You & I

Were you born here?

As soon as it was 5, James walked up to me and we started working on the assignment right away. After about an hour or so, we were done and he started asking me the typical curious people questions.

"What's your background?"
"Were you born there or here?"
"Are you Shia or Sunni?"
"Do you bow down five times a day?"

Questions just kept flowing through him and I answered each one by one. I was actually kind of surprised that he even knew this much about Islam. I mean he acts so ignorant yet he knows a lot. As soon as I finished answering them it was time to go so we both got up and walked towards the exit.

"Do you have a ride home?" James asked.

"Yeah, my brother is supposed to pick me up just waiting for him."

"Ok, see ya" With that he left me standing alone waiting for my brother.

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When I got home I went right to my room. I changed into my comfy pjs and sat on my bed scrolling through my social media. This was my way of "catching up". To be honest, I have mixed feelings about social media because at times it informs you of what's going on in the world but sometimes it's a waste of time. I lay in bed going through Instagram. Then suddenly I spotted a picture of one of my classmates with over a hundred comments and the most recent was by James. I clicked on his profile and looked through his pictures. Wow I never really noticed how attractive he was. AstaghfirAllah. Then before I knew it I fell asleep.

"Take your lunch before you go hun" my mom calls out.

I quickly grab my lunch and ran outside. I quickly come to stop when I see James sitting in his car in my driveway.

"What are you doing here?" I ask.

"Waiting for you, now hurry up."

He opened his Porsche's door for me and grabbed my backpack.

"Come on, sit down Aliyah. You're going to be mad at me when we're late."

I quickly sat in the car and he drove wildly and when we arrived he parked in his usual spot. He quickly ran out of the car and opened my door.

"Umm thanks."

"No problem." As he said this he moved closer causing me to move back so my back touched his car.

"I love you, Aliyah"

"Aliyah, Aliyah, Aliyah! For the tenth time we are going to be late! Get up!"

I quickly woke up realizing that was only a stupid dream. Makes sense why would a guy like that fall in love with a girl like me. It just doesn't make sense. I quickly got dressed and ran downstairs into my brother's car who kept beeping at me to hurry up.

"Took you long enough! Let me remind you that being driven in this vehicle is a privilege and can be taken away."

I gave him the 'what's wrong with you look.' And just laughed. I entered the passcode to unlock my phone and the first thing that popped up was James' Instagram. Yup that explains the dream. I laughed to myself.

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"No, you didn't!" Sabrina asked well more like yelled.

"I swear it was so weird but it felt so real."

"I bet that the dream was a foreshadowing to your future love story."

"Really, Sabrina? Dude this isn't a book."

"Well it's alwa-

Before she could finish her sentence, Jake and Ali sat down.

"What isn't a story?" they asked.

"Oh nothing we were just discussing homework." I quickly spoke making sure they didn't know. I didn't want anyone to make a big deal out of something so stupid. I gave Sabrina a look saying "please".

"Yeah, English homework." She agreed.

Warning: I didn't edit anything so if you find mistakes feel free to comment/message them.

I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far!! I know,I know. I took forever to upload because as soon as my finals ended we began moving to our new house. Moving is super stressful and annoying. But enough about me! What do you guys think of the story so far? Are we feeling the Alimes (Their shipped name maybe?) haha you guys come up with a name! We'll use the best to refer to them. Was the dream not enough? Don't worry my friends they'll be much more in the next chapters. Oh and I added a funny video (first page of this chapter) for you guys to check out. I think most of us can relate to the girl, wouldn't you agree?

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