A World without Humans

Chapter 03

After the function was over, she went back to the car with her friends and took the path to home.

A week passed since the function. Ayesha was sitting alone on her lawn. Suddenly all the memories began to roam in her mind. She concluded that the function went well but she missed the golden chance to meet her favorite personalities. She was regretting it. Whatever, she could not stop thinking about those unique and adorable lenses. It was wonderful to them in  eyes. Just after a day, the sun of her special day was to arise. It was her birthday and she had a lot of plans in mind.
She picked up the cell phone to call her friends. Just four people were invited to the party, Fatima, Haneen, Zainab and that girl who helped her in the hall. After delivering her message, she got up to buy the stuff. Party needed to be celebrated magnificently and with fanfare so it was necessary to decorate the house.
As Zainab received the call, she made a group voice call with Haneen and Fatima. After having a short discourse about the coming day, it was decided that they will go together for shopping to purchase birthday gifts for the coming party.

the next day dawned, and three of them reached the shopping mall. “I saw a beautiful painting of scenery in this shop. Come on, have a look.” Zainab took them both to the shop. It was a beautiful painting, showing a scene of
snowfall with trees with blue petals “What does it cost?” Haneen asked the
shopkeeper. “5000Rs” He replied
“It’s so expensive,” Zainab whispered to Haneen.
“Let’s contribute then,” suggested Haneen, “Ayesha likes such paintings.
We should buy it.”
“To be honest, I’m not interested in this painting.” Fatima refused to
contribute, “I’ll go buy something else.” As Fatima left the shop Zainab said
to Haneen, “It’s alright. This one will be on our behalf then.” Haneen was
looking a little concerned about Fatima. “Ask them to pack this,” she said,
“I’m going to see Fatima.”
Suddenly Zainab’s eyes got a sight of glittering paper. “This one is perfect
for packing.” She muttered and step forward toward it. “Use this one for
packing. I’ll return when it’s ready” She addressed the shopkeeper and left the place.

After an hour, their shopping was completed; they headed toward the main gate. “Oh! I forgot something. I’m just coming.” Haneen hurried to the mall to purchase sweets and Fatima followed her, while Zainab was waiting for them in the car. Fortunately, they passed by the same shop where Zainab
had left the gift and had completely forgotten about it.
“Madam! Your friend forgot this gift.”
“Oh my God! How can she do this!?” Haneen came forward to pick up the
gift as the shopkeeper called her. The moment Fatima looked upon the gift;
she was fascinated by the beautiful covering. She asked the shopkeeper to
cover her gift with the same material. She also had a painting of a scenery for Ayesha. Haneen placed the gifts in the car’s trunk without saying a word to Zainab for her irresponsibility because she didn’t want to start up an argument. She also asked Fatima to refrain from any kind of quarrel.
The car headed towards Haneen’s home. Fatima asked Haneen to let her
stay there for a night stay and she agreed. Zainab returned to her home
after having tea. Fatima placed her gift above the cupboard. This place was not suitable for it. As soon as she got out of the room, it fell on the floor and was smashed into pieces.
Finally, the sun of Ayesha’s birthday arose. She was so excited about it and had decorated every bit of her house. Her house was shining and sparkling. It was early in the morning when she received a parcel from someone, where it was mention, “Sorry, I can’t attend your party as I have an important business to do but here’s your gift.”
This was from that girl from the hall. The gift was a beautiful pair of blue
lenses. These were the same lenses. Ayesha was so glad to have this gift.
She placed it on her dressing table.
The door dell rang. Ayesha opened the door. It was Fatima holding a birthday gift with a smile on her face. It was indeed Haneen’s gift which she mistakenly thought was hers as the packing was exactly just the same.
Ayesha gave her a warm welcome and accepted the gift. She put the gift in
her room and served Fatima a cup of tea.
They both were waiting for others to come. After a little long, Haneen also joined them.Now it was only Zainab who was left .

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