شرر Sharar

Seventy-Five

"Kya hota agar Shyra hume yeh sab pehle bata deti. Yun jaldi jaldi ki taiyyari mere samajh nahi arahi." Rehnuma was helping Rukhsar to wrap gifts for Shyra, and mumbles angrily.

(What would've happened if Shyra had told us this before. We wouldn't have been preparing everything on last moment.)

Rukhsar just looked at her daughter but didn't say anything.

"Mere naseeb mein toh jaise bhaiyyo ki shadi enjoy karna likha hi nahi." Rehnuma was busy in complaining.

(It seems like I cannot enjoy any of my brother's wedding fullest.)

"Kaisi baat kar rahi ho, Rehnuma." Rukhsar didn't like her choice of words and scolded.

(What are you saying, Rehnuma?)

"Galat toh nahi keh rahi. Kaif ka nikkah mere nikkah ke kuch din baad hi tha, nayi dulhan thi iss wajah se kisi cheez mein hissa le hi nahi payi. Fir Kaif ki mehendi ki raat Ayat ne itna bada tamasha banaya fir accident ho gaya uska aur shadi bhi kharab. Uss chakkar mein mahine tak toh walima nahi hua aur jab hua toh itni sadgi se." Putting the box down, Rehnuma said.

(I am not saying anything wrong. Kaif's nikkah was just after mine, I was a newly bride couldn't enjoy everything. Then in his mehendi, Ayat created such a scene then her accident happened, whole wedding was ruined. Because of it his walima was on hold for month, and when his walima happened, it was such a simple ceremony.)

Putting her hand over her other hand, she looked at Rukhsar. "Aur ab Kabir ki shadi, itni jaldi jaldi ki shadi mujhe nahi samajh arahi. Agar Shyra pasand hi karti thi ussey toh bata deti na fuppi ko kya zaroorat thi apne cousin ke liye haan kehne ki. Itne saal se Basim se engaged thi..."

(And now Kabir's wedding is happening in such a rush. If Shyra liked him then she should have told her mother about it. Why did she say yes for Basim? She was engaged to him for years...)

"Achha bas." Before Rehnuma could say anything else, Rukhsar stopped her.

(Okay, enough!)

"Dubara yeh baat mat karna. Jo hona tha ho gaya." Rukhsar didn't like how Rehnuma took Shyra and Basim's name. They were engaged, but now Shyra is getting married to Kabir, and Rukhsar doesn't want anyone to mention Shyra and Basim name together again.

(Don't say it again. What's gone is gone.)

"But mere sasural mein sab itni baatein kar rahe hain. Aap janti hain meri badi wali nand bahar rehti hain, unhe toh jaise mouka mil gaya hai."

(But everyone in my family is talking about it. You know my eldest sister-in-law lives out of the country, she just got an opportunity to talk about me.)

"Tumhare papa ne baat ki toh thi na Saif se aur unki family se."

(You father talked to Saif and his family.)

"Haan, but meri nand ko toh mouka chahiye hota hai baat karne ka." Putting her hair behind her ear, Rehnuma said, and again started wrapping the gifts.

(Yes, but my sister-in-law needs opportunity to talk about me.)

"Saif ne tumse kuch kaha kya?" This made Rukhsar worried.

(Saif said anything to you?)

"Nahi, woh toh mujhe kuch nahi kehte." Shrugging her shoulder, Rehnuma informed. Rukhsar Relaxed.

(No, he doesn't say anything to me.)

"Mummy, main thakk gayi. Maids ko bhi apne bhej diya, kam se kam Ayla aur Ayat ko bula lein."