"Pyar aut dosti me bas itna farq paya hai,
Ek ne sath diya to dusri ne sath nibhaya hai.
Kis rishte ko gehra kahe hum?
Ek hai zindagi to dusri ne jina sikhaya hai."

(I found these differences in Love and Friendship,
One has supported and the other has always been supportive.
Which relation amongst them should I call deep?
One is Life and the other has taught how to Live.")

***

"Who the hell brought this here?" Sabil shouts furiously.

"See the groom, he's swearing even on the day of his marriage." Nayyala chuckles.

"I allowed this and you can't remove it now. Just look at your bride, her father has given it to her as a gift and not to you. Now you don't have a right to remove it. But don't worry I have sent away the other furniture and things to them. They told that it's kept at their old house and we can bring it anytime." Humera tells her son.

Zaala holds his arms and squeezes it lightly. Seeing her scared expressions he controls his anger and moves aside in order to let her enter the room. All the girls enter the room after Zaala and push him outside.

"What are you all doing? Just move out of my room." He gets angry. Everyone is aware of his short-tempered nature but today they didn't get afraid as they know that he won't do anything in front of his newly wedded wife.

"Go bring us some snacks and then we'll think." One of his cousins shouts from inside. Without saying anything further he goes out.

After offering Maghrib salah (evening prayer) he brings some pizza, burgers along with some sweets and cold drinks. His cousins happily takes that and go outside. After sometime they bring pizza and gulab jamun (name of a sweet) for Zaala. Sabil takes it from them and close the door. He tells Zaala to eat it but she denies so he forcefully feeds her the sweet. Having no choice she reluctantly eats it.

Sabil eats the pizza and then lays on the bed across Zaala and constantly stares at her who then hides her face in her knees being uncomfortable with his intense stare. Someone knocks at the door and Sabil gets up and opens the door with an irritating look to find none other than his elder brother Dabir.

"Has everyone teamed up to disturb me today?" Sabil irritatingly asks. "Cool down boy, did you really forget that we have to bring something important and the jeweller called me to inform that your order is ready." Dabir raises his eyebrow.

When realization hits him Sabil says, "you are a life saver bro, come let's go." Sabil instantly runs outside and Dabir chuckles at his brothers childish acts.

During dinner his cousins takes Zaala with them for having dinner. In the mean time Nayyala hands over some money to a boy and tells him to bring some flowers but unfortunately that boy brings a box of Jasmine flowers. She feels like banging the box on his head but realises that she should have suggested the names of the flower as that boy may have thought that they needed flower to decorate their hair tomorrow in the walima (reception) and hence he might have brought these flowers.

She then takes the help of two of her cousin sisters-in-law who makes a beautiful heart in the middle of the bride's bed with the help of Zaala's garland flowers. While she fixes some Jasmine flowers in a thread.

While doing so she suddenly remembers how much Sabil dislikes flowers. She then regrets wasting so much time in arranging the flowers in a thread. Her sisters-in-law then asks her why they didn't brought someone to decorate the room? She tells them how much he dislikes flowers and then there are chances that his friends can play a prank so Sabil has strictly warned them not to decorate his room.

But before leaving the room Nayyala purposefully sticks the line of flowers on the wall right next to the bed. She knows how irritate Sabil will get looking at it.

When everyone leaves her alone Zaala doesn't wait for Sabil. She changes her clothes and does the wazu (ablution) and offers her night prayer. When she is about to get up Sabil enters inside. He gets annoyed with the smell of Jasmine flower but a smile appears on his face looking at his beautiful flower. "Beautiful." He murmurs.

"Yeah, the heart is indeed beautiful." Zaala replies thinking he called that flower heart beautiful. She then adds, "but this looks strange." She points towards the single line of Jasmine flowers struck on the wall besides their bed.

"Just remove it and throw it inside the bin." Sabil annoyingly says. Zaala feels hurt from the way how he's annoyingly ordering her on their wedding night but still obeys him.

"Now come let's offer salah." He then tells her. He stands on her praying mat so she takes the other one and stands behind him. She finishes offering her salah before him and so she folds her praying mat and sits on the edge of the bed.

"Can't you ask Allah for something after your prayer?" Sabil asks Zaala. She comes near him and sits beside him and mumbles something while raising her hands.

"So what did you ask?" He asks.

"I asked Allah to keep everyone healthy and happy and to fulfil their good wishes." Zaala happily replies.

He nods his head with a disapproving look and says, "this is our time so ask Allah to keep us happy forever, to continue our relationship even in jannah (paradise), to keep misunderstandings and fights away from us, to keep us safe from evil eyes and to bless us with good kids." Hearing the last sentence a blush creeps on Zaala's cheeks. She lowers her head. Sabil chuckles at this.

After folding their praying mats Sabil makes her sit on the edge of the bed. He himself knelt down in front of her. She thinks that as he didn't propose her properly so now he is going to do it in a filmy style but he gives her a gift box. She smiles at her own silly thoughts and opens the gift. A huge smile appears on her face looking at the gift inside. There's a gold payal (anklet), earnings and pendant with rose quartz and moonstones on it.

Sabil takes the Payal and keeps Zaala's feet on his knees and makes her wear it. Zaala protests but he makes her quiet saying, "its ok dear. I kept your feet on my knees near my heart which means I don't regard you as a slave, like other men who says, 'wife is like a slave' or 'wife is just like the dirt on our feet'. I respect you more than my own self so never let me order you around and if I try to control your life you have all the right to oppose. Your position is right here in my heart. Here you are its queen. In my life, your position will always remain above me."
Tears appears in her eyes upon hearing his words.

He then makes her wear the necklace and asks, "do you know what these stones signify?" Zaala nods her head in disagreement.

"The pink stones signify undying love and the white stone is believed to ignite the hidden passion and desire in you. I want our love and passion to remain forever." Zaala lowers her head being shy.

"Can I kiss you?" Sabil asks for permission because he has promised her that he won't kiss her without her permission.

After a bit of disagreement only to tease him, she finally allows him to kiss. After the kiss Sabil lifts her face with his hands and says,

"Ek khubsurat chand ho
Uspe taro ki barsat ho...
Barso se tarasti in nigaho ko
Jo aaj aap ka dedar ho...

Taskin-e dil ki kayfiyat
Ab lafzo me kaise baya ho...
Jis chand ko pane ki barso se tamanna thi
Jab wo hi tumhare pehlu me ho...

Ye mohobbat bhi kya chiz hai!
Aap ko pa kar bhi ye kam na ho...
Tum cha gayi ho ek nashe ki tarah
Ab ye lat shayad hi kabhi kam ho...

Ye dil, ye jaan tumhare nam
Abse tum Jo hamare ho...
Duniya aur akhirat ka sath mukammal hua hai aaj
Ab is khushnuma rat ki kya baat ho!!!"

(A beautiful moon
With the shower of stars on it...
This eyes who have craved for you
Has got a glimpse of you today...

This peacefulness of heart
How can it be expressed in words!
The moon whom I wanted to possess for years
When it's here beside me...

What a thing this love is!
Even after getting you it hasn't decreased...
You have spread {in me} like a drug
Can't say if this addiction can ever leave...

This heart, this life is at your name
As from now on you are mine...
Today our support/togetherness in this world and afterlife is achieved
Now what to say about this pleasant night!!!")

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hello, my lovely readers!
Assalam Alaikum...

It's a bit weird but believe me there's someone whom I know who literally hates flowers, even its smell but the amazing thing is his wife loves them so rarely he brings a flower for her and its mostly Gerbera flower and rarely a bunch of roses but very often a chocolate flower (edible)...🙈🙈🙈