A Hijabi's Unexpected Love [Currently Being Rewritten]

Chapter 12 : Strange Behavior

{To Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return}

|Ameera Binte Ahmed|

It is currently 2 in the morning and I still cannot seem to fall asleep. Falak fell asleep almost 2 hours ago and here I am, tossing and turning in bed and to be honest I feel like I cannot fall sleep because I am afraid for what the future holds, will he treat me well or will he make me his maid or worse will he sell me off? Ameera for goodness sake go to sleep and stop thinking nonsense you have to be up early tomorrow, I scolded myself before shutting my eyes forcefully.

The next time my eyes opened, it was 6 am. Yes 6 am, my in-laws are coming for lunch today to discuss the wedding, I'm so nervous. I'm a nervous wreck. He is also coming over. I really hope he doesn't pull a stunt like the other day. I'm quite surprised that Shaver did not say anything after that day even though he walked out in pure rage.

"Falak get up" I whispered poking her shoulder yet there was no movement.

"Falak get uppp!!" I tried screaming but once again she laid asleep like a log.

Ouff this girl is such a heavy sleeper and I know she won't even move one bit no matter how hard I try, I think I'm going to have to use my old trick to get this lazy bum up.

I got up quickly, made my way to my closet and pulled out a box of fake insects. Going through my collection, I looked through it to find my palm sized cockroach, she is going to be up in no time.

I left it by her arm on the duvet and yelled, "FALAKK WAKE UP THERE IS THIS HUGE COCKROACH BY YOUR ARM AND IT IS GOING TO CLIMB ONTO YOU IF YOU DO NOT MOVEE!"

"WHAT?! WHEREEEEE!? EWWW GET IT OFF FROM HERE!! SOMEONE CALL THE PEST CONTROL!!" She screamed jumping off the bed and falling onto the floor without even realising that it's a fake bug.

Now that she's wide awake she realises that I pulled a prank on her. I need to run for my life or she is going kill me.

"Ameera ki bachi it's only been two days since I came here and you have already started with your pranks that even on an early Saturday morning, I'm not going to spare you!!" She yelled running after me. I ran all the way downstairs into the kitchen when ammi was working on a dish.

"Ammi, es churel se bacho, marda le ge mujhe(Mom save me from this witch, she is going to kill me), tell her to leave me alone as I'm the bride," I said running around the kitchen island.

"Alright both of you take your silly fight out of the kitchen, I have a lot to do and go and freshen up because Ameera's in-laws are coming soon, chop chop, yalla yalla, out," she said pushing both of us out of the kitchen.

"Also, please do not make a lot of noise on the 3rd floor, Shaveer is not feeling too well and was burning up with a high fever all night so please let him rest" she added.