Chapter 2: The Meetup

'ALLAH IS YOUR PROTECTOR, FEAR NONE BUT ALLAH's ANGER'

NOOR'S POV

OMG! what I am gonna do now...

But wait! why the hell I'm acting weird... he is no one... so yeah he doesn't know me nor do I know him, end of the story! yeah cool! Okay yeah, how could I forget that I'm in New York and there's only a 10% chance that he could be a Muslim?  But why was he staring at me I have to go ask him... should I? NOOO never In front of Tania... I don't th...

"Earth to Noor" Tania waved her hand in front of my eyes. "Are you even listening to what I'm saying?" She folded her arms.

Okay, she came in between my thoughts, "Sorry, I just got distracted by something..." I spoke hiding my nervousness. By the way, I literally don't the hell know why his presence is affecting me, even thou we only met one time for less than one minute... Okay so yeah, maybe it's that ... FORGET ABOUT IT!  FACK MY THOUGHTS!

"Well, I'm guessing that your eyes are fit on someone, not something" She stared right in my eyes and winked at me.

I felt uneasy so I tried to change the topic after breaking the silence of 1 minute "well where's Sania?"

"I'm guessing that you are not having any interest in my talks "

" I hate you, If you wanna know that why the hell I'm checking out that man you could have asked me straight. don't beat around the bush" I was very serious this time 'cause I know that she teases me every time whenever I check out someone 'cause for the last two years she wants me to be with someone, in other words, she wants me to marry first as she knows that I will not indulge myself in Harram (Arabic word for forbidden) relationships.

"Okay s..." as she was about to say something I felt someone's cold arms wrapped around my eyes.

Oh yeah, I perfectly knew who that could be... "Sania, I know it's you now remove your hands and hug me already"

"Yeah yeah, I know this trick is old... But who cares!" She chuckled

We took a seat at the table and talked about their Fiance and husband. The table was for five people as we couldn't find the table for three, Tania sat beside me and Sania sat across us. Sania was married to Walid half a year ago and two months ago Tania was engaged to her fiance Ibrahim. And I was the only single in the group who not even ever had an 'innocent' crush on someone. We all are just chill, our relationship is so cool and I hope that will never end. I'm the one introvert type a little bit when I'm around them I never behave like an introvert. They never judged me from what I show to them, they knew every single thing running in my head.

"Okay, I wanted to tell you both something on our group call, but I thought it would be better to see your reactions from my own eyes" Sania raised her one eyebrow and chuckled. Tania and I twisted our heads to look at each other in a suspicious way.

"Well, umm, I... I..." Sania paused and blushed. Her cheeks were red as she brushed her neck with her palm. Tania and I glared right into her eyes, "I...I... I'm expecting" She patched her lips as she was trying hard to hide her sheepish smile. Tania and I both were amazed shouted simultaneously "WHATTT?"

5-second silence spread in the surroundings, nothing good came out of our mouths instead of this stupid word and she's the kind of a person who would get uncomfortable around someone easily. So I gave her a beam of satisfaction and expressed "OMG! Mashallah!! This is really going to happen now, we both are going to be aunts and you a Mum..."

Tania finally tried to process the whole situation "Sorry, I'm the hell just so shocked, I don't have any words, I tried to get a hold of my feelings my brain can't process a huge change in just a second and I'm just too fucking amazedddd...Allah bless you!"

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I slide the chair, stood up, and proceeded to walk towards the food corner to grab three buckets of popcorns. I reached to the popcorn stall easily and waited for my turn standing in a queue. I finally bought the popcorns and made my way towards my friends. I had a doubt that the way I'm holding the big size buckets may fall from my hand. I looked down the buckets while walking I was trying to carry the buckets properly. At the same time, I strike on something hard. As I noticed that something was someone and a man, the drink he was drinking spilled on his white shirt, and the socks inside his shoes were all wet.

Okay at this point my body started shivering from fear, I looked up at him in an attempt to say sorry but as my eyes met him, WHAT THE HELL!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME... WHY THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME NOW... He was the weirdo I was trying to avoid but somehow I bumped into him.

I could feel his body burning from inside, I could see the rage in his eyes, he clenched his jaw and he was compressing his fist.

My body was stiff I hadn't blinked for a while as I caught his furious look, I never thought that wet clothes and socks could make a person so damn angry. I moved my eyes from him and started looking here and there twisting my neck.

WAIT WAIT!!! For God's sake, it's just a damn drink. I felt a little relaxed as this thought ran through my mind and looked back at him, without any fear stared right into his eyes. Okay yeah, I didn't show my fear I tried to hide it hard and showed him that I'm not scared of the looks he was giving at this time.