IRREPLACEABLE BOND ?

CHAPTER 9

AFEEFA'S P.O.V:

Since that incident occurred, I have been curious about that lady. Both of them to be exact but I desperately want to see the face of that niqabi lady.

"Hello!!!" I heard Leila's voice

"What were you saying?" I asked clearly not paying attention earlier

"I asked you what course you are going to offer" she said

"I'm going to study architecture insha'allah" I said cheerfully and she smiled

"That's great dear, wishing you the best of luck" aunt said

"Thank you" I replied and gave her a smile

We are all currently in the kitchen cooking dinner. I'm making fruit drinks and aunt is cooking the main food while Leila is just sitting on the counter typing who knows what on her phone and Na'ima is drawing on a paper

"Lee, won't you come and help aunt?" I asked Leila

"No thank you" she said. Aunt laughed and I shook my head at her reply

"It's no problem Feefa. I'm almost done anyway. Don't worry" she said and I smiled. This woman is really one of a kind. She is our mother but she acts like our sister

After we were done, Leila and I set the table, went upstairs to pray Maghreb. We came down and moments later we came down and ate dinner.

We all went back to our rooms to pray Isha

I decided to just stay in the room while Aunt, Leila and Na'ima went downstairs to watch a movie.

I switched on my cellular data and saw almost 300 messages. I replied to the important ones and then left the rest.

I pressed the i********: icon when a call got in, it was Ameer. I answered and we talked about a lot of things. After we were done, I continued to look through my Insta. Then an idea popped into my head. I am going to check whether that niqabi is on Insta

It took me five minutes before I remembered her name, I checked it and there is no account with that name. I then checked the other lady that talked to me, what's her name again. Nour? Is it Nour? .......

Yeah! Nour Mohammed!

I checked her name and bam! I found her name and luckily, her pic is her profile picture.

I checked her pictures and it was either of clothes, inspirational quotes, sketches and flowers. She had almost 600 and something pictures. I kept scrolling down till I landed on the last picture. She was by the right and a girl that looked a lot like my 13 year old self

Her caption read.

"Here I am with my best friend since birth going to be freshmen together. Love you cupcake #Afeena#. Even tho I know that if you get to know about this, I am dead meat??. Still love you shy girl. ✌"

She wasn't even tagged. I just knew that she was my clone. But what related her to me? And why didn't that Nour lady go to her while we were in the same shop.

Maybe it wasn't her. Because best friends won't just 'not know' each other right?

I got tired of going through i********:, I logged into w*****d and started reading a new book. I was done with 'against my wish' and now I am currently reading 'Love at first sight' by Hafsat. The story plot sounded interesting.

I was almost done with the book. It was just 8 chapters remaining when the bus to sleep town arrived. I kept my phone, changed into my PJs and away I went into the bus and off I went.

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I woke up the next day and did all my normal routines. I went down and saw Na'ima all alone watching cartoons.

"Hey little princess, good morning" I said as I sat down close to her and pecked her cheeks

"Ukhti Feefa. Good morning" she replied

"Where is Aunt and Leila?" I asked her

"They both went to work and we don't have school today" she replied

"Why not?"

"Because, for no apparent reason the principal said that there is a problem, so we shouldn't go to school for 2 whole days" she sighed

"Alright then. Do you like school so much? You seem upset." I said worried

"Yeah. I miss reading and painting. And I also miss my friends" she said and I chuckled

"Awwww . You look so cute" I said and hugged her. She just giggled

"Ukhti, can you buy me Moana CD?" She asked

"Okay. But I don't know where I can get it" I told her honestly

"There is a shop that is 3 blocks away from here. They sell CD's there" she said giving me a toothy grin

"Alright. Let's go" I said and she started jumping around. We both put on our hijabs and tied it roughly around our heads

It surprises me how a little girl like her can talk so much and act like a grown up. She literally acts like a 6 year old or maybe 10 age mate and in reality she is just 3 age mate.

I picked up my phone and purse as we went out, I closed the house and went away with the key since I know that we won't be long. We went out and came back in no time.

I inserted the CD and we both sat down watching it.

Surprisingly, the cartoon was really interesting. It was the first cartoon that has ever touched my heart.

After the movie was over. It was 12pm already. I changed into another cartoon called 'minions' since it is all in one CD.

I went into the kitchen to make us chocolate milkshakes. I was in the midst of making it when Leila came in, I made for 3 instead of 2.

I came out of the kitchen and handed them their cups

"So Leila, how was work today?" I asked crossing my legs and taking a sip of my chocolate milkshake.

"Stressful, as the days before" she replied

"I mean who will make an assistant to book a meeting for 1pm and it was 12:30pm for God's sake. It is okay if it is with some random business people but he asked me to book a meeting with THE Muhakkar and Sons industry. How is that even possible and to make things worst he wanted me to personally bring Muhakkar himself there not even his son. God! How I hate that guy. He even threatened to fire me if I don't to it and I couldn't afford to be fired now" Leila kept rambling

"Calm down Leila" I said as I lightly rubbed her back. She kept quiet and kept on drinking her milkshake

"So Afeena, I was thinking that maybe we could go shopping" Leila said changing the topic.

"Really Leila?"I said giving her the are you serious look

"Yeah"

"Alright. When?" I sighed

"Now" she said and I internally groaned

"Okay. But please not much shopping. What are we even shopping for?"

"For school of course, its your first day!" She squealed

"Okay calm down 'mom' it's not my first day in highschool" I said and she smacked my arm playfully

"Alright I will go but I am tired right now. Can't it wait till tomorrow?" I asked and she sighed

"What did you even do? You were at home all day" she said annoyed

I gave her a sheepish smile

"Sure. Whatever! Tomorrow it is then Insha'allah" she said and I smiled hugging her