The Acceptance

Qasifah Nawal pov: I was sweating profusely when I woke up from the nightmare, as I always was.It has been 5 years and i still could not escape from them. I looked at my alarm which showed I was late for my morning prayer ( fajr). I quickly jump out of the bed and went to the restroom to start my morning routine. It was 8 am I started to do my breakfast as usual which is a sandwich. I did a simple one today.Only egg with hot sauce.I can live without anything except hot sauce.It was something I cannot live without it no matter what.Since i was little, i had my food served with hot sauce. I live alone in a small town in New York. although the neighborhood is quite rough, but that's the only apartment I was able to afford as a school teacher. it wasn't really the most affordable, i mean i was able to afford something even more ,but it was the closest to my school.most apartments were far away from my school and guess what? i was already not a morning person and most apartment and condominiums were too far away from the school which means i have to wake up super early, which annoys me. since today is the weekend I decided to do some grocery shopping with my best friend Aila Mahiya. we meet when I was 13 since, and then we are best friends. She is short with fair skin and wave hair and has beautiful brown eyes which enhance her beauty. I could only wish to have them, butinstead I had sea green coloured eyes and fair skin as well with curly hair. I wear my maroon abaya and put on some lip balm and wear my white shawl .I saw myself in the long mirror, all I saw was that a broken and guilty women which reflected in the mirror, a tear slipped down my face and I quickly wipe it and went out to close my apartment door and started to wait for aila to pick me up. As usual she's always late.I was not surprised because even when we first met, she was the last person to enter the school.Back then, i used to call her late late alia.i still do not know where i found that name, but i did call her that. after several minutes with no sign of her coming, I decided to call her “ where are you ailaa!! I'm waiting here for you for a long time already ” I asked her. “I'm sorry I couldn't come, I'm getting engaged today” aila said whispering to me.I was shocked and started to stutter saying “whaattt!? You? Engaged?”To who? I'm your only best friend and I didn't know about this good news first ?. i kept shooting her all my questions.I was so damn angry at her for not telling me. “I'm sorry it happened so suddenly and I couldn't have the chance to tell you Qasifah” aila said guiltily. “Anyways I'm so happy for you Masha Allah my bestie is getting married tell me the details of your fiance”. i told her in a exiting way “sure come home later”. she replied to me. it was already 10:00 am after the waiting and calls, I quickly booked a cab and went to do my grocery shopping alone.but i still could bot believe my bestie is getting married.i was really very happy for her. ps: it's my first book so give a try and support me. wait for my next chapter ? Bring me the ocean I say, but you gave me tears. ~AS