A one blooming day, after convening Ayzal a lot her mother took her out of the her room, they both walked inside the garden, as the fresh air hit ayzal's face she was practically got a second life after the isolation of weeks, aima smiled after looking her daughter doing well, she leads her towards the bench and they both sat down, I looked around in the garden with an innocent look. Aima who was sitting silently finally speak with a gentle voice "how are you doing now dear. Better?" Ayzal forced a small smile on her face and nodded "yes mom, thank you, I guess I need this" aima held her hands in a gentle grasp as she spoke "if you are really fine then can we talk? It's an important thing" Ayzal can sense the seriousness lingering in her mother's tone, she returned the warm grip around her mother's hands and nodded. Aima looked down at their hands and back at her face as she spoke seriously "brother Azaan came here yesterday" Ayzal smiled slightly as she spoke "really? You didn't tell me" aima didn't say anything for a few seconds before continue bluntly "he asked for your hand for maaz" all the expressions squeezed out of Ayzal's face in a micro second, she looked back and forth in her mother's eyes as she asked in a whisper "so?" Aima avoided ayzal's gaze before answering "your father already said yes" aima can see anger and something else in her daughter's eyes maybe fear. She held Ayzal's hand and spoke "Ayzal not every man is same-" Ayzal cutted her words and spoke sharply "what I have been gone through you can't understand it" aima signed and spoke "I know I know dear, but now it doesn't mean you'll stay single forever" Ayzal let out a humourless chuckled before looking away with teary eyes "what's the point of discussing it, when you have already said yes" and Ayzal stood up, aima stood up too and grabbed her arm "I told you i didn't say yes your father said" Ayzal pulled her arm away and spoke "it doesn't matter" and she walked away towards her room taking big steps.
MAAZ POV
It's been two days, I was super happy and content with everything because uncle Zayn already said yes, but still something doesn't feels right, it was the weekend so I was sitting in the hall with my mother, we both were discussing something randomly when jiya entered with a big smile and announced "uncle Zayn is here" I looked at her and stood up as well as my mother and we saw uncle Zayn entered with his family, yes Ayzal was there. She was wearing a deep blue shirt with wide leg trousers and a long brown coat, a simple scarf was wrapped around her face like usual, first I get too excited as I see her but suddenly it turned into concern, I can see how pale she was looking, she was avoiding everyone's gaze which is the most uncommon thing because she is too confident to face everything. I started greeting everyone as my father also joined us, but my gaze was still stuck on her face, she was looking weak for me.
After a while when my mother started helping maid to serve lunch on the table, I excused myself and left towards my room, I entered the room and texted jiya to come in my room. I sat down on the bed waited for her patiently and after a while when she came in my room, i immediately stood up and spoke "jiya, why she is so pale" jiya jumped slightly at my sudden bombardment of question, but she spoke "I don't know, I try to talk to her but she is just giving brief answers what can I do" I shook my head in frustration and spoke " what do you mean what you can do, just go and ask her, she was looking so weak and pale aren't you concern for her?" She raised her eyebrow at my words and spoke "I'm concerned but not like someone specific I know" I rolled my eyes as I grabbed her arms "very funny, now listen to me, I don't know how just bring her somewhere we can talk alone" she crossed get arms and spoke "fine, I'll try but don't take it as a promise" maaz nodded with a content sigh, because he knows the person he has assigned for this task is perfect for it then our mother called us downstairs for lunch so we climb downstairs and join everyone.
Author POV
During whole lunch maaz couldn't tear his eyes away from Ayzal, but she, she wasn't eating much her shoulders were hunched low she was continuously biting her lower lip maybe lost in thoughts, lunch come at it's end, Ayzal stood up too she touched her lips and saw blood because of biting her lip, she walked towards jiya and spoke "I need to use restroom" jiya nodded and gestures her towards her room, Ayzal nodded and left towards jiya's room. Jiya immediately ran towards maaz and pulled him in the corner and spoke in a hushed voice "Ayzal is in my room just go and meet her" maaz nodded and left towards jiya's room. He entered but saw no one is the room at first then Ayzal come out of the restroom her gaze fell on maaz and stopped in the mid way. They both held eyecontact silently, maaz slowly stood silently and kept looking in her eyes, he took a step towards her, Ayzal broke the eye contact and looked away, maaz who couldn't help but said "what happened to you" Ayzal didn't look at him and spoke "none of your business" he can sense the distant tone in her voice and it ached his heart, then he spoke "why this behaviour? I didn't do anything now" she looked again in his eyes and spoke sharply "sending proposal for me, even though you know it was a no from me" maaz got puzzled and asked "then why did you said yes?" Ayzal went completely silent for a few seconds but then she spoke "you think they ask for my opinion? Does I matter to them? Does it matter for anyone? Does it matter to you?, NO" maaz immediately shook his head desperately and spoke "no no no no please stop, I do care about you and your opinion it does matter" Ayzal snapped sharply "don't give me this nonsense, we both know that you sent the proposal even though you know I have no intention to marry anyone or you, and you were also well aware that my father is so done with me and he just wanna marry me and throw me away" maaz flinched at her tone, he stared in her eyes before whispering softly "I didn't think about that, I swear" he paused before continue "I asked for your hand in between your arguement with your father at meet night, but I thought it wasn't a good way so I ask it more approximately, loving someone is a sin?" Ayzal replied with a hushed tone "no, but loving me is a sin, you don't know anything about me that's why you are still loving me instead of hating me" maaz replied confidently without wasting a single second "I just wanna stay blind I don't need to know anything if that means keeping loving you, adoring you from far is even better than knowing anything unnecessary" his words were enough to hit her mind she didn't reply back as maaz again spoke "do you want me to stop this marriage" Ayzal looked back and forth in his eyes and slowly shook his head "everything is done, now it's not just between our families but also get into business terms" maaz nodded thoughtfully knowing her words are true, this marriage is now based on business terms too between their fathers and the other industry team as he spoke "but if you don't want then let me stop it" Ayzal again shook her head and answered briefly "no need" as she left the room.
Your eyes hold worlds I've never known,
A peace that feels like coming home.
With every breath, my heart declares,
No love could ever quite compare.
Love you honeybees