Tangled In A Love Triangle

Chapter six

Picture of Laila at the side.

"And among His signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that you may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts)..." (Qur'an 30:21).

Chapter six

At home, Salim went straight to his room and I went to the kitchen to get a sorrel drink. My scarf feel from my head and I left it there not bothering to cover up because only Salim and I were at home. I searched the fridge for my drink and a grin appeared on my face when I saw it. I served myself and took a slice of pizza to eat in my room. I was about to leave the kitchen when I came face to face with Ayyub. Ya Allah! I totally forgot that he was around. I dropped the drink and pizza on the table and quickly covered my hair.
"Salam alaiki," he greeted with a smirk. "Um Wa'alaika Salam," I replied awkwardly. Im not sure why chuckled but I'm guessing it has to do with my now red face. I took my food and left as fast as I could while balancing the food I was holding to avoid any more awkward moments.
"Woo slow down why are you in such a hurry?" Salim who had changed to his normal t shirt and sweatpants asked. "Nothing just can't wait to eat." I half shouted not bothering to stop. Once I was in the safety of my room I made a sigh of relief, time to eat.
After eating, I went to the toilet performed wudu and turned on the hot water tap before praying.
I was drying my hair with a towel when I heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" I asked as I sat down in front of the mirror.
"It's Laila," came the reply "come in the door is open." Once she was in we hugged like we haven't seen each other just some few hours ago. Laila being a fashionista made me to sit still while dried, stretched then style my hair and chatted all the time. By the time she was done I'm sure even my brain felt a relieve with the way she was stretching the hair.
"All done" she patted my head lightly and since from the moment she started I was finally given an opportunity to look at myself in the mirror and even I have to say it was worth it coz my hair looked amazing.
"Wow we sat for..." I paused to look at the time two hours. I was cut short by Laila who asked,
"what time is it?" "Three thirty," I replied "okay I gotta go bye" she was by the door now.
"Slow down why are you in such a hurry you live like ten minutes away." She paused and took a deep breath " you see there's this guy I met I mean we were neighbors before we moved and after that we lost contact until he followed me on Twitter I followed back and we started chatting from there we became friends again and just last week he told me he liked me a lot and wanted me to help him to complete half his faith I waved him off not taking him seriously until yesterday that he sent me a text saying he was coming to my house today to formally ask for my hand in marriage." She was blushing by the time she was done and I being the drama queen let out a loud scream. "Farha! Do you want the neighbors to start thinking that you are being murdered" Salim shouted from his room which was next to mine. "Sorry." I shouted back. "Back to you and he said he would be coming around?" I raised an eyebrow waiting for her to reply. " around five and it's already three thirty and I'm yet to dress up have to prepare something for them," she started talking fast. "Calm down Laila we are going there now and you are going to be ready on time." I said as I got my jacket and scarf. "Thank you so much I owe you big time" u waved her off and informed Salim where I was going in case I was needed before we went to her house.
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It was already five thirty when we heard the bell ring. "Oh my Allah! Farha they're here." she looked nervous, really nervous "is my dress okay, does the food look nice wait taste it before we take it to them subhan Allah Farha help me out." Not to sound mean but I wish I could get this on tape so that when she starts the whole I'm the most confident one in the group' I can use it against but me being the miss goody goody I decided to help her to calm down. She was setting the tray and it looks like the tenth time that she is changing the arrangement.
"Laila calm down if you keep up like this that's when you'll spoil the show for yourself now take a deep breath and bring back the confident Laila that we know not this." She paused and took deep breaths. "Take you Farha it's a good thing you decided to follow me to help I can not show you how grateful I am." "Yeah yeah enough with the whole grateful speech your husband to be is waiting and I'm sure he's eager to see you" I gave her the tray and shooed her to the door while I took the tea and drinks. There was her dad mom and a guy in the sitting room so in taking that the guy is the one that proposed. I saw that he was staring at something with the whole lovey dovey eyes I looked back and saw Laila with the same eyes staring back. Those two are definitely in love and we are soon going for a wedding, In Sha Allah.