Memories We Hold Together

"Getting Closer"

Today's evening was very pleasant, after many days they were all together, they were all sitting, enjoying all the food decorated on dining table while smiling and chatting.

"Food was really good gul"
Rabail never miss a moment to appreciate people,

"Thank you so much, Rabail!"
She said, passing a warm smile.

Umar, Hisham and everyone else were busy in their conversation, except Rania who was spooning the food on the plate with a blank face.

Everyone felt his indolence but no one commented anything because they all could understand it.

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"Don't cry so much, I don't like seeing you cry."
She got startled at Rehan's voice and turned towards him while wiping her tears.

"Tell me- what happened?!"
On her continuous silence, he said with soft eyes,

"I- I'm so ashamed Rehan, Forgive me please."
She lowered her eyes and felt extremely embarrassed.

"Hey- you're still stuck on what happened last week? You dumb."
while hugging her, he chuckled at her silliness.

"It's okay- i can understand what were your feelings at that time and to be honest what you did was justified."
He looked at her with soft eyes and smiled a little,

"B-but what you did was-"
She sniffled,

"Let's forget about what has happened already, we can't do anything. Hmmm?
Plus there's something I want to talk about. "

"What is it?!"
She looked at him with confused eyes,

"I have to talk about Ali and you!"
And upon hearing this, his face became more pale,

"Sit here and listen carefully to me!"
He was asking her to sit on the sofa.

"But... I..."

"No, you won't say anything, just listen to me!"
He also sat on the sofa after cutting his words!

"Look, Rania, I can understand Ali's behavior and Ali's words are hurting you a lot, but it is not Ali's fault either. Put yourself in his place and think, if something like this happened to you, Don't you feel bad too?"

"Yes, I feel bad, but I never say such bitter things!"
She spoke as if burning,

"You can say that because you are not in his place! At first I was also mad at Ali because at that time I lost my conscience, but when the anger cooled down I thought and realized that we didn't do right. We should have told all this before the wedding!"
Guilt rushed over him.

"Still his behaviour doesn't justified."

"Perhaps- Rania, we'll sit together and solve your problem, Okay? wherever you need me, I will help you, I'll talk to Ali myself and apologise to him.

" Say something?! "
On her silence, he said,

Looking at rehan, she did not answer, got up and left, and Rehan sat there with helplessness.

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They both held hot cups of coffee, sat on a small space near the window of the room, enjoying the view outside,

‎" The cool fresh air, the dim street lights on the road, they could see people walking, they were looking everywhere, except each other,

‎" I've tried knocking dome sense in rania, hope she understands and do something good."

His eyes still on the road,

‎"I hope so, she's much smarter than you."

She quickly took a sip, to hide her mischievous smile,

‎he stared at her for a while, then an amused chuckle left from his mouth.