The Hijabi's Convertee

chapter 7

I made my way to the bed and sat on it, filling the cup on the bedside table, I placed it down and picked up the cup to drink water, to cure my thirst and slow down my erratically beating heart

After drinking enough water, I dropped the cup and laid down to catch some sleep, removing every other thoughts from my mind

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My phone's alarm going off woke me up, I reached my hand to turn it off without opening my eyes

" What's the time?" I heard Fatima ask in a sleepy voice, yawning

I guess the alarm also woke her up

" I don't know" I said my eyes still closed

" Check your phone dummy" she said and that's when my brain processed her previous question

" Ohh" I drawled in realization before checking my phone
" It says 10: 52" I said calling out the time

" Okay" she answers yawning again

" Let's get up and go have breakfast" I tell her sitting up from the bed

" Yeah sure I'm right behind you" she says scratching her eyes with the side of her index finger

I stood up and made my way to the bathroom to wash my face, after that I came out and made my way to my closet to pick a dress
I picked a blue and pink floral patterned high waist skirt and paired it with a plain black long sleeved top and black hijab

Getting dressed, I did my skin care routine and put on my dress
I came out of my closet and walked into the room

I made my way to my dressing table, it's a set with the mirror and bench made with mahogany wood and coloured dark brown
In the table was my favorite perfume and the rest of my collection
I picked up the one my brother, Abdul got for me and pressed the puff

Spraying it on my neck, I placed it down and sprayed it on my wrist and then rubbed both my wrists together

After that, I used a lip balm and I am good to go

I heard shuffling of footsteps and looked behind me to see Fatima all dressed up in a white gown reaching above her knees paired with black leggings and black hijab

" Masha'Allah, you look pretty" I said beaming at her

" You look pretty too, we're wearing matching hijabs" she said making her way to the dressing table, a smile on her face and I giggled

She picked up her own perfume and applied it the same way I did
And then she applied lipgloss and opened one of the drawers below the table

It was filled with makeup, I don't use make up all the time just on special occasions

She picked up a waterproof eyeliner and drew it on her eyes in a professional manner

" Draw for me please" I said to her blinking my eyes while doing so
hers looked so nice and fashionable

" Okay come, sit down" she replied to me, motioning for me to sit on the bench with her hand

She drew it for me in another style different from hers but it was beautiful nonetheless

We rounded up and made our way downstairs to the dining hall

"As salam alaikum"
We said at the same time and looked at each other with a smile

"Wa alaikumus Salam" everyone replied

I looked at the table and dad was at the head as usual, mum on his right, Abdul on his left and Iqraam sat right beside Abdul

" Come and sit down, you two" mum called out to us and I went to sit beside her and pecked her on her cheeks

Fatima followed suit and sat beside me mumbling a good morning to everyone

" Good morning kids, how was your night" dad asked us smiling kindly

"Alhamdulilah" we said at the same time and looked at each other and said
"Jinx" at the same time again

"Double jinx" we said at the same time, and again said, narrowing our eyes at each other

"Triple jinx"

And it continued until mum said

" enough kids, let's eat breakfast in peace " she scolded lightly but that was enough for us to zip it and start eating

Dad and Iqraam were looking at us in amusement

"They behave like kids" Abdullah said scrunching up his nose

And that was enough for I and Fatima to look up and glare hard at him

" Woah woah, calm down" he says raising his hands up in surrender and we went back to eating

After breakfast, we all went to face our businesses, dad and mum were going out to visit a friend of theirs, Fatima and I were going to her cafe for her new pastry recipe tasting

I don't know about the rest

" Big bro, what are your plans for today" I asked Abdullah

" I don't have much to do so I'll just settle some work, what about you?" He answered and asked me back

" I'm going to Queen's cafe with Fatima to taste her new recipe" I replied to him smiling while thinking about food

He held his chest in fake hurt and said
"And you didn't even invite me to come with you guys"

" Oi, drama boy, you coming or not?" Fatima asked him

And he bobbed his head up and down

"Give me five minutes, Iqraam and I will meet you at the garage" he said going upstairs and Iqraam followed suit not saying a word

I guessed he doesn't talk too much

I didn't look at him or talk to him at the dining hall earlier
After what happened this morning, I think it's better to avoid him

"Let's go to the garage" Fatima said snapping me out of my trance

We made our way there and it was a beautiful line up of different cars, I almost couldn't decide which one to take

" Which car should we take today" I asked Fatima giving her decision to make

" Your call" she says throwing it back at me

" Hmmmmm" I hummed pondering out loud and finally decided

" Let's take my jaguar" I said finally making a decision

" Nice choice, I even drove mine here yesterday " she replies to me smiling

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