A TRAP

I didn't realized ,until I got home that I was foolishly smiling like a teenager .I literally was gushing over our meeting .Founding no one in the house .I searched the garden ,there was Zearra watering the plants ,even she looked beautiful today .I called out her name and she turned to look at me.

''Where is mother ?'' but she didn't replied , she simply blinked two times and continued her work .I scratched the nape of my neck to remember what I was forgetting but looked like my mind hasn't came out of the pink bubble yet , so I called her again ,this time she blinks three times ,and again busied herself ,now she was confusing me . So I took the short three steps maze that led me to the enormous patch of land that came with the estate .

I turned her around and asked her again ,this time she narrowed her eyes on me and used her hand gestures to tell me it was that Time of month .

Oh ! Today was the day ,when she remained quiet and fast ,she came from a very small village ,where such traditions are necessary for an elderly woman to follow .The fast was known as a ''Stupa '' and nobody in her village know the significance if it and who started it .they all were just following ,with the faith that almighty will bless them with a grandson.

But I really wanna know where my mother is so I used a few hand gestures I have learned by staying with her for so long .

She used her two index fingers to draw a triangle which says she has gone to a house .I moved my palm left and right to ask if she has gone in the neighborhood .She tapped her nose two times which means bride .

Bride and house ,she must have gone to Mehjabin's sister's wedding .I said thanks to her and as soon as I turned to leave . She stopped me by clearing her throat .Her eyes seemed disturbed ,there was a certain crease on her forehead that implicates ,something is wrong about the whole situation .I know even if she wants ,she couldn't break her fast .

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His haveli was almost empty but a few older men were sitting in the open hall ,face palming , their faces were dull ,pale .

Aging duh!

A guy was running very frantically ,on looking closer ,I recognized him as the adoptive son of uncle Asar ,the man sure has a bunch of secrets hiding underneath his long white beard ,just last week only her wife died and he suddenly brought an 19 years old as his adoptive son ,strange thing was no primitive aunts who keeps the skill of searching a needle in the heaps of stack said anything ,instead they sympathies with him for the loss and praise him for adopting a loner child .without even doubting ,that which Orphanage keeps children above age of 18 .Literally every single men in the town knows ,that the boy was a blossomed fruit of the man forbidden affair .

'Perks of being rich and reputed ,no one can lay a finger on you !' I snorted

And in her whole life ,his poor wife kept on thinking that she was infertile, when instead of her ,her dear husband was spending his nights with Yasmeen the Red Light Area's most famous whore . But instead of all this ,the kid seems nice ,He blended easily among us

Genes ! I guess

I turned my gaze towards him ,but his eyes were panicked looking left to right .His chest rose and fell like he was running .I stopped him by placing a hand on his shoulder in order to calm him down .

''brother Haris ..It ended ..It ''unable to speak properly he breathed heavily .I offered him a glass of water kept on the tray and asked him to calm down .

''Easy ! now tell me what ended ?''

''The wedding . . It ended ,Mansoor turns out to be impotent '' He let out in one go .I pursed my lips on their thinking .Impotency is not a disease .It can be treated ,why to call off a wedding just on this simple issue which can be cured and also I heard he was the same groom who married Mustafa's second daughter . Why didn't he check before.

''Who told them Zurain?''

''Aunt Surraya brought the reports ,from the city doctor''

''Who was this aunt ?''

''She was the only cousin of uncle Mustafa ,she lived just next to him''

''But Impotency test needs blood samples ,how did she manage to get that ''

My words seems to ring a bell in his mind ''I don't know'' He answered honestly

We stared at each other for a few minutes before he finally spoke ''Could it be that ,She already knew about his condition and deliberately did all the drama to shame aunt Sitara? ''I slowly nodded and finally he thought about the whole scene from a new point of view