Realm of Love [Short Love Stories]

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You'd be fine.
You'd be?

Dust welcomed us as the door opened. We barely could see anything here. I wonder how many days it's closed. It didn't look like it was cleaned from years and not even opened. The keys of the main door were huge. Moosa kept it? Pretty skeptical. "You kept these keys for eight years?"

"No! It was Dad. He keeps it in his locker."

We entered inside, coughing our lungs out. "You should have atleast made sure it was clean." Izma comments. "I sure will when we come here the next time, Izma Eshaam."

"Shut up!" She closed her eyes, irritated.

"I am damn sure you will be wedded here in this haveli."

"Why would I get married in this rusted building?"

"Because I am sure you are gonna love it."

We start walking in and there are similar doors to the first one we entered. We go upstairs and we tour around. It was royal. Not only royal but also huge. The place expressed how old it was and built with such beautiful architecture. We opened a door and it had a huge hall. We got inside, coughing again.

"It's my father's childhood place. Then my grandfather Akbar Shah built the current Shah Mansion."

"I wonder what room you would have taken if you would have been living here."

"It's up there. I always told Dad that if we were to live here. That room would be mine. That's just lit. He said it was the room of my grandfather's relative. He used to call her phupho. But she wasn't really his phupho, Dad just teased her to make her feel old. She was the same age as my father."

We all heard him as we kept trailing up behind him. We enter another corridor. Pretty smaller than the last but the royalty on the walls swoon us.

"Dad even recommended Asfandyaar Bhai to shift here instead of the villa but the moment Zubab Bhabhi saw this haveli, she was so close to faint. She said she didn't want to get lost when she had to leave for an emergency."

We laughed at that. Thought it was true. Dr. Zubab is such an amazing doctor and a fabulous person. I wonder how Asfandyaar bhai is.

"What if?" Tanisha begins. "Your grandfather closed this haveli because there were jinns here but you opened it just like that and now we can't go back? What if we get lost here?" Izma and Omar rolled their eyes and walked towards the end of the lane. "Don't worry, Tanu. I have the map."

We go behind Omar and Izma. The room we entered had amazing furniture, of course rusted and too bad to be broken. But the structure did blow us off. It was divine and formal at the same time. The room had another which was actually the bedroom and this was the normal space. We walked towards the end of the room and walked towards all the rooms.

We were too tired to walk as we dumped ourselves in a room after cleaning it. The room was the smallest we could find. Probably because we didn't want to end up in a big dusty room, we chose a smaller one than the bigger dusty room and cleaned it to settle. After we were done dumping the pretty clean.