Alnihayya

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This one is for marshmallowssprinkle
:)

When your heart is breaking and your pain makes you fall;
Remember,
Just remember;
Allah sees it all.

☆

Mashal

Ever since I started going college again, I feel like I'm a robot. I used to love routine before I came across Alnihayya. I used to love waking up at the same time each day, going to college, studying, coming back home, eating and sleeping after packing my bag for the next day as if tomorrow was promised for me.

But now that I've realised nothing is promised in life except what Allah has promised, I don't like my heedless routine anymore.

Going to college, coming back home, sleeping.
Going to college, coming back home, sleeping.
It feels so ridiculous.

Maybe not for everyone, but for me knowing that people are dying out there, my own dad and love are risking their lives, I feel so selfish to stay here and do nothing about it except pretending that everything is alright.

Even in college, seeing Zeyara's chair empty pains me. There's a constant nagging in my chest that I should do something.

But that's the question. What should I do?

"Hey do you mind if I sit here?"

I jerked my head up from my chemistry notes to see the person who had addressed me.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw him.

(Muskaan: Comment here if you thought it was Zeyara. 😂)

Nathan was the last person I would expect to talk to me. He was the official playboy of our college with half of the girls drooling over the chance to date him.
I wouldn't disagree that he was good looking but he took advantage of his looks for wrong things.
And I hated that.

"Sure. I was gonna leave anyways."
I closed my books and stood up, ready to leave the library. I had a lot of work to do there but sitting with Nathan was something I wouldn't want on my resumè.

"Actually I wanted to talk to you." He smiled wide, staring directly at me with his blue eyes that had charmed hundreds of girls.

"About?" I asked hastily.

"Well....there's this party we are having before the finals. Everyone else is going so I thought it would be rude not to invite you just because you wear this...mask."

Wow.
I never knew I wear a mask.

"Thank you. That's very thoughtful of you but I don't think I'll have time for that. I have to study." I muttered dismissively and turned around to walk away.

"Don't worry. You won't feel left out. You can go as my girlfriend." He said from behind me.

I immediately came to a halt.
He was surely up to something. Throughout the whole year they had numerous parties. He didn't care to invite me then. Why is he doing this now? And not only inviting me to a party, he's asking me out.

"Cool offer but I'm already taken." I replied without turning to face him and stormed out of the library.

I had missed so many days of college and the finals were about a month away. My whole career depended on these exams but whenever I sat down to study, I just couldn't concentrate. I had to stop thinking of Alnihayya and start thinking of my own life for some time. That's why I decided to stay in the college library after the classes had ended, instead of going back home to Zeyara's room where all I could think of was him.