Chapter 8: Sarah Saleh Weak Version
Dedicated to Lillyanah cuz her comments always make me super happy~! ♡ thank you!
Often the opposite sex doesn't realize how reckless we can be.
Men are just too reckless. Too reckless for their own good.
That's probably why they often cheat on their lovers and act without considering the consequences.
As you can probably guess, I'm working my way to using the because-I-am-a-man-and-I-am-Reckless-so-it's-Expected excuse.
Why am I still pretending to be someone I wasn't and texting Sarah?
Why, because I am a man; I'm brash and reckless so it's expected!!
Did I even take a second to think of how Sarah would feel after finding out that it was me all along?
No, because even if she does, what would unsettle her feelings about it?
It was only texting for God's sake!
So, on that Saturday, I picked my phone and opened our text chain.
Without even thinking twice about it.
I texted a quick hello and sent it. The reply came a few seconds later.
Sarah : hello.
What is the biggest difference between Islam and Christianity? I sent the question as soon as I finished typing. Right now, I just wanted to know, and know, and know some more.
Sarah : I'd say it's probably that we worship only One God...and that Christians believe their God is one and three at the same time. Or maybe that Muslims believe that Jesus PBUH never died on the cross, that he immediately raised to heaven, while Christians believe he died and came back to life.
Not all of them. Not all Christians believe in the trinity... even though I myself knew I wasn't being too truthful, I couldn't push the need to argue away.
Sarah : That's true. Not all, but most.
I guess... One has no choice but to admit defeat sometimes, right?
Christians have Sunday, Jews have Saturday, you guys have Friday...what exactly do you do on Friday? I remember this old red neck who told me that they cooked humans on Friday and danced around dead corpses or something like that.
Of course, I wasn't dumb enough to believe him.
But what did they really do on Friday?
I just wanted to know.
Sarah : well.. Muslims go to the mosque on Friday for Jumua prayer, Jumua is "Friday" in Arabic. You pray and have a sermon like mass, It's a bit long to explain, I think it'd be better if you actually visited a mosque and saw for yourself.
Upon reading her last text, I decided to play dumb and pretend I was oblivious about her in real life.
wow.. You speak Arabic? I sent.
Sarah: Yes. My parents are Lebanese Americans.
Well I really didn't know that.
Sarah: something came up. Gotta go.
What happened? Was it something bad?
I was about to find out soon enough.
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