Must Read: Behind The Veil

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Behind The Veil

Vanessa’s spirit at that moment died. There was a mighty ache in her chest, like a vacuum wide
enough to swallow earth! She slipped from the chair and landed on the floor, dumb, eyes wet,
breathing intensifying and her memories taking her back, back to every moment she shared with
Sadiq. Every detail, every word ran through her head. Like a zombie, she stood up staggering into Sadiq’s room, standing by the open door and staring inside.

One of Sadiq’s long sleeves was hanging outside the wardrobe door. She drowned her face in it,
sobbing ceaselessly. She threw herself on his bed, more tears flowing down her eyes and soiling the bed sheet.

Sometimes we live like we would never die, as though we would live forever but we know…..we
know someday…somewhere…somehow we must die. We know tomorrow is not guaranteed..but we wish it will never come, we wish today will be an endless day, an endless day going ceaselessly with no night and day, just today and no tomorrow, and no chance of death. But this endless today with no death only exist in our head.

“Hello” Vanessa’s crying voice spoke into the phone.

There was a short silence from the other side.
“Hello?” Jennifer replied. “Let me guess…he has broken your heart same way he did mine and now you are calling me. Both of you should go to hell..bye!”
“Sadiq is dead!!!” Vanessa shouted it before Jennifer could end the call.

There was silence again from Jennifer as she listened to Vanessa’s sobbing and the news
shaking her body. She knew this was not some act…this was real.
“When?” her voice asked softly.
“I don’t know…” she mumbled…”Maybe during the insurgent attack..i dunno…but he is dead!”
Jennifer’s body felt weak. She was at her work place for a photo shoot. She grabbed the nearest
chair close to her and sat down.
The line was silent for more than five minutes.
“Are you at home?” Jennifer asked.
“Yes.”
“I am coming over.” replied Jennifer.

And sometimes it takes the worst of things to happen for severed friendship to return and unite
for the sake of a shared memory. Only then would we realize that that space, that empty fake space we created just to push others away from our life wasn’t worth it. But sometimes it would have been too late to realize this, too late to go back and change those silly things which we call; ego. It would have been too late, too late to see that smile of that friend again, forever!
Zeenat shut herself in her bedroom. Nothing made sense to her anymore. At a point she thought she was cursed. She must be, she thought. If not why do the people she loves the most always die!
Why? Why did her parents die and leave her? And why did the greatest thing to ever happen to her, to ever love her like no one ever has leave her? Why did Sadiq have to go too? Her eyes were swollen, tears rolling and nothing in the world made any sense again. Nothing!
Some people aren’t easy to forget, they come into your life and even when they leave, they leave something behind, inside you. She knew she would never be able to forget Sadiq. She knew she would never heal from this ache.

They had a plan, a plan to get married and have
beautiful kids. To be the happiest young couple ever. To make their matrimonial home their
heaven…to play hide and seek….to watch late night movies and cuddle up. He even promised to cook for her when she couldn’t, when she would be carrying their little angel in her womb……these were the dreams that kept her alive despite losing her parents. But now there was nothing to live for anymore. How can she live when half of her was gone…gone into oblivion!