once upon a dream

Egypt, here we come

i spent the rest of the day chatting to hazel and being very, very excited indeed. it was EGYPT, full of mystery, and adventure... and amina. I tried not to think about her, but i could not. so i pushed that feeling back to the back of my mind. Egypt was going to be just me and hazel. no amina. (though the faraway look hazel had after amina asked us was rather suspicious, i had a sneaky feeling she was going to tell alexander.)                                                                                                        

 suddenly, it was nightime. the moon shone above us, bright and beautiful, while I wriggled in bed and held my breath, waiting for hazel to actually fall asleep (she knows i sneak out, so i wait for her to actually sleep) and soon i heard her peacefully snoring. i breathed out while opening the window and sneaking out onto the roof, where i knew amina would be, reading her book as usual. i watched her for a distance for quite a while, then sat in my own thoughts. i know that now i will never look at a boy the way hazel does, and i did have.. well, more than a pash on somebody, once. but they were far too old for me. But Amina's quite different, she's the same age as me... i sighed and crawled back onto the drainpipes, back into the boring dorm, back into my bed and tried to get to sleep. it was the Christmas hols tomorrow, so soon we were going to be in Egypt. soon... i sighed as the world blurred around me and fell asleep, dreaming about kissing amina...