Qurbat | ✔

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Batakh Gaye the hum andheri ghataon pe,

Raasta-e-manzil mili sirf Teri roshni se.

-zaib
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"Ezzah speak up, tell me what happened that day?, everything about it! How did it happened and how old were you, everything" shahwaiz sternly said making her to nod and started her dreaded incident

"Okay, that day I was 12 years old, I was in a school trip going for a museum and amusement park, I don't remember which museum, we were going, but at that time Amara wasn't there with me cause she got high fever and have to cancel at the last moment, I was adamant to go so abbu agreed and I was going in a school bus to the trip, the nursery kids were also there with us, they were very excited and jumping in the bus cheering and gigging for the trip" ezzah smiled remembering their sweet laughs and little excitement, she still remember their wide smiles and happy clapping hands but all that happiness was just for a minute 

Shahwaiz understand her turmoil and hugged her sideways indicating her to continue telling him

Ezzah weekly smiled and sighed continued the most dreaded part of the journey with heavy heart "we were very excited and playing in the bus but suddenly an ear piercing sound came and the bus crashed with the big loaded truck, the screaming and crying sounds can be heard everywhere, the bus driver got a very serious injury and got unconscious and some kids which were playing and laughing a few minutes ago were now screaming and crying badly, the truck crashed the bus from sideways and...and some of the kids got huge injury and their faces and small bodies were covered in blood, it was horrible..." Ezzah couldn't hold it anymore and started crying badly clutching his shirt and hugging him

"Qalb, look at me, it was meant to happen and it happened, that's no one's fault Jaan" shahwaiz caressed her head and softly said holding her in his arms

"But waiz, they were kids and they were lying deadly in front of my eyes, some of my friends were injured and also crying painfully, their cries still rings in my ear, luckily I got minor injuries and no bleeding and fractures, I just sat there with wide eyes and clodded mind filled with cries and blood, neither I spoke nor I stood up to go outside, a nurse or whatever she was came and shook me and that's when I screamed and cried badly clutching my knees, a little girl who was sitting in my lap a while ago was now crying holding her bruised arms and legs, they were kids and got bruises and bleeds, I couldn't take the scene out of my mind, it's like it happened with me yesterday" ezzah tears know no bound, they were freely falling from her brown eyes and shahwaiz was being restless seeing her tears filled eyes, he wanted to remove all those years from her but

He stopped just for her sake, just for her to continue and let all the pain to pour out, he controlled his emotion and let her speak more

"After that abbu took me home and I cried and cried hugging abbu, after consoling me he took me to sleep, Hashir Bhai and aariz didn't leave my side whole night, telling me some funny and idiotic stories and pranks we can do with elders and with izaan, I slept with amara and ammi in a room but whole night Hashir Bhai and aariz was beside me talking to me and we even played ludo and ate icecream, I totally forgot what happened after listening to their funny stories and after that day no one talks about that incident and taye abbu changed our school and nothing bothered me after that, I totally forgot that incident but after many years, one day when I saw an accident while taking my driving classes and that day all the memories flashed in front of me like again I was that little child who was there in a bus accident, that day I had a nightmare, the same nightmare which I saw yesterday, it was about the accident but the difference is in nightmare I was laying on the floor with blood and bruises and...and I couldn't breath and everything went black...black after...that"