Can we just be us? Part 73

Part 73

'Kinda missed having you sleeping next to me' those words rang in her head multiple times that night. Meera looked to her side and the clock read 7:09 AM. 

It was early for a weekend morning, she looked at her sister's kids as they were sound asleep. She got dressed and freshened up and walked out the door. 
The beach house was quiet as she noticed both abdulra7man  and Aisha still asleep. The room where hamad slept was shut and so was sarah's room.

She walked to the kitchen to make some coffee when Hamad walked in slightly out of breath with sweat beads in his forehead and biceps obviously from his run. 

Hamad: you’re up early 

She got into what she was doing when hamad's words startled her. 

Meera: omg you scared me

He laughed giving her his million dollar smile

Meera: what time did you wake up?

Hamad: ah it's always the same around 5:30

He took a sip of water

Hamad: gonna hop in the shower

Meera couldn't help but stare a little as he walked past the kitchen and to the bedroom for his shower. It's been while since she last saw him all sweaty fresh out of his workout and boy did she like what she saw. But she couldn't help but wonder at his sleeping habits. She noticed how he would always be up and about before 6. The only time he would wake up after was when he slept right next to her. 

Meera started making breakfast when Hamad walked out fresh out of his shower. He saw meera making breakfast and remember the olden days he would watch her prepare breakfast and admire her beauty.  A whole year passed and nothing changed.  He only wished that they were alone so he could do anything he wanted to her. 

Noora: I'm hungry 

She said walking in into the living room obvious signs of sleep on her face

Hamad: morning munchkin

He grabbed her by her waist and carried her towards the stool waiting for the food.

Meera: ofcourse you are sweety, you didn't have dinner last night

Just mentioning the night she blushed as she remembered hamad's words. She wondered if he really meant it.

...

About 2 hours later almost everyone was awake and both abdulra7man and Aisha were getting ready to leave since abdulra7man was needed in the office that day.

Aisha: all set, into that car

The twins whined as they wanted to spend more time with alya's kids as they have grown close to them in the period of two days.

Abdulra7man: come in, next time we can do this again

He told his kids as they pouted and out the door they left.

Aisha: see ya later sweetie

She hugged meera and whispered in her ear

Aisha: say something before it's too late

She smiled to her and left

They said their goodbyes and off they went leaving the rest behind.

Meera: what time did you guys come in last night?

Both sara and Mohammed looked at each other. There was tension as they haven't talked about their kiss and it was their first time looking at each others eyes after it. To both of them, the kiss was amazing but had to stop short as sarah's family slept in the house making them separate ways and get into their rooms.

Meera could have sworn she saw sara blush

Sara: around 2

Meera: saeed still asleep, must of been one hell of a party

Mohammed: oh hhhhh (he laughed awkwardly, scratching his head) saeed didn't come home last night

Meera had the look on her face when she was about to say something

Sara: he had a one night stand

She looked at her watch then said

Sara: still is actually

Meera: oh god

Hamad: that dog

He said laughing making Mohammed laugh along

…

Rashid: 5alo meera

He called out, but no response 

Rashid: 5alo meera

He yelled louder

Rashid: 5ALO MEERA!!

He screamed from the top of his lungs

Meera: stop screaming ya Rashid 

She said coming out of the bathroom

Rashid: yallah

He whined

Meera: stop whining, I'm getting your sister dressed 

3baid: done 

The five year old came out of the room dressed in his swimming trunks

Meera: sweetie your swimming trunks are on backwards

She said laughing; 3baid was the cutest among the three, always doing goofy things.

Hamad: I'll help you buddy

He said coming out in his own swimming trunks offering to watch the kids

Meanwhile…

Sara was stretched our in the beach chair with sunglasses on. She was thankful for packing her black shades, now she could slowly sneak glances towards Mohammed who was stretched our right next to her in nothing but swimming trunks. She couldn't get the kiss they shared out of her head.

Mohammed: like what you see 

She froze 

Mohammed: because I sure do

He wasn't subtle when glancing towards her. Could you blame him?When sara was in nothing  but a pair of tiny pink bikini.

Mohammed: we haven't talked about last night

She bit her bottom lip remembering it

Sara: there is nothing to talk about

She tried acting cool

Moahmmed: did you like it?

On que meera came out with noora and Rashid running straight towards the water. With hamad and 3baid following behind.

Can we just be us? Part 72

Part 72

To sara this was not the night she imagined. In her mind she was supposed to be dancing the night away with some strange guy making Mohammed jealous and that is if he actually got jealous. But instead she stood at the kitchen counter as she watched mohammed with a bunch of girls flirting. Saeed was being pulled away by some girl and headed upstairs. Was it weird to feel happy that your brother was finally getting some is what she thought. 

She turned her head back to Mohammed's spot and found him walking to the outside with some other people probably going for a swim by the pool or the beach since it was a beach house.

Ghada: for Fuck sake, can't you just socialize like a normal college student

Sara: he is getting under my skin

Ghada: where did the confident bitch go?

She said laughing

Ghada: its weird how you loose your confidence every time your around him, it's like high school all over again 

Its true Sara was always the popular one but before all that she was just an average girl that had a crush on her bother's geeky best friend. The crush developed into a stronger feeling which she hated to admit knowing he only saw her as a younger sister, making her act strong and bitchy around him.

Sara: screw this, I'm going for it

Ghada: otta girl

She yelled after her

Sara barged away walking towards the front of the house where the party got wilder. People around the pool were too drunk to to actually swim and some other people hanging by the beach while the music was blasting all the way.

She spotted Mohammed at the benches east of the pool talking to some girl. She recognized the girl, she was a class above sara where she graduated a year before her making her three years younger than mohammed. The girl was pretty and what sara could remember from high school is that she was nice and smart.

What a plan was what she thought. That was it, it's a freaking party is what she told herself. She needed to have fun. She got into talking to a crowd of people she knew back from her class and started to hit it of with a guy whom used to be the hottest guy in school. Don't get her wrong he was still hot, but that was it. But she just wanted a distraction. 

Mohammed point of view: 

I looked over to sara and there she was standing and talking to her best friend. It's been a long time since she stood there. Why isn’t she partying? I walked towards the outside of the house where I spotted a few people from my high school class.

Girl: I hear you've been working for my brother

A girl disrupted my thoughts, I recognized her from high school

...

Mohammed: Abdulaziz al x is your brother?

Girl: yep

Mohammed: should have figured, the last names (he said scratching his head,

he was always the awkward guy)

Girl: so what brings you here, it's a first seeing you in one of these parties

Mohammed: saeed and I came along with sara

The moment he said her name she noticed him looking at sara. He would sneak looks towards her direction every now and then.

Girl: you know I found you cute in high and I kinda liked you

Mohammed: really?

He said slightly embarrassed

Girl: but I knew you always liked someone else

He wasn't looking towards her anymore and stared at the guy that was talking to sara

Girl: I should have known it was sara

He turned and round trying to say something to cover his ass when she interrupted him 

Girl: tell her before its too late

...

It was getting late and sara was slowly feeling exhausted keeping up with all the talk and partying. She has been trying to text saeed the whole night but hadn't seen him since earlier in the party when he was being pulled away by the girl upstairs. 

Mohammed: ready to leave

Sara: saeed hasn't been answering his phone

Mohammed had grabbed the keys from his pocket and opened the car door then said

Mohammed: oh he texted me and um said not to disturb him (he said smirking)

Sara: EWW

They both got into the car and Mohammed started driving. Their beach house wasn't far away. But even during the 10 minute drive sara didn't want to feel any sort of tension as she remembered their last car ride incident. 

Mohammed: had fun?

He said breaking the ice

Sara: yh, you sure did, you were kinda popular with the girls

She didn't sound happy as Mohammed did sense her tone of jealousy 

Mohamed: jealous are we now

Sara: please (She spat out) I don't care who you spend your time with

Mohammed: why you're the one who was hanging out with that guy the whole night

Sara: now who's jealous?

She said smiling 

Mohammed: still, I wasn't the one having wet dreams

That was when it hit her. He knew and wasn't going to ever let it go.

Mohammed had parked the car at the driveway of the beach house and got out followed by sara

Sara: that wasn't a wet dream

Mohammed: you moaning my name was for what then?

He said turning around to face her way 

Sara: hey your not the only Mohammed I know

Mohammed: your full of shit

Sara: why do you care anyway, you were too busy chatting away with that girl tonight

He had a smirk on his face fully aware of Sara's jealous state.

Mohammed: who's jealous now?

Sara: your an ass

She said walking away past him and towards the house door. He grabbed her arm stopping her from taking another step

Mohammed: the girl today, I work for her older brother we were just talking

Sara: I don't care-

Mohammed: just shut up

She grabbed both of her arms pulling her towards him as he closed the gap between them and kissed her.

Can we just be us? Part 71

Part 71

Just like how she liked her summer, on a beach with a bikini on and shirtless guys to distract her. But her eyes only followed one and he was sure hitting it off with everyone. 

Ghada: hey slut

Sara rolled her eyes, slut, really? Has all the other words lost meaning, but it was her friend's choice of words as she called out her close friends

Sara: cool party

She said with the music blasting loud and the people dancing as she stood against the kitchen counter with a cup caught between her lips and a good view of living room.

Ghada: what's wrong?

It might not seem like it but these two were inseparable since birth. Their moms had known each other for a long time naturally making them spend time together. They were close as kids, still close as they went to the same high school.

Ghada eyes followed sara's and saw the living room packed with friends along with saeed and mohammed.

Ghada: you finally decided to bring them along, guessing the girls like the new body on your brother 

Sara: ew 

Ghada: Mohammed doesn't look bad either, hmm, she turned her head sideways

Ghada: can see why the girls are flirting 

Sara just focused on the living room watching closely ignoring her friend's comments

Sara: where is Faisal?

Ghada: cleaning himself up in the bedroom

She said biting her lip

Sara: wow you work fast (she said jokingly)

People called her a slut, but she only went for what she wanted. Sara knew that ghada was the type of  girl who would ask a guy out without fearing anything and be the first to say or do anything, and she envied that

Ghada: hey! We went on a few dates ok

Sara: I know

She smiled

Ghada: this is stupid, did you fuck Mohammed yet?

Sara looked shocked

Ghada: come on, I know you've been wanting to ever since high school, or even before that

Sara: no, and I'm not planning on jumping on him

Ghada: yeah cz you like him

There was a moment of silence 

Ghada: wow you aren't even denying it, just go tell him before he finds someone else

She pointed towards the big group of people mostly girls surrounding saeed and Mohamed 

...

Meera: she actually answers the phone now books appointments 

Hamad: samara, secretary of the year

Laughing at the idea knowing her back in the day she was a terrible secretary

Meera: without even talking to me first then calling back

Hamad: I'm sure she beats all the secretaries I have ever worked for

He said making her laugh

Meera: so how was it? The states I mean

He looked right into her eyes deeply wishing the divorce never happened 

Hamad: good, but I-

Rashid: finally we are at the beginning of the line (he said interrupting them)

Meera grabbed the tickets walked towards the food counter where the kids went wild buying candy and popcorn.

Hamad: come on buddy, one candy, you won't be able to eat all that

He said making meera laugh. She forgot how good he was with the kids. 

3baid put the other candy bars back down much to his dissapointment. After that they walked towards the cinema hall where the kids ran off to sit together leaving meera and hamad sitting side by side.

The beginning of the movie started and meera's phone beeped indicating a message

Hamad: we have been over this, miss you must switch off your phone

Meera looked away from her phone to see hamad's face turned to his left shoulder towards her. He was leaning in and lowered his voice not to disturb the people in the cinema.

She realized how close his face was and all she did was keep her eyes locked to his face. Her eyes roamed his face, his eyes and all the way to his lips. 

Hamad: and oh the states was good, but I was a bit lonely, missed having you nudging me in my sleep, kinda missed having you sleep next to me

Can we just be us? Part 70

Part 70

Meera: don’t you boys have anything else to do?

Saeed and Mohammed were on the bean bag chairs on the floor playing black-ops on the play-station. It was like the olden days. Even after many years they were still the geeky young boys at heart.

Saeed: where not stopping now, look at our level

Meera just laughed, she remembered him at his 14 yearold self

What confused meera was Sara sitting at the corner of the couch behind them on her phone. But she was stealing a few glances, looking up then back to her phone.

Mohammed: you idiot, grab his gun!

He yelled at saeed then they both started yelling and laughing

Sara looked up smiled then back to her phone

Meera: if you just sit here and play this you might as well gain all the weight you lost

Saaed: that will never happen

He stood up and pulled his shirt up revealing his hard 6 pack. He sure worked hard for his body.

Sara: put your shirt down! We are not in a strip club

She said making Mohammed laugh

Meera: take them with you to the party your going, might as well show the girls there that body

Every summer sara’s high school friends would throw a party at some beach house. The parties continued even after graduation, as they would meet up with the older graduates and the parties just got wilder.

Saeed: who is gonna be there?

Sara: everyone from highschool that graduated

Mohammed: no

He said still playing not looking at them

Saeed: come on man, its gonna be fun, we will get to see everyone, it’s been awhile

Sara: true, besides you turned up pretty good

She said looking at Mohammed while he looked back at her intensely

Saeed: ok then we are going

…

Saeed, Mohammed and Sara went out to the party leaving the others back at the beach house.

Aisha: talked to hessa yet? 

She said flopping down on the couch while the twins were with Abdulra7man along with hamad and the kids at the beach

Meera: yep, but she doesn't seem to know bout your plans

Aisha: what plans are you talking about?

Meera: really? Play dumb

Aisha just laughed, both her and her husband weren't the planning type. But they did manage to get both of them down to the beach house. In her book that was still a win.

Aisha: can you blame me, you obviously still have feelings for him

Meera: I was married to him, of course there is always going to be something there

Aisha: maybe that was the problem, agreeing on a business marriage, then jawaher. Everything is  different now, maybe it's worth another shot 

...

The music could be heard all the way up to the parking space beside the beach area.  Sara's friends knew exactly how to throw a party, her and her friends were known for their parties and that was what made her popular in high school.

Well the fact she was a spoiled pretty brat definitely contributed to the fact

Mohammed: shit the music is loud

He said getting out of the car, he was slightly nervous to see all the faces he hasn't seen since he graduated

They could see people dancing near the beach.  And most of them were familiar to both Mohammed and saeed.

Sara: giving up already old man

Saeed: were these parties always like this in high school?

Sara: pretty much

She said as she walked towards a group of girls in their bikinis that walked by but made sure to eye saeed head to toe. He wasn't the fat geeky boy anymore as his muscles almost ripped his black  tank top.

Saaed: could be fun

He said with a smirk on his face. He started walking towards the house when he looked back and said

Saeed: what? You not coming 

Mohammed: why the hell not

...

Rashid: the avengers, the avengers 

He chanted as he held onto his aunt's arm

3baid: 5alo please

She knew he would grow up one day to be a ladies man. He sure knew how to convince one.

Meera: you two are too much

Rashid: well you said yes to watch us

Meera: yes I did

She said fluffing out his hair

Hamad: you munchkins love to swim

He said coming out of his room with a towel between his hand running it throw his hair. Just looking at him Meera remembered the days he did that shirtless with only a towel. She got snapped back to reality when Hamad was standing right in front of her 

Hamad: go take a nap, your sister is tired (he tried calming down the boys)

Rashid and 3baid: the avengers, the avengers 

Meera: okaih fine, go get dressed were going

They were not needed to told twice as they ran off into the room to get changed

Alya: the twins are finally taking their nap

She said as abdulra7man followed her out of the room were the twins slept

Meera: would you mind watching over noora for a couple of hours the boys want to go watch a movie

Abdulra7man: sure, she is asleep and twins are asleep are too, maybe we can get that alone time

She snaked her arms around her husband and kissed his lips

Rashid and 3baid: ewww

Hamad: that was fast, you two really want to watch this (he said amazed) 

Rashid: come with us

Hamad looked at meera waiting for her to say something 

Meera: yeah, it will be just like the old times

She gave him a soft smile

Then walked towards the room to get changed.

This plan was sure making things happen and both Aisha and Abdulra7man were smiling like idiots.