"Who was he Firdaus? Tell your Ammi" mom softly asked me as she made me sit on her bed. I had stopped crying. I was tensed with all that happened.
"You should speak up beta. Or else you now that I can't help you. I don't know what happened? Even Asad is not picking up your brothers calls. Tell me before the matter goes out of hand." Mom pleaded. Dad and bhai where angry and shocked with the situation. Dad asked me calmly but it sounded more like a growl.
"Ammi, I... he...he was..." and again tears started burning in my lids.
"Shhh... calm down." She rubbed my back as she sat next to me.
"Ammi... he blackmailed me. He... h... he was stalking me and wanted me to. run away with him." I told her sniffing in between. She was listening quietly.
"When did this started?" She asked.
"Fou
