You Are Not Alone

They are not happy

She was sitting with her friends after the lecture ended, there were only twenty minutes left in their other lecture, so they all skip lunch and preferred to take juices only.

She was doing MBA and it was her last semester, she was sipping her juice, and watching every table when her friend Anum nudged her shoulder to get her attention. Shajia shifted her gaze to Anum and looked at her questioningly

"Did you decide where will you apply for the job?"

"She doesn't need to decide or find a job, she already has her father's company which she could join" Dania commented on Anum's question, Shajia just got bored at her friend's stupid assumptions. She placed the empty can of juice on the table and crossed her arms on her chest.

"And why you thought that?" leaning towards her she questioned.

"Isn't it a simple thing to understand, your father owns a company why would you go somewhere else and work in a low position when you can be a boss in your father's company?" Dania shrugged her shoulders and shared her thoughts with them, Anum agreed with her, but Shajia shook her head.

"That's where you are wrong, I am not a foolish girl which will go into her father's office." She rested her back on the chair and surprised her friends with her statement.

"Why you won't go there? There's nothing foolish in this" Anum got curious, Shajia always does something different, which no one had expected from her.

"What? I don't want to be with them twenty-four hours, I already see them in the morning at dinner, that's already too much." Her friends looked at her with mouths wide open and exchanged looks with each other, none of them were able to understand her stupid logic when they know how sweet each family member is of the Laghari house.

Seeing their expressions, Shajia decided to explain it further.

"Listen, if I will go to my father's office he will ask me to assist my brother, working under him means he will get to know my every prank or my stupid acts, and he will definitely tell my dad, and from them, all the woman of Laghari House will get aware of this and after that, I can't tell you guys what will happen to me." Wiping off her unshed tears she said to them.

"Now you understood?" She asked her friends, who nods at her.

"Come on let's go for the class" checking the time on her watch, Dania said to them and they all stood from chairs making bad faces and commenting as none of them wanted to attend the next class.

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After getting free from the meeting, Hadi and Ali Paracha were heading to their office but got stuck in traffic, they starts talking about random topics to pass their time.

"Your uncle and aunt are not happy with your decision of bringing Mahtaj here." Hadi was looking at the road but he was all ears to his father.

When he said this to him, Hadi turned his head and looked at him who was already looking at him, he shifts back his gaze to the road, and instead of explaining his actions, he questioned back to him.

"And why are they not happy?"

"Don't act innocent, you know why they are not happy, the day you brought her here, and the scene your aunt created you have seen it with your own eyes." He said to him with bitterness.

"I don't care what issues they have and why, she is staying at her father's house and she has every right of living here, if someone is bothered that is not my concern," he said to him, Ali Paracha could sense the seriousness and stubbornness in his voice.

"Well, they are not happy, you told me but what about you, you didn't say anything about whether you are happy or not," Hadi asked his father, he waited for the answer but he just got silence, he turned his head, his father was staring at him blankly, Ali Paracha averted his eyes and starts looking on the road, he hides his tears from his son, he doesn't want him to see his vulnerable state.

He was already calculating his loss, which he has collected after spending his journey alone, keeping himself away from his wife, he felt the pain in his heart, the emotions he was going through after the death of his wife, he doesn't want anybody to know about it.

Hadi stopped the car at the Taj hotel's parking.

"You go ahead, I have to visit one place and then will go home from there." Ali Paracha nods at him and unlocked the door, before he exits, he asked his son, keeping his eyes on the ground.

"How is Mahtaj? Is she still crying?"

"Yeah, she was crying in the morning when I went to her room, she looks miserable, will spend time with her today." He informed him.

"Take care of her, and make sure she doesn't cry anymore, and if she doesn't feel good, take her to the doctor" instructed him, he left the car and entered the main entrance of the hotel.

"I know dad you are happy that she is living under your roof, you will be able to see her daily, you are just afraid of expressing it." Exhaling a cold breath, he reversed the car and geared it up to his next destination.