Chapter 3

"Noor, you are still sitting here, are you not going to university?" He was folding his sleeves while asking his sister who was sitting on the sofa. Today again she was not intended to go to the university. When Shah Zain asked her she turns herself towards him. "Bhai (brother) please, I don't want to go anywhere.... I am not going to do this.... I feel uneasy seeing a lot of people around me, I feel a strange fear, please Bhai I don't want to study anymore....." She holds her brother in both hands and said to him in pleading. Shah Zain saw a strange fear on her face that worried him. For a moment, Shah Zain feels pity for his sister. But still, he didn't change his determination. "No Noor, I can't agree to your only this request, you have to move forward, when you start to intermingle with people only then your fear can vanish, otherwise if you keep yourself imprisoned in the home, then how it will go....." "Make friends there only then you will get used to the university and don't worry about someone gazing at you no one can dare to look at you." He was making her understand very softly. No matter how much he tried to let his sister's fear go away the more she keeps herself imprisoned. Till now he can't get to the reason for her getting scary. "But Bhai (brother), why you are not getting me, I don't want to go anywhere....." After his brother's response, her eyes become teary. "Noor ul Ain as I told you nothing is going to happen, now you go and come quickly after getting yourself ready, I am waiting for you here." Now softness in his tone becomes a little lower. "Where are you planning to go both brother and sister." Mr. Hassan enters the lounge and said when he came close to them. "Nothing dad, I am going to drop Noor at her uni, I will come to the office from there." After answering his father he gets up from his seat. While at the appearance of Mr. Hassan, Noor's face was engulfed in fear. With her eyes, she also lowers her head. Mr. Hassan noticed her that movement. It always happens whenever he was around her she acts like that. He was her father but on his saying anything she only answers him in yes or no. Why it was like that he didn't understand. "Bhai I am going....." After gazing at her brother for a moment she hurriedly gets out of there. Mr. Hassan looks at her retreating figure till she disappears.