Chapter 5

"I swear to God Nadely if you lick your fingers in this way again then I will surely give you a one hell of a smack" I said with disgust and annoyance laced on my words.

"What? I'm just trying to make sure my hands are clean from the cream! Besides, you know I love it," she says while licking her  fingers, slowly, and then suck on them. Finger after finger, giving me the 'Oh I know you hate it' look

There is this thing Nadely does that I strongly do not like, So whenever we eat creamy cupcakes, Nadely eats them from the bottom to the top, so that she could enjoy the creamy part of the cupcake last. Now after she was finished with eating them, she licks the leftover cream off her fingers and to my annoyance, she knows well that I really dislike people licking their fingers for any reason. Like literally, that is so disgusting. People should stop doing that, at least not in front of me, like Nadely is doing right now.

Eww.

"And you know I hate it," With that I quickly reached out my arm from the table that's between us and to the top of her head, giving her a quite good of a smack.

Hope this will stop her from this.

"Hey!" She yells and stops doing it, putting her other hand on the spot where I hit her and rubbing it.

"Well, I warned you, but I think your stupid head of yours couldn't process it." With that, I stood up and went to the living room.

Nadely's parents were upstairs sleeping so we decided to hit it downstairs, but quietly. And since her brother, Tyler, is out there partying with his friends, we technically got the whole house, well, the living room. And the kitchen. And her room. And the bathroom.

When we got here, the first thing we did was to change our clothes that we spent the whole day on. I've stored some of my pj's and some casual clothes in her closet before since I sometimes sleepover here and we usually go to school together because of that.

After changing our clothes, wiping the minimal amount of makeup I've put on today and brushing my hair and putting it up in a bun,  we went downstairs and entered the kitchen. After looking around the kitchen, inside cupboards and the fridge, we got cookies, chips, the chocolate cupcake and a big Sprite. It wasn't a big surprise that we finished all those in like an hour, but we did.

I plopped down on the couch and grabbed my phone from the coffee table. When I turned it on, missed calls and texts showered the lock screen in not even a second after I turned it on.

The first text message I saw was from Farris, and it wasn't just one,

*I'm sorry, please come home*

*What shall I say to mum and dad?*

*Newal?? Pls answer*

*stop making a big deal, told u I'm sorry!*

*Shit, mom is mad at me*

Mom had called me at least ten times, dad too. But why are they this worried anyway? They know that I would definitely be at Nad's.

As I sat my phone down, it started to ring, when I look at the ID, it was Fawzan. I thought about ignoring it, but before my mind could process, my fingers swiped on the screen on my phone and pressed it on my ear.

"Hello?"

"Newal? It's me Fawzan, I'm speaking to you from my room  so don't worry if anyone would hear me talking to you."

I chuckled a bit at that one.

"Fawzan? It's me Newal, I'm answering you from Nadely's house so don't worry if I am anywhere else."

"Ha. Ha. Very funny."

"Of course it is, I am the comedian here"

"Anyway, Newal Wallah Mmm and dad are literally digging the answers from Farris and-"

"If this conversation goes to making me feel guilty, which I definitely should not be, and come home and be sorry I left you and then apologize, cut the crap right now Fawzan" I snapped at Fawzan. Call me a loser, but he was the one who started and came at something he shouldn't.

"To be honest yes and no" he said instead of fighting me off.

"Yes and no? What do you mean?"

"I meant by yes come home please, and no, he deserves it. You know I heard your conversation earlier"

I stayed silent for a little while, I know I should go home, but I just don't want to face Farris. And also I don't want Fawzan to hear the argument that sooner or later will happen.

"I'm  sorry Fawzi, but I really don't want to come and see Farris, it will turn to an argument and by the way, I'm bloated."

"I get it, and why do you feel bloated?"

"I ate too many junk food, I really regret it" I said while rubbing my tummy so it could at least soothe it.

"Without me? How could you!?" He says and then laughs.

"Anyway, bloated or not come home, make Tyler bring you"

"He's not here, and why with him? I can come by myself if I want to" I said annoyance very clear in my voice.

"I'm just sayin sis, he's stronger and it's night and-"

I hang up on him before he finish what he was about to say. I knew what he was about to say, that I'm a girl and I'm fragile and I could be in danger in the night blah blah blah..

Sometimes, I think Farris and Fawzan should have been twins rather than him and me. We are totally different and don't think the same, well most of the times. It's just that I love to make things independently, I want to show people how I could make stuff on my own, I want to show that we girls are not weak but the total opposite. But Farris, the hard head and the stubborn person he is, wants to always be there for you every single time, to help you. Don't get this wrong, I really do appreciate it and think it's really lovely of him, but it's just too much of him, he needs to know that people can be good by their own.

My phone vibrates again, but now dad is calling.

As much as I want to ignore it and shut my phone off, I should at least see what is up, and besides, dad is such a calm, cool and a collected person so I hope he would say the positive.

Or at least be calm over this.

"Salam Alaikum, Newal"  Dad said cool making me relax, knowing at least he isn't mad at me.

"Wa'alaikum Asalam, dad"

"I guess and hope you are at Nadely's home?"

"Yeah... Don't worry though, I'm safe"

"I know that, you wet the pants of the danger, huh?" I can hear his deep chuckle a little far, making me roll my eyes but giggle a little.

"Are you going to always taunt me with that, dad?"  I said while remembering the bitter sweet memory.

When Farris and I were 7, and Fawzan 5, we used to be the trouble makers, like literally. I used to run around the house and knock off stuff, Farris would jump from one couch to the table and chairs, and Fawzan used to climb the curtains, the edge of the stairs, generally anything that could be climbed on, which we all end up in a big trouble. And mess too.

One day when all of us were watching the television, mom was upstairs sleeping, and dad was at work. It was nearly, nine at night. I don't quite remember why we were still up, but we were anyway.

Fawzan was too engrossed of the cartoon we were watching but Farris and I were watching and playing tag, running through the kitchen then the halls, to the living room then we would sit down again and watch with Fawzan as if nothing happened.

After playing too much, then finally sitting to watch again, we heard the door knob jiggles, totally forgetting dad wasn't there and being the kids we were, we all panicked and all of us went to the kitchen to grab some weapons to protects ourselves.

When we were all ready and protected, well childishly to be precise. I held a bowl of flour, Farris a few eggs and Fawzan a bottle of water. All of us ran and hid around the front door, and the moment the door cracked open, the three of us all went on attack mode.

All of us were screaming, yelling and we were all over the person.

Which was dad.

When he held the arms of us three  togehter, I was still screaming and shouting, then I blurted out loud my infamous sentence,

"Stop!! I wet the pants of the danger so you will not hurt us!!" Listen yelled and started to pull him down.

"Kids!" Then all of us automatically and simultaneously stopped what we were doing. He was really mad but amused at the same time, it makes me laugh how we didn't thought of the person breaking in our house -not really- being dad.

"You are the one who said that, sweetheart. And I lile to know that ypu are comfident and stronger than anyone."

That's really made me smile.

"Anyway, tomorrow I will pick you up from school, alright?"

"Yeah, sure. But why?"

"That's a surprise, now go to sleep early, because we got stuff to do tomorrow"

"But it's a school day you know,"

"I know, Newal. Goodnight sweetie."

"Night dad, I love you"

"I love you too" with that I hang up the phone and put it on the coffee table.

I let out a big sigh, rested my head on the arm of the couch, then sighed again.

I really have a weird feeling into going to where dad will be taking us tomorrow.