A Tale Of Happiness

Chapter Three: A new beginning

Everyone was sitting on dining for breakfast in Sulieman's house except from tooba who had early class that day. Zakariya was as usual reading the newspaper and Saleha was eating breakfast while tapping on her phone. She also left for her work right after having her breakfast. Fatima was looking for a chance to talk with her parents alone. It had been two days since Sarfaraz's family came and even after Nagina kept calling Naheed asking about Fatima's answer, she seemed desperate and it visually showed that she wanted this relationship to seed out well and really wanted Fatima as her daughter in law. Fatima though didn't take decision because of nagina's persistent calling or her desperation, she looked into things well, the family was great and is a practicing family, so she decided that it was good enough, her mother wanted her to marry soon as well so she decided to accept the proposal. these days girls don't get that much proposals as her mother told her although she believed in timing, Allah has brought this chance on their doorsteps, and that too the family was good and ready to accept her without any conditions. So those thoughts made her talk out.

"Abu? Ami?," She called to get their attention "I've umm... I've made my decision for the proposal." If the parents weren't attentive before they certainly were now, after hearing about the proposal.

"So what is your decision beta?" Zakariya asked,

Fatima took a deep breath and finally replied, "it's a yes Abu," she averted her eyes from her hands where she was looking while uttering those words to her parents "it's a yes from me."

Next thing, she was enveloped in a hug by Naheed, who was murmuring 'Alhamdulillah's' " is it your final decision beta?, I've told you to think wisely and not to pressurize yourself."

She smiled towards her mother who was tearing up with happiness, and and replied to her father, "Yes Abu, that's my final and last decision."

"Allah has heard my prayers, my elder daughter is going to marry soon, Allah hu Akbar, I need to pray nawafil of Shukar(gratitude)." Naheed was on the moon and hurried over to her room to thank Allah for his blessings.

Zakariya who finally accepted that her daughter had decided to get married and when the news actually settled in his head he as well got sad and put his hand over Fatima's head to give her lots of prayers for her future. "I'll call Sarfaraz's parents to inform them about your decision. I'm sure they'll be madly happy as well." He smiled and took his phone to call Khalid.

Fatima just prayed to Allah to make things turn out well, and start thinking about her 'new beginning of life' with a certain person in mind. 'hopefully he is what I had dreamed of, Insha'Allah'
Although she has her finger crossed.

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Hassan was hurriedly packing his clothes and other belongings, because last night he had wasted most of his time with his friends, they guilt tripped him into staying by saying he visit rarely, so after coming back to his hotel he wanted to do the packing but tiredness made him doze off the next second, which landed him in this situation. Although he still had three hours left for his flight and Imaad was going to drop him off on airport. There was unpredictability in imaad's arriving because he was never on time, so that's why he needed to check his second plans.

There was a knock on his door, surprised by a sudden interruption while packing, he walked toward his room door, only his secretary and his friend Imaad knew about his room number so he was curious to who will be interrupting him at this moment Because both of them knew he was running short of time. He opened the door and it was Imaad standing there dressed in all black attire, with a sarcastic smile on his face.

"I know, I missed you too." He walked in hassan's room and head straight to the bed.

Hassan just shook his head on his sentence, because they had just met last night and his sarcasm was everywhere, he got back to his packing and asked Imaad who was now laying on his bed "I wasn't expecting you this early."