Till Death Do Us Apart -part 10-

She woke up excited, wanting to see him so badly. Ever since the day he told her his secret everything as even better between them. She felt like she could tell him everything, but the one thing she didn’t know was why couldn’t she tell him about her secret?

Since today was a Friday, maha’s schedule wasn’t any different. She’d go sit at her grandma’s house, wining about how she wants to go back home or go see Sara and as usual her father would give her a long lecture about how important families are and how she needed to spend more time with her family. Unfortunately, that long speech wasn’t any use. She’d still sit there wining, if not to her dad then to her mum until they finally give up and went back home. Then, she would sit & watch TV until Sara comes over so they’d have a girls movie night. That was the usual Friday. But, she thought that this Friday she’s do something different, she wanted to go out with fares instead of having the usual movie night with her best friend. Maha picked her mobile up from the bedside table and dialed up Sara’s number.

“Hello?” Maha said after a 15 second wait.

“Hey, how are you?”

“Am good, listen about today…”

“Oh yeah I wanted to ask you. What do you want to watch, Drag me to hell or prince of Persia?” Sara cut her off before she continued.

“Yeah about that, I wont be able to have the movie night today. I’m going out with fares”

“Oh” Sara replied disappointed.

“I’ll make it up to you I promise.”

“No don’t worry about it. Ok listen I got to go. Bye.”

“Ok bye”

Sara’s perspective

Wow. Is she really blowing me off for a guy? I mean the movie night is our tradition; she wouldn’t let anyone ruin that. But, looks like I stand corrected. Fares just did. Well, he is the love of her life after all. I guess if she’s happy, then I’m happy.

Real World

Maha started getting dressed to go to her grandmother’s house. She wore a 3abaya because she thought that her father’s family were a bit closed minded, not really like her family. To her father’s family, anything she does would be counted as 7aram or 3aib, but she just put the shaila on her shoulders; Maha thought that if she wore it, it would be against her “I’m independent & I make my own decisions” principle. And it would be caring too much about what they thought.

She wore her favorite loafers & headed for the door where her mother & father were waiting for her. Maha rode into the car and already started to complain about not wanting to go & how they always judge how free and open-minded she was. They told her that they wont be long for them to come back, and she wouldn’t have to suffer too much.

She already had a plan. She would go there, sit a bit with her family then complain about how she’s having a really bad stomach ache and keep nagging until they took her home.

Surprisingly, it worked. Maha & her parents left at like 4:30pm. Once she got home she changed into her pink juicy sweat suit & called fares.

“halla 7beeby”

“Umm, hi” he replied. Maha sensed that he was tense, not talking in the usual tone.

“fares? Are you ok?” she asked worried.

“yes.”

“no you’re not, what’s wrong?”

“Listen Maha I’ll call you later alright?”

“Umm, alright” she replied, still confused. The last time she talked to him he was perfectly fine.

Maha tried to ignore what just happened and just clean her room up and the house since she had nothing else to do. She decided to call Sara and have their movie night after all. Her mobile was running out of charge and she was downstairs, so she called sara as she was going up to her room to charge it.

“Alooo?” Sara answered.

Silence……

“Alooooooo Mahaaaa?”

Silence……

“MAHAAAAAA” maha’s mother yelled through the phone.

Call Ended ..