Just Be Friends

28 - Betrothal

8-7-16

Eid Mubarak (belated)! I hope you had enjoyed the month of Ramadan as it will take a year to visit again. Man, I already miss Ramadan.

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April's Pov

Cooking the new recipe for breakfast, I call Aiden for a bite. He appears all dressed up to leave while it was hardly seven.

I couldn't keep my curiosity in and settle out to question. "Why so early bro?"

"You remember the robbery that has been at the manufactory?" I nodded in response as I recall it.

"An officer contacted me now, informing that the burglar is caught and held in custody. They are questioning him about whose hand was behind the robbery. He couldn't have done it on his own. He had someone's help from the inside, and that someone will be caught soon." So this robbery matter will dissolve in no time. It had Aiden's emotions all over the place. He had been really stressed about the theft going on and seems at ease now.

"What if he doesn't discloses the name of that person who was helping him?" I have watched many movies about how they hide their superior's identity.

"Simple, he will be tortured. You don't have to worry about all that. Pay attention to your studies as exams are nearing and take care of mom." He pecks my head and leave with a smile on his face.

Preparing breakfast for my mom, I place it near her and scurry myself for school.

It's been a month since I had a talk with Zain at the Ice cream Parlour and reminiscing his words  makes me quail from within. The things he listed to find in his future spouse, none were present in me. I fed him many clues about how I'm the perfect girl he desires, but stupid boy couldn't take a single hint. Instead he just kept smiling in a creepy manner all the way, making me frown every now and then, remembering it. Never did I boost about myself in front of anyone. I know it wasn't cool, but I needed to do that.

It's a dead on target saying that Boys are stupid. I asked Aiden to say few simple words to Khadija. 'I. Like. You. Is. There. Any. Chance. Of .Us. Being. Together?'

Witness, everything is so simple. Only he just felt those words ponderous. He then hit my nerve saying that it took me two years to concede the same thing to Zain. But I managed at last, stupid mouse.

The past month wend by smoothly without any commotion. Zain sometimes nods looking at me while we catch each other at school, but now he laughs at me when I do something gawky in the class. He wasn't supposed to be mean. He still avoids my gaze, but as everyone knows how awesome I am, sometimes I catch him looking at me and in return I pass him a wink. He even smiles at me causing all the girls hate me more which wasn't exactly unusual.

Bethany was back in school and the whole episode of our fight subsided really well. Yet whenever our gaze meets, she doesn't holds back her glare.

It was amazing as mum's health was holding over a huge recovery and Aiden has stopped behaving like a brat as he assists me with my school  work and doesn't makes those weird 'business face'. Plus now the theif has been arrested, he seems relieved in some way.

It has been a month since we had an ice cream date... as friends. That 'f' word makes me want to puke my guts out, pull all my hair off and beat myself to death. Why did I ask him to just be friends? Where the hell in my mind that idea came from?

Throwing out the depressing thoughts from my insight, I walk towards my class and grab myself a seat. Some blonde guy sat beside me making me wonder where Khadija was.