Chapter 71: Chapter 71
THIRD PERSON'S POV :
Wearing a dark blue jeans, with black top and off white long shrug she looked herself in mirror and smiled. Taking a selfish she uploaded post that on Instagram and put back her mobile in the purse.
"I'm going Mom" She yelled while stepping down from the stairs
"Where?" Her mother asked and she huffed.
"You know very well.. You were the one who forced me otherwise I don't want to see the face of that Raahim" Alisha said angrily and her mother sighed.
"Asma is my very good friend, that's why I want you to get marry with her son, and What is the flaws in Raahim?" Her mother asked
"I called him two times but he didn't receive my call, how dare he" Alisha Said and Her mother smiled.
"It's okay beta, he must be busy in something important!" Alisha grinded her teeth on her mother's words..
"My now I'm going, I'll not spend much time with that duffer, actually his brother called him duffer on engagement day.. He was correct" Alisha huffed.
"Alisha... Its not the way to talk" Alisha's mother tried to made her understand but no benefits
"Mom I'm going, I'll go to saloon after meeting Raahim." Saying that Alisha walked out from the home and Hopped in her car, before started driving she looked herself in the rear view mirror and pressed her lips towards to set the lipstick one more time, she was going to start driving when her mobile started ringing and that was Raahim's call.
"Why he is calling now? Duffer!" she mumbled and started driving towards the restaurant where Raahim said to meet her.
The mobile was regularly ringing but she didn't choose to attend the call. Raahim send many messages but she ignored all of them as she was angry.
After all she reached to the restaurant and took the table which was already booked for both of them.
"Ma'am order" On of the waiter asked and she think for a while, he wanted to wait for Raahim but he was nowhere so she decided to order for herself
"One cold coffee" She ordered and looked at her Mobile which was showing 34 missed calls of Raahim, and 7 messages but she ignored and soon the drink was surved for her, she waited for Raahim more half an hour but he didn't arrive, she huffed and lifted her mobile before making her way towards the exit of restaurant. But suddenly
"Alishaaa... Wait.."
"Alisha.." Raahim came near her and she turned to her right side to saw him.
"I'm sorry, I'm late, but I..." She didn't let him complete
"No problem, now I'm getting late to go to saloon" She said state and he felt bad for that.
"I'm sorry I'm late, I had to attend some important meetings, so I was busy in that" Raahim state and he she smiled
"No problem, you stay here I'm going. Now I have appointment in saloon" Saying that She took a step further but stopped when a hand grappled her wrist and she turned to saw him.
"tomorrow is mehndi function, we won't be able to meet each other till Marriage, spent some time with me today!" He said seriously and Alisha turned to saw him, his eyes were full of love and emotions but she was unaffected, she shook her head but Raahim didn't leave her hand and again insisted on the she made a defeated look and nodded
The girl was helpless....
"I have appointment in saloon" She shrugged.
"Go later" she war her her mobile and nodded.
"Only ten minutes" saying that she moved towards the table but Raahim shook his head,
"only 20 minutes" he added and she shook her head
"15 minutes are fine" she corrected and smirked lightly.
"You are looking beautiful" Raahim compliment her and she rolled her eyes
"Say something new." He felt embarrassed on her reply but smiled sheepishly while scratching the back of his head
"Your eyes are attractive" He added.
"That is what I ready know, tell me something new" She added but Raahim was shocked
"Are you angry?" He asked
"do you really care about that!" she taunt on him
"Yes I do but I was attending the meeting so I become late, I was calling you to cancel todays plan because I was attending an important conference, but when you haven't attend the call then I come here!" He said with A smile and she also smiled.
"Alisha don't be angry" He said while holding her both hands and she freed her hands
"I'm getting late" saying that she made herself stand and left from there. She hate the people who makes her wait and that was third time when Raahim made her wait.
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A DAY BEFORE WEDDING...
"Shayaan bhai... Bhabhi..." Rabiya chirped when witnessed her brother and sister-in-law, who were ready to attend the Maiyon (Haldi ceremony) Maaz was already standing behind Shayaan. Abdullah and Umema were also present there
"My doll..." Shayaan said with a genuine smile and Rabiya felt happy
"How am I looking?" she asked happily. She was wearing yellow coloured Anarkali suit, which had white light embroidered flowers. And she was wearing white flower jewellery with was looking cute on her, Maaz was smiling while looking at his beautiful wife and she was feeling his gaze on herself.
"You are looking beautiful" She smiled on compliment which was made by Sarah and Umema..
"Rabiya you are looking..." Maaz said seriously and she smiled while waiting for the compliment
" looking like a..." He stopped while watching her without blinking.
"Ahem... We are in family function so control Maaz.." Abdullah whispered in his ear and he smirked.
"Who said that I can't say in a Family gathering what I'm going to say!" Maaz raised his brow and asked to Abdullah
"Rabiya you are looking like Kadi chawal (yellow curry with rice)" He said and everyone bust into guffaw.
"What!!" She made a pout but Maaz got a slap on his arm.
"And you are looking like a monkey" She huffed
"Shayaan am I looking like a monkey?" Maaz asked to Shayaan and he shook his head with a smile.
"See Rabiya, even your brother is not agree with you." Maaz said while raising a brow and she glared Shayaan.
"Bhai.. Are you my brother or his? And you tell me, am I looking like Kadi chawal as Maaz is saying?" Rabiya asked like an offended child and everyone laughed.
"I'm your brother but this is true that you are looking like kadi chawal." Shayaan said while pinching her cheeks and she made an angry pout.
"Shayaan bhai and Maaz I won't talk to you both" she huffed but Maaz pulled her left cheek, as Shayaan did again with her right cheek.
"Stop it Shayaan" Sarah glared him and Shayaan chuckled.
"Eeeeee.... What's matter with you both why you pull my cheeks... They aren't rubber band what you can pull anytime" Rabiya said while placing her both palms on her cheeks.
"Maaz Shayaan you both are trouble makers for Rabiya" Umema and Abdullah said in unison and Rabiya made a pout again.
"I hate you bhai" Rabiya mumbled and he took a step further.
"I hate you too my doll" Shayaan said slowly and kissed her forehead.
"They both siblings loves each other very much" Abdullah said and everyone nodded but Rabiya glared Shayaan.
"But I really hate Him." Rabiya said about Shayaan and everyone laughed on her childish behaviour.
But there was a person who was standing in the corner of the hall, he wasn't smiling, as his brain was busy in thinking about Alisha.
"Raahim is everything fine?" Shayaan asked him after reaching to him and he nodded without saying anything.
"But something is looking not fine!" Shayaan enquiries and Raahim nodded.
"Shayaan bhai, Alisha never talked to me freely, I think she isn't happy with this marriage!" Raahim shared everything with Shayaan and he also felt something fishy.
"Call her, maybe she was nervous that's why she didn't talk to you freely" Shayaan suggested
"I'm calling her since morning but she isn't receiving the call" Raahim said and Shayaan think for a moment.
"Call with an unknown number maybe she will receive the call"
"Good idea Shayaan bhai, give me your mobile" Raahim said and held his hand in front of Shayaan who passed his mobile after unlocking that.
Raahim was dialling number and Shayaan was looking at him at the same time Maaz also came there and asked the matter from Shayaan and Raahim. After knowing everything he also became tensed.
"Hello" Alisha received the call.
"Alisha why aren't you receiving my call?" Raahim asked.
"I was busy!" She replied shortly and Raahim felt angry, he was calling her since morning but she didn't respond and when he call her with Shayaan's mobile she received the call in first attempt.
"Alisha I juat have to know a single thing!" Raahim said with determination
"What ?" She asked.
"Is someone forcing you to do this marriage? If yes then I won't do this marriage!" Alisha didn't replied anything which made him worried
"Alisha... Are you there?"
"Yes I'm here" She confirmed, Raahim took steps towards other side to talk to her in alone
"Alisha I'm very clear with my decision, if you are not interested in marrying me, then I don't want this marriage. I want that my wife love and as I will do, so day clearly if you are not interested" Raahim said and she stay silent for a moment then...
"Can I ask you something?" she asked and Raahim hummed.
"When will you change your mind? I mean boys are like this.. They know very well how to do promises but they don't know how to fulfil those promises" She asked in taunting way.
"I'm not like that, if I'm doing Marriage then I'll be there for you and with you in every aspect, but the decision is only yours. I'll love, respect and support my wife and I am expecting the same from her but I don't think you are trusting me." Raahim state.
"Are you serious?" she asked
"Why you have so much doubts?" Raahim asked.
"I.. I just have few more doubts!" She said and Raahim sighed.
"Clear all the doubts, but I also want to know something" He said and she responded as ''Yes ask"
"Is your parents forcing you to marry me and you already love someone else?" Raahim asked.
"It's true that my parents are forcing me, but I don't love anyone else" Raahim sighed with satisfaction
"Now tell me...." Raahim was saying but stopped in between when
"Raahim" she said suddenly
"Yeah?"
"I'm doing this marriage but I'm not trusting you, maybe you will change your mind with passing time" Alisha said and he sighed
"Why are you thinking this? I won't change" Raahim assured her
"Sure?" She asked after a long pause
"Yes" He said in whispered with a smile.
"If you are saying truth then I'm happy" Alisha said in whispered and that time her voice was free from any worries
"I can't wait to see you as my bride" Raahim said with a smile and imagine her smiling
"Raahim"
"Hmm!"
"Umm... Nothing." She whispered
"Are you happy now?" He asked
"Yes" She said and Raahim smiles
"Sure na?" He asked
"Yes 100% sure.. No.. Not 100% buy 80% sure." Alisha said with a happiness in her voice
"No worries, I'll do my best to give you remaining 20% assurance" Raahim smiled and noticed that Maaz and Shayaan were making his fun standing in the other corner of the hall.
"See you tomorrow, bye" saying that Raahim cut the call and mavoed towards Shayaan and Maaz.
"Shayaan this man is mad even more than you" Maaz said and Shayaan chuckled.
"My case was different, Sarah and I was in love for last five years but Raahim is doing Arranged Marriage" Shayaan said and Raahim smirked
"Means I'm better than you" Raahim smirked and Shayaan smiled while placing his hand on his shoulder.
"You will get to know that after marriage! Every girl change after becoming wife. Sarah has become so much dominant, sometimes I wonder that is she the same Sarah who didn't even know how to talk confidently." Shayaan said and Maaz chucked.
"And your sister has change me to this extent.. She is an absolutely unpredictable woman" Maaz said while rolling his eyes looking at he direction where Rabiya was busy in laughing with other ladies and tucking her hair lock again and gain behind her ear which was falling again and again to her cheek and making Maaz Mad.
"Your both are Majnu and Romeo" Raahim rolled his eyes
"Maaz let's Wait for a few days then we both will ask what will he!!" Shayaan mocked and Maaz also chucked.
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The function was over and that was the time of midnight, Raahim, Abdullah, Umema, Maaz, Rabiya, Shayaan, and Sarah were sitting altogether in a room. Busy in talking with chuckes and guffaws
"Let's play something" Rabiya said and everyone nodded.
"Antakshri" Raahim suggested
"Truth and dare" Rabiya suggested
"Noooo" everyone said at once
" let's play something different this games are very old and boring now" Sarah said and Umema nodded
"so you suggest something" Shayaan said and Sarah smiled
" let's write some questions or task on Chits and then we have to pick that chit randomly. Then we will have to complete the task or answer that question.." Sarah suggested and everyone nodded
Everyone wrote one question on a chit and start to shuffle that. Shayaan was the first who picked the chit.
" It's a question.. Tell a secret" he read loudly and looked at Sarah then smiled.
''I have a big secret, Abdullah bhai is you don't let mummy know then I can share that" Shayaan said and Sarah's face become colourless
"Shayaan, what are you going to do!" She flayed him slightly
"Don't worry wife" Shayaan held her hand with accusing look
"okay... We don't let anyone know... Let's fix this that any secret won't go out from this room" Abdullah and umema both said in unison and everyone nodded.
"So my biggest secret is our Marriage, everyone thinks that our marriage was Arranged by our families but the truth is that its a love marriage" Shayaan said and Abdullah and Umema exchange their looks
"Really?"
"Yeah really and Maaz and I were the partner in that crime." Rabiya giggled and next time shuffle the chits. That time Sarah picked the chip and she smile on the question then she loudly read that tell about your first love
"It's very simple. I started loving Shayaan from the second week of our meeting, but I never shared this with anyone, not even with Shayaan" Sarah smiled and Shayaan felt like a winner
"Aww... How sweet" Umema said with a smile and they both also smiled looking at each other.
Third chit was picked by Rabiya and the question was 'Tell one thing for which you feels guilty'
"There is a thing, for which I feels guilty..." Rabiya said looked at Maaz and he raised his brow to ask
"What is that?" Shayaan and Raahim asked in unison
"Ammi gifted me diamond ring on our reception but I was so careless that I lost that ring when I went to bangalore after our marriage." Rabiya said sadly.
"It's okay Rabiyaaaa" Umema said with a small smile on her face
"Bhabhi that was a gift from Ammi and I lost that, I never shared this with anyone but I feels guilty for that" Rabiya state and Maaz felt guilty, because Rabiya hadn't lost that ring but Maaz removed that ring from her finger then she was sleeping.
"Rabiya don't feel guilty just for a mistake which you haven't make intentionally" Abdullah said with a smile and Rabiya nodded in her confident way.
"Come on its Maaz's turn to pick the chit" Umema said cheerfully, and Maaz did so but actually he was feeling guilty
"what's in your chit" Rabiya asked while peeping towards the chit.
'Share a secret'
"I think we all have write the same question in different form" Rabiya said mischievously as that chit was written by her.
"Rabiya" that was Maaz's call.
"Yeah" she replied.
"Will you forgive me if I share a Secret?" Maaz asked and she smiled.
"Yups... But the secret should be pardonable" Rabiya chirped.
"So the secret is..." Maaz think for a moment but then he believes on Rabiya so decided to continue
"I'm sorry Biya, you hadn't careless about that ring but I took that ring back from your finger..." Maaz informed about complete event to all of them, everyone was shocked to know that but Rabiya was hurt. She knew that Maaz didn't love her in the beginning of marriage but she never expected that he would took away her gift because of Rimsha.
" Maaz... That was my ring which Ammi gifted me, and you took that when I was sleeping!" Rabiya said with disappointment and turned her face to other side.
"Rabiya don't feel bad for that, I'll give that ring back to you" Maaz said while holding her hand and she glared him while freeing her hand and made her way towards the room in which Maaz and she was staying.
"What I have done?? Why I have shared this with her!" Maaz mumbled while smacking his head.
"You shouldn't regret for sharing this but you should regret for doing that" Abdullah said and Shayaan nodded
"Abdullah bhai that situation was different, I never hurt Rabiya intentionally." Saying that Maaz stud up from his place and moved towards the room.
He stepped in the room and found Rabiya sitting on the bed with anger on her face. Locking the door behind him he stepped towards the bed.
"Biya" He said and held her hand with a small smile
"Don't call me Biya.. I'm not your Biya.. My name is Rabiya" Jerking his hand she stud up and glared Maaz.
"Biya... Biya try to understand yaar I never hurt you intentionally"
''Maaz don't talk to me about anything, my blood is already boiling" She almost shout and Maaz sighed, he didn't talk about anything and moved to the bathroom, after some ten minutes Maaz stepped back in the room where Rabiya was already laying down on bed, she was facing opposite to Maaz's side and he was feeling sad for her behaviour. Maaz also lay down beside her and slowly creeped towards her, he covered her with duvet and kissed her temple on which she open her eyes and glared him before pushing his hand away which was holding her arm.
"Biya"
"Maaz enough now" sHe glared him before again closing his eyes.
"I still have that ring, I'll give you that back" Maaz said and Rabiya stay silent
"Biya, Jaan I'm saying something" He said while hugging her tightly.
"Maaz I don't need that ring, go and give that ring to Your Rimsha." She said with full of anger or maybe jealousy
"She is not my Rimsha but you're my Rabiya, my Biya, my Jaan, my everything" He state and Rabiya stay silent but she turned her side and then both were watching each other in the dim light of room.
"I hate you Maaz" She said angrily
"I love you Biya" He whispered and got a slap on his arm
"Don't talk to me." sHe said with anger and Maaz sighed.
"Let me sleep" she said while grinding her teeth and made distance between both them before closing her eyes to sleep.
She was feeling angry and hurt because Maaz took away her ring because that he bought for Rimsha, more than anger that was the insecurity and jealousy of a wife who love her husband more than anything else and she could imagine his husband thinking about anyone else.
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Next day...
Raahim was becoming mad with happiness as that was his wedding day. He was feeling in seventh mountain.
"Ready?" Abdullah asked to Raahim and he nodded with a big grin on his face
"We all are also ready just waiting for Maaz, we will go when he will come" Abdullah said and Raahim huffed
"What the hell is this Abdullah bhai! I'm telling you if Maaz bhai, take more time then I'll go alone without waiting for anyone" Raahim said peevishly and Abdullah saw him with wide eyes.
"Raahim, have patience." Abdullah said with a smile and rolled his eyes
"Abdullah bhai have you forget how mush eager Maaz bhai was on his marriage day and now he is wasting the time on my marriage." Raahim said and Abdullah glared him.
"Don't you know why Maaz was eager for his marriage? Don't talk about his marriage in front of him or Rabiya" Abdullah scolded Raahim and he nodded. They were waiting for Maaz who was in his room, struggling with his tie
And Rabiya was trying to tie the knote of her kurti from behind in which she was unsuccessful. Maaz witnessed her struggling with that he slowly moved towards her and held her hand, shifting her hair to the left shoulder with his first finger her tie the knot, she glared him through the mirror and Maaz kissed her shoulder. She again glared him and moved towards the other side then started wearing her bangles and earrings. After a couple of moments she turned back and saw him still struggling with his tie to make a perfect knot but she didn't pay attention and left from the room after giving the last touch to her makeup. After some five minutes Maaz also join everyone. And they all were ready to go for the to wedding venue.
"Maaz, what happened to your tie! Tie your knot neetly" Waqaar said and Maaz looked at his Biya who totally ignored him.
"Baba its alright for not, let's go we are getting late." Maaz said without any expression on his face and everyone moved towards the cars which were waiting outside the hotel. Maaz hopped in the car in which Abdullah and Umema was already present but Rabiya moved towards other car just to avoid Maaz.
" Rabiya" She was stopped by Shayaan's call.
'' yeah bhai?" She was looking disappointed and Shayaan picked her cheek lightly...
" Go and sit with maaz" Shayaan said and Rabiya shook her head
"I don't wanna sit with him" She said like a stubborn brat
"Don't be a fool, don't ruin your present for past. Maaz bhai loves you very much if he did something wrong then don't behave rude now." Sarah said and Shayaan nodded Rabiya unwillingly moved to the car and took her seat besides Maaz. The journey was silent, neither Maaz nor Rabiya utter a single word.
"We will be there in just five minutes" Abdullah said to Umema and she nodded while applying another coat of lipstick and Rabiya looked at Maaz who was silently looking out from the window of Car. Rabiya didn't utter a single word but held his arm, he suddenly turned his head towards her and she glared him, but untied his tie knot and made a neet knot on which Maaz smiled and cupper her face with both hands before quickly pecking her forehead on which she glared him while settling his collar and tie.
The relationship of Maaz and his Biya wasn't so simple, there was a love behind their anger and worries behind their love.
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