UNDERSTANDING

Understanding

After Zainab went to her room her mother was standing in the middle of her room waiting not so patiently for her, as soon as she entered the room "close the door and come here" her mother said and Zainab obeyed. Her mother started speaking, "Zainab, now its time for you to realize that you are not a little girl anymore as your father has already told you, covering our heads is important in Islam, love! it differentiate us from women of other religion and iam sure you will look beautiful with a hijab on, so i will let you borrow some of my hijabs right now but afterwards we will buy you some of your own you understand?", Zainab stood there nodding she had no problem with wearing a hijab but the way her father imposed that on her and did'nt even asked for her opinion that if she wanted to wear it or not made her feel worthless but still she agreed because the thought of looking like her mother and being different somehow pleased her.

Her mother gave her a liliac head scarf and helped her tie around the head and no doubt she look beautiful, Hafsa was sitting on the bed watching them "you look like a barbie Zainab baji" (baji means sister in urdu) Zainab smiled and said a polite thank you, "i told you hijab increases our beauty dear its a essential for a muslim girl" their mother said.

Farooq ahmed the father of Zainab and Hafsa and husband or Razia workes in a shoe shop he was an arrogant and selfish man and due to his bad attitude nobody liked him, he always sat by himself he wanted everyone to live by his rules and no one ever listened to him except of his family only because they had no other option. Even though Farooq owned the shop and made quite handsome money he never spent them on his family because spending money on women is a waste that's what he thought.

The very next day after Zainab's birthday there was loud noises outside their house Hafsa being curious tried to sneek a peak from the window and saw two bulky men picking wooden furniture and going in to their neighbouring house and a tall boy with raven hair, lean body wearing jeans and a grey kurta guiding them inside and that's when she realized that they are going to have some new neighbours even though that does'nt matter because their father never allowed them to mingle with anyone not even their neighbours!

"HAFSA! HAFSA! have you seen my black trouser, tell me you did'nt take or i will..." Zainab stopped mid sentence when she realized what Hafsa was doing her eyes landed on the lean boy with sharp features and lean body, he looked like a model or that's what she thought. Little did she knew that Hafsa was smirking at her while watching her little stare battle, as soon as Zainab got out of her daze she quickly turned to Hafsa and saw her smirking and all she wanted to do was to hide under the big ocean because if embarrasment, "ehm ehm i see i think we found my brother in law.." and with that Hafsa ran away knowing she has pushed the buttons of Zainab's patience. But Zainab stood there not going after Hafsa because she had just made eye contact with the "model boy" and she is being awkward as ever due to the reason she does'nt communicate with any na mehram boy or anyone at all she forgot to blink and realized that the boy was now smiling at her direction because he noticed how Zainab was staring at him without blinking and breathing...

A/N: ignore my mistakes please!! And a "kurta" is a long shirt men wear in some asian countries which is of knee length.