there stood Mr rashid ahmed khan with a stern face. these three saw each other and started laughing. ayaan said 'abbu you trying to be strict is very funny and u know that right?' and grined.
rashid smiled sheepishly and all of them turned to enter the dinning room and stopped right in there tracks there stood dilshad with hands in her hip.she said 'zoya darling i asked u to go wake them not play with them'.
zoya smiled and murttered a small sorry and went inside the kitchen. 'and now Mr ayaan and Miss najma pls go and get ready for colledge before i kick you both'said dilshad. they both ran of to there respective rooms'.
dilshad then turned to her husband who grinned at her ' you better go wake up the munchkin of yours'she said
rashid replied 'jee begam sahiba' and went of to a room nearby.
dilshad shook her head and saw the wall with many photos,medals and certificates in the living room.dilshad got tears in her eyes seeing them.
zoya who saw all this from the kitchen ,controlled her emotions and called'ammi can u pls help me with the breakfast'.Dilshad hastily wiped her tears and replied positively and went to kitchen to help zoya.
after sometime when zoya and dilshad were setting the table rasid entered with a small girl of 1 year in his arm who was in half sleep.after seeing them dilshad rushed to them and took and girl with her who cuddled into her
arms and rasid pouted seeing this while zoya rolled her eyes. this was distrubed when ayaan and najma came in arguing about some song lyrics,but one stern look from the other three, they shut there mouths and gave there
attention to the girl in dilshad's arm who was now awake.they cooed her who simled at the antics of her chaachu and puphi.zoya said 'ok ok enough of drama eat your breakfast it is getting time for colledge'
all agreed and took there respective seats.everyone noticed the only vacant seat but brushed it out of there minds.zoya said'ammi,u give abi to me and u eat,I will eat afterwards' ."no zoya its ok u eat you didnot even have your
dinner properly u were busy doing your desings yesterday u eat i will fed abi now and then i will eat" dilshad said.zoya accepted and started eating
while eating zoya observed her daughter abigailly asad ahmed khan or abi for short was spitting image of her father by looks and with mannerism. zoya just wished abi did not get the trait of OCD from her father.
HER FATHER,how much zoya wished he was here and went in to memorise of HIM .najma who notice this, instantly knew that her bhabi was thinking about her bhaijaan, not wanting her bhabi to get into those memorise she signaled her
ayaan bhaijaan to notice zoya who did see her and knew what he was supposed to do .clearing his throat he said'mona pls pass me the salt'zoya who was little startled,compossed hersefl and gave him what he asked for.
dilshad and rashid who noticed all this were chocked with emotions. the atmosphere in dinning table was filled with emotions everyone in the memorise of th single man a son,a brother and a husband who was not here.
they were all brought out by the joy of bundle,the splitting image of her father and the only person who was keeping everyone else in a sane state of mind,who was currently giggling because her daadi had stopped feeding her
everyone chuckled and again started eating.
after sometime the breakfast was over,rashid was reading newspaper , dilshad was clearing the table ,ayaan and najma were getting ready for colledge and zoya with abi was in her room ,bathing abi.
ayaan and najma were all set to go colledge in the same car since they both were doing there courses in the same colledge with ayaan doind final year masters in business managment and was almost all set to join his father in family
business while najma was doing her 2nd year in fashion designing to join her bhabhi's foot step in fashion industry.
as zoya came ready to go work and with abi behind her in small and steady steps for a 11 month baby ready for the day. rashid took his leave to go to his work a little early today since he had a confernce early
he saw zoya and abi ready for the day and said'have good day zoya and miss abi be a good girl to your daadi today ok' abi giggled and zoya wished him good day and rashid left after saying goodbye to dilshad and his kids.
while inside the car with the driver driving the car and rashis closed his eye and said to himself 'wish u were here asad beta'.
ayaan and najma said there goodbye to thier ammi and bhabi and little princess and came out ,while passing they saw the wall in living room which showed the bravery of their brother .
seeing that najma was getting emotion ayaan nudged her and said'come on tamater lets go its getting late' 'jee bhaijaan' replied najma.and they both left.
after getting ready for the day zoya said'ok ammi even i have to go now.with the show only aweek away me and my team have to rush the designing work '
'ok zoya take care and eat something during work and take a break in between ok'said dilshad 'jee ammi'zoya then turned her attention to her daughter who had a small face seeing that all her favorite people are going now and will come
back only after the evening.zoya chuckled and said 'be a good girl to dadi ok ammi will try to come home soon' abi smiled making zoya smile and kissed her daughter's forehead and letf after saying goodbye to dillshad.
as she came to the living room she went near the wall which had many things.
'asad its been 10 months since we lost you and we all trying to come to terms with it.anyways i hope i am doing a right job in brining up abi.ammi and abbu talked to me about my remarrige but how can i marry someone when i belong to u
my mom dad and haider also told me the samething during a skpe chat last week i told them i wont. i will never do it because u died but not our love . i loved u,i love u and i will love till my last breath .bye .be with me all mine and abi's
life and guide us throughout the end .
and then zoya got in her car and left to her work place.
there in the wall was a smiling face of major Asad ahmed knan who was killed during a fight in the indian border just few days after returning from paternal leave as his daughter was born.
and it has been 10 months to his death and his family consisting of his parents and one yonger brother and one younger sister and the love of his life zoya and his precious daughter who would not be able to have to love of her father with her,
where still accepting his death.
---------A TRIBUTE TO ALL THE ARMY MAN OF EVERY COUNTRY --------
Anupamaa
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