The Unexpected

1. Visitors

"NAWAL!!" What now, I was just having a nice nap. "Yes, yemma what's wrong?" I ask my mother. "Yallah ka seni sewjedh ighfenem adhasen shan iwdan nhara*." Of course, there's always someone coming over, ugh.

"Don't tell me it's Adil's mother-in-law again, I'm really not in the mood for her rambling." I mean seriously that woman just can't shut up, she just keeps on rambling about everything and anything. And that's not all, she always asks me if I want to marry her son who's freaking 10 years older than me, like bitch please, let me finish studying and let him be five years older at max, not freaking 10!

"Don't worry it's not Latifa, there is this guy coming over with his parents to ask for your hand in mar-" "NOT AGAIN, don't tell me it's one of those idiots from here again." You're probably thinking what the hell does she mean by that so I'll explain, I'm currently on a 'VACATION' in morocco (NOTE THE SARCASM) and there have been so many guys coming over asking for my hand in marriage and of course you'd think why is that a bad thing, well let me tell you, these guys just want to marry me so they can get a European passport and a job in Europe they make me so sick.

"Do you think I would tell you not to worry if it was someone from here?" she asks, "Huh then who is it?" Now I'm getting curious who would ask for my hand in marriage if there not from here. "Does baba know him?" "No, this guy told your dad that he heard some people in the mosque talking about you being a girl from The Netherlands who lives an Amsterdam and everything," I swear those people just don't understand I don't want to marry anyone from here, they should really stop talking about me. "And he got interested because he's from The Netherlands and lives there too, he thought he might know you, so he asked those peoplr about you and apparently he does," If I wasn't curious seconds ago I sure am now, where does this guy know me from? "He says he was in your class in last grade of high school," Last grade of high school, who the hell is this guy. "He also said that he was already interested in you back then," YOU SAY WHUUUT?? "but he didn't do relationships before marriage and you were both too young to get married, so he just tried to forget about it."

"WHO IS THIS GUY?" "I don't know you should be telling me." "What's his name?" "Foua-" "NO WAY, Fouad ben Razzaq?" "A temshount* can you stop interrupting me every second." "Sorry yemma." "Rogho inayi*, who's this Fouad guy?" "To be honest yemma, I'm surprised baba even allowed him to come, because from what I remember he was the school's so-called 'bad boy' all teachers hated him because he always interrupted them in class, and seriously he was in the mosque?? That's what I'm mostly surprised of, I mean back then he couldn't even name the first letter of the Arabic alphabet and believe me he may not have had any girlfriend back then, but that definitely wasn't because he didn't want any before marriage."

"Well everything I heard about him is the complete opposite, your dad says he's a guy you can ALWAYS find in the mosque and he's almost done learning all 60 hizb of the Holy Quran."

Wow this is unbelievable, really that's nothing like Fouad, just one thing I can believe is that he didn't have any relationships, but like I told my mum that's not because of that reason, and of course you'd think what the hell which school's bad boy didn't get a girlfriend, but believe me he really didn't, he could have a normal conversation with a girl but nothing too much ya know, but seriously he didn't even pray the 5 prayers of the day and now you can find him in the mosque every day.

"I still don't believe it yemma" "Well we'll just have to see for ourselves then, they'll be over at 6 o'clock so come and help me in the kitchen after that I'll give you a nice dress I bought for you yesterday so you can get ready." "Seriously yemma you bought me a dress here in Morocco the only nice dresses you can get here are takshitas and kaftans and I'm not wearing any of that, I really don't want to get overdres- WAIT A SECOND how long did you know about this?" "Your dad told me about it the day before" O MY GOD my parents can be so annoying sometimes. "And you didn't bother telling me about it till NOW??" "O come on, wa t3iyaq*" "Kifesh* wa t3iyaq, you should've told me the second you finished talking with baba, but no you waited till the last second to tell me!" "Forget about it Nawal, it's not like I ruined your life or something." Okay I really don't know how to reply to her seriously how do you reply to that, she just knows how to shut me up without even being right. "Whatever, I'm going to take a shower I'll be over to help in no time."