Beneath Guarded Hearts - 46

Previously…

Asma

3bdulla- I’ll tell you how it’s possible, Asma. It’s because he’s a damn LIAR!

Me- What?! Don’t accuse him like that, you’re wrong

3bdulla- Asma you don’t even love him and he barely knows you!

Me- Inzain so what’s your point?

3bdulla- My POINT is that the only people who could have possibly thought about that were your family… and maybe someone else…

Me- Laa w who might that person be?

3bdulla- Me

I literally had to pause before I answered.

Me- YOU? You couldn’t have set it up because you were in… But no…

3bdulla- Yes Asma, It was me. It was all me.

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3bdulla

            I waited for her to take in what I had just said. I expected some sort of reaction, rage for thinking me a liar, hurt for playing with her emotions, regret… shock… anything. But… nothing. I could only hear her rough breathing.

*6ooooo6* *6ooooo6*

Me- A- Aloo?

*6ooooo6* *6ooooo6*

            Did she just close the phone on my face? Now that I wasn’t expecting! I wonder what she’ll do now…

Asma

            That… Manipulative… LIAR!!!

            How DARE he?! This is beyond sinking low. Stealing 3bdulla’s surprise? AND claiming it was his? It was all 3bdulla… Mskeen and I blamed him that night for abandoning me…

            ‘Well, he DID abandon you…’

But that’s not the point! The point is that all this, that Rashid, it’s all a lie! Wala mara ehtam feya I bet he was just playing around and trying to prove that he can get any girl, including me. I, who never took a second glance at guys like him, almost fell right into his trap.

            And I hate liars.

            I am going to make his life hell. He’s gonna regret the day he brought those damned marriage papers to my family. Bayshoof hal 7mar… walla bayshoof.

The Next Day…

>NOUFYY?!

>YAL ZAGA ANSWER !!

>WAKE UP !!

>MY GOD YOU’RE STILL SLEEPING?!

>THIS IS AN EMERGENCYYYYY!!!!!!!!

>PING!!!

>PING!!!

            --SHOOOOO!!!!!

            --Seriously asma WHAT THE HELL!

            --Sho salfatch?!

>SORRY

>UFFF JUST LISTEN!!!

            --Why are you writing in capital?

            --Oh no…

            --Don’t tell me…

>WE’RE TAKING RASHID DOWN!!

            --Somehow I knew you were gonna say something like that…

>AND!!

            --Oh shay AND ba3ad? -.-

>WE ARE BREAKING THIS MARRIAGE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER!

            --Oooooo are we scheming?!

            --I love making plots!

            --Oh my God I already have a dozen ideas!

>Hahaha that’s why I came to you ;)

>You’re the expert at this

            --So WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

>MOE in 20 minutes! DON’T BE LATE!!!

            --Wain banitlaga?

>Mmmm

>Get extra clothes

>We’re meeting fe Ski Dubai

            --Ooo good idea mashay 7ad hal wagt :D

            --Fel café malhm la?

>Laa 3al chairlift -.-

>6ab3an fel café wain ba3ad ya habla! :p

            --Inzain inzain just checking -.-

            --Yalla see you in 30 minutes!

>I said 20!!

            --Inzain inzain 20 got it :D

            I sighed. She’s going to be late.

***

Me: “One hot choc… no actually, make that two hot chocolates with marshmallows and M&M’s on top… Thank you!”

            I sat at the table waiting, not sure whether for Noufyy or for the drinks. My mind was making up new ideas by the second, although not all of them were very good. But still, the excitement roared in my blood as vengeance took over my body. I didn’t want to just play a prank on him; I wanted to destroy him. And I would be the one to do it. Not Sul6an, not 3bdulla, just me. Well, and Noufyy as well ya3ni but as in I’m not asking someone else to defend my honor just because I’m a girl. I’m gonna show him who’s boss. He picked the wrong game to play. And he messed with the wrong girl.

            I spotted Noufyy dragging herself up the stairs. She could pull off any size of any kind of heels, but never ski boots :p I always found that hilarious. Wayed r8ee8a zyada 3an el lzoom! Hehehehe…

Noufyy: “I KNOW what you were just thinking! And it’s not funny.”

            I looked up at her frowning face, and suppressed a smile.

Me: “6ilabtlch hot chocolate! With M&M’s and marshmallows!”

            I said it cheerfully as I poked her to sit down.

Noufyy: “Seriously asoom, ymkin inty ma tmtaneen bas other normal people like me do! Are you trying to make me fat? Do you know how much sugar is in that drink? La w ba3ad zidty toppings?”

Me: “Aaaih 6ab3an ana amtan! I just move a lot…”

Noufyy: “Yaa no WONDER Sul6oon used to call you a monkey…”

Me: “What?”

Noufyy: “Huh?”

Me: “Did you just call Sul6an ‘Sul6oon’?

            I smiled at her flushed face, and her expression looked like that of a child’s who was just caught in the act of doing something naughty.

Me: “HAHAHAHA atma95ar looool! So you DO like him!”

Noufyy: “Aaaaih chub walla ana gelt inh 5ala9 ma3ndy swalef awlaad…”

Me: “Mhmmm yaaa of course…”

            She scowled at my sarcasm.

Noufyy: “Can we please talk about YOUR problem?”

Me: “Ohh so this is a problem for you now? You’re in denial noufyy admit it! Hehehehe aaaaih laa walla don’t leave please I need you for this!”

Noufyy: “3yal bassch weya hal 7rakat!”

Me: “Inzain inzain…”

            She suddenly grinned, a source of evilness lurking around the corners of her wide smile.

Noufyy: “I know EXACTLY what we need to do.”

Me: “Good! Because I got nothing so far… well, nothing good enough anyway xD!”

Noufyy: “Hhhh, inzain, awal shay I need to know what happened!”

Me: “Shoo? Chaaih ma5abartch?”

Noufyy: “Nope. Completely forgot to mention it.”

Me: “So for my graduation…”

Noufyy: “Haaih inty where did you disappear? And I heard you had a kick-ass party last night w I wasn’t invited?! How could you do this to me asoomyy I’m your best friend! W I kept calling you bas you didn’t ans-”

            She stared at my half amused, half annoyed face.

Me: “Who’s babbling now?”

Noufyy: “SORRY. Kamly…”

Me: “Rashid texted me to meet him outside. I ignored him at first and told him to get lost, bas then he sent another message, and he threatened to come inside the building in front of everyone and drag me out and make a huge scene… El mhm I headed out to the parking lot, and he started babbling some crap about telling everyone that we’re engaged, which of course I refused, and then he threatened to announce it himself right there right then jdam all my friends and family. Anyway after 3bdulla left he started-”

Noufyy: “La76’a la76’aa… 3BDULLA was there?”

Me: “Yaa apparently he followed me out but I was too nervous slash angry to notice. Did I tell you he completely left when I bumped into him?”

Noufyy: “No waay!”

Me: “Walla I swear it wasn’t like him at all!”

Noufyy: “Anyway we’ll deal with him later. Kamly…”

Me: “So Rashid bda y6ali3 7rakat sa5eefa again w you know el 8i9a I got really scared because 3a8adny for the rest of my life, as if that wasn’t enough damage, and el mhm 3bdulla came back out of nowhere to tell me that everyone was looking for me w ba3dain 7araj when he saw us, BUT before he could do anything about it Rashid kidnapped me.”

Noufyy: “WHAT? What do you mean he KIDNAPPED you?”

Me: “I mean he literally picked me up, farany on his shoulder w RIKA6’! W yom 7a6any fel sayara he TIED MY HANDS with his 3’i6ra!”

Noufyy: “Laaa… SERIOUSLY?! That bastard!! Walla bayshoof I can’t believe-”

Me: “Wait wait ma5ala9t!”

Noufyy: “5aaibh BA3AD?! What else could he do?”

Me: “Well in the car he put on this stupid act that I bought of a concerned, even jealous fiancé w how he cares about me bla bla bla elmhm he started babbling 5arabee6 w in the moment I fell for it, ana el 3’abeya, w he took me awanh 3nda ‘surprise’ 7ag my graduation. Laa2 traya. He told Sul6an that he had dinner reservations at the burj, w-”

Noufyy: “Sul6an KNEW? And he LET HIM? Oh my God that traitor! We’ll deal with him later as well…”

            I raised a brow at her.

Noufyy: “I meant YOU, you’ll deal with him later ufff yalla 3ad whatever, kamly!”

Me: “Aaaaanywaay, instead, he takes me to the beach.”

Noufyy: “What? This story keeps getting weirder and weirder! How did he know you liked the beach anyway?”

Me: “I asked him that. He said awanh he ‘asked around’ w I assumed it was Sul6an. Bas when I asked sul6an later last night, oh and by the way the party was a surprise mn Rashid as well I didn’t know about it fa that’s why you didn’t either, anyway, sul6an gal he never told him anything. And when I said he took me to the beach not the burj, he got so mad and he just left. And I think he called someone. And THEN, one thing led to the other and I found myself talking to 3bdulla in the middle of the night, when HE also gets mad when he finds out Rashid took me to the beach!”

Noufyy: “Laish chaih sho el salfa what’s wrong with the beach?”

            My eyes suddenly started to tear up.

Me: “Nothing. It was beautiful. Aw noufyy you should’ve seen it! It was an actual little shaft! I don’t how they made it or how it got there, bas I have never seen anything like it! There were velvet curtains, there were tiny fans with mini rashash’s 3alaihm 3shan maykon wayed 7ar, w the meal was my favourite; Italian dishes, w there was even a giant hershey’s bar wrapped up in a ribbon! And guess what my picture was on it! You know how ma7alhm fe dm y9awroonch w y7i6oonch 3al wrapper? Yaa he did that for me too! Although ma3rf mn wain yab el 9oora…”

Noufyy: “So I don’t get it. That sounds really sweet why are you upset with Rashid? And why were sul6an and 3bdulla pissed?”

Me: “Because…”

Noufyy: “Because?”

Me: “Rashid wasn’t the one who did it for me… It was supposed to be 3bdulla’s surprise. And I don’t know how noufyy I honestly don’t! But he somehow found out and took me there. He lied to me. He said that it was because… because… uffff noufyy I hate him ! I hate him so SO much ! Laish che sawa feya?!”

            She suddenly got up and hugged me, and I let a few tears slip until I forced myself to calm down.

Noufyy: “He is going down.”

Me: “How?”

Noufyy: “Why 7bibty, have you already forgotten about my hidden blackmail files? And I’d already done some digging on Rashid when you first told me you two were engaged… juuuust incase something like this happened. Hehehe I knew it was going to be of good use. Don’t you just love me?”

Me: “Oh my God noufyy you’re the best!”

Noufyy: “I also have another idea, a little extra cherry on top, if you know what I mean. But we’re going to need someone to help us trick him.”

Me: “Who?”

            She looked at me hesitantly.

Noufyy: “A player.”

            She didn’t have to say more. We both knew exactly whom she had in mind.

To be continued…