" Oh okay . I will convince her. Today is an important event . So many people are coming who will ask about her. She should be there " she said, heading towards Mah e Roo's room. A maid heard their conversation and silently came to a solitary corner of house . She called a number looking around carefully.
"Hello. What's the information? " Hasaan asked answering her call
"sir . Mah e roo will attend today's night function" she informed him secretly. Hasaan hung up the phone jerking his head despairingly. He wanted to meet Mah e roo but it was difficult to meet in the presence of a lot of people. However, he wanted to solace his heart, looking Mah e roo safe . He was anxious about her subconsciously. But he didn't realize.
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"If you spit out anything outside, you will be responsible for consequences. Remember that. You will sit alone in a corner and if someone comes to meet you , behave properly. If you fight , be ready for punishment. Understand or I should teach you by slaps on your face," Nayab said rudely holding her chin. Mah e roo 's little heart was trembling with fair. Whenever Nayab came near to her and hold her chin or hair , she got scared thinking she would kill her by throttling. That's why she couldn't say any word in front of her. Now she was hearing her taunts for an hour. She didn't want to go in function but Nayab was taking her forcefully. She also did not want to wear that golden and white dress but couldn't refuse in front of Nayab. Her long hair and shoes were same as she had seen in her dream. That's why She was nervous but Nayab didn't care.
Her whitish face was beautiful even without makeup but Nayab put eyeliner on her hazel eyes and red lipgloss on her delicate lips which made her even more beautiful and charming. Her hazel eyes were looking bigger and mesmerizing. She did adornment after a long time and didn't see her in the mirror just after one look.
Nayab took her outside down the stairs and sat her on the chair in a corner where was darkness behind and little light in front. Function was full of enjoyment. The bride and groom were sitting on a sofa on the stage. There were many girls and boys standing around teasing them. The music lyrics were playing in the background . A lot of people were sitting on the chairs besides the stage . Some were now staring Mah e Roo. She felt inferiority complex and thought that those people were looking at her with hatred. She wanted to get out of their sight but couldn't not disobey Nayab. She was helplessly sitting there when two girls came to her. She looked at them open-eyed .
"Who are you ?" one of them asked eagerly. Mah e roo didn't answer and averted her eyes in a carefree way because she didn't want to fight.
"hey . Hello. We are talking to you" the other girl tried to predispose her to themselves snapping in front of her with her right hand . She looked at them nervously.
"She is dumb. Isn't she?? " the first girl said . Mah e Roo's face turned red because of anger. She hardly controlled herself from saying any word but cursed them in her heart.
"you yourself are dumb , deaf and handicap " she muttered in a low voice. Both girls wondered to see her moving lips .
"Is she doing conjuration?" one whispered in the other's ear but Mah e roo heard.
"you do this type of thing , witch " she again muttered.
"What are you saying" one of them asked but Mah e roo looked away angrily .
"I think she is psycho " hearing this remark , Mah e Roo's heart ached . She saw them in a shocking way who were looking at her in wonder. Mah e Roo's face darkened. She couldn't bear their insulting glares . Her heart almost stopped hearing word "psycho" for herself. She put her hand on her heart in jitter. The girls had gone. She was trying to compose herself taking deep breaths. Her mental health was deteriorating. Did Nayab say truth that she was psycho? This thought made her uncomfortable. She felt stillness all around her.
"You are psycho" these sounds echoed in her ears. The music sound disappeared and scene around her changed . She felt everyone looking at her with hatred. They all were calling her psycho. She stood up in panic. At this moment, she forgot the dream which she had seen in the morning. Rather she forgot everything except word psycho. She moved backward trying to bear heartache. Her footsteps were staggering like that in her dream . Her hand was on her chest. Her Heartache increased and tears came in her eyes. Lips were trembling. She was about to become unconscious and fall down when two strong arms saved her from falling just like her dream. The difference was just that in dream , she came to senses at that moment but in reality she was dozy and semiconscious.
He was Hasaan who saved her from falling holding her into his arms. He had just came to shah Palace and looking Mah e roo's room empty, he understood she was in the function. All people were in lawn so he came to the terrace of second floor and looked around in search of mah e roo. He saw her in a corner where little light was falling on her face . Then two girls came and talked to her. When they went , Mah e roo's condition started deteriorating. He hurriedly came to the right corner of terrace, climbed the railing and jumped down without averting his eyes from her who was staggering backward slowly. Walking along the right sided wall , he reached her. she was in darkness and about to fall down when he holded her in his arms. No one saw the condition of mah e roo but Hasaan did. His heart which was strong enough not to be scared of anything became anxious seeing her condition. He lifted up her in his arms and went back the trees along the wall . He sat her with the support of a thick trunk of tree sitting down on her one knee and other paw without removing his arm behind her back. He now looked at her carefully. He knew that she cried looking tears on her cheeks . He became upset. He was agazing her beautiful face ecstatically when Mah e roo's eyebrows shrunk and eyelashes moved slowly. He came to his senses and looked at her with awaiting eyes . He was afraid if she screamed but this didn't happened very first time so he did not put his hand on her lips . Mah e roo opened her eyes and looked at Hasaan who was slightly bowed down on her. He had put an artificial moustache and beard on her face that's why she couldn't recognize him. But if he hadn't done this , she couldn't even recognize because at this time she was not in her senses.
"Mah e roo " he addressed her in an anxious tone.
"I … I am not psycho" she said in a low voice. Hasaan hardly heard . He remembered when he had called her psycho in the first meeting , she became furious. But now instead of getting angry , why she was in this condition. He thought worriedly.
"Mah e roo… … ." he wanted to say anything when she again said.
"I am not psycho" tears came out of her beautiful hazel eyes.
"yes. You are not psycho " he affirmed her trying to take her out of this mental condition.
"I am not pyscho" she was not still In her senses and continued repeating the same line.
"mah e Roo. You are not psycho " he said in an affecting tone jerking his shoulders. Mah e roo stopped and looked at him in wonder.
"Really?" she asked innocently. She was herself confused and uncertain. If someone asked Hasaan at this moment about the most innocent and beautiful person of this world , he would surely called mah Roo's name.
"Really you are not psycho. " he tried to made her believe looking into her eyes.
"but. Those people were calling me psycho" she pointed to one side as if those people were still there .
"They all are psycho that's why they were calling you like that" he politely wiped her tears from her red and white cheeks.
"Then who I am?" she asked innocently. Hasaan's heartbeat fastened at her innocent way. He was losing control on his emotions.
"You are queen . The queen of fairies " he didn't even know what he was saying at the moment. A beautiful smiled spread on Mah e Roo's lips and Hasaan was mesmerized. He ecstatically leaned on her face . Hasaan whose stone like heart never got impressed by any girl's beauty, was now forgetting himself in front of mah e Roo's innocence. Mah e Roo made his heart to beat faster. May she remain in his arms forever like that. His heart wished.
Mah e roo who was smiling with closed eyes opened her eyes feeling his warm breaths on her face. She was looking at that stranger's face with blinking eyes. Hasaan came to his senses when she opened her eyes and stepped back hurriedly. He now understood what was he going to do. He became angry at himself and took deep breaths closing his grey eyes.