Koh-e-Noor

//• s i f a r •//

[Bismillah.]

This chapter is only for context. The book begins on chapter one, aik.

note: NOT a cousin marriage story!!

I love you. muah <3

♡♡♡

—  Z A I R A  —

Zindagi mein aik dafaa billi ka bacha paalna hai. I listed on my bucket list.

"Ho gayi neend poori?" Anza asked, sitting next to me in class.

"Nahin, do minute aur so loon, dehaan rakhna." I pointed to the associate professor, using my chin.

I pushed my earpieces through one of the whole set of long corkscrew curls I have and rested my head on the desk.

Atif Aslam makes my day, night, morning, evening, afternoon.

Dare to claim being a bigger fan of him and I'll slice your throat and serve you to my dear younger sister Alina, who loves meat and most definitely wouldn't mind helping me hide a body in her stomach.

We'll think about the bones later.

I kept lucid dreaming about kittens, feeling their soft fur and cuddling with them until my phone vibrated with a notification and stopped Atif Aslam from playing in my earphones.

Ayan: @ Shareef Bachchey:
Dadi ammi faut ho gayi
hain. Bare taaya abbu
ne sab ko ghar bulaaya
hai. Pakistan.

What?

Zain: @ Shareef Bachchey
ha. ha. ha. No one can say no.

Mahira: @ Shareef Bachchey
Luddiyaan paao.

Nida: @ Shareef Bachchey
Iss baar tum bhi aao gi, Zaira.

What?

WHAAT?

I looked around and grabbed my things before rushing out of the class and almost jumping in the campus. I ran to my car, sat in and squealed as loud as possible.

Zaira: @ Shareef Bachchey
Of course, yaar.
Finally cousins reunion hoga,
eeeeeeeek!

Did I just squeal in the chat? On text? Wow.

I called home and mama picked up.

"Mama, yaar, iss baar tickets jaldi leni hain aur sab ki leni hain." I exclaimed. "Baara saal ho gaye hain, abbh kisi exam yaa kisi bhi aur bahaane nahin rukk rahi main." I cleared it out right at the moment.

"Beadab larki, thora dukh dikhaao, banda zara ro hi leta hai. Dadi faut huyi hain tumhaari." She informed me, deeply vocalising every word of the last sentence.

"Bas karein yaar, navey saal ki tou yaqeenan theen woh. Abbh faut nahin hona tha tou park mein jhoole lene the?" I asked mama. "Waise le bhi sakti theen, agar log kuchh naa kehte toh,"