This story is about a girl, Sakina Hashimi, who is in middle school and is Muslim. She wears a hijab and she protects it with her life, it is her heart. First day of Middle School is hard, but with people judging her makes it even harder. Do you th...
I am just always shaken ever since I have gotten to this school. It was like the whole school now is going against me. I am a little ant and the school is a big shoe, the shoe is stepping on me and hurting me very badly. Now we have me being in trouble because I was bullied and now Leo is in trouble for speaking up!? It is not right if you get me. What is the next step? The whole world or my whole family going against me?! I have no idea. Maybe this is all a bad dream and I need to wake up from it, but no, this is the real world, a real problem.
I was still at the office and I was standing next to Leo. She looked so sad than her typical happy Leo. I felt like I was still guilty of this, but I wasn't! I was the one who is drowning in this.
"Leo?" I asked quietly while putting my hand on her shoulder. She loved basketball. In fact. she was the lead in the girls' basketball team.
"Yeah?" She asked while looking in my eyes. I felt my eyes burn.
"What happened, tell me EVERYTHING," I said wanting to know every page on what happened a few minutes ago.
"Well, I don't want to talk about it. I gotta go to class," She said while heading out the door. I was confused because she had to go to the basketball game today and specifically right now.
"Leo! But don't you have to go to the basketball game right now?" I asked with confusion. We both had solemn faces on and Leo's face turned away.
"I got k-kicked o-out of t-the t-team," she said while her eyes were starting to fill with tears. I stood in shock.
"I don't need you to calm me down. I just need to be alone from you right now," Those were her final words to me and I know they didn't mean great things.
A lot of thoughts burst in my mind again. Did she think I did this on purpose to get everything back from what I had been through? Is she going to talk to me or is she going to give me the silent treatment forever? I had NO single idea of what just happened between us, but I did know she wanted to be alone, so I will leave her alone FOREVER. I walked back to class with just a thought of Leo hating me. I feel like now everybody is betraying me one by one. Leo just did this to me. Then it was the administrators and then it was my mom screaming at me. What is going on? I am going to fail with all of this drama and problems. I need to put my head in the game. only Allah knows that I am telling the truth and no one else believes me so that is their problem. I just want to know why people are racist against fellow Muslims who haven't done one single thing. In fact, it is the opposite. I will always know the true beliefs and that I will never talk to Leo again. Those words meant so much to my heart. My heart shattered of hate and I just wanted to be invisible. I walked in class and to my desk when I just wanted to cry forever and ever. It was like hate was my new best friend. Forever.
Salaam Readers! I am soooooooo sorry for the short chapters, but remember there will be a lot of them! So I hope you are enjoying the book. I was listening to some Quran recitations while writing this part. The Quran is such a great way to calm yourself down while only listening to words of Allah. Now you all probably know the drill, but if not, Make sure to follow my profile vote, comment, and SHARE!!!! Thank you all so much. God bless you! Masalaama!
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