Ayaana👑🥀

He's everywhere!!

Assalamualaikum...

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With help from Hassan, we were done arranging the tableware on the round table with chairs arranged around it.

The tearoom looks just as simple as the first picture that would appear as you say the name. A room surrounded with beautiful wallpapers of pictures of sunsets, sunrise, the cloud and a dark night lit by the light radiating from the moon, not to forget the sun rays coming in from the opened curtains giving the room its needed vibrance. A TV mounted at one side of the room giving a perfect to one, wherever he/she might have sat with drawers just below it gave it a 'home' look and feeling. With the soft hum coming from the working air conditioner, the pin drop silence could be averted.

Not to forget the projector that hung in the middle of the room above the table facing a perfect position that would enable one to see what might be projected clearly, gave it the last finishing touch it needed to remind one it's office hours despite the comfort around and the home vibes it exude.

After making sure everything is in place and nothing is amiss, we disappeared just as we came...

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Standing on the other side of the world away from a world where a set of people are talking about you and making a decision about your life and not able to do anything except stand and hope is excruciatingly tiring and makes you clueless

It's been 20 minutes already and all I've been doing is pace to and fro, hoping and praying it goes well. Thank goodness the hall isn't a long one, my limbs would have been aching already. Plus it's a quiet and secluded place behind the kitchen, so no one really comes there especially when they're having a meeting I guess.

I then felt a hand on my shoulder making me jolt back to reality and my surrounding.

I turned around to find a lady

Oh Maryam

She looked at me and hugged me almost immediately

Do i look nervous or what...

"You look like you're about to pass out really. So you needed the hug. But didn't I tell you that it's going to be fine?

I was just coming from the kitchen, met chef Samar and he couldn't stop talking about what you prepared. He kept going on and on about it. I mean if the meal is even half way truly as delicious as he's portraying it, which I'm sure it's exactly how he's been describing, you've nothing to worry about

They'd love it. That I'm sure of" she smiling

I couldn't even reply her as I'm still under tension if I'd say

But that was exactly what I needed so I just smiled and initiated another hug which she gladly gave me

She's so sweet, isn't she?

She really is

Now I continue to wait....

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"Come in" she said ushering me in

"Thank you" I said and made my way into the tearoom for the second time that day

I used my right leg and said my inaudible salaam anyways

After greeting the board members sitted, I stood

Chef Mrs. Agu spoke first, " The meal was awesome, sumptuous and well plated I must say. The idea of the pudding is exceptional, the cake roll was a bomb but..."

But?

My heart did a summersault after hearing that

"But, the chicken wings aren't as tender as they are supposed to be. Either from the marination or frying. Again the overall idea is outstanding. Good job!" She said giving me a thumbs up as she concluded