Ishra Rehman-
I woke up at 7:30 a.m. to the usual wedding chaos, Mumma calling out instructions from the kitchen, I quickly freshened up and headed straight to the backyard to check on the haldi decorations
The marigolds looked good, but not perfect, so I gave the decorators a few more instructions.
Aarav bhai was there too, pretending to be helpful but mostly just teasing me. We started our usual bickering
him calling me a perfectionist, me calling him useless and it ended with him throwing a flower at me and me threatening to throw a bucket full of water at him
After that, I went back inside to help Mumma organize the sweets and drinks for the ceremony. As I entered the kitchen everyone was working, some telling people to go get something and some making the breakfast, it was really chaotic but fun and full of laughter and joy
Everything felt like it was finally falling into place, until I walked into my room at 9:30 and froze. My haldi outfit.
I had completely forgotten it still hadn’t arrived. I knew yesterday it was delayed, but I was so busy I didn’t think much about it again.
And now, with only three hours left before the ceremony, I had nothing to wear. I stared at my wardrobe for a second, sighed dramatically, then tied my hair up and grabbed my purse.
I went out of the room and found Aarav bhai halfway through a samosa, and said, “eat it fast or take it to the car with you and eat it in the car, We’re going to the mall.”
He blinked. “what? Why?”
“My haldi outfit didn’t come! It was delayed”
“And you remembered now?!”
“I was busy helping, hurry we only have 1 and a half hour”
He groaned. “Why me? Ask someone else!”
“Because you and I have the same fashion sense and we both know it’s better than anyone else’s in this house. But we’re different in one thing I can’t pick anything easily but you can. and I need someone who can help me pick. And with that you’re the only one who’s free right now. Now get up!!” I said
“Fine.” He said getting up putting the samosa down
And with that, we grabbed the car keys and headed to the mall—me with a list in my head, him already calculating how long he'd be stuck in changing room corners giving fashion advice.
Thankfully the mall opened at 10 so by the time we reached it was open
The moment we reached the mall, I practically sprinted into the first boutique that had anything that had caught my attention.
Aarav bhai followed behind, dramatically sighing being exhausted after I tried on what felt like a hundred outfits, some were too plain, some too expensive, some that made me look like pale.
Each time I stepped out of the trial room, Aarav gave his brutally honest opinion, “You look too skinny” or “That one’s not bad, but no.” After what felt like forever,
“This one,” I said, spinning in front of the mirror. “This is it.” Aarav nodded in agreement, the outfit was a dusty yellow outfit with a colorful, embroidered kurti that has mirror work. The pants is a flowy yellow sharara, and it has a matching yellow dupatta draped
thankfully. Next, we rushed to the jewelry section, where I picked out a pink floral choker, light bangles.
keeping it simple and fresh for the haldi look. With our bags in hand and barely any time left, we rushed toward the parking lot and quickly got home
Once we entered the house everyone was getting ready, I asked mumma if the make artist had done di’s make up and if there was anything I need to help with but mumma just told me to go get ready and that everything is done
I got ready, it looked so pretty, I’m obsessed!! My make up was done and I felt a huge rush of relief knowing I got ready just in time
Soon the dhol’s started playing, and I got into my thoughts..is it going to be just like this when I get married?
I can’t wait for my wedding but I also never want to get married
I can’t imagine how di’s feeling right now, going to a new home and leaving this home where she spent her whole life
I didn’t meet di’s in laws and I just hope they are the best, I hope I get amazing in law’s
My gaze falls towards my book shelf, it was a bit dusty as it’s been a long time since I’ve been in this room
Everything felt peaceful and calm, finally being back home, even though it’s just for a few months
Inshallah nothing will go wrong.
I went out and saw my siblings sitting together talking, di was looking just gorgeous
“Di aap toh ek dam raj kumari lag rahi hai!!” I exclaimed happily “nazar na lage”
“Aur tu ek bhotni” Aarav bhai replied instead of di and I looked at zahir bhai and di in a complaining manner whining while hitting aarav bhai with my purse and zahir bhai smacked his head while di was looking at us in a loving way smiling and chuckling a little
I smiled at her and hugged her “di aap ko humesha meri paas rakhungi main, shadi huwa toh kya. Main apki susural mein har weekend visit karungi while I’m here with aarav bhai!!” While di just smiled
“Zaina come here haldi lagani hai ab” pap called di and we all followed di and one by one the elders started putting halfi on di then the oldest cousins/siblings, then finally me and arav bhai went together
After that more people were putting on the haldi on di and I being bored started talking to a few of my cousins and suddenly I heard arav bhai yell my name
“ISHRA” I looked towards him and my eyes widened, arav bhai was standing there with a bowl with haldi that I’m guessing is half of the haldi which didn’t fit the haldi bowl kept in front of di
taking a bunch of haldi on his hand and put the bowl on a table next to him and ran towards me and I made a sprint for it, but as I was wearing heels couldn’t be as fast
Trying to take off the heels he reached me and smeared the whole thing on my face and I’m guessing the photographer caught the whole thing as I heard clicks and saw a bit of flash
I glared at him and went towards the table which had the bowl in it took my heels off and took some in my hand and started running towards him but suddenly zahir bhai caught me and held me tight while
aarav bhai came towards me and took the halfi which was on my hand and smeared it on my face more and put some on my hand. I whined and looked at zahir bhai with a betrayed look
I sat on a chair glaring at both of them and mumma, papa, and di came over smiling at me chuckling and I glared at them as well
Mumma suddenly took some of the haldi left in the bowl and put some on my cheek while papa put some on my fire head and di started laughing with zahir and aarav bhai
“Sab bohot bure ho!” I glared at them three and huffed crossing my arms while mumma and papa also started chucking again
I went to my room cleaned up thankfully only my dupatta got stained which is replaceable as I have another dupatta the same color
I headed back to the backyard and saw everyone eating while I saw zahir and aarav bhai coming towards me, two plates of food in zahir bhai’s hand and two in aarav bhai’s
As they reached towards me zahir bhai spoke “ishu go over there and sit with bhabi” he pointed towards the living room inside the house and I glared at both of them still mad about the haldi incident but still went there and sat next to bhabi
Zahir bhai sat next bhabi in the other side while aarav bhai brought a stool and sat in front of me
Zahir bhai started feeding bhabi while eating some in between aswell, while aarav bhai looked at me smacking my head and I gave him a irritated look
“Sorry na, or maza toh aya na?!” Aarav bhai said and I had to agree, it was annoying but I had a lot of fun as well
“Hm” i hummed crossing my arms sitting back
“Ab khao” aarav bhai said bringing a morsel towards my lips, feeding me he also took a bite and I asked “di kaha hai?”
He shrugged and zahir bhai answered “she ate and it now resting in her room” and I nodded humming
we all started talking, while taking bites in between, and I started telling my brothers about the crazy story’s In my university
I even told them about how a guy tried learning Hindi for me and I asked him for some time to think and the next day I saw him kissing another girl
Both of them got annoyed while me just hearing about a guys name while me and bhabi started laughing
Soon we finished eating and chatted for some more time and we all said goodnight and went to our rooms and went to sleep.
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