EK ZABRAN NIKHA

I WILL TAKE DIVORCE

You are seeing her pain, not mine. My grandson left us and went abroad. When will he return? Why will he return? Will he ever come here or not? And you are supporting that bad girl? Don't you care about your son? Noor Jahan said looking at her mother-in-law. Amma, first tell me the whole story. What happened? Nikhat Begum looked at Noor Jahan and taunted her. How can you care about your children that you would come to know that your son went abroad on the very night of his wedding? Looking at Rida, she said this wicked woman must have done something because of which all this has happened. First of all, he came back here after so much pleading and then he left us all and went away.

Rita is still lying on the floor in pain, none of the children has the courage to go ahead and lift Rida, but Shadab comes to Rida and helps her to get up and makes her sit on the sofa kept there. Nikhat Begum and Sadab's mother did not like this at all. Mohsin comes to his mother and says, Amma, he must have some work, you also know in what circumstances the marriage took place, give both of them some time to adjust, Amma, what condition have you put Rida in, you have only one bad habit that without listening to anyone, without listening to their explanation, you directly give your decision, you know very well how he is, he does not let anyone else walk in front of him, if he leaves Rida, it will be only his wish, Rida will not be at fault in this.

Nikhat would have said something further but her angry voice echoed in the hall, everybody started looking at Rida, after shouting she stood up from the sofa and came and stood in front of Nikhat Begum, blood was flowing from her forehead and her face had turned completely pale, she looked straight into her grandmother's eyes and asked, what crime did my mother commit that you wanted to kill her with your own hands, it is said that the blessings of parents don't work, but your curse hit my mother very badly, she didn't get water even while dying, now your heart must have cooled down, you must have got relief that the person who brought shame to you in the society, killed you in a very restless state.

Looking at everyone she said but did you people ever want to know why she took this step, why did she want to run away from such people who treated her like a queen, why was she forced to leave such parents, whose most favourite child she was, did you people ever try to know her, after bidding them farewell, did you touch their belongings with which she was running away, listening to Rida's words all the people standing there started looking at her, you said that you have done me a favour by keeping me here, otherwise I would have been yearning for two meals a day in an orphanage, but it would have been better to live here and yearn for two meals a day in an orphanage, if I had not promised my mother I would have died but would not have set foot in this mansion, if I want I can prove you all wrong right now and remove the stigma on my mother's forehead but I will not do this, because you people are not alive enough to know her truth, and as far as my marriage with your grandson is concerned, I did not say that I want to marry him, you people are the ones who ruined me. The relationship was formed willingly.

Your grandson left from here, it is not my fault, don't worry at all, I have no interest in living in your mansion and living on your money, thank you very much for the clothes and food you gave me in all these years, if I can pay your debt in life, I will pay off every single rupee.

Saying this, Rida went to the small store room below the stairs, kept her clothes, documents and a small box in the bag and came out, opened the bag in front of everyone and showed it and said, you all check whether you have taken even a single coin from this house or not, Noor Jahan, after listening to Rida, came to her and said, don't do this daughter, I know that something wrong is happening with you, give me a day, I will talk to Shyan and asked him to come back and assured him that everything will be fine.

Rida took Noor Jahan’s hand in hers and said I was living in this house only because of you Mami because Mummy always said that no one loved her like you in this house, you were not her Bhabhi but her best friend, but now it doesn’t make any sense for me to stay in this house, you know very well why I came to this house and how I have been living in this house for the last 10 years, but now my patience has reached its limit, if it was in my control I would not have allowed anyone to even give a shoulder to my dead body, but I was helpless because of the oath taken by Mummy, but today I understood one thing, in this house she got a lot of love but never got respect, if she had got respect then maybe my mother wouldn’t have tolerated so much as she did in her short life.

Saying this Rida left the mansion with her injured body without looking back. Noor Jahan could not tolerate Rida leaving and she looked at her mother-in-law with burning eyes and said, you did the same thing years ago with Shifa, you did not listen to a single word of hers and married her to a despicable man, she kept dying bit by bit all her life and when she expressed her wish to see you for the last time, you did not even fulfill that and today again you made the same mistake, you threw Rida out of this house, your heart must have found peace, Amma, go and get your sleep comfortably and wait for your grandson to come.

On hearing Noor Jahan's words, Nikhat Begum angrily said, stay within your limits wife there is no need to say much, if your lovely sister-in-law was so good then why did she run away from the house, if she had something in her heart then she should have told us, could we not have fulfilled her wish, Amma if you people had fulfilled her wish then there would have been no need to drive her away, she had begged that she did not want to get married, even then you and no one in this house listened.

Noor Jahan left her talk incomplete and went to her room, as soon as Noor Jahan entered the room, silence spread across the entire mansion, gradually everyone went to their rooms, Nikhat Begum also went to her room, when Mohsin came into the room, seeing Noor Jahan sitting in the corner of the bed and crying, he came to her and hugged her, after hugging her Noor Jahan started crying out loud, gradually she calmed down, Noor Jahan separated from Mohsin and said I will never forgive your son for this act, I never asked him to do anything, he did what he had to do, but I never questioned his action.

Noorjahan looked at Mohsin and said to me but your son will definitely call you, so tell him that he has broken his mother's honor, has ruined a girl's life for which I will never forgive him.

Rida, wounded, boarded a bus from village to city, after travelling for 10 hours she came in front of her friend Avni's flat and took a deep breath, went to the lift and pressed the second floor button, within few seconds she reached the second floor, I know that when Avni will see her in this condition, she will ask a lot of questions, with trembling hands she rang the door bell, Avni opened the door in one ring, seeing Rida, Abhi did not ask any questions, just asked her to come inside the house (as soon as she came out of the mansion, Rida called Avni, her childhood friend, asked her if she can share the flat with her, on hearing which Avni asked her some questions which Rida did not answer, she understood that Rida does not want to tell Abhi, so without asking any questions, she just asked her to come inside).

Seeing Rida, Avni said, go and freshen up, I will quickly prepare the food. Rida quietly went to her room and came back within half an hour after bathing, by then her husband had heated the food and placed it on the table, both of them ate silently, after eating the food, Rida quietly went and sat in the balcony, Avni is feeling very sorry for Rida, but she knows that if she is so calm, then a huge storm is raging inside her, but she will bring out this storm on her own will, so she quietly went and sat next to her.