So close yet, so far

Chapter 3

Humaira Ahmed

Sometime I feel jealous of my friends, when I see them laughing, sharing stuff with their mom. My best friend Ayesha just called me and said, to give her ideas for what she should buy for her parents 16th anniversary. I was about to cry in the phone so I told her I will tell her later, she heard my cracking voice. I know she is regretting by telling me, probably tomorrow she wouldn't even mention anything about her parents anniversary. I tried to imagine my moms beautiful face but I couldn't. Whenever I tried to imagine I always see her crashing face and her whole body with blood. I started feeling dizzy and sick whenever I visualize those moment and its haunts me.
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After dinner everyone went to their room to sleep, I don't want Rodela to sleep with me but since granny is not here I can't let her sleep by herself.

" Appi?" She was lying besides me.

"Yeah" I was lost somewhere, somewhere that I don't want anyone to disturb me .

" Are you okey? You look sick." Whenever I vomit, I look sick and tired. I didn't wanted to tell her I vomited after dinner because she will force me to eat again.

I smiled at her " Hell no! I wish I was sick so I didn't have to go to school."

" I hate being sick, it's better if I go school and have fun, rather than stay home with a headache in bed all day." She loves school because in school she doesn't feel lonely.

" I am tired. I studied the whole day for chemistry midterm but I still feel blank like I don't even know what the heck is chemistry." Seriously I tried to study but then I gave up and started thinking about my mom. I hate this subject!!!

" Oh , but I like science" Rodela smiled. Of course she would smile. She's not in 11th grade and she was always the smart one when it came to science.

After Rodela slept I opened my Facebook. Anika texted and told us to wear blue tomorrow. Our groups of friend always try to match our outfits and most of the time we go shopping together to find matching clothings. Anika and me love shopping and Kayla doesn't care, she just does whatever we make her do usually. But Ayesha thinks that buying too much is a waste of money and she always yells us for buying unnecessary stuff. Anika is my second best friend. She is really tall and hot, and also she is one of the most popular girls in my school, because of her, everyone knows me and Ayesha, if she wasn't our friend then no one would even notice us like now. For a Muslim student it is hard to get noticed in an American school.

I texted her back with an "Ok"

No reply, she is already dead I know. How can this girl sleep so early it's not even 1. I got a text, maybe Anika is still awake. I opened it but it's not Anika it's Ihaan. He changed his profile. Gosh!! he looks dashing with a black shirt, my favorite color. I love his eyes. They are big and attractive that go perfect with his eyelashes. Lucky bastard! Has everything perfect.

Why is it that the boys always have long eyelashes

He texted, "hiiiiiiiiii"

Then again he texted, "Did anyone tell u....u have no manners"

What the h... excuse me? Do u even kno me

Him.... I know u from head to toe . Ur the girl that came to my house yesterday and didn't even say bye nicely.

Me.... 😡😡 u don't kno anything about me. I said bye I didn't kno u were deaf

Him.... whatever ruddy I m joking

Me.... u called me rud and now ur saying u r joking ..u r a jerk 😡

Him.... Lmaooo is ur face really that red now 😂 u look more cute with red face .. Stay like that alwys

This brat!!! But did he just called me cute? Idiot.

Me.... I don't want to argue with a stupid and idiot stranger like u

Him.... first of all I m not a stranger ... Uv known me for about a year so ur a stoofeet idiot for calling me a stranger

Me.... Don't u dare to text me again😡😤

Him.... what u gonna do angry bird

Him.... Hey angry bird is a perfect match fr u , u should be thnkfull I gav u such a nice name

He is funny. I didn't reply, I was sleepy. By the way, why was I replying to this idiots text? He should wait like other boys do. I don't reply to everyone's text to me so why should I reply his and he doesn't know how to talk to girls; he has no manners.

I was late, because of that monkey I couldn't sleep last night. I am lucky chemistry was second period so I didn't miss anything. I don't see any of my friends until 4th period lunch.

I saw Anika, Ayesha, Kayla, and Jacks wearing blue clothing as planned. Jack was wearing blue supermen te-shirts and he look still cool like always. He is my only guy friend and I trust him better than I've trusted any other guys before. We all gave group hug like always. We sat together in the lunch table.

" I feel like I didn't see you after so long" Jack cried.

Then Ayesha hugged me again, " I know right! I was dying to finish the weekend to see you guys"

" What did you buy for your parents" I asked her by taking my Oreo and drink from book bag .

" It wasn't that special so forget it. Tell me about that hot guy" she changed the subject, "you didn't finish yesterday. After you went to his house what happened?"

" Omg!! She went to some hot guy's house and I don't even know!!" Anika yelled.

" It was nothing. He is my neighbor, I just went to see his mom"

Jack was reading me " If it wasn't nothing why are you blushing"

" No I am not and I hate that thing, he is so annoying and he called me rude!" Do I really hate him?what ever.

"Plus he has no manners"

" Thing? Hehehe... Everybody will say that you are rude because you never smile at them" Kayla said and they started laughing.

" It's ok Humaira doesn't need to smile at any boys except for me if she doesn't want to." Jack always tells me not to smile at other boys . He said my smile is dangerous especially for boys.

" I smile when I need to and I don't want whole world fall for me since someone says my smile dangerous so I should better not smile" I joked looking at jack to confirm who knowa exactly who that someone was.

Last period I have study hall and Jack is with me. Most of the time I sleep in there and Jack always bother me. Sometime he poke me, sometimes he puts loud rap music into my headphones while I'm sleeping and sometimes he would stare at me weirdly making me feel uneasy. Anika had a crush on him for 2 years but she never told him because she thinks Jack likes me. Sometime I see Anika get jealous with me when Jack talks to me. But she knows I will never have fall for him, he can't be my love so she controlled her emotions. I always pray to Allah that our groups should never break and always love each other like a family.

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