Part 13- Off We Go

Nawar and Aziz were finally engaged!  All we've talked about the last 2 days was whats needed for the wedding, where would it be held, what would we wear, what kind of flowers. It was so exciting.  Nawar was constantly glowing. Me and Rania were practically as excited as Nawar was.  Our little baby is getting married! The date isn't set yet, when we go back for winter Nawar and Aziz are going to decide with their families.

Tonight we were having dinner with Aunty Mona at our apartment.  She was coming over to congratulate Nawar on her engagement and we haven't seen her in forever.  She's always been like my second mom, and when Rania and Nawar came into my life she became like a mom to them as well.

"What should we make for dinner?" Rania asked as she helped us clean up.

"Maby cooking, let's just order in."

"Okay good, I'm so not in the mood of cooking either." We liked cooking but some days you just can't be bothered.

We settled on ordering Chinese and watching Pride and Prejudice, Aunty Mona's favorite (one of ours as well).

A few hours later we were all set up and finishing last minute cleaning when we heard "Hellooooo girls!"coming from the door. Aunty Mona was here!  "CONGRATULATIONS!" she said as she ran over to Nawar.  "I spoke to your mom this morning she's so excited! We all are! This is so exciting.  And Aziz, Mashallah! You've got such a great guy. I'm so happy for you 7abeebty!"

After dinner we all sat around talking and watching the movie.  Aunty Mona decided to go home since it was getting late and leave us to sleep.

The next day I woke up to someone banging on the door.  It was 3 AM.

"WHO IS IT?! What could you possibly want this earlyyyy!" I had no idea who I was yelling at but I was already mad at them.  I opened the door to find Fawaz standing there half asleep, he looked so alarmed and was in sweatpants and a tshirt.

"Jawa, it's Abdullah's dad.  Abullah's packing his stuff to go home, he's leaving today.  His dad is in the hospital and really not doing well. Abdullahs really freaking out.  Me and Aziz are gonna go with him too. I just wanted to come say bye and tell you what's going on."

"La2. I'm coming too."

"Me too." We turned around to see half asleep Nawar standing behind us.  "Aziz just called me and told me what's going on, I'm coming with you guys.  We do everything together, we have to be there for him."

"You girls are amazing" Fawaz said with the cutest sincerity and kissed my forehead.  I could feel Nawar grinning behind me.

"When are we leaving?" I asked Fawaz.

"There's a flight at 5:30, get your stuff together quickly and we'll meet you guys at the airport okay.  Try to be there early.  See you guys in a bit."

As I shut the door it hit me, Abdullah's father was his role model, who he looked up to the most.  They may disagree on things but at the end of the day they had an amazing relationship...which could soon be over.  We woke up Rania and told her what was going on.  She decided to come with us.  Thankfully Thanksgiving break was coming up shortly so we wouldn't be missing too many days of school.

"Everyone here and ready?" asked Aziz.  "Passports, kila shay?"

"Yess." Everyone replied.

"Okay we've got your tickets here.  We're all sitting near each other.  Go check your bags, we already finished. And we'll meet you inside. Fawaz and Abdullah are sitting in starbucks."

"Inshallah."

As we were checking our bags I happened to look up and see.....Khalid. Of all days. You've got to be kidding me! 5ala9 I can't get mad, we're here for Abdullah not anyone else. It doesn't matter..Breathe, Jawa breathe.

"OMG!"  "OH SHIT"

"You guys saw him too?" I said, trying to be quiet about it.

"Yessss. Ewwwwww look at his fiance. She looks like a dinosaur."

"No ew she looks like a transvestite!"

"Ouff tell me about it. I can't believe I dated him."

They were walking in as we were finishing up.

"Can we move this along a little faster? That guy over there used to date this girl, cheated on her, psychotic, now hes engaged to that girl but still wants this girl. Please!" Rania told the lady.

"Oh no he didnt! Damn boys. Well how about we move them in between the lovely couple with the twin infants and the woman who's requested two seats to fit her?  Hows that for ya?"

"Omg I love you!" I told the lady as we took our tickets and met up with the guys. We made a deal not to tell them until we were on the plane so that they didn't make a scene with him. Or take attention away from Aboodys situation.

Nawar was asleep on Aziz's lap.  Rania and Fawaz were playing cards and Abdullah was in the smoking section.  I got bored so I decided to pick up some magazines and fun things for the flight.  I walked into the store and started to look at the magazines, of course I got the usual, fashion, clothes etc. I was nice and got a few guy magazines for the rest of them.  As I was looking around I could feel someone staring at me. Suddenly I got a tap on my shoulder.

"Uhh, hi.  Intay Jawa?"

I turned around and saw Khalid's fiance. I was shocked.

"Oh. Hello. Yes I am. Your Khalid's fiance right?"  I had to remind myself not to punch her, it's not like she had anything to do with what happened between us.

"I was wondering if maybe we could talk for a bit. Khalid's in the middle of a business call for his father and I saw you in here and..." 7aram she seemed so nervous.

"Ee, of course. Shall we sit?"

"Heh yes.  So..you and khalid..you used to..uhhh..?"

"We dated. Yes. But don't worry, we've been broken up for a while now and I dont have him in any part of my life."

"I believe you. I heard about you from some friends of mine. Oh gosh, the look on your face. Don't worry they all said good things.  But..."

"What is it?"

"They never said good things about Khalid.  They told me that he put you through hell."

"Well, look, uhh..?"

"Shaikha"

"Shaikha, Khalid was not a nice guy to me.  However, we were just dating and I don't think he took me seriously.  You guys are getting married.  I'm sure he realizes how serious this is and will be much different."

"I really want to believe that."

"Have you talked to him about this?"

"We barely know each other.  He barely even talks to me. I feel like he hates me."

I felt so bad for her.  She was opening up to a complete stranger.  She must be desperate to figure this out.  I couldn't imagine marrying someone I was this worried about.  I felt like I owed it to her to help her out, I know how he can be and she seems so sweet, she doesn't deserve to be treated bad.

"I'm sure he doesn't hate you. He wouldn't marry you if he did."

"Yeah. I guess. Do you think you could...Nevermind, it's stupid."

"La2, 3ady. Tell me, it's fine."

"Do you think you could talk to him?"

"Ummm...Are you sure you want me to do that?"

"You're the only person that I know that knows him well enough. And I know he'd listen to what you have to say."

"Okay, 7abeebty."

We walked over to where Khalid was. I couldn't believe I was about to do this. The look on his face made it obvious he had the same thought.

"Khalid, can I use your phone? Mine's dead and I want to send a message." Shaikha asked him.

"Uhh, yeah sure. Here." He seemed so confused.

Shaikha went and sat at a different area, still a bit close by to msg while we talked.  Right as I opened my mouth to start a conversation with Khalid I looked up to see Shaikha staring at us with tears in her eyes, and an expression with shock I've never seen before.  She must have seen the messages Khalid sent me.

Khalid jumped up and ran over to her.

"WA5IR 3ANY! GET AWAY FROM ME!" She said as she stormed off.  I sat there in disbelief.

...To be continued

So Far

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Part 13- Crazy Little Thing called Love

We decided to make the guys go bowling with us.  They got annoyed with us, however, because we refused to wear the smelly bowling shoes they wanted us to wear and said we were weird.  Buuut who want's to wear them? Wai3! They're so gross.

Bowling was fun. We stayed for a couple of hours, and I'm actually not too bad.  I beat everyone for one of the rounds! I managed to work that into every conversation that day.  I wasn't gonna let any of the guys forget I beat them. They just let me brag and pretended not to hear me.  Well, all of them except Fawaz, he bragged about me even more! Isn't he the cutest?

"Hah man did you see her! She really kicked your ass!"

"What are you? Her personal cheerleader?"

"Yes Abdullah he is my personal cheerleader, he even has a cute skirt to top it off and everything" I said as everyone burst out laughing.

Aziz and Nawar were going to dinner on their own that night and Rania and I wanted to go swimming.  Abdullah and Fawaz invited themselves along so we all went to our places to change and meet back up at our pool.  I loved swimming at night, it was so relaxing.

"He SO likes you!" yelled Rania from her room.

"Hahah he does not! That's just his personality."

"Well I don't see him following me around like a little puppy dog, it's like how Aziz used to be with Nawar before they got together. Ohhhh speaking of them, has he picked out a ring?"

"I sent him a picture of the ring Nawar told us she liked so hopefully he gets the right one.  I think he wanted to go with us tomorrow to get it. I'm SO excited for her! Our little baby is getting married!"

"Yessss. It's so cute! I hope her parents say yes! I can't imagine they wouldn't."

"Let's hope so!"

Ring ring...ring ring..ring ring..

"Aloo? HI MAMA! Eeee, I miss you!" I havent talked to my mom in over a week.  Usually we talk a lot but lately we've both been so busy.

"Babe I'm gonna meet the guys downstairs" Rania whispered on her way out.  I stayed upstairs talking to my mom for a few minutes before I excused myself and told her I had people waiting for me. We decided on a date for me to come back to Kuwait with Rania. I was so excited I forgot to lock the door on my way out, I'm about to see Fawaz without his shirt on. WOOHOO. Talk about the best day ever.

When I got down to the pool Fawaz was smoking by the gate and came to open it for me.

"Why thank you! Such a gentleman"

"Only for you" he replied with a wink.

"Ewww I hate people winking. It's so cheesy."

"I know you like it when I do it" ..again another wink.

By this time we were right by the pool.  "OH Fawaz look! Did you see that?!" Fawaz quickly turned his head and I pushed him in the pool. "I know you like it when I do that" I said with a wink, making fun of him.

The whole night went on with all of us joking around and having fun.  But his phone kept ringing and he kept putting it on silent.  I had gone over to check my phone a few hours later then his was ringing, I picked it up to hand it to him when I saw it was Madison calling, the girl from the party.  I handed him the phone without looking like I cared who was calling, the look on his face was basically saying "shit, she saw." ...How stupid can I be? I barely know the guy and I like him and he has another girl! I should've known better. Abdullah was right..

"Look now is really not a good time. Can we just talk about this later?...Excuse me? You've got to be kidding me. Madison don't be ridiculous! NO! Look if you don't stop this I'm gonna block your number...I know thats harsh, I'm sorry. But I like someone else, we've been over for a long time. Just drop it already. BYE!"

Did he say he likes someone else? Maybe I jumped to conclusions a little too soon. Woops.

"Sorry about that. Girls love me, what can I say?" he said trying to make a joke out of it.

"Hahah you mean girl, singular."

"Ouch. You don't know of any other girls that might like me? I can think of one."

"Nope, or at least none that want to deal with that drama."

"Yeah, I wouldn't want to if I had heard that either.." He seemed more serious now "But that was the last of that. I finished that."

"Well thats good to know."

"Is it?" he said with the most sincere smile I've seen from him in a while.

"It is." I can feel my face blushing SO much.

"THERE YOU GUYS ARE! I CANT BELIEVE I DATED THAT STUPID PRICK FOR SO LONG!" came Nawar's voice out of nowhere, completely ruining the moment. She looked furious.

"Oulaaa what's wrong? What happened?"

"Well we were at dinner having such a nice time until he had to go and ruin it! Ruin EVERYTHING!"

"Hooow? You guys were fine before you left us. What happened?"

"He was on his phone the whole night and would barely have a conversation. I finally took his phone since he wouldn't tell me who was so important he had to ignore me. And guess who it was!?! Some slut named Dandooon, with a KISS after her name! Can you believe that?! I didn't even wait for an answer I got up and took the keys and left! He tried to follow me out and tell me there's a good explanation. A good explanation for that?!? And you know what I read?! "Thank you so much Dandoon! Walla I love you! You're so great!"

"Nawar...please listen to me." We all turned in shock to see Aziz standing there.  I guess he came in after her.

"How did you even get here you asshole?"

"I had a friend pick me up."

"Why would you need a friend to pick you up?" asked Rania.

"Because my girlfriend is crazy and took my car." He said with a smirk, he loved Nawar despite her crazy moments. I couldn't help cracking up.

"Okay well what do you want? Here, do you need a phone to call your whore? What's her number? 1-800-slut? Hmmm? What do you want?" Nawar yelled at him. She also threw her phone at him and hit him on his arm. This was so entertaining but I felt bad for her, how could Aziz do that to her? I'm sure there's an explanation. He loves her.

"Dandoon is my little cousin."

"Why haven't I ever heard of her? Don't lie!"

"Nawar I swear. She's my older cousin's daughter. She's 14 and saved her name as Dandoon with a kiss, not me. She was helping me with something very special. I wanted it to be a surprise but I guess it won't be.  I had her go talk to her mother, to talk to my mother.  I haven't been able to reach her mother or mine so I needed her to do that.  She told me everythings worked out and my mom would call me in a little while to tell me the good news.  My parents said yes."

"Said yes to what?" Nawar said with apprehension. Aziz walked over to her and stood right in front of her. We were all so into what was going on.

"You are my life. I love you more than anything else.  Just the thought of any other guy holding you, having a life with you, waking up to you, it kills me.  I want to wake up to you every morning, I want to have kids with you, I want a home and a life with you.  I want you to be my family.  You're the girl for me Nawar Al-X, you really are.  There will never be any one else who can even come close to what you mean to me. And I'm not willing to wait another second to make sure that everyone knows that.  So, my parents said yes.  They said yes to me asking you what I've been wanting to ask you since the first time I saw you wearing that purple dress with your hair up in some weird messy bun that made me love you, will you please marry me?"

Nawar had tears in her eyes as she nodded her head up and down, "Yes. Yes. Yes! I will marry you!"

We were SO excited for them. We all ran over to them and hugged them and congratulated them, it was soooo cute. I was even tearing up.

"When did you get the ring?!" I asked Aziz, shocked he had it.

"Hahah I got it the day you sent me the picture.  I know the woman I want to marry, and I knew that I just might need this a little sooner than later."

They were in love and happy. I couldn't be any happier for them.