N A D A' SÂ Â P O V
After having breakfast, along with Aunt Naaz and Uméma's teasing, I decided to meet Alizah and Mom. Aunt Naaz went inside her room and Uméma went into the kitchen wanting to make some crepes, I guess even she was bored in the vacation. I had my vacations going on and this was just the start a whole month is left for the university to start again. I might go bonkers because of hypostress.
Even Mira was going on a date today with Rahim. So sweet. And then there's my husband who still gets uneasy and flabbergasted when I just give him a simple hug, not complaining about him though. I love him, however he is. It gives me a relief that I would be the first of everything in his life.
However and whatsoever he is, he is mine.
Well, that's what I think, it's one-sided, he on the other hand is opposite. But opposites attract right? I don't know whether I am convincing myself or being practical about it.
Anyway, let's go and meet AliBaby and Mom. I texted Mom yesterday telling her that I am gonna visit her and Feroza too about my visit.
"Ummi! I am going to meet Alizah. You wanna come? I'll be going to Mom's too." I informed walking inside the kitchen just to get hit with the aroma of chocolate and crepes.
"Really?! You are going to meet Alizah? And Aunt Ayesha is back?! Let's go and meet them. After coming back, we can devour these goodies." She chirped, covering the crepes with a container.
"Sure. They smell so good." I said and Uméma smiled in return.
"I'll just go and inform Mom." Uméma said removing her apron.
"I already did. You just come along." I dragged her with her elbow.
"So how's life going with Fahad?" She questioned once we sat inside the car.
"Eh, as you know I-I love him-"
"Aww, look at you! Resembling a tomato." Uméma remarked leaning towards me making me blush harder
"Am I?" I whispered to myself.
"Yes you are, anyway continue what you were saying." She leaned back in her seat.
"So as I said, I love him, but that stupid brother of yours has a stone in place of a heart. He doesn't even acknowledge me." I complained pulling into the driveway.
"He doesn't not acknowledge you?! You are saying that he doesn't even acknowledge you?! Bro, you are in deep delusion. He looks at you as if you are his whole world." She blabbered hurriedly moving her hands around dramatically.
"Don't say that just to make me feel good." I said in disdain. "Ummi, do you think that I will be able to make him fall for him? Sometimes I think I am capable and sometimes I don't think so. Or worse, what if he's already in love with someone else? No no no!" I started hyperventilating.
"Nada! Nada! Nada!" She tried to calm me down. "You will not make him fall in love-"
"I knew it." I faltered, as my shoulders slouched down.
"Let me complete. He has already fallen for you. Just his thick head hasn't realised things yet. And talking about you. I have seen love in your eyes for my stupid brother. Every time you confess that you love him, the shade of your eyes darkens. Of course your love is that lava who will melt that hard stone which is placed of a heart." She laughed off.
"My, my, Ummi, where did you learn this from?" I asked as I parked my car infront of Feroza's house.
"It comes directly from the heart." She winked at me. "Just waiting for my prince charming to whom I could say all these things in brief."
"I hope you find him as soon as possible." I smiled at her as I heard her phone ringing.
"Oh, it's Mom. I'll just attend her call, you wait for me, okay?" She said as we both got out my car.
"Sure. Go ahead. Never waste a second in picking up your mother's call, they might think that you've got kidnapped too."
"Haha, so true." She picked up her call and I heard her greeting Aunt Naaz.
I decided why not call my husband and inform him about my whereabouts. He should know where his wife is.
I dialled his number, the ring continued-once, twice and so on till the sixth ring he didn't pick up. Maybe he's ignoring or is in a meeting. I was going to cut the call when I heard his husky voice from the other side making my heart flutter.
"Asalamwalaikum?"
I was so lost in his voice as I didn't realise that I had not replied to him. "Uh-oh Walaikumasalam." I said timidly.
"Hmm. Say why did you call for?" He asked straightforward to the point.
"Your wife has called you not your employee." I whined. "Can't you talk sweetly to me? For once?"
"You want me to cut the call?" I huffed at his words.
"I am going to meet Alizah."
"Really. Send my love to her." I heard his subtle yet so deep voice.
"All the love for her. Nothing for me?" I spoke in a very low voice. Like a whisper.
"Did you just say something?"
"Uh-no ac-"
"And I didn't forget what you did today in the morning." He said making me chuckle. Everything, all of this was also very new to me. I hadn't talked like this with anyone before. God knows from where did this confidence came from.
"What did I do?" I decided to act innocent even though I knew what he was referring to.
"You know what you did." He replied calmly. Let me bring some havoc in your calmness Mr. Fahad.
"No. I seriously don't know. Mind reminding me?" I feigned innocence.
"Nada, don't make me scold you."
"Okay-"
"Nada! Let's go." I heard Uméma calling out for me.
"Okay bye I gotta go. Will be back by six o'clock. Take care. AllahHafiz. Love ya."
"Ya ya bye." And he cut the call making me pout.
"What happened?" Uméma asked.
"Nothing let's go."
"Actually Mom wants me to accompany her to some orphanage she is going to. I will have to hurry from your Mom's house."
"Okay. At what time you guys will be home?"
"By dinner." She replied.
Soon we met Alizah, my cute bundle of joy.
"Oh look how happy she is." Feroza exclaimed when she saw Alizah jumping on my lap.
"Yess, I mean just look at her face." Uméma joined in.
"So when are you going to have kids?" Feroza asked me making my whole being freeze and that's when my cheeks decided to twin with the red roses.
"Uh-" I stammered when Uméma cut me off.
"Insha'Allah Soon." She beamed.
"Good! Very good! You would be a great mother." Feroza smiled at me.
"I know right!" Uméma remarked.
Soon, the time passed and we were on the way to my mother's house after spending an hour with Alizah.
"So when is Insha'Allah soon going to Alhumdulillhah now?"
"Umèma, keep your mouth shut."
"I see, someone is blushing." She teased.
"Wait, till your time comes. I won't forgive you."
"Even I am waiting for my time." She sighed dreamily.
"Too eager now, hmm?" I wiggled my eyebrows at her.
"You know what? I had always wanted to get married early. I don't why, just wanted to get married young." She confessed.
"You are so different from the other girls. Just take the example of mine and Almira's I mean Mira's. We always thought to get married at least when we were twenty four or later. But look where we are. Both married at twenty one." I sighed as we got out of the car as I parked my car infront of my house. "Come on let's go."
"Oh, I never thought Aunt Ayesha would be a sports car person. Wow! She has taste." Uméma exlaimed admiring the car that was parked in the driveway.
"No, that's not my mother's car. I think we have a visitor. Let's go inside and find out who's there."
I knocked at the door and it opened revealing Mom and as soon as she saw her smile widened.
"Asalamwalaikum Mom!" I gushed and hugged her real tight.
"Asalamwalaikum Aunt." Uméma greeted.
"Walaikumasalam my girls. Oh my God, we have this beauty here too. You used come out of the house very rarely. How come today you are here, not that I am complaining." Mom asked Uméma excitedly. I got to know that Uméma became a real introvert since her Dad divorced her Mom. Previously, there was some hope that their Dad might come and embrace them, give them the fatherly love but when he divorced Aunt Naaz all the hope died. That really affected the Sheikh siblings a lot.
"I came here with my new friend cum sister-in-law." Uméma returned the same energy.
"Come inside, actually we have a guest with us."
We went inside to see Shariq sitting on the couch. Shariq, the common friend of mine and Mira's who also got graduated with us whose mother is friends with mine, Fahad's, Rahim's and Mira's mother. So he basically knows Rahim and Fahad too. But the question is that why is he here?
"Aunt Ayesha, if you wanted to invite someone you could have invited someone else or some animals. Why did you invite him?!" Uméma uttered agitatedly.
"What is your problem here, I really don't know." Shariq sighed at her words. Oh so he was the one with that fancy sports car.
"You-" Uméma started when he cut her off by standing.
"AllahHafiz Aunt Ayesha. I'll come next week." He announced walking towards the door.
"You could've wait till dinner, dear." Mom insisted.
"No, Aunt my presence wouldn't be appreciated here. The next I come, I will surely stay for the dinner." He said his eyes darting towards Uméma who had her hands crossed infront of her chest and was glaring at him. Uh the tension is real.
"AllahHafiz Nada." He greeted to me.
"Oh, I didn't even get a chance to greet you properly. Anyway you have to go I guess or else I would've forced you to stay at least for dinner." I concluded.
"Never mind next time." He smiled at me but his eyes were smiling at someone else, and that someone else was busy ranting something to my Mom.
Finally I can tease Uméma, now the real fun will start. I have to let Mira know about this.
"Maybe next time she won't be here." I wiggled my eyebrows at him and that I guess brought him back to reality.
"Eh, who cares whether she is here or not. AllahHafiz now." He exacted and rushed towards the door.
"AllahHafiz." I chuckled at him.
"You could've have complimented him about his car." I winked at Uméma when I went and sat beside her as Mom got a call to attend.
"I liked the car but when I got to know that it was that maniac's. I lost the interest."
Soon the time flew, and Uméma went home saying that she and Aunt Ayesha had to go and she immediately left. I even got a message saying she reached home. I decided to spent some more time with my Mom.
I did tell her that I have fallen for her when she replied, "I knew that was going to happen." But I didn't have the fortitude to tell her how Fahad had denied my love. I diverted the topic by her saying that I need to go to some store to buy some things.
"Mumma, I am going. Take care of yourself, hmm?" I kissed her cheeks. "I'll come to meet you again. And when Aminah gives you medicines have them without any complaints." Aminah was the maid. Mom always starts to argue when with her whenever she used to give her the medicines.
"Take care, dear. I still think you should call Fahad to pick you up or better go tomorrow." She tried to convince me. Fahad would not even want to look at face right now.
"It's okay Mom, the store is near anyway. I'll just hire a cab. Actually my car doesn't have petrol, so I am parking here itself, okay?" My car seriously is possessed or something. Never comes in use.
"It's your house, you don't have to inform. Now go and text when you reach, AllahHafiz."
I sat in the cab, after bidding my mother. Worried mother might I add. Mothers you know, it's just their mandolin right to get worried about their children.
I decided to call Mira, it's been so long since I talked to her.
"Yes, I saw the admiration for her in his eyes, Mira." We have been talking for past fifteen minutes and now I was telling her about Shariq and Uméma.
"Naddy, just because you're in love doesn't mean that everybody around you is in love." Mira laughed making me chuckle too.
"No that's true." I argued with her.
"Okay love expert, but that was kinda unexpected but I ship them though."
"Me too. Now you tell me, how did the date go?" And like that our conversation continued as we talked with each about everything we felt like.
I cut the call when I reached the store. I paid the driver and got out.
After shopping what I wanted, I exited the store as I tried to book a cab when I realised that my data subscription has expired. Ugh! Such a bad timing. Back at home, I booked the cab with my house's WiFi.
What shall I do? It's already eight o'clock now. Aunt Ayesha and Uméma must be out too.
I decided to call Fahad, I know he will be mad but what am I supposed to do in this situation.
I called Fahad but it just rang once and ended saying no network available. UGH! I HATE THE TIMING OF EVERYTHING!
It's been thirty minutes since I am standing in front of the store, searching for network, which closed ten minutes ago. How dumb I am! My legs were begging me to relax but where should I?
I sighed and decided to walk my way home when someone twirled me around forcefully. Adrenaline rushed through my body as my body got hyper stressed.
Asalamwalaikum and hello people!! Boring chapter, I know. Nada is just a problem magnet, isn't she? But stay tuned for the next chapter though. Comment what you thought about this chapter and don't forget to hit that little star button to vote. Until then thank you, AllahHafiz, bye and take care ^_^
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CHAPTER ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON: 17-05-20
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