Hey everyone✨
How are you? I hope you are fine💗
So here's the third chapter
please show some support
Happy reading✨
______________________________
My baby, here on earth
Showed me what my heart was worth
So, when it comes to be my turn
Could you shine it down here for her?
_______________________________
*IN THE RAEES RESIDENCE*
A man in his early fifties was sitting on the sofa while watching TV, when he got a call, who was none other than his beloved wife.
(Italics - wife)
(Bold- husband)
"Hello? Raees where are you?"
"In your heart, my love"
"Offooo are you at home?"
"Ahh yeah I was watching TV"
"Good then come and open the front door, we are here"
"Hain? Weren't you going to stay at your sister's house today?"
"Why don't you like that I am back"
"No it's not what I meant, woman. Wait I'm coming"
"Yes please I'm freezing"
Raees hung up the call and went towards the main door confused as to why his wife came back so soon. Meanwhile,
We have been here for 15 minutes ringing the doorbell again and again. At last aunt called uncle to open the door. Aunt was talking with my uncle on the phone which was on speaker.
"Hello Raees where are you?"
"In your heart, my love" listening to this aunt immediately removed the call from the speaker, she was looking so flushed. Their relationship was always like this. They had an arranged marriage, and were engaged for almost six years, which was enough for them to fall for each other, hard. And uncle is a really expressive person quite opposite of aunt.
Aunt told us that uncle is coming to open the door meanwhile both the unicorns- I mean Zehra and Uzma were standing behind us. Zehra was scrolling through her phone and Uzma was back hugging her probably due to the cold as Uzma can't endure the cold for too long, they were looking so cute.
"Woman how many times- Aaria? Zehra?" Uncle was quite surprised to see us there with aunt maybe because he didn't expect us all to crash at his house 'poor man thought he was gonna be alone today at his home'
"Assalamualaikum bade baba" we greeted him while he guided us inside and handed us water.
(Greetings, uncle)
"We rang the bell for so long, where were you?" Aunt asked uncle while he nervously smiled at her
"Fifteen minutes and 37 seconds to be exact" Uzma said or more like whined to her father who then walked towards her, she was looking expectantly probably for a head pat or something but uncle flicked her forehead
"Toh kya hogya? Aapke paidaish ke waqt hum toh 8 ghanta hospital room ke bahar wait kiye the humein kabhi complain karte hue suna hai aapne? Hmm?" Uncle said while rubbing her head and laughed.
(So what happened? During your birth I stood outside the room for 8 hours? Have you ever heard me complain about it? Hmm)
"Aapse toh nahi suna hai but aapki begum mohtarma ne iss chiz ka ehsaas kayi dafa dilaya hai" Uzma laughed and stood up saying she needs to change her dress as it's itching her in her language it's biting her
(Not by you but your beloved wife has always reminded me of it)
"Bade papa Aliya aur shahzain Bhai kidhar hai?" I asked him about my cousins and Uzma's siblings. Aliya is 9 months younger than me and Shahzain Bhai is 2 years older than me.
I get along pretty well with both of them you can say a little less with Shahzain Bhai because he doesn't get involved much with people. He is the real definition of a reserved person. Still we are no less than his own sisters for him And Aliya you can say behaves really lovely with us but she is really short tempered and most of the time she loses her temper over our poor Uzma.
(Uncle where is Shahzain brother and Aliya)
"Aliya apne room me hai aur Shahzain abhi aaya tha shayad sota hoga thaka thaka sa lag raha tha"
(Aliya is in her room and Shahzain has came just now perhaps he is sleeping, he was looking tired)
Aunt told us to go and get changed as we are going to sleep in Aliya's room because as it turned out she asked before Uzma and even if Uzma wanted us to sleep with her she couldn't say anything because it would've led to a fight with her sister and looking at Uzma, she seemed really tired of today's event
*Time skip*
We were all here talking and having fun Aliya was talking about something with Zehra and Uzma was scrolling her phone and here I was in the balcony looking at the city as we are on the 13th floor, the scenery is really peaceful.
What will happen now? What if ehtesham's mother doesn't agree with the job thing? I mean he just met me today he isn't gonna fight with his mother for me doesn't matter if I'm his future wife or not. I'm really scared and I don't know why. One thing I can't understand is his mother always taunted me for my looks then why send the proposal for his son? And above that the hotter one? What the hell am I even saying
Whatever is it some thing I know about this whole proposal matter is that just like my mother and father controlled me for my 23 years of life my to be husband and his family is gonna control me just like that for them I'm nothing other than a slave Ehtesham one day would get tired of me and who knows what if he divorces me? A tear slipped through my eyes thinking about all this mess.
"Meri pyaari gudiya kya kar Rahi hai idhar akele?" Came Uzma's voice from behind me. I wiped my eyes quickly and turned to the other side.
(My lovely doll what are you doing here alone?)
"K-kuch nahi toh, t-tumhe kyu lagra kuch kar Rahi hu main?"
I mentally scolded myself for stuttering in front of her. Uzma turned me towards her, looked carefully at my face while caressing my cheeks and then asked
(N-nothing, why do y-you think I'm doing something?)
"Humein pata hai kuch baat pareshaan kar Rahi hai aapko, agar aap abhi humein nahi batana chahti toh it's okay I know aap humein bata dijiyega when time will come" she said while smiling at me trying to calm me down with her smile, I nodded at her while trying to control my tears.
(I know something is disturbing you, if you don't want to tell me now then it's okay I know you're gonna tell me when time will come)
Uzma guided me to her room through the balcony which was attached.
"Aap jaanti hai na hum hamesha aapke saath hai chahe kuch bhi ho?" She said while caressing my head like a mother to her child and honestly that's what it took for me to breakdown.
(You know that I'm always with you no matter what?)
Author's pov
"Uzma h-humein bohot d-darr lag raha hai agar Eh-tesham bhi waise hi controlling nikla toh hu-mein apna u-ummeed firse nahi todwana hai humein a-apna khwaab pura k-karna hai" Aaria broke down in Uzma's embrace while Uzma did what she always do. She held her in her peaceful arms and caressed her hair very lovingly and asked what she always asks
(Uzma I'm f-feeling really s-scared what if Eh-tesham turns out to be as controlling. I-I don't want my hopes to get s-shattered again, I-I want to a-achieve my dream)
"Gudiya aapko iska hal chaiye ya fir aapko rone ke liye kandha chahiye?"
(Doll do you want a solution for this or a shoulder to cry on?)
A question which helped Aaria a lot. We don't always want solutions to our questions sometimes we want someone to just sit there and let us cry on their shoulders, just help us through their presence and Uzma knew this, she always asked this question, sometimes the answer was that she wanted a solution while other times the answer was that she wants her presence and there were times when the answer was neither and then what she used to do was take her in her arms and sing their favourite song which always helped her to sleep.
"Humein nahi pata humein kya chahiye hum bohot confused hai" Aaria sobbed in her arms maybe today was the time when the response was neither.
(I don't know what I want I'm really confused)
Aaria sobbed loudly with hiccups and Uzma held her in her arms while controlling her own tears and asked in her own cracking voice
"Gudiya ga-ana sunna hai aapko? H-um dono wala?" Aaria immediately nodded her head, Uzma guided them to her bed and laid her down, taking off her slippers then opened her hair from the ponytail, and then went to lay down beside her and took her in her arms she could still hear Aaria's hiccups but they were a little less now, she caressed her hair and started singing their favourite song
(Doll do you want to listen a s-song? O-our song?)
Moon, a hole of light
Through the big top tent up high
Here before and after me
Shinin' down on me
Moon, tell me if I could
Send up my heart to you?
So, when I die, which I must do
Could it shine down here with you?
'Cause my love is mine, all mine
I love mine, mine, mine
Nothing in the world belongs to me
But my love mine, all mine, all mine
My baby, here on earth
Showed me what my heart was worth
So, when it comes to be my turn
Could you shine it down here for her?
'Cause my love is mine, all mine
I love mine, mine, mine
Nothing in the world belongs to me
But my love mine, all mine
Nothing in the world is mine for free
But my love mine, all mine, all mine
As Uzma was towards the end of the song she saw Aaria was sleeping peacefully now but she had tear stains on her face which hurted Uzma really very much because for her Aaria was more than a cousin. She considered zehra and Aaria both as her own sister.
She wiped her own tears and went to bring wet wipes from her dressing table, she cleaned her face with it, careful not to wake her up, covered her with a blanket and slept beside her.
Next Morning
I woke up because of my aunt's shouting, with a really bad headache, and the first thing I saw was Uzma sprawled all over me, we were in Aliya's room how come I'm in Uzma's room right now, I held my head as I shook Uzma to wake her up if I can't sleep then I won't let her sleep peacefully too
"Uzma utho yaar humein suffocation hora hai ab" Uzma stayed still like a stone no matter how much I poked her she wasn't affected at all 'is she a human or not?' I tried to poke her again and still nothing 'is she dead? Itni jaldi?' this time I poked her a little hard. She jolted awake shouting
(Uzma wake up I'm feeling suffocated now)
"Koun hai?" And the bitch looked at herself first making sure she had her clothes on or not. What does she think am I molester or something
(Who's there)
"Hushhh!! Oh my god I thought someone took advantage of me" she yelled looking at me in an accusing way
"Why would I take advantage of you? And why the hell is it your first thought in the morning??" Seriously who thinks like this the first thing in the morning, there are many other things she can think of.
"I don't know why just because I don't know" huh? Is it even making sense? I looked at her weirdly and she just shrugged. Wow!!
"Anyways How you feeling babe?" Huh? Me? Then I remembered last night the breakdown, her taking me here, crying with me then singing song for me and how I slept. Oh my god Aliya would be so mad she wanted me to stay with her.
"Don't worry about the jailer sister of mine I told her you're not feeling well that's why you want to sleep alone here" she told me while folding the blanket, I nodded at her and then started staring at her this girl is nothing less than an angel in my life, she looked at me while narrowing her eyes
"Just for the record I asked you something riri" she smiled at me sarcastically while trying to take my phone, I swat her hand away and went towards washroom to freshen up meanwhile she shouted,
"Aaria aapi don't you dare use that white facewash it's only available for Zehra because she is my favourite!!!!!!!!" She and her obsession with Zehra
*At the breakfast table*
Me and Shahzain Bhai were sitting at the table waiting for others while aunt was making breakfast for us I told her to let me help she strictly said no to me and made me sit on the chair.
I looked at Shahzain Bhai and he was on his phone it kind of felt like he was on video call with someone. Anyways it's his life who am I to make wild guesses. Just then he looked at me and then kept his phone down.
"Kaisa tha ladka?" This is the first thing he said to me since last night other than greetings.
(How was the guy)
"Okay hi tha"
(He was okay)
"Mummy told me Uzma fought with khala ammi? Is it right?" He said while eating a cucumber from his salad. Aunt was really fast tho I didn't think that she would tell him so soon about it.
"Oh yeah she had some arguments with mom regarding the boy"
"Already creating fuss between the families? Do I need to send some men to his house?" He asked while chuckling but I'm sure if I give him one signal he won't wait for another second. He is kind of really protective for his sisters. Once Zehra came from school and told him that a boy tried to forcefully kiss her, he dragged him out of his house, he had beaten him really bad then made him say sorry to Zehra. Since that day no boy of her school ever tried to approach her with that kind of intention.
"No no bhai" I panicked while he laughed at me and said
"I was just teasing and mummy told me about the whole situation and before you start overthinking, no she wasn't gossiping with me she told me about the incident because she wanted me to talk to Uzma. Mummy thinks that she is getting out of hand" whileaunt is really good but she gets really hard on Uzma sometimes
"GooOoOoOoOd MoOoooRniIng peaasaaAaAaAntssSss" someone greeted us like students greets their teacher, from the stairs and we all know whose voice is it
"My mood is really great right now please don't ruin it" she said while joining her hands in front of her brother which was quite funny because she looked really excited about something.
"What happened?" Shahzain Bhai asked
"You know na sabia?" Oh her childhood friend she was telling me that day how she was missing her.
"Yeah"
"She just-" she was saying as Aliya came cutting her off
"Koi interested nahi hai tumhare story me muh band karke baith sakti ho" Aliya said a bit rudely Uzma was going to argue back but then she looked towards the kitchen and quietly got up to sit beside Zehra, who just came and sat near the end of the table.
(No one is interested in your story, you can shut your mouth)
"Tumse baat kar rahi thi woh?" Shahzain Bhai asked
(Was she talking to you)
"Still bhai-"
"Tumko jab woh poke nahi kar Rahi hai then tum kyu poke kar Rahi ho?" He scolded her and honestly I think she deserved it because Uzma was really excited to tell us something.
(When she isn't poking you why are you poking her?)
Uncle came and sat beside Aliya and then looked towards Zehra and asked
"Why are you sitting there Zehra, come here and sit" he said that looking at Zehra only. Oh no!
Zehra went and sat beside aunt who was continuously looking at Uzma, who was looking at her plate when Zehra called her to sit beside her she went and sat beside Zehra and then her brother stood up and called her outside with him they both went outside meanwhile I got a message from an unknown number.
Unknown no.
Ehtesham here!
Aaria.
Oh hey!
Unknown no.
Your father sent me your no. Just in case ever needed
Aaria.
Oh I see...
Unknown no.
Yeah that's why I messaged you I was just saving your number
Aaria.
Oh yeah I'll save yours too wait.
Mr. Khan.
Yeah have a nice day!
Oh my god my father gave him my no. And didn't even think of telling me. He should've called me and would've just said that Ehtesham's gonna message me.
I was having my sandwich when Uzma returned with Shahzain Bhai and sat beside me and then asked uncle to pass the bread but uncle ignored her 'oh my god uncle is not talking to Uzma I didn't know it was something so big' she asked 2-3 more times still he ignored her and Uzma was on the verge of tearing up.
Uzma stood up and was just going upstairs when Aliya stopped her
"Where are you going? Aren't you gonna eat your breakfast?" Aliya knew what she was doing still she didn't stop.
"Humko bhook nahi hai hum apne kamre me jaar rahe hai" she said sniffing and went upstairs.
(
I'm not hungry I'm going to my room)
"Aliya har waqt provoke karna is not good abhi agar woh jawab de degi toh tum jhagadne lagogi usse badi behen ho thoda samjhdaari dikhao" Shahzain Bhai said while glaring at Aliya who just rolled her eyes.
(Aliya everytime provoking is not good if she would've replied to you right now then you would've started fighting with her you're her big sister behave accordingly)
Zehra glanced at them then took one sandwich and started standing up while signalled me to follow her. I looked towards aunt and told her that we are going upstairs.
*In Uzma's Room*
We went inside and saw that she was sitting on her bed as soon as she saw us she wiped her tears and started drinking water. Zehra went and sat beside her and said
"Badi ammi ne kal wala behes ke baare me bata Diya kya uncle ko?" Uzma shook her head as no
(Aunt told uncle about yesterday's argument?)
"Aliya ne shayad kisi chiz ka shikayat laga Diya hoga humein lagta hai" zehra passed her the plate and told her to eat she showed her tantrums but still ate the sandwich.
(Aliya would've complained to him about something I think so)
"Are you ok?" I asked her, Uzma looked at Zehra and then towards me and then said
"I'm moderately functional" what the fuck?!
"I'll take that as a no" Zehra said while looking at her weirdly
"Come on guys I'm ok let's go shopping today what say?" She asked I mean this girl literally was crying like 10 mins ago and now she wants to go shopping. Wow!
"I'm down" Zehra said while looking for her phone
"Good, aaria aapi go and take permission from mom and don't you dare add my sister to this plan she won't let me spend money freely" she said while pointing her fingers at me, then walked towards her closet and throwed 2 really decent outfits at us and told us to change. Wow!
*In the mall*
Uzma and Zehra were looking through the jeans section and I'm following them as they think my fashion sense is not as them so they just want me to accompany them. While we were shopping Uzma shook Zehra by her shoulder and said
"Jaago mere behen jaago kya mare logo ki tarah chal rahi ho aao mere saath idhar humein bhaijaan ke liye bhi ek sweatshirt Lena hai" Uzma wanted to buy clothes for her brother because she wants to gift him something 'woh bhi unke hi paise se'
(Wake up my sister wake up why are you walking like a dead man come here with me I need to buy a sweatshirt for brother)
We were in the men's section when I heard that familiar voice again which I least expected here
"Aaria? Zehra? Aaplog idhar?"
(Aaria? Zehra? You both here?)
*************
What do you guys think of the chapter
My baby Aaria😭
Uzma is really a great sister isn't she?✨
And any thoughts about Aliya?👀
Please vote and comment your thoughts
Excuse any grammatical mistakes or any typos
Follow me on insta for more spoilers- Shayla._writes
Thank you so much✨