Adeel adjusts his tie for what felt like the hundredth time attempting desperately to make it perfect tweaking with shaking fingers again and again. He dared wish, perhaps today he could blend in, be normal. Even when technically, a futile effort, was the appropriate term for his every attempt to dress to blend in.
Without the scars Adeel was to everyone's standard, handsome and at that point he was quite confident in himself, being the only son of his father, funds was something he never lacked which was probably why he had so many friends then, that where now by the way all non existent reason being as simple as him not being in the right space to reach out, carry the friendship all by himself at a time he experienced pain deep enough to destroy.
He braced himself, letting go of the tie and letting it fall imperfectly, perfection be damned! His sister needed him he was going to be there and it wasn't to be questioned, not even by himself
Adeel walked out of his flat, where he stayed whenever he was visiting and headed for his parents flat, the biggest and most suitable for what Adeelah was aiming to achieve , a fundraiser that admittedly already had people willing to invest already so perhaps she was marely trying to reassure with a crowd filled with everyone else investing
The main and big parlor in the house was now completely turned around, the chairs was pushed back creating more space for movement, the dinning area was set for a mini buffet the table, filled to the brim with food amd there was soft music that gently engulfed the space giving the technically empty parlor a beautiful serene feeling
His mother spotted him and put on the widest smile "Adeel! You are here already then?"
"Yes, wouldn't want to miss a second " his tongue twisted in an obvious sarcasm
"Ohh common, i made home made drinks, you just sit with your father there, i will bring them over" she shooed him towards their father who was buried deep in a newspaper sitted legs crossed in the far corner
Adeel walked up to him and they exchanged greetings right as he sat down, Adeelah walked into the room in a mustard dress, with a matching hijab wrapped around her head
"This is not my scene, oh no, no, not my scene, shouldn't , shouldn't have" she rambles off now pacing back and forth the space infront of her brother and father
"Lady, calm down it's barely 50 people half of which you know already" Daddy trys to calm her down shrugging off her horrified look
"At least 25 new faces then, that i have to socialize with, ugghh."
Adeel tried to smiled reassuringly but he feared his own anxiety lingering in his eyes would betray his aim so he tried with words "Prof will be here yeah? You won't need to do anything major"
Adeelah nodded slightly "He should arrive anytime from now"
Daddy cleared his throat, " I see it was Adeel's comfort you were seeking not mine, indeed, i see."
Adeelah chuckled right as mummy arrived with two drinks in hand, handed Adeel one and sat by Daddy's foot before giving him his, out of habit she gently massages his foot.
"Jealous of us but look, who should envy who?" Adeelah directs her question to Adeel but both parents were now blushing so hard that Adeel didn't find it in him to keep teasing them so he just laughs and heads for the kitchen and washed his glass, mommy would scold him but he was used to cleaning up after himself after living by himself for so many years.
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Adeel could not count with his fingers how many times he's gone to the kitchen and back since the guest started arriving, to do literally nothing but try to avoid conversation, immediately he met someone's eyes and it looked they were heading his way up until he found a perfect location to set camp, which was a far end couch isolated by a huge green plant from the crowd the poor lightening in that corner making it an even better for his escape, he was sighted only when one paid really close attention otherwise he was quite invincible to everyone else
"Adeel. Right?" A beautiful young lady that seemed to be in her early twenties settled down in the centre glass table that was now, due to the new arrangement of the whole room almost right in front of him, she was tall and lean and she radiated this sense of confidence even just from the way she sat down on what is really after all, glass.
"Yap definitely Adeel. I am nana, I've heard quite a ton about you from your sister, pretty sure it takes a deliberate effort for her to speak of anything but"
Adeel almost turns to look in her eyes, curiously, who is she, really? And how is she so comfortable rambling off to a stranger? Lost in his thought he absently spared her a nod
"Oh, i am a friend of hers btw" She added
Adeel finally looked a little more her way, still avoiding eye contact fearing that would give her even more confidence to continue rambling off so he mustered his softest dismissive voice before speaking
"Adeel, her twin"
"And he speaks!" She explains in what looked like an attempt at a joke? Adeel did not know but he did not spare her the littlest smile
Instead he glared right at her hazel eyes, "He does he just prefers not to"
"I understand i guess" She says and Adeel suppressed the urge to laugh in her face, how do you understand someone you met barely a minute ago?
His thoughts are interrupted when a figure towers over them her voice so soft Adeel barely caught on her words
"Nana yaaya just called she wants us back home"
Adeel looked up at her, she was beautiful in the calmest sense, she had a plumpy cute face and had soft beautiful features say for her eyes big and a deep black that complimented her choice of colour, a dark blue dress with an even darker shade hijab wrapped around her head.
Nana didn't reply her instead she turned to Adeel "We have exams so yaaya only agreed we leave the house after we promised to be back as early as possible" we? Perhaps they are sisters?
Adeel almost said something, now that they had a third set of eyes his nodding tactics might seem a lot more awkward than they would have a few seconds ago.
"Yeah" he muttered along with a nod
At that moment, Nana looked down at her phone "Crap, i really did loose track of time, i will just say Goodbye to Adeelah and we will be on our way" she finally looks up at her sister,
Nana stood up and gave her phone to Adeel "It is only right yeah?"
Adeel felt all shades of weird as he typed in his number and saved it in her phone, was he making a friend, was he really? How bad could that be if he truly was?
After he gave her back her phone she smiled and walked away and her sister stood as she had done all this while, arms folded and looking at nothing and everything, like her eyes are curious but her mind says to not wander.
It was silent for a few minutes until she suddenly looked down at him making eye contact briefly as though it had been itching her to "So, how did you get your scars?"
Adeel stopped for a brief second, did this sisters take confidence classes as kids? "Woah, slow down there"
She rolled her eyes "You do know one has to be curious yeah?"
"Petty. It is also quite obvious enough that i shouldn't be subjected to going back every day because someone is curious, don't you think?"
She seemed to take her time to think before responding "You are right. You are truly, i shouldn't have"
Just as he was about to reply Nana came back and swayed her sister away, leaving Adeel invincible once again.
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Romance"Of life of love of death. The later brings sorrow not known to the dictionary" Adeel was a fervid lover, he loved blindly and why wouldn't he? He'd afterall found his soulmate, the one ideally made just for him. But life as he'd always reckoned cou...
