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PRE- WEDDING PREP: (1)

> 2 months, 3 weeks till the wedding

The whole house was up and everyone was talking and chatting as if no one had work to attend to

"Shumayll! Did you call Saleha?" asked Loriza and Shumayll nodded

"She will be here any moment, she was with the wedding photographers- they will be doing pre wedding photos too" said Shumayll before running off to his chachu's call

"Oh Allah, we have so much to do! Where is my checklist?!" said Chachi, asking her sons for it

Aarib shrugged and Aariz handed her the iPad which has the checklist

"Bhabhi, where is Iqra?" asked Chachi and Loriza nodded upstairs

meanwhile, upstairs in the girls den, Iqra was seated across Ruqayyah with Nabaahat and Nafaasat seated adjacent to them and Huma seated on the chair near the bed, checking up the flowers

"Orchids?" asked Huma and the girls considered it

"Lets go outside and walk around as we think" said Ruqayyah and everyone nodded

Iqra stood up and stretched, smiling at the fact that Shumayll would be downstairs

the girls walked downstairs to see everyone in a hectic mode

"Why is everyone in a hectic mode? is something wrong?" asked Iqra and chachi smiled at her

"No no, honey its all about the wedding, we want to get majority of it over this month and coming month so that June is free for us- plus the engagement party is coming up in two weeks, that needs to be set up too" she explained to Iqra who stared at her in amusement

"At this point, i am so so glad i have all of you here!" said Iqra hugging her sisters tight

"We are glad too!!!" they yelled back

"Alright girls, lets go-" said Nabaahat but before they could leave Saleha entered

"Oh thank god i found you all- i need to update my checklist, so i need the bride and groom along with the maid of honor (MOH), bridesmaids, Best Man and groomsmen and the parents of the bride and groom to follow me" said Saleha and everyone nodded

They walked to the study where Saleha powered her IPad and opened her checklist

"Alright, since i was not here, and some of the details are being run through by you all, i need a background check on everything- we have 2 months and 2 weeks till the wedding- we need to decide some things now and if you have decided, let me fill in!" she explained

Saleha took her job seriously, according to her, it was part of her job to give people their dream and she would not compromise with that

"Lets run through the checklist, shall we?" she asked and everyone gladly agreed

"Alright- if its done, say check and tell me the details to fill in" she said and everyone again agreed

it was no doubt Saleha was very efficient

Iqraam was at the back, seated with Ruqayyah on the floor leaning on his legs. He teased her by poking her sides and pulling her hijab but much to his annoyance, his wife gave him no response

Iqraam was not the only one going mischievous, Shumayll was busy trying to tickle Iqra, who squirmed in her seat to avoid laughing. The two were very much adorable at that point

"Date and Venue?" asked Saleha

"Check- June 20th to 25th at the Edris Residence" said Loriza

"Caterers?"

"Check- Royal Indian" said Edris

"Photographers?"

"Check- Jason Groupp"

"VideoGrapher?"

"Check- RoAdFlims"

"Dress and Suit?"

"Check- photos with you"

"Hotels booked for outside guests?"

"Check- Royal Hotels"

Nabaahat looked up to Aarib at this since he answered the question

"Invitations?"

"Nope" said Shumayll

"We'll work on that today" she stated before moving on

"MOH, Bridesmaids, BestMan and Groomsmen outfit?"

"Nope- scheduled for tomorrow, whole day" replied Loriza and everyone groaned

"Florist?"

"Nope"

"K, i will narrow down 4 best ones" said Saleha and everyone nodded

"So thats about it for now- we will meet up again on Sunday, two days from now" said Saleha and everyone nodded

"Oh and may i talk to Iqra for a second" she said as everyone walked out except Iqra

"Yeah?" she asked

Soon the two were discussing Iqra's girl night out

After an hour of selecting the best invitations, Iqra and Shumayll settled on the invitation that spoke about both. It was luxurious and very elegant with its simple yet complex designs. It was off white with grey casing and a big black bow at the top to close it

"Its perfect" muttered Iqra and Shumayll nodded, bumping his shoulders to hers and causing her to chuckle

"Okay so one down, next is the venues- where will the rest of the ceremonies be held?" asked Saleha and Loriza and Fatima grinned

"The henna night will of course be at this house but its only immediate family and friends who are females, so its fine and the last ceremony is the reception which will be there- so basically we only have two ceremonies" said Loriza and Fatima nodded

the men had gone to watch some sport leaving the women to do the planning with Shumayll. Ruqayyah and Iqraam had gone home since Ruqayyah had to look after Zahi

"Alright, so the decorators will be here as well so i take it that it should be all fine with us that night" said Saleha and everyone nodded

Meanwhile, Ruqayyah was having a hard time trying to get Zahi to wear a dress for her fitting. she was the flowergirl with Sohayll and Zaik at the back but she was not at all interested in the whole dialema

"Whats wrong?" asked Iqraam, when he saw his wife dearest sitting on the bed, all sad

"Your warrior will not wear her dress!" muttered Ruqayyah and Iqraam laughed at the jumping around Zahi

It was clear from day 1 that Zahi was no princess or queen, she was a warrior who can fight all her way through her life

"Zahi" called Iqraam and his daughter immediately stood infront of her father, smiling at him

Iqraam picked the little girl up in his arms and smiled at her

"Why are you harassing mama, and not wearing your dress?" he questioned and Zahi made a face

"Its itchy and its tight and its annoying and its very very very VERYYY pink" she muttered pink slowly

Iqraam wanted nothing but to laugh out loud at her daughter's statement but he also knew that his daughter hated pink with life

"Alright so you can wear blue" he stated and her eyes lit up

"Really?" she asked

"No, but you can ask Iqra masi" he replied and Zahi nodded, wiggling out of his arms, excited to go call and ask her masi for permission

Once she was out, Iqraam closed the door and walked to his wife

"So where have you been lately?" he asked her casually but Ruqayyah knew well

the whole wedding of Iqra had taken a toll on her and she was unable to spend time with Iqraam

"Nowhere, just weddings and all" she replied, shifting over and making space for Iqraam

Iqraam took a seat beside her, not looking at her

he knew, if he did, he would regret whatever happened next

"Iqraam I'm sorry" she muttered and he looked up to her

"For what?" he asked her

"Iqraam i know that you wanted to spend time with me and that i was not there when you needed me but please, please let this wedding phase get over!" muttered Ruqayyah, chocking back on her tears

Iqraam turned to her and smiled slightly, wiping away her tears

"Its fine, i know that you are working more harder for this wedding than i am but at times, it's just that i feel hurt that you give everyone so much time but by the time you get to me, its late and we don't even get to talk" he replied, saying out his thoughts

"I am so so sorry, i swear i did not know about that- i only wanted whats best for them" she muttered, looking straight into her husband's eyes

"And does that everyone include me?" he questioned and Ruqayyah's tears began again

"Iqraam, i said i am sorry, you are the first for me, i swear!" she said in between her tears and when Iqraam could not bear to see her cry, he hugged her tight

"I will always love you, we will have ups and down but that don't mean we don't share things" said Iqraam and Ruqayyah nodded in his chest

He smiled at her before pulling her from his chest and giving her a long passionate kiss

Aarib walked around the terrace of the Edris mansion as he tried to connect to his international managers. He got a call from his Toronto office that his hotels in Sydney was not doing good and that there was a chaos there about finance and all so he needed to connect to them immediately

"Damn it!" he snapped as he violently threw his iPad on the ground, causing it to crash

normally Aarib was a calm person but when someone messes with his head, he gets raged easily

and at that moment there were two people in the world who were doing that.

1) Nabaahat Ibrahim

2) His Sydney manager

"Bhai, what the hell man!?! Why did you break this?!!" asked Aariz, picking up the poor Ipad

"Nothing" replied Aarib, staring off in space

"Uhuh so why break th- wait a minute- who's in your mind?" he questioned his older brother

"No one" was Aarib's only reply

"Fine then, i am going to tell Waarith bhai and Shumayll bhai" with that Aariz ran before Aarib could even tell him to stop

great, now the whole world will know he had feelings for Nabaahat

wait what?