Makhfi

chapter 40

Chapter 40

Zunaira's POV

Zunaira: "What deal was Anural talking about Armaan."

I gazed at him as I waited for him to answer my question. Armaan suddenly found an interest in everything, he kept gazing around my room not bothering to answer me.

Zunaira: "ARMAAN!" I yelled at him.

Armaan: "kya hai pagal larki, kaan phar diya mera." I narrowed my eyes on him. Main pagal! How dare he?
Zunaira: "main pagal? At Least I didn't fake my own engagement. At least I didn't keep everyone in the dark for months. At least I have the guts to tell the other person that I like them." I screamed at him, my temperament increasing by every word. God it all felt so good to vent out after months.

Armaan: "puhlease...you have the guts? You were so dang jealous of Anural throughout this fake engagement, you hated her thoroughly and yet you never said a word to men. This is your guts." he threw back his reply at me making me look at him with mouth agape.

Zunaira: "who lied to you and told you I was jealous of her." I asked and then questioned myself too. Was I jealous? If I was, my jealousy was that opaque? Horror washed over my face. Dang it! Maybe I was jealous but why should I accept that? It was better to play the blame game and lucky for me I'm quite good at it.

Armaan: "it was written all over your face that you were jealous, you cursed her out multiple times whenever I told you that we can't do something because I plan on doing it with Anural. Shakal dekhney wali thi tumhari." he smugly smiled at me after exclaiming. The audacity this man had.

Zunaira: "That was not jealousy, it was resentment. And it was all because of you. Whenever we were together the only thing you did was to talk about her or talk to her..." he cut me off mid sentence.

Armaan: "Dekha, you proved it yourself that you were jealous." I repeated my words again and bit my lip. Maybe playing the blame game was a bad idea.

Zunaira: "still, agar tum mughey passand kertey thay you could've just told me. Yeh sab natak kyun kiya? Aur upar se when somehow we ended up married, you still chose to ignore me. So what do you expect that I wouldn't think that you were regretting marrying me..."

Armaan: "who regretted marrying? Tum aisey muhn phula ker phir rahi thi jaisey ke zabardasti ki shadi ker wadi ho."By this time both of us were directly screaming at each other. Standing opposite each other.

Zunaira: "What was I supposed to do? I didn't get my dream wedding, I didn't get to wear my dream wedding dress. You took it all away from me." I accusingly pointed at him. Armaan really dared to give me a look which really said 'are you insane?'

Armaan: "So not getting to dress up and buy new clothes was the only reason that you were upset......" he questioned.

Armaan's POV

Zunaira actually had the audacity to look at me sheepishly and tried to hide her smile which was threatening to show up.

Zunaira: "I mean..." I took a deep breath before I spoke again.

Armaan: "Do you realise how worried I was that in one way or another I might've forced you in this relationship." I exclaimed.

Zunaira: "yeah right! How could've forced me to do something I don't want to do." Her words bought such a relief to know that she was not forced into marrying me. I took a seat on the sofa, I didn't even realise when I had stood up. A burden was lifted from on top of me. She was not forced. She willingly agreed to marry me. Wait what?

Armaan: "So you willingly agreed to marry me?" I inquired. A small smile made its way on my face. Zunaira didn't respond but I got my answer.

Oh thank Allah!

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Author's POV

Mehrma and Shahzain were sitting in the garden, both of them were having coffee. Shahzain was busy on his phone while Mehrma was busy looking at him.

Mehrma: "if you had the opportunity to leave me and marry someone else, would you have done that?" Mehrma's question caught Shahzain off guard. He had never really thought about it. He had accepted their relationship from the start.

Shahzain: "Never really thought about it, if I'm being completely transparent about it then my decision all depended upon you from the start." Mehrma's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

Mehrma: "How so?" she inquired.

Shahzain kept his phone aside and gave all his attention to his wife.

Shahain: " Matlab ke when I got to know about our Nikkah, the thing that mattered to me was that if we can have an understanding or not. And if you wanted this marriage or not, if you had denied then I wouldn't give anything to this relationship." Shahzain's words make sense and if Mehrma thought about it her reasoning was also similar to his.

Mehrma: "honestly, if I think about it, probably i'll have the same reasoning." her reply made Shahzain relieve a breath he didn't know he was holding back. Thank god!

This woman was the bane of his existence. And he knew he would not survive without her. He was thankful for her presence in his life. She was the light to his darkness.

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Shahvaiz walked alongside Mahnoor as she was gazing at the night sky. Their relationship had developed a lot more in these past months. The couple steps they had taken back due to that incident were now way behind. Everything was perfect and may it remain that way. Ameen!

Mahnoor: "kya dekh rahe ho?" she questioned, still staring at the moon.

Shahvaiz: "yahi ke how much of an idiot I was to let all of that happen." Mahnoor knew Shahvaiz still blamed himself for what had happened, but she knew that the damage that was done was never his intention. He never wanted to hurt her in any way. She had forgiven him the very night but it took her some time to voice it too. Both of them were human after all and all human's make mistakes. It's better to learn from those rather than to repeat them. Mahnoor just smiled at him, making him give her a smile in return. He was perfect the way he was and she'll never want him to change himself.

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Everything was perfect. Their stories may have started out rough but they all knew that with each other's support, they'll emit every problem out of their way.

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THE END

It's the end, the journey of these 6 have come to an end. Their ride throughout had ups and downs but at the end everything went well.

Another book done.

This was my very first book that I have ever written so it means alot to see it coming to an end. Thank you everyone who has joined me in this journey from the start and in between, it means a lot that you gave my story a chance.