A story of an eighteen-year-old girl who had a huge crush on her college senior.
Naiza Rehman is a typical 18-year-old girl who loves to talk and interact with people. She is a very friendly person and talks to almost everyone in her college apart f...
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The euphoria we get whenever our phone beeps, whilst knowing it would be another meme video or post on my group and checking the notifications every two minutes later has now become my routine on weekends. Even after knowing that there won't be any special message apart from my friend's group, I kept on scrolling through Instagram, feeling utterly bored staying at home, knowing that there is no class for two days as it was weekend.
The sky was pitch dark, dogs howling, owls screeching voice, giving the night sky a stimulating inflexion, and indicating that it was the time to slumber. But, I was nowhere near sleep and felt like spending my night scrolling on phone, having nothing to do.
"Naiza, are you up for a movie night?" My sister, Nuhma asked.
Normally, weekends were spent watching endless movies or Korean dramas till dawn and then waking up at noontime. As this has become our routine, our parents had stopped asking us to sleep early and now doesn't even bother about our bad sleeping habits, as it was nothing new for them to witness.
But the most interesting part was, my mom also accompany us to watch Korean dramas. I and my sister made her sit with us and watch a drama and to our surprise she instantly liked it. Then, from that day onwards she too joined watching with us on weekends but she only stays up till two in the morning and that too only if the heroine is Park Shin Hye, as my mom is a great fan of her.
"Yes! Coming," I told, got up from my bed and scrolled the Instagram for the last time to check stories.
I swiped the newsfeed to refresh and a few new stories from the people I follow were uploaded. And one among those people being Shaym.
Yes, Shaym, Mr Cute.
I again send him a request a few days later our last encounter. Seeing him daily from campus and secretly glancing him has now become normal for me which felt uncanny. So, instead of gawking at him from college, I thought it was better to follow him on social media to know his updates. Like previously, he sent back request and this time I wholeheartedly accepted it without deleting.
The story he uploaded on Instagram was a post where there were more than fifteen questions and to pick or ask him any two questions. The questions were numbered like,
1.Do you smoke? 2. What is your favourite food?
I pressed my phone screen to read all twenty questions and an idea popped on my mind. Guess this is a chance to initiate a chat.
Now the difficult thing for me was to select the best two questions. But, the little heart in me was overjoyed so without pondering and debating within myself much, I replied to his story, "1,11"
I already knew the answer to question numbered as one but still, I asked it just to know the answer from him. Question 11 was, What are you thinking right now?
