Tainting The Void Canvas

3. ●Growing Friendship●

Friendship is the most democratic relation one can ever have. And maybe the only relation we chose for ourselves too. The family we make on our own. Every other relation in our life is chosen by someone else for us, and surprisingly it comes with grade system as well. Even the thought of it is hilarious.

Like if you have someone as your father's sister's husband, even if he is wrong then also you can never rectify him by telling that, because at the end of the day they are older than you, and you have to respect them. In all these kinds of relation, respect is not something earned, it is something given on the basis of hierarchy. But that's not the case with friendship, here everyone is equal, in spite of ones age, cast and creed.

// Dosti aur kisi gharaz ke liye

Vo tijarat hai dosti hi nahin //

~ISMAIL MERATHI~

Amaya and Zain found each other as those friends. They found peace after years maybe. Time is the best healer. With each passing moment every broken heart heals on it's own, erasing all the painful shades from the canvas making it void, so that someone else can paint it.

Zain Amir never thought someone can become a part of his daily life in just few months. In just some time, someone can even become so important in his life that he will start looking forward to come back home for that one cup of masala chai.

And the most surprising part to think of, Zain doesn't even share anything about him to her, it's more like there is nothing to share about.

In front of her he is quite like a void canvas while she is the painting, tinting it with varies hues of emotions, feelings, memories, laughter and companionship.

She is just like the petrichor on those April afternoons, or just like the serein of spring evenings.

Whatever Amaya Kareem is, for Zain Amir she is the friend he never had. After their first meet, Zain followed her on instagram, and seeing that she is a pilot, he feels an unusual happiness, maybe he was happy because atleast someone is following their dream.

Zain might have not shared anything about himself and his family to Amaya, but there are few things that Amaya got to know about Zain, she has always been a great observer, an avid listener too.

She easily picked up some points about him, like any good friend will do, how he loves her masala tea, how he likes to eat desi food, how he misses his family sometime but never bothers to talk about them, how he is always little curious about her, and how over these months they have come close.

It was just two days back when her flight landed late at night or more like early morning hours and he was there to pick her up. That is something which has become more like a routine now, whenever her flight lands, Zain always picks her up from the airport, and whenever she is at home, she makes dinner for both of them. Evening or sometime late night teas are common now.

One more thing that Amaya learnt about Zain, that he has a pure heart. This guy is not only a great business man but also have a heart of gold, he may seem to be rough to his employee but he always thinks about them before anything else. Along with that, he too have a little broken heart, he never told her about it, there is no need of that actually, his eyes spoke for him.

Today she returned from her three days long flight, she had been to Paris and ofcourse brought gifts for her only friend Zain, which he absolutely loved, And why wouldn't he, it's his favourite perfume after all, which he is quite surprised how Amaya got to know, then again, friends know us more than we know ourselves.