In Love with Neighbour

Chapter 11

Weeks passed by and tomorrow was Samaira's first day of University. She was pretty excited. She had prepared her bag, outfit and also had a talk with her family.
She had talked with Zara also. All of them were giving her advices and asked her to share her experience with them later in details. Her parents blessed her and the youngsters wished her good luck. But she was missing Zain's goodluck. Anyway, she slept after praying to Allah for guidance.

Zain knew tomorrow was Samaira's first day of University. But he didn't talk to her, nor did he text her. He had started to occupy himself with studies. Determined to make himself worthy of her and also to divert his mind towards something else other than Samaira. The first reason came to his mind last week.

He was thinking about his encounter with Samaira about the marriage talk. He asked the same question she had asked him to himself but struggled to answer. Obviously he wasn't ready for marriage. That doesn't mean, he blames her. She did say the right thing. They were sinning.

And also, as far as marriage is concerned, obviously no father would give his daughter's hand to someone who isn't ready for such a big responsibility. So, he was determined to make himself worthy of her.

To make his business idea a reality, he had to work hard. Also, so that, if she comes back and asks him the same question again, then he must be prepared with an answer.
Thus, he was not like a heartbroken person anymore. He was improving.

Anyway, he decided to pray for her rather than talk to her. So he prayed. For her happiness and success. Then he could sleep peacefully.

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Next morning, Hamid dropped the youngsters at their respective destinations. Omar and Iqra were in the same high school. After dropping them, Hamid dropped Samaira and blessed her and asked her to call him if she needed anything. She bade him goodbye with a smile and went inside the University of Science.

She took a deep breath and started towards her class. She had already took the room number. She went inside the classroom and sat on the third bench alone. It was kinda early, so there were around 15 people. Soon more people started to come in and the seats started to fill up.

"Can I sit here?", Samaira was listening to Maher Zain with her earphones when a girl asked her.

She looked up,
"Yeah sure,"
and made place for her.

The girl was wearing a scarf and was looking desi, so Samaira was kinda happy about the fact. The girl seemed a bit sad though. Samaira was about to ask her something when another voice came,

"Anika! Seriously? You left me alone there!" came in a brunette, who had a scarf around her neck.
She looked desi too. The girl whose name Samaira figured Anika, ignored her wholly.

"Now you're going to give me the silent treatment? Okay. I'm also going to see how long it lasts!", she sat on Samaira's other side.

Samaira was looking at their exchange amusingly. Suddenly the brunette seemed to notice her,

"Oh! Hi! I'm Safia Karim! You are?", she said with a huge smile.

"Assalamualaikum. I'm Samaira," she also smiled back.

Safia chuckled a little,
"Walaikumassalam. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I just sat down without asking you."

"Oh, it's fine," they exchanged smiles again.

"Actually my best friend right here,"
she pointed to Anika,
"is mad at me. Because I just threatened her cousin. You know, he's been after her since 10th grade! I don't know what this guy's problem is! On top of that, he got admission right in this university! I mean, was there a dearth of universities in Malaysia? On top of that, I'm trying to help her and she's mad at me! Can you believe it?"