Sorry for taking so long to post this, its just I've been feeling very uninspired lately. I hope you like it.
Things with Mayed started to improve after that day, we weren’t friends but at least he wasn’t treating me like a bimbo anymore. I tried to keep our meetings in class short and sweet since I wasn’t comfortable hanging out with him. For some reason, I would start blushing and I hated the feeling that someone could affect me in that way. I was usually very good at keeping an icy cool exterior but he just got to me with those intense eyes of his that made me feel things I didn’t want to feel.
I was so glad when it was finally the weekend and I could just ignore what was going on and sleep till noon and not think of Him. I woke up and went downstairs still in my pajamas, I didn’t even brush my hair and was wearing my furry bunny slippers. I went into the kitchen and poured myself a huge bowl of coco pops. I went into the family room and settled down to watch some TV when the housemaid came in looking around frantically. She was new and was still getting used to our house full of loud men.
“aaah you are here, your brother Faisal say he want you to go to majlis now, quickly quickly”
I raised a confused eyebrow at her but she was more scared of my brother Faisal and practically shooed me out of the room.
“inzaaaain I’m going, ufff shu yeba hatha ba3ad” I muttered as I walked to the majlis.
My brother was talking to someone who I couldn’t see as I stumbled into the majlis.
“Na3am shu teba minee that was so important that I couldn’t even finish my coco pops?”
I said standing there, but Faisal was staring at me with a shocked look on his face. I turned to see that the person he was sitting with was Mayed, who was trying to control his facial expression.
I quickly ran out of the room, but Faisal was following me. “Intee shu tsaween hnee? hay el 5adama el habla ma tefham shay?!”
This can’t be happening to me, when will these awkward moments with this guy stop occurring? Was I being punished for something I did? More importantly how will I face him in class after he saw me in my furry pink bunny slippers?
I ran up to my room and called Maha.
“9aba7 el 5air”
“Laaaaaa”
“La6oof ma feeny 3ala film hindee mn el 9b7, sh3indich?”
“It’s Mayed”
“What did he do now?”
“He came to our house and saw me in my pajama and keshatya nag3a ou …”
“Your pink bunny slippers”
“Yes, don’t laugh seriously I feel man7ousa”
“You’re absolutely right, kila wala el bunny slippers those are just a crime against fashion”
“Ma3alaaaih now you’re making fun of me!”
“La Wallah ma3arf shu agoulech try to look on the bright side”
“Which is?”
“At least he didn’t see the SpongeBob pajamas”
“I am hanging up now, oh and by the way Faisal might kill me for walking in on his nseeb”
I avoided the next couple of classes with Mayed by just emailing him my work, which was going fine but I knew I couldn’t keep it up for the rest of the semester. It was good enough for the time being.
I was sitting in college with some girls in the café, when my phone beeped with a new email,
Stop avoiding me, I miss you. - Mayed
P.S. the bunny slippers looked cute.
