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But that was before Ayesha actually left. Before the visa came through. Before she stood at the departure gate at Karachi airport, tears sliding down her cheeks, and asked him one last time: “Are you coming?”

He didn’t book a flight that night. But for the first time in six months, he let himself imagine what it would be like to say yes. To download a ticket instead of a movie.

Zayn looked back at the frozen frame on his laptop — the hero standing alone on a rooftop, watching a plane trace a white line across the sky.