#FewWords
Do not attach your heart to those who lead a sinful life for you might one day find yourself in deep regret. It’s so important to choose your friends wisely because knowingly or unknowingly they can make a huge difference to your life. Take heed!

Recap
"It's just two weeks, I pray my relationship with Brenda lasts" Darby put her hands together as if she was praying.

"Excuse me" a junior student interrupted their discussion

"What?" Hauwa looked at him

"All these rats always interrupt important discussions, what do you need..."

"Senior Darby, your mum's in school, she sent me to call you" he quietly said

"What? My mum?" She gasped and immediately stood up from her seat.

CHAPTER NINETEEN
"Oh my God, my make up? Please help me remove the make up wiper from my bag please" she started pulling down her pencil skirt that was pulled down. The table was spread with all her bag's content.

"I can't find the make up wiper"Amelia continued rummaging the content in her bag.

"Take this" Hauwa stretched out her hand without looking up.

Darby collected the wiper and wiped out the a nude coloured lip stick on her lips, she cleaned it thoroughly and rubbed lip balm.

By now, everyone in the Cafe was looking at them, some of the year one students hid their face and laughed.

In less than five minutes, Darby changed her look completely. Hauwa continued to laugh at her.

"Help me keep all the make up items in your bag please" Darby picked up her bag and briskly walked out of the Cafe.

"This is much Darby, where should I keep it, I'm not going home immediately" Amelia shouted

"Please, just...you can dispose them all" Darby's voice became very faint as she ran.

"Darby is just a case" Amelia sat down and started picking everything up. She bought a  plastic bag and tied everything in it.

"Do you know Darby's locker's pin? I want to drop everything there" Amelia asked Hauwa who was clearly busy on her phone.

She nodded her head, they both went to Darby's locker, Hauwa opened it and they dropped everything inside. The locker had a small container that was filled with chocolates, it looked like a gift because it had a blue ribbon tied on it. There was another black leathered bag.

They locked it and were walking back to the Cafe when Hauwa bumped into something.

"Oh my God, are you blind?" Hauwa winced because she hit her leg on a bench as she bumped into the person.

"I'm really sor...? Nasir immediately kept quiet when he saw her.

"You must be blind!" his expression immediately changed.

"You. Are. The. Blind. One" she gritted her teeth

"Do not taste my patience" Nasir said

"Get the hell outta here" he walked past her.

She left immediately and Amelia followed.

Nasir walked to the library, he entered and looked around as if he was looking for someone, when his eyes landed on Salma, he walked to where she sat, all the students were looking at him, he just smiled and continued walking. Salma was the only one in Hijab, she wore a peach hijab and it really brought out her beauty, she looked so good in it.

NASIR'S POV
"Excuse me" I looked at a junior student who sat down comfortably on the chair beside Salma, she sat down at the end of the library, to her right was the wall and and to her left was a chair that was occupied by a junior.

The boy stood up and I sat down, I smiled mentally. Salma raised her head and looked at me. The table is meant for six chairs but it was shared that is, you can't see what your partner is doing on his table.

Salma continued looking at me, oh my God I was actually smiling! I cleared my throat and looked away.

"Hi..." She said

"You need anything?" She added

"Hello, I just... hmm" I cleared my throat again.

She dropped her head and God knows whether she laughed or just smiled or just wondered.

"Well, the coach said I should put you through...I mean, it's not as if you can't do it alone but..." I stammered and I'm dead sure by the look she's giving me she knows I'm lying.

She just smiled and looked at the document she was given. She pushed a paper that had few scribbles on it.

I scanned through it and it was an amazing write up.

"This isn't everything, I've not finished summarizing everything" she tapped her pen on table and didn't make eye contact with me. She doesn't make eye contact at all.

"Let's do everything together then" I offered

"Well, are you sure?" She asked

"Of course! Unless you don't want me to"I said while raising my hands up, I seriously don't want to leave but I acted as if I wanted to, I almost stood up when she told me we could do everything together.

After an hour, we summarized the document and the only thing remaining is for her to read and practice the summarized piece.

She kept on reading and reading, she's so confident, we decided to have a rehearsal.

"No, no, there's a line before that line" I corrected her when she made a mistake.

She remembered the line and continued, she came to a point where she started laughing when she realized she made up a line. Her laugh is so beautiful, she looked so happy.

"Before Monday I'd have memorized everything, there's no rush" she sat down after the rehearsal, she was  clearly tired.

"Won't you have something to eat?" I asked her.

"Let's have some home made snacks" she dipped her hand into her bag and brought out a zipped n full of chin chin. She dropped it on the table and zipped up her bag.

"You bring snacks everyday or..." I unzipped the pack and picked one out of it.

"Is this Double Zee's chin chin?" I asked her, her chin chin is just different, so rich.

"Yeah, it's hers" she answered.

"Lemme get us soft drinks" I stood up and went downstairs straight to the Cafe and bought us soft drinks. The last time I saw her she was taking a Pepsi so I bought one this time around too. I bought four soft drink bottles.

I passed by our class and called Hammad and Jackson.

"Come let's eat something in the library" I offered the both of them.

"OK" Jackson packed his books which were on the table, Hammad didn't bulge, he was just staring at a Physics question, frustration clear on his face.

"Ham...Ham" Jackson whispered into his his ears.

"Dude, get the hell outta here please" He screamed.

"Come, have a break and we'd solve the question together" I told him as I packed his books into his bag

"Where's your bag Nas" Jackson asked me.

"In my locker" I said without bothering to look up.

"What are you doing without your books then?" Jackson asked.

"I'm helping..."

"He's with Salma" Hammad interrupted me.

Jackson and Hammad laughed out loud and gave each other a high five.

I looked at them questioningly "what's all this please? What's the laughter about?" I was irritated already.

"No, nothing is wrong" Jackson said

"Nas and Jack, let's go please" Hammad said

We all went upstairs, sat down and started taking our snacks. Jackson was just eating non stop

"Jack, you want to finish everything?" I asked him

"You guys should allow this girl eat her snacks in peace" Hammad laughed while picking more and throwing them in his mouth.

At the end, we ate everything together, Salma didn't even finish taking her Pepsi, she just closed it.

"This girl can't eat in public" Hammad whispered to me.

"Yeah, that's true" I whispered back.

"Since we've finished helping Salma finish her snacks, can we please finish solving this question?" Hammad asked us

"I won't have a calm mind if I don't solve it" he added

"Lemme see please" Salma stretched out her right hand.

"This is very tricky but if you..." Salma started the explanation

In no time, she explained everything and Hammad solved it, I was just staring at her.

"Get a picture" I jumped up, it was as if someone planted a speaker right next to my ear.

Jackson smiled at me innocently.

"I think we should go home early today,
Pack our luggage other things" Hammad suggested

"Yeah, that's true" Salma said

In no time, we all packed our bags and left the school, Hammad was the one driving, Jackson was in the front seat while Salma and I were at the back.

Jackson switched on the radio and it started blaring. Hammad didn't say anything, he just kept quiet, he is a very calm person, I also didn't say anything.

I think were all waiting for Salma to speak up, Hammad looked at her through the rear view mirror, she was uncomfortable. Being in a car with three boys and irritating music blaring.

"Jack, Jack..." Salma called Jackson but he was so into the music, he didn't even hear her.

"Jack, Jack..." She called again but no answer.

She looked at me but I pretended I was into my phone.

"Ahhhhhhhh"Jackson screamed, he turned back

"Switch off the music please" she said

When the music was switched off, she just smiled and looked down.

"You used your hijab pin on me?" Jackson asked her

"Don't mess with a Hijabi" Hammad laughed.

"Ohh please, it hurts a lot, learnt my lesson the hard way" Jackson said.

"I don't think you can drive Ham" I said

"Why?" He asked

"Why are you driving like a Grandma?" Jackson said

"I'm just trying to be a gentleman here" he raised his hands from the steering wheel

"Woah woah, I have a lotta goals I haven't accomplished yet" Salma screamed and we all started laughing

"Bye bye, don't forget to pack your necessities boys" Salma smiled and turned to enter her house.

"You too!" Jackson shouted.

"Should I drop you at your house or..." Hammad asked, I think Jack told him everything that's why he asked.

"Yeahhhh" I hesitantly answered.

They dropped me at my house, I entered and the security immediately started greeting me

"Morning Junior Boss" A lady greeted me, she was clearly flirting, she's about my age, who's she?

I was about to walk in when I heard my mum talking.

"That's his father's business, I don't care about the both of them, you need to see the mess Nasir made yesterday, I had to pretend to cry, I smudged my make-up" she continued talking

What does she mean by that?

"Yeah, he warned me not to over do things, he clearly loves Nasir u know" she laughed

What's she talking about? Questions just ran through my mind, what's all this

"As-salamu alaikum" I opened the door and she immediately dropped the phone.

"Wa alaikumus salam my boy" My mum answered, she stood up and walked to where I was. What does she want to do now?

"I was so worried about you, I couldn't even eat, I..." She continued talking but I was just looking at her, she said she didn't eat but she looked nourished, she doesn't look like she didn't eat.

I didn't say anything, I just walked upstairs and straight to my room.

I had a shower and sat down to pray, I already did my wudhu so I just prayed Maghrib since it's already Maghrib Salah time.

What is disturbing me now is what I heard my mum say on the phone. What is going on  in this house, I don't even know anything about my family again.

The door opened and my uncle entered.

"Uncle Jalaaal" I jumped on him, he's a very strong man so there was no need to get worried.

"Shehu Jnr" he said as he slumped on my bean bag

"Uncle Jalal, easy easy" I laughed

"It has been so long, so so long, how's Sa'ada and Sa'ad?" I asked of his children

Sa'ad is his older son while Sa'ada is his junior sister. I can't even remember how they look like now.

"They are all fine Junior, Sa'ad will soon graduate from Business school and Sa'adah is your junior, she'll graduate from high school next year" Uncle Jalal said.

When I was in school, Sa'ad and Sa'adah used to come over almost every time, Sa'ad and my sister were good friends, her death shocked him too but... I don't even want to talk about it.

Sa'adah and I used to play together but we lost contact after my sister's death, I left the country and they moved out of the country too although their dad is always in the country.

We chatted for hours.

There was a knock on the door and I opened it

It was my dad, he made Salam and I answered him, for Islam's sake, I'm really angry at him.

He jumped on my bed, now this is weird.

"Take it easy with the bed Mr" Uncle Jalal said

My dad is well built, even at his age, he always works out and does exercises. When I was young, he always does that with Uncle Jalal, haven't seen them doing that together since I came back though.

Uncle Jalal laughed out loud and he couldn't stop himself, he has this contagious kind of laugh that'd make anyone around laugh. In a minute and the room was filled with Laughter.

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