Unvoiced Words

Chapter Eight

The whole Shah house is presenting a bridal look, decorated with fairy lights and flowers because today is the first function of the wedding.

The garden area is all set for haldi ceremony. Some guests have already arrived, some are coming and some will directly come on the wedding day.

Mia is all-ready in simple yet very beautiful yellow coloured lehenga. She came before the function started, because of Meenakshi's humble request. But she couldn't compromise with her work, so now she is sitting in one of Shah's house's rooms and doing her work peacefully.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and she told that person to came in. In a second, Zahir came into the room, looking handsome in his yellow kurta.

"Mia Rathore the CEO of Aim Enterprises is busy, even at my wedding functions." He said very dramatically and sat on the bed in front of Mia.

MIA

"Mia Rathore the CEO of Aim Enterprises is busy, even at my wedding functions." He said very dramatically and I was extremely stunned. How the fuck he knows about this.

"What do you mean?" I asked him after coming back to my senses.

"Oh come on Mia! we are best friends so I know this secret of yours, that the hidden CEO of Aim enterprises is you." He said very proudly and i was shaken up.

"We WERE best friends and tell me how you know about this.l?" I asked him in a bitter voice while putting extra force on word Were because we used to be best friends in the past but not now.

"Calm down Maya, you are the one who told me about this." He said and something happened inside me. All that horrible memories came in front of my eyes. This name. No one called me with this name in these seven years. And when the fuck I told him.

"Do you remember how much you used to hate your name, because it was given by your parents. So you told our friends to call you Mia. And you used to tell me that when you grow up, you would be a business woman and when I used to ask you what would be the name of your company and you always said Aim Enterprises because Mia and Aim words have the same letters and they are anagrams..... maybe you forget everything about us about me..but I still remember everything about you." He explained everything to me.

And yeah...I remember but I still hate that name because it reminds me of those people who just throw me out from their lives because they got busy into their new world. And after leaving everyone, I changed my name completely as Mia Rathore. I thought that everyone had forgotten about this But Zahir remembered each and every words of mine.

"Um! Maya" i was busy thinking about all this when Zahir called me.

"Don't call me with that name Zahir." I said while glaring at him and he lifted his hands in the air.

"Don't worry Mia, I know you have your own reasons to hide this and i promise I won't tell anyone about this secret." He assured me and I sighed.

"By the way, the groom himself has  come to call you, so come fast the function is about to start." He said and got up from the bed.

"Yeah! You go, I'll come in two minutes." I said and started keeping my files and laptop in a bag.

"Mia...I don't know what you think about me now but for me you are still my best friend." He said these words and left the room.

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The haldi function had ended, everyone had applied haldi to groom one by one. Now some guests were dancing while some were playing holi with haldi.

Mia is drinking orange juice, sitting alone at a table, boringly looking at everyone. She just wants to go to her hotel and sleep. So she stood up and went to her bua.

Meenakshi was sitting and talking with some ladies when Mia called her.

"Bua ji, I have a bit of a headache, so I'm heading back to my hotel." Mia said to Meenakshi who worriedly went near Mia, put her hand on Mia's forehead and checked her temperature.

"What happened beta, is it worse, should we go to the doctor?" She asked in concerned tone.

"No need to go to the doctor, it will get fine after some rest." Mia assured her and looked at the ladies with whom Meenakshi was talking some minutes ago.

"Who is she Meenakshi?" One old lady asked Meenakshi while looking at Mia from head to toe.

MIA

One old lady looked at me and asked bua about me.

"Oh! She is my niece Maya and Maya she is Kajal Ahuja, on her left is her two daughters-in-law Arunima Ahuja and Seema Ahuja and on her right is her granddaughter Meera Ahuja." Again she called me with that stupid name, but wait- ladies of Ahuja family, what they are doing here. Now what relationship Zahir's family shares with Ahuja's.

"Ok beta, go and take some rest. I'll tell driver to drop you at hotel and call me or Zahir if it gets worse." Bua said to me and I left from there. I was going towards the car when I bumped into Zahir. I looked at him and he was looking like a pig covered not in the mud but in haldi.

"Oh my god, look at yourself. Go and take a bath but first tell me what is your family's relation with Ahuja's?" I asked him and he looked at me confusingly.

"Seema Ahuja is dad's cousin. You don't know about her because they didn't talk to each other for years because of a misunderstanding but dad called her, cleared everything and invited her whole in-law family for my wedding." He told me and wait WHAT ...the whole family, it means That jerk Ekam Ahuja might come to the wedding. Oh god! Why it has to be him always. I don't want to see his face.

"Hey where you got lost and are you going to the hotel." He took me out from my thoughts and asked me.

"Yeah!! I have some work to do, so I'm leaving." I said to him and he became sad.

"Ok then but come early tomorrow for the mehendi function." He said and left for his room.

I sat in the back seat of the car and the driver drove the car towards the hotel. Once I reached my room, i changed my clothes and went to sleep.

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