The events of that unfortunate day was so fresh in her mind. Aafreen could still recollect memories in her mind. The sound of sudden blast induced by the miscreants had made her ears deaf to the cries of pain of people around her. But the vision was more than enough for her to feel the pain. There were people running around due to fear and helplessness. Some people were looking out for their dear one’s welfare. Most of them lie on ground in pain with grievous injurious. It was a nightmare.
She was one among them. Lost in crowd, stunned by so many things happening around her and hurt. She was disappointed to see how humans could hurt their own kind. Did love and human compassion existed in this world? Have the humans turned into emotional cold creatures over the coming years? What she learnt during her first years in school was all lie? Books drew far different pictures from real world. If real world was going to be like this one, then it would be better for her to die than live around the miserable.
As she was engrossed in the above thoughts with her heart questioning the very existence of life, a terrorist was trying to shoot her on sight She didn’t see the danger lurking towards her. But someone else did notice and in span of few seconds, the terrorist lost his life. She was saved by that someone else quick action. That someone else was no other than the person she was maintaining distance- Lieutenant Abhinav Kaul.
She was in his protective arms. She should be feeling safe but she felt threatened. She tried to release herself from his tight grip. “ Leave me!”, she screamed and he released her at once. However the danger didn’t end there. Another miscreant came from nowhere to complete his dead friend’s task. He had his gun really close to her. However Abhinav’s skills of shooting were lauded by the seniors. He shot the man on his forehead in less than a second. Aafreen was shocked. He grabbed her hand and ran towards the safe side.
He had left her to the custody of another officer. The officer was female who was dressed in local attire. Her dress had concealed the woman from being recognized. She dropped Aafreen to Mohi-ud-deen’s house which was quite near. Aafreen’s aunt and uncle were relieved to see her safe. They didn’t ask her about the blast. Instead they took really good care of her and notified her parents about her presence.
Her aunt didn’t let her leave home and asked her to go home once everything settled. Aafreen was a bit apprehensive initially. Later she settled down to her aunt’s demand. She was apple of their eyes and everyone in her family. A small wound on her body or heart would make them tremble with fear. Unfortunately she couldn’t share about how she got saved. The main reason being that an army officer had saved her. They detested the sight of any army officer. An army officer even being next to her would scare them and their over protection would hinder her dreams. This would be really bad.
( To be continued)
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