Tangy Manhattan

Chapter 2 : This is Ayla.

"I think I'm never gonna get thin with cafeteria serving these cheese rolls",Mindy was eating with ecstasy. 

"Keep it low, Min. It's our first week in college. We still have to figure out the boys.", Hazal jerked Mindy from behind & her roll fell down. 
"Let's get to the class before professor Carl starts to shower us with blessings of his lousy vocab." 
Both of them chuckled. 

"Hey, hey, stop! Look who's that weirdo going into our class.", Mindy pointed towards the girl. 

The girl was wearing black loose trouser with purple top upto her knees and she had black hair with lower curls.Pink sneakers and two rings in the same finger on left hand. She was looking for something in her bag and then went into the class after taking out a ball pen from it. 

Mindy and Hazal were observing the weirdo, seated diagonal to them, in whole lecture with many assumptions in mind. In fact, she had attention of almost whole class for a while. 

"Mindy, would you please tell the objective of this topic?", asked Prof. Carl who was observing Mindy's behavior in the class. 
Hazal slightly kicked Mindy who had no idea that she was being accosted. 

"Pack your bag & leave my class please.", said the Professor firmly. 

Mindy walked out with pride, eyes still staring  at the girl with purple top. 

Mindy was waiting in the lockers' area with cheese roll in her hand. 
Hazal joined her after the class ended. It was time for them to end their womanly curiosity. 

"Hey, funky!", Mindy stepped in front of the girl in the corridor. 
Hazal held Mindy's arm and introduced herself : "Hey, I'm Hazal and this is Mindy." 

"Uh, huh"

"Uh, huh?" "That's it?" 

"Oh sorry, I'm the girl both of you tryin' to eat from last 50 minutes." 

She moved forward and turned back after taking a few steps. "By the way, are you Hazal Onal? From Turkey?" 

"Yeahhh?", Hazal answered with raised eye brows. 

"Then let me introduce myself properly. I'm your new room mate in the dorm."

"WOAH! ", Mindy exclaimed. 

"Close your mouth, Min." Hazal pinched Mindy on the back. 

"and by the way, this is Ayla, Ayla Bhatti. See you soon, roomie!" Ayla smirked, turned around and moved towards the cafeteria. 

"Ayla what? What did she say? Ayla butt - what? 
and what's with that accent? Where is she from?", Hazal asked in a state of understanding what just happened. 

"You're gonna have a lot, like a lot of time to figure out all of this, roomie!". 
"And she says " by the way" too much. I feel like I'm under the pile of BTWs after asking just her name.", Mindy swallowed her cheese roll.

" BOOM!", Mindy shouted behind Hazal who was  sitting peacefully in her garden remembering first interaction with Ayla. 

" Good Morning! "

" Where's everyone? "

" I sent Ozan & Ali to my mommy's so that I can keep my focus just on cleaning this mess in the house". 

"Oh, great! I asked Leyla to make cheese omelet for me.", said Mindy moving her tongue on the lips. 
"and guess what? Remember Mona Page from college?

" Yeah. I think so. What's with her? "

" She replied to 'snap story' I added with you & she told me something interesting. "

" What? ", Hazal got attentive. 

" Apparently, she met Ayla, about an year ago, at the airport in Manhatten. They had a little chat anddd…. "

" And? "

" And Ayla was waiting for someone there. "

" Waiting for whom? "

" Hefty Mona couldn't find this out because she had to leave earlier than Ayla. "
" God, I was out of all of this. You've divulged me too with your pep talk last night. "

" You slept in the mid and that wasn't a "pep talk" . "

" Whatever! That was enough. "

" What was she doing there? Was she going somewhere? Was she coming from somewhere? Damn it! What happened? ", Hazal asked suspiciously. 

" Please, don't destroy my another day of vacation with Ayla. Let me enjoy my breakfast. "

" Okay, fine. Finish it. Then we'll clean. Please. 
and I called one of my cousins for help. "

" who? "

" Kaan. "

" Okay. ", Mindy said being busy romancing with her cheese omelet. 

" Okay? He's bachelor and a dermatologist. "

" Oooh! I like that. I might need some skin care then. ", Mindy giggled rolling her eyes around. 

Hazal played " young blood" by 5 seconds of Summer on tape. 
Mindy, Hazal and Leyla started the clean up. 

Door bell rings in the evening. 

"Leyla!", called Hazal. 

"Hello, super lady.", Kaan came in. 

"Thank you for your great help whole day, dear cousin.", Hazal taunted. 

Kaan smiled and hugged her. 
Mindy came out from room after fixing her hair and lipstick. 

"This is Mindy, my friend from Manhatten." 

Kaan and Mindy greeted each other. All of them moved to the lounge. 

Door bell rings. 

"I hope Ozan didn't forget his keys today too.", said Hazal. 

"Ms. Hazal, there's police for you at the door.", Leyla came to the lounge.