore in my chest as a thousand horrifying thoughts struck me.

Two men who brought Hussain inside were talking and pointing down at him every now and then, making my heart panic and brain almost burst up.

One among them whose face was covered half with a flap of his turban over his head ordered something to the taller one standing next to him and then looked at all of us, I could sense every breath hitched up and every soul trembled.

The man pointed his index, every gaze followed and I gulped down as I found him pointing towards one of our lab in charge; a young boy hardly 16.

the taller man walked up towards the boy and we all screamed in horror as he grabbed him by a fist full of hair and brought him out of the little crowd.

No. please Ya Rabb! Save him. please no.....

"let me go. Please let me go..... Allah will never forgive you all" the boy kept on shivering from head to toe but the cruel animal kept his gun over his head.

"Allah Hu Akbar!!!!" and with that the gun shot.

Ali's boy fell motionless on the floor, many gasped many screamed my eyeballs fixed on his body all pale but still warm, my heart bled inside.

Kia itni sasti hen janen? bus ek lamha or kisi maa k kalejey ka laal cheen liya us se, kisi behen ka ladla bhai juda ker diya, kisi baap ka fakhar ghuroor yun noch ker rakh dala.....kia itni sasti hen jannen merey Rabb!

"you people are animals. Worst than animals" I screamed at the top of my lungs and they all turned looking down at me.

"Tehreem! Stop. No!" one of my teacher's warning voice came but I ignored her, I felt trembling fingers around my arm trying to stop me from any rebellion but my mind was coaxing me to get up and smack their faces.

"Beth jao!!!!" one of them gruffed like a lion.

"Stop calling my Rabb's name when you kill innocent kids. Stop taking My Rabb's name with your filthy tongue" I screamed back, blood rushing to my brain as I glared into his eyes.

"Mera Rabb Rahman hea. Raheem hea"

"mera Rabb masoomo ko marney ka nai kehta. Tum log janwar ho. Zalim h....Ahhh!!!

My words got lost against a wince as a man strode towards me and fisted my hair from my hijab, I felt all my hair were being tugged out from their roots as he dragged me out of the crowd and brought me right next to Hussain.

My heart started to race against my rib cage as the man pushed my head downwards and my gaze landed on to the blood stain near Hussain's head.

Whatever he was saying in a gruff angry tone I could not get because of the language.

I was over my knees and my hijab all distorted, hair strands hanging out now and tears rolling down my cheeks as I heard acute silence in the hall as if people even stopped breathing as if even the hearts went cold.

"Ahh! Let go off me" his grip went tighter along with his angry tone and voice raised as he jerked me hard with my hair still in his fist.

"Allah hu Akbar!!!" my eyes flutter shut as he kept the gun's muzzle over my head and final tears rolled down my cheeks as I tried to recite Kalma with my hitched breaths.

Hussain's POV

I don't know why the hell I did that? I have a bright future ahead, I have my dreams which I still have to live with open eyes then why did I jump in this fire?

"Hussain!!!!" I heard her screamed my name, my heart thumped inside my chest but I laid all motionless there or else they would know I wasn't dead.

"Hussain!!! please get up!" in the eerie silence I could hear her sobbing shedding tears. I wanted to look up at her and assure her I was fine but I couldn't.

Those brutal savage animals, I just had heard about terrorists on media and read about them on social media I had never thought one day I would witness something like this, that horrible and inhumane.

I dunno what they were talking about but soon a gun shot was heard really close to my ears and my heart almost stopped beating as I heard girls' screams.

"Beth Jaoo!!!" I heard a man's threatening voice.

"Stop calling my Rabb's name when you kill innocent kids. Stop taking My Rabb's name with your filthy tongue"

No. please Tehreem! Stop this. Don't do this. They wont understand, they are animals with stoned hearts and numb brains. Don't do this.

"mera Rabb masoomo ko marney ka nai kehta. Tum log janwar ho. Zalim ho....Ahhh!!!

my heart panicked as I heard her wincing in pain and then I felt movements near me, carefully I opened an eye and saw a hint of her grey abaya close to my hand stretched.

A man was standing just near Tehreem, his foot was almost touching my hand.

My brain was racing inside I needed to do something quick, I knew it wasn't a bollywood movie, I was no hero and these were real terrorists but I had to do this, let that be stupid, impulsive but I needed to take a step.

"Ahhh! Let go off me" Tehreem screamed in pain.

"Allah huAkbar!!!!" as soon his voice crashed my eardrums I moved my hand and grabbing the man's foot I pushed him hard, due to dis balance and a sudden jolt the man got dis balanced and he fell off before he could shot.

"Hussain?" Tehreem gaped, I could feel a tint of relief, and a lot of screams and gasps were heard from the little crowd they had gathered there.

I was not yet over my feet when somebody kicked my back with full force and I fell down on the ground my face hit the floor and I felt my jawline dislocated badly.

"No. please! Please don't kill him" Tehreem shrieked moving towards me as I turned and found a tall huge man hovering over me with his long horrifying rifle pointing straight to my heart.

"Please! Tumhen Rabb ka wasta! Stop all this"

"CHUPPP!!" the man roared but before he could do anything loud and sudden firing was heard and all five of them panicked as they turned towards the main door alert, keeping their rifles at the point.

"STUDENTS GET BACK TO THE BOARD!!!!"

"GET BACK TO THE BOARD!!!!" a hurried urgent announcement was heard and we all moved back, with a loud ear shattering blast the wall of the hall burst up into bits, pieces of bricks flew in every direction.

I felt as if many feet were thumping on the ground and with that guns, bullets, screams spread into the air.

Men in black uniform hurried inside and took over.

My brain was getting even numb with every passing second.

"Hussain! Hussain stay with me please!" somebody was crying near me, close enough holding my face in warm hands...Tehreem.

The last voice I could comprehend was the loud cry of Allah hu Akbar and then my eyes flutter shut.

Tehreem's POV

"he is okay Tehreem! Stop crying for heaven sake" Samra wiped my face as fresh tears came rolling down my cheeks.

"Hussain theek hea, Allah ka ahsan hea shuker hea buhat k tum dono theek ho. Time per agar commando action na hota to pata nai kia hua hota ander hall me" Samra stated shaking her head.

"his rifle was here...." I touched my head. "right here Samra! he was horrifying, scary...." My body shivered as my heart shook in terror when his face flashed across my eyes.

"try to forget everything Tehreem beta! I know all this isn't easy. Mager mat yad karo wo sab. Bhool jao" Aunty touched my hand and I gulped down the lump in my throat.

"or Ali....Aunty wo...wo buhat masoom tha wo...wo to...

I broke into sobs as I thought about that poor little kid brutally murdered by those animals.

"Tehreem! Tehreem! Calm down yar!" Samra rubbed my arm trying to calm me down but I just cried in my palms.

"Mein zara Hussian ko dekh loon" I heard Aunty stating as she got up she stroked my hair softly before leaving.

Hussain?

"chalo have your meds and then sleep a little" Samra instructed as she picked up the little tray from the side table carrying a glass of milk with my tablets, a few relaxants and pain killers.

....

I don't know what time it was but sleep was nowhere near me, I have been tossing and turning in my bed for long.

Finally I gave up and got up from the bed, it was seven in the evening. Samra wasn't in the room she might be in the kitchen with Aunty.

Standing in front of the mirror I draped my duppatta over my head when suddenly that horrifying face came flashing across my eyes and my heart trembled with my feet backing off.

"Ya Allah!" I fisted my shirt over my heart trying to steady my heartbeats before I walked out of my room keeping my duppatta firm over my head I stepped towards Hussain's room and found his door a little ajar.

Hesitantly I pushed the door and peeked inside finding him fast asleep in his bed under the quilt. Slowly I stepped inside, I never came in his room before.

With uncertain steps I walked up to his bed and my heart suddenly thumped down in my tummy as I saw his face all pale and weak, the bandage was still around his head and a couple of bruises near his left jawline.

For a moment I thought You were...you were.....

Warm tears oozed out as I looked down at him. looking at the side table I found a glass of water, I picked it up and sat on the couch placed near the bed.

I started reciting surah Yaseen lowly and on every mubeen I blew in his water, tears refused to stop as I kept on reciting with my eyes shut.

Hussain's POV

My eyes hurt and body felt like needles pricked in every part. But still I could stare at her face for hours without getting tired.

She was sitting on the couch with her hands holding a glass of water and her lips trembling as she slowly kept on reciting, I must say she was a beautiful reciter.

us din ek lamhe ko laga jesey tum....tumhen kho diya mein ne. paaney se pehley he kho diya.

I dont know why my heart trembled with even the thought of it. 

After a few minutes she opened her eyes slowly, without looking up she blew in the water and kept the glass on the table as she sniffled and was about to get up when her gaze landed on me and her expressions instantly changed as she found me wide awake looking at her.

"A-ap?... am sorry if I....

She hurriedly got up awkwardly when I tried to press a smile.

"its okay. I was already awake" I told her and she went crimson in face.

"how are you feeling now?" she asked not looking at my face directly.

"tum ro rahi theen Tehreem?" I asked instead of replying and she looked at my face, our eyes met.

"N-nai. Nai to" she lied and I smiled, trying to get up in the bed but my shoulders failed to support my weight.

"Acha? Idher aao zara" I gestured her to come closer but she rather gaped at me blankly.

"You take rest. I should leave"

"Suno. Ruko!!" I called her as she was about to walk.

"Paani pila bhi do ub...." I looked at the glass and she blinked her eyes at me before she moved back and picking up the glass she extending it towards me.

I tried to get up but my head suddenly spun and I felt like pins being pricked inside.

"Sss Ah!" I grabbed my head in both my hands.

"Ap please letey rahiye. Uthiye mat" Tehreem panicked a little, I looked at her pale worried features as her gaze roamed my face in concern.

"soch lo. Phir khud apney hath se pilana parey ga pani mujhey. Pila do gi?" I asked softly and her pale cheeks turned red as she stood straight and kept the glass back on the table.

"M-mein Aunty ko bhejti hoon" with that she almost ran out of my room making me smiling like an idiot forgetting my pain.

....

The next few days I kept on assuring Mom who was hell worried and ready to fly all the way to Pakistan, I hid things from everyone and convinced Mami to keep things silent but me and media weren't on the same page I guess.

It kept on showing my footage on TV when I was trying to enter in the building asking the policemen to let me save my..... fiancée

God!!!! It was on every channel and trust me it was so embarrassing now when I looked at myself on the screen.

"Dad am okay! trust me mein bilkul theek hoon and please Mom ko bhi samjhaen k rona band Karen" I heard her sniffling though I couldn't see her face, Dad and Maha were talking to me.

"your Mom wants to visit Pakistan and I think its good werna yahan tum se door rahen gi to mazeed pareshan hon gi" Dad stated and I sighed helplessly.

"agar mujhey zaroorat hoti na Dad to mein khud bola leta per am perfectly fine now there is no need for all this. Trust me" I tried to assure him and he lowly nodded.

"Bhai! Were they really like what we see in movies? Horrible? Scary? And the blast..... " Maha asked with a horrifying expression on her cute innocent face and I chuckled a little.

"They exaggerate a little too much on Tv darling! There is nothing to be afraid of. Okay!" I looked into her eyes and she blinked them uncertainly.

"Shaista! Ub bus bhi karo. Acha aao bat karo Hussain se bula raha hea tumhen" Dad looked above the screen addressing Mom and with in a few moments I saw Mom's face; drenched and worried.

"Mom! mein bata raha hoon na mein theek hoon. Look! Look at me. kahan se bemaar lag raha hoon mein?" I tried to convince Mom whose eyes were still after four days of the incident looked puffed and bloodshot.

"Allah maarey manhooson ko. Najaney masoom bachon ne kia bighara hea kambakhton ka" Mom cursed sniffling and I heaved up a sigh.

"Mom! please stop crying. Am okay. yar! Shehry tu samjha na Mom ko" I looked at Shehry in the screen who smirked at me and I know where this smirk would land me.

"Mom is actually right Hussain! there is definitely something wrong with you bro!" he smiled meaningfully and I rolled my eyes.

"Shut up Shehry! am not in mood to cater your stupidity" I fired up and he chuckled.

"Acha beta! Tehreem kesi hea?" Dad asked and I gulped down, mare name brought those memories back in University; dark black memories. That gun over her head, that deep threatening voice, that scream of Allah huAkbar....

My heart shuddered all again.

"Hussain?"

"hm?.... uh- yeah. Yeah she is fine Dad! though a little moved by all that but she is okay now" I stated and Dad shook his head dejectedly.

"Allah sab ki aulaad ko apne hifz-o-amaan mein rakhey" Mom said lowly. With that Dad's phone rang up and he excused us all.

I wanted to ask Mom about Tehreem. I wanted to ask if she had talked to dad or not but I just couldn't get the right words.

"Mom! your son has in love okay" Shehry blabbered out of nowhere, making my eyes widened and face heat up all of a sudden hearing Maha chuckled.

"Waqai?" Mom literally gaped at my face and I tried hard to maintain my cool.

"Nothing like this Mom! Shehry has gone mad"

"Han han! Uthey University de gate per tuwada pra commando nal larr ra si apni voti nu bachan wastey???" Shehry popped his eyes out asking like a russi hui masi museebti.

Once again that embarrassing flushed feeling spread across my nerves.

"Hussain?" though I wasn't looking up but I could feel Mom's intense gaze upon my face. "are you really....

She trailed off as I looked up making a face. "Mom please yar! Na Karen" I literally whined and found the devil smirking next to her.

"Acha theek hea chalo nai poochti. Bus tum khush raho or apna khayal rakho. Werna mein aa rahi hoon next flight se"

"no need Mom! am okay" I assured her yet again and she sighed saying nothing.

"Or Tehreem ko buhat poochna meri taraf se buhat sara piyar dena" Mom continued.

"Abey nai o! piyar nai dena tu Saley! Wesey he teri niyat kuch kharab lag rahi hea" Shehry interrupted quite seriously and Mom slapped his shoulder lightly with a frown hiding her smile.

"Ji bilkul pooch loon ga Mom!" I stated and then looked at Shehry. "or q nai de sakta piyar. Aakhir bivi hea meri honey wali.....

Shehry cheesed some stupid sounds while I just went totally nervous in my place as I saw Tehreem's reflection in the mirror in front of me.

Tehreem?

To be continued.....

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