ISHQIYA

Dard-e-Ishq I

Mahnoor Siddiqui was determined to answer him back with an evil plan.

That's why she had borrowed vermillion from Abhilasha. It was her payback because he convinced her nana jaan to not let go on a school trip while her friends went.

She peeked into his room, he was sleeping covering his eyes with a pillow.

Mahnoor huffed seeing him sleeping peacefully. She slowly slowly slips into his washroom and pour red vermillion in his facewash. She grinned evilly thinking about his red face.

She comes out from the washroom, he stirred into his sleep, panicking she bent down one her knees and hand and crawled out of his room. Now Hamid Qureshi will see what happens when anyone tries to cross Mahnoor Siddiqui.

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Hamid's alarm buzzed waking him up from his dreamy world. He has slept 3 'o' clock in the morning after revising his book for the 25th time. He was still sleepy but he had to revise his whole syllabus 50 times for his college entrance exam. He went inside his washroom to brush his teeth. And a sweet smell jolted him to open his eyes completely. He closed his eyes to smell her scent. It always refreshes his mind.

But what was she doing here?

He saw some vermillion in the basin. His eyes went to his toiletries. His hand went to his facewash, he opened the cap and some vermillion fell from it. He chuckled at her childish act. He knows she is avenging him for not letting her go for her school trip, but it was for her sake. He knows what happens on these trips. She is just fifteen, naïve, and innocent.

He can't let anything happen to her.

And of course he can't let her go away from him.

But he will tease her a little, so he yelled with his full volume "Mahnooooooooooooooor"

Listening to his voice, his mother, Heera came into his room "What happened my son?"

Oh he can't tell her. He knows how much his mother dislikes her, and finds every way to get her out of this house "Nothing, ammi, I'm just asking about a novel she had taken from my room."

"How dare she to take your book, wait let me ask her." Heera fumed and left the room.

He sighed, didn't he have any other excuse.

Mahnoor Siddiqui was his cousin from his father's side. Her mother was his father's sister. He was three year old when she was born and her mother died giving birth to her. Her father married another woman who didn't treat her well. So his dada jaan takes her under his wings. She became the apple of eyes of everyone, except his mother. Hamid was amazed seeing a cutie like her, so he vows to protect her from everything, from his mother's wrath.

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Hamid runs to her room to save her. He saw her mother was shouting on her, Mahnoor was sobbing, gazing down, breaking his heart. Heera raised her hand to slap her, but he came in between and he got the slap.

Heera's mouth hangs open seeing him. He glares at his mother "Ammi, how many times do I have to remind you that don't dare to raise your hand or scold her. Or else no one will be worse than me."

"But Hamid how dare she take your...."Heera yelled.

"She can take my everything if she wants. Now go" He said. She glared at Mahnoor and went from there.

Mahnoor sobs turns into wails. He turns and cups her face "Shshsh Mahi"

She jerked his hand away and screamed at him "Go away this is because of you."

"I'm sorry Mahnoor" He can't go away from her, never. But she pushed him again.

He gripped her wrist tightly and pulled her to him and hugged her tightly, breathing her like she is his oxygen. He patted her back to calm her. His gaze went toward a yellow rose kept on her dressing table. He pushed her a little and went toward the dressing table, he took the rose and asked her with his questioning eyes.

"Amit my classmate gave it to me because I was not going on the trip" She answered his unasked question faintly.

He fumed in anger and threw rose outside the window, her footsteps went toward the window but he pulled her to himself "You will not take anything from anyone except me and dada jaan, do you understand" he said to her furiously.

She opened her mouth to protest but he kept his finger on her lips and said sternly "You will not" and left from there.

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Mahnoor was sitting on her bed, empty stomach. Her stomach was growling for some food but she is also stubborn. Then someone knocked at her door, she knew who he was.

She ignored it then he entered her room taking food in his one hand and a bunch of yellow roses in his other.

He sat in front of her and said "Mahi, have food, please."

She turned her face away from him.

"See I have bought a bunch of yellow roses for you" He tried to convince her but she scowled at him.

"Mahnoor, I haven't eaten anything too," Hamid tried.

Mahnoor closed her ear and shook her head.

"Mahi pleaseeeee, open your mouth." He pouted.

Mahnoor opened her mouth and he ate her, her favorite dish, biryani.

He smiled when she finished her food and said "Mahi, what I do is for you. And it's not good to take flowers from a na-mehram, hmm."

But Mahnoor glared at him and asked "then why do I take it from you. You are also a na-mehram for me"

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He left her room, thinking about her words, she is right, Hamid Qureshi is a na-mehram for Mahnoor Siddiqui.

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A/N:- A simple change. Hamid's mother's name is Heera. As Safiya already played role in my other story and reader will get confuse with this.