chapter 60

"One hundred seventy three...

one hundred seventy four...

one hundred seventy five..."

A canvas.

A blank canvas.

He painted black with illuminating stars and a blushing moon.

Now, as the time flew, He added whitish blue colour into the canvas as the orange sun shyly came out with warm rays and cool breeze that hushed the cheesy secrets in the ears.

"One hundred seventy eight...

One hundred seventy nine...

And one hundred eighty!"

"Zay, three minutes, that is exact one eighty seconds are over!"

Birds chirped sweet as honey that gave warm kisses to the ear lobes. Breeze rushed through the leaves and branches of trees, that the leaves hit each other making sound, just like the tingling sound made my the bride's bangles.

"And that goes in 3...2..1.. and.." SPLASH!

I threw a whole mug of cold water to Zyan's face, who was in his deep slumber.

"Oh nanna, I told you, just 5 more minutes." He jumped up and sat in the bed, totally annoyed.

Zyan, my younger brother passing through his touchy teenhood, was not bad than the sleeping beauty.

"It's been 30 minutes that already passed by saying 5 minutes"- I replied him in the same tone as he spoke. "You already missed tahajjud"

I sat next to him. His raven hair was messy, which he doesn't like at all. His grey eyes were still closed, and I pinched his nose.

"5.30, means freaking 5.30 that I am supposed to wake"- he said.

I looked at the wall clock. 5. 50 am. This boy!

After ablution,  we proposed ourselves to the hands of God.

"Let's go for Believers." I said, switching the playlist. It was our daily habit to listen to a song after Fajr.

First things first

I'ma say all the words inside my head

I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh ooh

"Oooh" we howled like a wolf.

Second thing second...

As the song moved on, I still heard the 'oh' and turned my head to see Zay howling.

We're sitting out in the garden, and the time was just six past. Blue was slowly, yet steading mixing in with red and yellow, giving the atmoshpere a special vibe.

I joined him in howling, until the aunty of next house threw a fork over our head.

"Two minutes!"- I called out at Zyan.

I looked at the mirror once again to finalize my touchup. My eyes felt teary at the new adult staring back at me. I couldn't forget those memories.

She had chocolate brown hair with pale skin, matching with a pair of big hazel eyes.

'Everything God created is beautiful'

My broken heart commented. It maybe physically broken, but the organ I loved the most was my four chambered broken heart, holding into thousands of imaginations, with stacks of laughing memories and a bit of remarks looking creep, with bloodshot eyes and sharp teeths.

Knocking out from Zyan's final warning, I wore a thin eyeliner and some kohl, wrapped my scarf in the most modest way around my neck that showed not even a single strand of my chocolate hair, packed my stuffs in hurry-burry and went downstairs to see Zyan with his most frustrated face and Ammy with her most irritated face. I passed them a sheepish smile.

"Packed everything?"

"Yes"

"Done your homework?"

"Yeah"

"Filled your water bottle?"

"Ofcourse Ammy!"

I laughed at the silly motherly fights with her son.

"Fed up with this ammy!" Zyan murmered while getting inside the car.

"Assalamu Alaikum"- we waved her.

We left before hearing her reply.

Bird screams signalled the busy New York town about the day break. As the time went, people started to converge at their work areas and offices. Traffic signals blinked, flyovers were rushed, and the metro stations were filled with the rabble.

Zyan was blabbering about his silly school incidents while the ride. I prefered to be an innocent listner trying to scoot out of the high traffic, since I knew what would happen once we start arguing.

I left him at the school gate and drove to my college.

I parked my car into the parking lot and went into class.

I saw Waniya, my twin, hanging out with our classmates in the corridor. She excused from them and stalked to me.

"How many times did I message you?"- she jumped with anger.

Waniya was my only best friend. We were twins, like seriously, that we had almost everything in common.

She was beautiful, almost same height as me, with grey green eyes and black hair.

"Anyway, give me your biology report". Waniya said while we were moving to the cafeteria, speaking about the youtube series drama that she used to watch.

While I was taking out the file from my bag in the Café corridor, someone bumped to me causing my record papers flew away, and cold coffee in my dress. I turned to see who that jerk was, but I accidently slipped the coffee and immediately closed my eyes, waiting for the pain. But instead, I was secured in someone else's hands.

Dramatic, huh?

As I open my pair of hazel eyes, the first thing I came to notice was the most beautiful pair of deep royal blue eyes staring deeply at my hazel ones. I examined his face. He was okay.

I looked away and he loosened his grip on my waist. I stood upright. His shirt was pooled with coffee. And that smelled good.

"Sorry"- I mumbled.

"How dare you to cross my path!" He shouted. His gang of another three members smirked along with him.

"How dare you to cross my path!" I played back in his same tone, emphasising 'you'.

He just glared at me, quite astonished, as if he hadn't  expected such reply.

"Do you know who I am?" He asked, raising his voice. The viewers were looking at me with pitiful eyes.

"Who are you?"- I asked, teasing him.

He raised his hands, as if for the intentions to beat, and pulled it down immediately.

"I am Ihzan Hashim! The owner of this college" He shouted.

"So what?" I asked.

"Huh?"He scratched his head with straight black hair.

"So. What? Do I need to stand anti-erect? Do I need to bow at your feet? Or do I need to arrange a coronation? Hey Mister, or whoever you maybe, just remember that I'm also paying fees regularly at this institution, and not begging this pardon!" I shouted at him.

He was hearing me with his mouth hung opened, and he slowly closed it and showed his angriest face. The guy witness' were looking at me brightly, as if this was his usual comments and no one actually questioned; and the girls were looking at me with disguist.

"You young lady, I will show you!"- he threatened  while his companions  dragged him away from me.

"Show whatever you can with your little muddle-head" I shouted back while Waniya pulled me to classroom.

While dragging me, Waniya said, "How foolish you are Aimy. You know what, this was that bad, no, worst boy in our campus about whom I asked you not to get any connection. And congradulations, you obeyed me perfectly."

"But any girl will fell for him." Someone who heard us added.