She placed a hand on her stomach, standing there, looking inside the cupboard for something to wear...
''Mamma kaunse colour mein achi dikhti hai baby..?'' she asked the little one with a confused expression.
Taking out a pink salwaar kameez, she said, ''Ye acha hai...haina ?'' and headed to the washroom for changing.
After a few mins, she came out with the same dress in her hand, took another blue one and returned with it also after a few
mins. She could not understand what was happening. None of the dresses fit her ! She found herself in a dilemma about what to wear.
These days she had preferred to stay in her night suit which was just a loose kurta and pyjamas, as she was not supposed to leave the bed and go anywhere, not expecting this to come.
Asad entered the room and found all her clothes scattered on the bed with her standing beside them. He noticed the worried expression on her face and wondered what was she upto with all the mess around, instead of being on the bed herself.
''Aap ye kya kar rahi hain..?'' came his immediate question. She got startled hearing his voice. She had
not even realised when he enetered the room and moreover, she hadn't expected him to be home at this hour of the day.
Just as she turned to look at him, she felt herself slip backwards. She immediately closed her eyes in fear of hitting the floor. But nothing of that sort happened, instead, she found herself safely enveloped in his arms. She opened her eyes slowly and saw his terrified expression. For one second, he had felt like his whole world was falling with her. He
immediately rushed to hold her in his arms not letting her get hurt, making sure she was safe.
She straightened herself knowing how angry he was with her almost falling. He came out of the moment and shouted at her, ''Dhyaan kahan hai aapka.??!! Agar aap gir jaati..!!? Aur ye kya haal bana rakha hai !?''
She replied innocently, ''Ye mere kapde hain Mr. Khan...'' trying to calm him down.
''Wo mujhe bhi dikh raha hai...lekin aap in kapdo ke saath kya kar rahi thi...?? You are supposed to take rest and not meddle around with things...'' he said now calmly.
''Ji mai inhe abhi hata deti hu...'' she said looking at the puddle of clothes.
''Uski koi zaroorat nahi... Mai Najma se keh deta hu..woh karlegi.. Aap jaake change kar lijiye...'' he said, noticing that she had been in the same dress for quite a long time now. And probably was looking for a dress to change.
She stood there perplexed not knowing how to tell him that she couldn't change into any of them. She mumbled to herself with a cute pout, ''Mai inki wajah se hi iss
haal mein hu...aur iss problem se bhi inhe hi mujhe nikaalna hoga !''
Asad looked at her talking to herself with a cute pout that he could not avoid looking at and asked, ''Kya hua ? Aap aise kyu khadi hain...!?''
to which she abruptly replied, ''Kyunki mai ye kapde nahi pehen sakti...!!''
''Kyu ? Kya kharaabi hai inn kapdo mein...?'' he asked not understanding her.
''Kharaabi nahi hai...''
''Phir ?'' he asked getting more confused.
''I just dont fit into them !'' she said looking down.
It took a few mins to strike him what she actually meant. He scanned her top to bottom and noticed that she had started
showing a slight baby bump. She felt herself shiver under his gaze. Though she was looking down, she could feel his eyes on her.
A small smile touched his lips reaching out to his eyes. She never failed to surprise him, he thought. He could feel his heart do a summersault realising the fact that his baby was actually GROWING inside her.
He always wondered, there was something about her that wouldn't let him hate her, how much ever he tried ! The more he tried to stay away from her, the more his heart binded her closer to him. She was like sunshine in his absolutely dark world. She came with a paint brush and a magic wand to fill colours in his black and white life and shower happiness upon him; the biggest
happiness that he could have ever thought of getting. Yet he stayed away from her, thinking that he would only prove to be a husband like his father and not any better !
But in all this, he couldn't stop himself falling for her, her silly antics, her cute pouts, her nonstop blabberings, her beautiful big eyes, and what not.
But that was again pushed behind the mask he wore.
He slowly pulled her chin up with his finger, making her look into his eyes. She blushed just at his mere touch that didn't go unnoticed by Asad. He carefully place his both hands on her cheeks and bent forward to kiss her forehead, to which Zoya closed her eyes in reflex.
The kiss was soft, feather-like and wasn't intended to create any passion between them, but Zoya couldn't stop the butterflies from fluttering inside her stomach.
She had never thought in her wildest dreams that Mr. Khan could do something like this, but she had seen it in his eyes and understood how overwhelmed he was seeing the change in her. And the kiss was only a gesture to say that he was thankful to her.
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Asad called out for Najma and told her to come along with him so that she could accompany Zoya for the shopping after visiting the doctor. Dilshad heard this and gestured Najma to say a no. She wanted them to spend some time alone knowing how much Zoya craved for it these days.
Najma made an excuse saying, ''Bhaijaan, kal mujhe project submit karna hai aur wo abhi poora nahi hua hai... Aap jaaiye na bhabhi ke saath ! Ammi ko bhi meri help karni hai...''
Asad couldn't say much about it, so he decided to take her to both the places himself. He took her to the doctor first, where he got positive remarks about the baby and mother both. Asad was quite happy hearing that both the mother and baby were healthy and doing fine, just that they should be kept stress-free.
Next he drove to a boutique. This was the first time Asad Ahmed Khan was entering a boutique. He could not leave her alone, so there wasn't any other option other than accompanying her inside.
Zoya was very reluctant about entering the place in her night suit. She didn't want to get down from the car but didn't know what to tell Asad. Thats when she heard him say, ''Chaliye... Apne liye kuch kapde dekh lijiye...'' opening the door for her.
She reluctantly got inside the boutique, getting conscious about herself. Asad noticed her reluctance and the way she was looking down at herself again and again.
He placed a hand on her back, assuring her there was nothing to feel odd about, especially when he was there with her. She turned to look at him sideways and found him looking straight at the receptionist asking her to show some clothes for her. She kept staring at him affectionately, only to be brought out of her thought's by the lady's voice which said, ''Come along with me ma'am.'' She quietly followed her after looking at Asad for permission who gave her a simple nod, motioning her to go along.
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