EXTRA MILE FOR LOVE

22: The Coincedence

"Have you seen Haidar ?" A worried Najma asked after Basma came into the room. "I thought I left you guys together." Basma threw a quizzical look at Najma . "After you left to go to Hajiya's room, I had to use the toilet, so I left him watching T.V here." She pointed towards the sofa.

"Where could he have gone to? I'm dead! What will I say to Mummy? She entrusted me with him." Najma whined. "Calm down. I'm sure he must be around the hotel and we will find him." Basma assured her.

"It's all my fault. I didn't really get enough sleep last night and I woke up moody today. I should have taken much good care of him."

"Najma just keep quiet. Why are you blaming yourself for this? Let's go and look around. I'm sure we will find him ." Basma declared pulling Najma's hand. "We should take the steps. I'm sure he didn't use the lift." Najma declared walking towards the steps as Basma followed behind.

"What in the world......" Najma let her words trailed off as she reached the lobby and found Nabil and Haidar playing together. "How dare he touch him!"Najma snapped. "Hey calm down. For the love of God don't over react Najma." Basma pleaded as she held her back.

"You know I can't hide my facial expressions to save my life. Just allow me to go and give him a piece of my mind!" She released her wrist from Basma's clutches as she approached Nabil.

"Who gave you the right to carry my little brother without my permission?" She stretched out her hands to snatch Haidar from him, To her surprise Nabil clutched him back. "Mummy I want to stay with him." Haidar happily clutched on to Nabil.

"So you're the irresponsible sibling of this young man? Well I'm not surprised." Nabil shook his head as he smirked at Najma. "What nerve do you have? Give him back to me right now since he's not yours. Do you know how worried I've been? How can you take someone's child just like that? If you want to have a child then go and have one else where."

As much as Najma wanted to sound rude, as usual her melodious calm voice gave her away. Especially today, She looked so gorgeous. If he didn't know her, he'd have declared her to be a half caste . He has always seen her in laces or Abayas. But today she wore a black jeans trouser , A knee length shirt and tied a vintage scarf on her head . Sketchers made her legs looked sexy.

"You don't look worried about this child at all. I mean, If you were, you wouldn't be looking this beautiful." A smile escaped Najma's lips which immediately made her curse herself. She is suppose to be mad at him. Then why Is she blushing now? The idiot is just too good with words!

"Hiii Nabil" Basma broke the silence. They exchanged pleasantries and she begged him to give Haidar back to them. "Why are you even begging him? The last time I checked he's my brother not his!" Najma snapped .

"Basma right? " Nabil asked , "Yes " She smiled . "She has told me alot about you . Don't mind her, I'm sure you're use to her anger issues by now. But I think we need to enroll her to an anger issue management." Nabil chuckled, as Basma joined him. Basma was really surprised to see this side of Nabil she has never seen and she wasn't sure Najma has seen before too.

"Basma just know it's over between us. Me and you are so done!" Najma declared. "She likes issuing out empty threats too. As her best friend, I know you're used to that. Come and sit down with me, I know you must be eager to know how I found this cute young man." Nabil declared with a smile as he playfully pulled Haidar's cheeks.

They sat on the sofa and started conversing leaving Najma with no other option but to sit down on the sofa that was opposite theirs. "So Like I was saying, I was reading newspaper while seated here and this young champ came over to me and said Hi and requested I played hide and seek with him. As the good samaritan that I'm, I agreed. I mean who could say no to such a cute champ? Especially when he told me his wicked sister had refused to play with him. We have been here for over half an hour and his irresponsible sister didn't bother to come looking for him."