Bonded By Fate.

Chapter-1

Ayat woke up by the sound of the alarm kept on her study table and clicked the off button of the alarm with half sleepy eyes and again slept away.

Then her phone alarm started ringing at a high note, after listening that alarm she squirmed and finally got up, rubbed her eyes and yawned. She was still feeling sleepy as she slept late last night and was busy doing her college project.

Ayat usually keep two alarms, one in the alarm clock and the other one in the phone. So that even if she sleeps after shutting down the first alarm, she can wake up by the second one and offer her fajr prayer.

After getting up from the bed, she brushed her teeth and by that time she heard the call for the prayer "Azaan" from different mosques that are near by her locality.
She performed wudhu and started praying the fajr salah. She have a good habit of reciting surah yaseen and some ruku's of Quraan shareef after her fajr salah.

When she was done with the recition of both, she made dua and got up from the prayer mat.
After the completion of praying, she sits in her balcony to take in some fresh air daily. Balcony was her favourite spot in her house where she always sits and read her favourite novels and at times even write down hers.

Sunday was always a boring day for Ayat as she can't figure out what to do? And always end up lying on bed, watching tv on sundays. She was having a very compact schedule of her college as she was in the final semester of her final year. She was always busy in doing some or the other things related to college but on sundays she want to be away from all the college chores and spend time with her family.

After reading some chapters of her favourite novel " The girl of my dreams" by "Durjoy dutta". She went downstairs to have something as she was feeling hungry. When she went in the kitchen, she saw bread in the fridge. She took some slices and dipped in egg and shallow fried the slices.
After eating, she started doing dishes and her mother came from behind and said "Beta, you hardly get one day in a week from your busy schedule and in that too you will do work, go and rest, I will do these kitchen chores".
"Ammi, I get a whole one day every week to rest and what about you, you work all 365 days in a year. So nothing will happen if I help you, we both will work together and complete the work sooner so that we can talk the rest of the time " she replied with a smile.

After completing the household chores with her mother, she heard the crying of Manha from Aaliyah's room and went there.
"Why my baby is crying? Please stop crying" she said while tickling her and she started laughing by that tickling sensation.
"Aapi, are you fine now?" she queried.
"Yes, Alhumdulilah. I am fine now, just have a bit of headache still" she replied.
"Take rest. Don't think about that person anymore please, you should not get dejected by the thing he has done. Allah has better plans for everyone" she said and consoled her.
"Let's have our breakfast" Ayat said and picked up Manha and went out of the room.

After having her breakfast, Aaliyah went in her room and Ayat was playing with Manha for almost an hour, when Manha slept away. She took her in the room and laid her on the bed, pecked on her forehead and went in her room.

She continued reading the novel and when she felt sleepy, she took a nap.
She woke up when the clock striked '2' and it was the time for her zuhr prayer. She got up, made wudhu and performed her salah.
She then heard her ammi saying"Ayat see who is at the door, I am in the kitchen"
"Ok, ammi. Coming" she replied and took her hijab tied around her head and went downstairs.
She never forgets to wear hijab, that further enhances her beauty.

When she opened the door, she was astonished to see Fiza, Bella, Aminah and Nuzhath her school besties. She greeted everyone and hugged them tighter, tears of joy started flowing down from her eyes as she saw them after a very long time.
She then took them inside the house, made them seated and went running in the kitchen to bring something to drink as it was too hot outside.

She then came with a tray full of mojito filled glasses, that was her speciality.
"It's been long since we didn't drank mojito made by you" fiza proclaimed.
Everyone shared a laugh.

"I can't even express, how happy I am after seeing you guys" Ayat said in an excited tone and served them the drink.
"Did you guys remembered, How ayat slapped a boy when he bumped into her" Bella said and laughed at that memory.
"I remembered" everyone proclaimed and smiled.
" He purposefully bumped into me, that's why i slapped him" Ayat said while taking a sip from the glass.
"We all know your equation with guys" nuzhath said and winked at her.
"How is Aaliyah aapi now? I know it is difficult for her to get over that" Aminah queried in a worried tone.
"She is fine alhumdulilah, resting now as she was not feeling well" Ayat replied.
"How is your cute little niece Manha" fiza asked in an excited tone.
"She is fine too, she also just slept." Ayat replied.
"What about your studies guys, is everything going smooth" Ayat asked them.
"Yepp, everything is going well" Fiza and nuzhath replied.
"See, we forgot to tell the thing for which we planned this meet up" Bella said while keeping the glass on the table.
"We are actually here to share a good news with you" Fiza procalimed in a happier tone.