Re: Online Saga
....continued from posts #1, 8, 17, 46, 68, 88, 128, 159, 175, 193 & 210
Ali came back to his home all depressed and sad. Very next day, Ali received a call from Roopa who told him that Irrum was back from LA. Irrum came back from LA the very next day as Imran did not want her to stay with him anymore once she told him that Ali followed her at the airport. Roopa asked Ali to meet with Irrum and talk their differences out. Roopa was worried that Ali could have taken some drastic measure against Irrum in the reaction of his finding about her LA trip. She was swearing Imran that how he was able to trap Irrum into his talks. Ali agreed to meet Irrum for lunch at some local restaurant. Irrum broke out in front of Ali and mentioned her desire to work things out. Ali became happy to see this willingness in her. She also told him how Imran told her to get out of his house once she told him that Ali was there in LA. So she spent the night at the motel and came back the very next day. Irrum however made it clear that she was not going to move back with him as yet. She wanted to work things out slowly and wanted to see changes in Ali towards developing trust in her. Once satisfied, she was going to move back.
Ali and Irrum started going out for lunches, dinners and shopping together. Ali also bought her a new computer that she needed. Ali was happy to see Irrum and Ayesha frequently. Irrum would still act strangely sometimes and that would make Ali sad. Ali was closely watching her behavior to see if she was really trying to reconcile or was just having fun with him. He sensed that she was not sincere in her efforts to patch things up. She was doing things totally opposite to what he would have liked her to do. Ali on the other hand was doing everything that pleased Irrum. She even told Ali that he was acting too good to be true and she could not be convinced if that was real of him. Ali gave Irrum till December 31st to decide if she could come back. Irrum was taking it easy and didn’t seem really serious towards reconciling. She was however enjoying Ali’s company to go to fine dinners two three times a week.
On December 31st 2001, Ali took Irrum to a fancy New Year eve’s party. They both dressed to impress and had fun. Ali took Irrum to a hotel for the night. Next morning, when he dropped Irrum at her place, he asked about her decision. She said that she needed more time to decide whether she could move back with him. Ali told her that she had three months to see and decide. Irrum said that she needed minimum two more weeks to sort things out. The same night, Ali created a new screen name and went online to chat with Irrum. He knew that Irrum had started going online again. He introduced himself as an American white guy. Irrum was immediately ready to meet him. She told him how she was lonely and desperate for a company. She also told him that she was separated and was going through a divorce. She exposed many other things about her current life. Ali was very disappointed and disheartened by her. In fact he had gotten quite mad on her. Yet he did not show any reaction to Irrum immediately.
Being depressed, Ali logged into Yahoo Messenger and went into chat room Islam. He participated in general topics and then he received a private message from some female. She did typical introduction and asked for the same in response. Ali introduced himself briefly about his age, location, job, ethnicity etc. The very next question the girl asked was, if he had a girl friend. He said no, he wasn’t into girls anymore after having his fair share of them. She wanted to get more details but he refused to talk on the subject. A couple of days later, she started chatting with Ali again when he went online. This time the chat was a bit longer but as clean as it could get. The girl named Rohi was twenty years old, college student staying with her parents in San Diego and was originally from Pakistan. Next day Ali went online again and received another message from Rohi. Ali told her that he wasn’t going to come online any longer as this was simply waste of time for him. She expressed real sadness and asked Ali to kindly reply her emails once in a while if she wrote him. Ali agreed and said goodbye to her.
On the weekend, Irrum asked Ali to go out. He said that he wasn’t in mood to go out. Ali was very upset at Irrum when he found out how she was willing to meet that totally strange white guy. He was actually heartbroken and did not feel like going out with her anymore. She got mad at him when he refused to take her out for dinner. Ali then agreed to go, as he wanted to confront her on a couple of things. He took her out to Sky Café, the revolving restaurant at the top of famous Space Needle. They were lucky to get in for dinner without reservation. While having dinner, Ali asked Irrum whom she was with during those two days when she was missing. She admitted that she was with Imran who had come to visit her and she stayed with him. She then refused to talk about that matter any further. When they were coming back, Ali asked her about the white guy she was going to go meet. She jumped off her seat and wanted to know how did he find that out? Ali did not tell her that only he was pretending to be the white guy but wanted to know how could she be trying to reconcile while still willing to meet other guys. Irrum got so angry that she asked to be dropped right there. Ali told her to just hang in there until she reached home. Ali dropped her and she slammed his car door loud enough for all the neighbors to hear.
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