Dil e Nadaan

Chapter 4

Neelum sat in the drawing room, Saliha aunty had just left, and she was super curious that what had been finalised ,
Her mother had asked all of her brothers to come in after friday prayers so that they could discuss her wedding details, her mother refused to tell her anything.
"Ammi why can't I know what was discussed" she asked with a pout she was sitting on a floor cushion, dressed in a very pretty pink shawlar Kameez, she loved dressing up for fridays , everybody would gather for lunch after the prayer and eat together,

She had already prayed , and now was waiting for her brothers to get back,

"Neelum!" Her mother said annoyed ,
"Beta nothing is final yet and you can hear about it over dinner now stop pestering me like this !" She scolded
Sometimes Neelum could be really childish , and she blamed her father and brothers for that.

"Aminah why are you scolding my daughter" her father said as he came and sat beside her ,
His wife was done with this ,
"Saaqib please don't encourage her any further , she spoilt as it is"
She scolded her husband aswell,
Neelum giggled , and winked at her dad .

"Aminah my daughter isn't spoilt and if you say that one more time I will slip her my credit card" he teased , and his wife groaned , Getting up she fixed her duppata ,
"I'm done with the two of you!" She grumbled , as she headed to the kitchen ,
"Yasmine! Is lunch ready?" She asked their domestic help.

Neelum turned to her baba,
"Why do you tease ammi soo much baba?" She asked she could see his eyes blue green eyes , eyes that only she had inherited amongst all her siblings twinkle,
"I could ask you the same thing?" He said with a raised eyebrow ,
"I'm the youngest, I'm supposed to be annoying and bratty" she told him cheekily,
"Well Im her husband ," he shot back and she shook her head ,
"Thats a terrible reason" she pointed out.
"Whats a terrible reason?" Daniyal asked as he came in and sat down,
"Nothing the younger generation needs to know" she told him,

"Oh wow pops , look at you all grown up, its not like you evesdrop every family meeting that ever happens" he taunted with a smirk.

"Daniyal! Youre here!" Her mother said a smile stretching on her lips
It was so obvious her mother adored Daniyal the most from all her grandchildren,
"Where are your father and uncles" she asked ,
"They're on their way , I left a little early" he told her ,

A few minutes later all her brothers came in, except for Qasim bhai he was due to return on Saturday from his honeymoon.

Every one settled in for lunch, Arzoo made her way on to her Rizwan tayas lap and he let her feeding her small pieces as they had lunch.

Rizwan had gone over to apologise to both Fahad bhai and Ayesha bhabi , while things were still not perfect they were less intense for sure and Neelum felt like the credit was Arzoos.

"So Saliha came over today" theirmother started and Neelum perked up , she really wanted to know what was going to happen.

"She's suggested that instead of a nikkah we also do the rukhsat since A delay in that doesn't make sense if we are to do the nikkah."
She started ,
"And all we were left to was to decide the dates , And I asked her to talk to Ibrahim while I'll talk to all of you what do you suggest.?"
She asked her sons ,
"I think its wise that we get this done sooner than later?" Her Rizwan bhai added ,
"Since Theres no valid reason of delaying more than necessary, we can check the bookings of halls and then finalise the dates according to that."
He suggested ,
Aminah nodded ,
"Your abba has checked the earliest dated are in two months," she turned to her husband
"Should I talk to Saliha then?" She asked , her husband nodded,
"It'll give us time to do the preparations aswell" Rehan bhai added, 
"Then Neelum you start looking at the dresses that you want aswell" her ammi ordered her , and she nodded feeling shy all of a sudden,