I Know You

Again

Summer is near, days are getting longer, and I am not letting anyone ruin this happiness for me. And I don't think anyone can do that except one person. Hamzah.

Hamzahs reaction has been bugging me and I have no idea what to do. If he was taught to communicate better, none of this would've happened.

Why did he act like that? And just when things had been going good, it had now been ruined by 1 sentence I'd said.

I can't let him overtake my mind when summer is so close. And I can tell Hamzah is really avoiding me because he wouldn't even ride with us anymore. He's taking the bus. I bet Trey knows something.

As I get in the car I ask "hey Trey why don't we drive Hamzah anymore." "Oh he said he felt bad I guess, I'm not really sure, kinda weird." "Dammit what is he doing." I thought.

I tried to ease my mind thinking about how summer and my birthday was coming. I was so excited, for a couple of months I could be the same age as Trey.

We get to school when Trey sees Hamzah. They dap each other up. He looks at me and nods his head. I smile so awkwardly. He knew I was there but just tried to pretend I wasn't. This was so awkward. HE made it awkward.

I pass my them and get going to my class. Art.. Hamzah was in that class. Damn itt. I see him enter the class and glance at me as he passes. He sits diagonally from me.

While Diana was talking to me Mrs. Stan interrupted saying is there anything more important to be looking at Mr. Al- Emad? I look behind me and see him get up from his arms. He was staring at me. Had he thought about the situation too?

"Oh no, nothing Mrs. Stan." Hamzah replies while glancing at me a few times.  As I go through my classes I see a flyer for a carnival event going on. I should go, it'll be fun, let me tell Diana.

"Diana!! We should def go to this carnival event, it looks like so much fun.!" I say. "Omg yeah we should!" She responds. "Okok Im buying tickets! See you." I say.   " okay see you later!" She says

I go through all my classes and finally am finished for the day. I decide to drive with Diana to go get ice cream and figure out our plans for tomorrow at the carnival."

We went to sit down and eat our ice cream. "Soo do you want Trey to pick us up?" I ask. "That would be great thanks so much!" She responds.  "Of course!" I say.

"So is Hamzah going to be riding with you guys too? After the major argument you guys had?" "Yeah, I really have no choice and you know my brother is always taking Hamzah's side."

"Maybe he was jealous, he cant just get mad for no reason." Diana shrugged.  "No way, he really doesn't care what I do, he's been avoiding us." I say. "Maybe Hes just embarrassed because he knew it wasn't his place." Diana said.

"Okayy you can literally be a therapist girll." I say. "Hahaha shut up." She says. We laugh it off and talk about what we're gonna wear and catching up on anything that happened at school.

We finish our ice cream and see it as a sign to go home and finish homework so we can enjoy tomorrow. Diana drops me off home. "Bye Leane!" "Bye Diana, goodnight!!"

I see that there's no car in the driveway. I go inside and the house is silent. I see a note on the coffee table. "Hamzah's watching you Leane, behave! Need to run some errands and pick up Trey from work!" Bye! - Love, mom!

Hamzah? As my babysitter? You've got to be kidding me. I hear footsteps shuffling down the stairs. "Oh hey you're here" he says halfway down rhe stairs. "Hey Hamzah. Im just gonna be in my room."
"Okay well I'll be in Trey's" he says. We are so awkward

I go to my room trying to focus on my homework when I go through a worksheet that makes no sense at all. I have no choice, I need to ask Hamzah.

I knock on the door and say "hey hamzah mind helping me with homework?" I ask. He opens the door and says "yeah sure." While leaning on the door.

We go to my room and I give him a chair to sit next to me. "I just don't know how to solve this it's too hard." I say. "Okay." He says. He reaches for my hand and grabs my pencil. He explains and I just look at him, surprised that he can even solve this.

My hair drops on the paper when he grabs it and moves it to my shoulder. "Oh wow that actually makes sense, thank you." "Yeah, if you need more help just ask me." He says. I nod.

But I stop him "hey Hamzah?" He turns around "yeah?" He asks. "About yesterday, are we cool?" I ask. "Yeah we're good, just don't talk to no bum ass boys." He says. "Shut up" I respond. We smile at each other.

He sits on my bed for a bit and I ask him if he's looking forward to the carnival. I could tell he was excited. "Oh yeah for sure, but we have to stay together or your mom's gonna kill me." I smile at him.

"Why is your bed so much softer than Trey's, what the hell?" He asks. "I'm the favorite" i say with a smirk. "Haha so funny." He says sarcastically.

I end up finishing my homework in silence when I hear snoring. I see Hamzah sleeping. Hes so handsome when he's sleeping.  I stoop down and tap him to wake him up. "Hey you wanna go to treys room or stay here?" "Here , your bed is way comfier, thanks."

I snicker and prepare my bed to sleep on the floor. I think about tomorrow and the anticipation is keeping me awake. I am so excited.

(A/N) thank you so much to those of you who are reading this 🥹🥹. I hope you like this chapter. Be ready for the carnival chapter! Also give some suggestions of what you guys want to happen in other chapters! Love you- xoxo Delilah.