CHAPTER 18

Door opened and closed. A young lady among the workers working in Raheem's house entered Raheem's room and came to tied it up. She wanted to be going to bathroom to start the cleaning from there when Raheem's phone started ringing on the bed, she went there and took the phone and going downstairs to give it for him, it was Ashar's mother that was calling him.

Raheem got to the second living room at the back of the kitchen, his sister too was there watching movies. Since she had divorced her matchmaking husband, it was their house that she was living and with her son, he just uses to go and spends weekend with his father.

"I thought It's weekend that Basit want to go and spend with his father but the load I saw you packed is more than just a weekend!" Said as he was sitting down.

"His father said that he want him to spend the hole week with him and come back next week Saturday. He is his father, I can't say that his son should not go just told him that he must take good care of him and don't allow any girlfriends of him to maltreat him for me!"

"It good like that, I will miss him!" Said with smiles. The maid got there with the phone and greeted two of them, she had checked everywhere in the house before coming here.

"Sir! Your phone is ringing and I have checked everywhere looking for you!"

"Thank you, please let me have it!" He collected it and the maid left, the phone started ringing again and he picked it.

"Hello Ma! Good morning Ma!" He greeted with respect.

"Morning my Son, how are you doing and are you at home or work?" She was sitting on the chair at their living room.

"Am good ma, I am at home and I hope no problem!" Asked with low voice, it was Friday so he started enjoying his weekend from now.

"No problem at all!, it's about your friend's wedding. You know that we must plan it very well, so it's about the suit that you wear that day. It's my friend in New York that will get it for us, so what I will need it's your size and your other friends size too. Send it to me on WhatsApp and count of number that you are, I will be expecting it. I will call your mother too tell her about the cloth that we friends will wear, that day must be mad!" She was just very happy.

"I will do as you said ma and I will send it to you!" He so surprised and looked at his sister.

"Do that very fast, contacts those important and send everything to me. I want it very fast so that it will arrive with other clothes upper month, this month had end already!"

"Yes Ma!, I will contact them and send it to you, be waiting for my message very soon Ma!"

"Okay my Son, we will do this for you too and my regards to your sister, I will call her too!"

"Ameen Ma, bye Ma!!" He hang up, smile and put the phone down.

"This wedding has been coming serious, is it for real!" Raheem's sister said.

"Am tell you and the person that they are planning the wedding for his not ready, the parents are just planning the wedding for themselves!" Said with low voice.

"All this matchmaking!! It was the one that land me here now, be single is better than be marriage before and that it's the problem I am having now. Even does Ashar love that girl!"

"No!! Not at all and he uses to keep saying it, even he has not been serious with the relationship just carrying ladies and enjoying himself. Even I am thinking that Iqimat too is pretending, she has never had fight with Ashar secretly for cheating just use to shout at the front of people!"

"May be she has own plan. I don't know why our parents are doing that!"

"Let me even call Ashar because I don't know any friends to call or have, may be him has!" He was talking when his elder sister's phone started ringing and she picked it. Didn't spent to fifty seconds and hag up. She stood up and face Raheem.

"Basit's father is here and he is outside already, let me go and meet him!" She said and leaving the living room. Raheem laid on the chair and calling Ashar, he didn't picked and called him back but still he didn't picked so he took his time to call him back.

Raheem's sister and her husband entered the large living room at the same time, the two maids that were there greeted them and they left, went to their position.

"How are you? And I bought this for you!" Basit's father said. He was black in complexion, tall and normal in status like average full grown man.

"I am good and thank you for the gift!" Collected the small bag that the gift was inside from his hand and sat down on the chair when him was standing. Basit came down from the staircase with a maid carrying his bag. Basit was nine years old and he was the same age mates with Semirat's son and it was Basit's school his mother just enrolled him to. Basit ran to his father had very happy.

"How are you my son? And how was school so far?" Asked his son as he was hugging him.

"School has been good Dad and I have miss you!. That thing that I told you other time, have you bought it for me!" Asked and his mother was just looking at them.

"Off course I have did, if you get home now you will meet it in your room!"

"Thank you very much Dad!" He was very happy.

"You are Welcome my Son and we will be on our way now. Also thank you for allowing him to spend the week with me!" Talking to Basit's mother.

"You are Welcome!" Said with lower voice. Because their marriage was matchmaking, it was just trouble upon troubles and two of them were just messing up with each other. It was now that they had been separated that they were now nice to each other and seeing their lovely parts.

Raheem had busy watching movie after calling Ashar several times that he didn't picked. Suddenly, he phone started ringing. It was Ashar calling back and picked.

"Hello big head, called me like ten times that mean you want to say something or gist me about all those girlfriends of yours!" Ashar Said laying on his bed.

"Shut up big mouth!, it's about you. Your mother called me few minutes ago and told me to send mine and our friends suit size, so i called you to send me their mobile numbers because I don't know anybody. She is waiting, call them quickly!"

"Mom!! Called you!, that is how she is calling people up and down. Planning on the stupid wedding that they want to do, those that I don't want them to know she has let them know. All those bloggers and reporters have known as well. What is all this rubbish!"

"There is no way you or I will want to do a wedding that all over the world won't know. So man, send their number that is what I am consigned about!" Making jest of Ashar.

"Shut up you idiot!. Did you see me with another friends except from you!"

"Am surprised but I can't say may be you have them somewhere else!"

"You are mad!. Seriously, this is not fun. I will do the wedding for them, divorce Iqimat and marry to the girl I love with my heart. I am assuring you that. This doesn't make any sense!"

"Please Wait big lips!. Complaining about the wedding and saying marry a girl you love, do you have any one because I know you——"

"Shut up big head! Then I don't have but now there is it. Let me tell you, it's Somia!"

"I talk am!, so you love that girl and I know that is why you employed her as your P. A. So you have been rolling with her and that is why you stop clubbing, you have been enjoying her!"

"Shut up!! Since that wrong night, we haven't had anything together. I just changed for her because I don't want to cheat on her. Also with this stupid wedding, I haven't know how to tell her!"

"Oh!! That mean this wedding mess everything up——"

"I am telling you, but I am just guarding her and showing her some small loves for another man not to take her as I prayed. I am just tired and fed up!" Door of his room knocked and opened.

"Why are you so tired and fed up of what? Through out this year to next year you must be happy because your wedding is at corner!" His mother said as she entered.

"That is mom right, we will talk later!" Raheem Said as he heard her voice and hug up.

"Mom!! It's on call that I am now with Raheem!" Said with lower voice and sat down on the bed.

"Raheem!! He has not send what I asked him to send now!"

"Mom!! That is what he called me for, I don't have any other friends except from him!" Said with loud voice and not happy.

"What!!! I have to start calling my friends to get their sons ready for you, that day must be wonderful. What is this, no other friends!! No there will!" She had felt disturbed and going like a hot tea poured on her body.

"Mom!! What are you here for!" Asked with loud voice.

"To ask for your suit size but with this that I heard it really disturbed my mind!" Ashar got down from the bed without saying a word, opened the wardrobe and brought out a suit.

"Mom! Check the size from this one!" Put it on her shoulder.

"Go and call those necessary, I am busy!" Said with low voice and like he was sending her out of his room.

'I am going now, I have to call my friends on this groom men!" Said and going out, Ashar too followed her. Closed the door after she had left, rest his back at it and breathe in.