Chapter 39. Two Months

Bushra paced around her mother’s room as she murmured under her breath. She bites her finger out of frustration and silently begging for the voices in her head to stop. Her thoughts became so scattered that normal functioning was impossible at the moment. She has seen it coming, she knew it was coming — what she never saw coming was the outcome. Mahir’s uncles just came that day, in the morning and fixed the wedding date.

She was OK at first, but things tumbled when the date was announced to her. Two months! It wasn’t enough — it wasn’t enough time for her grasp the idea of being under a man after getting married, left alone get ready for the wedding. Now in just 8 weeks her life was going to take an elongated and vast turn. Everything was going to change from ‘I’m going out’ to ‘can I go out’. Shivers crept through her body at the thought of that. She felt trapped; like she was suffocating in the midst of her escape.

“Bushra? Don’t tell me you’re still shocked about the