Our Crossed Fate

💮 chapter 3 💮

I got up and prayed Fajr then went back to sleep but as if God has something else decided for me. I'm not sure I slept up till 2 hours because all I know is I woke up to loud banging of the door. I put my hijab and went to open the door cursing the person who dared disturb me from my favourite activity.

I opened the door and met with the stern face of Mrs Walker and beside her stood a beautiful brunette girl around my age if older by 1 year old. She has big brown eyes, waist length hair, a heart shaped face.

I opened the door wider and stepped aside they entered and the driver followed them with suitcases. Then it clicked she is my roommate."good morning Miss Sali" "good morning Mrs Walker you can call me Zeinab" I replied with a smile. "This is Ariana Jones your roommate. I expect you to be on your best behaviors the both of you" ."yes madam" we both saluted her at the same time and then we laughed at our stupidity.

Mrs Walker just shook her head and bid us goodbye. We are going to be great friends with her. Now just the two of us I broke the silence "hi I am Zeinab Aina Sali I am your roommate and you are stuck with me for the rest of our college life. I am a first year student and I am here to do Architectural Engineering"." I am Ariana Jones also here for architectural engineering. 20 years old and you are stuck with me too". She extended her hand for me to shake but I pulled her into a tight hug. "It is going to be so much fun with you. I am from Cameroon. 19 years old and single. I don't know my way around though" I said causing her to chuckle " Don't worry I am here for 4 years now I know the way around". I did a happy dance and said " let me help you unpack and we will figure out what we will do for the rest of the day but all this after eating". She let out a hearty laugh " I see a food lover just like me". I smiled a cheeky smile and said " I call on chips-chips" she looked like if I've developed another eye in the middle of my head " that means that I am not cooking" she shook her head " don't worry I will cook". I did a dance.

I was really happy to have someone with me. She seems like a sweet girl and I hope we get along well. After giving her the tour of our humble house that we decided to name "honey land".

I discovered many things about her. We have a lot in common like we both like reading novels, eating, we don't like make-up but she likes cooking unlike me, she is not clumsy which is a big contrary to me. I am a walking disaster. She settled down and started cooking around 11 a.m.

I was watching TV when my phone rang in my ringtone where the Azzan was calling for prayers. I stood up prayed Dhur and came down. I didn't wear my hijab because we were just girls. I am sweatpants kind of girl. With my oversized t-shirt and shorts I followed the sweet smell to the kitchen and found Ari setting the table. Smiling and doing some weird moves I went and sat on the chair waiting anxiously for my food. She served it and immediately dug in nearly chocking on it .

We made small talk while eating on random things and she said we will go out in the afternoon to look around the neighborhood. I did the dishes and allowed her to rest.

It is now 5 pm and we were heading out. I put on a black jeans and an oversize red t-shirt. I threw my black hijab on my head and knocked on Ari's room. She came out wearing jeans and a t-shirt then we went out.

She was showing me around the neighborhood and I was memorizing every detail so that I shouldn't get lost.

Our school is 15 mins from here, there was a park just two blocks away, a library near our school and there were two cafes one across the campus and the other one two blocks down. There was even a pizza house just 5 mins from our house. Life couldn't get better.

We walked around for sometime and we decided to head home since is was getting dark and I had to pray. It is 10 pm and we are just watching Friends a tv show we both like. "Why are you single" Ari asked "I didn't have time. Those relationships happening back there were just time wastage" I replied " okay I see" I turned and faced her and asked "and you?" She just stared ahead as if she was in deep thought then answered " I wasn't allowed to do so" I wanted to ask her further but I saw that she doesn't want to talk about it so I just nodded and looked back at the TV.

At 11pm we were both very sleepy so we went to our different rooms.