SS: Do You Sleep? - Part 1

Part 1

‘You’ve called here today but don’t call again. Because for me you’re dead! Neither do I want to see your face nor do I want to hear your voice. Now I have no relation with you.’

Asher played with his glasses in his hand absently as he tried to recall her voice. He hadn’t heard her voice today, hadn’t given her a chance to speak knowing how weak she made him feel.

Did he remember what she looked like? His forehead creased as his brain threw up an image but it was blurry. She was wearing black, her hair was loose but her face eluded him. He remembered her sharp nose, her wide set mouth and her brown sparkling eyes but still he couldn’t picture her face.

He let go of his glasses, heard them clattering onto the side-table as threw his head back against the headboard. Why was he doing this to himself? He didn’t want to remember the voice that had fed him honey-coated lies or the face that had tricked him with its innocent facade.

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She had been told to sleep, to regain her strength. Khirad knew she was weak, her muscles screamed in pain for some relief but her eyes refused to close. She gathered her newborn daughter closer, drawing strength from the small warm body. She couldn’t be weak anymore, she couldn’t spend her days crying as she had the past 7 months. She would forget him, she would never again cry for that man in this life.

‘I want to meet you now only on Judgement day Asher Hussain; not in this world, not in my lifetime. Here you are powerful and I’m weak. When I was the victim of injustice you were the cruellest of all. I’ll never forget this. I’ll remember until the day of judgement.’

‘And that day when the balance sheets are read, when the greatest of all courts will take place, when justice is meted out then you won’t find refuge anywhere. All your power will disappear that day.’

‘Until I forgive you Asher, my Allah won’t forgive you either. And Asher Hussain, I swear on my daughter; that day I won’t forgive you.’