Chapter 3

I woke up at 12 pm, and kept wondering and thinking of what to do for the day. I went down and made myself a white cheese and cucumber sandwich and took a glass of milk. I found mom sitting in the living room, so I decided to sit there and eat my food silently, probably talk to her a little if she said something, or leave silently if she didn't talk about anything. I sat on the couch taking small bits of the sandwich and eating them. My mom was soaked into watching news, so she didn't talk. I finished my food and left. I decided to call Areej, who moved out of my school like two years ago, but we still managed to stay in touch. I invited her over to my house. I decided I wanted to straighten my hair, so I thought I'd shower by now, and I'll be done in two hours or so which would be perfect since she's coming at 7, so I'll have a couple of hours to make sure everything's tidy and in place. I was done with my hair and simple makeup which is made of nude lipstick, mascara, and a winged eyeliner at about 5. I decided to wear a a short baby pink dress. I went to ask Mary to put everything in place at the garden since I wanna sit there. Areej arrived at 7:15 or 7:20 in a gorgeous long-sleeved, yet short white dress, and she had her long black hair into a sleek pony tail, accompanied with a thick winged eyeliner, thick mascara, and a dark red lipstick. "My god girl, you lookin gorgeous! What happened to 'ew makeup' Areej? She gone gurl? God am I pleased to see you this way, I'm lovin the new one!" I said in a bit of a flirtatious tone. "A smart little girl grew into a beautiful young lady, no more my dear" she said in a British accent. She has a very lovely British accent thanks to her British mother who takes them to England almost every 2 months, and makes sure they spend at least a month of the summer there. I was lucky enough to find her here, she came back from England last week since Ramadan is in about two weeks. We talked about every single thing that got into our mind, then she asked "Hey, um I wanted to ask you about those tweets you tweeted like two days ago? What was wrong with you? You seemed just as shattered and broken into pieces as a broken mirror! What happened?" She asked out of curiosity. My face turned yellow cause I remembered that Sina woman that stole my dad away, but I tried to hide it as hard as I could and said "Which tweets?" trying to act as if I forgot. "You know you can't trick me, especially after that yellow I'm-hiding-something face Lulu, what happened?" She said sounding more serious than before. "Um, can we not talk about it? Like please? I don't want to ruin my night." I said, tears almost running down my cheeks. "Is it that big?" She asked. I just looked at the ground. "Oh, I'm so sorry dear, you can tell me whenever you feel like it, but I just wanna assure you that I'm always here for you! Not just because I'm not that close to you anymore means I forgot about you! Your name is always in the top of my head when I'm asked about my closest friends!" Said Areej, trying to make me feel better and make up for her question. "Aww, sweetie I never forgot you! I just don't want to go around talking about this! I'm just not ready for everyone's reaction! Whenever I get used to the situation, I promise I'll tell you! I'm really sorry if I made you feel like I forgot you, or that you don't mean the same to me anymore" I told her sounding as sincere as I ever could. Areej pulled me in for a hug. "Ugh Areej you won't believe how much I miss your hugs! My god, no one gives hugs as you do!" I said trying to even tighten my hug more. "Hahahah, well I'm all yours to hug now" Areej said, then pulled out of the hug. We decided to take some pictures, then go and either watch a movie or stalk people on twitter, so we ended up watching Cheaper by the dozen 2. She left at 11:30. I stayed at my room stalking people on twitter and texting Shaikha. I suddenly got a new follower, I decided to follow him back after seeing his tweets and so. He dm'd me like right away with a simple "Hey!" I answered "Hello ;p?" "How are you doing :D?" "Um, fine I guess? How about you?" "Oh, I'm great!" I ignored that, but he dm'd me in five minutes saying "So, what are you doing?" Oh, new friends, awesome! I thought to myself while replying to him with "Bleh, nothing, I'm just trying to escape the bits of boredom that got into my body after my friend left! How about you?" "Well, I've been bored for the whole day, and I'm still looking for an escape, so if you found something, like tell me or something? ;p" "Okay, Aziz *if I may call you, I'll make sure I do ;p!" "Oh, sure, if not Aziz what are you going to call me hahah? What's your most prefered name to be called with, Laura?" Okay, he's fine I thought to myself again "Well, people only call me Laura when it's serious hahah! I'm known by Lulu mostly c:!" "Well, Laura, can you help me in something?" I felt like I got an inner poke in my stomach and answered "Um, sure? What's wrong?" He waited for 10 minutes then typed "Well, you see I've been like, I don't know seriously, umm... Bored, so I decided to have some fun putting you on your nerves! Hahahahah! I wish I could see the look on your face right now!" So not funny, I don't like this dude I don't think we'll be friends what the hell "Ha, ha, ha? If not of boredom I would have blocked you by now you coconut head! You made me get inner pokes stupid!" "I'm sorry, it's just I'm terribly bored, I hope you didn't get really mad?" "Hahahah, everyone gets a turn, aye mate?" "Okay, we're equal Lulu, very funny." "Eh, I know man! Anyway, I think I'll sleep now, so goodnight buddy c:!" "I like your confidence dude hahahah! Alright then, we'll talk tomorrow, Laura. x" Okay, he's nicer this way, I'll reconsider our friendship. I put my hair into a messy braid, and wore a plain white crop top and black boxers. I layed on my bed to allow the thoughts to start like every day of my life. Only this time, I started thinking how life would be if I had a lover. Wouldn't it be fun if I had this funny boyfriend who's more of a best friend than just a boyfriend? Wouldn't it be fun for him and Yazeed to be friends or something? Or is Yazeed gonna be all uptight? But he's okay with me having guy friends for now... Well, after what happened, I think he'd have a point. I wonder if he ever had a girlfriend! I must ask him some day... I haven't seen him today, I miss him! Ugh, my throat's getting dry I need some water bottles in my room, now I'll have to go downstairs to bring water. I managed to crawl out of my bed and get to the kitchen, I saw Yazeed sitting on the chairs outside at the garden through the kitchen's widnow. I went outside and almost shouted "YAZEEED! I missed you!" and I ran over to him and hugged him. "Oh hey hey, how are you doing?" He said while hugging me back. "It feels like I haven't seen you in ages? What did you do today?" "Well, just the usual, I went to Fahad's house..." He said while his face showed he was hiding something, "That's all?" I asked looking right into his eyes. "Yes! What did you do?" he said trying to change the subject. "My friend, Areej, came over, tell me what happened, I know you've got more to say!" I answered. He looked at me his eyes almost crying out 'Do I have to do this?' "Well, my friends think I'm gay because I don't have a girlfriend, and I've never had one, but I've got a lot of friends, and I end my friendship with any girl that tries to be more than a friend with me! It disgusts me how my friends think! Okay what if I just simply don't want a girlfriend? Not all people have accepting families! I don't want to get a girl involved with me without her family knowing about me! I have karma to worry about!" He said looking so confused! "Have you told them that?" I asked. "If I did, they'd make sure I'm gay. Guys are complicated Lulu, even more than girls!" He said, then let out a smile "But I'm sure you'll set me up with my future wife just soon enough, cause you're my amazing little angel, right?" He tried to give me a puppy-eyed look which made me bust out laughter, then I said "You gotta tell Shaikha you like her yourself, I can do nothing about that! But I know for sure she likes you too! She always gets excited when you're around!" I said. "For real? Shaikha likes me? Are you being serious or not?" He asked looking as excited as I have never seen him. "She does!" I let out a giggle. "God bless your beautiful soul you're the best sister" He said then almost crushed my bones trying to pull me in for a hug. "Okay okay amen, but just leave me before you crush my bones!" "Sorry, I just got a little excited!" Said Yazeed. "I know, I know hahah! Anyway, I'll go sleep now, so goodnight lova boy!" I hit his shoulder and laughed while walking away. I got to my bed, and thoughts kept changing till they ended into dreams.

Okay, so I'm finally done! I'm so super sorry y'all for keeping you waiting this long! I just got super drowned in occasions, then to school and stuff, so I couldn't concentrate and put my thoughts into a good chapter. I hope this chapter won't let any of you down. Please tell me what you think, cause it seriously matters! Even if it was a negative opinion, please just tell me whatever! I didn't really check if there were any grammar/spelling mistakes, cause I'm in kind of a hurry, if you found anything just dm me on @SoCalled Blogger, please. Thank you, and never stop smiling c: xx