Zindagi

Chapter 6

Friday 9th January

“Zaf relax look he told you to be ready by five and to dress nice, I’m sure you look fine” calmed Sof for the millionth time as I looked in the mirror again.

“Yeah mum and dad said I could only go because they think I’m going somewhere with you, otherwise I’d have to be at home while they went up north” I whispered looking around as if someone was going to pop up any second. 

“Just relax keep me updated and finish getting ready!” she ordered as I smiled at her bossiness.

“What if I’m underdressed for whatever he has planned?” I muttered worriedly over the phone, checking myself out in the mirror I was wearing a short mid thigh beige bardot cable knitwear dress, with my hair curled loosely falling over my shoulders, covering the tattoo I had on my collar bone. I wasn’t a big fan of makeup but I had thick mascara covered eyelashes with an effective amount of eyeliner to make my green-grey eyes stand out and a little amount of lip product to make them plump up.

“Zaf you got his opinion on what you’re going to wear today, he said it was fine so relax get your heeled boots on, show some skin and go he’s probably outside waiting” she demanded as I took a peek out of the window, there outside my drive was a white audi TT, such a typical Pakistani always wants to standout.

“Yeah he is I’m gonna go I’ll talk to you later” I muttered before sighing.

“Zaf look relax, mum and dad aren’t in London it’s only you and Raja at home, he’s likely to be out all night too just make sure you have your key and don’t let Farhan know your parents aren’t home because he will keep you out later then” she warned as I grabbed my brown satchel putting my keys and make up in it. Would I need money? Maybe just in case i grabbed a fifty and put that in my bag as well.

“Alright Sof I’ll call you later okay?” I muttered putting on my thigh high brown leather heeled boots leaving a little skin exposed just to show off the odd sighting of my tattoo, the boots were only around four inches tall, I could just about deal with them.

“In a bit then have fun Zaf behave yourself” she laughed as I hung up the phone, double checking all the windows and turning on the security alarm.

Checking myself in the mirror one last time near the front door, I looked at the shawl I thought i’d take, it wouldn’t be that cold out there I laughed to myself as I decided against it putting my phone in my bag whilst I shut the front door and walked towards Farhan who was playing cricket with the kids on my road.

I stood at his car patiently smiling at the sight before me, he seemed like perfect father material. And to get me this dressed up to go for dinner was a rare sight, surely these were signs to be more than friends no?

I leaned against the car watching him discreetly, I wonder if he knew I was out of the house yet, eh no point bothering him we wouldn’t be pakistani if we weren’t late to something. The window of the car was down as Zack Knight’s song Hurt was playing, he was an amazing singer I had all his songs on my phone, but was this song appropriate for a date? No I shouldn’t read into it too much there was no point in doing that. I self doubt a lot I shouldn’t do that with this, it's the first good thing to happen in a while for me.

One of the kids pointed in my direction, as Farhan turned to look at me, I saw his eyes slightly widened whilst he passed the cricket bat back to the kid. He walked  up to me slowly, I won’t lie I was so checking him out very overtly, god he looked amazing in what he was wearing a grey ralph lauren knitted jumper and black trousers looking jeans, he had a dark blue jacket placed on top of the car as he grabbed it throwing it in the car. His  sleeves were rolled up, I could see the muscles of his forearm oh they looked good too. I don’t think I’ll be able to behave myself today, sighing I smiled at him.