"There will be no divorce, ever. So think before you say yes." His view fixated on her.
"I've already said yes." Her voice and eyes were dim, too much for anyone to not notice.
"I'm a cruel man so don't you dare humiliate me if you get cold feet and...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
"Do you want to go out with the guys tonight?" Meher looked at her friend who was preparing tea for herself before going to bed.
"Huh, n—no." Shahwar was already focused on her tea, pouring it into her cup.
"But come on Shahwar. What if we meet the hot guys who might be our soulmates?" She tried to give her a reason to get out of the house that she'd been staying in for more than a month ever since she'd come back to Barcelona.
"There's no such thing as that. I'm also a little tired so..." Shahwar shrugged her shoulders and walked out of the kitchen with her tea cup with Meher following behind her.
"There is, there is." Meher tried convincing her but it was all in vain.
"Meher, I have a headache. I'm going to bed. You enjoy." She tried to smile and then went to her room.
Ever since she'd been here she'd been desperate to do something to her life to make herself forget about him. She wanted to forget about how much her heart craved him whenever she'd go to bed and there was no one beside her on the other side. When she'd go out for her job interviews she'd see random couples on the streets that looked so happy and in love then it would remind her of how much she loved him. How much his presence used to make her smile, too easily for that matter.
Her housemate Meher had already gotten a job last year after passing her final year evaluations as a chef at a fine dining restaurant. Whilst Shahwar who hadn't completed her degree, her options were too uncertain for a job. In Spain it was harder to even get a part time job. Though Shahwar had tried to call the dean of her university and speak to him about letting her retake her course, he'd told her that it was not possible especially after such a long gap to resume from the same semester.
She had told Meher about her very successful marriage that was about to end officially any day in the coming week. Though she didn't know why had Ibaad been mailing her different sets of annulment papers which were always updated after one week with a new set of clauses.
She hadn't even read any of the clauses but the moment Ibaad would mail the document she'd read the subject on the mail and close it. She wouldn't even open the papers. Though she had opened the first mail from him. And had cried a lot in front of her friend holding the pen to sign. After which Meher had to give her a sleeping pill for the night. Shahwar had signed it and when she'd stepped out to post it back, her new mail had been delivered that very moment with the new set of papers.
By now she was just tired of it all. She had told Farhana about the divorce and when Farhana had said that she'd call the Kazmis to express her disappointment in them for treating Shahwar wrong, she had begged her not to do so. Rehaan's parents and his sister were not at fault for anything that went wrong between them. Their marriage couldn't work like many couples around the world who had taken a divorce. She had told Farhana to not create a fuss about it back in Karachi. Though Farhana's anger was at peak and it had been hard to persuade her for Dur e Shahwar.
