chapter 16

I woke up at 5:00 to prepare my food and fa6oom’s and to pray. It felt weird waking up not hearing my mom’s voice. I took a deep breath. When I finished preparing the food and praying, I made breakfast and woke up fa6oom, it was 6:15 A.M.

                “yallla fa6oom gomay sa3a 6 w rb3” I said.

                “ok” she whispered then got up with the sleepiest face on earth.

                I went to get dressed. I was kinda nervous going back to school. Before losing my ‘confidence’ I used to be the craziest person on earth. I was the troublemaker. Now I’m too depressed to make a sound. I’ll try to go back to the old me I guess. I wore navy blue skinny sweatpants with a baggy grey hoodie. Fa6oom wore sweatpants and a black jacket. We ate breakfast and went down to the car. 15 minutes later we arrived to the school.

                “oof mali 5lg” I said.

                “ya3ny anal y 5lg… yaay 3azooz ma3ay awal 79a bat7arash fee” she said. We went to the door.

People were staring. Mneera came.

                “haw dalool shmsawya shaklich cuuute” she said.

                “hehe fee leftover black eyeliner msawy 3ainy mka7ala”I said.

                “kaaaak “ she said.

                We went to “our” spot in the playground.  The best thing about school is when you have loads of friends and I do hahaha.

                “dalool a5eeran shfnach” faroo7 yelled.

                “hehe” I laughed. We hugged and a bunch of others jumpedand joined the hug.

                “mashallah 3alaiha 7lwa mno hathii” I heard someone from behind me. I looked back bas no one was there. Ymkn it wasn’t about me…

Halla ran towards us.. excited.

                “banat ambay..ambay fee a new guy in school walla 7ada 7lo!” she said.

We laughed.

                “haw maynoona?” fa6oom asked.

                “walla mn9ji ygoloon ma6rood mn his 2 old schools cuz  he is a troublemaker way la oo mo mnazleena sna la2ana obo ya36y money for our school or something like that 3shtaw”  halla said.

                “7mdla wshkr …ooah ca 3azooz” I said. He came towards us.

                “tawa ma nawrat ilmadrsa” he said.

                “bwijoodk” I replied.

                “w 7na ? mako ?” fa6oom said.

                “intay bas sktay ‘6almat ildnya” he said.

                “chub chub” fa6oom said ..punching his chest.

                3azooz laughed and looked at her. Ihya ma shafita bs the look he gave her wasn’t like any other normal looks….omg I think 3azooz likes fa6oom. We headed to English class. I saw the new kid…for once in halla’s life she was actually right that guy was hot! I pretended that I didn’t see him.  My phone rang…SHIT. My friends coughed and yelled until I turned off my phone. I laughed so hard. Gosh I have the best friends on earth. We entered English class and I sat between 3azooz and fa6oom. The teacher started the lesson. 3azooz started laughing…

                “is there something funny?” she asked.

                “I think 7amood is farting” he sad. We all looked back.

                “chatahb kl 5ara ” 7amood said then laughed hard. 7amood is one of 3azooz’s friends.

                “stop farting mohamad” the teacher said.

Fa6oom laughed.

                “is there something else funny?” the teacher said.

                “3azeez is burping” she said then started laughing so hard.

                “she’s lying” 3azooz said.

I started laughing so hard everyone was out of control…

                “what are you doing stop laughing you jungle of monkeys …oh my god ..please take my life I can’t handle this class and take aziz to hell” she yelled. 3azooz continued laughing. We spent the whole class laughing. The bell rang and math was next. Fa6oom has history and 3azooz was with me in math class so does the new kid.

We sat down.

“ok who has an average of 9o and above in math?” the teacher asked.

I had a 94 so I raised my hand. A couple of students raised their hands too. I had normal grades in the other classes bas madry laish im really good in math its weird. Ilmohim ..

                “ok dalal what is your grade?” she asked.

                “ 94” I said.

                “ok you’ll be tutoring yousef of everything we did from the beginning of the year and ill give you credit that could take your average to a 98 ok ?” she said. 

                “ wait who is yousef plus I missed math class for the past two weeks” I said.

She pointed at the new kid. I was shocked for a second. I looked at him then smiled.

“its ok let aziz teach you ok” she said.

I nodded ok.

She continued teaching …I was figuring out what’s going to happen next. The bell rang …break.

He came towards me……