TAQDEER(meant to be)

CHAPTER TWELVE

Nabeelah's POV

I had just returned from an errand ummah sent me,I went straight to the bathroom and had my shower because I'll be meeting with Aaban sir in the next few minutes,he had called earlier to ask if I was free so we could meet as he said he has something to discuss with me the previous day, "ya Nabeelah are you going out?" That was Nayns yet again with her series of interview anytime she sense I'm dressing to go out "ya Nabeelah is it a date?", "Ya Nabeelah who's the lucky man?", "Ehen ya Nabeelah do......"
"Can you shut up for f**k sake?" I said back rather angry at her her irrelevant questions
"When will you ever grow up and stop obsessing over men..ehn?"
"Don't you know men will stain your white?, they're not good creatures at all,stay away from them and ...."
"Okay,okay,okay I get it" she cuts me off
"But not like I'm going to be single for life, someday we'll all have to get married and ..."
"Yes get married and give birth and what next again?" I ask her
"And...."
"Yes and men are shit hole and" I said
"And you came out of one?" She said winking at me
"Naynah!"
And just almost immediately my phone began ringing and when I checked it was Aaban sir.
"Okay I'll be there in a few minutes" I said and hung up
I was so engrossed in Nayns's stupid chit chat that I lost track of time.
I finished my final touch of makeup with lipgloss,don't get me wrong when I said "makeup" but of course my one makeup is lipgloss and Nayns just sat there staring at me like the statue.
"Ya Nabeelah can I come with you?"Nayns asked just when I was about to go out of the room
"Why?" I asked
"Nothing I don't want to be bored at home" she said to me
"But you can't come with me Nayns, you don't even know where I am going to "
"But ya Nabeelah "she said pouting her lips
"No buts, Nayns "
"But you can go see Nadia at her home if you don't want to stay home "
"You know this marriage people,what if her husband is home?"
"Why won't he be home isn't he her husband? beside when was the last time you went to check on her?I bet ever since you took her home on her nikkah day"
"Okay let me get ready,so we can go out together "
"I'm only giving you 10 mins to get ready " and before I could close my mouth she already took her behind off the bed,I sat there and was about to play a game on my phone then a message pop in,it was a reminder from Aaban sir and the location where I'd meet him,he was already there .
"How do I look?"she asked
I scanned her head to toe without saying a word,but of course Nayns is a fashionista and all time model but even so she never dress indecent, she's looking beautiful I said to myself of course and not to her before she let her pride take over her.
"Ummah sai mun dawo"I said
"You girls are looking beautiful"she said
And we both smiled and said thank you.we took a cab and when I checked it was a 20 mins drive to the park I was meeting Aaban sir, Nayns got down  at a junction that leads to Nadia's house and I got to the park,it was difficult trying to find his exact spot but I didn't want to call and ask him,I haven't released my frustration from the soda incident,when I took a few steps there were some old couples still deeply in love,the old  husband was feeding his old wife ice cream and they looked really amazing,I stood there staring and admiring them,how they're still old yet still in love with each other,this is the type of love I wish for me,I walk pass them and from afar I could sight Aaban sir sitting down with his back facing me,I walk down to him and stood just behind him, first I didn't want him to know I have arrived,he was focused on whatever Allah knows he's doing on his phone,I looked around and found a wooden piece of tree that has fallen out,I walked slowly and picked it then came back standing right behind him and all those memories from the soda incident were coming back to me and at that moment I feel I needed to take it out on him,I was furious that I didn't exactly know what to do to him,hit him with the wood?I've raised it up three times in an attempt to hit him so hard that he'll cry and call for help,but then I stopped, put a finger in mouth thinking of what else to do that'll hurt him more,what will be the best revenge?I asked myself,I throw away the wood and made a  gesture with my hands as if I was going to strangle his neck,I even gave him some knocks but if course that stopped at the air cause I don't have that courage,just when I was about to carry out my last act I heard a voice from behind "if you're done with your show you can come have a drink"
"What!"I froze
"Whose voice did I just hear?"I thought
"Then who is the person standing in front of me?"oh my God it better not be what I'm thinking
"Slowly I turned around and behold!"
"What an act,I've been looking at you from the start,by the way you need some courage to do whatever you want to do"
I shook my head to be sure it wasn't a dream and that that was Aaban's voice I just heard,I wanted the ground to open and swallow me cause I've just made a fool out of myself right before him.
"Cat got your tongue?come and sit down"he said
Ya ilahi I hate this man,I thought
I trailed behind him and sat down face to face with whom I assume to be Aaban sir,it was his friend Abbas
"What was the drama all about?and what show were you talking about?"Abbas asked Aaban
So he's been listening to us yet acted like he had no idea what was going on, Aaban was just about to open his mouth when I hit him hard on his neck
"What the hell was that for?"he asked
"Firefly" I said faking a smile
"Firefly?"they both ask in unison
I mentally slapped myself cause how would I have seen a firefly during the day time?
"I meant mosquito"
I can't let him say a thing to his friend
"Mosquito?"he said
Then I gave him a pinch so he'd understand the message I was trying to pass and when he finally did,he smiled and I smiled too,Abs on the other hand was confused and just gave us a blank expression
"Uhm uhm" Abs cleared his throat signalling something,I looked at Aaban but he was on his phone typing something,maybe a message to Abs?what is so secretive that have to be sent as a message?well I shrug
Aaban sir turned to me and said "I know we've not had a good start between us,from the car incidence,the slap,soda etc and ....." He stopped and was rubbing the back of his head,maybe looking for the right words to use,this is unlike him I know because he's rather good with being a proud pompous show off,he stood up then clears his throat and began
"Do me the favour of taking my last name,I wanna nikkah you"he said to me with a smirk
"I would rather my nikkah be done with the Nigeria version of humood alkudeer than to marry an unrefined egoistical pompous show off and self opinionated human being like you,a self-conceited dirtbag who thinks he's God's gift to women  " i spat out in a harsh tone cause if that was a proposal he could have make it look way better and sweet that I can consider him
"We both know its the opposite baby wife, you want me just as all other ladies do, and we both know I'm hot, plus who wouldn't want the Nigeria version of karan luthra from kudali bhagya,I mean tall,fair,bearded with an athletic figure and not to forget the bucks, fame and fortune of a renown self made billionaire is also there"he said with a wink
"I'm not other ladies and i hate your guts"
"Not like I expect you to love it, just be my zawjah for 3 months its gonna be a contract nikkah and I pay you while you leave"now this is it, Aaban sir thought I was some kind of women he can get married to at any time he wants by paying me simply because he has the money?
"You're the most haram person I've ever seen in my life,way too haram that even the jahannam will feel disgust with your presence in it"I said back
"Accept it and I pay you or I  find my own way"
"You're not human"I said to him.
I stood up from where I was a sitting,looked him for the last time and said "I'll never marry someone like you " and I left.

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