Story Of My Life

CHAPTER 1

When I was 7, we had migrated from Saudi to Kuwait because of my dad's better job opportunity. For now, it was only the four of us – Dad, Mom, me and my brother (Aday; which is Malaysian for younger brother) – we were such a happy family; yes, sibling rivalry was there of course but we learnt to always stick together.

The building we moved into had such nice neighbors, I still remembered when we moved in immediately my dad told us that we were going to see his friend who was our neighbor as well, they had two kids – boys – Brandon and Smith. They were such nice kids and friends until one day things started going in a different way.

It all started when I was 9, being the only girl in the building, my brother 2 years younger than me didn't understand anything. I never understood what was happening till I became 13 atleast. I didn't even hit puberty yet; Brandon started touching me, I never understood it because I was too small to, but he was touching even though it was over my clothes; he started touching my chest, my butt. He used to take me to the stairs, make me sit down and come over me touching me where a girl at the age of 9 shouldn't and he was only 14 at that time might I add. He used to finger me over my tights and I used to laugh being the stupid little girl I was thinking it was some sort of weird game that only me and he played. He was a womanizer and I was the naïve little girl in his grasp not realizing what was happening to me at the moment but would happen to me in the future.

After a few months, my parents announce that my mom is pregnant, it was all shouts and screams of joys from family and friends; I was going to have a little brother which disappointed me a bit since I so wanted a sister but I got over it because me and my brother made a bet saying that if it was a girl then I must do the diapers and if it was a boy then he must do it even though at the end neither of us did it. We were so happy as a family anticipating and awaiting for the latest member of the family to just finally come out.

Still, the things with Brandon were continuing, nothing more but nothing less either. Then his younger brother Smith who was my brother (Aday's) best friend had a crush on me which was very much noticeable that Smith had confessed it himself to me saying that he likes me. And what did I do which I regret till date is say that I liked that poor guy back, who was a year younger than me, when honestly I didn't. nothing really happened in that relationship though, just a few hugs here and there which felt more brotherly than it should have. And then after 9 days this said "relationship" ended which was quite funny to me since I never really cared. A few years past with Brandon rarely touching me and a new guy Ray shifting into the building.

At that moment I was 11 and the latest hype in school was having a boyfriend and even though Ray wasn't from my school to begin with, I still wanted to know why was there such a hype for having a boyfriend. And this where the adventurous side of me started talking and acting upon this thought that I went up and told Ray that I liked him when obviously I didn't, and I don't really know how it wasn't obvious to him. So at the moment we were "dating", now Brandon and his family were migrating to another country in a month's time which truly made me sad because even though I still never realized what really he used to do to me, he was a great friend with an amazing family. I still remember like it happened yesterday, Brandon standing with a girl I've never seen before, the only thing I knew was that she was from his school, he was talking while she was crying, I figured since he was leaving but then he kissed her and me being 11 had never seen anyone kiss other than in movies. I just walked away knowing it was a private moment somehow. And then the very next day, the day before he left, he came to play with us – all the kids in the building – for the last time. Ray had made this game where the players should run anywhere in the building while the catcher had to count till 100 and then go in search of the players, it was named "Up & Down" which gave perfect justice to what we did as players because we literally ran up and down the stairs. So now, Brandon and me somehow found each other on the stairs, him being the catcher and instead of shouting his victory he tried to touch me mumbling, "Just the person I wanted to find!" with this smug smile on his face, and knowing what he was going to do somehow I pulled away which instead made him tickle me, harmless fun. I remember after that, that I was lying my head on his lap and he was laying with my hair saying that he would miss me and that he should just kill me while trying to drop my lying form off his lap, I do remember he was holding onto me tight though so it wasn't such a sadistic move after all. He again repeated that he would miss me a lot and I replied, "Me too.", he started leaning forward now and recognizing what was going to happen from the previous night, I got up and left without a single thought. And then the next day, they left with a final bye.

So now it was me and Ray in this supposed relationship that we were in, and even though he could do all such grand gestures I truly didn't like him so I ended things with him feeling bad, too bad. But, for some reason I wanted to start fresh.

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