I enter the room and notice it is empty. Sound of water coming from the bathroom.

I sit on the bed and look around the room. 

This is your new room now Fariha. And Ehsan is your new roommate. 

And lifemate.

-

After about 45 minutes, he finally comes out of the bathroom and stares at me like he is looking at a flying cow.

"Do you plan on sleeping in that Saree?" he asks confused.

Right, I don't have anything here. Saria is supposed to bring my belongings tomorrow.

"None of my things are here. They'll be here tomorrow." I inform.

He looks at the time.

"01:15. Everyone is probably asleep already," he muttered.

He goes to his closet and throws some things at me. With my bad reflexes, it lands straight on my face. I take them off to see a T-shirt and trousers. His T-shirt and trousers!

"You'll have to work with this. I don't have anything else to give you. So either this or this Saree."

With no other choice, I go to the bathroom to change. 

With no Saria, I take ages to just take off the Saree. Then I reach back to open the zipper of my blouse, when I realise, of course. I can't do it! Saria helped me with it.

.

After trying and failing repeatedly, I finally figure that I'll have to call him, no matter how embarrassed I get.

I step out of the bathroom with just my blouse and petticoat and notice him sitting on the bed scrolling on his phone.

"Eh-Ehsan." I finally find the courage to call him.

He looks up at me. He hid it, but I could tell he was surprised. 

"Can you... help me? I can't reach the Zipper..." I say it as I felt my face going red. 

He puts his phone down and walks up to me.

"Turn around." he says which made me surprised but I did as he said, my heart beating out of my  chest.

He slowly opens the zipper of the blouse. His touch making me shiver.

"Done." he says as I rush back to the bathroom. My face was completely red.

Hai Allah, how do I show my face to him after this?

I put on the clothes he gave me. As expected, they were big. Hella big. It feels like a cave, not clothes.

I silently come out of the bathroom, praying that he went to sleep. 

I let out a sigh of relief when I see him lying on the bed. 

Oh wait, I have to lie beside him.

Please be asleep. Please be asleep. Please be asleep.

Who knew my first night would be like this? Where's all my wishes gone to? 

I quietly lay beside him, facing the door. When I feel him moving closer to me. 

"Fariha?" he whispered.

"Hmm?" 

"Turn around. Face me." he ordered.

I do as he said as my heart starts beating.

"Did you know? 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' which is a long word, is the fear of long words?" he said look straight in my eyes.

"Huh?" I stare at him with confusion. He told me to turn around to tell me the fear of long words?

"Why are you getting scared of me? Relax, I won't bite you." he chuckles and mutters something under his breath.

"I'm going to sleep." I say a little annoyed.

"Okay okay sorry, wait listen I want to talk to you." he said while chuckling. 

I stare at him with surprise. Ehsan Reza and, in fact both Reza brothers had a reputation of giving up easy deals because they didn't like apologising. They never apologised. Did he not realise it?

"Listen Fariha. I don't know what you feel about me... About this..." he started speaking. "But I want you to know, I will try. I promise to stay loyal. I promise to treat you with respect. But love? I don't know if I will be able to give you the love you deserve. Because you deserve more than some small flirt talks. But as I already said, I will try, for you."

I stare at him with surprise. Did Ehsan Reza just say all of that to me?

"Surprised love? There's a lot more of me you haven't seen yet..." he said while smirking but it made my eyes widen.

Stop it Fariha. He meant, personality only!

"Like personality and other things you know?" he continued, like he just read my mind.

"I-I..." I stammer as I didn't know what to say.

"Give me your hand." he suddenly said making me confused. "What? Won't you let me try and find my name in your mehendi?" he says when I didn't give him my hand.

Oh that's why.

Saria showed me where his name was. And it is even harder than those dots last time.

He gently took my hand and started looking through the design, trying to find his name.

"This is hard." he said while still scaning my hands.

"Yeah, Saria made sure you couldn't find it after finding out you even saw the dots." I said while chuckling.

"Can't you give a small hint?" he pleaded.

"No cheating!"

"Please, for your amazing husband." he said again.

"Nope. You have to try and find it by yourself only." I reply sternly.

*The next day.

I wake up to see Fariha cuddling me. She looks so pretty in my clothes. Like an angel. 

That deserves way more than me. 

Yes, I will give all this a chance. But can I really be with her?

After all the things I've done. 

Those girls. She is different from them. Can I really treat her right?

I feel her move so I pretend to go to sleep. To see what she does. 

When she completely wakes up, she quickly takes her hands away. Then I feel her coming closer to me again. For a few seconds, she didn't move. I could feel her stare on me as I pretended to be asleep.

I feel her hands coming closer to my face, when there was a knock on the door. It almost gives me away, but I continue the act as I hear Ezra's voice from outside.

Iss time pe hi aana tha? Mood kharab kar diya. (Why did she have to come at this time? Ruined my mood.)

"Bhaia! Bhabi! Ma is calling you two for breakfast." she shouted out.

"Coming." Fariha replied. "Eh-Ehsan..." she calls me, thinking that I'm still asleep.

I don't reply to see her what she does. I feel a hand on my shoulder, slightly moving me. 

"Ehsan. Ma is calling us." she whispered.

"Hmm?" I act like waking up.

"Ma is calling us for breakfast." she repeats.

"Okay." I get up and she gets down from the bed at the same time. She goes to the bathroom as I start browsing on my phone, checking new emails.

When yesterday night comes into my mind. Saria hid my name so well this time. The letters went exactly with the design so there was no way to figure it out until you looked for 2 hours straight. Which is exactly what I did.

Slept around 4 am.

.

She soon comes out of the bathroom and calls me.

"Yes love?" I reply.

"How do I go out of the room?" she asks.

"By walking. Or I can carry you." I reply nonchalantly.

"No Mr Romeo. Like, I don't have anything to wear. And I can't go out in your clothes!" she sighs.

"Well that. I don't really-" a knock on the door cuts me off.

"Fapu? Aso?" Saria's voice was heard. (You here?)

"Oh Thank God! She is here." Fariha goes over and opens the door and Saria enters.

"Ohho. Dula bhaier kapor poreshis? Shei lagche." she smirks at me. I knew she was saying something about me. But I didn't know what she was saying.

(T/N: You're wearing brother-in-law's clothes? Looks amazing.)

Fariha quickly covered her mouth. "Chup." she said. (Shut up)

Now that's something I know. But I don't want them to continue speaking like this.

"English please?" I say.

"Here." Saria pushes over six giant suitcases. I was going to ask if all this was only Fariha's or if Saria is also staying when Saria continues speaking. "Couldn't bring everything so I only brought the very important stuffs for now. I'll bring the rest later." she says.

"You have more than this?" I ask in disbelief.

"Yeah..." Fariha replied. "Anyway, how did you bring all of these here?" she asks Saria in surprise.

"Oh this Attitude dude took a few. Complained. But Asma aunty made him do it." she chuckled.

"Anyways, come down fast! Everyone is calling you two." she leaves after.

-

"What took you two so long to wake up huh? Long night?" Eliza api's sentence made me choke.

"Areh re re, sharma gyi bechara." she pats on my head. (Oh ho ho, poor guy got shy.)

"Api!" I say annoyed.

"Okay okay I'll stop." Eliza api says while chuckling.

Eliza api lived with Ayaan Jiju after marriage. But she's been staying with us since she got pregnant. As ma wanted her to be at ease during this time.

Saria whispered something in Fariha's ear, only to get a smack back.

"Come on you lot. Eat first, and then joke around." Chacha speaks up.

-

After eating, all of us were sitting in the garden. Well, all of us except my cold cousin.

"Where's Mr Attitude?" Saria asks.

"Glued to his laptop." Eliza api replies.

"Yes, he has an obsession with it." Ezra sighed. "Anyways, where are you two going for your honeymoon huh?" Ezra smirked.

That. I have no idea. I don't know what she likes.

"Didn't Ma tell you guys yet? What they planned?" Eliza api asks.

"No. What is it?" Esma asks intrigued.

"Apparently they're planning a family trip. With both families. And then we'll leave earlier, leaving the couple a week or so for themselves. I only heard this by eavesdropping don't know if it's the final plan." she says while chugging onto her orange juice.

"So they'll be planning everything? Awh, what if they choose a boring place?" Esma pouts.

"Nah, the couple will be deciding that. Any places you two want to visit?" Eliza api replied, when I felt a tap on my back. I looked back to see Saria quietly holding out a piece of paper at me, without looking at me. I take the paper and read it under the table.

'Thailand. She always wanted to go there.'

"What about Thailand?" I ask. 

"Oh my gosh yes! Thailand would be AMA-ZING!" Esma replies.

"It's not upto you Esma. Fariha, what do you think?" Api asks her.

"Yeah, I'd like that..." Fariha said quietly.

"That's good then! You already have the place when Ma asks you." 

Atleast this guy took the advice and recommended Thailand.

The Reza guys are both so annoying. But Ehsan is not as bad as Mr Attitude. Atleast he is being nice to my sister. Or else I wouldn't have kept him alive.

Agh I can't stand that annoying Reza! Thank God he is not here!

"Eliza! Bring everyone inside!" I hear Asma aunty's voice.

Soon, we all huddled inside. expecting to hear what Eliza api told us. But surprisingly, we hear a different plan. Similar, but different.

"We were also thinking of going on a family trip with the two families. So we planned that Ehsan and Fariha could go a week earlier to enjoy some time together. And then the rest of the family will join you for another week? Only, if you want that is." Tanvir uncle propsed.

So basically same but reversed? I guess.

"Yeah sure." Ehsan replied nonchalantly.

"Fariha? Is that okay?" Asma aunty asks.

"Yes that's fine." she replied.

"That's great! What place do you want to go?" Rozina Aunty asks Fariha.

Fariha looked at Ehsan, to which he started speaking. "We actually talked about where we want to go yesterday. Took us some time to decide. But we thought of Thailand."

"Thailand? Hmm, that could work. I'll make the arrangements. Your flight will be tomorrow." Tanvir uncle says.

"To-tomorrow?" Fariha asks surprised.

"Yes! Can't wait that long, can we? Start preparing. We'll book the flights. The rest of the planning is up to you youngstars. We'll stay in Bangkok for the week but you can plan to visit other sights." Asma aunty replies and the elders start walking off to their room.

"Ohhhoooo Fapuuu! Thailand jacchis ekhon huh? Chol chol, toke packing korte help kori." I start pulling her towards her room. "Sorry jija ji, I'll be borrowing her for the next few hours." I say before I shut the door of their bedroom. (You're going to Thailand now huh? Let's go. I'll help you pack.)

"Areh! You go such overboard with everything! You told him about it didn't you?" Fapu asks as soon as we enter her room.

"Hmm, cause he didn't know. Anyways, I'm so excited! Okay okay, let's plan it all. They're just booking the flight right? Okay oh my gosh! We can finally take our planned pics! In Bangkok and also Phuket!" I say excitedly.

"I guess so." she says as I already start packing her stuffs for her.

"Okay so—cute floral maxi dress for the beach. Definitely need white sneakers for walking around markets. Oh my gosh, I can do matching beach themed mehendi on all of us when we are all in Phuket together! It's going to be too good! Oh and don’t you dare forget the blue saree, it’ll look insane against the ocean. I'm gonna bring my navy one so we can be the sunshine and midnight rain together like we always are!" I start manifesting.

"Who is gonna believe that you are Saria when they see you acting like this? Nobody knows you're this crazy." she chuckled.

"Fun part about being an introvert. Anyways, this is all only the beach stuff. I need to pack for when you and dula bhai (brother-in-law) are in Bangkok alone. This dress for dinner. With these heels." I plan everything and pack accordingly to what I'm going to book for them.

"How the heck do you make it sound so messy but look so neat?" she said while looking at the luggages I've packed for her.

"What can I say? I'm too talented." I boast.