Zyva took a deep breath and walked inside the office. It's her first day at work and to say that she is nervous will be an understatement. Zyva came to New York one and a half year back. This one and a half year was fill with new challenges and struggle. Living in a new country without any friend or family is not easy. Growing up Zyva never thought she will come to America for studies. She knew she belongs to a conservative family and thinking about studying abroad is a crime. But she forgot she is Abbas Hussain's daughter. Her father can do anything for her.

Zyva reached the reception and the receptionist smiled seeing her.

"Hello Zyva. How are you?"

"I'm fine Ms. Isabella."

"Bella."

Zyva smiled and said "Bella."

"So you have to go to Mr. Afzal's cabin. It's second room to your right."

Zyva looked at her right and then again looked at Bella.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. All the best."

"Thank you." Zyva said smiling.

Yesterday when Zyva came for an interview Aman was busy. So she had to wait for some time. That's when she got the chance to talk to Ms. Isabella. Zyva was very nervous and Ms. Isabella was helping her to calm down and relax.

Zyva finally reached Afzal's cabin and knocked the door softly.

"Come in."

Biting her lower lip nervously Zyva opened the door and went inside.

"Good morning sir."

Afzal looked up and frowned. But then he remembered something and he asked,

"Miss. Zyva Abbas?"

"Yes." Zyva said nodding her head.

"Oh please sit." Afzal said with a smile.

Zyva immediately sat on the chair across from him. Afzal moved back in his chair.

"Welcome to ASA. I'm Afzal Ahmadi one of the owners of this company and I'm late" Zyva looked at him in confusion and he continued, "I have a meeting to attend. So I will explain you everything fast." Zyva nodded. "So there are three owners of this company. Aman Khan, Sufyaan Shaikh and Afzal Ahmadi that's me. Aman handles the Finance department. I'm the head of production department. And Sufyaan heads the Marketing department. So as your major is marketing you will be working under Sufyaan. First few days you will be trained for your job. Ms. Bella will help you with that." Zyva nodded. "Now I will quickly tell you what you are Exactly suppose to do. You will help us to market our products. Basically dealing with advertising and promoting our products. Do you have any question?"

"No sir."

"Good. No..."

Before Afzal could complete his sentence the door flew opened. Zyva turned around and Afzal looked up frowning moving forward. Sufyaan walked in typing something in his phone.

"Afzal where is that file which." Sufyaan looked up before completing his sentence. After few seconds his eyes widened.

"Dude you took their advice seriously!?"

"What!?" Afzal asked confused by his question. But then his eyes fell on Zyva and he understood.

Afzal laughed and leaned back in his chair. "This is all you can think these days?"

Sufyaan narrowed his eyes and Afzal laughed again. Zyva has no idea what is going on and she is scared, wondering why they are laughing.

"By the Way Sufyaan meet Zyva. She is your new intern. Zyva meet your boss Sufyaan."

Zyva smiled and said "Good morning sir."

"Good morning." Sufyaan said smiling awkwardly.

"Ok so Sufyaan search for the file you need. I have a meeting with the production department, so I will leave. I will met you guys soon." Afzal stood up and started walking towards the door. He stopped next to Sufyaan and whispered "Don't be so possessive, wife."

Sufyaan rolled his eyes and Afzal left the room laughing. Sufyaan looked at Zyva. She is playing with her fingers. Sufyaan smiled and said " Ms. Bella will help you. You can find her on the reception. But her cabin is next to this room. "

Zyva frowned and looked at Sufyaan.

"What is wrong?"

"Your receptionist has her own cabin?"

Sufyaan smiled and after few seconds replied, " She is not our receptionist. She is the head manager of Marketing department." Zyva's eyes widened. Sufyaan smiled again before saying, "Our receptionist is not well so she is just helping us." Zyva nodded. She suddenly realised that she is sitting while her boss is standing so she stood up immediately ,shocking Sufyaan. 

"I will go and search Ms. Bella."

"Sure." Sufyaan said keeping his face neural.

Zyva dashed out of the room as fast as possible.

Sufyaan raised his eyebrows. After few seconds he shook his head and reminded himself why he came in Afzal's cabin.

"File!"

***

"And that's all you need to know. Now read this. It contains information about all our marketing strategies." Ms. Bella said handing Zyva a file.

"Thank you."

"You can read it afterwards. It's lunch time now."

Zyva smiled.

"I'm not hungry. So I guess I will finish reading it."

Ms. Bella frowned and said, "You should never skip a meal. Even if you are not hungry eat something."

Zyva smiled again before shaking her head, "No I'm fine."

"Ok. I will go now." Ms. Bella said and stood up from the chair.

"Ok. Thanks again Ms. Bella."

"No problem sweetie."

Ms. Bella left and Zyva started reading the file. Ten minutes later Zyva was halfway through the file when Ms. Bella returned but this time with two cups in her hands.

"At least drink some coffee."

Sitting down on the chair ,She kept the cups on the table and Zyva smiled.

"You don't have to do this Ms. Bella. "

"Oh shut up and drink. You youngsters should not miss their meals!" Ms. Bella exclaimed and Zyva laughed.

"Thank you so much Ms. Bella."

"You're welcome love. Now leave that file and drink it."

Zyva smiled before closing the file and picking up her cup.

"So Zyva tell me something about yourself."

Zyva took a sip from her cup and then smiled awkwardly. "What should I say?"

Ms. Bella smiled, "Anything. How many siblings do you have?"

"Only One! Zynah. She is two years younger than me. And MashaAllah she is very beautiful."

Ms. Bella smiled before saying,"Just like her sister. "

Zyva chuckled, "I'm not at all beautiful if you compare me with her."

Ms. Bella smiled again, "You are beautiful my love."

"Thank you. You are beautiful as well."

"Oh thank you so much."

Zyva smiled and took another sip of her coffee.

"So where are you from?" Ms. Bella asked.

"India."

"Oh really. Aman and Sufyaan both are from India as well."

"I know that." Ms. Bella looked at her in confusion and She explained, "Aman sir's sister is my friend."

"Oh you are Noor's friend."

"You know her?"

"Who does not know that ball of energy. She comes here often."

Zyva started laughing throwing her head back. Ms. Bella smiled. After some time Zyva slowly stopped.

"What was so funny girl?"

"Nothing! Actually I was nervous and scared. So when I don't expect to even smile anything funny is ten times more funnier."

"Oh Ok." Ms. Bella said laughing. Zyva again started laughing but stopped in few seconds.

"I met Noor in the university. We were in the same class."

"Oh."

"She is a sweetheart."

"No doubts there."

"You know Ms. Bella she works for her father's company. But as they did not have any vacancy for any new employee she suggested me Her brother's firm. Actually she arranged the interview for me."

"That's really nice of Noor."

"Yeah. Even her sister in-law is really sweet. She was our senior."

"Kehara! She is a sweetheart!"

"I agree. We met very few times but I can say she is a sweetheart."

"Yeah she is! So is her brother."

"You know her brother? I never met him."

Ms. Bella raised her eyebrow.

"What?"

"What?" Zyva asked in confusion.

"Sufyaan is Kehara's brother."

"Yeah her brother's name is Sufyaan. He is Aman sir's best friend."

Ms. Bella gave a short laugh and said "My love Your Sufyaan sir is Aman's best friend and Kehara's brother."

Zyva's eyes widened. "He is that Sufyaan!?"

Ms. Bella started laughing. And Zyva bit her lower lip.

"Yes he is that Sufyaan." Ms. Bella said still laughing.

"Ok." Zyva said looking down.

Ms. Bella continued laughing for few seconds before she stood up and said,"Ok now you finish your coffee. I have some work to do. Bye.".

" Bye Ms. Bella."

Ms. Bella left and Zyva resumed studying the file.

***

"So how are you?"

"I'm fine bhai."

"No you are not." Sufyaan said turning off his laptop.

Kehara smiled. "How do you know?"

"You know how your face speaks for you and clearly shows that you are upset ."

"But we are talking on phone now!"

"Let me complete Kehara."

Kehara chuckled. "Sorry continue."

"Just like your face , your voice also speaks."

"And what is it saying?"

"It's screaming Bhai I'm upset!"

Kehara started laughing which made Sufyaan smile. After few seconds she stopped laughing and Sufyaan asked her, "what's wrong?"

"Nothing really is wrong. I'm just stressed because of work."

Sufyaan stood up and went to the table near the glass wall. "Work? You don't seem to be stress over work." Balancing the phone between his ear and shoulder Sufyaan picked up a file lying on the table.

"Ahhh. No it's work."

"Kehara." Sufyaan warned.

"Fine. It's your best friend."

"What? What did he do?" Sufyaan asked frowning when his eyes fell on laughing Zyva. When they met in the morning she was so nervous Sufyaan doubted if  she can even smile. Seeing her laughing was something Sufyaan didn't expected. He looked back to his file.

"He is always fighting for no reason."

"Really? He is normal in the office."

"He is not normal at home. He is always shouting for some or the other reason."

"What? That's so unlike Aman."

"He is like this."

"No he is not Kehara. There has to be a reason."

"That's because he is your friend. But I'm his wife. So he thinks he can do whatever he wants."

"Kehara calm down. I will talk to him."

"Come home in the evening."

"Ok."

Sufyaan took two more files in his hands and went back to his table.

"Kehara don't tell Daddy about this. He will be worried for no reason."

"Yeah I won't. Now I have to go. See you in the evening. AllahHafiz."

"AllahHafiz."

Sufyaan disconnected the call and placed his phone on his chin. It's very unusual for Aman to behave like this. Although Sufyaan is sure Aman has a reason to behave like this but he has not given him the authority to treat his sister like that. It's good that Aman is not in the office or else Sufyaan would have fought withl him. Sufyaan shook his head removing the thoughts of how to beat Aman. He decided he will talk to Aman today and resumed his work.

***

Parking his car Sufyaan came out of the car and headed towards the door. He is trying his best to control his anger but he is not sure how long he will be able to control it. As soon as he finished his work he left the office. He is still shocked and a part of him does not believe what Kehara said. But he knows she will never lie to him. It was very difficult for him to concentrate on his work  but that report was important and he had no choice but to complete it and then leave. Now standing outside their house he is ready to kill Aman.

Sufyaan pulled out the key his pocket and unlocked the door. Yes Sufyaan has keys of Aman and Kehara's house. It was a tradition made by Sufyaan that he will spend his holidays with Kehara and Aman. Except for Sundays which Aman was very thankful for Sufyaan was always with them if he is not in the office. And he use to come early in the morning and as Kehara was always busy with house chores Aman had to leave his precious bed and open the door for him. So finally Aman got fed up and Gave him a duplicate key.

Sufyaan opened the door expecting to see Aman but the lights were off. Before he could call Aman or Kehara, Afzal switched on the lights and Everything shouted,

"Surprise!"

"Woah." Sufyaan said shocked to see everyone there.

"Happy birthday bhai!" Kehara exclaimed and hugged him.

"Thanks Kehara! Wow this is....wow!"

Kehara moved back and Afzal hugged him tightly!

"Happy twenty seven years Sufyaan!"

Sufyaan rolled his eyes laughing and hugged him back!

"Who planned this?"

"Who else? My wife!"

"Aman she is my sister first."

"Yeah yeah whatever! Be thankful!"

"Thankful for what?" Sufyaan asked raising his eyebrow.

"For adopting you!  You are more found here than your own house." Aman said rolling his eyes.

"Shut up it's my birthday."

"It's your birthday and Kehara spoiled my name!"

"Oh Kehara why did you say that!?" Sufyaan asked

"To spoil my image and relation with you." Aman said rolling his eyes.

"He is right!" Kehara exclaimed cheerfully.

"What!?" Aman asked in disbelief.

" And I also wanted to see your react. But you trust your friend more than me!"

"He is My friend Kehara! He trusts me more than you!" Aman teased and Kehara rolled her eyes.

"Don't be so happy Aman. I came here only with one motive. That is to kill you with this knife." Sufyaan pulled out a small knife from his pocket.

Their eyes widened and Kehara gasped.

"Bhai!" Kehara shouted immediately.

Sufyaan started laughing and all three of them are looking at him with their eyes wide and face with an expression of shock.

"Chill people." When they still did not move Sufyaan continued, "I was late in the morning so of course I didn't have time to make or eat breakfast so I took an apple with me. But you know how much I hate to eat it without cutting it so I took a knife with me as well."

Kehara closed her eyes  and said "Alhumdulillah."

"Sufyaan stay away." Aman said  and Sufyaan laughed.

"That's why I'm telling you to get married. But no you will never listen to me!"

"Kehara not again."

"Fine! But only because it's your birthday! Now I will leave you best friends alone. Bye."

Kehara turned around to leave. She winked Aman on her way and Aman raised his eyebrow but smiled after few seconds.

"Why are you smiling?" Sufyaan asked.

"Nothing." Aman replied instantly. If Sufyaan comes to know what just happened he will actually use that knife for killing him this time.

"Sufyaan get married bro." Afzal teased. Sufyaan rolled his eyes and leaving them behind started walking towards his father.

But Noor stopped him on his way.

"Happy birthday Sufyaan bhai."

Sufyaan smiled and said, "Thank you Noor."

"So how was your day?"

"How a day in office goes. Boring!"

Noor starter laughing and Sufyaan joined her. But after few seconds Noor stopped changing her expression to a serious one.

"Office reminds me of Zyva!"

"Zyva?"

"Yeah she is your new intern. Bhai told me she is working under you. Sufyaan bhai she is my really close friend. Be nice to her!"

Sufyaan rolled his eyes.

"Noor I'm always nice to people."

"Yeah I know. But still. Now you can go." Noor moved to her right to make room for him to leave.

Sufyaan smiled and shaking his head started walking again.

"Zyva?" Sufyaan said frowning.