Orphic
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"Life is neither short nor long, it's now - that we know as life - it's twisted and cruel I'm its own way with trials coming up with every turn you make. No one knows how many seconds one will live let alone years. You never know"
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His breath got stuck in his throat as he held the pen above the paper, his eyes searching the room in hopes of having at least a glance of her face.
"Answer the maulvi" his father spoke.
"Son" his mother pestered from his side.
His eyes landed on Hiba's expectant ones. She looked from across the veil questioning his delay.
He shook his head as he placed the tip of the pen on the paper, a single stroke formed on the paper but that very moment a frantic Ayan ran in the room.
"Turn on the tv right now" he yelled making Hamza to oblige right away.
"There had been an accident on the motorway car LEB-780 has been hit by a troller on its way out of the city, the hit has caused an explosion rendering the passengers severely injured and in critical condition-"
"That's- that's the car maula bakhsh took to drop—"
His ears numbed as the pen dropped on the floor, his heart stopped, his eyes stuck on the TV screen.
"Bhai!" He ran out of the house and got in his car, the engine roared and soon he was on the road.
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Chapter: Chapter 6 Zahan's povIt was late in the night when I was reading through some important files. I came home late tonight and that's nothing new. The haveli was silent as soothing whispers of air fell on my ears.I checked my emails and was now going to at least try to sleep. It was odd that ever after it was almost after midnight I didn't hear of miss smarty pants Zoya, that's also a good thing but now I feel hungry and I don't wish to go ask her to make something for me, don't want to push her ego all the way above the seventh sky.With a protesting stomach and tired mind I was just about to lay down on my bed and stare at the ceiling when my door was knocked, sighing I got up to open the door since I locked it earlier and now she can't obviously break through but I wouldn't be shocked if she ever decided to do that also.The knocking was getting more rapid and impatient. Rolling my eyes I opened the door to see her standing outside with a baseball cap on. She was looking around, not paying an
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 5 Zoya's pov.The three of us went to Ghazal's aunt's boutique the next day. She deals in Western gowns and dresses along with Desi dresses, aunt Yasmeen wasn't really happy with us borrowing her dresses but she asked us to sell those pictures to her so she could use them for her marketing and we did. So now basically we were hired by her to showcase her new collection and how exciting that is.Since Ghazal was afraid to ride the bike with me and Hadiya we decided not to pressurize her and now she was bringing the equipment, the dresses and Shayla who was our makeup artist for today, in her car so that me and Hadi don't die on the road.The wind swished past me making me close my eyes to savor the moment. The familiar feeling of heaviness came rushing back to me as I stepped into the haveli. The whispers started making me lose myself in them but I snapped out of them, I came here to work not to have yet another episode of Zoya's panic attacks."Do you plan on going crazy yet again?" Had
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: chapter 4It was late in the night when almost everyone in the house was asleep. Zoya was in the kitchen making herself a late night snack like always. She was either sleep deprived soul or a lazy ass panda. Tonight her brain had decided to not let her sleep because of her pending assignments. She made herself coffee and Nutella sandwiches and Einstein a fruit bowl.This was an unsaid ritual between them since they both were late night snackers. He doesn't say it but she knows his sleep deprived ass gets hungry in the middle of the night, her Tayi Ammi handed her this duty when she noticed that both of them were basically night owls.Zahan was working on his laptop reading through emails and presentations when his door was knocked and opened without permission."Your hunger demiser, your highness." Zoya whispered grandly, placing the bowl in front of him bowing down to put it on the coffee table. Zahan rolled his eyes at her dramaticness."There's a thing called manners Zoya. When you knock, yo
Last Updated: 2023-03-15
Chapter: chapter 3It was a beautiful day with the sun hiding behind the puffy gray clouds, the air blew in soft gushes flowing through the busy bodies of people mingling with one another in the city.Traveling through the road far away in an old neighborhood full of old mansions were two friends wandering around on Zoya's bike. She drove by many houses as they assessed the area around them. They looked around to find the perfect background or house for their photoshoot. Much like before there was yet again a photography competition in their university. The theme was a perfect fairytale.Their gaze flickering from one house to the other. Some were well kept while some looked worn and abandoned with chipping paint and broken windows. Overgrown gardens and dusty exteriors. During their search they came across a haunted looking haveli which looked like no one had been there since centuries. It was an abandoned property with a garden the size of a field with overgrown grass and rotten plants.Zoya parked th
Last Updated: 2023-03-15
Chapter: chapter 2Everything was going smoothly as it always did. The weekend passed by and now it was yet another day for university.Zoya was in her second year of university studying media sciences. At twenty years old Zoya had an excellent life planned for herself. She had a well paying job as the assistant of a professional photographer, she had a good social reputation and curiosity for discovering more on this planet Earth.Zoya Alam Khan was a name everyone knew, whether in university or in the neighborhood in general. The girl was sunshine for whoever came across her, a helping hand for anyone in need. She was known because of her active nature in almost the whole town, for her kind and sweet gestures like helping the elderly or the poor people without any reason."I'm happy I'm the one to give not to take" was what she would say after every act of welfare she did. She liked giving away to people. Her family didn't do much about it since Yasir never stopped her.He had taught her that charity
Last Updated: 2023-03-15
Chapter: chapter 1The sun shined brightly as it's happy calm rays showered themselves on the city of swat. The markets were crowded with shoppers and vendors. In the admist of the rush a choas was formed by two young girls. Dodging and passing multiple faces and obstacles they ran for their lives."WE ARE ROYALLY SCREWED!!" Hadiya yelled as she ran after her bestfriend. A fat man chased after them. The two troublesome girls had just accidentally hit the man's bald head with their tennis ball as one of them tried to hit the other and other dodged the hit resulting in the ball hitting the man who was peacefully chatting away with his friend.To add more to his misery the chai he was drinking was spilled all over his sky blue shalwar kameez. His nostrils flared, and pale face turned red with fury, he glared at them making the girls crack up at his hilarious expressions. Tough they had apologized but the lack of remorse in the girls attitude made him run after them to teach them a lesson. He spewed profan
Last Updated: 2023-03-15
Chapter: chapter fiveEveryone in their life faces a night where no matter what they do they just can't sleep, they can't close their eyes and feel the darkness around them but only see the glimpse of the times that they had taken for granted. Scott was in a much similar situation when all he could see around him was the bright and full moon shining its light on them as the woman before him smiled brightly, her hair playing along the soft caress of the wind that touched her skin ever so gently. There was something about the moment that made his eyes moist, maybe because that was the last time she was ever smiling for him before he ruined the full moon for her, before he ruined this beautiful night for her, before he rejected her. “Amelia” he whispered, the peace of the night conveying his broken plea across the breeze to her. She turned around, her eyes gleaming with so much joy that he wondered how one can be so carefree after what they had done to their mate. “How?” he asked as he felt his throat tigh
Last Updated: 2023-01-05
Chapter: chapter four.Scott couldn't move from his place for the next few minutes, the staff was finishing their work and the girl who had been a free seconds away from biting his head off was standing at the door waiting to lock up. He looked back at the scarf that had been lying on the table a shade darker than its original peach hue because of the water. His heart had been pounding ever since he had seen her coming out of his family healer's home. Fallon Johnson had been the town's oldest and most powerful witch to exist. When the wolves and witches joined hands they had to put their hatred for one another aside but he knew the old and traditional witch never really let go of the age old grudge that started centuries ago. When the queen of the witches was killed by his kind out of cold blood. They say history repeats itself and it had, in the face of Amelia, a half witch and half werewolf child who had paid for herself being chosen as the lycans mate, that was the last time the witches ever helped the
Last Updated: 2022-10-15
Chapter: chapter three.“Willow” Sarah yelled, patting her cheek but her skin was burning.“The ride to the hospital was agonizing as she kept rubbing wilos hands and telling the ambulance driver to hurry, she wasn't waking up and sarah could swear willows body temperature was going up with every second. Sarah was pacing the small space beside willows bed while on the other side the doctor checked up on her, he noted things down and turned towards sarah. “I can't say what exactly has happened to her before running some tests, here the list. A nurse will be here soon.”After hours of keeping willow under observation the doctor finally gave his verdict. “There's no such sign that might help us diagnose what's wrong with her, has everything been okay in your life?” the old man asked as they settled down in his office. “We moved houses” Sarah informed him and he nodded. “Maybe the change is a bit drastic for her, stress maybe. We'll keep her here till she's good to go home” he said, making Sarah nod her he
Last Updated: 2022-10-15
Chapter: chapter two. The night had only begun when the sound of wolves howling aroused under the light of the full moon, the loud howling rose from deep within the forest near the edge of town where the leader lived, the thick trees concealed the other part of human reality of another kind existing with them. Every one of their kind shifted and ran along with their leader to the top of the sacred hill, the hill where the first of their kind was given birth to through a human couple. The child was a sacrifice to the greater gods for the sake of humanity when the moon goddess took pity on the soul of the innocent one and made the strongest of all so that no one could ever trample over her special children ever again. That night was the birth of the first lycan to ever exist and every year on his birthday the wolves gather around the hill to show their gratitude to the goddess. Loud howling deafened the ears of the ones that had been awake in the middle of the night, the full moon was a time of the year wh
Last Updated: 2022-10-15
Chapter: chapter one.Sirens were blaring and the sound of people screaming, everything was just a ringing in her ear as she witnessed the paramedics carry away her dead parents. She had been sleeping with her sister when it all had happened, the sound of the first gun shot had woken Willow up while Sarah slept under the influence of the pills she had stolen from her mom's stash. Willow's crying had woken her up; Sarah could barely pull herself up when the police burst into their house the moment another shot rang in the house and Sarah found herself being pushed to the ground by the officers as they rushed to take over the scene. It was as if her world had fallen on her shoulders, her half awake brain was screaming at her to wake up but before she could get herself together someone had wrapped their arms around her frame to pull her out of the way of the stretcher. Her lips had dried at the sight of the people who gave birth to her being carried away, her heart had picked up its pace the moment she real
Last Updated: 2022-10-15
Chapter: Chapter 10 Raza's povIts been a whole week since that incident. I couldn't stop thinking about what happened to her. Her reaction to uncle raising his hand. What did the doctor mean by past memories and what type of therapy. I feel guilty thinking this but is she mentally unstable and if she is then why is uncle Habib marrying her to me. And even if he is are there any precautions I need to know about. You can't just marry her to anyone without any warning. Anyways maybe she is not mentally unstable and she may not kill me in my sleep.Today's my engagement day. I'm all ready to go to the Khan's house. I really don't want to go but a part of me wants to. Besides Abba's thousands of threats are another reason I have to go. The ring I bought that day is still the one I'll give her. Though Abba wanted to give her Ammi's wedding/engagement ring that dadi must've given her but I don't want to give it to her.I wore a navy blue suit and set my hair slight messily on my head. I don't like to gel them
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 9 Dua's POV. A whole week has past by. The day of my engagement has arrived. I can't believe I'm going through this again. Last time it happened I was beyond happy. I was beaming and smiling the whole day. My dress was chosen after days and days of roaming around the markets. My makeup was done to perfection. My hair let loose it fell on my back like caramel waterfall. The peacefulness subsided the slight guilt I felt for manipulating baba to allow me to marry kashan. But... Now..... Now it all seems like a facade that I have to pull up for the people. MY smile may look real but I know how much my face hurts from smiling so bright. My dress is perfect but I don't know why I feel ugly wearing it. My makeup yet again done to perfection but I can still see the ugly me and not the makeup. My hair is done in an elegant design and left open. All in all I look pretty to the world's eyes but my eyes they can still see the broken,used and ugly girl. The dress and makeup don't make me feel wort
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 8 Dua's POVI reached home and to my surprise uncle Azan and his family was there. One step in the house I could feel the tension in the air. What happened here? I walked into the house and I'm engulfed in a bear hug by ammi. "Dua where were you do you know since how long Azan and his family has been waiting for you" baba asked sternly. I looked towards baba and signed I was in office working on my latest book, baba looked at me clearly seeing through my lie, I think baba was not happy with my lie and then he did something I never expected him to he raised his hand almost slapping me square across the face. I put my hands up in defense and shut my eyes forcefully. Baba had never raised his hand on me never in my life. I waited for the impact or the pain to come but it didn't. I looked up to see uncle Azan holding his hand, I could only stare at his hand in pure horror baba slapping me wasn't the thing that was preventing me from breathing unfortunately it dragged me back to one of the
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 7. Raza's POVI woke up to a commotion in the house but that's nothing new. Two sisters one old man the perfect trio to wake up in the morning. I freshened up and got dressed and then went downstairs to eat breakfast and then leave for office. Abba retired a year back and ever since I've been incharge of the our family business. "Assalamualaikum everyone." I said as cheerfully as I could but that never happens. "What's with the gloomy attitude" "someone woke up in the wrong side of the bed" " OMA he stayed awake the whole night thinking about his wife to be" that what I got from my family members I rolled my eyes no need to answer any of that. I sat down and we all had breakfast together. Abba said he would be going the Khan's for a little engagement sort of a thing. "Abba I haven't even given my answer which is obviously a No then why are you even bothering call them and tell them its a no from me." I said while eating the last bits of my breakfast. "The answer has been decided you j
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 6Dua's POV Its been hours since I woke up hours since I've been out of the house,hours since I have been driving senselessly. I don't know where this journey will lead me . After a really long drive I reached the place where it all started. The house where my life turned upside down. When I first stepped inside this house it was supposed to be my heaven, the place where I was supposed to be running after my children when they learn how to run, where my husband will shower me with his unconditional love. Where I thought I'd live to see a bright future ahead. But with every step I take towards it my heart feels heavy as if every step adds more to the burden that I already carry on my shoulder. The dried blood on the porch reminds me of the time when I was thrown off the roof. The broken glass from the windows remind me of my broken heart. The unlocked and unsafe door of the house reminds me of the days when I was left unguarded in front of the animals of this world that we call men I'm
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 5. Raza's POV "Baba would you mind if I ask why are you forcing an already married girl into marrying me?" I asked baba its getting annoying , if this is one of his other ways of annoying me then he's succeeding excellently. "Well for your information she's not married she's divorced they had issues that I don't know about and hence why she's been divorced for 8 years now. If it wouldn't have been for kashan asking for her hand in marriage then muskan and I surely would've." Baba said, the thing that caught my attention was weren't they so awfully in love with each other then how come they're divorced and by the way where is kashan ever since I came back I haven't seen him or even heared of him. "OK but then what's with the attitude why can't she just talk for once huh?" I asked fed up with the silent behavior of hers who does she think she is. "Beta we don't know her parents said its been like that ever since she came back. They haven't shared much information about what happened bu
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
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