finding you- an islamic novel

three.

i enter saraahs room and immediately ask her abt the boy in the car.

"and after he said azalimu alukym"-

"liyahhhh oh my god stop that's my brothers friend that's weird" saraah interrupts

"fine il stop only for you" i say with a fake frown on my face.

"anyways are you okay? what happened? i'm worried" saraah questions

"they were being weird again, they won't get off of eachother and honestly it's draining" i start to say

"ever since my moms passing he won't stop reminding me about it, it's like it's on loop!" i sigh

"it's okay liyah, you can stay here for as long as you want" saraah reassures me

i then give her no time engulfing her in a strong embrace

"you dont know how much i needed this ur the best best friend ever"

"I CANT BREATH CHILL LADY" saraah screams out as something interrupts us.

"allahu akbar allahu akbar"

"SARAAH TIME TO PRAY" a voice suddenly comes into the room

"COMINGG" saraah yells back

"ima brb stay here" saraah tells me

i later fall asleep with no hesitation as today has been the longest day ever

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morning

i wake up to the sound of saraah waking up.

i see her doing yoga or something

i sit up and watch the movements she's doing on the floor. i decide not the bother her and silently watch. with the turn of her head left and right she begins to whisper some things in a different language?

she then catches my eye,

"oh! good morning liyah"

"good morninggg why're u awake so early girl you scared me" i say getting off the bed and stretching

"oh i was praying, i wake up this early every morning you should know this" she jokingly rolls her eyes

"oh why do you have to pray at such early and late hours?" my curiosity got the best of me

i knew that saraahs family was muslim and that they prayed but i didn't really know the conditions of anything.

saraah then explains that she prays to God not twice but five times a day?!!!!

"FIVE TIMES? that's a lot a day why do you have to pray 5 times a day?" i ask with my mouth open

"to thank God for all the blessings he gives us, he gives us good and bad things and regardless we have to be great full besides, 5 times a day is minimum girl. theyres also sunnah (optional) prayers we pray too" sarah starts

"praying gives me peace and honestly without prayer i don't think my life would be this at peace, it's something that i need to do everyday for my heart to feel content" she continues

"wow, that's actually so coolll can i pray with you some times, i think i need some of that peace your talking about" i question

"of course but of course your going to need to learn how to first" she says

for the next 30 minutes she teaches me more and more about her religion and i can't help but feel intrigued.

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11:00

me and saraah decided to finally get out of bed and have breakfast after talking for the last 4 hours about everything.

saraah was really my favorite person, i don't know what i'd do without her.

we decided on making pancakes for everyone as we still have the most energy. saraah has 1 sibling so it wouldn't be hard to make it for everyone.

"wait aaliyah can you go to suffyans room and ask him how much he wants" saraah remembers

"already on my way" i wash my hands and run upstairs yelling to suffyan

"SUFFYAN" i yell

"HOW MUCH PANCAKES DO YOU WANT" i question still yelling

i arrive to his room and knock on his door and to my surprise i see the boy in the car earlier

"o-oh my bad i didn't know suffyan had company over" i say

"it's alright, he's praying right now so he'll be done in a few minutes" he opens the door and shows suffyan sitting down with his finger going up and down.

i then pause awkwardly remembering the incident from yesterday

yesterday

"assalamu alaykum" the mystery boy says

i pause and get a glimpse of his curly but straight hair and can't help but pause to look at his appearance.

i didn't even notice that i didn't answer him

assalymu aluykyum? what's that?

"oh she's not muslim, she's my little sisters friend" suffyan blurts saving me from this situation

"yeah i'm not muslim but aslimukum to you too!" i say confidently

what? i was a pretty social person and i had nothing else to say.

i hear silence and then laughter right after

"hwheehejdiejene aaliyah what'd you just say BFFHDHSH" suffyan struggles to talk

i see the other boy also dying in the front too as i look out the window embarrassed

present

"i don't think i introduced myself to you" he says blankly

"my names adam, i just converted to islam recently which is why i laughed yesterday. you remind me of myself when you said asalamualaykum"  he says

i rolled my eyes

"wait i'm sorry if that offended you i didn't mean it like that" he catches on

i silently thank him

he's a decent person yayyy?

i'm going to kill suffyan though

"well"

"come downstairs after suffyans done praying and get some pancakes" i walk away

"wait, i didn't catch your name" he says before i walk away

"aaliyah" i say before running downstairs

a/n: most i've ever written, enjoyyy <3. pls vote and comment if you liked ittttt

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