Starting Over (Islamic Fiction, Z.M)

Chapter 4 - (Here we go)

5 AM, it should be illegal to wake up that early in the morning. After a good 10 minutes of yawning and stretching my sleepy body, I finally got out of bed and went to the bathroom to take a quick shower.

“Good morning Maggie.” Waliyha Yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes.

“Morning Wali.” I smiled tightening the towel around my wet hair as I got out of the bathroom and she went in.

Going to my room, I dried my hair then stood in front of my clothes. I didn’t bring many clothes anyways as I didn’t even have a dresser yet but I was still trying to make up my mind on what to wear to my first day at university.

It took me 5 minutes to decide it was better to go with pants and not a skirt as it would be more comfortable to walk in, then I concentrated my attention on what to wear with my basic dark blue jeans. I found one of my new tops, it was a long dark blue top with a pattern of white dots on it; its back was shaped as a half circle that covers my bum perfectly while its front was shorter and just reached my hip bone.

The outfit looked too dark, so I put on my pink scarf and pink flat shoes that had a cute little bow on top.

Hearing my tummy growl, I decided to make some breakfast. The kitchen was empty and clean, meaning Waliyha was still getting ready. So I decided to boil a couple more eggs for her.

After the eggs boiled, I got out two trays, one for me and the other for Waliyha. I put on each one 2 boiled eggs, some jam, toast and a nice hot cup of tea

I wish I could enjoy my breakfast in my beautiful balcony but I had nothing to set on in it. I should really go shopping for some furniture.

“I made you some breakfast.” I told Waliyha when she got out of her room.

She was wearing black jeans, white shirt and a black leather jacket with black biker’s boots. She looked amazing.

“Thank you very much. I’m starving.” She sat and we began to talk about how nervous we were while eating breakfast.

*Ding Dong*

“I’ll get it” I offered as I already finished my breakfast while Waliyha was still eating.

“Hey.” I greeted Aaroosa and let her inside.

“Hey, how are you college girls?” She asked excitingly.

“Nervous as hell.” Waliyha said while putting her dishes in the sink.

“Forget nervous, let’s think excited, happy, can’t wait… and nervous to be honest.” Waliyha and I chuckled at Aaroosa’s face which turned pale when she started getting as nervous as us.

“It’s almost 6:35 A.M and our first lecture is 7 A.M.”I said.

“Okay, let’s get going then” Waliyha took her purse then we locked the apartment and went down.

“Aaroosa, where is your roommate? Isn’t she going to come with us?” I asked while we walked to campus, it was only 10 to 15 minutes away from our place.

“I think she is sleeping, I knocked on her door to wake her up but she didn’t answer.” She stopped waiting for the green light to come on.

“Why didn’t you go inside her room then? She is going to miss her first day of school.” Waliyha asked while crossing the street as the green light was on.

“She locks her room, don’t know why.” Aaroosa shrugged.

“Oh oh, this shop is so cool, can we go in?” I put on my best puppy face hoping they would spare a few minutes to go inside this amazing antiques shop.