Mashallah, my love

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Zaynab's POV
Rahul and I've been dating for a while. It's always been nice talking to him and spending time with him. We don't meet much since I always run out of excuses to convince my parents to let me hang out. We have never fought, we had small arguments which were easily solved the day we had the argument or the next day.

"You guys are still not talking?"

But for the first time we haven't talked for more than a week. My friends are worried about it too but I don't care. He thinks I will come to him if he apologises but he is wrong. This whole matter wouldn't have turned out like this if he had just been honest. I don't like this at all, he knows but still lied to my faces and was caught the next day.

"Your anniversary is close. You shouldn't act like this you know."

"Maha stop it. I'm not gonna accept this easily. Did he had to lie? Like what was the use when he was gonna get caught so easily."

"Zaynab you are stressing too much."

"Yeah you are taking it too far. He must have reasons you know. You guys should try to relax and not fight over this."

"Really Hana? That's all you have to say to me. He told me that he was meeting up with his friends but never mentioned that girl that too they were alone the whole day. And you want me to chill. He could have just said it. It's not like I would have told him not to meet her. I'm pretty cool with all the girl friends he has."

Both of them raise their eyebrows as if they can't believe me. I wouldn't but I never told him to stay away from anyone unless those girls made me feel uncomfortable.

A week ago
I was just gonna surprise Rahul by coming to the net cafe he always goes with his friends. Just wanted him to try out the new dish I tried making. But I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw him sitting so close to this girl he recently started talking to from his class. When he finds me standing there he gets up as if I caught him doing something which I shouldn't have known.

"Zanu what are you doing here?"

"I bought some food that I made."

"Oh, that's good I was starving."

He grabs the lunchbox from me and opens it up. My eyes staring at this girl who sits there patiently waiting for Rahul to look at her. He grabs my arm and makes me sit next to him.

"Wow, this smells so good."

He takes a bite and groans, this makes me look up at the girl who is now staring at him. Rahul looks hot when he eats foods that he likes. He has this serious but sweet face that he makes when he is eating.

"This is so good."

He moves closer and kisses me on my cheeks. I smile and find the girl looking down at her hand and fidget with her ring that she is wearing. He grabs my hand after eating and we walk out of the net cafe.

"Who was she?"

"Huh? She is in my maths class."

"Hmm, why were you meeting each other today?"

"She had something to say."

"What?"

"Why are you asking so many questions today?"

"Just curious."

"It's not like I'm gonna meet her again. So don't worry."

When he said that to me I was so happy. He just makes me feel protected, always buys me chocolates because I get hungry after an hour. He is so caring and gentle that I would love to get married to him. But I forget this is reality. His telling me those words itself was a sign.