Qasim
Qasim had talked to Zainab aunty about staying the night, but she refused , she did however agree to coming over and spending the day.
He greeted her at the door , and Inaya excitedly hugged .
"Mein issay apnay saath bahar lekar jaa rahi hun" she said , and Qasim nodded,
"Aap andar nahi aayein gi?" He asked and she shook her head,
"Abh yeh meri beti ka ghar nahi hai Qasim." She said , her tone bitter.
He didn't say anything for a few minutes and then spoke gently,
"Aap ki nawasi ka ghar hai" he said.
"Tum se baatoun mein tou kabhi koi nahi jeet sakha aur naa hee mein koshish karoun gi" she said ,
"Chalein Inaya sweetheart ?" She said lovingly as his daughter happily took her hand .
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She began visiting more frequently during the next month, but she refused to come inside , or meet Rukhsar, and Qasim didn't push her .
Things with Rukhsar had improved , the doctor cleared her to be able to move around she was 7 months prgnant and so far they hadn't had their usual arguments or fights, they had come to a silent agreement that till the baby was here they would not try to test one another's patience.
Rukhsar had started going back to work aswell.
She said it kept her busy and distracted, and he didn't think he needed to argue with her on that.
Inaya had also started sleeping in his room, on most occasions reading witg Rukhsar or talking to the baby,
So he started sleeping on the sofa in their room.
The attraction that he had felt on the first day Rukhsar moved into his room was like the elephant in the room he tried to ignore.
Just because Rukhsar and him had a silent agreement about not fighting , did not mean that Rukhsar liked him, and he wasn't going to make things awkward between them by saying the words out loud , especially when she was pregnant as a result of them acting on the attraction in the first place.
This time it was more than physical attraction, he liked to hear her laugh, sometimes she would smile her eyes brightening at something Inaya or him had said , or when he cooked something for her , and his heart would stutter .
He knew it wasn't just physical , when she'd had a bout of terrible morning sickness and had laid with her hair in a bun and she had looked beautiful to him, the words were on his tongue , and while with Saima he had never second guessed what he had to say, something about Rukhsar made him so nervous, it was unsettling.
So he had put this conversation at the back of his mind , till the baby was here, so that she wouldn't feel cornered , and if she still had same opinion about him that she'd had all those months ago.... He would respect it and they would coparent their children , living in the same house.
The only argument they had had so far was about what movie they should watch, and so Inaya was settled into Qasims lap , while all three of them watched tangled for the millionth time , and she suggested that they name the baby Pascal.
They both looked at one another with wide eyes , neither of them knowing how to work this out,
"Inaya , beta Pascal is a lizard" he said trying to reason,
His daughter frowned ,
"No he ishnt" she said ,
"He's a cha -chamalon" she said to him,
"Chameleon" Qasim corrected,
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