Synthesis of Scattered Pieces ✔️

76.

"Maryam You've spent 25 years with me, we've been go through every situation in these years. You have changed your entire self just for my sake and for that I love you, but..." passing a glass of water along with two sleeping pills Anwar confesses his love first time but with the same expressionless face. But that 'but' stopped Maryam to gulp those pills as she was waiting for him to complete the sentence

"But.. But what?" She asked and gulped the pills with water when Anwar gestures to do so and he let a harsh sigh out

"But...." He stopped himself to hurt her but that was must needed at that time "But I'm unable to give you Saba's place in my heart. She is still my first love... she passed away many years back but her love is still alive in my heart because true love never dies! First love is real love but second love is an adjustment which we do for forgetting the first one, but not every person is able to forget their first love." That was the confession of love which came from her husband after 25 years of marriage but along with a heart breaking reality.

"Why are you telling me this now?" Putting a stone on her heart she asked without showing any kind of disappointment but from inside she was feeling broken that even after spending two and a half decades with him he was still unable to give her space of his first wife.

"When I saw Daniyal for the first time I found a broken human being inside him. So you remember the incident when Shifa's hand was burnt because of boiling tea?" He stopped and Maryam nodded, "Daniyal's face didn't show any hint of pain for her, he was only ready to get married to Shifa, but I didn't find any kind of emotional attachment towards her... That's why I was against this marriage but that emotional fool didn't trust her STEP FATHER! What could I explain to her at that time? She was blind by Daniyal's love, I was a villain of her lovestory." Hurt pain was clearly visible in his voice because he honestly never wanted anything wrong for Shifa.

" Bachhi hai, galti ho gayi us se..."
(She is not mature enough to understand, she made a mistake.)

"Aisi galti tumne bhi to kari thi... Phir kyu nahi rook payi tum use? Apni zindagi barbaad kar ke baeth gayi hai wo!" Anwar said with disappointment, he wasn't angry but sorry for Shifa.

(You had also made such a mistake... Then why couldn't you stop her? She has ruined her life!)

"Ab kya hoga?" Maryam was stunned with the thought of the same painful ending of Shifa's marriage that she faced once. "Talaq ka ghum bohot bada hota hai, Shifa nahi seh payegi." she cried miserably. Anwar was sitting without any answer.

(What will happen now?)

(Shifa won't be able to tolerate the pain of being divorced, this pain is unbearable.)

"Shifa, Daniyal se bohot Mohabbat karti hai... Meri bachhi ke sath esa kyu ho rha hai?" She questioned Anwar who was again answerless. She kept crying silently for a good five minutes but suddenly a loud wimped left from her mouth which eched in the whole room making Anwar startled.

(Shifa loves Daniyal madly, why is this happening to my daughter?)

"Mene bhi to Aatish se aese hi Mohabbat kari thi, usne bhi mere sath yahi kara jo ab Daniyal Shifa ke sath kar raha hai" Maryam cried her heart out hiding her face in her palms.

(I had also loved Aatish in the same way but he also did the same what Daniyal is now doing with Shifa.)

"Maryam chup ho jao." Anwar caresses her back but she sees him with anger. "Kese chup ho jaun? Kese?" mumbling that she rested her head with the headboard.

(Stop crying, Maryam.)
(How could I stop crying? How?)

"Aap ko pta hai jab Aatish ne mujhe ta.. talaq di thi to mujhe kesa laga tha?" She asked with sniffles and tears. Anwar was only seeing her broken state he didn't have words to consolidate her.