Ignored Innocent Heart novel Chapter 42

"Oh okay then! Let's watch the rest of the movie!" Zayn replied and started the movie again.

After they were done with the movie, everyone, except hana as she was still sleeping, talked a little about their life! They took her food too and finished it! It is a thing that you can't just stop eating junk food until and unless it is finished and that is what happened with them too. After the snacks were finished, they talked some more!

It was still more than 2 hours for the fajar azaan and while talking, they started to fall asleep. It was Zarmeena and Samman who fell asleep first since both of them were tired from their shifts in hospital.

When the first call of fajar azaan was heard from the nearby mosque, Rayaan woke up first as he always has been a light sleeper.

He shook daniyal too and after a lot of shaking, he was up and both of them got down from the sofa. They had to jump over hand rest of the sofa. They woke the others too.

"Hanu, wake up! You have an assignment too! You said that you want to complete it after fajar! Come on, get up! Pray and then start your work! You don't have much time left, dear!" Zeeniya woke hana as she still had her head on her bhabhi's shoulder.

Hana opened her eyes and mumbled a salaam that was hardly heard by others but still, they greeted her back.

She stood up with a pout on her face and dried drool on one side of her mouth. Zeeniya did not even make a face at this because she loved her too much to feel disgusted by such trivial thing.

Hana looked here and there with scrunched up face and half lidded eyes. When she saw the wrappers of her snacks, she whined a little and then stomped her feet and made her way upstairs.

She went to her room with a frown and a pout as she was angry, upset, sleepy and tired at the same time. But, she offered her prayer and started to do her assignment.

At the breakfast table, no one saw her as she was probably still doing her assignment or sleeping. The males went to the office and the ladies sat in the lounge for some chit chat. Zeeniya went to hana’s room and gave her some food and helped her in her assignment as she had also done BS in graphic designing. Zeeniya had applied for her masters in graphics but the classes have yet to start.

She helped hana with her assignments and gave her some ideas and tips on poster designing for tomorrow. The whole day, hana spent in her room and she even skipped lunch. The dinner was also very uneventful as the males were discussing about some important project and the ladies had engaged in their own talks. Samman and Zarmeena were again on night duty so she silently ate her food and went to her room after giving her Dado her medicines. Before she went up to her room, she put two spoonfuls of coffee in small amount of water and mixed it. Then, she drank it in one big gulp and instantly washed her mouth with drinking lots of water and went to her room. Hana never like coffee but since she had to stay awake, she sucked it up and drank it.

At around 8 in the morning, hana was ready in her abaya and her university bag on her shoulder. Everyone was at the breakfast table. She greeted them and then made her way towards the kitchen. When she was going there instead of sitting, Rayaan asked her as he had his full attention on her.

"Kahan ja rahi ho? (Where are you going?)" Rayaan asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Woh, I was going to make some coffee!" She replied softly with a shy smile as her Rayaan bhai paid attention to her.

"But I thought you don't like coffee!" He again asked while looking in her eyes even though she was looking at the table and not directly in his eyes.

"Yeah but I have to drink it! I don't think I can stay awake through out the day without it!" She pouted and finally looked in his eyes. There were dark circles under her eyes.

"acha ab ja hi rahi ho to ek cup apnay zamid bhai k liye b bana do! (Now that you are making it, then please make one for your brother, Zamid, too!) I forgot to make it!" Zeeniya asked her while everyone had already went back to their food by now.

Everyone had started to pay close attention to Rayaan and hana whenever they interacted. It's not like they don't trust them, it just unconsciously happened as hana is a shy type of person and she does not really talk to others without any reason. The elders can see hana opening with others and they can finally see her doing silly things of her age.

She came back with two mugs, one in each hand. When she reached Zamid, he and the other males were already getting up from their seats as they have work to do.

“Bhai, Ap ki Coffee! (Brother, your coffee!)” hana said while forwarding the mug in her right hand. Zamid looked at her as he was taking last bite of his paratha. His mouth was full.

“Ye wala mjhay dy do! (Give this one to me!) You can drink from my cup.” He took the other mug because it has just a small amount of coffee and that was black too. He thought it was extra coffee and since he was getting late, so he took the other mug from hana.

“Bu-” She tried to protest but Zamid had already taken a large gulp of coffee. The moment coffee touched his taste-buds he spit the coffee back out! Thank God, he spit the coffee on his side so no one was on the receiving end of this! He hurriedly took the glass from the table and drank it.

Now, everyone was on alert. They started to ask both of them about the reason.

“What happened? Are you okay? Zamid bhai?” Daniyal asked.

“Hana?!” It was Asfand and Hiba as they knew that hana can tell the reason without being dramatic as Zamid is being.

Hana just made a cringe-y face with scrunched up nose and looked at her parents. They instantly understood her and got the message that it was something gross so they turned their face back to Zamid with sympathy.

After he was done with clearing his mouth from the extremely bitter taste of coffee, he finally looked at hana with pissed off expression.

“Main to mana kr rahi thi! (I was trying to stop you!)” she hurriedly told him before he could scold her.

“Pr ye tha kiya? Zeher? (But what was it? Poison?)” he asked with disgust on his face. Whatever it was, it was totally not edible, that he was sure off!

“It was coffee! My coffee!” She replied with a shrug but disgusted look remained on her face as she was continuously looking at the mug that was on the table.

“Oo Bhen! Tum pagal to nhi ho gayi na!? Isay Coffee kehtay hain? Aj k baad isay haath nhi lagana! Samjhi?! (Oh sister! Have you gone mad!? You call that Coffee? Never touch that again! Got that?)” Zamid asked her sarcastically but when hana nodded her head dumbly, he became angry and ordered her not to touch it again!

“But how am I supposed to stay awake during my boring lectures then?” She asked back with a pout and glossy eyes as she was really sleepy and the day had just started for her. She had an exam today that Zeeniya helped her in preparing for it and she also had to submit a design for one of her subjects.

“Okay okay, do whatever you want! Just don’t make it your habit! Just this once!” Zamid told her as she was starting to whine and it was getting irritating for him.

“Don’t worry! I’ll teach you a new recipe that I’m sure, you will enjoy and it will help you with staying alert too! Okay! But on this Sunday as I’m only gonna be free on Sunday!” Rayaan consoled her and offered to teach a special recipe that one of his close friends taught him when he was in America. It had always been effective but since it was very sweet so he was not a fan of it. He thought she will enjoy it with her addiction of sweet things and all.

“Really?!” She asked back with hope and stars in her eyes and a big smile on her lips.

“Really!” He replied back with a smile but quickly wiped the smile from his face as he just noticed everyone looking at him with smiles. He became embarrassed and his neck started to go red. Before the redness could reach his ears too, he hurriedly went out of their and said “Allah Hafiz”. While he was going out, he heard chuckles from inside and the other males also followed him without anything else.

“I’ll go and check on him!” Rayaan said and stood up from his seat. Hana looked at him with protest but stopped herself as she knew that if she stopped him from going then everyone will know that she did something with Dani.

After some minutes, Rayaan came back with a huge smile on his face.

“Nothing is wrong! He was very tired so he said that he will sleep it away!” He replied with a polite smile and sat back on his seat that was beside Zayn, who was sitting in front of Hana. Rayaan looked at hana as she was already looking at him and he smirked at her. Hana blushed and looked back to her plate and started shoving food in her mouth. She started choking after she tried to swallow. Rayaan offered her water with a concern face.

“Aram say bai! Kiya jaldi hai! (Slowly! What’s the hurry!)” Rayaan asked with worry etched on his face. Hana took his glass and gulped it down while her younger tayi (Zarmeena’s Mother) was patting her back soothingly.

“Sorry!” Hana replied for disturbing and started to continue eating but slowly, this time. He nodded and went back to his own food. A small smile came to his lips while remembering her stunt that she pulled on Daniyal. Daniyal’s whole face was blue as she had mixed blue color powder in the mixture of charcoal mask that Daniyal applied on his face. This had turned his face blue and the color was not getting off even after a lot of washing so daniyal had decided to remain in his room.

As rayaan did not want to get her in trouble so he remained silent about the matter. But, it was really hilarious for him and he thought that Dani deserved it after teasing hana and in-turn, irritating him too!

After dinner, hana went to her Dado’s room and massaged her feet and gave her medicine and injected insulin on her stomach skin. When she was going towards the stairs, rayaan called her from the kitchen.

“Gee Bhai jaan! (Yes, Brother!)” Hana asked while standing in the doorway of kitchen. She and Rayaan were the only ones in there so she remained by the door.

“Here you go! I’ll teach this recipe to you on Sunday but you should drink it for tonight! I know you have to stay awake for your assignment so it will help! So, don’t drink that concoction that you call coffee! Okay?” he asked her softly with a smile and forwarded her the mug with dark brown liquid in it.

“Hot chocolate?” she asked while taking the mug from his hand with a smile.

“Not really but something similar!” he answered with a shrug. He was looking at her for her comment as she was taking a tentative sip of the drink. When she took a small sip, a huge smile made its way on her lips and she looked at him with a happy face.

“It’s so good! Can you make it for me till Sunday, then?” she asked with hopeful expression and rayaan could not say no to that cute pout of hers so he nodded. She thanked him and went to her room with her new drink while rayaan went to his room to get some much needed sleep.

“Oh yeah! Listen!” Before they part their ways at the top of the stairs, he stopped her from going any further.

“Yes?” She asked with confusion while looking up at his face.

“That stunt was hilarious but is it going to get off or what?” He chuckled and asked. She blushed at this and looked at her feet. Her cheeks had already gone red but she mumbled the reply.

“It will get off after scrubbing a little!” She said this in a very slow voice but Rayaan heard it anyway as he was standing very near her.

“Okay! You can go now! Allah Hafiz!” He chuckled and told her to go. She ran from there like she was on fire and he laughed a little more at this and went to his own room.

In the morning, hana knocked on Daniyal’s door and when he asked who it was, she put the cream and a small paper on the floor and ran to her room. She was peaking from her door with her mobile’s camera on. The moment daniyal opened his door a little to peak out, he saw that there was no one so he looked down and saw the cream and the letter. He picked them up and closed the door. While he was picking it up, hana had already recorded the seen and the video had captured daniyal’s blue face. She was giggling softly while capturing and after she was done with it, she also closed the door and got ready for university. Her paper was going to start at 9 AM so she had plenty of time to get ready and eat.