Can't Have You

Chapter 5

Alea solemnly walks into the white mansion with dried tears on her face. Osman meets her at the door"Alea!? What's wrong my princess?" Where have you been?" Alea couldn't take it anymore and began to cry again. Her cheeks began to flush and her eyes became red. "Alea?" Osman tightly wraps his strong arms around her. Tears kept falling and gushing out. Her nose was runny and her snot was getting all over Osman's shirt. "Alea tell me what's wrong!" She couldn't speak. It was like she had a stone in her throat. Kasim gradually walks towards the house. He hears Alea crying. 'Shit.' Kasim anxiously scratches his silky hair. He opens the mansion door with a guilty face. Osman instantly looks towards Kasim with suspicion. "Alea go to your room." She obeys and without looking at Kasim, she runs up the stairs. Kasim tries to get passed Osman but he pulls him back by his hair. "Where have you been? Don't you know Alea has an important dinner?" Kasim scoffs. "I'm not her father, I don't need to be here." Osman, in disbelief, doesn't know what to say. Kasim has never spoken to him like this before. "Leaving New York doesn't mean you get to fool around in Morroco Kasim. You know very well what we are here for and I don't have time to babysit you." Osman argues. "You never have time for me." Kasim says. "You never asked me what I thought about this as her brother. I'm apart of this family too you know! It's like you forgot I'm here baba."  " You won't speak to me this way Kasim. I want you to be honest when I ask you this, why is Alea crying?" "How am I supposed to know if I was busy 'fooling around' all day?" "Kasim! She went looking for you and came crying, what did you do?" "Nothing! It's good to see you care so much about Alea over me baba." Kasim says sarcastically. Filled with a mix of impatience and anger Osman slaps Kasim. "Baba.." Kasim's eyes start to water. "Kasim.. I'm sorry." Before Osman could say anymore, Kasim runs up the stairs. "Kasim!" Osman gives out a defeated sigh. Before reaching his room, Kasim sees Alea standing, waiting for him. "Kasim." Alea raises her head. Her eyes are puffy. Kasim quickly wipes his tears. "Move." Alea doesn't listen. "Alea I'm tired please." She moves. Kasim opens his door but pauses. He opens his mouth but doesn't say anything and gently closes the door. He wipes his hands down his face and slides down the door and sits. 'I shouldn't have said that to dad'. He prepares himself for dinner.

Alea redos her hair and makeup. 'I should apologize to Kasim.' Looking into her vanity mirror her eyes are still puffy but not too noticeable. She slicks mascara onto her long eyelashes and swipes on a little bit of lipgloss. Her tears made her eyes sparkle. She looks like what one would think of romance. She slides her fingers through her curly brown hair and gets up from her vanity. Leaving her room she bumps into Kasim. "Sorry." They both say at the same time. Kasim ushers her infront of him. 'She looks decent.' Kasim thought. 'He looks nice.' Alea thought. Even in conflict they're still in sync. Alea and Kasim meet everyone at the dining room. "Finally! What took you guys so long?" Farah says. Alea awkwardly smiles. Kasim sits down at the table. Alea follow behind him but Laila reserved a seat for her. "Sit here Alea!" Laila excitingly says. Everyone sits but there's still one more person absent. "Adil should be here anytime soon haha.." Amir says awkwardly. After a few minutes of waiting for Adil he comes in out of breath and flustered. "Assalam alaykum! Sorry I'm late!" He quickly sits down beside Alea. Kasim and Alea's jaws drop. 'Who is this guy? What happend to the fat loser kid?' Is all they could think about. Everyone starts to eat. The house was filled with delightful chattering. While they stuff their faces with delicious food. Then suddenly, while trying to serve more food, a fork drops to the floor. "Oh! I'm so sorry." Alea says. She goes to pick it up but another hand greets her. Softly grazing it. Alea quickly pulls her hand away. Adil raises his head "Here." Adil says and winks. Alea paused and for a moment, time stopped. Pounding and racing her heart couldn't stop. "Thank you!" She blurts. "Lemme take that it's dirty." Laila offers. Alea agrees with a smile.

"Who wants desert?" Farah asks. Everyone gets up to go to the living room but Kasim parts and leaves to go to sleep. "I'm tired, I'm going to sleep." Before Alea could convince him to stay he already leaves. Defeated, Alea sneaks out to the terrace. She sits on the bench to admires the warmly lit city. "Beautiful right?" Adil asks while sitting down next to her. Alea snappingly turns and swats her hand. "Woah!" Adil exclaims while catching it. "You scared me!" Alea spouts. Alea looks deeply this time silently admiring his long eyelashes, messy hair, and his big nose. 'Is this the same Adil I know?' "Alea?" He cuts off her thoughts. She quickly looks away. He looks back at the city. "It's been a long time since I seen you Alea." She doesn't respond. "You have became even more beautiful." While still holding her hand, he raises her hand and kisses it. "Um thank you!" She takes her hand back. Her cheeks become red. "You're red Alea! Are you sick?" Adil mockingly asks while checking her temperature with his hand. She slaps it away. "I'm fine! You know you're really touchy." Alea says. He chuckles. "What are you nervous or something? Don't act like you don't know me Alea." She rolls her eyes "Whatever." She says and turns to face the city again. He turns her face to look at him. "I'm not a loser boy anymore Alea." He confesses and stands up. "You can't bully me anymore." He pets her head then messes up her hair. "Bonne nuit Alea." She angrily fixes her hair again.
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A/n
FINALLY ADIL IS HEREE
I rlly want kasim and alea to makeup #bestsiblingduo
I wonder when that market boy gnna comeback lol