MANNAT : His desire

SAAD'S HALDI PART 2

After a while, the Saad ritual begins, everyone gathers around Saad and begins blessing him and giving him sweets. the first were Shimza's parents. after that, all the elders performed the ritual, and now it is time for the youngsters. Tanzil was standing right behind Saad. the first one was naymat, she came near Saad
"take care of my sister well"

Saad looked at her with a smile and said "don't worry i will"

She walked away with a pleasant smile on her face.

Next one was Mannat... Tanzil's expression softened as he saw her. Everyone knows she is a girl of few words, but she always means every word. "Well, I know you love her, but I am with naymat on this one. I wish you both a happy future." When she walks away, Saad gives her a respectful nod... the next one is kaif... the softened expression on tanzil's face hardens... but kaif ignores him and just looks at Saad and says, "You better take care of her...or we'll have a problem."

He gives them all a nod but then says "I love her, of course I will take very good care of her, why are they all threatening me like this?"

When Kabir arrived, he gave Tanzil a friendly nod, then turned to Saad and said, "Come on, they are all just feeling protective of her, but don't worry like all of them, I am not going to threaten you. I feel you, take care of yourself man." After a few seconds, he added, "from my sister. every time she kicks you out of the house when you piss her off and you know where to come"

the ritual ends, everyone from Saad's family and friends starts playing haldi with him.

Mannat receives a phone call from shimza; she answers it but can't hear her because everyone is talking loudly, so she goes to a quiet corridor. where no one was around, just when she was talking to her, all the lights in the banquet went off.

She got startled and tried to run back toward where everyone was sitting, someone held her hand and her heart skipped a beat from the fear. She doesn't know who the person is.
and can't even see because she is surrounded by darkness. her back is facing where that person is. she feels a tug on her hand, she twirls from the unexpected force and her head hits a hard chest, she looks at the person but can't identify because of the darkness. she opened her mouth to scream but that scream never left her throat as her mouth is covered by a rough hand. she closes her eyes.

the person came so close , Mannat bit his hand as hard as she could...but the person's hand didn't even budge...she feels his lips on her earlobe and the person's jaw rubbing her one side cheeks and then the other... when she tried to release herself from that person's hold all she felt was that hold tightening... when she took a long breath...she smelled an expensive cologne.....

just when she feels like some serial killer is going to kill her between the ceremony.

She feels the stranger moving his lips toward her ear and she hears.
"I told you to stay" as mannat was trying to process his words she felt his hand leaving her waist and the next seconds lights are back , she looks around as she is taking deep breath to calm herself down she finds no one there.

She shakes her head and starts walking where everyone is .

Naymat approached mannat and looked her in the eyes, asking, "Who did this to you?"

"what.. ?" She touched her cheeks with her fingertips, she found haldi on them. She immediately realized who that person in the dark was, and she closed her eyes in utter irritation. When she opened her eyes, they were filled with anger. How dare he scare her like this? She took a handkerchief from her sister and wiped the haldi off her face.

"I will talk to you later,"  saying this to naymat she walks passed her.

She searched the entire banquet for the one person who always irritates her to death. Mannat is always the calm and light-tempered person, but she doesn't know why he always brings out a side of her she is unfamiliar with. When her sight found a similar head, she rushed toward him, Tanzil.