Later that night, Zoya and Asad both couldn't help but stare at the rings that had bound them to each other forever.
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A few days passed and the wedding preparations were going on in full force. Zoya had told her appi and jiju about her upcoming wedding and they had promised to get to India as soon as they could. They had been very surprised at first at the suddenness of such an important decision, but they had agreed because they knew Asad was an honorable man.
Zoya still could not believe that all this was happening. She could not believe she was going to marry Mr. Khan...that she would be Zoya Asad Ahmed Khan in just a few days. She still did not know how to feel about it. She did not even know if he loved her because he had never actually told her. She still feared he was only marrying her because of phuphi. She still had her insecurities since she was not the kind of wife he had wanted. But for a while she just wanted to forget about all her fears and insecurities and just live in the moment. She wanted to just bask in the happiness if being his wife and hope for the best. Perhaps she was thinking too negatively and everything would turn out fine...great even.
"Zoya," she heard Tanveer calling her and thus headed downstairs putting her worries to rest for now.
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Asad sat in his room not being able to think of anything but his pending nuptials. One face kept appearing behind his lids. Her smile, her lips, her eyes, her dimples all had been etched in his mind and he could not get them out. Was he doing the right thing by marrying her? He did not know, but he could not refuse his ammi so he would do this. He would marry her, but he had not even considered what Zoya wanted in all this. Did she want to marry a man she called akdu? Did she want to spend the rest of his life with him? Did she even love him? He had to talk to her. He had to get some answers. So he went out in search of Zoya. He found her near the stairs.
It all happened in slow motion...Zoya was climbing down the stairs and then her foot slipped. With his heart lodged in his throat, he sprang for her. Sprang as if his whole world depended on him getting to her in time.
"Ahhh..." Zoya screamed as Asad leapt for her and caught her a millisecond before she fell. Asad hugged her tight to him as if he never wanted to let go of her.
For several moments he just held her close to him as both their hearts got back to normal.
Loosening his death grip on her...he finally let her out of his arms, and palmed her cheeks.
"Zoya tum theek hoon? (Zoya are you okay?)"
Zoya could just nod. The fear...the emotions on his face held her captive.
"Tumhe kuch hoon jata toh? Dekhke nahi chalsakti thi? (What if something had happened to you? Can't you walk carefully?)," Asad screamed letting his frustration out. So much worry for her, Zoya thought.
"I am okay Mr. Khan. I am fine," Zoya said as she touched his cheek reassuring him.
"And I did look where I was going Mr. Khan...I think there was something on the..."
Zoya knelt down and observed something wet on the stairs.
"It's oil, there was oil on the stairs," Zoya said surprised. Nothing like this had ever happened before in the Khan Mansion. It was almost impossible to find anything stray in this household with Mr. Khan around to monitor everything.
Zoya looked up and saw pure rage on Asad's face. He sped down the stairs and yelled at Najma and Tanveer, "who spilled oil on the stairs and did not clean it?"
"Zoya almost fell down the stairs...do you know what could have happened if I hadn't been there. How could you all be so irresponsible."
Zoya had followed him to the kitchen and was quite shocked at hearing all this. He was so worried about her that he was yelling at his sister and his taanu. Just then phuphi walked in.
In an effort to calm him down, Zoya moved closer to him and touched his bicep. "I am okay Mr. Khan. I am sure someone accidentally spilled it. It's okay."
Asad looked as if he was about to scream some more but came to his senses when he looked into Zoya's eyes. Her touch seeming to drain the anger out of him.
"Aur tum dono shaadi nahi karna chahte the (And you two did not want to get married)," phuphi said.
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Billo Rani sat in her room that night and lamented over the fact that another one of her plans to kill Zoya failed because of Asad.
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So, I have been thinking about changing the title. I'm going to change it to Unresolved Marriage for now because it suits. But I don't like the title that much. When I think of something outstanding...I will change it again. So dont be surprised.
Oh, and I might upload another part today. Depends how tired I am.
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