TRAPPED & SCARED

Her beige colored attire was placed beside her as she was now in her everyday clothes. The night has sprawled in the sky. Her wet hair indicated the shower she had just taken. That shower was an essential to relax her strained muscles after another hectic day of walima ceremony. The walima was held after a one day gap. There were still some guests in the haveli who accompanied them to the haveli from the wedding hall. They included some of her husband's friends along with family's confidants and some relatives. All day a nervousness had again kept her occupied. But after coming from the ceremony, it transformed into an immense fear. Her heart had been beating out of its rhythm since then. During the whole ceremony, she tried to maintain a distance from Shehryaar especially after what happened that night. Not being able to fulfil her duty towards him had created a subtle sense of panic inside her, which was slowly raising within her system. She was trying to ignore that panic, suppress