Chapter 19 : Welcome Home!
They both were sitting in car, going towards Zaroon's house. But Zehra was still Shedding silent tears and in between sniffing. Zaroon wanted to tell her to don't cry but he just didn't know how to tell her that.
He removed his handkerchief from his pocket and forwarded it to her.
"Please don't cry, you will have headache!" His tone was full of concern which made her smile through her tears.
She tried to control her tears and after some moments of trying she succeeded and her tears ceased. For which Zaroon was grateful as he can't see his girl to cry so much.
They arrived at his house and as Zaroon has already stated,her head started pounding due to continuous crying. Zaroon has opened a door towards her side when she was brought back to the earth from her thoughts.
Zaroon gave her his hand which she held, in return he tightened his hold on her hand , he bend down, straightened her Lehnga and helped her to stand up as Afi was in another Car and she was having difficulty in getting off from car. She finally stood up on her feet but he didn't left her hand.
He leaned a little to her side and slowly whispered in her ear "Welcome Home!"
Her nervousness seems to be back as her heartbeat again accelerated and hands became sweaty. But the way her cheeks turned red could be taken as a sigh of blushing which was concealed from world due to her veil.
Zaroon got to know about her nervousness due to sweat on her hand and in order to make her relax, he started drawing circles on back of her palm with his thumb. His small actions was spreading a kind of warmth settling in her heart and pit of stomach, after a while strangely her heart was back on its normal rhythm.
They have entered the house and made sit on couch. She was coming in his house for the first time but her pounding headache was not allowing her to have a look in her surroundings. His mother came and made them eat some sweets and blessed them with enormous numbers of prayers. For sometime this continued with various different ladies.
Then Afi came and took her towards his room, now their room. His room was simple no decorations were done, no candles, no roses for which she was grateful for as she is allergic to Roses.She sat down on edge of bed.
"Afi, give me medicine which i have kept in my handbag." She said while rubbing her temples.
"Are you having a headache?" She asked while rummaging through her things in her handbag.
"Yeah!" She replied while taking medicine from her hand.
"But Zeh, have some food first then have medicine!" She said eyeing her movements.
"I don't want to eat, i will have medicine. If my headache will allow then i would eat something." She said after gulping medicine with water.
After some time her headache got little better, so she freshen up and prayed her salah. Then she Redid her makeup a little. Afi was settling her jewelry and Mangtika when there was a knock on the door.
"Zaroon Bhaijaan is here!!"Afi said in sing sang voice in return she got a smack from Zehra on her arm.
"Bhabhijaan, why are you getting angry? I am going right!" She said still teasing her to which Zehra glared at her.
"Zehra" she said while going towards door suddenly turned and said " I forgot to tell you" Zehra got confused on what is she saying and raised her brows " All the best" She said and rushed to open the door.
Zehra got flustered on her words. Then only a second after Zaroon entered in room and came towards her.
"As salamu alaikum!" He said while sitting in front of her as she was sitting supporting her back to headrest.
"Walaikum as salam" she replied and lowered her lashes.
" Nikah Mubarak!" He said still staring at his beautiful wife.
"Alhamdulillah, same to you!" She said.
"You didn't ate anything, why?" He asked her remembering that she didn't had anything for dinner.
" I was having headache, and I don't feel like having anything." She said to him.
"Wait a minute." He said and went out from the room, she got confused as why he left in middle of conversation.
After sometime, he came back in room with a tray in his hand. Which consist of Some cookies and a glass of warm milk. She visibly scrunched her nose on sight of milk. He flickered her nose and said.
"If you don't want to eat this, so tell me what do you want and i will get it for you." He told her, she thought for a while looking at milk.
"Put some Hot chocolate powder in milk and stir it." She said to him,in return he chuckled at her but nodded his head and got up.
"Sune(listen)" she said and he turned and gave her a smile "Sunaye(Tell)" and told her.
"Do you have chocolate ice cream?" She asked him, he was amused on her question.
"Huh?" He was still in his thoughts, when she said "Nothing, leave it."
"I think we have Vanilla, will that work?" He asked her,in response she nodded her head vigorously like a child, he grinned at her and left.
After making her full glass of hot chocolate with vanilla ice cream complete,they decided to pray Namaz together for happy married life.
He lead the prayer and they prayed their first Namaz together. They both were having fuzzy feelings in their heart. They both felt peace having Eachother.They raised their hands for Dua.
After praying and Dua, he went first to change his clothes and she decided to remove her makeup and jewelry.
She first removed her jewelry and kept it safely in drawers of vanity, then she started removing pins from her hairs. She was in mid way removing her pins when he came out of Washroom wearing gery color v-neck t-shirt and black track pant,and sat on his side of bed.
He kept staring at her movements without blinking, due to his intense gaze her cheeks turned rosier and hands started to tremble, but she tried to kept her posture composed and opened her hair.
She released a sigh of relief when her mid waist length black tresses tumbled open on her back. She then started working on her face with makeup remover wipes. After finally finishing with everything she applied her moisturizer and lip balm. She combed her hairs in loose braid and went to washroom after taking her night dress from her suitcase.
He was just staring at her all the while as how her rosy cheeks turned more rosier, how her facial features got relaxed opening her hairs. He has first time only seen her hairs. They were long, black and looked smooth and silky. Her features look more appealing to him without makeup. She has amazing features and seems like that her silky,smooth, black hairs will going to become his favorite thing.
He was thinking about her when she came out of washroom wearing blue and black t-shirt and same polka dot printed pajamas,and sat down on her side of bed, beside him and covered their legs with quilt. They both were sitting beside Eachother and their shoulders were brushing. He forwarded his hand and held her hand which was resting on her lap.
"You have got such dark color!" He complimented her while eyeing her dark maroon colored henna.
"Oh! Thank god you said that." She said excitedly and turned in front of him, he got confused on her behavior.
"Search your name in henna." She said while forwarding both of her hands in front of him.
"Is it necessary?" He said trying to tease her, she glared at him.
"I am searching." He said immediately,while tracing his index finger on her henna clad hands and she smiled looking at him engrossed in finding his name.
He had found his name in 2 minutes only but he kept tracing his finger on her hand trying to rile up her. When after 5 minutes he didn't say anything.
"You have one more minute, if couldn't find your name then you would be counted as loser." She said as she was sure he won't be able to find his name, and mentally smirked at him.
After hearing that he immediately put his finger on his name and smirked at her in victory. She just pouted her lips in defeat.
"Don't worry, i have something for you." He said looking at her pouting form, he turned and took out a small velvet box from under his pillow and opened it in front of her.
It was delicate diamond ring having a leaf design and small diamonds, as zehra has once told him that she doesn't like anything extravagant. So the ring was complete example of delicacy and elegance.
Zehra grinned looking at the ring, he took her left hand and made her wear the ring in ring finger.He lifted her hand and brushed his lips on her knuckles, in response she lowered her eyelashes and blushed. He just smiled looking at her blushing form.
Zehra was observing her ring when she suddenly get yawn due to tiredness.
"Let's call it a night." Zaroon said looking at her yawning but she shook her head in negative.
"But i want to talk to you." She told him.
"Okay, we will talk while lying down, we will talk till one of us sleep." He said knowing that she is tired and won't sleep if he would directly tell her to.
They lied down facing each other and he grabbed her hand and asked her.
"Okay tell me, what do you wanna talk?" He asked looking in her honey brown orbs.
"We should play 20 questions." She replied while getting lost in his charcoal black eyes.
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