Today is another bright day, I did my morning routine, and I am on my way to class when the almighty annoying Ethan stops me on the way.
“Thank God I caught you before class. I want to talk to you.”
“What do you want this early morning,” I say and take a bite of my doughnut and sip a little of my coffee
“You know Mr Jacob made us partners for the assignment. And you also know that there is no where on this earth, you and I can work together. I rather eat shit than work together with you” Ethan says with a lot of disgust on his face
“The same goes here; I rather work with a mad man than work with you,” I say with the same disgust all over my face. I know I hit a nerve by comparing him to a mad man, which was what I was aiming for.
“I will pretend I did not hear you compare me to a mad man and say what I came here to say. We both need to meet Mr. Jacob after class and convince him to change us as partners.”
“As much as I don’t like to agree to anything you say, I can agree with you this time. Maybe if Mr. Jacob sees how we both don’t want to work together, he might agree to change us as partners.”
“Yes, so after class stay behind so we could talk to him.”
“Sure, no problem,” I am about to take a bite of my doughnut when Ethan roughly walks past me, causing it to fall
“ETHAN!!!!” I say, screaming his name while he walks away chuckling. I can’t believe Mr. Jacob thinks someone like him and I can work together, It’s impossible.
“If I did not know better, I would think you are screaming his name because you love him,” Khloe says, walking towards me with her boyfriend’s arms around her waist.
“We both know that is impossible,” I say looking at my poor doughnut on the floor while I plan Ethan’s death in my head
“Hi, Adina” Khloe’s boyfriend’s Marcus says. Marcus is 6 feet tall, has a lean build, deep sea blue eyes and brown hair.
Marcus is someone I don’t fancy too well. I believe he is cheating on my friend, but she does not believe me because she thinks he is faithful to her. And I am not just assuming he is, I almost caught him one time, but he lied the lady was his cousin. But I know that lady could not have been his cousin with the way he was all over her. I told Khloe about it as every good friend should, but because of the way she is in love with him, she did not believe my words over his. But I also don’t blame her for not believing me, because who knows, I might have been lying to her. I might be jealous and want to steal him from her or ruin her happiness, but unfortunately, that is not the case here. I just pray with time she will catch him one day and leave him
“Hello Marcus,” I say trying my best to hide my irritation towards him
“How are you doing?” He says
“I am doing fine and you.”
“I am doing great also.”
“Yep, I know that, but I have to say whatever you guys were talking about, it seemed like you guys spoke to each other for the first time like normal human beings,” Khloe says
“Funny enough I think you are right,” I say recalling Ethan, and I just agreed to something for the first time, which seems weird now that I think of it.
“Yeah you guys did, and I think you guys as partners for your assignment might bring an end to you guys’ feud.”
“I don’t think so and In Shaa Allah hopefully by the end of today we won’t be partners again.”
“Really, that’s good then.”
“I pray so.”
“Alright then I wish you all the best in your classes, see you when you get back,” Khloe says hugging me
“Bye see you later,” I say hugging her back before she walks away
I walk to class and have a good day because I was not sitting close to someone, Alhamdulillah. But unfortunately, I have to meet up with that annoying person after lectures. We both wait for class to be over before walking over to the professors’ table.
“Good day, sir, please, we would like to speak to you,” Ethan and I say at the same time.
“Why are you repeating what I am saying,” We both say at the same time again while glaring at one another.
“You should stop,” We both say,
“No, you should stop,” We say,
“Both of you shut it,” Mr. Jacob says,
“I know both of you are here to tell me how both of you can’t work together, but I don’t care. All I know is I expect an assignment from Mr Mantone and Miss Ibrahim by the end of next month.”
“Mr. Jacob there is no way Adina and I can work together. It’s like asking a predator and prey to work together” Ethan says
“That is not true because, in Zootopia, the predator and prey did work together. So leave, the both of you” Mr. Jacob says stunting us with his reply
“Please, sir, we need you to reconsider. You are practically asking for the impossible,” I say pleading with him to change Ethan as my partner
“No, I am not, and if both of you want me to subtract five marks from the assignment that has not even started. Keep standing in front of me when I am done speaking” Mr Jacob says. I am about to open my mouth, but I see him carry his pen, and I close my mouth back.
Ethan and I walk out of the classroom, both thinking in God’s name how we are going to work together.
“Fine, since we have to work together to get this assignment done, we will.”
“Yeah, and we could talk about what we are going to do later today after school,” I say agreeing with him, which is something I don’t do regularly, but what can I do when I don’t want to fail my final assignment.
“Today can’t do, I am throwing a party tonight.”
“What about tomorrow?”
“Recovering from a hangover.”
“What about on Sunday,” I say starting to get irritated with his excuses
“Sunday could work, what time?”
“2 is fine with me, how about you.”
“It’s fine with me also.”
“Alright,” I say feeling a bit awkward to have a civil conversation with Ethan
“Yeah,” Ethan says
“Bye,” We both say and quickly walk away. I can’t believe having a normal conversation made both of us feel awkward. What a weird conversation that was?
I spend the rest of my day attending classes. It’s basically what I do every weekday of the week. I walk out of my department building, and into my car and drive home.
I got back home a few hours ago. I prayed, ate and was sleeping before the cries of my roommate woke me up. I walk out of my bedroom to find out what’s wrong.
“Khloe what’s the problem, why are you crying?” I say rubbing her back in a smooth motion to calm her down
“It’s Marcus; we fought,” Khloe says in between tears
“Oh, dear, what happened,” I say, turning her around to face me, but she quickly turns away. I notice she is hiding something from me
“Khloe lift your hair,” I say with a lot of anger building up, because if it’s what I suspect I don’t know what I will do to Marcus.
“There is nothing on my face,” Khloe says standing up and walks a few feet’s away from me
“I never said there was anything, show me your face,” I say standing up myself while crossing my hands over my chest and tapping my feet vigorously. Khloe hesitates for a while but slowly lifts her hair. I don’t even know when the tears start falling, but I feel them rolling down my face.
“Oh my God, look at what he did to you. Please tell me you are never going to see him again” I say looking at the big bruise on her face
“I don’t know Adina, I love him, but I can’t just overlook this.”
“You can never go back to him after this; he hurt you.”
“I don’t know Adina.”
“I won’t allow you to ever go back to him, and come here let me see your face properly.”
“Please be careful, it still hurts,” Khloe says, sitting down on the couch, while I take a good look at her face. There is a big purple bruise forming on her right cheek.
“Oh my God, this is bad. Sorry, I am sure it hurts. Just sit down while I get you some ice” I say, and walk to the kitchen.
I come back from the kitchen with ice and try to touch Khloe’s face, but she runs away
“Why are you running?” I say laughing at her behaviour
“It’s going to hurt me.”
“If I don’t put ice on it today, it would look worst tomorrow.”
“But……” Khloe says trying to come up with an excuse but fails
“Come and sit down. I promise to be gentle.”
“Really,?” Khloe says finally walking back to the couch
“Yes, I promise.”
“Please be careful,” Khloe says bringing her face forward
“I will,” I say, and gently place the ice on her face.
Khloe screams in pain and tries to run away, but I hold her in place and reduce the bruise on her face. I just pray she never goes back to Marcus, because it might only be a small bruise on her face today, but tomorrow it might be more.
Sunday came faster than I wanted it to, because of two reasons. One, my weekend is over, and secondly, because I am meeting up with Ethan later today. I can’t picture us working together in any way; It just seems impossible.
I am currently getting ready to meet up with him at the school library. I leave the house a bit earlier than 2:00 p.m. because I want to get some work done before he comes. While studying, out of nowhere someone comes and pulls the chair in front of me and takes a seat.
“Good day to you too,” I say, lifting my head from my book. I knew it was Ethan the minute his lovely intoxicating perfume filled my nostrils. I actually like the fragrance he uses.
“I didn’t say hi,” Ethan says in an irritated tone
“Whatever, the sooner we begin, the better for both of us,” I say closing my book and open the notepad I would be using to write down essential things for our assignment.
“The same goes here, let’s begin,” Ethan says, rubbing his palms together while he gets ready for us to start.
“So, I thought since it’s our final assignment we could make an app or website for children,” I say stating out my idea
“What I have in mind is different. I want us to make our own search engine” Ethan says totally not on the same ground as I.
“We shouldn’t make a search engine. They are so many in the world” I say not liking his idea
“And they are so many children’s apps and websites out there too”
“That’s also true, but we both know that almost every app, website or type of search engine has been created out there. So if we are going to make anything, it has to be unique in its own way.”
“I agree with you, but I am not doing an app or website because you said so. We are going to do something I say we will.”
“And why would I do something just because you say so. If I remember correctly, it’s called a joined assignment. Nobody is the leader here, so we are going to pick something both of us agree on” I say getting annoyed with his reasoning
“Fine and I don’t like the fact that you are always right.”
“Deal with it,” I say smirking
For the past four hours, Ethan and I have gone back and forth on what to do for our assignment. We have not decided on what we are going to do, and I am already tired of fighting him about everything he says. He is making the assignment all about him, and I can’t allow that. I know there are a few times I also did that, but I had to because he was being self-centred. He practically did not agree with anything I said because I said it out of my mouth. I am so frustrated right now. I don’t even know how I am going to cope working on this assignment when we can’t even decide on a single thing for it.
It’s been two weeks since Ethan and I started working together or rather tried to work together with no progress. We still have not settled on anything for the assignment, and I have can’t believe it’s due in two weeks. I just finished performing Dhuhr (Afternoon) prayer, and I am getting ready for class. I did not have lectures in the morning; that’s why I am still at home. I put on my outfit, which consists of a black crop sweater with green plaid pants and black ankle boots. I am about to step out of the house when I receive a call from one of my loved ones.“As salamu alaykum” My elder brother, Usman says once I answer his call. Usman is 6’1 feet’s tall, has a solid build, with dark brown eyes, has a tan skin tone that he gets from my dad while I got my dark skin tone from my mom. My brother is a very handsome man.“Wa alaykumu salam.”“How are you doing sis,” U
He brought me to his house, of all places, why did he bring me to his home. Does he want to rape me or something? I think if he wanted to, I wouldn’t be standing here and him walking towards wherever he is walking too. I look around the place, and I must say it’s beautiful. The walls are painted black all around, really matching his personality. There is a staircase to my left, while straight ahead is the living room decorated with little bits of white painting, giving the room colour. The couches are grey with a black centre table. I walk towards the living room, and to its right is the kitchen. The kitchen is gorgeous; it is painted grey. The chairs in the kitchen are white and golden long stools. The workup is black with little stripes of gold.“If you are done admiring my house, I think we should continue the assignment,” Ethan says startling me“Oh yes we should, but I have to say your house is beautiful,” I say wa
He brought me to his house, of all places, why did he bring me to his home. Does he want to rape me or something? I think if he wanted to, I wouldn’t be standing here and him walking towards wherever he is walking too. I look around the place, and I must say it’s beautiful. The walls are painted black all around, really matching his personality. There is a staircase to my left, while straight ahead is the living room decorated with little bits of white painting, giving the room colour. The couches are grey with a black centre table. I walk towards the living room, and to its right is the kitchen. The kitchen is gorgeous; it is painted grey. The chairs in the kitchen are white and golden long stools. The workup is black with little stripes of gold.“If you are done admiring my house, I think we should continue the assignment,” Ethan says startling me“Oh yes we should, but I have to say your house is beautiful,” I say wa
It’s been a few hours since I left Ethan’s house. I still can’t believe I agreed to fix our relationship. I don’t even know how that’s going to happen. I don’t have a single idea as to how I am going to do that. I am watching tv in the living room when Khloe walks in with her hands filled with shopping bags.“How was your day at the mall,” I say to her once she drops all her stuff down.“It was fun, and I got a few things for you. I know you are going to love them” Khloe says smiling while she goes through the bags and brings out a few shirts that I instantly fall in love with“They are nice, thank you,” I say taking them from her hands. They are lovely shirts.“I know, and once I saw them, I knew I had to get them for you.”“Thank you.”“You are welcome and what’s troubling you. You looked troubled when I walked in” Khloe says, noticing my
It feels like it was yesterday I was left to rot at that unknown place. Khloe was able to save me that day. I can’t believe Ethan left me there. I know he was angry, but that is not enough reason for him to leave me there. I should not be surprised anyways because it’s Ethan I am talking about, someone who hates me more than anything in this world. He hurt me a little that night, nothing serious, but I still feel little pains in my arms when I move them. His grip was really tight that night.I am on my way to class this beautiful afternoon. I get to class and take my seat, waiting for the professor to arrive. Someone takes a seat beside me, but I don’t border to look up from my phone to know who it is. The professor arrives after a few seconds, and the class starts. I keep my phone on the table and look up. The person sitting beside me is not someone I want to see after what happened on Saturday. Ethan is sitting beside me. Why is he sitting beside me? I
I can't believe good food was used to bribe me to come for this event. The food at the event was not bad, but right now, that is not the problem. I am starting to feel sleepy due to how bored I am. It's a dinner ball, the person my brother wants to sign a deal with is hosting it. I am currently sitting down outside, trying to entertain myself by watching videos on Instagram."Adina is that you," A familiar deep voice says. I turn around, and I am right, Ethan is the one who called me."Yes," I say, surprised to see him here."What are you doing here?" Ethan says, joining me on the balcony."I should be asking you the same""What is my name?""Ethan Mantone," I say, and I realise that Ethan has the same surname as the man hosting the event tonight. He must be Ethan's father; wow, I would have never guessed that."From the look on your face, I can tell, you know why I am here. So why are you?""My brother is trying to get a deal
A few weeks have passed since that beautiful encounter between Ethan and me. I felt so shy to face him again after that day, but the next day in school, Ethan acted like nothing happened. We have become closer than ever; we do a lot of things together that I never saw us doing. We go to class together, study together and even go for lunch together like we are right now. Ethan and I are at a nice restaurant after a long day of lectures.“I hope you have not forgotten about my game on Saturday,” Ethan says after he takes a bite of his chicken.“You have been talking about it for the past two weeks. I won’t miss it for the world” I say after taking a sip of my drink.“I just want to remind you so you won’t forget.”“I won’t and is Saturday, not Caroline’s birthday,” I say recalling the lovely girl telling me about it last time we met.“Yes, it is, and she said I should ask you if you could make a few doughnuts for her birthday.”“Of course, I would love to, but there
I am in the waiting room at the hospital while the doctors check on Ethan. My hands have not stopped shaking since I got here. I know this is not the first time Ethan has been in this situation, but I feel far more nervous than I was the first time. I can barely stop moving my hands and legs. Ya Allah, I hope it’s not severe. The doctor comes out, and I quickly walk towards her."How is he doctor? I hope it’s nothing serious. Can I see him?" I ask so many questions at once