"Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel"
(Abu Dawud)
Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
✨Bismillah✨
If you haven't offered your salah and it's salah time then please pray and then return, do not delay your prayers.
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ADAM
"I was thinking if I could take Maira to college tomorrow... I am anyway going to the same place" I say clearing my throat nervously.
"Of course you can, son and you don't have to ask" Her baba says calmly.
"But it's fine for me to drop her. The college is just on my way. You don't have to worry yourself over that" Usman says skeptically.
I think of ways to convince him when baba speaks again "Oh come on Usman, cut this boy some slack for being Maira's husband"
Usman shrugs in response though his eyes are trained on me. Wallahi, Usman is more intimidating than his own father.
I look around the living room for my wife when I hear soft voices from across the kitchen. Apparently I had been dropping off Maira to her home for quite a few days now and today her baba spotted me out and invited me over for dinner. I was thinking I could pick Maira from her home early tomorrow and we'll get to spend sometime before our classes start but I didn't expect her brother as well to be present today.
"Adam why don't you go freshen up yourself and take some rest until dinner time" Mama says while she and Maira enter the living room.
A soft smile comes up to my life on seeing Maira again "Yeah Mama sure, I'll just go up then..." I trail off standing up and looking at Maira, silently asking her to accompany me.
"Maira go and help him out" Mama speaks looking towards Maira.
"Shukran mama" I show a grateful smile to her to which she nods her head reassuringly and smiles.
"I wonder whose characteristics your brother has" I say quiet enough for Maira to hear once we reach the stairs.
Maira looks at me with puzzled face "Your mother and your father both have a lovely aura around them but your brother scares the shit out of me" I say chuckling lightly.
"I wonder what has caused you to say this" she says mocking my previous words.
"He wouldn't let me take my own wife to the college" I whine playfully.
She chuckles "Of course he didn't"
"Okay I might slightly be acting as a hypocrite now because I am as skeptical as him with Yusuf" I reply scratching the back of my neck.
"I would never understand the protectiveness of you brothers" she shakes her head opening the door to her room.
"You act all mean with us yet you are not okay if our own husbands ask to take us out for once" she laughs.
"It's just a brother's thing I guess" I shrug.
"I'll get some clothes from Usman till you get showered" she says turning back to the door again.
"It will fit you, wouldn't it?" she continues.
"It will, but you don't have to hurry yourself out" I say grabbing her hand and stopping her from going out of the room.
She arches one of her brows at my sudden actions "The big reason as to why I stayed for dinner was because I would get more time to spend with you" I say pulling her closer to me.
"And?" she trails off looking up into my eyes.
Man I love her eyes and her short cute height and her sweet scent...oh I just love her.
Dammit. I shake my head at my thoughts smiling to myself.
"What are you thinking about?" she asks with those cute narrow eyes.
"You" I whisper back.
She rolls her eyes "I am standing right in front of you and in your arms" she points out with her eyes.
"Am I not allowed to think about you even if you are in front of me or even in my arms for that matter?" I question, mocking her in the last. A tint of red coats on her already pink cheeks as she pushes me away "You need go shower" she says and leaves giggling softly to herself.
This woman.
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"You are undeniably plain" Maira drawls as she taps her fingers urgently on the ice cream counter.
"Oh common, vanilla is not that bad" I defend myself.
"It is obviously not, but you need to add some things on the top of it" she says in a hushed voice.
"There is no harm in trying something new then" I say with a slight smirk.
"Oh am I seeing the big Adam agreeing to get some cute toppings on his ice cream?" she teases.
"I am just agreeing to my wife" I wink and kiss her on the cheeks over her grey niqab.
"Oh please" she says trying to brush it off but I am sure on my life that she is blushing underneath it.
Just then the man comes with our ice-creams and Maira excitedly asks him to add some toppings on mine and her ice-cream. And she makes him add a lots of them.
Once we get into the car she waits patiently for my reaction to the plain vanilla ice cream which is now with toppings.
"Hmm. It does actually tastes nice" I nod taking another spoon of my ice-cream.
"I am sure you are just under rating it now. I can say by just looking at it that it tastes more than amazing." She says excitedly eyeing the cup I my hand.
I smile at her and push my cup towards her "Wanna try?"
"Only if you try mine" she demands tilting her head slightly. I nod and take her grape flavored ice-cream.
We are actually on our way back to home from college when Maira intended on stopping by an ice-cream parlor. It's all good with me if I get to spend more time with my wife.
We've been travelling to and fro college and home from many days and I am looking forward to taking her to my place someday inshaAllah. I have my final exams starting in a week or two and so does Maira and our parents are probably planning for our walima which will be in our semester break. I also have big plans for after our walima and I really hope she likes it.
"So you should come over our place sometime..." I trail off expectantly.
"Aisha would really love to see you" I continue.
"Aisha sees me everyday at college Adam" My heart does a flip listening to my name from her mouth and I embarrassingly bite my lip at the stupid reason I gave her to come home.
"Uhh... mama would love to see you too and Aisha would like to see you at home" I reply stressing at the last part of my sentence.
"Hmm. InshaAllah I will. Maybe tomorrow or Sunday."
"It's weekend anyway so InshaAllah" she continues.
"So I will come to pick you up ok? Call me when you've decided" I say immediately.
She laughs at my hurriedness "I will. I will." she says shaking her head.
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"How did you just plan out of nowhere?" I ask her through the phone.
"It has been so long since I've seen them, so I just thought it would be nice to give them a surprise" she explains.
"Come on it's not so long. You have seen them like a month back at our nikah. And not to forget the fact that you guys have the video chats so often" I state as a matter of fact.
"And why can't they come here and meet you, it would be the same thing anyway" I add muttering the last part.
"Surprise Adam. It is a surprise. So how can they coming here would be a surprise for them?"
"But you are going to miss your college and exams are also nearing, so how can you miss classes at this point?" I ask hoping to convince her.
"Why do you seem to be more worried about my classes than me?" she asks knowingly with a smirk lacing her voice.
"You know why," I say dejectedly.
"No I don't," she states in a teasing tone.
"Maira" I drawl out with a long sigh.
"Adam" she mocks me, giggling softly.
Damn that voice... I am totally into this woman and she is asking me why I don't want her to go.
"Okay I got to go have dinner, so I'll call you later?" she asks.
"Unless you would be busy or something." she adds immediately trailing off.
"Sweetheart I don't want you to go out of the state for a few days and you think I would not want to hear your voice, even if it is for second" I exclaim.
"Okay, got it, you will be free to talk to me after a while," she says in a quite flustered voice.
"Ma'salaam" she adds.
"Ma'salaam" I reply back before she hangs up.
I fall back on my pillow with an apparent smile on my face. It is just the thought of her which fixes even my worst of worst moods. My smile drops thinking of how I would be able stay without seeing her face for five whole days. Five days. And she is just telling me now that she has planned her visit to her friends place. I wonder how so many thoughts go on in that head of hers, I mean she was just here last night having dinner with mama, baba and Aisha and today she's planning on going to surprise her friends.
Thinking back to the dinner, the smile comes back on my face at how nicely she got along with everyone yesterday, her sweet voice when she laughed with mama and Aisha and the long talks we both had in our room by the end of the day. Yesterday was just beautiful and I wish to have more of days like it in the future inshAllah.
And I am surely going to drop her off to the station tomorrow. Could surely not miss seeing her once more before she leaves now, could I?
InshaAllah.
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