Levirate [Haniaal/Zarry]

Chapter 18

September 2023

Harley and Harry are awoken by what sounds like Gemma's voice at his door. Harry checks the time and it is just after 5am and he cannot think of any reason why Gemma would be here unless Zayn is a blabbermouth and told her about the short hospital stay. There's a knock again on his bedroom door and he yells for the person to come in. Fahima walks in, bright smile and flowers in hand. She asks Harry to join them downstairs and exits with Harley. Harry gets a nervous twitch because what is Fahima doing at his house on a weekday and why is Gemma here. Did Zayn tell on him. He refreshes himself and walks downstairs, ready to kill Zayn.

"Hi little bro. How are you holding up? Is the replacement husband treating you well" she is sitting at the kitchen island, munching away on cereal looking directly at Harry.

"Ha ha ha how very original Gemma" Zayn responds. 

"This one has sass. You sure know how to pick them Harry. Oh wait----"

Zayn glares at her and responds "Whatever Gemma"

"Do you do anything else in this house except sit on that couch and play video games?"

"Not this again. I am working! In case you didn't know, I work for Sony and these games are my job!"

"Really? Could have fooled me"

Zayn is about to respond when Harry steps into the kitchen and tells his sister to lay off "I don't need this so early in the morning. When did you even get here anyway?" he asks smiling widely approaching her with open arms. After quick hugs and kisses the siblings move on to the loving room to catch up. In the middle of the conversation, Harry asks "Where's Fahima?"because he hasn't seen her since coming downstairs and Gemma says "Oh she disappeared somewhere upstairs. She's actually the other reason why I'm here. She called me up for some surprise". 

"Oh....and what's your other reason" Harry looks at Zayn to find out if he told them about his hospital stay. Zayn seems to get the message because he shakes his head no and Harry relaxes. Gemma pulls him under her arm and scratches his growing hair "You of course. I miss you". Harry is giggling away, loving the attention. When Gemma starts rubbing his scalp, he curls more into her chest and purrs. "Such an attention monger aren't you?" teases Gemma. Zayn steals a quick glance and smiles at the siblings but that is quickly replaced by a sad face when he thinks of Daniaal. That could have been us.

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Fahima never imagined how hard it would be to move on with living after Daniaal. They had a great relationship and she often finds herself forgetting that she is not working for him anymore. She got into trouble last week when she had suggested that Mr Harris should rather buy alstroemerias mixed with sunflowers instead of red roses for his wife because red roses are so cliche. That was not appreciated at all by her boss, accusing her of meddling in business that she shouldn't meddle in. Lesson learned.

Her new work environment is not bad at all though. It is very similar to what she was doing for Daniaal hence the overstepping. The human mind is a very interesting piece of art. She has asked for a day off today though to grant Daniaal his last wish, a final goobye for her and him. She has worked on this for so long and she needs everything to be perfect. She has been able to set up the gifts in the studio easily without any interruptions, mainly thanks to Zayn who has managed to entertain Gemma's drama so she could work in peace. First part completed.

The second part was very difficult. But again Zayn has been instrumental in ensuring its success. There was no way that she would get Daniaal's death certificate without alerting Harry that something was up so she turned to the Malik brother to get it from the study or get Yaser's copy. Once that was done, Anne assisted with the next part, getting Gemma to London. The only part remaining was the flower shop. After a quick to check on the delivery, she made her way downstairs to reveal the surprise.