Javaria still hadn't left her room and it was dinner time. I frowned and stared at the now cold Biryani that I had made hour's ago. I knocked on my aunt's door and she came out looking pretty messed up "Kya?" she asked rudely, "Dinner is ready." My aunt rolled her eyes and called my uncle to come eat.
He left the chair he was sitting on and sat down at the dining table. I asked them if they wanted anything and then asked if they wanted me to call Javaria. My aunt frowned and screamed out "NO, SHE NEED'S TOO LEARN TO EAT LESS." I stared at Javaria's door and looked back at my aunt suddenly angry.
"Phupho just because Javaria wasn't perfect for that one guy doesn't mean that she isn't perfect overall. People have different preferences and inshallah the perfect guy will come and accept Javaria for how she looks. Please, let her eat."
My aunt and uncle stared at me in shock before my aunt got up and calmly said "Who are you to tell me all this?" I gulped "She is MY daughter and I will figure out how to raise her, from now on she has too DIET."
My aunt got up and went to the kitchen grabbing a plate and piling fruit onto it, she angrily slammed the plate onto the table and yelled "JAVARIA COME HERE." It was silent as we all waited for her door to open.
Finally, it opened and she came out looking equally as messed up "What?" My aunt pointed to the plate "Eat it." Javaria stared at it and then slowly walked to it. My aunt and I sat down and I watched as Javaria stood next to the plate not breaking eye contact.
Suddenly, the plate and the fruit was on the floor and Javaria looked up at her mom crying "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU TOLD ME THAT I WAS FAT AND I BECAME SKINNY AND I TOOK CARE OF MYSELF, AND NOW BECAUSE ONE PERSON SAY'S I'M NOT PRETTY THIS IS WHAT YOU DO?"
Javaria was fat, incredibly fat and soon when she got older her mom told her that people talk about her and she needs to take care of herself. When my mom was alive she showed me pictures of Javaria and mashallah she had improved dramatically.
My other aunt (also from dad's side) who lived in Canada came over and proudly announced that Javaria was looking much better now. She also pointedly said I had gotten skinny too and I had.
Javaria had every right to be mad right now, and I agreed with her a hundred percent. My mom and dad also used to shout at me to go on a diet and I never did. After they passed away I had lost a lot of weight from not eating in sadness.
"You guy's should have seen her, she was crying terribly and she wouldn't stop," I was sitting with the girls and we were all talking about Javaria's proposal. "Poor her, Javaria inspired me to loose weight." Soojin also had a bit of weight on her and when I showed her Javaria's picture she got inspired to become a "skinny queen" as she quoted.
She was actually making fun of Canada for saying stuff like that and I just laughed. Deep down I did miss Canada, but life here has been fun (minus the people I live with).
"Can we please circle back to the fact that Rayyana had met Asad Qureshi and basically insulted him?" Rabia suddenly exclaimed. I sighed not wanting to talk about that horrible moment where I had met him. It's not like I felt guilty for yelling at him afterall that jerk deserved it.
Rabia and the other's were still fans of him even after seeing his rude behavior! "Guys, he's not nice!" The girls scoffed "Rayyana, he's famous and if someone like us bumped into him then obviously he would be offended."
"Yeah! after all you GRABBED him." I flinched and was about to say something when my door slammed open.
"What is this?" my aunt frowned staring at everyone crossing her arms "Assalam-O-Alaikum Aunty." The girl's said together. My aunt ignored them and turned to me "What? Just because your my niece you think you can do anything as you please?"
I turned to the girls embarrassed for them to be hearing this "Get up and do work, you aren't here on vacation." She was walking out the door before she turned back around and sneered at me saying;
"After all, your the reason my daughter is getting rejected."
Urdu Translation-
Kya?- What?
Phupho- Aunt
Assalam-O-Alaikum- Hi
