Tainting The Void Canvas

On a cold December last week, nearly midnight, someone is lost sitting with another cup of masala chai.

Masala chai.

"Iss chai is ko toh latt lag jani na."

From where it started , a cup of simple tea, and now it's more than anything else in life.
They say people leave their essence in things, and here Zain Amir is trying to find the similar kind in his chai.

Two days three nights and he is already losing his sanity. Of course Delhi is good, family is here, Seher is here. But he is not at peace anyhow. And the worst thing is, he knows why, maybe she knows why.

He is near his family, near his loved ones, away from his home,
away from his heart which he left with a girl having hazel brown orbs.

As he sit on the balcony couch, he remembers the last time they talked, two days ago, when she landed, that's it. After that she just switched off her phone. He did talk to her mother but it is her voice that can keep him sane at the moment.

In these two years he had spent with her, it is the first time they are apart like this, and he is not liking it a bit. Amaya Kareem is his sanity.

Looking at the known figure at her balcony at this time of night, she knows he needs her now.
Her brother Zain needs his Seher Aapi again.

Clad in woolen long kurti and a shawl, she enters through the glass door, taking a seat on the couch beside him, she keeps her graze fix on the moon. Zain slides down the couch, and now sitting near her legs, keeping his back leaned to the couch.

A déjà vu feeling.
Similar thing had happened once, years ago.
Same people, similar situation yet different stories, different circumstances .

That feels like eons ago.

"Don't you think, you are making the same mistake?"
That make Zain rolled his eyes, good thing, Seher can't see him doing that, otherwise Allah save his poor soul.

"Aapi.."

"...Amaya Kareem is different. She is everything you want, she is the home you have always been looking for."

A truth he is well aware of, but she needs to tell him this, let him know that he can't miss it this time.

"She knows, I can feel she does."
Seher smiles, they are good together.

"..and that's why she left Aapi."

A pain is evident in his voice, a pain of being abandoned again.

"..She is scared Aapi. Scared of the whole thing. And I hate him for putting her in this situation."

She can see the unshed tear in his amber eyes.
The good thing is he is not here.

"..That's not our place to say anything Zain."

".. I know Aapi. And I won't say anything. But Aapi I was there with her for two years, it's been years to that incident, years that her relationship ended but still there is pain.