CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 7 : Chased by the problems

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"What happened sir ?" She was confused and all sorts of thoughts were coming in her mind.

"DON'T ASK QUESTIONS JUST COME QUICKLY-"she could hear him shout in frustration, but then an unfamiliar masculine voice warned from the side "Don't yell unless you don't desire your skull to look like a seive"

"Sir...is everything fine?" She asked.

"Yes, Safia everything is fine , pleas-please come quickly " He pleaded this time in a sickening sweet tone.

"Okay" She awkwardly said . Although it wasn't the time for her work , she dressed up and quickly left the home .

"Auto!" She waved hand to stop the auto.

"Where do you want to go ma'am ?" The auto-rickshaw driver asked.

"Near Haripur Chawk" She said and the driver just drove away without telling her anything.

Safia sighed in irritation at this.

She again waved her hand and another empty rikshaw came.

"Bhaiyya will you go to haripur chawk?" She asked.

"No ma'am and I will suggest whatever the matter is , you shouldn't go there too" He told her.

"Why? Did some ghost or monster have come there?" She asked in irritation. She knows that her boss won't listen to any of the excuses if she is late . Even if she dies , and she hasn't finished her work , he might as well play ouja board and summon her spirit and make her finish all the work.

"Yes , the monster himself has come!" The man said.

"Huh?" Safia was confused.

"Rudra Rajpoot have came there . He has blocked all the way and isn't allowing any vehicle to exit the place once it enters" The man said.

"Wait-why isn't anyone informing the police?" She inquired worriedly.

"Arey!! They police is in his support only.  They are the ones blocking the way for him . What else can we expect for them. I will just advise ma'am , drop any of the plans you have for today" the man suggested and drove the vehicle away.

Rudra Rajpoot was a bad news for the whole city . She couldn't believe for a few seconds that the man who has killed 15 people in a single month , was roaming around the city freely without any jail.

What else could she expect from the system . Rudhra Rajpoot worked under Fawad Siddique and most politicians were allies of him , so it was more than difficult to even shut a single factory which belonged to him. Hurting any of his man was out of the syllabus.

She decided to just head back to home . She knew Rudhra won't think twice before shooting her head and she couldn't lose her life . She had a lot of responsibilities to die this early.

She started to head back towards her home when her phone again started to ring.

Mr Khadoos Calling

She sighed and picked it up.

"WHERE ARE YOU??!!" He yelled .

"I can't come I am sorry . I was on my way and accidentally got hit by a car and my leg is in need of a fracture. I am going to hospital to get one" She lied . She knew a fever or a simple injury won't stop him from calling her to work.

"I DON'T CARE ! COME HERE QUICKLY YOUR INJURY CAN WAIT DAMMIT!" He shouted.

Safia closed her eyes to control her anger. She wanted to shout back at him , but she needed his job more desperately than anything in this world.

"Urgh-I really can't come" She said while scratching her nape awkwardly.

And she cut the call . She can simply go to work tomorrow and beg him to let her stay . Either way he wasn't the main owner of the shop . It was his nephew for whome he worked . She can go to his nephew if necessary.

The call kept coming and she silenced the phone and kept it in her pocket.

She opened the door of her house and her mother was there sitting with a duppatta wrapped around her head . She was going to recite Qur'an.

"You didn't went to work today?" She inquired.

"No-today is---"She started to think of a reason . If she became honest and told her the real reason , her mother will start to think that the place is dangerous and won't allow her to go again.

"Vacation!" She spread her hands in the sky in a jazz position.

"Of?"

"Of-Holi"

"Holi? It's not Holi today" Her mother frowned.

"I know - I know... But my both bosses love Holi way too much so they have started to celebrate it in advance" Safia lied ,but then felt stupid at her own lie.

"Huh? The people of these big cities are really crazy" Her mother mumbled believing her words and went to continue the work.

Safia placed her hand on her chest while breathing out in relief that her mother believed her stupid lie.

During the time her mother was reciting , Safia sat on the bed and started to play Subway surfers in her phone to pass time .

Her mother soon finished her recitation and pecked her temple while sitting on the plastic chair.

The whole room was tightly packed with furniture of all sorts as they didn't have much space to adjust all of that separately.

"Safia do you remember Murad?" Her mother asked and Safia hummed as her eyes remained fixed on the phone .

"Murad called me yesterday" Safia's eyebrows knitted in a frown as she kept swiping the screen continuing to play.

Murad was the son of her phuphi (father's sister) . Her phuphi's family was very wealthy , but despite of that they never tried to help or contribute any single penny to her father's treatment. All they gave was verbal support while traveling to all the countries of the world.

There was the quote 'Blood makes you related , but Love makes you family' and Safia felt it . They were just related but never a family . Despite her father spending up all the savings of his own in her wedding , in this day , she had nothing to give to her own brother .

Being the single child of the family , she sometimes desired to have a sibling of her own , but seeing her phuphi and her father's relationship. It always used to vanish.

"What was he saying?" Safia asked.

"Firstly he was asking about your abbu's condition and was very worried , but soon one talk led to another and he confessed that he-he wants to marry you" hearing her mother's words Safia laughed.

"Mr Murad wants to marry me ? He can do that in his dreams . Ask him to sleep ammi and if he can't sleep , I will give some poison to him " Safia bitterly said with her eyes still not leaving the phone.

"But why? He is a nice boy and on top of that he is a doctor . Marrying him will not only give you a secure life , but maybe he can help us in this rough situation too. For how long will you keep working like this ?" Safia's mother was worried.

"Ammi I am fine with working and if needed I will work 3 more jobs , but I won't marry Murad. He isn't nice , or anything. He is just a fake rodent . I have heard about his enormous relations , and the girls he have dumped . I have no will to become the wife of such man"Safia replied.

"Safia..He was a child back then and see he is a boy—boys do commit such mistakes . He is trying to mend all . Even your phuphi believes you can fix him and help him in building a proper life" Her mother tried to convince her.

"I am not Bob the builder to fix him. And if boys commit such mistakes, then I want a man who only wants me "Safia irritatedly said and at that moment, out of frustration her fingers became slow and her character got hit by the train in the game.

New Score !

She sighed in annoyance and put the phone on the side.

"But Safia" before her mother could say anything more , her words were cut by the sound of the bell.

"I will get back on this topic and give you One thousand and One reasons why I am rejecting Murad" Safia got up from the bed putting her phone on the side .

She opened the door and was surprised to see Rudhra Rajpoot himself standing there. He was dressed up in a black shirt . His upper three bottons were unbuttoned revealing his well built chest . He had a silver chain with a small ring in it. He had dark brown pants with a belt and polished shoes with few drops of crimson blood over them .

"What are you doing here?" She asked in shock .

To be continued....

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