Assalamualaikum!

         CHAPTER 29 - HONEYMOON IN KOREA?

MINAL'S POV :

I got a call from him that he wants to meet me right now. I asked him to come to the coffee shop near my home.

When I arrived their I saw his car coming. I got out of the car.

"Have you totally lost it?" He got so angry at me. He got out of the car with these words.

"Am sorry. I didn't knew about it." I apologised.

"You didn't knew what? You asked me how I want my bride to be. And you found that arrogant bitch for me?"

"Zayn! Language. She has reasons to hate you. But you have no reason to curse her. You're being unreasonable."

"Oh! Am I? Am I?"

"Yeah! You have no reason to think bad of her. You should actually consider her..."

"Consider her what?" He banged both his hands on the back of the car.

"You told me to find someone like me. And I did the right thing. If I was in her place, I'd do the same. What do you want her to do? You want her to let you get close and friendly to her? You want her to flirt back with you? What wrong did she do? You are the one who is wrong here."

"Then why are you forcing me to get married when you find me that wrong?"

"That has nothing to do with this, Zayn."

"You know what? I can't hold it anymore. I can't marry anyone. I don't want to marry anyone."

"Why not?"

"Because I love you. I love you, I admire you and I've always dreamt about you. I've always dreamt of you being my bride."

My heart clenched. What?

"What the hell are you talking about?" I felt a void in my heart.

"It's the truth, Minal. It's always been you. I can't even think of anybody else. You occupy my thoughts like no one." He went all soft on me. His eyes turned glassy. So did mine.

"But Zayn, Am married. Everything has changed..."

"Nothing has changed, Minal. You can still leave him and come to me." He suggested.

WHAT.THE.HELL?

"What the hell? What the hell do you think of me? I'm married to him. I can't just..." Temper shooted inside me. Because he was talking nonsense.

"But you're not in love with him, right? It's very important to love eachother."

"Huh? Who told you so?" I was trying my hard not to lose my temper.

"I can see it in your eyes." He said like it was so obvious.

"Then you might have not seen it correctly. I love him. More than anyone. More than anything else. And I. Have not allowed you to judge him or me or our relationship. So stop your nonsense already." I told my heart out.

"No. No, you don't." He said confidentally. I lost my control, before I could slap him someone grabbed my hand from behind. I turned to see shehryaar glaring at him.

My heart skipped a beat. Did he heard everything?

"Shehryaar, I was..." He cuts me off and said, "Go and sit inside the car."

"Minal, You can't just..." Zayn was interrupted by him.

"Right now." He shouted still glaring at him. I turned. I was walking towards the car when I heard him say, "I'll be waiting for your reply tonight. Am leaving tomorrow morning to London."

I was about turn to him when I heard shehryaar, "Don't. Go straight."

"Who the hell are you to order her?" Zayn questioned him in anger.

"Am her husband, if you have forgotten." I heard him say.

I went straight to the car. I was just hoping that they don't fist fight. I sat inside the car. I was peeking at them from the car.

I saw them two arguing. But I couldn't hear a word. The atmosphere was tense. After 5 mins of talking, I saw shehryaar walking towards the car. Behind him, I saw Zayn banged both his hand on the car's Bonet. He was constantly kicking his car's tyre and mumbling to himself.

As he came nearer, I can see his face all red. I got a little scared of him.

Shehryaar came to his side and sat in. Closed the door loudly. I flinched a little.

"Seatbelts." He ordered, I quickly put on my seatbelts. Before I could ask him anything, he started the car and speed off.

* * * * *

I took my phone and was about to text Zayn. Then I backed off. May be I should just ignore him. What if he keeps waiting for me tonight? I should tell him that I won't come.

"Stop thinking already." I warned myself.

"What are you thinking?" Shehryaar suddenly spoke. I didn't realise when he came and sat beside me.

I turned to him. Something stuck my mind.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked him.

"No." He told me clearly. I frowned.

"Why? How can you refuse before hearing it?"

"Because am scared of your questions. Am afraid I won't be able to answer it." He told me honestly.

"What did you told him?"

"See. I told you." He shrugged his shoulders. I narrowed my eyes at him.
And I gave up. I heard him chuckle.

"You know what? You should have punched him. Atleast, once. You didn't let me slap him. But atleast you should have. I was trying hard to control myself or else I'd have beat the heck out of him. The way he told me, with that confident on his face, I might have killed him. I really don't trust him anymore." I told him what I felt and then looked at him. He was just smiling.

Seriously?

"Looks like you are so happy right now? Don't you think you should be angry on the fact that he confessed me?"

"Why? What's wrong with that? Everyone has the right to love someone." He said simply.

I glared at him. I stood up from my place and walked to his side and sat infront of him and asked, "Aren't you afraid that I might accept his confession?"

He shook his head, smiling.

He was looking all calm that made me lose my mind.

"Don't you get jealous at all? Until today, you had problems with me hanging out with him and now you don't care at all?" I asked getting all curious.

"Yes, but that was before someone's confession." He said and I looked at him confusingly.

"Before someone confessed her love for me." He told me. Suddenly, all the words I told came across my mind. My heartbeats got fastened. I looked up at him, who was giving me a meaningful smile. I slowly got up and came to my side and sat on the bed. I turned to him who was still smiling at me.

What have I done? I mentally facepalm-ed myself.

He stood up and I quickly layed down and covered myself with the blanket. I heard him chuckle.

I heard the washroom's door closes. I uncovered my face. I sighed deep. I checked the time. It was 10:48 PM. We got early to bed.

Suddenly my phone rang. Zuhaib?

I picked up his call.

"Yo!" I heard him say. That's how he starts the convey.

"Assalamualaikum! When will you change?"

"Never." I know he must be showing his 32.

"What happened? Got yourself a girlfriend?" I asked him sarcastically.

"Nah! That's why I called you. Till I get one, I need to time pass with you. That's the only advantage of having a female best friend." He said. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah! Right. How's life there in New York? Looks like you're adapting yourself there quickly."

"Hmm. Yeah! But I miss my friends and India's food. You know how much I love desi foods. Spicy and saucy."

I saw him coming out of the washroom.

"Hmm." Suddenly, my words lost in my mouth.

He looked at me, still with that smile on his face.

"So? How's your married life going? And what happened to that jerk? How did your husband reacted to him?"

I saw him taking off his shirt. My heartbeats going crazy.

He walked upto me, I got stiffened. He leaned infront of me, making me all dumbstruck.

"Minal? Are you listening?" I heard Zuhaib speaking.

He took his phone from the table behind me. I stopped breathing.

"You're scaring me now. Tell me what happened?"

He stood straight and stepped back showing me his phone.

"You forgot to breathe." He whispered.

"Hm?"

He mouthed 'breathe'. I suddenly realised and I took a deep breath.

"Oye! I can hear you. Are you ignoring me or my question?" I heard him shouting on the phone.

"Um. No. Actually." I tried to reply.

"What?"

"It's hot in here."

"So?" He was so loud that even shehryaar heard him.

I heard him laugh. I got embarrassed.

"Network problem actually. I'll go outside and talk." I walked out of the room.

* * * * *

We hunged up. I yawned. I checked the time it was 11:40 already. I walked up to the room. I slowly opened the door and closed.

I walked inside. He didn't turned the lights off.

I saw him already asleep.

Thank god! I sighed.

I walked up to my side. I removed my dupatta and kept aside. I sat on the bed slowly. I kept my phone on the side table and slowly layed down. I pulled the blanket over me. I turned to his side. I saw him sleeping.

Tch! I forgot to turn off the lights. I turned to the other side and reached my hand out and switched off the lights. As soon as I switched the lights off, he put his hand around my stomach and pulled him to himself. My head in his arm.

My eyes got widened. His hand was above mine.

"What are..." Before I could react, he hushed me.

We stayed like that for sometime.

Then he spoke, "Thanks."

I turned to his side, still resting my hand on his arm. I can see his eyes open.

"For what?" I asked lookin at him.

He tucked my hair strands behind my neck and replied.

"For loving me." He said and kissed my forehead. I blushed unhesitatingly, because he can't see my face clearly.

I hesitated to touch his hand when he grabbed my hand and put them around his waist. He hugged me tightly.

"Good night, sleep tight." He said. I smiled and hugged him back.

* * * * *

"Finally, you guys are going to your honeymoon." Fatty made fun of us.

Mom hugged me. I smiled at her.

"So? When are you going Shehry?" Dad asked him. He was eating his lunch.

"Tomorrow." He said bluntly.

"What? But I haven't started my packing yet." I told him getting all tensed.

"But don't you have a meeting in Korea?" Dad asked.

What? He didn't told me anything.

"Yeah, that's why. We are leaving tomorrow."

"What does that supposed to mean?" Mom asked him.

"We are going to our honeymoon to Korea." He smiled.

"What??" Fatty asked.

"I'll be done with my meeting with them by 3 days. No big deal."

"Also you are going there for a week right." Dad said and nodded whilst giving him a 'impressive' expression. He nodded with him.

"Like father, like son. Always thinks about work first." Mom expressed herself while glaring at Dad.

"Nice. Looks like you are going to a business trip." Fatty tapped my shoulder and walked away.

He didn't even ask me once. Am not going anywhere with him.

I stood up. He looked at me.

"What happened?" He asked me as if he don't know. I glared at him.

SHEHRYAAR'S POV :

She glared at me. She stomped her foot.

I frowned at her. She left and ran upstairs.

I looked at dad. He shrugged his shoulders.

I looked at mom. She was giving me the same glares.

"If am not wrong, I think I did something terrible." I questioned her indirectly.

"Why are you asking me? Why not ask your father about this?" She got up too.

"I don't know why we woman's get struck with this Workaholics." She said and left. I looked at her, confusingly.

"Dad, Where did you two went for your honeymoon?" I asked him.

"Honestly speaking, we didn't." Dad whispered.

"What? Why?"

"Because I was too busy that time. I had loads of work. But we went to business trips together." Dad explained.

"Seriously dad, you are unbelievable." I told him the truth. Dad raised his eyebrow at me. I shook my head in disbelief.

"So are you my son. You are repeating the same mistake." He smirked at me and left.

"True that." I sighed. But I have an important meeting. Can't miss that.

May be I should extend the number of days.

I gave a thought and went upstairs.

I barged inside the room. I saw her laying on the bed.

"Why haven't you started packing?" I asked her.

"Because am not going anywhere with a stupid business man. Who only thinks of  his business deals." She bursted.

I knew it.

"Okay, am sorry. Look we will extend the days. What say, two weeks?" I tried to convince her.

"No."

"Three weeks?"

"I said no. Am not going anywhere with you."

"Umm, okay? I'll do one thing. I'll wind up everything in one day, then we will have 6 days. What say?" I asked her getting excited. Thought, I'd convince her.

She got up and walked towards me.

"Shut up. Shut the hell up. Don't you understand what am trying to say?" She started shouting at me while pointing her finger towards me.

She got so angry at me. She walked forward and I walked backwards. That I sat on the bed.

"Shouldn't you be asking me where I want to go? Atleast you should've told me about it. But noooooooo."

"I mean seriously, Korea? Is that even the place where people would go on their honeymoon? Even the Koreans won't."

"If you want to go Korea, then find someone else. Am not going there." She completed her sentence and went back to her place and covered herself with blanket.

I was sweating already.

God! She is scary sometimes.

I took a deep breath.

"Get the hell out of here before I kill you." She screamed the top of her lungs.

I quickly went outside the room. I ran upstairs to terrace.

I called my assistant to confirm things.

He told me that everything's done. We'll receive our Visa's today.

So there is no chance that I'll be going alone to Korea.

I went back to my room.

I called out her name.

"Now what?" She asked, still angry.

I smiled at her with a meaningful look.

"I said no. Am not going to Korea."

"Please, yaar. Visa's will arrive today."

"You should have asked me before, shehryaar."

"Please, Minal. I swear. I'll finish things up in Korea in a single day. Then we will go to somewhere else. I promise." I hold my Adam's apple infront of her.

"Where? China?" She asked me. I shook my head. She rolled her eyes at me.

"Pull down the suitcase." She ordered. Yay! I convinced her.

"Okay." I quickly pull down the suitcases.

"Only I can bare you. No girl will." She said opening the suitcase.

"True. You are the best..."

"Don't talk back." She said. I sealed my lips.

"I'll be back by 8. Please pack mine too." I told her and escaped. I heard her scream, "Shehryaar! Get your butt back here."

I quickly ran downstairs.

I saw dad working on his laptop. Dad looked up at me.

"So? Convinced her already?" He asked.

"Yeah. Just two sentences. She got convinced." I showed him off.

"Yeah, heard the screams coming out of the room." He said faking me a smile.

"That was just..." I was about to lie when I saw him controlling his laughter.

"Fine. Laugh all you want. But it's much better than not going to honeymoon trip." I told him and grinned at him.

His expressions changed. I walked away from him before he could start scolding me.

NEXT DAY :

6:40 in the morning. We are heading to airport.

I was half asleep. There was no music playing.

We had opened our windows. The cold breeze made me drift off to sleep.

"Minal?" I heard him.

"Wake up. We have arrived." He shook my arm. I nodded. I rubbed my eyes to get a hold of myself.

Shehryaar asked the driver to take his car back home.

He dragged our luggages. We walked inside. I saw my whole family waiting there already waiting there.

We walked upto them.

We talked for brief minutes before we leave.

Mamma handed me a gift. She told me that it's a gift from my best friend, Nuha. She sent it when she heard about me going to honeymoon.

I quickly grabbed and kept inside my suitcase.

No idea, what she has given.

When I talked to her yesterday, I told her that he heard my confession. She made fun of me, she told me that she'd gift me a sexy night suit for our honeymoon trip. I warned her not to. She said she was kidding.

I passed a fake smile to mamma.

* * * * *

It takes 19hr 35 minutes to reach there.

It's like one whole day struck in one place.

God! What have I done to get this?

I cried from inside.

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