Hiraeth

Chapter 13

During the Aftari, Hiba again asked her mother-in-law about taking hana for shopping but this time, Zayn said that they were just back from America after 10 long years and he wanted to spend some time with his mother so again the plan was canceled. After Aftari, everyone went for Maghrib Namaz and after having dinner, they sat together in the lawn to spend some time with each other. Hana went to her room and opened her laptop to do some work.

Hana had started working for a year now. No one in the villa knew that hana is working online. First, she was teaching math to a kid through video calling and then she started working for a school. She made excel files for the school data and arranging all this. The money that hana earned from her jobs was given to someone. Hana gave 90% of her earnings to a woman named Fatima and rest of the 10% was used for her own self. She did not even asked money from her father or mother. Her parents noted this but they did not think much about it.

Hana worked till Sehri and then went down to have Sehri. After Fajr namaz, she went to sleep and then woke up very late at around 2PM. Hana offered her Duhr prayer and then started her job as there was a new task assigned to her. At 5PM, she went down to help in preparing the Aftari as she did not want to face Zamid Bhai's wrath again.

It was 29th Ramazan and it looked like today was the last Roza. After it was confirmed that it was the last Roza, all the girls and boys decided that they will go out for some shopping and just hang out together.

"Hana! You should also get ready! We are going for shopping and you can also get your clothes as you have not shopped yet! Go and hurry!" Rayaan said to hana. All the cousins groaned and started to complain but Rayaan shushed them. Everyone respected Rayaan as he was the oldest and the most mature one in their family.

"Hana can go with the driver! You guys should enjoy yourself beta!" Dadi jaan said to Rayaan.

"No Dadi jaan! We are all going so it will be better if she goes with all the other girls and not alone with the driver! What's the problem if she goes with us?" Rayaan replied to his Dadi jaan and she just said okay as she never said no to Rayaan.

Hana became happy and she hurriedly went upstairs to get ready. Hiba silently mouthed a 'Thank You' to Rayaan to which he replied with a teasing bow. Hiba laughed at this act as Rayaan never done these types of things in front of his cousins. He was always jolly in front of his aunts, mother and Dadi. Everyone else thinks that he is the most serious person. This bow scene was again not seen by others. Only hiba saw this and this was a sweet gesture.

"Aa bhi jao larki! Kitna time lagao gi!" Zayn shouted impatiently for hana from the front door.

"Aa gayi bas!" Hana said and ran down the stairs in her abaya. Hana smiled at everyone and then they went out after greeting everyone with 'Allah Hafiz'.

Hana sat with Zarmeena, Zayn and Zamid with Zamid in the driving seat and Zayn in the passenger seat. In the other car, Samman, Daniyal, and Rayaan with Rayaan in the driving seat and Daniyal in the passenger seat. Both of the cars went to their first Phuppo's place first. From there, they picked their phuppo's three daughters and one son. Humail, Hala, Hina and Zubair were the names of her kids. Humail and Hina sat in Rayaan's car while Hala sat in the back seat with Hana and Zarmeena.

"I'll meet you guys in the mall. Zaroon is coming to pick me up as I don't want to bring the car! I'm too lazy for that!" Zubair informed them.

"Okay then! Meet you at the mall man!" Zayn loudly exclaimed from the car and they went on to the mall.

They got to the mall after one hour as there was a lot of traffic due to being Chand Raat. When they reached at the mall, all of them waited for Zubair and Zaroon. When they meet, they went to the mall. Hana was feeling very awkward as it was the first time that she had went somewhere with her cousins and brothers. She always shopped with hiba or Asfand.

Hana just silently walked with all of them. They were talking with each other and laughing a lot. All of them were enjoying but hana does not like their behavior as they were too touchy with each other and they were attracting a lot of attention towards themselves. Rayaan and Zamid were on the very end of the group with Hana in front of them and all the others were a little further from them. Hana was deliberately following her other cousins from a distance as she was feeling very self-concious with all the attention on them.

"Thorha jaldi chalo! ITna susti say chal rahi ho k jesay sara time mall khula hi rehna h!" Zamid said to hana with a little nudge from the back and again he maintained a small distance from her when hana turned in his direction. Rayaan was just silently looking at hana and her reactions.

"Ap agay ho jayain pr me un k sath nhi chalna chahti! Who sab bohot attention gain kr rahay hain or mjhay ajeeb lag raha h!" Hana softly said to Zamid and looked in front of her again.

"Kiya matlab agay chalay jayain hum? Ek to babysitting k liye ammi ko b main hi mila tha!" Zamid said in an annoyed voice.

"Sorry!" Hana apologized and picked a little more speed. All of them were just roaming the mall with girls looking at every jewelry shop and buying thing here and there. Hana just silently followed them from behind.

Everyone was done with the shopping. Even the boys got some shopping done and they were still roaming the mall.

"Kuch lena b hai tmnay ya nhi larki?" Zayn said while turning to face hana at the back of the group.

"Jee! Lena h!" Hana replied softly.

"Tou phir lo na! kab say to mall me ghoom rahay hain! Tmhari wajah say hi abhi tak idher hain hm! Kaha say lena h batao jaldi!" Zayn said to hana.

"Oh acha! Sorry! Wo mjhay laga k ap log enjoy kr rahay hain abhi!" hana said with a dumb face.

"Oh maharani jee! Chaldi apnay liye kuch lo ta'k hum kuch khanay ko ja sakain!" Zayn said mockingly.

"Acha phir udher chaltay hain!" Hana pointed to her left to a large boutique. All of them went to the shop and they looked around with the boys following them.

"Assalamualaikum! How may I help you?" The sales girl asked to them.

"Please show some dresses for her!" Samman said to the lady while pointing towards hana at the back.

"Oh Hana! Welcome Welcome! Abhi tak shopping nhi ki?" The sales girl said after glancing towards hana.

"Jee! Wo bhai aa gaye thay wapis America say or us say pehlay meray papers chal rahay thay! Aj hi time mila!" Hana replied to the lady.

"Acha chalo koi baat nhi! Ao me tmhay kuch dresses dikha deti hn! Wesay tmhara size dubara measure krnay ki to zarurat nhi h na kyun k tmhay dekh kr to nhi lagta k kahi say siza barha h." the girl teasingly said to hana. Hana pouted in anger and a slight blush adored her cheeks.

"Barha hai size mera! Yaha say dekhain itna zyada barh gaya h!" hana said while cupping both sides of her chest. No one was paying much attention to hana as everyone was checking out dresses from the racks and the boys were just casually chatting and occasionally giving a remark here and there.

"Hahaha! Yeah sure love! Whatever helps you sleep at night!" the lady said after controlling her laughter. The sales lady checked her chest size but it was still the same that made hana to pout again.

"Kitna time or lagay ga? Mjhay bhook lagi h bae!" Zubair said while looking at hana. Zubair hurriedly turned back towards the boys and blushed. The boys looked at Zubair's face and looked at hana. She also had a blush on her face and this made them a little confused as to why both of them were blushing.

"Oye! Why are you blushing like a school girl?" Daniyal asked Zubair.

"Nothing! Just that hana was getting her measurements checked and it was really awkward." He told everyone which make them to chuckle a little. Only Zayn, Zamid and Rayaan became angry.

"Okay now shut up! Let's leave from the shop! Girls! We are leaving! Come to the food court when she is done!" Zayn said angrily. Rayaan and Zamid had their fists tightly shut with anger but they remained quiet. Zamid was glazing at the floor while walking and Rayaan was openly glazing at Zubair from the back of the group as they were again at the back of the groups. Rayaan and Zamid are the oldest and are also very close friends. They are the best duo since they were small. They are the mother hen of the group also.

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