chapter forty eight

"I have something to tell you." Maya and I both said at the same time.

"OK you first." I said suppressing the grin that was about to spread across my face.

"No you first." She argued and I would have argued back if I wasn't too excited to tell her.

"Uncle Haroon is coming." I blurted out at the same time my grin spread out.

"What?seriously? How? When? Tell me everything. Oh my God, where's he going to stay? I'm too shy to face him. How am I...." She hyperventilated and I gave her a light smack on her shoulder.

"Calm down. I wasn't acting like you when he told me he was coming over." I eyed her but she kept breathing heavily.

"Just tell me." She whined

"You know the next three weeks is graduation and uncle Haroon's close friend also his workmate....." I paused looking at Maya who was giving me 'continue' look. "I don't know how to explain it." I admitted ashamed of myself.

"Just say it anyhow."

"This person's younger brother is studying at our university and he's graduating this year. Then his older brother,that's uncle Haroon's friend will fly from Nigeria to US for the graduation and he surprisingly asked if uncle Haroon wants to tag along and who in his right senses would say no to such a big offer? So that's it." I finished with a smug smile on my face.

"You just explained it perfectly after saying you can't explain it." She blankly pointed out.

"Duh whatever. Now tell me what you wanted to tell me." And I said that,her smile returned.

"Yes. Its...." She paused and her face slowly morphed into a frown.

"What?" I asked her confuse. Why will her emotions change in a matter of seconds.

"Khair why?" She asked still frowning.

"Why? Why what?"

"Why will you post a pic of you and Ahmad that you took at yesterday's outing?" She frowned deeper.

Post our pic? On whatsapp or where? I couldn't even remember taking out my phone throughout that night.

"Where did you see it?" I asked the smile completely out of my face.

"On instagram. Look." She shoved the phone at my face and I backed away to get a better view.

There was a nice picture of Ahmad and I holding hands with me looking at him like a lovestruck teenager.

"Maybe it was taken from all those random photographers you know."

"Why don't you swipe left to see more."

Swiping left, the image I saw left my mouth hanging. It was a picture taken from behind looking as if Ahmad and I were kissing.

"Oh God." I exclaimed as I read the caption which says 'having a nice time with boo' then heart emoji.

"When the hell did this happened?" I asked yelling at Maya and she gave me this 'seriously?!' look.

"How are you expecting me to know? I wasn't with you last night." She answered eyeing me.

"Why will you do this Khair? Even tho I'm a bad girl,the highest I go is hold hands but you,kissing? I'm so disappointed." Maya scolded really disappointed

"What?! Did you think I could ever do this kind of thing? You don't trust me?" I gawk at her unbelievably.

"I do trust you but....I just don't know. Why don't you read the comments?"

4,390 likes? Seriously? Just within 12 hours? And 536 comments, this is so stupidly ridiculous.

'Wow. Beautiful couples' one of the comments read.

'Nice shot'

'I never imagine that innocent girl to act bad in private'

'Awwwn'

'Bad!!!'

'Masha Allah'

'Who knows what's she's doing apart from kissing. Ew!'

'Little slut'

And the comments goes on. Some nice,rude,bad,almost bad and offensive. I couldn't read anymore so I kept the phone gently with my palms sweaty and shaky. In fact,my whole body was sweating.

"I will leave you with your thoughts. I would be in the kitchen if you need me." Maya quietly said giving me the little privacy I needed that moment.

When did this happen? Why will a person create a fake account with my name then post bad pics of me that I had no idea when it was taken. Who is that person that will hate me so much to this extent? Or was it jealousy? But jealous of what? Oh God! What a problem.

About that kissing tho...Ughhh this world is so frustrating. I got up to take pain relievers but remembered the moment when I was having fun designing Ahmad's face with frosting last night. Maybe that's how that picture was taken. Since it was taken from behind and my head was somehow tilted to the side,it looks pretty much as if we were actually doing the dirty.

"God of mercy." I groaned and preceded to the room to take medications as the headache increased.

After gulping down two glasses of water,as if my head was banged on a wall of remembrance, just one particular person cane to my mind.

Fathona!

I remembered when she came to the restaurant after I warned her several times not to come after me and she looked shocked when she saw me. She was acting weirdly when I scolded her that time. More to it,she was the only one I told where exactly I was heading to yesterday.

Its definitely Fathona.

A sudden rush of adrenaline coursed through my veins. I badly wanted to strangle Fathona that moment. I grabbed my keys and ran to the kitchen furiously only to find Maya staring in space.

"I'm going to Fathona's." I said tapping my foot on the floor.

"To do what?" She questioned worriedly.

"To beat explanation out of her." With that,I rushed out of the kitchen to my car. Maya was yelling my name but I acted deaf to her calls.

There was only one thing in my mind,Fathona.

......

Unknown person's POV

"I never knew your stupid idea would work." I said to Smith showing how impressed I was with his plans.

"Told you it will definitely work. My plans never fail." Smith praised himself with smug face.

"When you told me you're going to create a rift between Khair and Fathona because of a picture, and you showed me that single photo where they were holding hands, I was like, Smith you're so dumb but as I saw the next pic, I was so impressed. How the hell did you do that?!" I asked slightly smacking him on the arm.

"Yeah you see girl, a legend like me always have their ways." Smith started bring out a fancy sunglass from his pocket and putting in on swiftly trying to act like a model. The scene almost made me puke.

"I'm a computer genius. I hack for fun." He said and I narrowed my eyes at him. " I thought you studied engineering "

"Yes I do. My parents forced me to learn computer. They shoved my face on computer since I was five. I hated it at first but now,its paying off." He paused and took a long breath. "I professionally took Khair and that guy's pic myself upon reaching the restaurant. I perfectly disguised myself well to blend in and thanks to you for sending Fathona there at the right time. She will be held responsible by Khair while I,will go scot-free unnoticed. I edited the pic,created fake account with khair's name, posted it,created fake likes,viewers and comment. It was hard tho. I hacked two people's phone and loaded the masterpiece on it. And that's just it." He explained in one breath and I nodded in understanding.

"That's intelligent. Good work Smith."

"I know right. Geez, Khair's here." Smith announced and I turned my head abruptly to where I saw Khair's car speeding to Fathona's house.

"Here,take this." Smith handed something like headphone but weird in shape. I put it over my head and all I heard was nothing.

"What's this suppose to do?" I asked smith who was busy playing with something that looks like marble. He threw the marble like object and it directly hit the front door of Fathona's house. Its rolled slowly before coming to a stop few feet away from the door.

"Okay?" I raised an eyebrow at him for explanation.

"That stone is recording sounds and we can be hearing everything through this headphone. The closer we get,the clearer the sound becomes and vice versa. So we just have to stand at a safe distance and listen to all Khair's ranting. Its left for the elec-stone to do its work."

"Elec-stone?"

"I couldn't find a perfect name for it so I just decided to name it from its properties. It contains electricity and it looks like stone,hence the elec-stone. It suit it tho."

"You created it? Like you made it yourself?" I asked surprised

"Yep. Its among the things I created when I was still amateur in creation."

"Interesting. Will you... " I stopped when I saw Khair dragging Fathona out of house roughly.

"Ow!" Fathona winced looking at Khair with utter confusion.

"I dragged you out here cos I don't want your mum to hear us." Khair said eyeing Fathona from head to toe.

"So?" Asked Fathona with annoyed tone.

"So this!" Khair yelled bringing out her phone showing Fathona something. Probably the picture judging from how Fathona left her mouth wide opened in shock.

"What? Khair, why will you do such an act? I never thought you would do such..."

"Oh keep quiet Fathona. Did you think I will let some idiot snap us in that act even though we aren't actually doing it?"

"I don't really get why you have to drag me from my house to show me that pic."

"Why did you do this to me? It was all framed up by you. Why?"

"Me? Seriously? How can you say its me. I can never do that to you Khair."

"I said its you cos is obviously you Fathona. You're the only one I told where I was going with Ahmad. I didn't tell Maya nor Stephanie only you and I warned you not to follow me but you did. Isn't that enough to say its you?"

"I didn't even came to the restaurant with that bad motive. I came to meet my new boyfriend."

"Really?! That wasn't the only restaurant in town especially when I told you not to come."

"See let me explain things here...." Fathona started and my eyes widened. This dumb girl might expose me.

"Smith. She's about to explain things to Khair and she will definitely mention me. What will I do?" I panicked

"Don't worry. I gat your back girl." Smith said patting my back and bringing out his phone.

"This is not the time to use your phone Smith." I gasped.

"Shh. Keep shut and learn from the best." He said pulling me close to him.

"See. I'm just going to message Fathona not to talk about you. The text goes like this, 'Fathona, I'm watching you explain to khair about her frame up whatever,if you dare mention me then know that you're in trouble and act like you're behind everything. Sincerely me who's watching every of your move'." With that,he hit the sent button.

"Duck." He said to me but I stared at him confused. He face palmed himself and drew me down to kneel with him.  "If she sees the message,she will look around to confirm if you're really watching her so we can't take any risk that's why we have to hide behind these bushes." He explained.

"This looks like it was all set up be s...." Fathona was close to tearing everything up and that's when she received the message.

She read the message and her eyes scanned everywhere in fear. Thanks to Smith, we were safe from been seen.

"Continue." Khair urged Fathona who was looking for lies to cover up what she was saying. "It was all set up by someone which is me! I don't care. I was jealous of you two so I did what my heart asked me to do. Can you do me a favour and get your freaking self out of my compound?!" Fathona yelled suddenly. Khair stiffened in shock, I shivered in delight while Smith looked surprised.

"You know what you did was wrong right? I won't say I hate you but I hate what you did to me. Now that you posted it,people will think that's my personality. You're happy that you used me right? From today,I don't have anything to do with you." Khair calmly said wiping her tears. I felt somehow guilty but a selfish part of me was enjoying the show.

"We were both used." Fathona whispered unable to look at Khair in the eyes.

"I leave you in peace." Khair concluded and left in her car.

Fathona sat down on the floor and tears gathered in her eyes.

"Since we have taken care of Fathona and she has played her part well,its left for us to pay her handsomely. What did you think?" I reasoned with Smith and he shrugged.

"You're right. Take this,add it to yours and give it to her. I will be waiting for you here." Smith said and handed me huge amount of money.

I opened my purse and brought out money that I didn't care to count.

"You!" Fathona exclaimed with intense look of hatred in her dace upon seeing me.

"Yes me. What you did earlier was a job well done. I'm proud of you. Now take this money and move on with your life. Pretend all these never happened and don't mention any of these to a soul if not,I can make your life miserable in two minutes." I threatened and stretched my hand at her waiting for her to collect the money but she kept glaring at me.

"Fine. I will add more." I sarcastically said and brought out more money.

"I don't want your freaking money." She spat

"Really? Don't be like this Fathona. I know you do want this money. Its hundreds of dollar girl. Please take it." I smiled sweetly at her but she was fuming with anger.

"You're wasting my time here." I said and threw the money at her face. It scattered everywhere on the floor. I didn't care about it being lost cos I know she will later pick each single one of it.

I bent down and picked up the marble stone then walked back to smith.

"Nice drama." He complimented and I flipped my hair in pride.

"Let's go." I said smiling like an evil maniac as I made my way to my car planning on how to execute the next plan.

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