We Belong Together

Chapter 22

-Faressa POV-

"Oh hey Zaid didn't see you there," I said nervously and looked anywhere but his face.

"Of course you didn't when you have other people to focus on." He said playfully 

I stole a glance at his face. His expression seemed relaxed and he wasn't ready to kill me like last time.

"So how's everything?" I asked him tentatively trying to get some clues whether he still hated me or not. 

I would hate that my friend hates me for something that I did. 

"Life's fine with all that studying eating up my head. Like dude why do you need medicine when you have WebMD? It has all the diseases what's the point of memorizing everything?" He groaned

I chuckled slightly at his complaining. It was almost like the old times when he would sit with us and try to teach us those crappy medical terms and we would stare at him as if he were talking in a different language.

"So what's up with you? You weren't coming to University for the past few days or so I've heard."

"Uh yeah, marriage functions and all..." I said awkwardly.

"Really? Who got married?" He asked with interest 

 I tried to think of a way to divert the topic away but my brain decided to betray me and become jelly.

"Me." I laughed awkwardly.

"So he was your husband?" He asked me. 

His face was oddly expressionless and I failed to gauge out any emotions in his eyes.

"Um yeah," I said fiddling with my fingers and glanced up at his face but it was blank.

"Uh listen, I have an exam right now so I gotta go and congrats by the way." He gave me a smiled weakly but it seemed forced. 

He stared at my face for one long minute making me blush in his scrutiny. What is wrong with me? I should be blushing with a man when I already have my man. 

Wait! Did I just say, my man? I am going totally insane. 

"Good luck," I spoke sincerely.

He opened his mouth as if he was going to say something but closed it again and went off in the other direction.

I stared at his retreating back. He was hurt because of me and I hated that. I couldn't believe that I had been so blind to the feelings he harbored for me and those feelings from him didn't make me feel important or special like I knew other girls would feel but rather I felt scared of them. 

Did he really hate me now or would he eventually get over those stupid feelings as time passed?

I hated this love, it made things so much more complicated. Couldn't they stay simple friends?

I loved his talks when he talked about some interesting thing in medicine and it was quite enjoyable to find out those interesting things. I learn things from him that I have never known about. 

I know for a fact that things will never be the same between us and I didn't like that a bit because after all Zaid was a very good friend and I had always enjoyed his company.

I just hope everything gets better soon.

I sighed and headed inside towards our department to get over with my own work but somewhere in the back of my mind, it's me that he probably hated me now.

***

I glanced at my watch for the thousandth time this afternoon. I had been done with my work an hour ago and Asher was supposed to pick me but he still hadn't bothered to show up.