Noor's pov:

"Do it right Mr Hadi!" The shout makes me flinch. The people who say their boss is scary would start worshipping their boss if they meet Mr Azaan Raihan. At the moment he was crossed at Mr Hadi, whose desk was right beside mine. The unlucky me will have to hear him shout at another employee. I was completing a slide show his assistant asked me to do. And now I'm scared to death he'll come over to me and check my slides and shout at me. 

"This is your last chance. You'll be fired tomorrow if I don't see the correct slides in my email by 12 am sharp tonight!" he orders. 

I hear footsteps coming towards me. The lift was right beside my desk. He is probably going there. 

Just continue working. Just continue working. Just continue. 

"Who are you Miss?" I hear his voice beside me. I stand up immediately.

"I'm Nafisa. Nafisa Ayaaz." 

"She is the new employee sir." his assistant speaks up behind him.

"What are you working on?" 

"The new advertisement slide," I say nervously

"Show me." 

I move the screen towards the side so he could see. My heart starts beating out loud. I guess I'm getting fired today! I'll have some news to share at the gathering after Noor says why she accepted. He started reading the texts in the slide.

"It's okay. Continue." He says before leaving. Does that mean I won't get fired? You did it Nafisa! His assistant gives me a 'thumbs-up' before leaving. 

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"He is so hot! Good thing you said yes!" Karya shouts out after looking at Noor's fiancé's photo. We've been here for 30 minutes and Noor has been bragging about how good her fiancé looked.

"Are you okay Noor?" Aliyah asks after Karya stops talking about Noor making a good decision. 

"Umm." Noor could never lie. We all knew that fact very well.

"What happened? I thought you liked him?" I ask in worry.

"Yes, I liked him. But he doesn't like me!" Noor says in a quiet voice.

"Then how is the marriage happening?" Aliyah asks. She was pissed already.

Noor explains everything to us. How he said yes because of a favour but she still wants him. How her parents really liked him and thought she suited him and had high hopes.

"Oh." Aliyah's face softens. "Don't worry. You'll be fine. Look at the bright side. He said he would still respect you and take care of you. He might say things like 'you're just a responsibility' at first, but he will surely fall for you. No one can resist our charismatic desi girl." she plays with Noor's hair. Something that always makes Noor feel better.

"So we can't do Juta Chuppai?" Karya asks in disappointment.

"Yes! I was looking so forward to it." I say in a pout.

"Sorry, but no. I don't think he'll like that."

"It's fine. We'll do it in both of your weddings!" Aliyah says lightening the mood.

Karya and I look at each other. We both wanted to say the same thing- 'How about yours?'- but chose not to.

Aliyah didn't believe in love. Well, it's not like she didn't. She knew it was a beautiful thing. She just didn't want to experience it herself after everything she had been through.

"When is everything? Maybe you can design outfits for us!" I say excitedly.

"That would be lovely! But I won't have enough time, sorry. The engagement is next week. Here are the invites." she gets out 3 cards from her bag.

"Next week?" Karya and Aliyah says in union.

"Yes, the actual wedding is in two weeks." Noor's phone starts ringing. She picks up and listens to the person on the other side.

"I need to go sorry. I'll text you if there are any other updates." she takes her things and leaves before anyone else could say anything.

"This is crazy! I tried to stay positive in front of her but seriously, she shouldn't have said yes." Karya exclaims.

"Her spark was completely gone today." Aliyah sighs

"She will be fine guys! We should trust her. Who knows? Maybe it will be like those books and she will be able to change him!" I try and make them feel better.

"Yeah, let's hope for that to happen. These invites are so gorgeous! Will the wedding ones be made of diamond or something?" Karya says as she opens them.

"What do you expect? Noor's family are crazy rich." I say as I open the card to read the guy's name.

"Raihan?" Aliyah stands up in shock. I was equally shocked when I saw the last name on the card. 

"That's the name of the company I work for!" I say in shock.

"He might be the brother of your scary CEO then. What happened to you? You look like you've seen a ghost." Karya asks Aliyah.

"I'd rather see a ghost right now." Aliyah looks at me confused. "So you're saying you work for the Raihan Company? And Azaan Raihan is your scary CEO who is most probably Aariz's brother. And Noor will be marrying Aariz who said she will only be his responsibility. I guess they're all the same. Dickheads." 

"Which Raihan do you know?" Karya asks her.

"Ahaan," Aliyah says in an annoyed voice.

"Lucky me. Good thing I don't know any Raihan." Karya starts laughing.

"You think you're funny?" Aliyah glares at her. Karya stops laughing. When Aliyah was angry, there were three options: either die in her hand, or start running away and get as far as possible, or stay and try and shift her mood. Aliyah and Anger together meant the town could burn down.

"Anyways, we met at the cafe after so long! Even though Noor left. But still, we should enjoy this time. We barely get to see each other because of how busy everyone is!" I change the topic.

"Well, busy and me don't go together. Good thing about being an Author." Karya starts boasting.

"Yeah yeah, hamari harami ladki is so lucky," Aliyah says. Good thing her anger was going down. It was kinda true though. Karya didn't write much dark stuff like present-day authors. But she still wrote a good amount of scenes that contained spice.

(Our savage girl is very lucky)

"Well it's not like you don't enjoy those harami books." Karya says. 

The atmosphere slowly starts coming back to our normal chats. Gossips, roasts and jokes. 

Thank you for reading <3