~8~
"What nonsense are you talking Maya! They love me!" I argued.
"It's just that, your badi ammi for example she has only relied on Sanam or Mrs Khan to help her and Mrs and Mr Khan always ask Sanam for help instead of you!"Maya said and I had to admit that she was right.
"But that's normal, badi ammi knows Sanam more than me, so she trusts Sanam."
"SO you mean that she doesn't trust you." Maya said and left the room. I couldn't manage to doubt about her, maybe she was right. After all, I had always known that it wouldn't be easy for me to fit in this family..But was it possible that I was this different from them that..No, I couldn't believe it.
Sanam's pov.
I saw Maya leaving Seher's and mine room smirking and I knew that something was wrong. Seher was crying holding a picture.
"Seher? Kya hua?" I asked and she just nodded her head no.
"I was just crying because of my adoptive parents. I miss them a lot..That's all." She said and I walked to her and I hugged her.
"Do you want to call your governess?" I asked and she nodded before picking the phone to call her governess.
She called her and invited her for her wedding. I frowned as I heard Seher calling her ammi. I couldn't be able to face the fact that before us, Seher had a life. She had been showered with mother care..
"Seher, Sanam, please come to eat." Ammi said from outside and I helped Seher getting up before we left to eat. Rehaan and Shaad were also here. I was between Seher and Ammi. Ammi was sitting next to Antara and she was facing Abbu. I was facing Shaad while Seher was facing Rehaan and badi ammi was facing Antara.
"So Shaad, I didn't have the chance to talk to you properly as I was a bit sick lately. How have you been?" Ammi asked.
"I'm okay Mrs Khan. Ammi will soon join you to finalize the nikkah." He said and I gulped. I didn't want to marry him..Not any more. The more I thought about him, the more I felt that what I was doing was wrong. I loved Aahil so much that I wouldn't be able to marry someone else but him. Ammi gripped at my hand tightly and smiled reassuringly. That was it. I needed to talk to Shaad.
After the dinner, I dragged Shaad to the garden to talk to him.
"Shaad, I know that you're an amazing man. You have been very kind with me but I can't do this. We can go on with this wedding because I.. I'll never be able to love you. I won't love you Shaad." I said as my eyes watered. "I won't love you because I'm head over heels for someone else, for Aahil Raza Ibrahim."
No one's POV.
While Shaad was happy that Sanam called off the engagement, Maya was fuming with anger. She had decided that instead of Shaad dragging Sanam out of her nikkah to drug her and make everyone believe that they slept together (like her mother did before), she would find another way to hurt both Sanam and Seher equally.
Next day, Khan Villa.
Everyone was rushing here and there to prepare Seher's mehendi ceremonial. Seher was full of happiness. Next day she would be Seher Qureishi. She was so happy! Sanam on the other hand was happy for her sister and she was confident that Aahil would tag along with Rehaan so they would be able to discuss about their problems.
"Ma', look the lehenga I've bought for Seher!" Sanam said as she showed to Zoya a very beautiful lehenga.
"Wow Sanam! That's absolutely beautiful!" Zoya exclaimed showing her dimpled smile to her daughter.
"Miss Khan, can you please leave the room, I need to talk with your mother." Asad said a bit too stern for the thing he was going to 'say' to his wife.
"Kya hua jaan?" Zoya asked while Asad locked the door.
"You are so preoccupied with Seher's wedding that I didn't even get my morning make out session today." He said and started to kiss her. Zoya gasped and he slid his tongue in her hot mouth. Zoya smiled into the kiss and tugged at his hair, earning a moan from her Mr Khan.
"Ya Allah! That's so disgusting!" Asad opened his eyes and looked at his wife before turning around and he saw Ayaan along with Nikhat and Nuzrat standing out the window.
"Ayaan Ahmed Khan!" Said Nikhat while she faked her anger.
"Why did you stop them? Bhaijaan was so into kissing his wife that he didn't even noticed Ami throwing a ball in the room." Nuzrat joked and Asad, who was still trying not to kill them rolled his eyes and Zoya laughed at him.
"Caught red-handed?" She said and Asad glared at her.
"1..." Ayaan and Khan sisters stopped laughing on hearing Asad's voice. "2..." He smirked at Zoya.
"3!" He shouted and turned around but Ayaan and his sisters where nowhere to be seen.
He knew that they would go away so he sat on the bed and Zoya sat on his lap, then they went back into devouring each other's mouth. Asad smiled into this kiss, savouring her taste as if they hadn't kissed in ages.
"Ammi!" Antara shouted banging on the door.
"Mr Khan.." Zoya whispered while her forehead was against his.
"Mrs Khan.." He whispered back.
"You're addicted by me aren't you?" She asked.
"That's an understatement Mrs Khan. I'm not addicted, I'm in love."
"Well that's for sure." She answered and left. She opened the door and her daughter and her nephews engulfed her into a hug. Nuzrat's twins were so cute! They even had their mother's dimples.

Zoya left her room, leaving her husband behind and she went to meet her brothers-in-law. When she walked into the living room, she saw Nikhat running after Ayaan with a pillow. She was going to stop the duo when she spotted Hayaa and her husband. She squealed and walked to her niece to hug her. It has been four months already and she was missing her little Hayaa daily.
"Ayaan stop joking about Nikhat!" Nuzrat said.
"Arrey Nu', it's not my fault if your sister is flirting around!" Ayaan said poking her sister's side. Nikhat finally threw the pillow at him and hit his head.
"You little fool! Stop talking nonsense." Nikhat shouted at Ayaan and he just giggled.
"Oh jaan! When will you come? Why are you taking all this time! I miss you Rahman!" Ayaan mocked imitating miserably Nikhat's voice.
"Ayaan beta, please stop teasing your sister!" Dilshad said.
"Ammi, I'm not teasing her! I'm just expressing how happy I am that she had finally found her soul mate!" Ayaan said and both Nikhat and Dilshad smiled at him.
Zoya looked at their daughters as they were catching up with Hayaa. She smiled and recalled her memories with Najma.
"Ammi!" Seher shouted and Zoya thought that she was talking to her but then her daughter ran towards the front door and engulfed a woman into a bone crashing hug. Zoya felt jealousy rushing through her veins as she saw Seher and this woman. She got out of the living room and went into the backyard. Maya noticed this and followed Zoya out in the garden.
"Kya hua Mrs Khan?" She asked as if she cared. Zoya engulfed Maya into a hug.
"I know that before knowing that I was alive, Seher and Sanam had a life. But it's still difficult to realize that Seher had another mother before me. Someone she idolizes.. someone who took care of her." Zoya sobbed and Maya rolled her eyes.
She wiped Zoya's tears away.
"You know Mrs Khan, before you Seher used Priya as her hard rock to stay out of loneliness. She may be your daughter biologically, but she has a stronger bond with Priya and you just have to accept it." Maya said and Zoya nodded.
"You're right Maya." Sanam heard her mother say. 'What this devilish woman was saying to ammi?' Sanam thought as she saw her mother coming back inside with Maya.
Seher showed Priya around the house then they stopped in the garden.
"Saf, you seem tensed, what's wrong?" Priya asked.
"Ammi, do you think that my family love me less than they love Sanam?" Seher asked.
"What's this now? How can you doubt their love for you? I just arrive but I can already see how your father and grandmother love you Seher. You will never find someone who loves you more than these people inside this house.."
"But Maya said.."
"Maya! Maya! Everything seems to be true for you when she says so! Maya doesn't know what they have in their heart. She doesn't know what you have in your heart. These people are your own people. And I swear in my life that they love you." Priya said and hugged her.
"Let's go back inside. I didn't meet the amazing woman who gave birth to my little bundle of joy!" Priya said and kissed Seher's forehead then they go back into Khan Villa.
"Ammi, I wanted you to meet the only woman who I should also call ammi, Priya Mukherjee." Seher said and Priya gasped on seeing Zoya.
"It seems like I'm seeing two Seher!" She said and Zoya smiled at her comment and called Sanam.
"Actually, these two had the chance to have the beauty of their ammi!" Zoya exclaimed and hugged Priya.
"Thank you for what you did for Seher. Not every human being is gifted with so much sympathy." She said, her jealousy completely forgotten.
"It wasn't sympathy. Never in my life I would leave someone who needs me. When Mr and Mrs Omarjee died in this car accident, I just wanted to protect Seher. Because in my mind it was impossible that she had been abandoned by her family so let's say that I just offered her a shelter, waiting for her family to come back." Priya caressed Seher's face lovingly. She was proud of her little Seher.
"Please be quiet now!" Nikhat shouted while the toddlers were running around shouting like fools.
Seher was led to her room by Zoya, Dilshad, Priya and Sheereen.
Dilshad kissed her forehead.
"Like I forced your parents to marry each other before I kill them, I'm happy to be a part of your happiness today, my dear. Look at how you're stunning! Life has been unfair with me because I lost my love but it got replaced by Sanam and Seher. I don't care about your parents any more, now I'm just living for my grandchildren's happiness." Dilshad said and Seher cried of happiness.
"Allah miyaan what's wrong with you? How can you make my daughter cry?" Zoya said engulfing Seher into a bone crashing hug. "I know that lately I wasn't present in your life because of my health..But I'll do everything possible to help you through your steps to nikkah. I'll do my best to act like a good mother to you Seher. Look, this is a necklace I had searched during years because it had yours and Sanam pictures on it. When you father gifted me this necklace, we vowed that we'll always fight for your happiness, we promised that we'll do anything to stop you from falling. And we'll keep this promise Seher." Zoya said and kissed her daughter's forehead. "I love you Miss Khan." She added and hugged her daughter tightly. Priya came near Seher and put a bracelet around her wrist.
"I had bought you these for your wedding. I thought that I'd give you this today. I'm so proud of you! Look at how you've become! You were so sad of being alone and now you have a big family." She kissed Seher's forehead and Sheereen just stood there smiling.
"If I had known that you'll have these goddesses, I would have urged you into marrying Asad!" She exclaimed and all women in the room laughed.
Seher stared at her reflection and smiled. She was ready to be happy.
~9~
Edited by Perriewinkle - 9 years ago