Chapter 9 :: Inside Talk
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7 days has passed already,.......
Rawalpindi and Islamabad are more than just the inseparable twins of Pakistan – one is the capital and home to highly esteemed bureaucrats, diplomats, and famous personalities of Pakistan, while the other hosts the headquarter of the Armed Forces of the country. The debate over which is the better twin – Rawalpindi vs. Islamabad – has existed for a very long time. Given the fact that both cities are incredibly diverse in terms of population and development, most people side with Islamabad for its lush green spaces, constitutional importance, and the level of safety and security in the city. Meanwhile, Rawalpindi is home to the famous Raja Bazaar, ancient tourist sites, and the pedestrian food street in Saddar.
So, is there really a clear winner in the comparison between Rawalpindi and Islamabad yet ? Well none of the tourists from India hadn’t decided that......in fact all of them decided to stay neutral......silent audience. Beside Insiyaa was having a terrible headache from all these nonstop chatter......
They all went for sight seeing a day after burying Amma.....True it was disheartening but still they can't just stay in another country forever, can they now, It's been already more than a week already and what good It'll do with mourning the loss of person especially infront of those people who didn’t care about her when she was still alive......!
"zyaadaatar logon ka kahana hai ki unhen raavalapindee aur islaamaabaad mein zyaada antar nazar nahin aata kyonki dono shahar ek jaise dikhta hain. halaanki, hamaara maanana hai ki dono shaharon mein adviteey visheshataen hain jinhen nagn aankhon se nahin dekha ja sakata hai" Shezaad Rahil very softly said while looking around, walking beside Baba....
[ Most people say that they do not see much of a difference between Rawalpindi and Islamabad since both cities are extremely similar. However, we believe that both cities boast unique characteristics that cannot be seen with a naked eye ]
he is so shy, his words were soo exotic and....polite, that was Ruthba's thought, she said that one time!
Yaeikkss..... Insiyaa almost puked
true she noticed sometimes he wouldn’t even look at anyone when he's talking. He's like always so nervous according Insiyaa.....
Where on the other hand Rushda and the elder brother Shadab was catching up with each other quiet well, from far up they looked like old over excited friends meeting each other after a long time.....which wasn’t possible considering how Amma had to leave her own country because of this people, because she had no one to take care of her and her two granddaughters........
How can they just forget everything ?
Insiyaa just can not get over that one fact......everytime she tries to think positive it rang inside her head like broken record!
And at last Insiyaa concluded the fact that she was quiet right about all of them. They are not good people,.....not at all.
Ruthba and Rushda's uncle was of upper middle class society, but even if they were not as rich as them Raichands' but he still had enough money. Then why did he not take them in, when he still had the chance, she was his mother after all, why Amma had to leave the country with two of her little grand children.
was Shoheb Rahil actually was just plain greedy and selfish ?
She often wondered before......and even now Everytime she looks at them !
Shoheb Rahil would often take a long look at both his late Brother's daughter with this look in his eyes!
Insiyaa once saw him and thought of how a large Python would just coil around it's prey, suffocating, ready to swallow it whole...... Nasty shiver ran down her back, before she just ran from there to outside for a little air,........she needed that very much!
As much as she thought she was outgoing.....which she was! She never did do well around her family members and the irony was that, not only she had to tiptoe around her own family now but also around others she barely knew.......
Oh! How the mighty have fallen!
She just got to know that..... actually they were actually only four people in this family, their tayaji [ uncle ], tayiji [ auty ] and two sons Shadab and Shezaad, but the others were tayiji's side of family living in this house.
Funny thing was, she didn’t know whether or not anyone else noticed it....that the two son they claimed as their own, none of them have similar facial features of their parents and she could have sworn she had seen the elder son somewhere.......she just can't remember where,
And when she tried to tell that to her brother Shawkat, he simply just ignored her existence and roll his eyes saying...."you are being delusional.....stop watching too much of Detective series"
To be honest she did some binge watching......that was only because she was a die hard fan of Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch,
never mind that!
And Rahil sisters could not do anything about the situation either other than spending time with their probable future in laws!
Yes! There was a possibility of that......
and as the days passed, Insiyaa's heart started falling in her stomach, it looked like,....her baba was quiet convinced that the sisters would be well taken care of by these people here.....
as she expected!
In fact according to the circumstances, he believed that their uncle is actually trying to redeem himself by offering them this marriage.
And though Rushda seemed quite ecstatic with everything that's happening around her.....
Ruthba on the other hand looked---- reluctant.....she was even more worse than Insiyaa. Where Insiyaa does not well around strangers at all, but at least she can function....Ruthba can not!
First night here, she cried.....she.actually.cried!
but to say Rushda was doing fine.....would be an understatement of the century! which should have been expected by Insiyaa and Ruthba earlier considering she stayed until her toddler days.
Insiyaa had to hold Ruthba and calm her down,..... she realised it was one thing to have a crush one somebody's accent and another thing to be married off in another country like this.
Rushda loved it here, but Ruthba took it like a responsibility toward baba, Insiyaa knew she respected him as her own father and where Rushda would be fine as she wanted to be here, that's why she agreed to all these, Ruthba did it just out of respect.....
But she would never be happy,.....
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