Moon and Stars

Chapter 4

Andalus's POV

"My name is Ellie, I'm going to replace Dr.Omar for two or three months due to some circumstances that had happened to him, till then I hope you guys will enjoy this course with me."

Lisa's face was expressionless. Her mouth was wide open when she heard what I heard and Dr.Ellie was strangely gawking at her.

"Is everything alright? Ms...?" She asked and I nudged her.

"Can I take her out for a moment?" I asked studying her face apprehensively.

"Yes but don't be late."

"What's the matter with you?" I asked while we were sitting on two chairs in the hall near our classroom.

"I...did...I mean...Dr.Omar" she said out of breath.

I could barely hear her. Is she even talking? Ya Allah what is the matter with her? I went inside the classroom and got a bottle of water from my bag and when I was going outside I had to fake something to Dr.Ellie telling her that Lisa is not feeling well because she got a mesaage telling her that a bad circumestance had happened to her family - which In Sha Allah nothing will happen - and she gave me the total freedom to stay with her.

When she was about to speak a random student came to us asking if everything was okay and I had to confirm to her that she is fine, except that she is sick because of her period. Ya Allah how many lies I've been telling people today?

"Lisa speak to me! What is it?" I said begging.

"It's Dr.Omar." she said breathing deeply.

"He'll be here after 3 months or so. Well is that a problem?" I asked, smiling.

"Well that's the problem." She looked at me with her grey eyes, they looked like a knife...about to kill me.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I said rolling my brown eyes.

" Regardless of Dr.Omar himself, his classes were very enjoyable. I...I just got used to them." she said turning her gaze to the ground.

Agh this girl must be crazy about him or something. Obviously she got used to him not his classes.

"Dr.Omar!" I said with a sigh. "Are you here to study or to think about him?"

"Both." she said giggling.

"Let's go back to the class and we'll talk about this later."

It was 14:50 when I arrived home and it was 16:30 when Lisa arrived at my home. She had to tell her parents that she'll spend three nights at my house because we are having a lot of projects to work with other than the MSA project that we'll handle for this year.

"What do you think about MSA's project? " I asked while I cut the tomatoes, puting them in the pan.

"Hum. What about love? In Islam?" she said giggling while measuring the rice.

"That's so cheasy. I mean there are very important topics other than love. Wait, what kind of love first?".

"You know, the halal one." she said rolling her eyes.

"Well, I don't know. I've never experienced this before. But I'll think about it." I said with a sigh.

Lisa sat on the chair, in the kitchen and started talking about Dr.Omar and how she can't take his absence anymore.

"I mean seriously? Are you his wife or what?"

"I don't know. But I swear it's very weird. I think about him all the time. And when I go to the university I feel so happy because he's my teacher. He's like a motivator, a good one." she said pointing at her forhead.