Later that day, as he told Haseeb came and picked her up taking her to haveli. As soon as she had entered haveli, her grandmother was already waiting for her and gave her alots of kisses and hugs. She met everyone, all her cousins. It was so over whelming to see them after so long but she didn't know why there was a weird hollowness in her heart. Despite, everyone being gathered around her, her eyes tried to find one specific face which wasn't present here. She was restless and she had no answers to it.
That feeling had encompassed her heart ever since Irtaza left her. Her gut feeling was constantly alarming of something ominous to come up. It was strange. Just like now, her heart suddenly begin to beat erratically for no specific reason. She could just pray to God that everything would be fine.
The whole day, she just talked and talked with her cousins. But again, Dua's attitude kept bothering her. She was ignoring her. Zahra herself didn't make an attempt to conversate with her nor did she.
"So Zahra, what was your life like without me?" Haseeb asked. They all were sitting in lounge. Dua, Haya, Saif and Haseeb and all the elders, except her grandfather and both her uncles. Shehryaar was in Karachi to finish the guard the batch of consignment, Irtaza had assigned to him that day.
"It must be breathtaking." Dua cut in, sarcastically replying to Haseeb. They both loved teasing each other, all the time. It was a kind of obsession for them.
"These are my thoughts when I think you'll be leaving this house some day"
"I bet you'll cry like... like a monkey, Haseeb"
"Wtf? You don't even know how to relate! Really...monkey Dua" he laughed.
"Yeah because you look like a monkey." Dua retorted.
"And you like a gorilla!"
"And you like a snake!"
"And you like a lizard!"
"And you like a big fat elephant!"
"Elephants are cute!"
"But you're not!"
"Can you both stop fighting?" Haya cut in, stopping there meaningless fight.
"Ask him!"
"No ask her!"
"Ask him haya!"
"Ask her haya!"
"You both shh!" Saif cut in. He was Haseeb's elder brother and it was a rule in haveli not even a single voice infront of elders so they both shut at that.
"Thank god you saved me from Haseeb, Saif bhai" Dua murmured.
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Possession
Roman d'amour"From today onwards, I will take every decision of your life. What you will eat, where will you go, when will you speak, what you will wear it will be all as I wish. And if you dare to defy me then till now it must have been crystal clear to you how...
