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Song used - Teri Yaad by Falak



“This is Sidra!”, api said as she introduced me and Shehry to her.


“And this is…”, api started as she was about to say our names but Sidra interrupted.


“This is Shehry”, she said pointing at Shehry and then turned towards me and said, “and this is our superstar Hussain!”, she exclaimed.


We all laughed..and she continued, “DhoomBros fan! A huge one!”


She then hugged, which was quite awkward, pehli meeting pe hi hug?! I looked at Sana from the corner of my eyes, who was staring at me with her big eyes, and grinding her teeth, as if she was gonna kill me now.


Sidra then went on to hug Shehry, and he, poor thing, just stood there shocked.


“Sorry! Thoda awkward ho gaya na?”, she said realizing what she had done, and we all laughed.


Pretty soon we all got busy with our shooting, and there was a scene where Shehry, Waqas, Atif and Sana had to be together. Sidra and I were not a part of that scene.


I, tired of all that shooting, went and sat on the bench behind which was at a distance from the location that we were shooting in.


“Hey!”, Sidra cam and sat next to me.


“Hi!”, exclaimed, as I gulped down the last sip of water from the bottle. “You scared me!”, I said jokingly.


“Really?!”, she exclaimed.


“Naaah….just kidding!”, I said nodding.


“Hussaiiinnn….”, she said dragging my name, and I understood she needed a favor from me.


“What do you want Ms.Sidra?”, I asked, and she widened her eyes in shock. “How’d you know?”


“I know girls very well!”, I winked and chuckled.


“I know this is a bit weird, but I’m a very open kind of a girl.”, she started.


Okay I don’t like where this is going..


I moved a little away from her, hoping she wouldn’t notice.


“Why are you moving away?”, she said, punching me in the arm, “Don’t worry, I’m not gonna do anything to you!”, she laughed.


I forced a laugh too, cause honestly I didn’t even find her funny.


“I just wanted to ask you about Shehry!”, she continued.


“What do you mean?”, I asked, as I raised on of my eyebrows in confusion.


“Is he like…you know…”, she added, in a very interrogative tone.


“I know…..what?”, I responded imitation her tone.


“Is he…single?”, she blurted out.


“What? Are you serious?”, I asked in a very irritated tone, but she seemed to not get it.


“Yeah..I only joined Yaari team for him!”, she said smiling, showcasing all her 32 teeth, as if it were a toothpaste ad.


“Sidra.. lemme tell you one thing..he’s..”


“Sidraaa! You’re up!”, called api, and I couldn’t finish my sentence.


She got up and ran towards api, to do her scene, and Sana came running towards me.


“Kyu Hussain? Kya chal raha tha?”, she asked in typical girlfriend tone.


“Aww..someone’s jealous!”, I teased her.


“Hussain!”, she said, as she widened her eyes at me, with her hands on her either side of her waist.


I got up, went closer to her and whispered, “Alelele, kisi ko ghussa aa raha hai!”, and hid behind the bench.


“Hussaiiiiiiin”, she said, chasing me around the bench.


She chased me for a bit and then stopped, “Bas yaar!”, she said panting.


“Inni jaldi thak gayi?”,I winked. “Abhi toh sirf shuruat hai. Puri zindagi aise hi tang karunga tumhe! Soch lo!”


“Soch liya!”, she winked back.


“Hayyyeee! Yeh adaaein!”, I said placing my hand on the left side of my chest, and falling backwards onto the grass.


She came and lay next to me, with her head placed on her hands, and her feet swinging at the back.


“When are you gonna tell your parents?”, she asked me.


“Tell them what? About us?”, I asked back, and she nodded.


I let out a deep sigh, and said, “Pata nahi yaar, I was going to tell them after Shehry’s engagement, but it turned out to be a disaster…”, I said, and then sat up next to her continued, “By the way, you know Shehry and me have always wanted to get married on the same day! Its like our brother thing you know..but..I don’t know yaar, its been 2 years, and he hasn’t even spoken up! He’s rejected all the other rishtas, and I want to tell my parents already.”


She got up, and held out her hand, and gesture me to get up. I caught her hand, and got up.


“Don’t worry Hussain! Everything’s gonna be okay! Trust me!”, she said, still holding my hand.


“AHEM! Love birds ki guftagu khatam hogayi ho toh,, chalein? Scene khatam karna hai…”, said Waqas, and we quickly let go of each others hands, and blushed.


We followed him towards the location, and continued shooting.


“Okay lets get started with this..” api said, handing us the script for the last scene of the day. Soon all of us got busy shooting our scenes.


Its just that I didn’t like the way Sidra was behaving though!


“Api, aapne Sidra ko kyu choose kiya?”, I whispered as I sat next to her. The others were busy shooting a scene, where I was not required, and api was sitting at the bench going through the schedule.


She put  her papers aside, looked up at me and asked, “Kyu? You don’t like her?”


“Nahi I mean she’s behaving a bit weird.”, I said, not sure of how I was going to tell her.


“What do you mean?”, she asked, concerned.


“As you saw, first milte hi she hugged us as if she knows us from before, uske baad through out the shoot, she’s sticking to Shehry, even when he’s on a break!”, I blurted out.


“Umm..you mean…”, api started but I interrupted, “Yes! I get it she’s a fan but usne toh had hi kardi! She asked me if Shehry was single!”, to which api widened her eyes.


“Api, please, shoot khatam hote hi, forget about her? I mean she’s just a side character, she doesn’t even need to be with us on the premiere day..”, I continued.


“Hmm..did you tell Shehry?”, she asked.


“NO! And I’m not going to tell him! You don’t tell either…don’t tell it anyone please?”, I said, to which she agreed.


“You know he loves Amna! He hasn’t even forgotten her yet! Agar usse iske baarey mein pata chala toh, he’ll get reminded about Amna, and get back to being depressed.”, I added.


“That’s true!”, api nodded.


After a while, she got up and left, and I just sat there going through the script.



Shehry’s POV:


I saw Hussain sitting on the bench across the field, with a very worried expression on his face.


As I was on a break, I decided to go to him.


“What’s up?”, I asked I sat next to him.


“Shehry!”, he exclaimed, putting the script aside, “Nothing, bas going through the script..you tell me how’s the shooting? Maza aa raha hai?”


“Haha…obviously! Kitne din baad itna mazaa aaya hai yaaaar!”,I said, spreading my arms across, closing my eyes, and enjoying the cool breeze.


I felt like I was freed, from a prison. After a really, really long time, and I was really enjoying it!


We then continued shooting until sunset, and then headed home.


On our way back home, I let Hussain drive, since I was sleepy. Half way through our ride, Hussain seemed very quiet, so I decided to speak up.


“Oye tujhe kya hua?”, I asked, as I turned on the radio. Him, not turning on the radio was like a cat not meow-ing. What I mean is Hussain has to have the radio on at all times in the car, and that day when he didn’t turn it on, I sensed something was wrong.


“Kuch nai, kyu?”, he said trying to act all normal.


“Why are you so quiet today? Sana se kahin ko jhagda toh…?”, I questioned him.


“Nahi yaar aisa kuch nahi hua..”, he said with a very bland expression, and I decided to leave him at that, and leaned my head against the window, and closed my eyes.



**SCREEEEECH**


 


I woke up as Hussain suddenly applied brakes, which sent our car skidding across the road.


“What the hell just happened?”, I yelled at Hussain, who seemed to be worried and even more shocked than I was.


“Hussain?”, I shook him, as he sat there shocked. “What happened? Tera dhyan kidhar hai? Were you using your phone?”


“Nahi yaar, pata nahi I didn’t see that car coming!”, he said, while still in shock.


“Get out of the car right now!”, I ordered. “I’m driving back home!”, I said opening the door and getting out and he did the same.


“Isliye main tujhe chalane nahi deta! Pata nahi ter dhyan kidhar rehta hai!”,  said as I sat in the driver’s seat and started driving.


“Shehry…please Baba aur Mama ko yeh mat batana! Please?”, he asked, worried.


I sighed.


“Don’t worry I wont! But what were you thinking about? I’ve been noticing you since the shoot. You’re acting very weird! Why are you so quiet?”, I asked.


“Nope, nothing, my head hurts..I guess I need sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow morning!”, he said calmly, and I simply nodded, although I knew that was not the reason.


What has happened to you Hussain? What are you hididng? Something’s been bothering you!


We reached home, and Hussain went straight into his room without saying anything, and I spoke to my parents for a bit.


“I’m so happy you’ve agreed to do this beta!”, said Mama, and I smiled at her.


I guess she meant she was happy that I wasn’t depressed anymore, but she just didn’t wan to say it that way.


“Hmm…how was your day?”, asked Baba.


“It was good, we had loads of fun today!”, I said, and went on to tell him about the entire day, and then  suddenly got to the part where Hussain almost got us into an accident.


That is when I remembered I promised him not to tell it to our parents. So, I decided to stay quiet about it.


“Arey waah! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun today!”, Baba said, “But where is Hussain?”, he inquired.


“Oh…who thak gaya hai, from all that shooting. He went straight to his room, in fact he was sleeping in the car too!”, I answered.


“Oh! Tum bhi thak gaye hogey. Jao so jao! Kalb hi toh shoot pe jaana hai!”, Mama said, and I nodded and walked out.


I went into my room, changed my clothes, and lay on my bed.


Pulled out my phone, and logged into my facebook.


“Amna Khan”, I typed in the search bar, and started going through the list.


Yes! I’ve been doing this every night, for the past 2 years, hoping I’d find her someday, somewhere! But every night I went to sleep with no luck!


Even that day, luck didn’t seem to be on my side.


I miss you Amna! I miss you very much! Please wapis aa jao! Kaha ho tum? Tumhara Shehry ab bhi tumhara intezaar kar raha hai!


  


Teri yaad aane lagi


Banke aansu beh jaane lagi


Ye hawa jhoom jaane lagi


Mere mann ka karaar


Churaane lagi…




 

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