16. Mistakes

F A H A D' S P O V

I woke up at the time of Fajr [first prayer of the day for muslims]. Usually I don't need an alarm to get up because that has become my habit, a daily routine you could say. I also have to get up early to go for work.

Anyway I got up from my 'luxurious bed', note the sarcasm  please, and looked at Alizah to find out that she was sleeping so peacefully. She looks like an angel regardless slept or not. And there lies the demon beside her, Nada. She was also sleeping without any care of the world. If you look at her you won't be able to guess that she was kidnapped yesterday.

I brushed my teeth, had a bath and was going to offer my Salah (prayer) when I thought that Nada would also want to offer her Salah. She is punctual about her religion, I know that very well. So I decided to be a good Muslim and woke her up to offer her Salah.

"Nada." I called out.

"...." No response.

"Nada!" I called out by shaking her shoulder.

"....." Yet no response.

"Nada!" I shaked her more violently but not man handling her.

Man! She is a heavy sleeper.

She turned towards me and snuggled more with my hand. Oh God. My hand in her soft ones feels so good. WHAT AM I TALKING?

I snatched my hand, and slightly shouted so that Alizah doesn't wake up, "NADA MAHAM HASHMI! GET UP RIGHTNOW!" Yes I read her full name yesterday when I was signing the marriage certificate.

She woke up as if someone had again kidnapped her.

"What?" She whispered with her eyebrows furrowed.

"Offer your Fajr Salah." I simply divulged and went to take my prayer mat.

And I felt something hit me. The baby bottle.

"You could have woke me up like a human, not like a psychopath. Oh wait! Why wouldn't you wake me up like a psychopath because you are one." She sounded very enraged.

"Stop being so arrogant about things. I could have not wake you up and continued my prayer but I did and what you did you do in return rather than thanking me? Threw a pillow at me. Always a stuck up brat." I said angrily.

"I was feeling guilty till you brought up the 'stuck up brat thing' how dare you call me something like that? You don't know about me or my past so better not judge already, okay?" She came towards me and spoke calmly.

"And thanks for waking me up for Fajr. And sorry for shouting." She croaked as I saw a hint of moisture in her eyes. Don't tell me she is crying now. Wait, did 'stuck up brat' hurt her that much?

I continued offering my salah and later Nada, after taking bath, came and offered her Salah. I went towards my walk-in closet and selected my clothes for today and went to change.

I came outside to see Uméma leaving the room and Nada had something in her hands. What is it? Wait, who cares!

And I saw that Alizah was already awake.

"Come on Alizah! Let's get you dressed up. Now which color would you want to wear, hmm?" Nada went towards her and picked her up and walked towards me.

"Excuse me, Mister." She said to me.

"Are you okay?" I looked at her.

"I am not okay. I am perfect." Oh, overconfident.

"Then giving all respect-"

"Say it properly Fahad. That you can't digest the respect. Am I right?" She divulged cutting me off.

"A hundred percent wrong. Go get yourself check in a nearby hospital. Actually we are going today out to the orphanage, right? So before that a hospital also comes by so why not drop you there?" She was glaring at me by the time I finished my sentence.

"Don't you think that you are talking too much, you need a duck tape?" She retorted.

"Don't you think that you are senseless, you need a brain?" She shouldn't have underestimated me.

"Don't you think that you are mannerless, you need to join some classes for that?"

"Don't you think that you have gone mad, you need to go to the asylum?" Huh!

"Don't you think that you are illiterate, you need to go to the school for that?"

"If I was illiterate then I wouldn't been a businessman today, Ma Sha Allah [Because of God's grace]." I spoke trying not to sound snobbish.

"So what? Your Dad must have been the C.E.O he would have passed the company on to you."

"Shut up! Don't talk as if you know everything. What my father did nothing concerns you. I know the struggles for making up my empire rather than you who was just brought up like a princess." I dictated sounding exasperated.

"First it is you who said don't judge and now it is again you who already pictured me as a spoiled princess. Bipolar fox!" She said and bend down to open the cupboard.

"Do not include animals Nada!" This girl angers me the most. I was not a person to loose his patience with in a second. But now I get angry on her even if she exists. All thanks to her and her only.

"I will compare and won't stop too." She said and stuck her tongue out and went near the bed with Alizah and Alizah's clothes in her hands.

"Your Dad is a very big bipolar, you know Aliz. So better beware from him, okay sweetie?" She talked to Alizah as if she (Alizah) was under and kissed her cheeks after changing her diaper. Dad?

"Take care of her. I am going to get some food for her. And don't eat her you monster." She taunted me.

"What do you mean by 'don't eat her'? I am not a monster. It's you who is one."

"Oh whatever everybody knows who is one." She rolled her eyes and went down.

I went near Alizah who smiled at me.

"Such. A. Cute. Angel. You. Are." I exclaimed kissing her cheeks, forehead, chin and her stomach.

She giggled when I kissed her cheeks.

"You like it when I kiss here." I kissed her cheeks again. All she did was laugh.

Her parents are really missing everything. Her parents bad luck not my Alizah's.

"Nada is such a witch you know? So inspite of getting beware from me. You should be beware from her, okay?" I explained, tickling her stomach and she laughed at it. Was that me talking? It's been such a long time hearing myself talk something so casual like that.

"Get aside. Get aside! Fahad quickly. I want to feed her and feeding her is a difficult challenge." Nada entered with a weaning bottle.

"Come Ali baby we have to go today to look for your real parents so we have to get ready!" She said tying a bib around Alizah's neck who stared at Nada with her emerald-colored eyes. Such a beauty! Uh, Alizah not Nada.

"Explaining a six-month-old about finding her own parents tells me how stupid you are." I muttered.

"I heard it and for that shut up."

"Whatever."

Nada tied her cherry black hair in a ponytail and made Alizah lay on her lap.

"Okay Fahad. Dance now." Nada turned towards me.

"Excuse me."

"Excused. Now dance!" She insisted and pushed the bottle in Alizah's mouth. Alizah didn't like it maybe so she started crying.

"No I don't know how to dance." I simply stated.

"Oh ya, I forgot who I was talking to." She rolled her eyes.

"And why will I dance?"

"To entertain Alizah so that she eats her food, duh."

"Wait." I said and opened the nightstand drawer and took out the iPad.

I played some rhymes and kept it infront of Alizah who was crying hysterically.

"Hey! It will ruin her eyes." Nada started, continuing feeding Alizah who was laid on her lap.

"You wouldn't have been able to feed her if she was crying like that."

"That's why I asked you to dance." Oh God!

"You act as if you are dumb or is it by birth?"

"You act as if you are arrogant or is it by birth?" She snapped.

"It's waste talking to you." I shook my head and looked at Alizah who was enjoying her baby food watching the 'Ponytail rhymes'.

"Last bite please. Last bite AliBoo." Nada pestered keeping that bottle near Alizah's mouth who kept dodging it. I am not liking that nickname.

"Alizah please have it. You will be hungry then or worse malnourished. No! I don't want that to happen to my baby! Have it please." She rambled.

"First of all her stomach must've been full. Second of all she is not your real baby. Third of all, stop being a paranoid." I dictated trying to calm her down.

"Dude a six-month-old is supposed to finish this whole bottle, it is important for her." Nada argued looking at Alizah who was busy watching rhymes.

"May I come in. Or I am disturbing a family moment?" I heard Uméma knock.

"Ofcourse please. Who could stop you?" I said and smiled at my little sister.

"Breakfast is ready. Come downstairs. Awwww Alizah. How are you my cute niece?" She gushed at Alizah.

Niece?!

"She is perfectly fine just yet to dress her up." Nada spoke kissing Alizah's cheeks.

"Oh let me help you then." Uméma offered.

"That is so sweet of you because some people just sit and watch the drama." Nada glared at me.

"I did help." I tried to reason out.

"Yes by spoiling her eyes."

"Atleast she was quiet after I gave her the iPad."

"You don't do that."

"Excuse me. But I am not a father and nor do I have kids. It's my first handling some baby after Uméma but I was very small at that time."

"Accept your mistake Fahad."

"First you do."

"What mistake should I accept?" She asked raising her eyebrows.

"That-"

"Okay. Quiet both of you. I will help Nada and Fahad you wait for us at the dining table." Uméma interrupted.

I got up and Nada stuck her tongue at me as I rolled my eyes.

Such a kid! Girls! I don't understand them!

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CHAPTER ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON: 28/06/19

CHAPTER REWRITTEN/EDITED AND PUBLISHED ON: 09-05-20