Once Upon A Time, A Thousand Tears Ago #Wattys2017

Chapter 3 : Dreams

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“Goodness! Mom, Papa, Kashaf. Come here everyone. Please hurry up”

I am screaming and calling them on my highest voice. Good Lord! What did I just read? Kashaf enters the room first, followed by my parents. I signal her to sit next to me. “Kash read this email out loud for me”

She sits next to me, focusing her eyes on the laptop and then starts laughing hysterically. My mom asks quickly, “What is it girls?”

Kashaf spits out “Mom, she got the job, that government job, she got it”. My mom hugs me and Kashaf hugs both of us. When we loosen up our embrace, I realize that I am crying. Wait, everyone in the room is crying. Nextly, my father hugs me and says “See my daughter is the best one. Nobody can reject you”. We all laugh together. I am not in a position to make coherent sentences. This job has been my dream and I am finally looking at the email that is notifying me about the job. This is definitely the best day of my life, our life.

Kashaf moves towards the CD player and inserts a cd saying “It’s party time doctor.” And I know which song she is going to play. She makes the volume to its maximum and the music starts bursting out of the speakers. We both know these songs. We have sung them so many times together and we know that in which situation we will b listening to which song. Along with the lyrics we both sing

May be it’s the way she walked

Waaooo

Straight into my heart and stole it

We continue singing along the song. I keep on adding my variations to the song because I know Kashaf loves these variations and I am so used to adding them that I can rarely sing any one direction song without my inputs.

The whole night we kept on playing different songs of one direction. One Direction is a famous british-irish boyband. Irish because one of its member, Niall Horan, is irish. The rest of the boys are british and they are Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik. I never knew about this band but one day I was just reading a few comments from some girls. They were all obsessed over this boy band. So I chose to check out who these people are in reality. I typed “best song of One Direction” on Youtube. It took me to “best song ever”. And then there was no looking back. I like these 5 boys. They are cool. I like their songs. My sister likes them too. Before One Direction, I hadn’t ever listened to any English or American songs. But there was something different about One Direction. I am a directioner precisely, wholeheartedly, completely.

Monday morning was the most awaited morning. I woke up, took a bath, dressed up neatly in a dress and did some make-up to look good. Looks! I don’t really know how I look. I mean I don’t know if people consider me good, beautiful, ugly or just a common girl. I don’t want to think about all this at the moment. Butterflies are roaming here and there in my stomach. I grab my breakfast sandwich from the dining table.

“Good Luck Princess” My mom says it while giving me a warm hug.

“Thanks mom. I love u both.” I say it to my parents

“Zar, wait” Kashaf enters the dining room with her lucky bracelet in her hand. “Take this lucky bracelet Zar”

“Kash, I have already got the job, then why are you giving it to me?” I inquire

“Big sis, job is not the only thing that you want in your life.” She gives me her cheeky grin.

“Okay, what else then. Spit it out”

She whispers in my ears, “May be you will find a handsome doctor out there who can be your life partner”. She nudges me with her elbow.

“Haha, keep it with you then because I am going to do a job. I am not going out there to hunt down a husband” I say it smirkingly.

“Aghhh. Keep it Mississippi. I don’t know which old lady’s soul resides in you”

I roll my eyes and make my way to my new destination. My job

“So we all will work together as a team. I hope you all understand your job duties. We are here to take health to a new level. All of you can go to your respective cabins for today. Wish you luck”

The director ended the meeting on a lighter note. He introduced us to the higher authorities. Five new doctors including myself were appointed and we were being told our duties towards the nation. I listened to the whole meeting with full interest because I don’t want to make mistakes in my career.

As I was walking out of the meeting room towards my cabin somebody suddenly said, “Excuse me Dr. Zara”

I looked towards the source of the voice. It was a newly appointed doctor. He was amongst the five doctors who were appointed today. He seemed to be above 25 but below 30. I respond quickly with a poker face “Yes”

He gives a cheeky smile, “Hi. You are Dr. Zara, right”

Ofcourse, I am. That’s why I looked at you when you called my name. I say that to myself.

“Yes, I am Dr. Zara Arman” I maintain the poker face.

He gives me another smile. Man why is he smiling?

“I am Dr. Zaroon, our names are quite alike, right?”

“NO!”

I stress the word no to make sure that he understands that I am not interested in talking to him. After that I continue my walk.

“Congratulations for the job. Seems like a nice place it is. Where are you from?”

Damn! This man is following me.

I increase my walking speed. Cool down, it’s just a colleague, you have to deal with this kind of stupidity every day; don’t let them know that you hate men who try to talk to you.

I keep on walking and realize that he is continuously bombarding me with questions. When I am near my cabin, I turn to look at him. He stops suddenly and again gives me that stupid smile.

“Sorry I didn’t hear what you were saying. Now please excuse me. I have got some work to do” I say it with a serious face.

Hahaha, sixer it is. He was astonished and I was happy. I was glad that he didn’t follow me into the cabin. The rest of the day went well.