So close yet, so far

Chapter 8

Humaira Ahamed

I opened my eyes with a smile, I can't remember if I saw a good dream or not but still I felt refreshed and happy even though my eyes were puffy and hurt a little. I came back home at fazr time from the roof. I was so lucky because five minutes after I went into my room my dad came knocking on everyone's room to pray fazr. Thank you Allah for saving me.

What just happened last night? I can't stop myself from smiling and blushing at the thought of the events that took place on the roof. That monkey actually made me happy.

"Ma I love you!!!" I screamed.

After breakfast I put loud Hindi music on the speakers while I thought about something special to do for my dad. Damn! I woke up early today it's only 10:47. If dad saw me he would be like ' Humaira are you okay' or something along the lines that 'the sun rose from the east' ....that's how shocked he will be. I should call him and let him that I didn't go to school today.

I told dad that I had a headache so I didn't go to school. He was so worried thinking that something big happened to me. He told me to eat breakfast and then medicine because he know's I will never take medicine until someone reminds me. I wondered what he would do if I had some type of disease if he gets this worried over me getting a minor headache? I used to ask my mom the same type of question when she used to cry when we would get sick. She yelled at me for asking such a stupid question and told me to think positive. But really sometimes I feel like I really have a big disease and one day it will be bad enough to be the cause of my death. It's just my thoughts but I don't want to die so early. There are so many things I still want to do in life. Like Ihaan said last night 'life is short' and yeah I want to enjoy it as long as I can. Whenever I wish to do something I write it down in my diary to pour out my feelings into it. I keep all my dreams that one day can come true by Allah's will. 'Mom I want to be happy in life please always give me the strength to move on in life that I lost along with you'.

I got a text massage from an unknown person saying,

Good morning ☕️

Who is this? Should I reply back? Na, I should focus on what I would do for my dad. I know he will be happy if I cook something for him. But I can't cook anything even granny is not here to help me . I can't make bangali food but yea I could bake a cake. My phone vibrated again

Tum kaha hooooo???

Where am I?..... Speaking Hindi! What the hell.

Who are you?

Guess?
He or she replied.

I have no time for guessing. Tell me ur name or don't text

Yea Rudyyy what else can I expect from u...no hello or how r u😏😏
He replied

It's Ihaan because he calls me Rudy.

Ihaan! Where did u get my number from?

He text, Good guess I am impressed and ur number? I have my resources 😉

LOL I don't think any of my friends r friends with u or ur frnds that r friends with me and it's not easy to get my number so where did u get it from

He replied, I don't want to argue with u bcs we r frnds now I guess.... I got ur number from my moms phone 😁

whatever! Don't u have college?

I was talking to him while I was making the cake.

He texted, Yes missy. But yea bcs of u I couldn't go