Good reflection✔️

€hapter 3

"Yaba (a way of saying daughter) , Reema! Come here." My dad calls me from down stairs while i was in my room, scrolling through Instagram.

"Yala! (Coming)." I threw my phone on my bed and skipped down stairs and started looking for where my dad was calling me from.

I spotted him in the garage surrounded with boxes. He was rubbing his forehead with his sleeves, wiping his sweat away. He spotted me standing there and then sighted frustratingly.

"Come habibti (sweetie) help me with carrying these boxes to my truck. Some of them are very heavy." He nods towards a what seems like a heavy box. I walked towards him and we both were about to lift up a box when he stood up straightening his back.

"Seriously? Reema?" He crossed his arms above his chest and raised a brow.

"Shu fie? (what's wrong?)" I asked cocking my head to side, while fear washed all over my body.

"How many times did I tell you to not put nail polish?" He asked, nodding towards my hand. My eyes snapped towards my hand and I was speechless.

I forgot I had nail polish on! He hates it when I put nail polish on or makeup. But sometimes like seriously I feel like standing out, so I put a bit of eyeliner or something and he lets me remove it.

I squeezed my lips in a straight line, while an awkward silence surrounded us. He rolled his eyes and grabbed the box motioning for me to help.

"Just remove it when u got to your room." Is all he said after I lifted the box up with him and took it to his truck.

We both finally finished placing all the boxes in the trunk. My dad closed it and we both went Inside to drink some water.

"Where's your mom?" My dad asks after gulping his glass of water.

"She went to-"

"Publix?" He asked raising a brow and I nod. "Ugh! I'm sure she has a coupon or something she had to use." He shook his head and placed his empty glass in the sink.

"Umm, baba?" I asked nervously.

"Hmm?" He said rubbing his beard.

"You know Alisa my friend, right? Well she wants me to go over. So, can I?" I ask while begging for god to let him agree.

"No." He shook his head and turned around to go to the living room.

"But baba-"

"Yaba( a way of saying my daughter) please, you know that I don't like you going to any of your friends house, just please don't argue." He sat on his sofa and switched through the channels until he stopped at Al- jazeera (Arab news channel).

Alisa has been begging me for weeks to convince my dad to let me go over to her house. But he obviously wouldn't agree. He lets her come over, he just doesn't let me go over and it's pissing me off.

At that moment, the sound of the door that leads to the garage opened and my mom walked in with a bunch of bags in her hand.

"Reema?! Thank god, come help me with these bags, they're so heavy." What's the problem with every one today? Am I like Abo ja'far?!

By the way Abo ja'far is my dads friend and he helps us with every single thing. From fixing the sinks, toilets, lifting, carrying, moving and lots of other complicated stuff.

So I walked towards my mom huffing frustratingly and took some of the bags from her hand.

I helped her place all the products back in their specific places and helped clean the kitchen. I was about to run up the stairs when my dad said:

"Reema! Don't forget to remove your nail polish!" He shouted. Ugh! Seriously?! He still remembered?..
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"He said no." I rolled my eyes while drinking my Gatorade.

"Ugh! Come on!" She argued slamming the bench that we were sitting on. We didn't have anything to do this period so we decided to skip and have a little fun.

"Well, that's my dad." I shrugged.

At that moment, I saw them walking towards us. Each one of them wearing an obnoxious smirk on their faces. I sighted frustratingly bowing my head, so they won't talk to me.

"Hey, we're really sick of this school, and we were planning on tarring it down. So we were thinking about bombing it down and we're sure you have experience with that. Care to help?" He smirked, while the others chuckled. I just realized that the new guy wasn't with them. I don't know but I wished he was. What the he'll are u thinking?!!

"Why won't u guys leave me the hell alone?!" I stood up crossing my arms above my chest, stopping a couple of inches away from Noah.

"What if we don't want to?" He smiled wickedly taking a couple steps towards me. He grabbed my waist and pinned me to his body.

"Don't touch me," I snapped while punching his chest so he would let go of me, but every time I punched his grip turned tighter on me, pinning me harder towards his chest.

"Leave her alone!" Alisa stood up and was trying her best to separate us apart. Noah swung  his arm towards Alisa which made her fall on the floor.

"Leave me alone!" I shouted louder.

"What the fuck man leave her alone!" That's when I saw him, the new guy next to us. He pushed Noah forcibly, which made him let go of me.

"Who the fuck do you think you are man? Huh?" Noah took a couple of steps towards him cocking his head to the side.

"Don't touch her, that's all I'm saying." He answered calmly.

"Why u want her as your fuck body? You don't want me to touch her?"  Noah said raising a brow.

"Shut up." He snapped through gritted teeth.

Noah looked b/w me and him back and fourth, then rubbed his temples frustratingly. "We'll discuss this later." He said and nodded for his other friends to leave. When they all disappeared, the new guy turned around to face me and smiled.

"Are you okay?" He asked. I smiled and nodded. "Did he touch u in any wrong way?" He asked again curiously.

I was just staring at him. I don't know why he has this effect on me. I can't answer a simple question he asks.

"Umm-Yes-umm-i- mean- ye- no?" I muttered awkwardly which made him laugh. "Walek ya tarma! Mu arfa itjawbi a'la sual baseet?! Ghabeya! (You dumb head! You don't know how to answer a simple question! Your so stupid!)" I muttered to my self. I looked up to see him chucking even harder. Well good thing he doesn't under stand what I'm saying or I would've felt even more embarrassed.

"Okay, let me leave you be. I'll talk to u later." He smiled turning around. Before he left completely he turned around again and smiled again.

"And by the way, your not stupid. Don't say that." Is all he said after he turned around and left me standing there awkwardly.

Huh???????????????