Dur-e-Shehwar | Completed ✔️

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Chapter Twenty two

Her cousins were having more fun moving things than she imagined they would when they all volunteered to help her and Ozhan. They moved the couple's whole wardrobe yet again with additional kitchen stuff; appliances as some of the old ones were not working properly being switched off for over twenty years, toiletries and other home necessaries.

Ayan, Qasim and Ozhan had decided to cover the ground floor with connecting things and moving them around. After that they moved towards the backyard where they watered the plants and planted some new ones too.

Norah and Leen, decided to turn the attic upside down. They explored it and brought down the stored paintings and portraits from there to hang them around the whole house. The two loved digging out old or new things- mysterious things which had meaning and stories attached to them. They were more likely obsessed, that was why they were literary pretending to investigate some crime scene and playing detective.

Aria and Sabrina attacked her room, and took everything they found there literally clean sweeping it. The remaining stuffed toys, her collections of animated movies and their respective models - Shehwar had had almost all of them, they took everything and decided to divide.

Sophia and Shehwar set the other three rooms. They moved the small furniture around to have a changed atmosphere and put new and extra toiletries in the restroom which connected Shehwar's room with the room beside it. Right in front of her room was her parents' room, which had a connected bathroom. The other bathroom was at the end of the hallway, opposite to the staircase leading to the attic. Sophia and Shehwar also managed them.

They all worked tirelessly but with aimless jokes and a little bit of fun here and there making the seemingly impossible task exciting and fun. They were somehow able to wrap up everything by the time night fell. Then they locked the house and went to uncle Usman's. There, they all had a huge dinner to feed their exhausted hungry selves which was also a present for their excellent work, Qasim's word.

After light chatter and delicious dinner, Ozhan and Shehwar decided that they would stay and uncle Mehmood's children decided to do so too as they did not have any school these days and were given a few days off. The whether from the past days wasn't good and rain was predicted with chilly winds in the upcoming weeks.

That was why they couldn't roam around out in the city much. But Norah, Leen and Qasim, the stubborn ones, decided they would go out to enjoy the next morning, even if just for a little while.

'Call em all, I'm the DJ tonight.' uncle Usman exclaimed suddenly throwing his fists up in the air before he began putting on a show as he dramatically placed his hand on his lower back and slightly bowed. 'Pulled a muscle.' That made aunt Rosa shake her head and drag him out of the living room. 'Sleep time, Usman my man.'

'And you kids, don't wake up 'till late!' aunt hollered as if she knew all of them won't be sleeping anytime soon no matter how tired they were.

Despite plans for the next day, they all stayed up past midnight playing video and board games in the basement.

In between that time, Shehwar also received a call from back home. That was when her eyes nearly popped out and she remembered that Ozhan had simply informed them about their safe flight the same night they reached. She talked to them over the phone the next day but it was not much detailed and after that she didn't. At all!