POSHEEDA

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Author pov

Badi haveli was decorated with orange and white flowers, golden white lights for dholki/mehndi of their beloved children

Aryaan chuckled shoving his grey shawl away from him as his other cousins dragged him on dance floor where amna was already showing her moves, she hold his hand and pulled him in circle with huge smile, they continued dancing with hands up in air singing along while elders laughed with joy and kept clapping for them

"MashaAllah MashaAllah!" Bi-jaan squeal with happiness

Neelam awed at kids dancing with all energy and nudged Sidharth, He wasn't interested in anything that was happening and that anyone could tell by the way he was just scrolling through his phone. He looked at his mother with frown

"Jao ap bhi krlo dance" She requested him

"Kyun nahi" He sarcastically spoke out keeping phone in pocket of his metallic bronze colour west which he was wearing over dark green shalwar kameez, instead of going to dance floor he turn opposite and left. Neelam rolled eyes at him, he's never listening to them

Shehnaaz sighed heavily before nodding at mehndi artist who asked her if she's ready for mehndi to be applied. She glanced at maham who was sitting just few feet away from her with same skulking expressions with hands spread for other mehndi artist

Maham told her how upset she was with this marriage, how her now phd degree she was going to do will be impossible. Shehnaaz did advised her to talk to zain about this on which she replied sadly that nawab families wives don't go out to study they invest themselves in house responsibilities and Shehnaaz felt that

"Comfortable?" Aryaan was breathing heavily due to dancing with others and came to check on his little sister. She just nodded

"Baji thora side hathe" He politely asked mehndi artist and set down beside his sister after placing soft kiss on her forehead

"Tension kyun leti ho ap hum haina" He whisper tucking lose hair behind her ear, making sure no one but her hears

"Hum tension nahi lerahe I'm just upset with abu for doing this with me" She said plainly, she and her father weren't on talking terms. He did tried talking to her yesterday after she came back but Shehnaaz completely shut him away, she wasn't ready to talk to him after how he just agreed for her life's decision without even asking her once

"Bhen hain ap humari, jaan hain ap, apke liye us Sidharth kya khuda se lar lenge" Aryaan declared with love and braveness. Shehnaaz felt comfort hearing his words, she knows they will never let her suffer anywhere

"I love you" She gave him kiss on cheek

"Love you more sis" He kissed her back on cheek

    Aryaan smiled at her before looking towards maham, her sister in law and waved hand at her who smiled at her, he excused himself from Shehnaaz and went to comfort his sister in law who looks half way away from getting depressed

"Kya hal hai bhabhi?" He crouched down near her to have look at her mehndi, it was almost done since she was been sitting here for more than hour

"Thak gaye hain" She gave him sad smile talking about mehndi

"You wanna eat or drink something?" He asked