I grabbed my phone as I opened my eyes and saw the time and it was about 10:30am . Not late , so I decided to check out my social media accounts. I opened my Instagram, where I had couple of messages pending, I replied to all of them and then checked my notifications . I found Isha has followed me, I followed her back she was fast to accept my request. I started to check her account, she had posted some of the pictures from the cafe where Haider had her to me for the first time. While I was checking her profile , a notification from Snapchat poped *Zaara is typing* . As I saw the notification my eyes rose and there was another notification, I clicked on the notification and saw the message. The message Read “Sorry I am distributing you but can I please talk to you “. I was annoyed by the message because seeing her message reminded me how Haider cried after she left him for no reason. “Don’t be so formal. Say what you want to say” I typed the reply and pressed on “send” button . She was fast to reply “Tell me how’s he”. This fake concern of her for Haider got me angry and started to type. But even before I could type anything Zaaara sends another message “I love Him” . Her this message made me loose cool and I typed a message “Listen Zaara keep on your darma and fake concern to you, I know how much you love him and how much you actually care for him. Keep your fake concern for him with you and don’t interfere in his life” and pressed on send button. For complete five minutes she wasn’t typing anything and I knew my message caught her off guards but I was angry at her because what she did to Haider is something that I could neither forget nor forgive her. While I had my eyes glued to screen to see what will she reply to this message. I thought about breaking the silence but she started typing and suddenly she stopped typing and then started to type again. “Sorry, Raqif I know what I did to Haider but I still love him. I can’t stop thinking about him. Please Raqif help me , I want to meet Haider at any cost” her reply read. I was bit suprised to see the reply, she was pleading which she never did before. I felt bad for her; I thought she must be going through tough times. But I was fast to remember how she rejected multiple messages and phone calls where I pleased her for meeting Haider , So the mercy for her was short lived and i started to type ” Zaara I think that was you who didn’t wanted to meet him when I pleased you multiple times . So how do you think he will even meet you?” I pressed send as I typed the reply. She was fast to repy to this text. “Listen Raqif this might seem rude to you but I am not , I know how much he loves me and how much he loves me, so you don’t tell me anything, I know we will meet in near future “. As I read the text it had a simle and on my face and typed a reply “Listen Zaaara , If in near future we are Best friends (Haider and Raqif) I will not let him meet you ever” . And sended it to her. And she didn’t type for about five minutes same as she did with the text before. But this time it wasn’t she to break the silence , it was me to do so. “Zaaara you there” I send a message. Yes she replied as she saw the message. “Listen we tried to sort everything but it didn’t work, believe me raqif , we together are a mess which can’t be sorted out . We are better this way” she sends another message. This message for her got me confused and asked her that is she even aware about what she’s saying. She was quick to response making it clear that she loves him but things have messed up so much that once they start sorting out things they mess up again and more worse than before. I remember Haider telling me same thing so she couldn’t be blamed here . But as she sends me another message she wanted them together again at some point of time , she only was confused about how to get things out of mess that has been created. For her the present mess couldn’t be sorted out by any way other than remaining far away from each other. This way for her’s sorting out things didn’t fit to me as I am well aware to what Haider is going through even though he has tried to move on. To keep her out of this fake world that she has right way of sorting out things I told her how haider at 3:00 am called me and told me that he’s missing her . “OMG” she replied. Yes unfortunately he still cares about you and he still thinks about you, he never said but he cries a lot .
I replied. “Okay raqif I have to go but I will catch you later” zaara said. I replied with a bye and directly called haider. He replied to my call in a single ring and said “Hi Raqif” . Hi haider how are you, I replied. “I am good” he said. Okay Haider listen, Zaaara was calling and was asking for a meet up with you. Haider didn’t reply for a minute and when he spoke he said “Tell her she has earned my unwanted hate” . I was suprised to hear what he just said. I started to speak again “Haider , zaara your love wants to meet you, I think you didn’t hear ” . This time he was angry and loud “Raqif tell her I hate her and tell her I got no time for her , I had given her my everything, But what happened to me ? I was given back a betrayal. She must have told you that we tried to sort it but it messed up. Go ask her why did I mess up” I could feel the tears rolling down. Listen Raqif tell her she has earned my unwanted hate and yes tell her I am happy don’t care about me. Haider disconnected the call while he started to cry out loud. I didn’t call him back. I kept my phone aside held my head in both of my hand and started to think how much can things change while I was thinking about it my phone beeped and it was message from Haider which read “All I have for her is hate THE UNWANTED HATE.
(The story is just a fictional piece and has no connection with the reality. And the characters are also fictional. Author is a freelancer and views are his own)
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