Realm of Love [Short Love Stories]

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𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓝𝓸𝔀 𝓞𝓷,
𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻.

"There's no force or pressure, Zubab. You have the complete authority to decide."

Zubab glanced back and forth at her mother and her hands. She couldn't decide. Azeem Shah with Maham Shah came to her home for Zubab's proposal. At first, Zarmain was too focused on the fact that he was her best friend Aliza's husband.

The past hurt her. Things were not easy for her, it wasn't easy for her to watch her best friend Aliza break apart for Maham's huge betrayal at them, at Aliza. But out of everything, she loved the fact that it was Asfandyaar who loved her daughter dearly.

On that evening when they came, Maham was behaving as if she had done nothing. Zubab wasn't home. It was just Azeem, Maham and Zarmain.

Azeem requested Zarmain to agree to the proposal indicating to the fact that what can lead if one doesn't gets married to the one they love.

But she knows how important Zubab's decision is in this overall occasion.

"I don't know, Ammi." She sighs, sitting in the bed. "Asfandyaar is a great guy but everytime the thought of getting married envelopes my mind. It's too hard to adapt."

She leans in the head board, sighing. She closes her eyes and feel the metal of the ring Asfandyaar gave her. She didn't wore it. It was in her palms.

"I know it was hard. I know things were hard on you when you got married to Rizwan. No one thought he would turn out like that. Nobody did."

Zubab stared at the ring hearing her mother's words. She tried to process everything but after Rizwan, she lost her interest and felt scared about building a life with a foundation of love and hope.

"Loving him was my choice, Ammi. Marrying him was my choice. Living with him was my choice. Getting at the brink of death was led by my decision." Zarmain kept hearing her. She didn't chose to interrupt her daughter who was weeping on her misery. "I was young and highly distracted to him. He grew feelings in my stomach on my high school that I thought that it was my first and final love. I thought no one can do it like him. Irony that I was wrong all the while."

She could hear her mother hiccup, "It was my fault, Zubab. I made you grow in a household where your father never showed concern for her daughter even once. All he cared about was his reputation."

She cried hugging her. "I am sorry for making things worst while you grew that made you so distracted to the outer world for seeking love. If your father and I would have had a healthy relationship. We would have had been a great family now and you wouldn't have had suffered for everything that happened to you."

Zubab stroked Zarmain's back slowly to make her feel that she was here with her. Last time, it was Zubab who decided to marry Rizwan because she foolishly thought that he was her only love and this time she was sure that only Zarmain can conclude the best for her.