POSHEEDA

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Author pov

     "Asalam-o-alikum!"

    Everyone started greeting each other after reaching farmhouse. Laughters and teasings could be heard, whole family got busy in asking each other journey and everything else

"MashaAllah look at you!" Aunty of Shehnaaz pulled her in tight hug which made Shehnaaz let out chuckle and hugged her back "Kitni pretty lag rahe ho ap I'm telling you it's Nikkah ka glow!" She break hug to have look at her face

"Thankyou" Shehnaaz blushed

"Apka shohar kahan hai Shehnaaz? Har dafa ki tarha is bar bhi kahen apne dosto ke sath toh nahi chala gaya apko akele chor kr is baar toh nahi jana chaiye tha nayi nayi shaadi hui hai" Sumaiya joked, making most of them laugh she's younger sister of Nisar and daughter of bi-jaan. Shehnaaz mentally rolled eyes at her third class attempt to make everyone laugh

"Kyun akele chore ga wo dekho araha haina. Lo agaya"  Neelam spoke grabbing her son by arm to pull him there who has no idea why these aunties are giggling looking at him

"Asalam-o-alaikum" He spoke and got reply from everyone there. She looked at him standing there with hands in his pocket just listening and chuckling to whatever aunties were telling him

She was deep down upset with him for letting sitara sit with him for 1 hour and 30 mins. She saw her constantly trying to talk to him and touching him here and there. It took Shehnaaz everywhere to not rush towards them and pull her away from him by her hair but she controlled cause she doesn't want him to think she cares and actually got jealous over this especially when she has asked him to stay away from her

"Chalo ab baatein baad mein krna abhi khana kha Lou ander ayo" Bi jaan eldest of family ordered everyone. They instantly listened to her knowing how scary she can get sometimes and made their way inside

    Shehnaaz was getting on stairs when Aryaan who was beside her by mistake pushed her in attempted to rush inside hall and didn't even realise, where she almost lost balance and grabbed anything that was near her which happened to be Sidharth. He gripes on her shoulder preventing her from falling down and she has her tight grip set on his sleeve

       She lift her face to look at him with same eyes she did when he fell for her. His heart skip beat so did hers, he really want to just admire her his whole life but now is not the time. So he let her go which made her stand properly with tinted cheeks because of embarrassment, she cleared her throat and open her mouth to thank him but he walked away leaving her behind stunned. The ping she felt in her heart was something different

"Is everything alright Shehnaaz?" Sumaiya asked noticing very obvious behaviour of Sidharth's towards her

"Jee everything is alright" Shehnaaz replied her and didn't wait as she walked inside

Sumaiya shared look with her other sister and her lips curved in smirk, she knows something is off between them not only she almost everyone knows in family, cause Shehnaaz has been living at her parent's house and now Sidharth has also stoped visiting her. News spread like fire among their family. Sumaiya was interested in this much because she wanted her own daughter, Alisha to marry sidharth and she won't mind if her daughter has to be even second wife of his, according to sumaiya it's better to be second wife of someone who's gonna be head of nawab family than be first wife of any commoner out there