The Charming Starlight (On Edit)

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CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE; MARRIAGE?

Alishaa looked at her mother waiting for an answer, she knows she has always been the sensible one and definitely didn't do it on purpose but she can't see herself getting married now and especially someone she has never met.

"I am sorry Lishaa, I thought you would be married by then and I completely forgot about it!" Replied Nadia hoping her daughter buys her lie.

"Ya Allah there is no other way out?" She asked sadly seating down on the couch.

"There is only one way if you are married!" She replied slowly

"So I have to be married?"

"Yeah" She let out a sigh as she looked around the room. From the guest to her friends and Faaris. Her eyes stopped on him a little longer before she walked to her room. She walked out of the window with hardship as her gown is too big for the window and she is too sad to change.

"Ogh stupid gown" She groaned and dragged it up the stairs.

Faaris sat down next to Nadia on the couch opposite Maryam and Aleem. They waited for Faaris to question their sudden appearance but he looked comfortable and acted normal but they believed it is because of the conversation between Alishaa and her mother.

"MamaNadee what is all this about?"

"I didn't mean for it to turn out this way, I thought she would have been married by then and then I would just have to continue paying the loan" She replied him

"What if we pay off the loan now?" She felt relieved that he used the term we instead of her.

"The contract stated when is due and I didn't pay, I will have to get my daughter married to his son and if she is married I pay extra, his son is 8 years older than Alishaa at the time now"

"I will not question why you signed that contract but is he still on the idea of the marriage? Is the guy still single?"

"But why would he create such a contract?" Asked Naadir

"Yeah he is still single and I don't know why"

"Maybe he is dead ugly!" Said Nihaal

"Yeah well he is not that good" Replied Nadiya

"What is the way out? Because we definitely won't agree for Alishaa to marry him"

"She has to marry someone and someone we know" Said Rashid slowly. They all looked up at Faaris, who is looking the centre table.

"I will marry her" Faaris looked up quickly at Naadir, the same as the others in the room.

"I mean just for now till the loan is paid off" He explained himself, as he looked at Faaris.

"She will never agree to you, because she sees you as her brother" Said Rashid

"Then what do we do? We can't let her marry off like that" Faaris got up from the couch and paced behind it.

"She will only agree to one person here" Said Nihaal slowly. Faaris stopped walking and looked back at them.

"I will try talking to her but if she doesn't agree no one forces her and we find another way out, alright?" He said after some minutes, they nodded and Rashid pushed him to her room.

Entering the room his eyes widened at the sight of it, he knows she loves blue and white reasoning from all her clothes but he didn't expect it to be in her room also.

The room wasn't big or small but at a medium size, with her medium size bed in blue covered with blueberry designed bed sheets. He walked closer to her white desk and chair next to the bed, the soft carpet underneath his feet making him like the room more. A sketch on one of the scattered papers on the table caught his eyes. He smiled as he saw him on the paper, it looked so real pointing out Alishaa's sketching talents.

He looked at the opened window and metal staircase down, he remembered what brought him and quickly walked to it, going up to Alishaa.

He looked at her seated on the Hammock, a big blanket over her gown, looking at the city lights, her eyes red and puffy but still looked beautiful to him, especially the eyes, which seem to change colour with her mood.

"Isn't it a bit cold up here?" She looked up at him and sighing closing her head with the blanket.

"Go away Faaris!"

"Haven't you heard the boss is always the boss?" He stood next to her

"Yeah? Go ahead and control my life everyone seems to be doing the same" She mumbled snuggling into the blanket as more tears fell from her eyes.

"That is not what she meant you know, she is just looking out for you"

"By marrying me off to some dude, I always tell her I don't like the idea of marriage at all why won't she just accept it"

"She is a mother Alishaa she wants to see her grandkids too and you are her only hope, think about her situation too and you should be glad you have a mother like her not everyone is that lucky!" Alishaa looked at him as his face saddened it is as if he is talking about himself, but then she remembered seeing his parents in her living room and the mother is nice.

"So now I will have to agree and marry the dude?"

"No" He answered almost immediately

"It states that if you are married you can't marry the guy in the contract-"

"Yeah but I still need to be married"

"Yes we just need to look for someone close who will not hurt you and that you know will marry you for a short time until we are done with the contract"

"But who will agree to get married to me within tomorrow no one, I mean look at me even if it is an adverts no one will" She sighed pouting.

"First you are amazing and the one who ends up with you is lucky and maybe you even have someone who will agree"

"Naadir said he will marry me?"

"What? No!"

"Druvh?"

"No not them, wait do you have feelings for one of them?"

"No I don't!" He felt relieved as she answered him. He knew making her agree to marry him like that is wrong but can't watch her marry another person especially she doesn't like him.

"Then why can't you think of any other person?"

"I mean I can't get married to Rashid because it is not possible, I am only left with Naadir and Druvh, they are the only ones close to me, well and you, unless you agree to marry me" She turned and looked at him. He smiled and looked at the city.

"It is okay I will marry you!" Her eyes widened and stood up looking at him.