Chapter 11: Chapter 11

Zain Amir always wonder what might have gone wrong in Amaya's married life, until now he came to understand that much about her, if anything Amaya Kareem is a keeper.

What he didn't know is the reason behind everything, maybe that's for good. His morning run today is not much interesting as every day.

Since last month Amaya is having only domestic flights which means he gets enough time with her. She goes at nine and comes back by eight after three rounds of loop to loop. But today is not a such day.

Amaya texted him that she will not be available today, and he let it pass. Even though there's some weird feeling in his heart, he let it go, for him he knows where the boundary lines lie.

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Amaya hated running away from something. She has always been someone to face every obstacle and today is high time to end it.

So, a day with herself is what she needed. A day she did nothing but relax. And then now when the sun is near the horizon she is sitting on the beach near the shore, soft waves touches her feet. Her mind travels to a memory lane she hasn't visited for long.

The old dairy pages are yellowish today, folded by the edges, proof that this is something hadn't been gone through since long.

As she opens, her hand trembles, slowly she touches the date written with black ink in a known handwriting, which is not hers. Her dairy is not something she can even open, but today she has to take a step ahead, so it has to be his dairy which had been with her for long.

23-July-2013

I know she is not ready for a marriage. Maya is scared today, for the first time in her nineteen summers, she is not herself. Marriage is a sacred bond. Marriage. A big responsibility, where mistakes are not easy to rectify. But I have to get married today, have to make her mine. So, I did. She is my wife now. She belongs to me now, and no one can change it. I know I forced her to sign those papers, but she loves me and that's what matters for me. I happy now, I have a family for myself now.

He was so happy that day. So happy that he failed to see her tears. Tears of betraying her mother whom she loved more than anything. How would she face her after this? How? But he never bothered.

That was the last entry in his dairy, from that day he never wrote in this. It's always been him, and never her.

With a heavy heart, she throws his diary far from the shore, in the sea of pain. Carefully watching it being absorbed in her arms as if this is what it is waiting for since long.

She saw him leaving, once, but she waited for a little longer, something which she shouldn't have done, 'waiting for someone who will never come'.

He did come back, but way too late.

When he already broke her beyond repair. She knows to live for herself now, knowing that he living with guilt perhaps somewhere in her past, living with their forbidden memories, which were kept buried deep inside forever.

Living in the past is never an option. It's better to move forward. Slowly the memories fade away so as the dairy, so as the scars of the past. And she let herself free today, finally with a smile.

A single thought in her mind, she just needs a distraction. She can never let her past ruin her beautiful present, and for that she needs a good distraction.

Looking at the sky, it's not a void canvas anymore now as the time it was when she came here hours ago. Sun is set near the horizon. At this moment it's tainted with different hues of pink orange red blue purple and a little away from her, stands her way to happiness with cotton candy in his hands, Zain Amir.

"What are you doing here Zain?"

"I will always find a way to you Amu. So, stop running away because if anything, I'm a great chaser."

"I wasn't actually. I just wanted to have some me-time"

"And you had it enough, because now is Our time"

"Zain?"

"Amu, I will always be here, even if you don't want me too."

"Zain I was just going to ask for that cotton candy."

"Oh. it's not for you now."

"Why? Give it to me."

"Well catch me if you can Amu"

With that Zain Amir ran taking all her worries away, chasing behind Amaya Kareem runs too. Whilst taking a second to live the moment a little more.

Under the tainted sky, there's her canvas which is not void anymore. She is filling it up with happiness now, she is filling their canvas with hues of happiness now.

She needed a good distraction and Zain gave her that too.

Perhaps her scars of the past will soon be gone too.