I opened my eyes to find myself in a dark small room where the only light was coming from a small window. I was lying in the corner of the room, and my hands were tied up to a chair.

I struggled to free my hands but I wasn't strong enough. Tears started rolling down my cheeks from helplessness.

Suddenly, I heard footsteps approaching me, my heart leaped out from my chest and my whole body started shaking.

I shuddered as I spotted a girl in a black hoodie was walking towards me. She had a knife in her hand and her face was covered with a mask.

Farwaaa! It was Farwa...

I remembered the Almighty and started reciting all the surah, I knew.

Zaynah, she's just a girl, the girl who was living with you for the past months! You can fight!

My body became cold like ice and I started breathing heavily.

Panic Attack again...

Noooo! Zaynah!

Don't be weak!

You can do this!

"What do you want Farwa? You have already taken everything from me, no one is believing me, even Mrs. Umaisha hates me now, and Wajahat... He was always yours and he's yours, let me go," my voice cracked up and I wiped off the tears which were rolling down my cheeks.

" Aww, baby! I knew you're stupid but you can be that dumb, trust me, I didn't know," she let out a loud chuckle which changed the world around me. My head started spinning, she was right...how could I be that stupid?

"Naina..." A word left from my mouth made her let out another evil chuckle. She removed the mask from her face and my heartbeats stopped.

It was the face, I trusted, I liked and I never doubted and she was playing with me all the time with Farwa. Wow, they planned everything so well, Farwa is in Shah Mansion playing a victim card to distract them, and here Naina kidnapped me.

"Are you shocked? How are you feeling nerd?" She pointed the knife at me and touched my whole face with the knife.

It was still hard to believe that she was the same Naina, I knew. She was so sweet and kind and this Naina... Her face was plastered with a devilish smirk.

"Yeah, you're right, I'm so stupid...Why didn't I think that you're Farwa's best and the only friend? Why I ignored your relationship with Farwa and trusted you. I should've known you're with Farwa," my voice was shaking and the pain of betrayal was increasing in my whole body.

"Farwa...me?? So you think I'm with Farwa...? Ahh nice, Farwa was right, you're so innocent Zaynah," she giggled and I snapped my head at her in confusion.

"What do you wanna say?" I whimpered and narrowed my eyes at her.

" You still didn't get it?" She smirked and looked at me in amusement.

" Stop playing with my mind... Just say that..." I yelled.

" Lower your voice Bitch, I'm not Farwa whom you can say anything, " she balled her fist and punched my nose. A wave of sharp pain shot in my nose and it started bleeding.

"Farwa has nothing to do with this, it's me... It was always me. Do you really think Farwa can do all these things to you? She's such a loser and piece of shit that she can't even kill a fly, " she looked straight into my eyes, and her words stroke like a hammer on my head. My eyes widened at her confession.

And the whole time I was thinking It's Farwa. Oh, God!

"But why do you want to harm me? What had I done and Wajahat..." My eyeballs popped out from the socket as I realized it.

"Why?? You took everything from me, all the happiness from my life, and you still asking why??" She yelled on top of her lungs, her voice echoed in the whole room and the wave of fear rushed into my whole body which was visible in my eyes.

"You took my Wajahat from me and you're asking whyy?" She hissed and made a small cut on my knees. My breath fastened as I saw the red blood dripping from my knees.

Hemophobia...

"Are you scared? I want you to feel all kinds of the pain of this world," she slapped on my face and kicked below the naval. My whole body was hurting like hell and my eyes becoming close from the pain but I needed my answers.

"Your Wajahat, he was never yours, he's Farwa's Wajahat.." I snapped at her.

" How much do you know about me? Huh? He was mine and he is mine..." He kicked me again and I saw the psychoses in her eyes.

"I was in ninth grade, fucking ninth grade when I first saw him and I liked him at the first sight but he didn't put a single glance at me, he was laughing with his best friends Farwa and Wajeeha..." She paused and looked lost.

" We were in the same school but he never put a single glance at me no matter how much I tried and I thought he's in love with Farwa... Farwa... I never liked that bitch but I had no other choice and I had to befriend her...she is anti-social but I pushed her limits and became her first friend and soon I won her trust and became her best friend..." She sighed heavily.

" After becoming best friends I got to know that there was nothing between Wajahat and Farwa, they both were just friends, best friends... nothing more...I came all the way long for nothing...but it was worth doing as I started getting close to Wajahat..." A small smile formed on her lips as she recalled those moments.

"The guy who never looked at me now started laughing and smiling with me, we started hanging out and being Farwa's bff in IISC was a privilege...you know the real Farwa is coward, suffering from nightmares, sweet and the girl with the purest heart, she was never my type but I had to tolerate her just cuz of Wajahat and also she was rude, mean, bitch and popular for IISC kids, making me popular as well...

She thought her bitchy attitude would help her to stay away from the people, she is scared of people, she has low self-esteem but her fake personality gave her a new identity and she became the rudest, the meanest, and the popular girl of IISC," it was so hard to believe her words cuz she never looked like this or maybe I never tried to look at her real side.

I remembered the day I said all those mean things to her she looked vulnerable, she locked her in the washroom and cried for hours. Why didn't I understand then it wasn't normal? No one can get affected by someone's words like this especially mean people. She was just scared of people and she was faking everything. She had a mask on her face and I thought...

"I thought one day I'll convince Farwa for Wajahat, as I was her best friend but then you came into the scene... And you changed everything... The guy who never noticed any girl in his life started noticing every single thing about you, the guy who never looked at other girls was staring at you with all the love in his eyes, he became your savior...he didn't let anyone hurt you..." She was speaking and I looked at her in disbelief.

Savior...? But it was Azlan... right...

But I never felt that connection with Azlan which I feel with Wajahat.

Damn!

And he was noticing me...?

"You have some misunderstandings, he doesn't even like me..." I sighed.

"Who are you fooling Zaynah? I've known him for many years, he doesn't even put a glance at the people he doesn't like and he... His eyes have love, care, and everything I wanted to see but it was for you not for me?" Her words made my heart skip millions of beats.

Wajahat loves me...

Or maybe she misunderstood everything.

"So Farwa was always salty to me cuz she was scared that I'll get close to her and know about her weakness, but I still don't understand the incident at the party night...." I wiggled my eyebrows, I was still in confusion.

" It was me...I had no intention to harm you, I just wanted to threaten you so I dragged you to the room but you attacked me back and when I ran to the garden to hide, Farwa was already there...and she caught me red-handed...

I didn't know what made me suspect but she was keeping an eye on me for a long time. She was going to tell everyone about me but before she could go I pulled her into the fight and threaten her that I'll kill you if she tried to open her mouth..." She completed her sentence and I gaped at her, she planned everything so well that no one can suspect her.

"I was taking you lightly but one day all of a sudden, you got married to Wajahat, you played so smartly and made me look like a clown. I was waiting for Wajahat for eight years and you took him in just one night..." She gritted her teeth and shot a death glare at me.

"And again I swear I had no intentions to harm you but you forced me to do all those things and I want you to feel all the pain of the world. It was me who did the blood prank cuz Farwa once told me you have hemophobia...and I knew you were allergic to almonds so I mixed almonds in banana shake at that party's night but that bitch Farwa was watching me the whole time and she bumped into you intentionally to spill the juice on you," she clenched her fist and hit a nearby table.

" I didn't know why but Farwa was overprotective for you as her life depends on you... She was always there to help you, ordering snack baskets in your periods, completing your pending assignments, she's nice but she was over nice with you, and the day I tried to hit you with the car, she sent Wajahat God knows from where? " I was listening to her like a statue. How could I be so...? How didn't I realize anything? It was Farwa all the fucking time, saving me from everything, and pampering me like a baby when I had the nightmare.

Damn!

"And it was you who attacked me on the strange road..." My voice shuddered.

" Lol yeah," she rolled up her sleeves and showed me a big cut on her right hand, " But I had to win your trust so I started becoming close to you and framed everything like it that your all doubts stopped at Farwa. And I took advantage, the minor accident with Farwa, this black hoodie in her wardrobe... everything was planned and I'm so proud of you that you exposed her wig in front of the students. Now she's no longer popular Farwa..." She chuckled like an evil and tears escaped from my eyes.

Farwa bet her life to save me and what I did to her? I humiliated her in front of all those students. My heart was wincing from the pain. Naina played with my mind and I let her play. It's all my fault.

I can never forgive myself... Never!

I deserve to die...

"But now you've trapped baby girl and I can finally take my revenge...and everyone will think that you left this city in anger, I'm so proud of you honey, you did a good job," she gave me a saccharine smile and stepped forward to clench my hair in her fist.

She started hitting and kicking me, she was fuming with anger and she looked like a psycho.

"I wanna kill you baby girl, but it's not my place to do this, she will be coming to take her revenge," she made a small cut on my lips which started bleeding and I looked at her in shock

She?? Now, who's she???

God why my life is not normal?

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