Muslim Girls in Love(incomplete, read @livelovereadandbooks one instead)

Chapter 3- Double Trouble

Author's note

Thank you so much for making it this far into the book! I hope you like it so far! Double trouble is the longest chapter ive written so far, so enjoy! What do you think "double trouble" means in this chapter? Leave a comment and let me know! Asalamualaikum :)

Amira's POV

Dinner went by like a blur. The food was delicious and out of respect  Maysara's dad and brother moved to a different room to eat. We sat around the table with Mona and Maysara at both heads, generally where the hostesses sat. They talked and laughed but all i could think about is what happened a few minutes earlier. I wonder why her brother did that.. He was generally a modest guy.. Winking at a girl was so...weird... And so... Haraam...

"Amira are you ok?" Tesneem asks

"I'm feeling a little sick, actually. Excuse me for a moment" Amira replies

I got up and ran to the bathroom. I was turning around the corner and tripped over something and landed on all fours.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! Are you ok?" I looked up to are where the voice was coming from. Uh oh.. It was Yessin.

"I'm fine, thanks!" I quickly said as I deftly got up, brushed myself off and rab away into the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked tired, pale and sick. My hands and knees where bleeding. I quickly splashed my face with water and cleaned and dried my wounds. "Ok Amira" I told myself staring at mg reflection "toughen up. Yessin did nothing. All he did was wink. Just a measly wink. That almost means nothing at all. Now get back in there and finish eating like nothing happened" I walked back to the dining room and sat back down. "What did I miss?" I asked.

"Amany and Tesneem had a contest to see who could eat more pasta!" Maysara said. "Oh who won?" I asked

"We aren't sure yet! We waited for you to start!" Maysara says

"one..two..three.. GO! " Tesneem and Amany started grabbing pasta and shoving it in their mouths, chewing and swallowing, chewing and swallowing, chewing and swallowing. I counted for Amany and Maysara counted for Tesneem. They ate and ate and after approximately 5 minutes of non-stop shoving, the contests was over. Amany, who barely made a dent in her plate, ate around 20 peices of pasta. Tesneem nearly finished her plate, with about 20 pieces of pasta left. We played other games and ate some brownies, and finally, we went upstairs.

Simultaneously, we closed the door to Maysara's room while pulling off our hijabs, rolling up our sleeves and we each latest down or sleeping bags and sat down in a circle. I started hyperventilating, thinking about Yessin, what he had done earlier. So many thoughts started racing in my mind. What if Yessin likes me? Uh oh.. What about Ameen? I still like him, and he likes me. What am I supposed to do? My heart started racing faster and faster and I couldn't think straigh-

"Amany, are you ok? " Maysara says.

"yeah, I'm.. I'm ok.."

"you sure?"

I wanted to tell them so badly what had happened. I wanted to talk and talk and never stop. I wanted to tell them everything so badly. But I couldn't. I was afraid of what they would think. But I promised myself that if the topic were to come up again, I would tell them everything.  I promised that -
Poof

I bursted out laughing. Tesneem had thrown a pillow at my face! "take this!" I yelled as  I threw one back at her' Amany, Maysara, Tesneem and I bursted out laughing and soon enough we were all throwing pillows at each other, down all over the floor, pillows being thrown in every which way, 4 laughing girls and 4 hurting stomachs.

Maysara's POV

my mom gently tapped on the door and told us we were being too loud and to keep it down a but. We were all exhausted, and after plenty of talking and plenty of eating, we finally went to bed, right after praying, of course. We had the sleeping bags arranged like a firework in the middle of my bedroom floor, where all of our heads were in the middle and our feet we're pointing away. Around 2 o'clock in the morning, I woke up feeling a little thirsty, so I went downstairs to get some water. When I was walking down, I bumped into someone. "AAAHHHH" we both screamed before falling and clapping our hands onto our mouths as not to awaken anyone. I looked to see that it was Amira that I had bumped into, who was just in the bathroom.

"I'm so sorry Amira, I didn't mean to bump into you!"

"no harm done, it's ok!"

I looked down and noticed that her knees we're bleeding.

"Oh My, Amira, your knees are bleeding! Quick, come downstairs!"

Amira ran downstairs with me and I quickly let her sit on the counter while I pulled out the first aid Kit. I cleaned her wound and have her a new bandaid. "What happened to your knees?" I asked her

She took a deep breath and replied " I didn't want to tell you, but I promised myself I would. Last night, Yessin winked at me. I couldn't stop thinking about it! So when I excused myself to go to the bathroom, I tripped over him and started bleeding. He helped me up and fetched me a bandaid, like you're doing now. But it all felt so weird to me. I didn't like it, honestly." She took a really deep breath and continued "I'm sorry, Macy, I didn't know what to do, I was too afraid to tell you"

I stood in shock, taking in what I just heard. My brother? Yessin? Winking at Amira? Why didn't she tell me? I sighed. "It's alright, Meera, no harm done. Just please tell me of he continues to annoy you"