Our Memories Together 2

3.2

Mr Diaz H. Armani was a charming soul. 

He had booked Hadiyeh and Saeedeh the best hotel in Paris, providing them with the best accommodation possible. He was what Hadiyeh under any other circumstance would see as perfect. But the circumstances were not in her favour, her husband was sat in their apartment in London planning a trip to the Maldives for his wife's birthday, whilst she was sat at a business table with her lawyer and manager on one side and opposite them sat Diaz Armani with his fellow businessmen.

Hadiyeh had realised that Diaz had taken a liking to her sister. Hadiyeh wasn't going to stand in the way of them, seeing what happened last time, she and Saeedeh had fallen out, so this time she would keep her opinions to herself allowing Saeedeh to decide things for herself. But, she may have taken a biased liking towards Diaz seeing as he was making a multi-million deal with Hadiyeh and that every time he saw Jannah, he always had bags of luxury-branded clothing and jewellery for her.

"Do we have a deal, Mrs Ezra?"

"I think we might do." Hadiyeh smiled over the table, as she picked up the pen signing her on the dotted line. 

"I'm glad we do." He got out of his seat as a sign of respect, shaking hands with Hadiyeh and her colleagues.

"There is a driver waiting for you outside, you are to go to your hotel room and change, Mr Diaz is hosting a dinner party tonight, to celebrate your new business deal." Diaz's personal assistant informed Hadiyeh about the evening ahead.

"Very well, we'll see you then." Hadiyeh's manager nodded politely raising a brow at Hadiyeh who nodded agreeing to the plans.

When Hadiyeh had got to the hotel room, Saeedeh was standing opposite the mirror staring at her reflection. Her face was blank and neutral. She was angry with the world and everything in it. Including her fate.

"Hey, sis." Hadiyeh greeted Saeedeh with a small hug turning to Jannah who was lying in the suite cot.

"Hads?" 

"Yeah?" 

"Do you think Tobi would hate me if I say no?"

"To what?"

"To getting married." 

"No, he wouldn't dare, he will get a bit upset but he would understand." Hadiyeh knew her friends well and wasn't going to sugarcoat the fact that Tobi would be upset.

"Hads, I don't know what to do, what am I going to do, I might like Diaz Armani more than I planned on." She sighs falling onto the soft hotel beds, sinking into the sheets as though they were clouds.

"You're going to listen to whatever your heart is saying," Hadiyeh replied, stripping to go shower before the dinner event tonight.

"So do I just bail out on Tobi?" 

"No, you're going to be mature about it and explain to Tobi that you think you like someone else and that you no longer are interested in him, to stop him running after you," Hadiyeh replied from behind the bathroom door as she waited for the shower water to warm up.

"Okay, should I text or call him?" 

"Neither, you're going to get ready, because we have a dinner event with Diaz Armani to go to," Hadiyeh replied. She knew that tonight was press night. She knew Diaz Armani was a very public figure and especially with his bold move of signing a clothing line deal bigger than Rihanna's Fenty with a youtube, there is going to be paparazzi and fans lined up in front of the restaurants.

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Whilst Hadiyeh waited for Saeedeh to get out of the shower she opened her purse and stared at the envelope JJ had left for her with the hotel staff. She picked it up and opened the tiny package, inside was a USB drive, with an iPhone plug. She plugged it into her phone. 

A file popped up. It was a video. 

She pressed play.

"Ayo, Hads, I'm in the studio at five in the morning and there is one more song that needs to go on the album, I wanted this sog to be our song, you always liked my slower songs. So Hadiyeh M. Ezra this is for you." JJ was talking into his phone camera. He put the camera inside the studio booth and began singing. 

It was his song, you. 

JJ had gone on and on about needing one more song on the album but never knew what he wanted the song to be. He and S-X were in the studio and he had an urgent call from one of his friends and had to leave. Leaving JJ in the studio by himself, he had fiddled around with the beats and managed to have found a beat to sing to. He had the beat playing on repeat whilst he typed down lyrics onto the note app on his phone. 

I guess you can say that I'm fallin'
Didn't expect to be wantin' to tell you I'm all in, no
But now I can't leave you alone
All of my feelings, you own, oh
And now I'm floatin' tonight in the air, can you feel it?
Like this is a callin'

Without even realising his words were true and honest that night truly was a calling from Jannah, she had craved her fathers presence and JJ had craved his daughter's presence, the two had an unbreakable bond. But that wasn't it, every lyric that he wrote and sang linked back to Hadiyeh, every rhyme and every line was associated with Hadiyeh and his love for her. Now, more than ever, he craved her presence next to him, he yearned to hear her contagious laugh and obnoxious music, he ached for the intoxicating scent that was so unique to her, he needed to feel her touch, only she knew the way to his heart and no one could ever fill that empty void in his heart beside's Hadiyeh. 

Girl, you got to me
My hеart beats differently
It's like a symphony
And you're the only one who does it (Does it, yeah)

Listening to the words and emotions that poured out of his mouth, Hadiyeh felt her heart melt, maybe he was telling the truth, JJ had made a mistake a blatant and bad one too, but he deserved this second chance if anything he had worked for it. Whilst listening to JJ sing, Hadiyeh had taken it upon herself to text JJ.

To JJ 💔

'Everything I do, I do
I do it all for you, for you
You're the only one'

A man in love once told me these words and I wanted to acknowledge them, remember that if the sun and the moon collide and if we all die tomorrow, I love you and nothing could change that. 

Hadiyeh wiped her watery eyes and pressed send. Thank god her makeup brand was waterproof.

Tonight was going to be an interesting night...

Written: 24/09/2021

Published: 25/09/2021

(A/N: No drama just tea. hehe xx)