Sold For Marriage

11. Does he feel lonely?

ZYNAH

A few days later.

"Good good, you're doing it great" Nazrudin exclaimed as he clapped his hands in triumph. His smile was so big that he might be stretching his face out. "Now let's do this again"

Apparently, Nazrudin knows how to sign language and learned it in the first place so that he can talk with his deaf little cousin. Doctor Aidan was friends with him and Alia and suggests him to teach me and Zhafir sign languages.

Mother and father are busy people so they didn't have any time to learn it with us. However, Zhafir who was the closest with me in the family and the only person who didn't have anything better to do, decided to join, saying that at least one family member should know how to communicate with me.

"That's wrong Zynah, this. Do this" Nazrudin said calmly as he showed some movements on his hands. I nodded and tried to duplicate him.

Due to the fact that my heart was beating fast, I can't really focus on the lessons a lot. Zhafir was having a great time but me however, was a disaster. Everytime I tried to follow Nazrudin, one look at his face and I immediately gone red.

"Yeah! You got that right! Zhafir?" He exclaimed happily when I got it correctly then gave a little smile on Zhafir. I was smiling so big that my cheeks had hurt and felt like it's going to be cut half.

"Guess that's it for today, it's getting late right now" Nazrudin said as smiled at me in which I immediately turned my head away from. Dear Allah, this man will the death of me.

"You want to have dinner with us?" Zhafir asked as he grabbed the papers on the coffee table and places them in a shelf for tomorrow's lessons. He then turned back to look at Nazrudin who nodded.

"Yeah sure, just let me pray Maghrib first" he grinned and hopped to go to praying room.

"So did you learn anything today?" Zhafir asked as we went towards the dining room.

"I do" I signed at him. And I was full of excitement for it. I can't believe that I can talk normally after this, well not normal, but you get the point.

"You're getting the hang of this" Zhafir grinned triumphantly as he signed to me and I smile so big again. Oh Allah, my cheeks are hurting.

Zhafir told me to sit down as he went to the kitchen to tell the chefs to make dinner. I obey him and sat down not too far from the flowers that had sat on the dining table.

Subconsciously I played around with the flowers. I was amazed by the fact that it was real instead of the fake ones. My fake-mother used to have flowers on top of the table but clearly it was fake from how dead it looked.

Now that I think of it, why would they take me away from my blood family. I frowned at the thought. I did heard Nazrudin said I was taken like the movie Tangled.

Dear Allah, that movie was amazing and I fell in love with it after Zhafir showed it to me. I really love the moment where Rapunzel and Flynn Rider was on the boat when lanterns are flying above them.

"And at last I see the light" I hummed to the tune. I may never can speak again but at least I can hummed.

"You're singing that song again huh" Zhafir said as he came back from the kitchen and sat on a chair right beside me, propping his arm up in the table and lean on it.

"Well it is my favourite" I signed to him, fumbling up the words accidentally on the way. "How did you guys meet by the way?"

It has been digging inside my brain for a long time. I knew that both of the companies between my parents and Nazrudin's are having their rivalry relationship, but I never knew how they actually exactly met. Maybe the met on a meeting? I did heard about Nazrudin's company was slowly going bankrupt which I felt bad about.