My ankle is hurting severely and I'm in pain. Alyan takes me to my room and made me sit on the bed.
"It's swelled up. Wait here, I'll be back", he leaves for bringing an ice pack. When he's back he says, "It's going to HURT a little"
"It's okay. I can handle it", I say carelessly before he presses it around the swollen part.
"Aghhhhhhh!" I screame at the top of my voice as the ice pack hit my skin. "What the heck!!!", I remove his hand from my foot saying, "I don't need that. I'm feeling better now so you better leave with the ice pack!", He chuckles a bit hearing me.
"You just made my ear bleed. The pain will subside in few minutes", he says as he keeps moving the ice pack.
"Go slower", I frown on him. I can't help but gaze intently (watching him healing my wound gently)
"Looks like the icy hurt started to fade", he smirks a bit.
"I feel numb", my eyes sticks on him as he compresses my ankle with an elastic bandage saying, "It'll stop the swelling", I let out a wail.
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He raises his face to look at me and catch me off guard. I curl up into a ball on the head of my bed, "I'm sleepy so go back to your room" (just to hide my reddening cheeks)
"Make sure you rest well and don't worry about your work. Just a minor sprain. It'll heal by tomorrow", he smiles.
I wonder how does he know I was going to ask him about it. He starts to know me well which scares me. I turn my back to him and pretend to be asleep. He leaves closing the door.
Morning
My eyes are drowsy when I realise mom wakes me up. She's enraged by the fact that I ruined her plan. She thought I've purposely tried to spoil the date by hooking up with some random guy.
"Aunty it's not her fault. She didn't do anything wrong", Alyan tries to cool her down.
"Alyan you won't believe what she did! She made a joke of herself and her mother out there! Why did you do that Izzah? You could've cancelled it. There's no need to do something disgraceful. I'm ashamed of you!"
"Mom! I didn't do anything", I try to explain.
"Yeah right. Yasir is lying and why do you think he would do that? If he didn't like you he could've reject you!", Mom's taking it too far.
"I never said he's lying. It's a misunderstanding", I try to raise my voice.
"Stop it Izzah! Tell me the name of that person with whom you're..", she looks away. She really believes I make out with some random guy!
"Mom, can you please believe me for once?", my eyes widens.
"Give me the name right now!"
Alyan and I stare at each other. Of course I won't take his name. He was there just to help me. So I think it's best to keep quiet. The silence lasts for a moment only.
