10.1.23

she walks into the library once again

Hana had told herself not to check on the note for a good while so she wouldn't get disappointed when the mystery person doesn't reply as she's really not expecting much, but despite all that time spent trying to convince herself not to, after only a couple days, she's walking into the library to check on the book

she first walks into the fiction aisle to see if the book was still there or not

she looks for the book on the shelf but its not there

now there were two options, either someone has taken it out, or it's been left with Suzan, by J

"hello suzan" she smiles as she tiptoes to the front desk

"oh hi dear" the old woman smiles at the girl who often showed up at the library

"by any chance did anyone leave a book under the name dua lipa?"she says snorting at the last part 

"oh i have one book, you can see if it is the one your looking for"

as soon as she pulls out a copy of the book thief a huge smile graces Hana's face

she sees the sticky note with 'dua lipa'  written on the front and smiles even more

"do you know the boy?"

"the boy?"she says surprised not knowing it was a boy who had replied to her

"yes, a very lovely young man left it here the other day"

"well... not really" she says "it's complicated"

"alright then, here's the book anyways" Suzan says handing her the book

"thank you" she smiles again as she walks off

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14.1.23

"do i look fine?" Hana asks her best friend

"you look great jamila (beauty)" she smiles getting up and placing her hands on Hana's shoulders

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"im scared about the date tals"

"don't stress it, you don't have to make it work, you know that right?"

"mhm"

as she thinks, her phone rings and she realises she has to go

"come on then"

she grabs her purse and takes the lift down to the street

"hey harry"she smiles to the boy who was parked in front of her building with his car windows rolled down

"hello" he says not looking up from his phone

she walks over to the other side of his car and opens the door for herself and gets in

"so, where we heading?" she asks

"just this italian restaraunt round the corner" he answers as they begin to drive off

"alright that sounds nice"

they sit there awkwardly in silence for a minute, while Hana tried to think of a question to break the tension in the car

"soooo, uhh whats your favourite colour?"

Harry looks at the girl next to him with a smirk, taking her as seriously as he would take a five year old

"your joking right?"

"no, seriously"

"damn are we back in preschool, what kind of question is that"

"alright mate, no need for you to get mad then yeah"

after that, the two simply sit in the car in complete silence, the boy didn't even have any music playing, and after his reaction to the first question she asked him, she was too scared to even ask him to turn down the heating a little, so she just sat there soaked in sweat until they arrived

the two exit the car and cross the street over to the restaraunt and a waiter sits them down at a table of two

hana flicks at the menu looking for something to eat, but being her indecisive self, she asks Harry to pick for her

"could you choose for me, ive never been before"

"chicken alfredo?" he asks her

"sure" she smiles

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"so my mum told me your libyan?"

"i wouldn't describe myself as that really, im more british than libyan"

Hana nods trying to mask her disapproval as she chewed on her food

she eat the food and made it seem like it was nice, as she didn't feel like him turning into that narcissistic and annoyingly sarcastic version of himself she'd seen earlier in the car. the food to her tasted bland, it wasn't even italian, it was very whitewashed italian alfredo, basically no spices, and after biting into one piece of the chicken, she just put that to the side of the plate as she hadn't tasted anything less flavourful before

"this is one of the best things a person could eat" Harry tells the girl who simply nods as she didn't want to hurt his feelings

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The date had been alright, they had laughed about the same jokes and generally felt like it went alright. however when the waiter came in with the cheque, things went downhill

"can we split it?" Hana asks

"why" he raises and eyebrow

"just yknow to avoid any misunderstandings or anything"

"nah"

"Harry just-"

"nah man i'm paying"

"for goodness sake please just let me-"

"your tryna play hard to get, its not working" he smirks

Hana felt uncomfortable at his comments and how he began to talk over her as they fought over who was paying, her thoughts were confused as the remarks he made had nothing to do with the conversation, and this wasn't the first time she noticed him doing that.

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When Hana gets dropped off at home, the girl finds herself alone in her flat, she walks up to the kitchen bar wondering where Talia had gone and if she'd left a note

she finds no notes left anywhere round the kitchen, so she opens her phone to check whatsapp

when she sees that her last seen was only 7 minutes ago, she decides not to worry, and that the girl was probably out getting things from tesco

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"TALIA" the girl turns around to see a hooded figure dressed in all black who was shouting her name

"hello?"

the man walks up to her and she sees his bright blue eyes peeking through a ski mask he was wearing, and instantly she begins to panic

"Jacob what do you want"

"im not done with you"

"mate just leave me alone, i was just walking home with my stuff, get over it im not getting back together with you" she says pointing to the tescos bag grappled round her wrist

"you're not making it home" he says quickly

a scream fills the cold air and suddenly talia's world goes black 

the girl lay on the floor, and her groceries lay scattered next to her on the pavement and blood began to spill

the boy stands over her realising what he had just done and runs off as he sees a crowd beginning to gather

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—notes

hii

sorry i haven't updated in ages

ive literaly been procrastinating everything for a whole week 

its probably bcuz i have a crush on this guy at school and i told myself i wouldn't get a crush again after what happened before but like yeah

also spent 2 hrs yesterday tryna do kick ups before i realised the football was egg shaped and thats what i couldn't do any 😭

anywyas i'll try and get another chapter out asap