Chapter 6

Zayn's pov:

Me and ayaan were just entering our room, when we heard the girls. I signaled him to come and cheak it out, first he surged but then came as long. "What was that", abeer said in a rather high voice. "It was revenge", alisha replied.

Whaattt.

Our eyes busted in surprise as we moved closer to the door.' Btw who were you talking about with ayaan, huh', abeer asked. I looked at him, and his face was red. "It was you'", she said.

Whatttt (part 2).

i controlled a laugh but the girls busted into laughter.

" And for zayn, I pretended flirting with hamza when he called for some numerical we got as a group project, I wanted to know if he does really like me or something cause he had been giving me the creeps and if he did .then he would have been jealous, and he was, he damn was", I heard Alisha explain. Shit. Aayan gave me a death glare. He signaled me to go up to the roof , to have the talk. We quietly left for the stairs. God it's gonna be so weird telling him, I am in love with her sister....

We reached and stayed quiet.

Care to explain, he asked.

I guess I should be just straight forward and go for it.

"Okay, I am in love with ur sister, and I know this is really weird and stuff but I gotta admit, I am in love with her", I said. He was quiet for a minute. Then he patted my shoulder and said" I understand, but how and when and why".

He said, "remember that time in 6th grade, when I fought with one of the boys in my class and got suspended for a week. The dude I fought, he used to be my best friend but then he started making other friends and just left me and then suddenly he started hanging out with me again because he actually used to had this crush on Alisha, and when he told me, well u know what happened".

"U beat the heck out of him", ayaan said.

" Did u tell her", he asked. "No, should I", I asked. "Well,… knowing her I know she will make a fuss about you for a week with her gang and then forget about you if you don't confess", he said. "So I should confess', I asked. "Yeah, dude", he said. "And how", I asked.

"Brother, that's the hard part", he said. Then we got into planning. And God knows when we stopped. Ayaan was a bit hesitant at first but he got easy, I mean if he had feelings for my sister, I would have been the same. It was good to have a friend to talk about it with. And I couldn't be more happy it was him.

Aunty had invited my family for a dinner. I could see mom noticing my fairly odd behavior. She would catch me stealing glances of Alisha and then look at me with ahem eyes and I would smile and look away.i was always close with my mom. I used to tell her everything when I was a kid. After school we would have lunch together and I used to tell her all about school. But noway I am telling her this. Not yet. I will just let her make her guesses.

(the night before the engagement)

Tomorrow is the big day, I said. Aimen and I went early to bed today to get our beauty sleeps and get all the rest we need,cause tomorrow is going to be a long day. Yeah, she replied. I could feel the uncontrollable nerves. Her phone rang. Who is it, I asked. It's Ali, she said. She wasn't picking up.

"Pick up", I said.

'No way", she said.

The call went off.

'Why", I asked.

"I want to keep things halal", she said.

"Well, he isn't gonna ask you to send nudes", I said sarcasticly. She threw a pillow at me. Gimme ur phone, I said. She looked at me for a min. I extended my hand. She handed me it, and said "don't do anything stupid". I called Ali bhai and turned on the speaker. Aimen freaked out. He received the call immediately.

"Why weren't u picking up",he asked. "Cause I wanted to keep things halal", she answered.

"Well talking to me isn't haram", he said in a teasing voice.

" Yeah,I realized that", she said. "R u nervous", she asked. "Yeah, a bit", he said. "Me too', she said." I was just having some second thoughts", he said teasing her even more. "Shut up", she said, finally smiling. "We are gonna be okay"", he assured her. She took a deep breath and said yeah we are.' Now now my oh so sweet, soon to be fiance, go to sleep and stop stressing", he said. She blushed. "Yeah okay,bye' she said. Bye, he replied and ended the call. I was literally swooning at these 2. "awwww ,soon to be fiance, omg, I am so dead, i never knew he was a sweetheart", I teased her. We spent the rest of the night, recalling memories of our childhood, until slumber took over.

authors note :

i know a lot of people may be confused here but in my culture as dating is not allowed , parents often get the couple engaged so they get to know each other and announce them as officialy taken. their usually is an event with close family and relatives. and yeah it is compleeeteeely arranged. their are no physical bonding allowed before the nikah (wedding) but they are allowed to talk on the phone.