Jahan Ara begum, was wife of Shabbir Malick. They had three sons,
The eldest son, Mustafa Malick was a humble polite and respectful man in his late 50's who was married to Hameeda who was also a polite lady and caring mother figure for all the children. They had 3 children.
Arman Mustafa Malick was 28 years old who was handling all the business and the underworld. Then, Ammar Mustafa Malick who was 26 years old and was also taking part in business. He was illmannered and hot headed. And the youngest was Armeen Mustafa Malick who was 20 years old and was doing bachelors in IR. She was sweet and caring just like her mother.
The second eldest son was, Rafiq Malick, who was also in his late 50's and was married to Arfa. They both were very supportive and kind hearted to their kids, nieces and nephews. They also had 3 children.
Haris Rafiq Malick was 27 years old and was giving hand in his dad's business. He was the best man of Arman in underworld. Then second eldest kid was, Hareem Rafiq Malick who was 24 years old and had already completed her studies. She was getting married. The youngest one was Hira Rafiq Malick who was 2o years old and was doing her bachelor's in English. She was very muh phat, trouble maker, obsessed with novels but was sweet to everyone, except him, Ammar.
Then the youngest son was, Haider Malick who was in his early 50's and was married to Ayesha. They had only 2 kids, Noor Haider Malick, who was also 20 years old and was doing bachelors in business administration. She was very polite and helpful. Then the only kid left, Azaan Haider Malick who was only 5 years old. And was in primary school.
The actual story started when the head of mafia Shabbir Malick and his youngest son Haider along with his wife Ayesha were brutally murdered by their rivals when they were returning from an event. That was almost 5 years ago. When everyone got this news they were devastated, nobody knew what to do.
At that time the head of the mafia was Shabbir Malick and he was about to pass his kingdom to his kids when that tragedy happened. At that very time it was urgent for any one of the family male to take up his position.
And because both of the brothers were not interested as they had their own business to take care of, they thought it was very great time and opportunity to hand over the kingdom to Arman.
As Arman was 23 at that time, and he was the beloved of his dada, was already trained for the mafia life, he accepted it. And that problem was solved.
But again it was very hard for everyone to take care of 2 orphans. And especially Azaan who was only a month old. Every family member gave them more attention and love, nobody made them feel like they were now alone. Noor's Taya Abbu and Dadi, Jahan Ara begum took their full responsibility. Everyone was very caring and polite,
but that tragedy made Noor to keep distance from everyone. She would speak less, do not come out of her room if not important,
and always studying and in her free time she would play with Azaan.
2 months after their death, everyone noticed noor's behavior. So they decided to do nikah of Arman and Noor. As every body knew that it was bound to happen someday so they thought why not now?.
It was a simple nikah held in the Haveli and only family members were there. Noor didn't even know what was happening she was just told that she'll be having her nikkah and nobody asked her for her consent.
In their customs and traditions, ladies were granted full freedom but no Haram, unlawful relationships, they were allowed to study but they couldn’t do jobs, Most importantly the girls were told in their early teens that they were to be married when and where their parents wants and they are not to be questioned. So when Noor was told, she was not shocked but a little worried and upset that it was happening this soon.
As she knew it will happen sometime later when she'll be ready but never in her wildest dreams she thought it will happen this, this soon.
And so we should not expect anything from life, anything can happen and we have to go with the flow.
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After nikah was done, everyone congratulated them and gave them their blessings. No private meeting was held, because Arman disagreed to it and didn't want to scare Noor more, and all the family members understood.
It was after one month when everything started.
One day Noor had gotten an acknowledgement slip for her exams and was to be signed by the parents or guardian. She went to her dadi's room where Dadi with Baray Abbu, Arman along with Bari ammi were sitting. She came to them and gave the paper to her Baray Abbu, who after knowing that it was to be signed by the guardian, passed it to Arman who was typing something on his phone,
He who was busy on his phone when saw his Abbu passing him a paper looked up and took the slip,
They both could not understand, as she didn't know why he was being handed the slip and he was confused as to why he was getting this slip but, everything sorted out when his father spoke in his athoritive voice.
'Arman, now as you're her husband, I want you to sign this and take care of her every decision as a guardian form now on.
And Noor if you want anything or something like this I want you to go to Arman, is that okay?'
They both nodded and Arman sliently signed it and handed back to her. She who was still in shock as to what her Baray Abbu said, she took the slip from him and with a small salam left the room as soon as possible. She was helpless. A tear rolled down her eye on her misery.
Arman who was still in daze and swallowing the news of being her guardian, saw her leaving the room but before she could close the door behind he already saw the lone tear slip from her eyes.
The root of hatred already took place in her heart for him at that very moment because she knew he could've denied them and they would've accepted, but no why would he? when he was getting dominance over someone. She knew he could even delay their nikah because he had that power and authority, but no, he was an obedient child to his parents and could not say no. she scoffed.
she knew he was a f*****g Mafia boss and could do anything he wish and she even knew that he was not forced into this and everyone had took his consent over this and she had no idea why he even agreed to marry her, it was not that they liked each other or they even interacted.
she was helpless in front of their demand but he was not so why? only this thought roamed her mind and now that bastard was her f*****g guardian. and for this matter also she was helpless. and from there her journey to hatred for him started because if he wanted he could've stopped everything. and so she started avoiding him so that he could not order her around even when she was only 15.
Arman was not sad nor happy before nikah it was asked from him and he agreed because their marriage was fixed from the start. so why not now, after their nikah he noticed that she started avoiding him, if he would come anywhere she would run from there, which he disliked right away.
and then something called desire took place in his heart for her, it was as if he couldn't throw her out of his mind, and unintentionally he started noticing her.
He saw how she would never talk to anyone if not needed or asked, how she would be reserved, she would smile less, only laugh when she'll be with Azaan or his cousin sisters. He even noticed how she would drape her veil when any male cousin would come to her, and he felt proud on her this act, he knew she was beautiful, polite and a little curvy, he noticed it all, and so desire for her became strong even when he was only 24, he wanted to devour her, his stupid hormones!
After sometimes his likeness towards her increased, he saw how she would smile at little things, take care of Azaan as he was her own kid. And from there, his journey to love her, started.
A year later when he was about to turn 25 he left Haveli and started living in different states as the work increased. And he had to pay more attention towards it. And living in Haveli was distracting him or more precisely she was distracting him mentally.
When he left Noor was on the cloud 9, she had no bound to her happiness, she would then come out of her room often, smile often and sometimes she would become a tigress when someone would disturb her or tease her of being married. She was happy because there was no one to make her feel like she was being watched.
She was very good in her studies, when she turned 17, she started learning to cook from her Dadi and Bari ammi. She would always help everyone in anything. With time she started getting attached to Haris as he was a friendly person to be with, all the cousins shared a great bond, if anything happen they would start defending them.
Hareem was the eldest in them and the most shy one, then Haris was the smart one and helpful too, Ammar was the flirty one but in a friendly way, he loved to tease Hira, Armeen was the beauty with brains one, and then Hira was witty and trouble maker. She was the only one to get annoyed very fast. Then came the most sober Noor, she was the caring one, beautiful, polite and full of grace, they all respected each other.
It all happened when Arman was out of town and everything was moving smoothly as the time passed,
Arman Came back after a year and a half when Noor turned 18 and into a beautiful young girl. All the destruction started from there. Her peace was short lived after all.