𝑁𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝐴 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐻𝑒𝑟

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 1

"Stars!" Ayham was astonished by the sky full of stars. It's been so long since she saw so many stars. In her city life, one thing she always craved for is stars. She would look at the sky and there is hardly any stars found. This is like a curse caused by light pollution. It would always make her sad to see a sky without its beauty, its blessing, the stars. Ayham wanted to capture the stars but she was unable to stop being the happiest kid who loved stars more than anything and couldn't enjoy the sky she adored for so long.

Suddenly she realised she is not a kid anymore. She is an adult now. "It's much better", Ayham said to herself. Ayham loves the way she is now, though life was not difficult when she was dumb. But her elder sister did make her pay for the happiness gained from that dumbness. She went to the park for a walk. But now she is admiring the stars. It felt like life was going to get better because she saw stars after so long. The part of her life she couldn't see stars was scary. Stars made her feel that they care for what she loves and finally they showed up to her. She loved the moments of her little world nobody knew.

Although the world where she was exposed to so much was hidden from everyone. Ayham realised how nobody knows nothing about her and yet everyone could assume so much. It was like making assumptions and hating your own selves for not getting it right. It was like she made people hate themselves for not being able to connect the dots. Although she knew about the assumptions made about her, she never tried to clear any until it started to come out of the mouth of Jacob, her first love. She was late to fall in love. She literally fell for Jacob when she was an adult. "It scares me. How can I be so late in something so obvious!"

Although she loved Jacob she didn't know whether Jacob feels the same for her or not. It was like, love is just a part- thing for her. But she craved love. She knew how much she could provide when it comes to love. But the image she had created for her was far from letting anyone in to get a hold on her. She always had been attracted to men with good physique. This is what appears to the world. Deep inside Ayham always had that urge to be loved by someone physically strong. A strong hand holding her gently, touching her softly. A man who's hand would easily make her feel she is protected by the man who would fight with the whole world for her. She wanted to feel loved. Nobody knew.

"Ayham loves bodybuilders type of men", Jacob said with little hesitation in his voice to his 2 years younger little brother Daniel. Ayham heard this way before she fell in love with Jacob. At that time she didn't feel anything to make it clear that it's not about attraction. It's about feeling safe. But now she wants to make Jacob feel special more than anything.

The way she looked at Jacob, she knew there ain't any way Jacob doesn't know how she feels. But there was a tension between Jacob and Ayham. An invisible war. For the first time Ayham felt the tension that was going on between both of them for years. And she felt the rush of knowing something. She felt how it must be for those who wanted to know a lot about her.