Salman's POV

                   After digesting what we ate, we went back to Aliza's room and copied the notes what Aliza had saved in her PC. It reached up to 4000 words and that's all we could find in google. Myself, Juliet, Aliza and Omar divided and wrote 1000 words each, although our points had been repeated on and off.  We had to write 6000 words more, so we used our brains and helped Anna write her 1000 words and we managed to help Kaym write his 1000 words as well. Now we are done with 6000 words and had only 4000 more words to finish the project, but we were worn out and so was our brains, we couldn't think anymore and were feeling dizzy and sleepy too.

It's already 12:00 in the midnight, but we couldn't think of sleeping because we had to finish it and submit tomorrow morning. We phoned our parents and informed that we hadn't finished yet so we won't be coming home tonight. Aliza's mom gladly hosted us and allowed us sleep at her place. Yet we didn't want to sleep until we are done with the project.

"My brain had paused working and can't think of anything anymore"

"I am sleepy"

"I am tired"

"Let's relax a bit and continue later"

"Why don't we go out of the room to drive the drowsiness away?"

"I think the best place is the rooftop" said Aliza and took us there.

                         The moon was shining above our heads like a piece of cheese. It was a moonlight night and we could see each other's face quite clearly. The stars were blinking all over. It was a beautiful sight. The rooftop was surrounded by a short wall which reached up to my chest if I stood next to it. We were freely roaming while some of us sat on the ground just talking and so.

                         At first I was just idling until I found a peaceful corner near the wall, I stood there inclining to it, folding my arms,I placed it on the wall. I stared at the sky and was lost in my thoughts. When I looked at the shining stars and the moon, it reminded me of Juliet, her gorgeous face, her lovely smile, her cute frown, and the way she turns away when she looks at me and notices me staring at her, the way she talks to others, her actions, her everything.. I could say. I don't know why, but as I always say there is something unique and special in her which makes my heart skip a beat when i see her or remember her. 

Am i falling for her?

No.. No.. I shouldn't. Even if i do, she'll never fall for me. 

I should probably stop thinking about her. 

                          I turned behind when someone hit me hardly on my shoulder. It was none other than this Aliza girl. I inquired as to why she hit me I was surprised for her reply,

"How many times did I tap your shoulder and you never realized"

"Ohh.. Is it? Am sorry..I..I was jus..just.. lost in my thoughts maybe.." I tried to hide my embarrassment.

"Okay.. So tell me what were you dreaming about?" She asked placing her hand in her hip

"Uh. It's.. It's nothing.. just random stuffs.." I managed to tell.

"About your future?" She winked

"Lol nah... So why did you come here?"

"Just to check on you. Because only you are missing, everyone else is seated there" She said looking at the others seated quite far from us.

"Alright. I'll join. And I'm sorry"

"No worries"

                     We walked to the crowd and sat with them. I feared that I had to answer their questions as to why only I wasn't there with them all this while, but no one asked and it seemed like they had sat together not so long.

                             Our tummies started grumbling. Aliza suggested that we go down to the kitchen and check if there was anything for us to eat. We stood up and tiptoed down the stairs as she locked the rooftop door and followed us, we made sure that we don't make any noise because Aliza's parents and siblings are sleeping.

                        We hunted for food here and there in the kitchen while Aliza opened the refrigerator and took out a dish in which there was black forest, only a piece of cake has been eaten and the rest was remaining. She took it to the dining hall and we walked behind her like greedy puppies. We sat around the dining table and had the cake. There was a flask on the dining table. Aliza opened it and found coffee in it, so she poured a cup for each of us and served.

"So sweet of your mom Allie" Olivia commented

"That's because she's MY mom" she boasted stressing on 'MY' and winked 

"Can never compare you and your mom, She's way better than you and you are good for nothing" Harry said

"Rude much" Aliza pouted

"Hahaha..."

                    The clock stroke 2:00am. We went back to Aliza's room after we had finished eating and drinking. Our sleepiness vanished away but we had no ideas for the project.

"What are we gonna write for 4000 words?"

"I suggest my opinion"

"What's your opinion?"

"Just write whatever comes across our minds, regarding anything, under any topic?"

"Yeah, what else to do? That's the only option I guess" 

"That's great! C'mon Lets start"

                         We just told all what was crossing our minds while Olivia, Edgar, Harry and Fred were writing their 1000 words. Meanwhile Juliet and Aliza made the cover page with a bit of decoration and punched the papers. After everyone had finished writing we put the papers in order, since mine, Juliet's, Aliza's and Omar's notes are authentic and from google, we placed two of it in the beginning and two of it in the end and placed the rest of the papers in the center because all types of nonsense were written in it and we expected that no one would waste their time reading our freaking project and after all it's just a punishment. Aliza inserted a ribbon through the punched holes and tied a bow there to keep all the papers firm and in its place.

                        Thank god finally we were done with the project and It was 3:45 in the midnight. Now of course we could think of nothing except sleeping. Since everyone can't sleep on Aliza's bed her mom had suggested that half of us go and sleep in the guest room which is at the ground floor but no one wanted to go. We didn't want to separate from our friends because not every day do we get to sleep together like this, so we preferred sleeping in Aliza's room. 

                           Aliza put a mattress on the right side of her bed and another in the front. The four girls slept on the bed and we shared the mattress on the ground. Usually I cuddle my pillow when I sleep but today I didn't have an extra pillow, I wished I could cuddle someone and the first person came to my mind was the girl who captured my heart, Juliet, but she slept somewhere far and even if she was near me I wouldn't have done it because I still don't know how she feels about me, Perhaps she regards me just a friend like the others, I had no idea, really.

                            We switched off the lights and drifted off to sleep by 4:00, we had only two hours to sleep because we had informed Aliza's mom to wake us up at 6:00am to go to school.

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                       I woke up for the noise of the doorknob tilting and found myself on the ground at Aliza's place. Aliza stood at the door. I lifted my head to see the time and it was 10:00 in the morning. I jerked and sat up trying to recall what's happening and Aliza giggled softly at my reaction, making sure that she doesn't wake the ones who are asleep. I found Omar sleeping next to me and the rest except Aliza were fast asleep too, Then I remembered that we were doing the project last night and slept at Aliza's place.

"Hey, What are you thinking about?" Aliza said cutting off my thoughts.

"Didn't your mom wake us to go to school?"

"She has been waking us up for around two hours and none of us had woken up"

"Wow! Another holiday then?"

"Yeah. And the best part is we are going to spend our holiday with friends"

"When did you wake up and why didn't you wake us as soon as you woke up?"

"I woke up just half an hour ago and I didn't wake you guys because anyways we won't be going to school after this right, so I let you people sleep because I know how tired we are after staying awake last night."

                     She had already changed to another set of clothes. She was wearing a black denim and a white long t shirt which reaches up to her knees with a light blue denim cardigan over it and a black hijab over her head. Her dress code was superb and I like it.

                    She left the room and it was only me who was awake. I turned to my left and found Juliet sleeping on the bed peacefully and wish I could sleep beside her. I kept staring at her until I heard a groan from Omar. I quickly turned towards him and saw him waking up and so did Kaym who was sleeping next to Omar.

                       Gradually everyone woke up, changed themselves, had tea and spent the rest of the day at Aliza's place.

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                  The next day, Friday, we went to school fearing if situations would become worse because all 10 of us were absent the previous day and that was the day when we had to submit our project but fortunately Ma'am Hannah had not come to school yesterday, so we submitted it today and she said nothing about it.

We wanted to see if we would get caught for writing nonsense but no sign of it nor did anyone speak about it. The girls went to the library in the last period and had seen it stuffed there in a corner with the other projects and seemed like no one had checked it. We were quite satisfied about it.

A quick update yeah? ;) 

How's the chapter? How was Salman's thoughts on the moonlight night? What's Salman's opinion on Aliza? Does he feel the same way with Aliza as he feels with Juliet?

Will they again fall into trouble because of the project?

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