#FewWords
Don't be in a rush. Take things in your stride, one day at a time. It's easy to be overwhelmed by what's going on around you. Don't overthink and worry about the nitty gritty. Do your best. Remember, the Almighty is in full control. He will protect you. You will see better days.

Recap
"I heard noises from this room and it was opened while I was passing... that's how I found you" Nasir chuckled

"You will pay for what you did" Salma gritted her teeth.

"Don't you want such a handsome dude, like me?" Nasir laughed out loud when he saw her expression

"You'll get uglier if you do that" Nasir looked down and smiled curtly

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
Third Person's POV
Salma and Nasir left the girl's room together but when they reached the elevator, Salma told him to go alone.

"Why should I?" Nasir asked her

"So, another scene be created? No, thank you" She looked ahead of him while he just smiled

"The reason I told that girl we are a couple is because they won't leave your life alone if they found out we weren't"

"How? What do you mean?" She raised her eyebrow

"The hug...duuhhhh"

"Hahaha...wait...what?" Salma laughed out loud and quickly composed herself when she got the message

"I know these people and you don't" with that he left and she joined the dinner party after 10 minutes.

"I love your dress" a random girl complimented Salma

"Thank you" she uncomfortably answered

"Who's Salma Ahmad please? Can I get her attention please" A middle aged man in a plain clothes asked the security personnel at the door

"Any problem?" Jackson asked him

"There's a package for her from..."

"Fuck!, give me..."

"Here I am, I'm Salma Ahmad" Salma smiled at the man

"Shit!" Jackson hit a table with his leg

"Any problem, Jackson?" Salma looked at him

"All is well...all is well" he walked backwards and left while Salma signed and collected her package with curiousness

"Hi Nas...the package arrived and Salma has already collected it" Jackson bent over and spoke to Nasir in his ear.

"Told you guys it was a bad idea but you didn't listen to meeeee" Hammad sipped irritatingly from a cup.

"Duuddddeee?!" Jackson raised his hands

"This is from Aunt Zee??" Salma murmured in surprise

"Hi Aunt Zee, u sent two packages?" Salma asked

"Nahh, I sent one, hope it wasn't late" Zainab calmly spoke through the phone

"One? Not two?" Salma asked again to confirm

"Yeahh, just one ma'am" Zainab chuckled

"Okay" Dalmsy lightly laughed and ended the call

"Can you believe something?" Salma quietly spoke to Hammad when she went back to their table. Each table has four seats. Her voice was laced with unbelief and surprise.

"What?" Hammad asked with the same energy she emitted although he knows exactly what she wanted to talk about. Jackson and Nasir narrowed their eyes.

"We are dead men!" Jackson shivered in a dramatic manner

"I got a package and I thought it was from Aunt Zee but I just got another one and it's from her again, I called her and she told me she only sent one package which is the second package" she ranted.

Hammad nodded his head as she continued talking

"Do you think that this dress I'm wearing isn't mine because it was this dress that was in the first package" she freaked out and opened her big oval shaped eyes with her eyelashes perfectly doing their job.

"Whaaatt?" Hammad was at the edge of bursting out in laughter.

"OMG, there's probably another Salma Ahmad, I'm so going to be embarrassed if what I'm wearing isn't mine" she continued freaking out while Hammad just kept nodding his head and Jackson totally acting as if he was paying attention to a group of girls presenting a drama on the stage.

Salma thought of all the possible ways the real owner of the package will react when she sees Salma in her clothes and she became restless.

"Jackson and Nasir aren't you guys gonna say anything?" Salma raised her eyebrows and rolled her eyes after that.

"Maybe it's yours, maybe someone who loves you just got it as a gift for you and..."

"Nahhh, that isn't true please, really?" She rolled her eyes.

"Nasir bought the first package for you" Hammad smiled mischievously

"Wwwhhhaaaattt?" Salma looked at Nasir who just looked down and quickly raised his head pretending he was paying attention to what was going on at the stage.

"Can you guys believe that charact..."

"Nahhh, we can't" Salma interrupted Nasir who was about to change the entire topic and Hammad almost spilled the drink in his mouth.

"Nice try fella" Hammad chuckled

"Ok, let's get your attention please, the winner of this Year's Football Competition will be determined tomorrow..." The MC started but was interrupted by the clapping of hands by 90% of everyone in the room.

"Tomorrow's game will be a lil tensed, we are playing against Saleh Suleiman's school" Hammad commented

"...we have come a long way, we wish the players all the best" He ended his short speech and left the stage.

"Yeahh, one thing that will make things a lil rough is Suleiman was disqualified because of us" Salma added

"Don't be scared or afraid, we can deal with'em" Jackson motivated them but deep down he didn't really like the game either.

"We need to be very careful because that guy, Suleiman is a messed up dude, I think..." Nasir started but was interrupted by Salma who said

"They can do nothing to us, We have God"

A few intellectual activities were performed and the dinner party officially ended but students didn't leave the hall.

"Goodnight guys, I mean Jack and Ham... don't think I've forgotten!" Salma looked at Nasir

"Hahaha" Nasir laughed

"Not funny... I'm not talking to you!" Salma closed her eyes and yawned while Hammad dragged Jackson and left them alone.

"I was just being a good friend, you are meant to appreciate what I did..."

"Really?" Salma asked

"No, well..."

"Thank you, I love the gown, how did you know I had no dress for the dinner party?" Salma asked

"You love the gown? I'm glad, why were you mad then?"

"I wasn't, was just kidding and you should have told me at least...hmm I wouldn't have worn it" Salma laughed and predicted what she'd had done.

"I got my mum's former fashion designer do the job, we met at the cafe one time so it wasn't difficult for her to know your size, she's a pro" Nasir explained

"She sure is a pro, did you choose the style?" Salma asked

"Yeahhh...u like it?"

"Yepp!" Salma answered

"Let me walk you to your room, the guard is my friend now" Nasir laughed and they walked to her room.

The next day came and the game was on, the atmosphere was so thick because of the players involved. Salma left her room very early and joined them in the stadium wearing black joggers that had white lines below, matched with a hoodie and an ash cashmere scarf that was wrapped around her head even though the hoodie's cap was still on.

"Woah! What's with the black today?" Jackson commented when he saw her.

"Always have something to say about anything I wear" Salma raised her eyebrows at him playfully

"Hope you guys are all set?" She asked them

"Yh, we are" one of the players answered her.

"We need your Dua SalNas" a Muslim boy who was a substitute for their team winked at her, he's a grade lower than them

"SalNas??" Salma irritatingly raised her eyebrow and hands

"Stop it" Hammad instructed

"What does he mean?" Salma turned to Nasir

"Don't mind him, just a sec..." He put a customized black face cap with the net at the back, it had the first letter of his name on her head, the cap had also had their school badge on it and the school football team's logo.

"...there! Now you look better" Nasir smiled

"Hmm, thanks, I don't look like a regular Muslimah" Salma smiled curtly

"Does she?" Jackson asked his fellow players

"Nahh, she doesn't..."

"True, she doesn't"

"Doesn't even look like the Salma we know from school" a junior commented

"She's being influenceeeeeed" Hammad quietly said

Salma walked out of the locker room and in less than 10 minutes, the boys walked into the field and the stadium was filled with roars and cheers.

"Goodluck" Salma mouthed when her eyes fell on Jackson

"Hey beauty" Salma didn't turn even though she knows exactly who the person was.

"Beauty" the voice came again

The game started and the person continued to call her different types of names, the game started as a regular one. 25 minutes into the game and Salma became a little restless because the person was still distracting her.

"That boyfriend of yours will have his legs broken today" the person said when his efforts of making her turn was fruitless

"What??" Salma turned around knowing exactly who it was

"Your prince in Shining Armor?" He plastered a smirk on his face

"He's about to get broken because he wanted to ruin my reputation, right? I'll break him" he added

"You are not on the field, you can't do anything, duuhhhh..." Salma rolled her eyes and turned her attention to the field.

"Really? Girl doesn't know how the real niggas work" he chuckled

"U see those two guys..." He pointed at two heavily built teenagers, Salma wondered the kinda guys they are, one was about 6ft while the other was shorter, about 5ft3'.

"... they will do the job for me" he relaxed and smiled at her.

Salma looked at the two guys and down to her wristwatch to check how many minutes were left for the first half to end.

"Just five minutes...and my niggas are about to strike" Suleiman said.

Salma was about to stand up and leave where she was sitting but Suleiman whistled and a girl that was sitting beside her pulled out her and Salma tripped.

"Are you blind? Can't y..." Salma was about to confront the girl but she noticed the band on her head and she immediately knew that Suleiman was the one that instructed the girl.

"...be a girl and not a puppet for some random morons" the words left her mouth

"That felt gooooooddd" she thought

"Really? Suleiman?" Salma sat down again

"I love how you say my name" Suleiman quietly said.

"Moron! Hhhmmmm!!" Salma hissed

One of the boys played towards Nasir, he was about to make body contact with him but Nasir remembered his coach's words and he quickly moved away, the boy got frustrated because that wasn't the first unsuccessful attempt he has made since the game started.

"Damn it, these guys are useless!" Suleiman stood up and left the place.

"Jack, Nas and Ham, no goal yet but Suleiman has got two guys to hurt you, especially Nasir"

"What?" Nasir said surprised

"That mother fucker will do it" Jackson put his hands on his waist.

"You've gotta play harder..."the coach, Mr Elijah started explaining places they could have scored a goal and possible chances in the next half.

"Those guys are good players!" Hammad put his hand through his head when Salma pointed at the guys Suleiman showed her.

"U need to be careful, you should tell Mr..."

"No, we'll handle it" Hammad said, immediately, he got the attention of the players to tell them everything.

The went in for the second half after the break.

"Pass the ball dude..."

"That's ittt..."

Comments like these and more were coming from the audience when Nasir and his team got a chance to score a goal.

"Yeahhhhhhhh, that's what we are talking about!" A goal was scored and the audience shouted.

"Jackson and other players ran to where Nasir was, a junior player removed his shirt in happiness.

"That's it, my guyyyy" Hammad shouted

Salma raised her hands making a peace sign with her fingers towards where Suleiman was with his gang.
Salma smiled at him

"Dang it, what the hell?" Suleiman hit his hand on the nearest flat surface which was very hard. He turned and walked to their coach shouting at the top of his voice.

They went back in and no team scored but when it was 5 minutes for the game to end, Suleiman's boys achieved their aim.

The tall guy got very close to Nasir and used his leg to wrench Nasir's ankle with force. Nasir's ankle got sprained and he immediately went down to with his hands making a hard contact with the guy's knee making him hit his ribs. The whistle was blown and the game immediately stopped, the players were trying to explain that it wasn't an accident, rather something intentional but he didn't listen.

Nasir was taken out of the field on a stretcher, the coach and Salma ran to catch up with the doctor and nurses. Nasir's right hand was on his ankle and the other was kept on his abdomen, he winced in pain. It was clear he was in severe pain because of how red the place surrounding his ankle turned. He folded and unfolded his legs up to his chest. Salma wasn't allowed to near them.

A substitute came in and in the last 2 minutes of the game, he scored a goal which made the game 2:0.

They were all happy but Nasir's buddies weren't happy because of his injury.

Suleiman was passing by when Salma saw him and she quickly ran to him.

"Hey moron! We won and you lost! I thought you..."

"I'll slap nonsense out of you..." Suleiman gritted his teeth but was interrupted by Jackson.

"Do not even think about it" Jackson and Hammad walked up to him

He hissed, strengthened up and left them standing.

"Salma?" Hammad questioned her

She smiled

"Naughty" Jackson chuckled

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