The Bad Boy's Girl (COMPLETE)

Rejection

I can't believe my ears for a few seconds as Umer looks down and a flash of red glows in his cheeks. Umma shares a look with Bhai me and baba, and Bhabi stares into Hani's eyes, which are happy, but turing confused at our sudden reactions.

       I think of Umer as a brother! Even if I was single, and not taken, I would still not consider marrying him! I don't know how he could. But that's not the case here. They don't know that they're about to attend my own niqah with another man and not him soon.

     "Is- something's wrong?" Umer asks worriedly, and we share really nervous and worried looks. I wipe my sweaty hands on my blue maxi dress, and it would be so bad if we denied this because they are our relatives, and our family friends.

       Hani raised me like her own.

"Well, uh, we have something to tell you as well, um. Annie is getting married having her niqah, in a few days, and we wanted to surprise you all. We where going to tell you when you guys couldn't come, but you came?" Bhai tried to explain and Hani broke into a gasp, and covered up quickly, looking at her heartbroken son.

"We're sorry, Hani," Umma agreed, tears in her own eyes, never excepting this to lead to this. Surprise, surprise. Umers face lost its shine and its blush immediately but he slowly recovered, blinking and running a hand through his hair, confused to what just happened. The house is silent for a solid minute as Hani and Umer take this news in and me and my own family take their proposal in.

"It's not your fault." Hani nods and then her face flushed with embarrassment. "I'm sorry for acting like this. It's just this took me a back so quickly and shockingly. We thought we would leave this city with a bride. With Annie, the daughter in law I always wanted."

     "Congratulations, Annie, though." She adds, and Umer smiles but of course, knowing him all these years, he's not happy. "I guess it just wasn't meant to be."

       "Congratulations too," he mutters and the embarrassment never leaves my face.

***

I'm getting married in a series of days and this happens. The guilt clings onto me like a little baby with its mother. We should've told them before. They got their hopes up and it all came crashing down.

   Amir's calling right now and I have no idea why. Muna hasn't picked up yet and I've left ten voicemails. All I want to do is talk to her because she always knows how to make me feel better, but I also know on the other hand that I'm pushing my luck because it's Amir that's calling. He never calls anyone unless he actually has an emergency or is friends with the person. With this, I pick up his call reluctantly, running a hand through my hair. The tears have dried on my face.

"Hey," he greets me.

      "Hi? Is there a reason why you called?" I reluctantly ask, still shocked.

"Can I not call my acquaintances?" He teases.

"No one said you can't. I'm just a little shocked to see you call after everything." I shrug, despite the fact that I know he's not even in front of me.

"After what? We had a great talk yesterday and I just feel like I need to finally step in and act better towards you. It's not your fault all of this is happening to us, and so I'd like to take up your offer of being acquaintances." He admits to me, and relief washes over my whole body. Holy shit. Thank the lord. He's finally come to his senses.