Azaan

Chapter Three.

I Love Her, Does She Feel The Same Way?

Azaan's Pov.

It has been almost two years since I confessed my feelings for Faryal. Even my sister Iman is trying to be friendly with her but I know that she is doing it for me.

The love I feel for Faryal is getting stronger every day that I am with her. But something seems to be always bothering her.

I wish that she could talk to me and I would be happy if she let me in what she is feeling.

I love her yet I feel like she doesn't seem to care about me.

At least that's what she makes me think every time I am with her. Or maybe it is just a figment of my imagination.

I want to marry her because it's what I always wanted when I fell in love with her but she keeps saying that she isn't ready for it.

Deep inside my heart, I can feel that she is lying to me because every time I tell her that I want our parents to meet so that they can discuss our future.

Our marriage.

I walked toward Fahd because I need his advice about Faryal and our relationship but I knew what I was doing won't emerge anything.

Because he will either ignore or even avoid talking to me about her.

"Fahd can I talk to you please?", I ask him hoping that he would say yes.

Alhamdullilah, when he nodded and asked me to sit beside him.

"What's wrong?", he asks me.

Fahd's Pov.

I can't believe that she didn't tell him about us. From the first day, she pretended not to know who I was.

Why, Faryal?

And now he is sitting next to me looking for answers when I have none.

"What's wrong?" I ask him hoping that it wasn't what I think.

"Did ever notice something wrong about Faryal? Her strange behavior whenever I talk to her about marriage?", he asks me.

Why did you do this, Faryal? When you and I are engaged to be married in almost two years. Sometimes I wonder why did I ask you to marry me when all you want is to keep our relationship a secret. Especially from my best friend whom I have known since birth.

"Fahd, are you alright?" Azaan asks me when he saw that I wasn't replying.

"Yes, I am fine. Why don't you ask her yourself? Besides, that's between you and her", I tell him hoping that he would let go of the matter.

Fortunately, he did let go of it. For now.

But what we didn't know was someone was the one plotting all of this.

Making us turn against each other but who is it?

All I want now is for Faryal to tell Azaan the truth about our relationship. We are engaged yet she doesn't even care about that.

I can't lose the friendship I have with Azaan because of her.

I need to tell her to choose if she wants to go on with whatever she is planning or tell Azaan the entire truth about us. I can't lose Azaan for her.

I know that I should have told Azaan who she was from the first day they met but I couldn't. Because she told me that she wanted to go to school without anyone knowing what our relationship is. I couldn't ask her why she is doing that.

I respected her decision but now this isn't what I wanted to happen.

My best friend fell in love with my fiancée.