Chapter 29: Chapter 29

THIRD PERSON'S POV:

"Maaz, which one is better?" Showing two different earrings to Maaz, Rabiya asked, but he was lost in the thoughts of Rimsha.

"Maaz.... I'm asking something" Rabiya again asked while waving her hand in front of his eyes to gain his attention and he gain his senses back

"Huh...."

"Where are you lost??" Rabiya asked and he shook her head.

'What did she said??' he tried to remind but couldn't

"Maaz are you alright?" Rabiya asked and he just nodded

"Tell me which one is better?" she again asked the same question happily

"Buy both of them" Maaz found the best way to avoid the answer

'Rabiya, keep in your mind, this man is bizarre, but why is he in a silent mood since morning??' Rabiya said to herself and smacked her forehead in her own thoughts

'I Don't know if she's okay or not? What should I do? ' Maaz asked to himself, after a cold sigh. He was marching with Rabiya in the local market but his mind and heart both were running for Rimsha...

Rabiya entered a shop and Maaz followed her...

"Maaz I like this dress!." Rabiya said happily and Maaz nodded.

"I'm just coming back in a while , Until you select more dresses for yourself." Saying this to Rabiya, he left the shop.

Drawing his mobile out he dialled Arhaan's number, the ring was going but no one received it, Maaz dialled the number again,but again the same response

This time Maaz drew out Saad's number and dialled.

"Hello" Saad received Maaz's call

"How are you bro?" Saad asked him but he didn't gave the answer of asked question

"Do you know how Rimsha is?" Maaz asked in a single breath

"What happened Maaz? Is everything alright?" Saad asked with concern

"Today is her birthday." Maaz was informing Saad but he was interrupted "I know, I can't forget it" Saad said in a single breath

"Last night Rimsha wanted to talk to me, but Rabiya was there so I didn't talk to her, And when I called her in the morning she didn't receive my call. I'm worried for her, if she..." Maaz said anxiously while holding his temple

"Maaz don't worry, Rimsha is absolutely fine." Saad said and Maaz take a relief breath

"How do you know that?" Maaz asked to confirm

"Because Right now I'm with her." Saad said and Maaz forget his anxiousness but he felt anger ran in his nerves

'What is he doing with her right now and why is she not receiving my call?' Maaz thought and his hand clenched into tight fist.

" I want to talk to her" Maaz said with rage and Saad Paas the phone to Rimsha

"Hello" Rimsha's voice hitted Maaz's ear drums

"Where are you?" he asked in a single breath angrily

"Mum sent me with all of them." Rimsha replied rudely

"Who are all of them?" Maaz asked with confusion

"Kinza, Saad, Arhaan bhai, Nataliya and all others" Rimsha reported without paying any importance to him but Maaz took a relief breath as She is with all of the friends not only with Saad

"Why were you not receiving my call?" He asked politely as his anger went to its end

"Because I'm a wrong number, nothing else..." She replied rudely

"Rimsha try to understand Yaar.. Rabiya was awakened by the ringing mobile, how could I talk to you in front of her?" Maaz putted his side in front of her

"Maaz, you could call me, when she sleeps, but you never call me. I always call you." she argue with Maaz

"How can I make you understand?" Maaz said helplessly while knocking his forehead "Don't waste your precious time on me, enjoy your honeymoon with your wife" Rimsha fired a satire on Maaz

"Rimsha, please listen." Maaz said with great efforts after Controlling his rage

"I'm also helpless, three of us are in problem" Maaz said helplessly

"How so?" How is she in trouble? Her great husband is concerned about her, he cares for her" Rimsha again fired a satire towards Maaz.

Maaz angrily put the call to end.

"Rimsha, sometimes it's impossible to handle you'' Maaz said with irritation and shook his head

On the other hand Rabiya, who was dying for shopping and roaming felt bad because of Maaz's cold behaviour. When Maaz didn't come back for a few minutes she went out of the Shop to search for him and She saw Maaz standing far away, talking with someone on the phone. He was looking very anxious while talking.

''Whom he is talking with?" Rabiya asked to herself, but She didn't wanted to show Maaz that she noticed him, so returned to the shop again

'If Maaz has to talk to someone then why is he hiding it from me? Was I thinking right? Is he talking to that girl?’ Rabiya thought and felt anger running in her veins.

"Have you selected dresses for yourself?" Maaz asked when he returned to the shop "Where were you?" she asked hiding her rage

"Have you selected dresses or not?" He again asked to avoid the question of Rabiya

'Why are you asking? you don't have any concern about me.' Rabiya said in her own thoughts, she felt jealous when she imagined Maaz with someone else.

"I don't like any dress, let's go." Rabiya said in ignoring tone and took a step towards exit

'She must be feeling bad due to my cold behaviour since morning. I was at a concert about Rimsha and I'm making Rabiya suffer with that.' Maaz realised it

"Rabiya..." Maaz held her wrist she turned to him but didn't said a single word

"You selected a dress for yourself, why are you not buying that?" Maaz asked Rabiya looked at him but didn't said anything

"Buy everything which you want" Maaz said to her with a little smile and she nodded, hiding her anger. Rabiya silently bought the dress which she liked.

"Hungry?" Maaz asked and Rabiya shook her head.

'Now What happened to her? Why is she silent? I bought that dress for her. She has been shopping since morning, now what's wrong?' Maaz asked himself but didn't get any answer. They both entered a restaurant to have their lunch.

Dragging a chair for Rabiya, Maaz gave her way to sit on the same and she accepted silently. Both ordered their lunch meanwhile Rabiya's gaze went to another table where a couple was sitting happily, they were feeding each other.

Rabiya remembered about the incident when she saw Maaz with Rimsha. She was looking at Maaz who was sitting silently and his gaze was fixed on floor

'Maaz I know you wanted to marry that girl, but please try to forget her, I agreed for this marriage just because of baba's reputation but it doesn't mean that I don't have any wish for my life.' Rabiya said to him in her thoughts and averted her eyes.

"Rabiya, why are you not eating?" Maaz asked when he saw Rabiya just playing with food, she was not eating anything

"I'm not hungry" She replied with muted tone

'What happened to her?' Maaz asked himself but he continued his meal.

"Maaz I'm missing papa, I want to talk to him...." Rabiya said slowly and Maaz looked at him suddenly

"Okay, call him after lunch" Maaz told her

"No, I want to talk to him right now. Give me your mobile." Maaz looked at her with shocked expressions on face.

"My mobile! Where is yours?" He asked

"I forgot that in the hotel, please give me your mobile," Rabiya lied. Maaz passed his phone to her. "Where are you going??" Maaz asked when he saw Rabiya going to another corner of the place.

"I'm coming back in few minutes you enjoy your meal.." Rabiya said to him and went to the other corner, which was out of Maaz's sight.

"Oh no..." Maaz held his head with both of his hands and made himself stand to go after Rabiya but he was stopped by a realisation.

'Maaz don't show any worried or nervous expression to her, otherwise she will start doubting on you.' he stopped himself as his mind said to him.

On the other side Rabiya was not missing her father but something else was cooking in her mind.

"Maaz if I got any trace of your contact with her I will kill you, you are my husband, only my" grinding her teeth in anger she said to herself in muted tone and open call logs

She was rummaging for her name but didn't find it....a smile creeped to her face.

'Rabiya don't be so happy, maybe he saved her number with some other name.' Rabiya's mind said and she nodded.

She opened the messages but didn't find anything suspicious. After running her mind to its farthest end she remembered

'Maaz was talking to someone very anxiously. I think that was 1:20pm or 1:30 pm.' Rabiya again looked at call logs and found the last call to Saad at the same time.

'Is he saved her number with the name Saad?' thinking about this she dialled his number

"Hello.."

"Hello"

"Hello Maaz" Saad's manly voice came from other end and Rabiya hanged up the call immediately

Then she dialled second last dialled number from the call log which Arhaan's

"Yaar Maaz, I'm driving right now, call you later bro.." Arhaan received the call and said in a single breath, without waiting for the response from the other end he hung up the call.

"Maaz." Rabiya mumbled his name with a beautiful smile on her face.

'My Maaz is not a cheater, he promised me, and he is fulfilling his promise' Rabiya's heat said proudly and she felt peace in herself

She called her father's number just to show that she called him. After a very short conversation with her father she returned to her table with a smile on her face.

"How is Faiz uncle?" Maaz asked hiding his fear very effectively

"He is absolutely fine, he was asking about you" Rabiya said happily and Maaz smiled, not on any other thing but on her safety...

'Thank god I had deleted Rimsha's name from the call log, and she didn't get any clue about us but I couldn't underestimate Rabiya.. She can do anything.' Maaz took a relief breath

"Rabiya your food is cold, order something else for yourself" Maaz said with a smile

"I'm not hungry" She said slowly, but Maaz ordered fresh food for both of them, as his food was also cold.

Rabiya was sitting silently but her gaze was travelling towards that couple every now and then

After a while Maaz noticed Rabiya's gaze, he too noticed the couple and understanding what Rabiya was thinking

'Ohh my god.. That's why she is not feeling hungry!!' Maaz smacked her forehead in his own thoughts

"Rabiya... Why are you so silent?" Maaz asked her but she shook her head with little smile

'I'm sorry Maaz I was doubting you.' Looking at him she said in heart and lowered her gaze

'This girl is...' after a cold sigh he said to himself.

"Rabiya..."

She looked at him, who was holding the fork full of noodles near her mouth...

"Try this, it's delicious" Saying that he travelled the fork to her mouth. Her lips turned into a grin and cheeks became red with shyness.

"It's good" Rabiya said to him, but that compliment was not for that food but for her husband. She was smiling continuously with a lowered gaze.

'Abdullah bhai was right, she must have wishes for her life' Maaz said to his heart when he whispered to her, smiling beautifully when he fed her. He fed her another time, which she accepted happily.

"Now Eat yourself, you are not a little girl" He said in an orderly tone and Rabiya nodded with a smile. After completing the lunch they again started roaming around and shopping

"Rabiya I'm tired now, I can't walk more than this..." Maaz said and Rabiya giggled

"Maaz don't act like Fragile girls" Rabiya said with little Guffaw while making fun of him. "I'm also walking, but I'm not tired" Rabiya added proudly

"Really!! Hold all your shopping bags then said this proudly" Maaz said to her in a challenging way while showing her ample number of bags, which he was holding in both of his hands

"I'm feeling myself as a porter" He said after rolling his eyes. Rabiya couldn't control herself to burst into a laugh

"Don't you think Mr. Porter you are overreacting?" Rabiya asked with a chuckle

"Don't call me Porter" Maaz said in irritated and dominating way

"Okay... Mr. Porter" Rabiya said in funny way and Maaz glared her angrily

'Don't glare me Mr. Khadoos I'm not afraid of your sharp gaze' Rabiya said in her own thoughts

"Fine, let's go back to Hotel, but not before That.." Rabiya said with great enthusiasm while pointing towards the chaat shop, Maaz nodded and they both went there

Rabiya started eating chaat happily, Maaz was just watching her silently.

"Do you like it?" Maaz asked Rabiya and she nodded happily. She travelled a spoonful of chaat to his mouth, he shook his head

But Rabiya glare him rightfully

'This girl and her Stubbornness' Maaz smiled on Rabiya's behavior and ate that with her hand.

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"Rabiya, tomorrow I have to reach the conference at 11 am, so it's your responsibility to wake me up early in the morning." Maaz said to Rabiya when they both lay down to sleep after a tiring but enjoyable day.

"Hmm, why me? Set alarm for yourself" Turning her side to face Maaz Rabiya said to him in surprised tone

"You.... Because...." He pauses for a moment. "I'm tired Because of you and your lot of shopping, and now I want to sleep peacefully" after Thinking a while replied but with a smile "What... Because of me and my shopping?" Rabiya huffed like a little kid

"Maaz you are very bad" slapping his arm she said and turned her face to other side and covered herself with comforter

''Rabiyaaa... please wake me up on time, I turn off the alarm in my slumber and always get late" Maaz said in tired and requesting tone

"Okay, I'll" Rabiya said without looking at him and set an alarm in her mobile.

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