i heart you

Chapter 2

Jabeen's dad is awake and Jabeen doesn't know what to do . If her mom vouchsafes everything to her dad , she is surely getting kicked out . Last time this nearly kicking out thing happened when Jabeen's dad found her kissing a guy in a restaurant. Come on , it was a dare. Our girl Jabeen isn't that bad.

Jabeen had a traumatic situation in her life for which she started making friends with the "Very Popular/Really Bad" type kids . She doesn't regret it that much because we all need some little adventures in our life.

At the moment, Jabeen's mom is calling her for breakfast. Somehow, she manages to get downstairs ignoring her dad and sit on the dining table . She isn't able to face her dad. While eating her dad asks her to pass on the gravy. Her hands were shaking, she tried to hold the gravy but as soon as hands reached to take it, Adil takes it from her and passes to her dad before her , " You were taking forever to pass that loser." Jabeen's mom scolded Adil saying "Don't talk to your sister like that." Hearing them and remembering all those things they said before , she couldn't bear it anymore. She left the table saying , " I am done." leaving her plate full of meatballs . She went straight to her room making a promise to herself that she won't talk to them until they say sorry to her. Her dad followed her to her room and knocked her door. She says loudly, " What ?" not realizing who it was.

Her dad came in and looks all over the dirty room . He made a disappointed face saying, " Why did you leave while eating ?How many times I have to tell eating is an Ibadat . God won't be happy." Jabeen came forward to her dad and says, "First tell your sons how to talk with elders." It's funny that how Jabeen was doing the same thing to her dad and not realizing . Jabeen can see her dad getting upset . He says angrily , "DON'T TALK LIKE THAT. THEY ARE YOUR BROTHERS." Jabeen looks at her dad in the eyes replying , " No they aren't ." Mr. Ahmed's eyes were getting so red now that Jabeen could see his veins pooping out . Still she had the urge to say, "Look I don't care about them." Hearing all this from his daughter he left the room saying nothing.

Jabeen sits on her bed , opens her laptop and by the time she was about to put the earphones back in her ear her mom barges in her room , " What did you do this time ?" Jabeen is looking at the laptop and trying her best to ignore her mom. Her mom says again, " Are you listening to me?" Jabeen closed the laptop and looks at her mom saying , " First you learn how to knock." Jabeen should have really thought once before saying that . Sometimes , her mouth is uncontrollable for which she had to face many consequences.

Mrs. Ahmed was disheartened listening to these words coming out if her daughter's mouth. She yells , " Watch that tone lady. Is this what I get for saving your ass every time?" Jabeen sees her mom's porcelain skin turning pink . She also sees tears in her mom eyes. At this moment all she wants is to fall on her knees and beg for forgiveness . But something stops her . Mrs. Ahmed watching her daughter's uncontrollable behavior also left the room . Jabeen takes a deep breath and starts thinking all she had done. She started crying hard. It hurted a lot. They don't know what Jabeen has been through which changed her a lot. She started crying harder this time and her hands are on her head grabbing her messy brown hair . Suddenly someone comes in her room and hugs her tightly. Her eyes were all blurry. She couldn't see who it was properly. But, she could feel his hands cupping her cheeks trying to erase the tears . When it got clear she sees Ahil's arms wrapped around her .

Ahil looks at Jabeen saying, " I am sorry. I know I shouldn't have said those things. I have been a jerk to you like always. "

Jabeen's face immediately wears a bright smile like a blossom as she hugged him back.

"Where's Adil?" she whispers keeping her head on his little shoulders.

"He's busy painting like always." a

Ahil sighed.

Jabeen smiles saying , " Of course. Where else he would be?"

"I should leave now or Adil will start shouting. He told me to bring him some colours but then I heard you crying." Ahil's face shows guilt.

'' Yeah i am fine now. '' she says messing with his brown hair.

After Adil leaves Jabeen realizes she shouldn't have been to hard on them too. All a sudden her phone rings . She looks at the screen to see someone unexpected.

It was Sam. Jabeen's cousin aka her soul brother. Sam has been living in abroad since the past 10 years. During Jabeen's childhood, she and Sam has always been really close to each other. Jabeen always wanted a big brother in her life, so that she can learn something from them and not just something , infact about everything . She also wanted to lean on to them for advice whenever she needs . Sam was there to fulfill that blank space in Jabeen's life .

Well, it's not like Sam and Jabeen had the amazing sibling goals. Like any other teenager Jabeen used to hate it when Sam tried to be a better big brother by telling Jabeen's dad about her love life and Sam really does know that thing scares the hell out of Jabeen . Though Jabeen and Sam used to be best buds but since Sam left, Jabeen felt ignored and their closeness was gone slowly . Jabeen got carried away with her studies and friends . Soon she felt awkward to call Sam thinking it will be a disturbance for him. In this way they lost contact until now.

At the present Jabeen's confused why Sam is calling her after such a long time. There must be something major happening. Is it about the new guy she's dating in school ? or it's about that she kissed Sam's best friend few months ago. Both of them was pretty scary for her. She knows that she has to stop stressing and answers the damn phone to find out why Sam really wants to talk about and so she did .

" Hey J." the voice felt new like it was matured with himself.

It wasn't like she is hearing his voice for the first time . Jabeen listens to Sam's voice every single day on social media . So, she really didn't miss him growing up . In fact, she was quite jealous of him for his runaway life . So, their conversation was more like this when Sam called her .

"Hey J"

"HEY! How are you?" she tried to use the excited tone.

" I am great . How are you? How's school going "

" School? Ehh . Not really great . (stressing over her mind about what to share and what to not )"

" Why? Everything Okay ? " he says concerned.

"Well you know, just friend dramas." Jabeen replies laughing it off.

" Friend dramas or Boyfriend dramas? " the sentence digged deep on her mind as her eyes bulged.

" Nooo...I am changed now . I don't get into those troubles now ( which is certainly not true)." she says reclining.

" Oh really? Then I think you are ready to do this . " Jabeen was confused.

" TO DO WHAT?"

"I got you admitted into Boston's Westwood High School (with an excited voice)" Jabeen skips a beat. Is her ultimate dream finally coming into reality?

"WHAT?" She wasn't sure of her luck.

" I thought you are going to be like yay ." Jabeen looking outside through the window thinking, her mouth stays closed for a second.

" Ohh yeah Yay!! . But seriously?" Jabeen replies smiling. She never expected something like this to happen in her life. " Yes . I would love to go there . But .."

"But what?"

" Mom , DAD? Did you talk to them? What's their opinion about this?" she asks making sure of everything.

" I haven't talked to your dad yet . But I talked to your mom months ago. Maybe you should talk to your dad first."

"What no? " she declines immediately.

" Never mind. I am going to come tomorrow " he sighs.

" Wait Tomorrow ? I am leaving Tomorrow?" Jaber's heart leapt with a strange feeling. Not sure if this was happiness or afraidness

" No. Day after that"

"But I haven't done my packing yet" she looks at the calendar on her desk.

"Then start packing , silly ." Sam laughs

" Why haven't you told me this before? I need to buy new clothes ." She says complaining .

" I was a little busy . So I only had the chance to tell your mom . She made the passports and visa ready a month ago"

" A month ? She knew this the whole time." Jabeen was shocked.

"Yes, she wanted to surprise you yesterday on your birthday . I thought you knew."

"Actually we don't celebrate birthdays like before and last night was really..."

Before Jabeen could finish the sentence about last night she hears a voice in the other side and Sam says instantly , "Can't talk right now . I have to do something. Anyways Happy belated Birthday . Bye sis"

*BEEP* the sound relaxes Jabeen. She is bit happy because if she had told Sam about last night , he would have wanted to know the roots of the real story behind them which she wasn't ready to tell yet.

Jabeen felt really bad wordering everything. She needs to apologize to her mom . After all she was going to give her the best birthday present. So she goes to her mom's room and there she sees her praying salat. She is standing in front of the door and waiting for her to finish praying. When Mrs. Ahmed's has done praying Jabeen says politely , " Mom , Can I talk to you ? " Her mom looks at the Holy Quran in front of her . She opens it and starting reading it ignoring the question . Jabeen sees her mom doesn't want to talk . She doesn't want to commit a sin by disturbing her while reading so she leaves being upset.

Few minutes before dinner her mom knocks her door Jabeen was using her laptop, she turned it off quickly and says,

" Yes?"

Her mom came in and said , " I think I made a mistake."

with curiosity in Jabeen's eyes she replies to her mom , " What mistake?"

"By agreeing with Sam. I shouldn't have done that. "

Jabeen got furious she won't let her one big dream get away , she says," WHY?"

"You aren't ready yet. You are still making mistakes and going astray from the right path. How can I know you won't do anything there?"

with a heavy heart Jabeen says, " You just have to trust me."

"I am afraid your account in my trust bank is really withdrawn right now." saying this her mom dialed Sam and went to her room to talk .

Those words crossed Jabeen ears which she never really wanted to hear . She was practically breaking. Her heart staring aching bad. She went to the bathroom and started crying letting her body fall on the floor . After few hours of crying her eyes were swollen . She gets out and starts packing her bags . Suddenly Adil comes into her room . The moment he sees the suitcase his eyes bulged and he starts screaming, " MOM! DAD! JABEEN IS TRYING TO RUN WAY."