If We're Meant To Be. Part2

The whole ride home I kept thinking ,, "I should reply, But what can I say?" .. I parked infront of the house and paused. I was thinking of what to write, but that idea reminded me of something else..Her smile.

She always smiled at me when I didn't know what to say, Ghalya was very used to being crushed on and hit on. But she felt I was different than all the guys, which I was.

I remember that time we bumped into each other in the resort, I was 19 by then, She was arguing with her little sister, and when she saw me she was completely struck. I loved that look. She kept staring at the floor..

I'm a big fan of Nawal so her song played in my head as I saw her..

Hathak .. hathak ana athee3 lw 6ala3t nathratah ..
bi3younah elsoud yisma7lyy o yimna3ny ..
a7la 3alamaat bidinyaa 3alamatah ..
Matta3 nithar kil min shaafah .. o matta3ny ..

You're probably wondering how did we start off. Okay I'll tell you, as I said before we had calculus class together. Ghalya was very extremely smart mashallah, she always took A's o dayman el-oula 3al 9af. She was very sick one day, and of course she refused to be absent. She entered the class with her tissue box and her very red nose, her hair was a mess; but cute, and her eyes drenched in tears. She sneezed every five minutes, she put her head on the desk leaning on her right arm, and writing with her left hand. (She's left handed). I was sitting at her left so I could see her paper very clearly. What surprised me the most is that all of her answers were wrong. She answered Q.B with the answer with Q.A! Which means she knows the right answer but she's too tired to recognize.

Eissa; Psssttt!

No reaction of Ghalya.

Eissa; Pssttt Ghalya!!
Ghalya; hm?
Eissa; Q.A o B ghala6! Switch!
Ghalya; Ha?
Eissa; 3a6eeny ewrigtich!
Ghalya; hey may9eer enqish!
Eissa; adry, bs aby asa3dich!
Ghalya; thank you bs we're not allowed to cheat.

Edgaratny. I was very disappointed, a tiny voice in my head cried, and a tinier one said "Shnu ya3ny? ehya elkhasrana"

She was feeling all better the next day, she came with such a smiley face and looking so fresh, I eavesdropped on her talking to her friends.

Ghalya; Thank god I recovered ambaih ams kan at3as youm eb 7ayatyyy!!
Ghalya's friend; yepp yepp it showed a9lan! Yallah salamaat!
Ghalya; Allah ysalmiichh,
Teacher; I'm going to call out your names with your marks for yesterday's quiz.
Ghalya; uh-oh! I completely forgot about that.
Teacher; (calling out some names) ,, Eissa Al-X 10 out of 10. (some other names) .. Ghalya Al-X 2 out of 10 ...
Ghalya; TWO!???????

Her face was unimaginable! She was completely shocked!

Teacher; Given to how sick you were yesterday we will give you another quiz. But please, the next time you are sick you should be absent, this is not the army, it's just school, it's okay to be absent.
Ghalya; *Phew* thank yoou!

You see most of the time I was just the watcher of Ghalya, until I had the courage to speak to her.