Bittersweet 52

"Noorooh!" 79a said between bites of her Coco Pops. "He's HOT!"

We were sitting in the downstairs living room enjoying breakfast facing the large glass window that

gave us a great view of the beach. Amoon was asleep so 79a and I decided to enjoy breakfast alone.

"I know!" I said, chewing on my own Coco pops trying not to blush.

"Nooro a7s he REALLY likes you."

"You think?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Wallah! You make a cute couple." 79a giggled.

"Laaaaaaa." Awani atdala3.

"Chub! Ya5i 3tarfay ench mayta feeh! I see your face when he's around. Nawari you're so obvious."

She giggled.

"79o shut up!"

"Seery zgii a9lan enty you like it yom 7ad che eygoolch!" She winked devilishly.

God she knows me well!

3ad ana stanast ya3ni! 9adagt 3mri shway! Enzain 5alooni! Wallah awal mra I experience this!

"OMG!" 79a suddenly lit up. "El 6ayeb 3nd thkra!"

I turned around to see what 79a was looking at out the window, and there was Rashid, walking along

the beach. He was in a plain white T-shirt, black shorts and sunglasses.

"Let's go say hi!" 79a said casually. Testahbal hay?

"Yeah, and then we can go party on the beach and drink until we pass out." I said sarcastically.

"Whatever Nawari! 3adi shu feeha ya3ni?" She said, right before she opened the door and walked out

to the beach.

Hay shu nawya tsawii! I swear I'm going to kill her! I refused to go outside. Maynoona ana? Ow my

brother is in the next house ba3ad! Tet7ara 3mrha fi film hindi. I ra8b-ed them from the big glass

window. 79a skipped like an idiot all the way to Rashid who was standing on the shore. He smiled

and took off his sunglasses and hung them on the collar of his shirt. She smiled back at him. Soon,

they started talking and giggling! SHU HAY?! Tseer ow tet'3azal feeh right after she demands that I

like him! I'm going to seriously kill her!

--BETWEEN RASHID AND 79A—

"Heeyy!" 79a said chana el3eed.

"Oh hi 79a!" Rashid greeted her. "What are you doing out here."

"I just came to say hi, sho 7aram asalm?"

"La la 3adi." Rashid chuckled. "So sh7alkm?"

"Wallah klshay tamam, wnta? How are you?"

"Great, we're supposed to go fishing today so Man9oor and 7amdan went to go get fishing gear from

the sheesha ow byrdoon." He explained.

"Allaah fishing!" 79a beamed.

"So wain the rest?" Rashid asked.

"Ay rest? Oh you mean Amoon ow Nawari? Amoon ragda, ow Nawari and I are just having breakfast."

79a explained, pointing at the window.

"You're spying on me?" He smirked.

"Laaa2! Wallah we were just having breakfast! But I'm not going to lie, we were talking about you."

79a winked.

"9DG?!" His face suddenly lit up.

"Yup!"

"Shoo tgooloon??" He demanded.

"Well I wasn’t doing most of the talking. That would be Nawari." 79a el 7mara said.

"Wallah?" He was smiling so wide that the corners of his mouth reached his ears.

"Yeah man!" 79a kept going. "She's going to kill me for this but believe me she likes you. Like, a LOT."

Rashid said nothing, but smiled like an idiot.

"Awww Rashid are you blushing???" 79a teased.

"La sho el rayal doesn't blush!" y3aanid.

"Chathab! You're as red as a tomato! Tra eybayn through the window you know?" 79a laughed.
"SHIT!" He turned his face towards the ocean so it wouldn’t show that he's blushing.

"Hahaha oh my Gosh you guys are so cute!" 79a kept laughing.

"Shut up 79o!" He chuckled.

"Fine but it's your turn to talk now!"

Rashid's eyes widened.

"Yallah," She began. "What are your intentions towards my best friend ha?"

"5aaaiba!" Rashid said. "Ta78ee8!"

"Shut up and start talking!" 79a demanded.

"I do not feel comfortable discussing this with you." Rashid said.

"Comfortable or uncomfortable, che wla che, you're going to talk!" She insisted.

"Wow, dfsha." He teased.

"Lat'3ayer el salfa, I'll get back to you on that dfsha comment but for now you're going to tell me how

do you feel about Nawari!"

"Obviously you're not going to quit, so I'm just going to tell you that …. I'm crazy about her." He said

so fast that 79a barely heard it.

"I knew it!" 79a gasped, trying hard not to scream of joy.

"Wallah! From the moment I laid eyes on her that day at Chilies I knew she was different." He kept

gazing at the ocean, ystarj3 el moment.

"OMG." 79a squeaked quietly trying to keep her emotions from bursting.

"Sure I've known a lot of girls in my life, but that was my past, and I've never felt about any girl the way

I feel about Noora. Not even close." He kept pouring his feelings out.

79a sighed.

"Am I boring you?" Rashid suddenly snapped out of it to see 79a staring directly at him with tears in

her eyes. Maynoona wallah.

"No." 79a shrieked.

"Don't you have a certain best friend waiting for you inside?" He reminded her.

"OH RIGHT! Forgot about that." She realized. "Good talk. See you soon. Oh and have fun fishing."

She said, as she walked back towards the house.

"What was that all about!" I said with my hands on my hips as soon as 79a walked through the door.

"Ha? What?" 79a said stupidly.

"Don’t act stupid 79o now tell me! What happened?" I demanded.

"Nothing!" 79a insisted.

"La wallah? Then what's with all the giggling and stuff?"

"HAHA laa laa Nawari it's not like that!" 79a laughed.

"3yal?"

"You'll thank me someday, oh and by the way, that guy of yours, hold on to him, because not in a

million years you're going to find someone as perfect as him." 79a said so seriously, it scared me.

I just stared at her. What could he have said to her? I wanted to know so badly! Did he tell her how he

felt? What did he say?! I wanted to know! But I know one thing, and that is that I'm really falling for this

guy.