HAYYAH...

Four

The school's siren blasted us out of the peaceful moment we had.
"Ghad! What now?!" Ru groaned as she raised her head, my lips took a downturn.

What an awfully annoying day.

I stand to my feet and help her up, she grabbed my wrists and intertwine our fingers, her smile in it's full glory.

"I wonder what this is all about now" I mumble as Ru walks up beside me.

She shrugs and says

"we'll figure it out, pretty soon"

Soooooooooo, the school was organizing an interesting week-long camp for sophomores, AND, we were to attend, whether or not we liked it.

Wow! there's actally something like that, No?

"It's stupid, I planned to study hard next week" Ru mumbles, her jaw moving slowly on my shoulder as she munches on the Pringles we got from the cafeteria, we sat by the bleachers, watching the soccer team play, the atmosphere was lively and most girls my age were actually excited about camping.

I wonder what was so exciting tho.
I hated school camps.
But not to worry, Ruru is here with me.

We'll make the best of it, I guess.

"Hey gurls" I look up to see Khalid walking over to us and I smirk as Ru grabs my sweatshirt with her fingers.

His eyes are trained on Ru's and he quickly averts his gaze, a rosy hue possessing his cheeks...

Oh, Love😂

He's holding three cans of Zizou fruit drink and he hands over two to me, I give one out to Ru and I'm satisfied that he got me the apple flavored, Ru got Mango.

Yuck!

What I never expected was that he'd sit beside me, he offers to open my can but I elbow him in the ribs and roll my eyes.

So much for being a gentle man.

"So, you're not in any clubs Hayyah?" He asks after clearing his throat, Ru is very very silent.

This is so interesting.

"Clubs... No.
I'm not interested" I shrug.

"Why not? Try chess. Or..."
"Nevermind, I'm good" I cut him.

"So you just sit your as..."
"No swear words" I cut in and he rolls his eyes.

"But I'll look into the brochures, perhaps fencing..." I say as I take a sip of my apple drink. I stretch my palm forward as Ru places hers into it, I open it and give it back to her and smile as she takes her first sip.

Her eyes widened by the taste and my eyes narrow with satisfaction.
Pretty gyal.

"Fencing, you say?" Khalid bursts out laughing and I rolled my eyes, for the upteenth time today.

"What's it with fencing, huh? Dear unc?" I question.
"Nothing, I'm just wondering how many casualties we'll incure after you joined the club" he said.

I smirked, a come back stewing hot in my brain.

But I drop it and only mutter.
"Assho..."

"No swear words" it was his turn to correct me.
And I rolled my eyes again.

What nonsense.

"Heard you got into the maths club" Khalid speaks up and I glanced at Ru who's cheeks start heating up.

Okayyyyy.

"Urm.. yh, I actually. Yes. I...
I did join the maths c-club" she stuttered.

"She's having the rarest case of tongue paralysis" I say and laugh as she elbows me hard in my ribs, I burst into laughter and stands to my feet, Zizou in hand.

"I dunno, I'm gonna take a look around" I say and left.

Did I do the wrong thing?
Hell, I don't even know.

But I know I had to get out of there immediately because I suddenly started feeling hot.

It was like fire was engulfing me.
And I knew what that meant.

Only a matter of moments before I black out, only to wake up days after to disbelieve if all the messes were done by me.

There was always a disaster, or a terrifying, nightmarish scene after it.

Mom thought It had all worked out.
She thought wrong.
I had to tell her as soon as I got home.

I'm going all the way back to before, and it's not doing me any good.

I sank to my knees behind the bleachers and finish the drink in several gulps, throwing the can far away from me as suddenly seemed irritable.

I scratched at my throat and coughed, a dry, painful cough, Ya Allah, it hurts so much!

I take deep slow breaths and pull my knees closer to my chest, my head in between my legs as I was sure my eyes had started swirling in their whites.

Oh God, No!!!

Not here, so many innocent lives were here, I couldn't risk it, I wouldn't be able to bear the guilt... the weight of so many lives on my shoulders...

So I did what I had to. I stood up and sprinted down the earth...

Ya Allah!
Save me from myself.

DARQNYXXE TOOTS:
So, I got suggestions guys, said I should maybe add more POVs to the story to give it  more general and insightful views from more characters.

And so from the next chapter, more POVs would be introduced.
Don't forget to hit that star and comment.

Honestly, I'd appreciate if you left just a string of ellipses.

It's still a comment ríi?

It's my first time writing an Islamic Sci-Fi story so y'all tell me what it is you think about it.

Salaam🤍