BFFs: troubles within A Year

11. Rejection And Stalker

Halima's POV

The sleep over/girls night was superb!! We watched movies, pulled pranks on Ya Sa'eed, invaded Teemah's fridge which earned us two hours of warning speech from Ammi.

We even had a food fight when Ammi, Amal and Afnan went out. We had to bribe Ya Sa'eed by taking him shopping with us so that he wouldn't tell Ammi and Abba what we did. It was a butt load of fun.

It's Monday and after a lot of thinking and reconsidering, I still stand by my decision of telling Amir about my feelings. I've seen him twice and it seems like he's avoiding me. Or is he just busy and hasn't noticed me? Either way, I'll find a way to get a hold of him.

I finally get a hold of him in the kitchen and thankfully, it's empty.

"Hey Amir, I've been meaning to talk to you but I haven't gotten the chance. Can we talk now?" He starts giving me some stupid excuses and I can't help but think, he really is avoiding me. But it doesn't matter, now that I have him here neither of us will leave until I say what's on my mind.

"Amir, since I first saw you, the day you saved Teemah from that ball, I fell in love with with you, wallahi I've been crushing on you." a feeling of regret washes over me. What have I done?! But the deed is done. I can't even read his facial expression. Oh no. And I thought I thought it through but apparently, I did not.

Why didn't I ask Teemah for advice? She would've given me the best advice. Maybe I should run out of here. But if I run, he won't take me serious and he's not someone I can avoid. Why did I have to be such a dummy?

Amidst all my mental freak out, I'm searching for any trace of his response in his eyes but I see none. It's as if he's acting a film without a care in the world about what he's actually doing.

He finally opens his mouth and to my dismay, he says "Look Halima, i don't mean to hurt your feelings but I'm already in love with someone else. And to top it all you are one of my sister's best friend which technically makes you my sister so i can't possibly date you."

With that, he walks out of the kitchen leaving me all alone. I'm very surprised at how he answered, it's as if he has already calculated everything before hand,  as if he knew it'd happen.

I want to follow him and ask who he's in love with but I don't want to look or sound like a desperate lovesick puppy so I just shrug it off. Even if I ask him and he tells me will it make any difference? Of course it won't, because he's in love with her and there's nothing I can do about it.

I walk back to class and since we're having a free period, everyone's busy discussing. I go up to Teemah and Kalt trying not to show any signs of sadness.

Immediately I reach there Teemah gives me a once over.

"Are you okay?" She asks worriedly. I know i need to tell someone so i tell her everything.

She literally smacks me on my head which makes me shout ouch, earning us unwanted attention.

"Halli when will you have sense? You know how boys can be but you still went ahead without seeking advice from either of us." Teemah says glaring at me.

"Forget he's my brother I'm going to talk to him. Who the heck turns down a beautiful girl?" Kalt looks really angry, but for some reason her anger looks faked to me. Teemah turns to her.

"Keh kuma abun da ya dame ki kenan {that's the only thing you're worried about}." She hisses.

"Toh Allah ya baki hakuri." Kalt says to Teemah then turns to me.

"Halli don't mind him, I'll talk to him."

"A'ah. Dan Allah ki barshi {No. for Allah's sake leave him}. It'll seem like..." I say, trying to reason with Kalt only to get cut off by Teemah.

"Let it be, I know exactly what to do to him."

The determined look on her face is enough to tell me to let her do whatever it is she wants.

Fatima's POV

I'm so mad at Amir. How could he break Halli's heart like that? And I had stupidly said I'll deal with him. I don't even know what I'll do, how I'll do whatever I'm going to do. God! I'm so stupid.

Halli, Kalt and I decided that we wouldn't go to each other's houses. We all have things we need to take care of. I don't even want to dwell too much on that.

I know Halli has a broken heart to fix, and I have a lot on my plate but I don't know about Kalt. And honestly, I don't want to know. I already know too much for my own good as it is.

I go home and do my normal after school routine: bath, dress, eat and chat. I take the last bit of my delicious sinasir, scoop some spinach soup in it and place a piece of meat on it. My phone in hand, I push it into my mouth, when a message from an unknown number pops up on my screen.

Hey beautiful. Can i come over? I really miss seeing your beautiful face.

My face scrunches up in surprise and I lick my fingers. As they hover over my keyboard, I think of how to reply. Let me ask who is is. Before I can type,  another message from the same number pops up.

Don't even bother asking who I am, I'll never tell. 

This makes me furrow my brows deeper. Who is this person.

Since it's on Whatsapp, I check the name the account was opened with. To my utmost surprise, it says 'your mysterious lover'. I look at it again, to be sure that I'm not seeing things. I check the profile picture and it's a picture of me at school, in my uniform, laughing. It's a little blurry and looks cropped but I'd recognize my pictures anywhere. But I don't know when or how this picture was taken.

The thought alone freaks me out. Someone is out there taking pictures of me without my knowledge and using it as their profile picture. Disgust crawls up my skin and I feel goosebumps start to form on my hands. This is really creepy.