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...on afrah  s first birthday  nasah spoke to wasi to celebrate  it on small scale,  both his sisters were  married and settled in different cities but managed to reach  for the function  as it was arranged on a weekend,  shamina bhabhi also  stayed overnight with her children,  after the cake was cut the elders  settled  down in the  comfort zone of the lounge to have their meal  but the gang of children  raided nasah  s bedroom  first  followed by pulling  down all the balloons  from the terrace  down into the lawn,  lighting up the tails of the balloons they left them one by one to float  away n the skies,   the balloons would  lift some  distance above  the house and burst noisily,  children clapped  enjoying the  sight 

Satwat beghum kept  on talking  all through the dinner,  twice  sge found  some reason to walk out to scold Ahmed  , once  she  got up to sweep the  lawn  and picked up a broom, , all married daughters  and  nasah  stopped mother  behaving weird  and were quite embarrassed before  their husbands,  tahira avoided mother but shamina  remained normal