CHAPTER 03

Laila's phone started ringing and shit picked it up. "Hello." Laila greeted her friend Sobia, who was calling her. 

"Where the hell are you, Laila?" Sobia asked.

"At home, why are you asking?" Laila asked back.

"I can't tell you that on call. You have to come to my place, right now." Sobia explained.

"What happened? I am not coming. I have to go to the salon. Then on shopping." Laila declined her best friend.

"For Gosh sakes Laila, if you don't come home right now, you are going to be stuck into the biggest problem of your life." Sobia threatened her.

"Why?" Laila asked back in an annoyed tone.

"It's about your cousin Neha. Just come home, I'm waiting and you better hurry. You don't have time." Sobia explained and hung up. Laila knew her best friend couldn't panic easily. The way she called and was waiting for her, it meant something big was on its way. She picked up her bag, checked her money, put her mobile into her bag and exited her room. She went downstairs and Mustafa saw her in a hurry.

"Where are you going?" Mustafa asked his sister.

"None of your business bhaiya, Amma I'm going to Sobia. I'll be back home by dinner." She said and ran out of the house. Sobia's house was on the walking distance from Laila's house. In five minutes Laila was standing at Sobia's door. She rang the doorbell and waited. I'm a few seconds the door swung open and Sobia came out. 

"Finally, you're here. Let's go to my room. We need to talk." Sobia said. She grabbed Laila by her hand and pulled her towards Sobia's bedroom. As they stepped into the room, Sobia locked the door and made Laila sit on the bed.

"Now tell me what the hell is wrong with you? Because of you I have to cancel all my plans for tonight." Laila asked angrily.

"Is Neha home by now?" Sobia asked.

"No and why would I want to know if she's home or not." Laila replied in an annoyed tone.

"Why isn't she home by now?" Sobia asked again.

"Why are you so interested in Neha today? Why would I care? You know I hate her." Laila replied angrily.

"You need to care girl. Because whatever had happened to her, you are responsible for that and if your family came to know that you were behind this all, you are history." Sobia explained. Fear was visible on her face.

"Wait, what do you mean? What had happened to her?" Laila asked. Her face had the same fear as Sobia.

"She is kidnapped and do you want to know who had kidnapped her?" Sobia asked and Laila nodded.

"Azfar Raheem." Sobia replied and Laila's eyes widened in fear.

"What?" Laila screamed.

"Keep your voice down. If my parents heard then you are dead and so am I." Sobia threatened her.

"How do you know? What happened, when it happened?" Laila asked.

"I was coming back home from University. I got late today after all the classes. I was walking towards my aunt's house. There, I saw Neha walking towards the bus stand. Suddenly a car stopped in front of her and blocked her way. Someone else was driving the car but the back door burst open and I saw him, Azfar hopped out of the car, pushed Neha into the car, then he hopped in as well and that car zoomed away, like they were in a hurry." Sobia explained everything she had seen while she was coming back home.

"Oh my God, that's not good. How did he know her University?" Laila questioned and Sobia glared at her friend. "What?" Laila asked in confusion.

"Like you know nothing Laila, stop playing games here." Sobia replied in an angry tone.

"I really don't remember and it was 2 years ago." Laila explained.

"This is all your fault Laila. Don't you remember. You tried to talk to him so many times by your Facebook ID but he never replied to you. So you created Neha's fake ID. You filled her information including her University name and her pictures. Now she is kidnapped because of you." Sobia explained angrily.

"He is a psycho, how is it my fault?" Laila asked innocently.

"How it isn't your fault? I told you, warned you millions of times not to upload her pictures on Facebook like that, not to use a fake account. But you never listened, it's all your fault Laila." Sobia explained. She was fuming in anger.

"But it was two years ago. How in hell does he still remember all of this?" Laila complained.

"I will ask him then answer you, okay?" Sobia asked in an annoyed tone.

"You think it's funny. Baba will eat me alive and Mustafa will beat me to death." Laila replied. Her face he'd a horror expression, thinking about her future.

"This wouldn't have happened in the first place if you would have just listened to me. But you never listened, now be ready for the consequences, which aren't going to be good for any of us. Because your baba will tell my dad and my dad is the worst. My God, I can't breath even thinking about what's coming our way." Sobia said in a panicked tone.

"No no no no… do something Sobia or we both are in trouble." Laila said.

"I can do one thing, I'll tell my parents everything and tell them I wasn't involved in this mess. This is your fault Laila, now get ready." Sobia said.

"Oh really Sobia. Don't forget that your email address is mentioned in that account. If you tried to do anything like that I will show them your email and you will be in trouble and I will be free. In fact they will blame only you for her kidnap." Laila threatened her friend.

"This isn't time to fight each other. We need to think and come up with a plan." Sobia replied.

Sobia and Laila both nodded. They stood up and started walking back and forth, thinking of a plan. They kept walking and thinking for a few minutes. Suddenly, Sobia grabbed Laila's elbow and pulled her closer.

"We don't have any other way, so you need to listen to me first. I have a plan." Sobia said. Laila nodded. They both sat on the edge of the bed, Sobia took a deep breath and started explaining Laila, she came up with.

"There is only one way to get us both out of this messy situation. Go home and tell your parents everything." Sobia explained.

"Are you crazy? They will kill me. You are my friend or what?" Laila whispered yell at Sobia.

"Listen to me then yell at me. I'm saying go and tell them everything about the affair between Neha and Azfar. Look, he hasn't seen you, he knows Neha. Her name, her photos, her information, her ID, her University, everything belongs to her. We have nothing to do with it. Just tell them she and Azfar know each other and they wanted to marry each other." Sobia explained her plan.

"What if she declined all this?" Laila asked.

"That's why I'm telling you to go and tell them everything before she comes back. But don't show them the chats or they will see the dates." Sobia explained.

"Okay, I'll go and tell them now." Laila replied.

"Good luck. Make sure they believe you or we are dead." Sobia said.

"I'll do my best, bye." Laila bid her goodbye and went back to her home.