Chapter 22

Flashback
"Minal, he doesn't love me.... you know what he said to me....."
Isha was crying miserably that she finds it hard to talk. Minal, who was sitting with her, didn't bear seeing her in that condition.
"He said that till now he only considers me as his friend. He doesn't consider me anything else other than his friend. You know it's meaning he never loved me. And here I was who loved him madly."
In her whispering, Isha held Minal's hands. Seeing her disheveled hair and reddened eyes had cut Minal's heart.
She was locked in the room the time she came back from the university. Minal felt something is not going right then she came to Isha's room, and upon her asking she started telling her everything.
And now Minal finds it hard to console her.
"Stop this, aapi......why are you crying for that man, how many times have I made you understand that these rich people never value the feelings of people like us? But you didn't heed to what I was saying."
She wiped out the tears of her sister.
"Yes Minal, you were right in saying it is I who was mad for that man...and now see in my madness how much wrong I did with myself. Now the university will make fun of me. They all will laugh at me.... what I do Minal, I am in deep trouble now....."
After completing her saying, Isha again started crying. Minal was feeling very pity for her sister now. She always kept warning her to save her from coming this time.
"Aapi please, you quiet now, no one will make a joke of you.... after a day or two everyone will forget about it....if someone annoys you then you tell me, I will come and see with them....."
She said in a lighter tone to make her sister smile.
While on her saying, Isha just stare at her silently. It was not that easier the way she was telling her.
People there are always ready to make gossips on such matters.
"Ok aapi, now you take a rest, I am going..... and yes if again you cried then I will go and tell to Ammi....."
From her side, she just give her a warning and after wiping out the tears of Isha she came towards the door.
"Minal....."
Seeing her going, Isha called her.
On the calling of Isha, Minal turns back and looks at her.
"Minal, you never do mistakes like me otherwise you will feel hurt...."
On Isha saying, Minal slightly smiled and came out of the room. What does she know is that she is seeing her smiling sister for the last time.
The next morning was no less than havoc for Mrs. Nimra. Isha left the world for good.
Mrs. Nimra was severely broken. After her husband now her sister also left her.
During that troubling time, Minal took great care of her mother. Only she knows why her sister attempted suicide but she didn't feel it necessary to tell her mother.
She doesn't want that her mother becomes saddened after knowing all this.
No matter whether the time is good or bad but it will surely pass. But with the passage of time, Minal's hatred for Shah Zain also intensified further.
She perceived that because of him her sister left all of them.
For two years, she has been in that contempt then one day Shah Zain came in front of her.
She never thinks of taking avenge but when he confessed his love to Minal only then does she start thinking of taking avenge.
And in her that hatred, she did nikkah with Shah Zain.
She wanted to make him feel torment in her love. She wanted to say to him that after naming her to himself he still cannot get her.
It is mere her thinking, what is going to happen with her she is unaware of it. What if she also started loving Shah Zain, when, what happen, who knows?