The room was very different from last time she was here. It was decorated with rose petals and candles. The room glowed with the yellowish light of the candles. The rose petals were spread on the bed too. Areesha scooted some petals aside and made space for herself on the bed. She tried to get comfortable on the bed and look indifferent when in reality she was so conflicted. How on earth was she supposed to behave and what did Fawad expect from her?

And where was he? It seemed like an hour had already passed but when she glanced at the clock five mintues had hardly passed.

This dress was getting so heavy and her earings were wearing her ears down as if tons were hanging from them. She took off her earings and necklace and placed them on the side table. Now she felt a bit unsuffocated.

Could she change her clothes or was she supposed to wait for him? And where were her clothes even? She had packed a bag for the clothes but she had no idea where it might be. Before she could think any further a beep sound came from her purse and she opened it to find her phone.

She swipped the screen and found a few whatsapp messages. She opened them and downloaded the images that were sent from an unknown number. 

Once the images were downloaded, she opened them and what she witnessed further hitched her breath. She sat paralyzed staring at them.

It was Fawad and his cousin. They were in a very compromising position. She swipped the screen and looked at the next image. Here they were hugging. Areesha couldn't belive her eyes. This was impossible. No way.

There was something wrong. Fawad would never do this.

No way.

She trusted him. He had never looked at her in a wrong way when she worked with him and he had approached Zayan to propose to her. This was impossible. Someone was playing a horrible trick on her.

This could be photoshop though. She knew that you could do this through photoshop. She zoomed into the picture and looked at the details. They looked so unreal. It was clearly photoshop. She sighed in relief.

She went back to whatsapp and decided to message this person.

"Very brilliantly done photoshop. Must say that I am impressed." she typed and pressed the send button. She wasn't going to give this person the happiness that she had doubted Fawad even for a millisecond.

She waited for the ticks to turn blue. But before that happened Areesha heard the door click open and she froze. She hastened to hide her phone but Fawad was already in the room.

"Sorry to keep - what's wrong?" He asked worriedly looking at her pale face.

"Nothing. I handled it." She said. She wasn't going to disturb their wedding night the way she had caused her nikah night to be. She still didn't know about the money issue and she had planned not to think about it anymore.

"What? You can share it with me." He said assuringly as he sat next to her on the bed.

"Someone's sending me weird pictures, but d-don't get mad. " she said worried about his reaction and showed him her phone. Fawad took the phone from her hand and looked at the pictures.

"What the hell?" He said through gritted teeth.

"Fawad they are clearly photoshopped-"

"You are not mad at me?" He cut her with surprise written all over his face.

"No. I trust you. I really meant that when I said it ealier." She replied sincerely.

"Areesha you don't know how much that means to me." He said and pulled her into a hug.

Areesha stiffened at first but then relaxed and basked in his warmth and wrapped her arms around his neck. Electricity was shooting in her body with his touch. She felt her skin burning. It was the best feeling ever. The feeling of belonging. The feeling that you were loved.

After a few seconds Areesha suddenly pulled away when she felt moisture on her shoulder.

She looked into his eyes and saw that he had tears in them. She looked at him confused.

"I thought you would believe in them. Zaianb said she would break our relationship and she kept her word. Thank you so much for trusting me. I don't know what I did to deserve someone like you."

"Just don't break my trust ever." She said looking in his chocolate brown eyes.

"Never." He said sincerely.

"I love you so much." He said placing a kiss on her cheek making her blush.

She wasn't going to say it back. Not yet. She had to figure out her muddled up feelings first. Before she could even say anything, a knock in the door disturbed them.

Knock.

Knock.

"Gosh! I swear if this is Maya pranking us, she is dead." He said clenching his jaw.

"Woah calm down. Take it easy!" She said placing her hand on his bicep. When they didn't say anything the knock was heard again.

Fawad went to the door groaning. He swung it open and Maya came inside.

"Woah easy there bhai. Don't kill me just yet! I am sorry for interupting whatever you two were doing but this is very-" Maya said her eyes shining with amusement at her brothers irritated look.

"What?" Fawad said rudely.

"Nothing I just came to give this bag to my bhabhi." She said innocently and handed Areesha a bag.

"When you get married I won't let you live in peace either." Fawad said

"That is if  I get married." She said and turned to leave.

"Continue whatever you were doing. Don't let me interrupt." She said teasingly and left the room.

Areesha opened the bag and found her night clothes.

Fawad locked the door and went back to his wife. 

"I am going to go and change then." She said looking at him.

"No no wait. I almost forget this." He said and fished his pockets and took out a small package. Areesha raised her eyebrow at him.

"Close your eyes." He said to her.

"What? Why?" She said confused at the sudden request.

"Jeez woman just listen to me for once!" He said rolling his eyes and Areesha had no option but to comply.

"No peeking." He warned chuckling as Areesha opened half an eye to see what he was up to.

Fawad guided her towards the mirror and made her sit down in front of it. He pushed her hair to one side and placed the necklace around her neck and tried to clasp it.

Areesha felt very nervous when Fawad's warm breath tickled her neck. And then she felt something cold make contact with her skin. It was probably a necklace. He was taking so long. What was he even doing? She opened her eyes and looked at him from the mirror. 

She almost chuckled as she looked at his face his eyebrows knitted in concentration.

"Shall I do it myself?" She said trying to keep the amusement away from her tone.

"Laugh at me all you want. I am sorry if I don't know how to do this." He said sarcastically.

Areesha took the ends from his hand and closed them herself.

"See simple?" She said with a smirk at him through the mirror.

He rolled his eyes at her. 

"This is for me?" She said overwhelmed as she touched it. It looked very expensive.

"No its for my other girlfriend. I just gave it to you to see if it is good enough." He said sarcastically.

"Now you have a girlfriend, huh?" She said narrowing her eyes at him through the mirror.

"Yeah you are my girlfriend and my little wife." He said with a deep look in his brown eyes.

"Hey! I am not little!"Areesha exclaimed and Fawad chuckled.

"So do you like it or we can exchange it from the shop." 

"Are you mad?" She exclaimed and Fawad looked at her in horror.

"I love this!" She added seeing the look on his face.

"Oh right. I am glad you like it." Fawad said almost sighing in relief. When he was buying this he had no idea what she would like.

"But why did you buy this? You didn't need to really! It must have been very expensive right?" She said worriedly. 

"That doesn't matter. You are more precious." He said with a smile that just melted Areesha's heart.

"Lets thake a selfie!" Areesha suggested and quickly got her phone.

She posed with Fawad behind her and clicked a picture. Fawads posture looked weird. Not selfie type.

"Don't you know how to take a selfie?" She asked him and he looked at her weirdly.

"There's a way you stand." She said trying explain it to him.

"I dont take that many pictures." He shrugged.

"Yeah I saw that on facebook. You hardly have any pictured of yourself."

"You stalked me on facebook?" Fawad said incredulously.

"No I didn't stalk you just went through your profile." She shrugged.

"Same thing." 

"Not the same thing! Anyway time for another picture."she said and opened the camera app again." Say cheeeese."

"Cheeeeeese." Fawad mimicked her teasingly and showed all his teeth.

"Stop. Lets take a proper picture." She groaned.

"Can we sleep now?" She said stifling a yawn after the memory in her phone had ran out with all there pictures.

"Already?" He said with a suggestive smirk.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you have an extremely perverted mind?" Areesha said rolling her eyes at him.

"Nah. No one knows excpet you. " he said with a wink.

"Good."

"Great."

"I don't have another stock of adjectives right now." Areesha said remembering the last time they had done this. "Where do I change?"

"Here."

"So you can get out."

"What? I am your husband!" He said teasingly. Areesha's face paled at that thought.

"Relax Areesha. No one is forcing you with anything. I can wait for you till you are ready." He said eyeing the look on her face.

"Thank you." She said and kissed him on the cheek. Without looking at his expression she rushed to the washroom with her bag.

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