Sunday, 20 September 2015

Chapter 10

"Where do you wanna go?" Leen asked as we walked our way to the school gate. It was Wednesday, and we decided we'd skip school on Thursday because there was some sort of a school festival, and the teachers said there won't be any studying, but they did however agree to give us the assignments for Sunday, so we can prepare them. "I feel like chilling honestly" I said. "You're boring Lulu!" Shaikha said. "Let's dress up as if we're going to a dj, and actually do a private one for us three at your house" She added looking at Leen. "Sounds great, but let's grab some lunch first" Leen answered. "Well, since it seems like I don't actually have a say in this, can we at least have Boardwalk burgers for lunch? I feel like eating something filled with fats. Oh, and also get ice cream! And brownies! Can we just go to a supermarket?" I said. "Um are you sure you want to eat all of that for lunch?" Shaikha said. "Yes, and stop judging me for it. It's not wrong for a person to want to eat" I said as we were walking to Shaikha's car so she'd get her stuff and give the driver her school bag. We greeted Bader and Basma then walked to my car for the same purpose, and last we went to Leen's car. We went to Boardwalk, we told her driver what we wanted, and during the time the order would be ready, we'd be done with the supermarket. I opened my phone to check for any notifications. I started answering the what'sapp conversations and in the middle of that I received one from Waleed saying:
"Enjoy your long weekend, what are your plans, if I'm not interfering?"
Lulu: Thank you! Not at all, we're just grabbing lunch, grocery shopping, then doing an extremely private dj at Leen's haha
Waleed: That sounds fun! Enjoy it as much as you can!
Waleed: What are you having for lunch?
Lulu: I sure will! Boardwalk!
Waleed: Kidding me? I'm at Hotdog Express!
Lulu: Hahaha no way! Come say hi!
"Guys Waleed is at Hot Dog Express!!! Shaikha did you know??!" I told the girls with surprise "I bet he came here after my tweet! Too obvious!" Answered Shaikha right away "Shut up! Do I look fine?" "Are you serious? You just got out of school you don't need to look perfect!" Leen laughed, I gave her a look. "You look perfect, but just take this and blend it into your lips to give them more colour!" Shaikha gave me a lipliner "your makeup bag's a lifesaver!" I said and applied it right away.
Waleed: Oh but I'm afraid I'd bother you!
Lulu: Come on! It's just Shaikha, Leen, and me!
Waleed: Okay, supermarket, right?
Lulu: Yes, the drinks isle!
"Huff why do I look bad whyyy" I said "Shut up dude you look like an angel for someone who just came from school!" Shaikha said. Shaikha suddenly looked up and smiled, so did Leen, so I turned around and found Waleed walking towards me wearing his scrubs. "Hey" he said once he faced me with such smooth and calm behaviour that is just swooning. I kept staring for like 15 seconds then something poked me from the back. "Hah-hi-hello hello! Hi Waleed!" I said then immediately looked down, frowned and forrowed my eyebrows, I literally cursed my luck and hoped the ground would open up and swallow me right away. He tilted his head back and laughed such a charming laugh. He closed his eyes tightly, had his hands wrapped around his stomach, and let out a musical giggle that revealed his perfectly straight pearly white teeth. I flushed, his laugh gave my heart such a beautiful reviving feeling. I turned around, Shaikha and Leen were gone. After a few more seconds of too much awkwardness. Him laughing and me amazed by the scene of him. "I'm sorry, so how are you?" he said with a broad smile. "I'm grea, good.. Yeah I'm good.. I guess? Um how are you?" I tried to keep my calm. Why am I so stupid? "I'm beyond great! I mean, after all, I'm in front of you!" I flushed again and looked down. He held my chin and lift my face up, forcing me to look at him in the eye. "You're so beautiful" He whispered. My eyes widened in response. We stayed on this position for 20 seconds or so, then he removed his hand, I took a step back. "So, um medicine? Interesting, which year?" I tried to make things less awkward but I failed terribly. He giggled. "Fourth". "I wish you would let me in Laura" He gave me a look that held too much emotion. "Let you in where?" I said puzzled. He pointed at my head, and leaned forward whispering "Here". "What do you mean?" I looked him in the eye. He went back to his first position, and said "Nothing" smiling easily. "You're acting weird" I smiled. He looked at the refrigerator, picked up Trpicana orange juice, looked back at me and said "There's just so much I wanna know, and you're too hard to figure out". I cleared my throat, furrowed my eyebrows, looked down and said "Stick around and you'll know everything you want to know". "You see, you're like a chamber of secrets that the key of has dissolved." he put his hand on my arm "I want to create a new key to access, but I'm scared." his breathing pattern changed into the same pattern I had back in eid. He kept staring at me then he said "I never admit my fears. I really don't know why am I saying this to you. There's just this thing about you. When I'm talking to you it feels like we're the only people in the world, and that scares me so much. There's nothing between us, yet I see you as everything. I barely know a thing about you, yet I can trust you with my life. And god don't even get me started on this, I swear whenever I know you're feeling down or when you haven't been active somewhere, it feels like someone stabbed me in the heart and twisted the knife inside my heart." He paused and cleared his throat, he leaned closer and whispered in my ear "You have so much power on me, and that scares me so much". I felt like the heaviest weight has just been put on my shoulders, and my feet couldn't hold me. My knees went weak, and I jiggled, I was gonna fall, but he held me. I couldn't talk, I was amazed by how the conversation that started so awkward escalated this quick to all of that! I was amazed at the fact that Waleed actually thought this way! I mean, yes it was pretty much a given we liked each other a bit, but this? I kept staring down, breathing too quick, my heart beating faster and louder than it ever has. He looked worried and he was saying stuff, but I couldn't hear a thing, my thoughts were just too loud. He swept my cheek with his fingers. "Are you okay?" he looked at me in the eye. I was staring back at him, and it took me a few seconds to realise he was still holding me. I freed myself from his grip, ran my hand through my hair. "It's just, I didn't expect you had all of this locked up in your heart and never spoke or even hinted it... You barely even know me! I never expected I'd even.." I was cut off by Shaikha's voice "We've been going around the supermarket for over half an hour, and you're still not done with your conversation?" I glazed back, my face basically all pale, and my eyes wide open. "Can I offer to drive you to Leen's house as we continue this conversation?" Waleed said, absolutely ignoring Shaikha and Leen, and only looking at me. I was staring at him, in just complete shock, cause everything was happenning too fast without me getting a grip of it. "So are you going with him or with us?" Leen asked. I kept staring at his eyes for a good 30 seconds. Without turning back at the girls, I just said "you guys go, Waleed will drive me over to your house" while still staring at him. "Okay, I'll send you the location" Shaikha said to Waleed. They walked away, and as soon as they walked away he looked back at me and gave me a very weird smile. "I'll have to call my brother and tell him I'm going with you, give me a moment". He nodded, so I took out my phone and dialed Yazeed's number, he picked up on the 3rd beep,
Yazeed: I thought you were supposed to be too busy having fun, what's up?
Lulu: Umm, you know Shaikha's cousin Waleed?
Yazeed: I remember Bader mentioning him a couple of times, why?
Lulu: you know how we've met in eid and we started talking, right?
Yazeed: not sure if you told me, but okay? Where are you trying to get to now?
Lulu: well, we ran into him in the supermarket, and we talked, and we kind of are taking too long, so the girls wanna leave, and he offered to drive me to Leen's house to continue the conversation. I kind of agreed, but I wanted to know what you think of it, cause if not Shaikha and Leen are probably still here.
Yazeed: It's your call, you're not a child and you know what you're doing, is he trustworthy?
Lulu: Do you wanna talk to him?
Yazeed: this is between you and him, there is no me in this. I support you whatever you choose, but just be careful and call me if he tries to do anything you don't approve of.
Lulu: I'm sure none of that will happen, he's a very nice guy, thank you. I love you, bye.
Yazeed: I do too. He hung up
"So?" he looked at me, his eyes wide with mixed emotions. "Let's go" I gave him half a smile. He let out a chuckle "don't you want something to drink? Or eat?" I took a bottle of water and walked ahead of him. I stopped at the cashier, he was right behind me, I put my bottle of water, he put his juice and got his wallet out, he paid and took the bag, he pointed for me to walk first, so I did, until we went out, I stopped and looked at him. He smiled and pointed at a black Mercedes c class, so I walked to it, he got to the door before me and opened it for me, I got in, he leaned in and tucked my seatbelt for me. He smelled really good. Once he tucked in the seatbelt, he turned around at me and smiled. My heart skipped a beat, but I kept looking at him. He closed the door, then got into the driver's seat. He opened his phone "Oh, it's not that far, a ten minute drive. Do you wanna go around until we finish talking?" he looked at me. "Sure" I kept a straight face as I looked at him. He started the car, and put his phone on shuffle and the first song that came up was Eminem's Lose yourself. I looked at him and chuckled. "What?" "Nothing" "Okay, so what did you wanna say back there?" he asked, his eyes fixed on the road. He drove out with so much ease, yet he was all over the place. It was a very weird, yet sexy atmosphere. "I don't remember. Why did you say all of that now? Don't you think it's very early to think anything would happen?" I asked looking at him. He looked at me and smiled, then looked back at the road "I don't know how to put this out in words, but I'm gonna be honest with you, I can't see you as a friend or a family friend or whatever, ever since I saw you that day, I felt like I'm responsible for you, like I need to protect you from everything. There are people who can't be more than friends, and there are people who can't be friends." He looked at me, and put his hand on my shoulder "I'll never pressure you into anything, I just needed to tell you how I feel because I couldn't keep it in anymore" I cleared my throat, and held his hand "I can't deny I felt something extraordinary that day too, and I can't deny that I don't like you, in fact I think life has sent me so many signals indicating I can't look at you as a friend either. I still can't get you involved in anything with me when you still don't know me well though." I was holding his hand with both hands and looking at him. "But I want to do all it takes to keep you safe and happy. I want you to trust me enough to never worry about anything when you talk to me. I uh" he cleared his throat, squeezed my hand, and looked at me "I never thought I'd be weak for someone, but I am for you, and that makes me want you in my life in every possible way" I smiled, looked down, then looked back at him "I feel so oddly powerful at the moment!" I let out a small giggle. He looked at me with the brightest smile, and his eyes were so I don't even know, shiny? He looked like a kid who finally found the treasure after a whole month of treasure hunting. "So what now?" he asked, looking at me. "Nothing" I smiled and looked at him. "Would you let me in?" he asked while squeezing my hand. I looked at his hand, put my other hand on top of it "You already are" and I smiled slightly. He took my hand and kissed it while looking at me, so I swept his cheek with the back of my hand. "God, it feels like one of my dreams" I mumbled in a low voice. "Which dreams?" he asked, his eyes widening in curiosity. "The signals I told you about" I said looking straight. "You dreamt of me?" he said in a tone that seemed to be disbelief. "A couple of times, it's actually why I panicked when I saw you in eid. You were the guy from a dream. Suddenly you were real and in front of me" "I can't believe you dreamt of me and never told me!" "Well, do you expect me to be like oh hey Waleed, I dreamt of you once before I even saw you! How creepy would that be?" He laughed "Not at all, it would be adorable" "I have to disagree" I chuckled to myself. We kept talking about random subjects, and I looked at the time after a while, it was about 5pm. We've been driving around for more than three hours! "It's 5!" I said in shock. "What? It all felt like 30 minutes, how did all of that time pass so quick?" He said "well, I better drive you over to Leen's now then" he looked at me like he was waiting for me to say no. "Yeah I think they'd investigate far too much if I go any later than now!" He laughed and handed me his phone, "5440, open Shaikha's conversation on what'sapp for directions please" I unlocked his phone and opened the conversation, started giving him directions, it took us about 30 minutes to get there, we drove far away obviously. Once we got there he grabbed my hand before I could unbuckle my belt, so I looked up at him "God you're so perfect" I flushed and looked down. He lifted my face back up by my chin and kept staring into my eyes. "There's so much I want to do, so much time I want to have with you. I wish this moment would never have to end. Thank you so much for accepting to continue the talk, and thank you for all you've told me. I promise I'll be by your side till the very last breath I take. I promise I'll do all it takes, and push even further, to keep you safe and happy!" He moved his hand up to cup my cheek, and he was basicaly cupping my jaw and chin too. I kissed the palm of his hand as I still stared into his eyes "I look forward to all of that, Waleed" He smiled at me the sweetest smile I've ever seen, unbuckled his seat belt, went out of the car, and came to my door, opened it, went down on one knee, called Shaikha to have the door opened. And through all of that he was just staring at me with emotions I couldn't understand. When the door opened, he got up, unbuckled my seatbelt, and gave me his hand to hold when I get out, so I took it. He walked me to the door, I went on the first stair then realised he isn't coming so I had to say goodbye, so I turned around, and he was standing behind me, biting in his entire bottom lip. "I hope I'd get more.." I interrupted him by leaning in for a hug and burying my head in his chest. At first his body tensed, but he adapted very quick and became in ease, he put his arms around me, and he actually hugged me very tightly. During my moment of comfort between his arms I heard a giggle then a loud whisper "shushhhh they'll hear us". Waleed laughed while he was still hugging me. I pulled out, looked at him, gave him a peck on the cheek then ran inside, and I felt he was just left astonished behind. It took him about a minute till he started his car and drove away. I was pretty sure my skin was doing all sorts of colours all at once, I looked at the girls, smiled the widest smile out there, and just walked in straight to Leen's room. They walked in after me and were giving me all sorts of funny looks that meant they were waiting for details. I threw my abaya, and uniform, I got up to take my clothes from my bag to change. "WHAT WAS ALL OF THAT ABOUT" Shaikha finally let out. I bit my lip and looked at them "You remember how warewolves from Twilight impersonated on someone? They feel the need to protect them. They fall in love with them. They do all it takes to take care of them? I think that's pretty much what he wanted to say for those three hours, and I think I don't mind it at all" I let out a sigh, turned around, got my clothes out, and went to change. The girls of course kept investigating all night long, trying to get more details, but I told them I said enough, so they gave up eventually.
@LuluAlx: "Can dreams really turn into reality? Do they end up as nightmares or do they end up well?"9:10
@Waleed92: "I'll buy you all the dream catchers you need to keep those nightmares away" 9:15

I think I'm two years late... I deserve worst blogger award=))! I hope you'd enjoy this chapter, please do inform me if you find any sort of mistakes, I wrote this in like 4 hours, so I'm far too tired to re-read it! Thank you :] xx