Me and wattpad

How we first met

I opened my eyes slowly and lazily knowing what's coming ahead of me , i looked at my phone wondering why the hell didnt my alarm go off  . . Oh wait never mind " shhhhh stop it " i said while practically wrestling with my phone trying to find the snooze button

"Mariam , its 6am your assembly is ending six thirty so you better move your lazy ass or else you are gonna be late for your first class" my mom said in a hushed tone making sure that no one is awake, you really wouldnt want to wake my dad and face a grumpy deprived of sleep dad , the man loves his sleep and waking him an hour and a half earlier isnt a good idea

" shit" i said when my alarm went off again , i forgot i hit the snooze button.
I fumbled with my phone a little then started getting into motion which means tip toeing in our apartment to finish my morning routine then i shoved everything that i had in a bag not really believing in a schedule

Then I walked to school which was across the street , so going there wasn't considered as any form of sport which is my i had a small honored belly

Entering the school I realized that i was on time which might as well be half an hour late

" you are late you missed the assembly next time i am not gonna let you in" said Susan the sweet door lady who is going to kick me out soon

" love you" i said back and took off towards my classroom grade 6A , yup i have a class room and teachers are the ones who change

" good morning, sorry for being late " i told whoever teacher standing there , and then i took my seat witch was surprisingly at the front because otherwise i wouldn't be able to see the board . I am the shortest girl in the class  , and we are all girls, yup an all girls school

" your hw" wait . . What ?

" your homework miss" shit we actually had homework, but what is this subject, what day are we.

I finally looked at the teacher , voala she is my English teacher and i literally can't remember when was the last time I studied any English i can barely even speak English

" sorry i forgot it , i will bring it tomorrow" i looked at her not so apologetically witch is why she had the urge to make this day a remarkable day

"But you did it right ?" She said in an odd way

" yup of course, i was totally capable of finishing it with out any help" okay that was a little over the top for someone who doesn't know if the English book is in there bag , and for a moment i thought she bought it until she uttered the next sentence

" since you are so good in English lets show the rest of your class mates some of your talent , go to the board" she said and handed me a marker , and at that moment i knew i would have to face a consequences of doing nothing for a whole quarter

"I was just talking about how some words can be tricky because they have different pronunciation if you tried to write them , so mariam i am gonna give you some really easy words that differ in there writing" she said when i was situated in front of the board , facing it unable to look anywhere else

" chief" she said and i knew so damn well that i was screwed because lets face it I usually use autocorrect to write these kinda words

C . . H . . E . F  i wrote these four letters already knowing that it was wrong then I finally mastered some courage , i look at my friends for some help and all i sow was their mouths mouthing an ' i' and there hands in an 'i' gesture and then i looked at the teacher and sow triumph written all over her face so i looked at the board in concentration adamant on getting it right

'Cheif ' i wrote with so much pride ready to shine in glory , then i looked back and my smile instantly dropped, everybody was face balming and it didnt take a genius to know what was wrong

" chief" i said and corrected feeling a ted bit more embarrassed than i already am but happy that its all over nonetheless

" Rhythm" oh no you cant pronounce three fucking letters and expect me to know the rest

But because i am a genius i sensed an 'h' in the word and I wrote

Rhithm . . And it didnt look quite right to me so i looked at my friends for help again but nobody provided any clear answers so i was on my own

Rhythm . I finally wrote as a last attempt to make it right and it actually looked good so i looked at the teacher and she had that impassive look on her face which meant that its actually over this time

" go back to your seat" she told me and i made a small happy dance which made the whole class laugh and the teacher looked at them to shush them so i took that small moment to flip her the bird which wasn't my brightest idea because the second my finger went down she looked back at me suspiciously then looked at my half raised fist which i held at an awkward angel , then I pretended to be stretching and went back to my seat trying to act cool as if I wasnt really scared or anything at the end i had a reputation to hold as a troublemaker

Then in no time the day ended

" hey did see what happened in the ' badboy and the tomboy ' " one of the girls that that i was sitting with another one

" oh you mean their first kiss , come one we all read the update last night"  and this was my first time hearing those two terms ' badboy ' and ' tomboy'

" what are you guys talking about?" I asked confused and interested

" you know wattpad, and stuff " she said as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

" there is a reason why i still use my mother's Facebook and am too lazy to have my own social media" i said matching her ' duh' tone

" and that reason is ?" One of them asked me . . Actually clueless

"Well , cause i don't care, i dont give two flying shits about your daily story or posts" and this was totally true and even after all of this years , i am still that kinda person

" so wattpad is an alternate world with everything that you cant have , he is everything you want for a lover a hater and a friend" and this was how i started to know the difference between living and existing

And that day we talked from my mothers account all night and oh boy was he sweet he didn't tell me long and hard stories cause i obviously didn't know a lot in English but he promised to teach me and take me step by step in to every breath taking adventure

And for an 11 year old in an all girls school living in kingdom of Saudi Arabia , the only reason I believed that the male specie even existed is that my father is one of them and that i can see them through pixels on TV

So wattpad was the closest thing i had to romance, the closest thing i had to the outer life

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AN
Mostly everything in this story is based on my life when i was an 11 year old girl , so please no hate