9. The Dark Secret

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

I highly recommend reading each line of this chapter with the presence of mind, InshaAllah.

This chapter is not meant for faint-hearted people :)

 Well, I think you all are lion-hearted. Aren't you? Let's start, then!


"Okay, my mother I gave up"

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"Okay, my mother I gave up"

I surrendered my head to her highness, Maryam, who was constantly persuading me to attend a religious event.

Maryam chuckled. "Well, it looks like I finally won! I'm the Queen of Persuasion!" 

I wrinkled my nose.  "No, you're the Queen of Nagging!" and like a knight I bowed to the Queen's will. 

As I approached the event, fear and doubt clouded my mind, causing me to wonder if it would be a boring, colorless program with the typical lectures listing dos and don'ts.

"Let's invite our speaker for today. Any guesses about her? She is none other than our honorable sister Aalimah Tameem!"
The anchor announced and a wave of excitement washed over the audience.

Maryam's face lit up with joy. She squealed: "Aww she is my favourite!"

I rolled my eyes expecting a dull lecture by a woman in her senior years.

"Assalamualaikum and a very cordial good afternoon to all the lovelies"

A sudden burst of energy in a sachharine voice echoed through the hall and silence accompanied by peace engulfed the audience. As my vision flowed to the podium, I was goggle-eyed as the round and smooth face in the halo of a floral hijab was not of a woman, instead it was a girl barely in her late teens.

I am unable to express her ethereal charm. With olive skin and chapped lips, she can't be considered attractive, actually.

However, she had a kind of glow on her olive face, that all the models would die to imitate.

Wait, Is it what they call  'Noor'?

"How are you all? Hmm? Seems you didn't have breakfast, sisters! "

Her heavenly white teeth flushed as her lips curved into a crescent moon, infecting everyone around her with smiles.

Are the Alimaat so sweet? I thought they would be high tempered.

"I'm not here for a typical bayan, guys. Loosen up! We are going to have some chit-chat about a special topic."

Her energetic voice ignited sparks of excitement in me.

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