THE VILLAIN-8

THE VILLAIN-8

SIMRAN || SHEIKH

I looked at the man in front of me. My father; who left us when we needed him most,who abonded us for someone else. I gave him an angry look. Soon it replaced in to a concerned look. He looked thin,there was dark circles under his eyes ,wrinkles was in his face and there was some white hair in between his light brown hair.He looked so old in his late forty’s.I tried to hate him for not to be with my mother in her last days,I tried to hate him for not be there when Samar was growing up,I tried to hate him for letting us starve but I never could hate him.

“Beta..” He called me with love and hugged me. I didn’t hug him back. I didn’t give any reaction when he kissed on my forehead.

“Let’s go, Hamdan.” I pulled Hamdan back to my home. He was confused. He looked at me then my father. I was about to say something but I stopped when hear a cute voice called me ‘di’. I looked at the place where the voice came from. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I smiled Wilder seeing my half siblings ,Hannah and Hisham. Our father was same but mothers weren’t.

“I missed you two..” I said kneeling down to my five year old brother Hisham’s level to hug him. He jumped on me.

“I missed you,too,do.” I got up from the posture to hug my seventeen year old sister Hannah. She hugged me happily. We haven’t seen each other for like…um…a two weeks. I had been busy with my college stuffs.

“Let’s get inside.” I said walking to my home with Hisham in my hand and putting an arm around Hannah’s shoulder. I didn’t care to invite my father but Hamdan did.

“So..what you guys want to have?” I asked letting Hisham stand on his feet.

“I want cupcake.” Hisham said.

“Me,too.” Hannah said,too.

“Me,three.” Hamdan winked at me ‘in front of My father! And here I was thinking he was a shy boy!

“Where is Samar and Ammi?” My father asked.

“They are in my home,uncle. ” Hamdan replied to his question when I didn’t answer.

“Can you please ask them to come?” My father asked. Hamdan nodded and took his phone from his pocket.

“Huma,tell naani and Samar that uncle is here.” Saying this hung the phone up and I went to our coffee shop’s kitchen because we had only one oven that’s was in our coffee shop. Hannah offered me to help. Hisham also came with us. We left Abbu and Hamdan alone.

As we both enter our shop I found Samar and naani coming towards my home from Hamdan’s. Samar ran to us seeing Hisham and Hannah with me.

“Hannah do,Hisham…” Samar called them surprised.

“Hey little Master Blaster.” Hannah ruffled Samar’s hair. He giggled at her. Samar took Hisham in his hands.

“Why didn’t you both tell me that you were coming today?” Samar asked to both Hannah and Hisham. The trio got to the same school by the way.

“If we had told you would it be a surprise?” Hannah asked him.

“No. What are you doing ,di?” Samar asked when he saw me taking the ingredients for the cupcakes.

“Cupcake.” As I said his face lit up.

“However you guys have so many differences still you four love cupcakes together.” Hamdan said winking at me. I rolled my eyes at him.

What’s wrong with him?

“You know Hannah Di, simi Di and Hamdan Bhai….” Hamdan didn’t let Samar complete the words. He put his hand on Samar’s mouth. I chuckled at them.

“Buddy,I have to ell oh something, come.” Hamdan dragged Samar away from us.

“What was that Di?” Hannah asked.

“N..nothing…” I stammered.

“Di..!” She warned.

“Okay..fine..I will tell you everything.” I said continuing my work.

Even we both had different mothers and I wasn’t in good terms with my father, we kids were in good terms. We loved each other very much and Hannah was more like a friend to me. We share everything. Everything means everything.

ARJUN || REDDY

I was checking some of my mails. I saw a mail from vivan. I opened it. It had all details of shoukat Ali. It was about his family as I already got information about his business. He was the son in-law of Adnan Qureshi,one of the richest man in India. Shoukat Ali’s every company ownered by Adnan Qureshi. He was just taking care of the company and all. But the last year he died out of cancer. So the companies came to shoukat Ali’s hand but still the owner was His wife Rukhsar. I read the mail.

His full name was Shoukat Ali Sheikh. The sheikh remind me of someone .He was an assistant manager in Adnan’s company. After marrying his daughter Rukhsar Shoukat got 20% of the share. The interesting thing was Rukhsar was his second wife. He had a daughter and son In Rukhsar and another daughter and son in his first wife.

I got another mail from vivan which included shoukat and his family’s photos. I opened shoukat’s photo. He has hazel eyes,light brown hair and pink lips. He looked familiar or I have seen someone like him. Next was his wife Rukhsar’s. She looked young according to shoukat. Then came their children. The girl looked like her mother but the younger boy had his father’s features. Finally shoukat’s children from his first marriage. The boy looked 12 or 13 year old with brown hair and grey eyes. He was cute.

I opened Shoukat Ali’s eldest daughter. The photo was downloading slow. I got to see her eyes,her hazel eyes. It looked more familiar than Shoukat’s photo. I came back to shoukat’s photo just to see the similarities he and his daughter had.

I knew this girl. I said to myself.

I waited for the photo to get downloaded. As I got the full photo of the eldest daughter of shoukat Ali, I could just stare at the picture on my laptop. I couldn’t believe my eyes..

It was her…..