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"Gosh you're such a drama queen!" He said, out of breath. "I mean the train, really Aaliya?! This isn't Chennai Express" She ignored him. "Hey I'm talking to you." he said and sat down next to her on the rickety wooden bench. She sighed, "Why are you here Zain?" "What do you mean?" "Why did you come?" "To stop you from going of course." "Why?" she asked, scrunching her buttoned nose. "What do you mean why?" "Why are you stopping me from going?"
"You can't just leave?" "Why?" "Because you married me" he said stupidly and inwardly cringed. "Oh please Zain, you've been trying to get rid of me from the night we got married. Here your wish is finally being fulfilled. Shut up and be happy." "But.. B.." He spluttered. She sighed again, the large clock portrayed that there was still another eight minutes for her train to arrive.
"You can't go Aaliya." "Yes I can, thank you very much." "What will my parents say?" "Oh please, your Mum will be over the moon, I feel bad about Mamu but you'll fabricate some story like you usually do." "Aaliya you can't go." He said again. "Why?" she asked, again. "You said you would do anything to make sure that our Nikah stood, and now you're running away from it." Her laugh lacked mirth, "well would you look at that." Zain was beginning to get desperate, he didn't know why.
"I want you to stay." he said firmly and grabbed her arm."That's not good enough a reason" she said, pulling her arm away from him. "Because we owe it to ourselves to try and make this marriage work." "History check Zain, I did do that." "Well this time we should try together." Had he said this a week ago she would have been over the moon, but today she couldn't care less. He'd said his part, she'd said hers and quite frankly she didn't trust him." "No" she replied coldly. He grabbed her hand again, "don't make me beg Aaliya." He was scared, she didn't know why but he was. "Zain why do you actually want me to stay. You've hated me from the beginning..." he cut her sentence short...
"I've never hated you. Hate is such a strong word. I don't love you Aaliya, I'd be lying if I said I did, but there's something I like about you and I know you like me too. We were both forced into this marriage, you have been sensible about it and I've just been blowing you off." "Continue" she said "I want us to start afresh. I want us to try make this marriage work, together" he said, emphasising the last word. "Together?" she asked. He nodded, "okay" she replied. He sighed in relief. Let's go home Aaliya." He put his hand forward for her to take, she saw it but ignored it. "Okay" she said, getting up to stand beside him.
"Oh by the way I think you are missing something" "what?" she asked as she straightened her dupatta. "This." he said with a cheeky grin, pulling out her paper train ticket from his jacket pocket. "Hey, where did you find that?" she asked incredulously. I found it by the ticket barrier, I saw you drop it. "Bet you're loving that one" she said. "You have no idea." He laughed and picked up her metal tinned suitcase.
"So since we are staring afresh, let's start with introductions." he said, and continued "Hi I'm Zain." "Aaliya" she replied with a sarcastic smile. "We are married" "really, I had no idea."
They continued bickering until they reached his car.
Here is my take on the train promo. Probably ridiculously far off, but I thought it'd be fun to pen my thoughts down.
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
Arjun
Sensational South
