He laughed and laughed hard, many people turned their heads towards their direction to see Kabir laughing with his head hung backwards. The girl who was slinging on his arm uncomfortably looked around and then at Kabir. Minahil gritted her teeth whilst turning away from him. "Stop-- stop." He said in between fits of laughters. "What?" She yelled furiously.  Kabir's eyes watered but his laugh could not be controlled.  "WTF!"  "Yes, WTF," Kabir mimicked her. "Why are you so angry at me? I'm not the one who forced Abraham to go in fact I wanted him to stay here." Kabir said seriously now.  "And why do you think I care about him?" She  crossed her arms on her chest. "Jeez!" He moved his head away from her posing; his ears were hurt by her loud voice. "Why else would you be so angry at me!" &

Waniya Sadness does not seem a burden, when you never had the pleasure of being happy. I have always been in a fight and flight mode, struggling to prove that I am worth something, even though nobody cared. The darkness inside my body has deepened itself to the point that I can't breathe without hindrance. If I could show you a visual graphic of how this darkness feels, you will see black thick branches wounded around my heart and lungs like that of an ancient oak tree. And when I start to speak, those branches reach inside my throat and they gag my tongue, breaking my voice. The person I want to be is trapped inside my body which does not feel like my own. I'm familiar with the darkness only for I never have been in the light of love or peace or happiness.  Waniya was lying in her bed on her stomach, her diary was opened in front of her and she was reading what she had written three years ago with a smile on her lips and tears in her e

The sky was dark and darkness was suffocating, cutting off my breathing, there was an unbearable pressure on my ribs, lifelesss legs dangled me to who knows where. The mind ran in circles only, not processing anything. Nowhere seemed like home anymore. The one person I was sure about was my safe heaven had turned out to be a monster in disguise; I fucking didn't know how to breathe. The police constable had dropped her off in front of her house. She came out of the police van, he was speaking to her, telling her something, she could not hear him. After getting off, she walked towards the tall gate of the house she called home at some point and just stood in front of it. The watchman came to her, he was also saying something to her which could not process. Instead of walking inside the house, she turned around. The police van was now at a distance from her. She could see the rear lights flashing and moving far and far away. The watchman followed her, was probably asking her to come i