TAQDEER(meant to be)

CHAPTER TEN

Aabaan's POV
I woke up around 5am,I jolted up from the bed like I was struck with a pain stick.
"You've got only 14 days"dad's words hit my anxiety again and the desire to quench his curiosity of seeing me get married struck my mind."14 days" I said to myself and now a day is gone which I'm left with 13 more days,huh!
I literally dragged my behind off my bed to the bathroom,I made my ablution and came back to my room,I took my prayer mat and spread it and then prayed raka'atayn fajr took my Qur'an and recite some few chapters and then finally prayed my fajr prayer,I prayed to my rabb to help me make a better decision in choosing a wife even if it just for the mean time and went back to bed,I tried to see if I can catch some sleep but I couldn't so I decided to just play candy crush on my phone,3 minutes into the game my phone beeped which notifies a message and I tap the messaging app to see who it was.

Unknown:I KNOW YOUR DARK SECRET,YOU CAN HIDE IT TO THE WORLD BUT NOT ME.

"Who might it be?" I asked myself
"My dark past?" Seriously?and from unknown?
Before I realized it I was already feeling dizzy and felt on the floor,I was sweating profusely even with the AC on,the earth was rotating at 360 or so I'm seeing it and for a moment I felt my heart stopped beating cause this is something no one was suppose to know and not even Abby,this can't be.
Initially I was stuck with the thoughts of how or where to get a wife before 14 days, and now I'm suppose to protect a secret no one's suppose to find out,not even Abby,even if he's as close as my jugular vein.i got up from bed and went to make ablution in the restroom,after I was out I prayed again two nafl for at this juncture prayer is the only thing that could save me,after I was done I was seated on my prayer mat with about seven trains of thought on four different tracks with each avoiding each other when their path crosses,my main concern at the moment is how to get an average modest Muslim lady for marriage even if it was going to be a contract between us I won't mind,just in time my phone rang and when I picked it was nabeelah in call
"Sir, someone just dropped you a message at the diner and he said to give it to you"nabeelah said at the other end of the line
" Alright just keep it with you I'll get it when I come to the diner" I said and hung up
" What if?"my brain whisper to me
What if I marry nabeelah even if it's a contract marriage?
"Noooo, it can't possibly be" I said to myself shaking that thought off
" Maybe I should go see abs and hear if he has anything for me. I took my car keys and went down stairs hoping not to meet Abba and lucky enough he wasn't in the sitting room, I rushed out of the house and drove to abs house, the drive to his house was about 20 minutes, I didn't have the patience to wait for the gate man to come and open the door,I left my car out there and went straight in, knowing abs house like the back of my palm,I went to his room he was playing Xbox, seeing how my face looked he stood up and pulled me over
"Have you gotten anything?" I asked him in a nutshell
"Anything like what" he ask like he has forgotten about my predicament,but the way I looked at him made him realize and came back on track
"Ohhh,well you see I've been thinking of this particular lady and..."
" And what?" I cut him off before he could finish
" Can you just please allow me to die before you bury me?"he said
" Okay" I said
" So this girl from your diner"he finally said
" You mean nabeelah?"I said,or rather I question him raising a brow
"Yeah exactly,she's actually nice and modest,I mean not like you have a girl friend at the moment so you can use her even if it's just a contract marriage for a few months,what do you think?"
I looked at him transfixed but deep down I knew what he was saying was right,and even if she's not the girl,she's close to,this time around I can't fool Abba,I can't play games nor tricks,if I don't present a wife within the stipulated time Abba will get me some random girl I don't know what or how she looks like and I ain't ready for those shit man,I'm not myself anymore.
"You think so?" I asked him raising a brow
"Yeah and that's just the best option I could think of, beside when the only option you got is a bad one then you gotta use it anyways right?"
I sigh!
" Look bro,we gotta do this and it'll work out trust me, we're gonna set things right and Abba will be cool with it"he said again patting my back and that's just one reason why I can't love abs less,he's just the best friend one could ever ask of,he's caring like a brother,a father and a mother all in one,he made sure to be always there when I needed him the most and he always come up with ideas and solutions at my lowest and at my worst,he's real,and I thought I should tell him about the message from unknown sender but then it's something no one should know about,abs isn't the type to judge people but I can't look at him after he's known what it was,and there's no way I'm telling him about the unknown sender and not telling him about the content of the whole thing,I just decide to shrug it anyways and let it be for the next couple of weeks.
"You're not saying anything?" He said disrupting me from my thoughts
" Okay I agree with you, but how do we go about this whole thing?" I asked him knowing what I did to her last and how I left her
" Shouldn't she be at the diner?" He asked
"Yeah she should but this isn't something we should discuss at the diner" I said
"Alright we'll go see her at home then when you're free"
I just kept mute I couldn't even a word, it felt like my world was falling apart, this is unlike me, I said to myself, but whatever it is I hope it's for the best and with that I left abs house.

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I parked my car in front of the diner and called Naynah to bring me whatever message she said someone brought to me, I've been waiting for Allah knows how long when I finally spotted her from afar,she was dressed in black abaya,a pair of sneakers and a nude color hijab that complimented her outfit,she look extremely beautiful,I couldn't stop staring,and indeed made the right choice for suggesting her and I just hope she accept my request,I could spot a brown envelope she has holding in her hand and when she finally approached me,she was having this faint look on her face that doesn't describe any emotions or maybe it was hard for me to guess
"Good day sir" she said in a low tone with her head low and then she handed me the envelope
"Hope you're doing good?" I didn't know why I asked how she was doing but I was just curious to know if she was doing okay,I collected the envelope and drove off, my heart was racing, curiosity kills the cat and I guess it's just about killing me as well,I couldn't wait to reach home before I could open the envelope to see what was in there,I was so eager and that made me drive like a lunatic, immediately I decide to park beside the street which I did,I picked the envelope and open it and just when I think as about bringing out the paper inside to read,I heard a knock on my car door,I raised my head to see it was a stranger putting on mask with a black cap which made it hard for me to identify him,he gesture with the envelope in his hand which made me wined down my glass and immediately he handed me the envelope and went away without saying anything,I opened the first one I collected from Naynah,my eyes was fixed on the words,and for a moment I couldn't feel my breath,it was word written in calligraphic way but it wasn't hard to know what those words are, opening the second envelope it was almost same thing but different english,I sigh!