TMWKL 2 - Seven

Jenna sat on the pavement with her legs outstretched rolling her feet to the left and right out of boredom. She turned to the left watching him as he played with his iPhone, for a moment she envied he had a phone and she didn’t.

“are you tweeting”

“mm”

“huuuuuf”

Khalifa turned towards her with a raised eyebrow and she glared back at him in frustration.

“what?!”

“huf ha?!”

“eee im bored!”

“ma7ad galich leave your phone in the car and give the keys to your cousin .. a9lan who does that?!!”

“let me get my hands on him bes ..”

Khalifa chuckled deeply at her comeback and pictured her fighting with someone who is twice her size. Jenna frown glared at him and huffed some more!

“Kumar t2a5ar”

 “patience is a virtue”

“bes t2a5ar”

“hes coming .. wein broo7 y3ne”

Jenna Sighed and looked down at her feet, she never had stayed this long out of the house and she was starting to get tired. Boredom was killing her, waiting was never something she enjoyed and she didn’t know what to do with her self. She stared a bit more at her feet and decided to talk to him. about what?! she didnt know what to say or talk about, after all they had such a bad start. Jenna squeezed pushed her courage and opened her mouth disregarding his reaction to what might come out. 

“Khalifa”

“hala”

Jenna bit her tongue at the question she wanted to ask him now that he was staring questioningly at her. His quizzical eyes were . She had a lot of questions to ask him but she knew the reaction that was going to face her.

“um .. are .. uh .. mmmm”

“okaaaaaaaay?!”

“mm”

She rolled her feet to the left and right again and Khalifa noticed her this time; deep chuckles filled the air between them and she couldn’t help but join him. Within minutes, Kumar’s lights pre-announced his arrival and Jenna jumped to her feet grinning widely. Kumar parked the car next to hers and got out smiling at her.

“Kumaaaaaaaaaaar weinek?!! Wayed t2a5rt”

“baba mafi hasel mefta7 ser3a .. haza hu”

Jenna grabbed the spare key and extended her arm towards her car; watching the double light indication with giddy. She rushed to the passenger door, opened the door and grabbed her phone dialing Faisal.

“YA 7MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!! WEINAK INTA?!?! 7AD YENSA E5TA O YRAWE7 .. WHERE THE HELL WAS YOUR THICK HEAD ?!! SERIOUSLY SORRY??!! I HAD TO WAIT FOR OVER 2 HOURS FOR KUMAR TO GET ME MY SPARE … 9IJ ENAK 7MAAAAAR! I HAAAAAATE YOU ..EEE GIGGLE GIGGLE ..I HOPE YOU CHOCK ON ONE OF YOU GIGGLES .. BYE FAISAL BYE ..7MAR WA7ED!”

Khalifa watched her blown by the madness that suddenly settled in her, he muffled his laugh not wanting to get a share of the scream fest she was hosting. Within seconds she walked up to him in the poised manner and his lips curled into a side smile noticing the sudden change. Jenna rubbed the side of her thighs trying to find the right words to say to not get teased by her new bully.

“Thank you”

“your welcome”

“um .. ill leave”

“my espresso is on you, we need to get the project running”

“I didn’t agree to that”

“well in that case, Il invite you”

“and I don’t accept ..bye Khalifa”

He watched her as she jumped into her car and he smiled warmly not knowing why. As much as he hated her on their first encounter, loved to tease and annoy her once he knew her; as much as his heart started warming up towards her in a weird way. Khalifa stood there watching both cars reverse and leave, wondering what this start could be.

Jenna watched him in the overhead mirror and noticed he still stood in his place smiling warmly, she couldn’t help but wonder how schizophrenic this guy is. She reached for the music in hope her brain will stop dwelling over Khalifa, but all failed as he occupied her thoughts for the night! 

Our Apologies

Dear All,

I know that we have disappeared but please bare with us; between finals, work and our personal lives we couldnt write due to reasons beyond our control. we will post shortly and will be back posting every Thursday as usual :)

Thank you all for understanding and checking on the blog

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Z&QB

TMWKL2 - Six

Dear Readers, 

We apologize for not posting last Thursday but we both got caught up between work and exams! the post is long, juicy and a turn for the story so we hope you enjoy it ;)

Once again we apologize for the delay, and starting this week we will post regularly or maybe twice a week !

Love, 
QB&Z

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Jenna could smell his perfume, and she held her breath swallowing dryly at how close he was. She didn’t know where this all is going, but the only thing she feared the most was Faisal’s reaction. They all were very protective of her, especially Faisal and seeing Khalifa this close to her will defiantly cause issues!

“ashooof ba3th el nas ma3adaw gad-ha?!!”

His words poked at her and within seconds she turned around to face him; but only after she turned had she realized the tight space he had squeezed her into. Her brain threw a fit at the invasion of personal space; she could take all the teasing and bullying in the world as long as it didn’t invade her personal space.

“Khalifa ma an9a7k you push my buttons”

She stared into his black eyes trying aimlessly to show her actual size, but Khalifa pierced her soul with his smile. Jenna couldn’t help but notice his features; they were sharp with a hint of softness. She wondered if all girls felt this way looking at him, and unconsciously shook her head forgetting him standing in front of her. Khalifa looked at her with amusement at her childish side, and soon enough the smell of her sweet mimosa shampoo hit him. He smiled warmly at the powdery scent that hit his nose, and took a step back feeling different as he inhaled the scent again.

“baby girl what icecream would you like?”

Jenna’s mouth dropped at his sudden shift in attitude and she raised both eyebrows. If anyone is going to drive her crazy it was him; one minute hes King Leonidas from 300 and the other minute hes like a sweet husband of 10 years!!

“are you normal up there?”

Khalifa’s eyes popped at her question and within seconds a deep chuckle filled up the place!

“up where? In my head?”

“Actually at this moment im in doubt you even have a head!”

Jenna rolled her eyes at him.

“well im in doubt too!”

“about what?!”

“me having a head around you!”

She was getting frustrated with everything between them and his change was worrying her ..

“Khalifa .. whats your aim of all of this?!”

“honestly??”

“I wouldn’t want anything else”

“I don’t know ..I just love teasing you”

“well stop it, because you turning into a very annoying person ”

“I am?”

“im ignoring you starting now”

Jenna slipped away from him and turned to the Pilipino that was very amused by their quarrel! She smiled warmly at him and asked for a mint chocolate chip scoop on a cone.

“Ill have the same!”

She looked over her shoulder and rolled her eyes at him, turning to take her cone from the guy. Jenna walked over to the glass door to see where her cousin was and to her utter shock neither Faisal nor his friends were there! Her eyes shot in terror knowing she doesn’t have the car keys and her mobile phone was in the car!! Khalifa walked over to her and noticed the fear/shock in her eyes.

“Jenna feech shay?”

“um ..my cousin madri weina”

“yemkin ra7 mkan thani .. degi 3aleh”

“telephoni bil sayara”

“here use my phone”

“no its okay .. il wait”

“Jenna don’t act silly, take my phone and call him”

Her cheeks blushed feeling a little guilt and looked at the floor like a little kid in trouble.

“la 3adi”

“ya baba 5ethi el telephone o kalmeh”

“um..”

“mista7ya?”

“La its just that I … haven’t … memorized his mobile number”

“okay .. khaleeni adfa3 and well go looking for him”

“la its okay, il wait until he gets here to pay for my cone”

“bala habal .. its just a cone!”

“la Khalifa 3eib”

“if your feeling bad, invite me for an espresso tomorrow to start our interview”

Jenna raised both her eyebrows as she watched him walk to the till to pay, she didn’t even accept to do the interview and here he wants her to take him on a coffee date to start work! This man is defiantly delusional! She sighed in frustration cursing Faisal under her breath and walked out of Baskin Robbins praying her car was open. She yanked at the passenger door praying that Faisal didn’t lock it, and to her dismay the door was bolted and not even locked. She looked to the left then to the right in hope she will see a group of guys and spot Faisal. No one was in sight and the whole block was dead!

“emshi emshi  5aleena endawer .. shaklech wet puppy when your scared”

“IM NOT SCARED!”

“abad!”

She walked ahead of him stomping her feet in fury, she couldn’t help but thing that the last person she wanted to be stranded with is Khalifa.

“shway shway .. you scoop will fall off”

She looked over her shoulder and glared at him, but soon she reached the end of the block and there was no sign of Faisal. She sighed in defeat and wondered how Faisal of all people could leave HER alone.

“Baby girl”

“stop calling me that”

“9a3b with the face you have on”

“Khalifa please leave me alone”

“let me take you home”

“HELL-NO!”

“lat3andeen .. its getting late”

“OH!”

Her eyes opened wide in excitement and she remembered kumar can get her spare key!

“hand me your phone”

“why”

“UGH! Khalifa didn’t you offer you phone .. I need to call”

“who are you going to call”

“ta78eeee8 huwa?!”

“its my phone”

“im calling our driver”

“why?”

“so he can get me the spare”

“il take you home”

“and I said no, please give me your phone or il go use the baskin robbins phone”

“why no?”

“lena you’re a stranger and its not right for me to be alone in a car with you!”

“im not going to rape you”

“t.habi you rape me!”

“ahabi ha?!”

“phone please”

“you’re a tough cookie”

“I know. Phone please”

“and stubborn”

“nothing new. Phone please”

“and beautiful”

“WHAT!?”

“you heard me!”

“phone please!”

“has anyone told you your eyes are very capturing?!”

“okay .. talk to yourself!”

Jenna stormed back to the shop to call Kumar, but Khalifa grabbed her wrist and spun her around.

“GOD KHALIFA! Will you ever stop doing that”

“ka”

His other hand was stretched holding his phone towards her, Jenna grabbed it and dialed Kumar’s number. She waited for the line to be picked up but nothing, she dialed again with no luck!

“I think the universe is telling you its okay for me to drop you off”

“and I said hell no .. im calling baba”

“ya rab ma7ad yrid 3aleech”

Khalifa didn’t realize he was still holding onto her wrist, and he quickly let go in panic. What was happening to him was beyond him, he never acted like this around a girl. Girls acted like this around him! He watched Jenna’s face crunch in concentration and he couldn’t help but notice how he enjoyed watching her and being around her.

“aloo Baba .. laa mani f bait jadi, jeit baskin ma3a Faisal o Faisal a5ath mfta7i o 5tefa .. madri weina Baba o telephoni fil sayara .. telephone min?? Khalifa Al-X .. ee kan nazel ya5eth icecream o shafni  .. la yuba lat6arish Kumar a7taj telephoni o shan6eti .. mumkin e6arish el spare ma3a Kumar? Ee 5alee ydig 3ala hal raqam .. tabi tkalma? Okay la7tha ..”

Jenna outstretched her hand towards him with an unhappy face, and Khalifa grinned widely as he took the phone!

TMWKL2 - Five

Days have passed since the incident and Jenna was ignoring twitter all together to avoid “Him”! She didn't want to tweet anything in fear of him slashing out on her publicly for what she did last. Jenna knew very well girls flocked at Khalifa’s feet and she was even surer that no one dared to treat him the way she did. As much as she loved the thrill of pushing him over the edge, as much as she feared his next move. To her laying low and invisible was perfect to plan her next couple of moves; she did not plan on letting this guy get away with what he did to her.

Jenna laid there in bed taking in the beauty of laying in on a Friday morning; she had a very busy week and just laying in her bed was the perfect remedy for her achy bones. Her brain was in overdrive thinking mode trying to find a way out of the mess she had pushed her self into. A way that knew no loss and only victory, she has never every lost a battle and she certainly wasnt planning on losing this one. Jenna extended her arm to her night table and grabbed her Iphone to double check his account. It has become a daily morning habit she checks his account in bed, was it stalking? Whatever it was called she didn’t care as she felt like she had the upper hand in the battle between them.  

- Blessed Friday to all –

She read his last tweet and couldnt help but smile; the guy did have a soft side after all. Her grandfather’s praise rang in her head and she smirked; why was he so nice with everyone but her. No matter what he said to her, she knew it had an underlying meaning. Jenna sighed and got out of bed to get ready for Friday lunch at her grandparents place. She wore her favorite blue jeans and a white tshirt with a cookie on it; it was a casual family lunch and she never dressed up on Friday. She grabbed her yellow Tods loafers, grabbed the keys to her car and headed out knowing her parents have already left. She got into her G55 and started her way to her grandparents listening to Michael Bubble smooth vocals. She stopped at a traffic light humming to the tune; it took her a few seconds to feel that someone was smiling at her. Jenna looked to her left curious to see who it was and Khalifa staring at her with a warm grin!! Before she could return the smile the traffic light turned green and the impatient driver behind her was beeping his heart out!

“AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!”

she screamed at herself and accelerated wondering what he thought of her! He probably thought she was a complete idiot that gazes out at random stranger! She stopped at another traffic light, and looked at the over heard mirror to see if he was around. It then hit her; she didn’t concentrate on the car and didn’t know what he drove so how will she recognize him?! she looked down at her phone clicking on the little blue bird app as she always did at a traffic light; she hated to touch her phone while she drove but traffic lights bore her. Jenna waited a few seconds for it to refresh and the first tweet that caught her eye was a tweet from HIM.

- Funny how you see someone you were hoping to see on the streets -

She smiled knowing it was for her, someone is in a good mood maybe we did actually go off on the wrong foot after all. She grinned widely as his happiness was contagious, she decided to divert her path and grab cupcakes and cookies for the kids. As she stopped the car, she decided to send him a direct message. It was daring of her but she didn’t like how they had an electrified start. 

- Taqabal Allah -

-Mina w mnich inshallah-

She smiled throwing her phone into the cupholder, and got out the car heading into the bakery buying everything on display. She knew Nanna would probably kill her for the amount of sugar shes buying: but she felt happy wanting everyone to feel the same and no better high than sugar! She walked back to her car placing the boxes carefully at the back, driving off to her grandparents. As she arrived she honked her horn twice so the gate will open, and drove in parking her car at the first empty spot. Mashallah everyone was here and hardly any parking space I left. Jenna got out and carried the boxes walking carefully towards the garden to greet the entire family. Hours flew by like crazy, Friday was always a long day that never ticked but today was different. Jenna was bored beyond her mind now her favorite cousins were gone; she noticed it was getting cold and contemplated the idea of grabing her hoodie or heading home. Her parents left ages ago and she stayed behind like she always did; her brothers werent home and she hated staying home on her own. Her cousins started to leave wanting to finish off Friday errands; and she decided to make a move too. she said her goodbye, grabbed her stuff and headed towards her car.

Faisal: "Halla Halla B JinJin!"

Jenna: "OMG!!! your back!!"

Faisal: "Yes, weein ray7a??"

Jenna "wein baroo7? barja3 el beit”

Faisal "care for Ice cream? Just like old days??”

Jenna: “you know I can never say no to my childhood sidekick!”

Faisal: “side kick mnu?!?! Inti my sidekick!”

Jenna: “Faz! I though we agreed years ago were both eachothers sidekicks?!”

Faisal: “im 3 days older which makes me the lead sidekick so technically you follow me!”

Jenna: “agoool ..emsh emsh ‘9aleeetni b hal 3 days tgool sneen!”

Faisal: “eli akbar mink ..”

Jenna: “BYOOOOOM AKBAR MINK B SANA!! 7faaaaatht-ha walla!! Heres the keys, you drive!”

Faisal caught the keys and got in behind the wheel waiting for Jenna, she opened the back passenger door to grab her hoodie. Nights are getting chillier by the day as winter closed in, and cold was not something she enjoyed. She slid into the passenger seat and grinned foolishly at Faisal. Her brothers were close to her but Faisal was truly her best friend; unlike the rest of her cousin who hated her. Faisal’s parents got divorced when he was a kid and he got raised by Nanna alongside Jenna who was always at their grandparent’s house. They grew close over the years, and became best friend siblings. Faisal was driving out of the gate, jenna was singing her lungs out and giggling. She didn’t notice someone saw them and only noticed her buzzing phone. She continued her singing screaming disregarding the buzz on her lap. The song ended and they both started giggling crazily, and Jenna picked up her phone to check only to be shocked it was a Direct Message from Khalifa.

- Where is my baby girl off to? -

- Wrong number -

- Excuse me? -

- Huh? -

- Yeah -

- Weirdo -

- Gadha? -

- Always and forever!! -

Whatever Jenna thought to herself; hes back to his silly looser games! Faisal switched to the radio and Abdelmajeed blasted through the speakers. Jenna started giggling and moving her arms around dancing. Faisal shook his head at her as he pulled in front of Baskin Robbins.

“DUDE! YOUR TOOO SEEERIOUS!”

She swayed to the music and Faisal started laughing as he joined the madness; they started synchronizing their arms to the same moves. Whoever saw them would think they are a crazy young married couple. The song ended and Faisal killed the engine; they both left the car laughing at their craziness and soon someone was calling out Faisal’s name. They both turned around and Jenna made her way into the ice cream shop after feeling a little awkward waiting for her cousin.

"Hii madaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, how can I help youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

She smiled at the Filipino behind the chillers and walked up and down reading each and every name tag.

"mmmm…Just a second .. im trying make up my mind"

Something Jenna would always do was to look down at all the flavors and at the end order the exact same thing she's been ordering all her life. Jenna had heard the door open but she didn't put much thought into turning thinking its Faisal; however something she was sure of is that she could feel that someone was standing so close to her from the back. She smiled knowing it must be Faisal and one of his crazy pranks.

"Gadha 9a7"

Jenna jumped in place at the tone of his voice, she shut her eyes tight knowing something is about to blow up in her face.

TMWKL2 - Four

Jenna tried to keep her cool infront of her grandparents; the last thing she wanted was a mini heart attack infront of Nanna. Her thumb scrolled over the apps at such a speed that within seconds she had the Twitter application opened. She stared at the notification to double check if what she saw earlier was infact real!


"is he demented or what?!"


She started talking to herself as she stared cautiously at her phone forgetting who was around her. Baba Ali was staring at her like she had lost her mind and soon she realized where she was. Jeena gave her grandfather a dumbfounded smile trying to show shes okay but in reality she wasnt. 



Baba A: "3asa ma shar ya bnayti?!"

Jenna: "Ma shar baba bs jani email '3areeb .. "




Baba A: "Walla intu o hal telefonat el gelbatkm glab"




Jenna: "hahhahaa .. 3ad shinsawi yubba lazim nwakeb el taknalojya"




Baba A: "hatha eli nages ..el bezer Jenna tetkalam taknalojya ..agoom a9ali abrakli"




Jenna: "taqabal allah yuba"




Baba A: "mina o minich 9ale7 el a3mal"



She smiled as she watched her grandfather walk into the house, her gaze was soon resting on the open newspaper waiting for her Nanna to finish. two minutes later she got bored and diverted her gaze to her phone. her brain contemplated the idea of opening his profile and was eagerly pushing for her to block him but something deep inside wanted to know more. why hasnt she thought of stalking him on twitter?! everyone does it. He did! Jenna opened his profile and her eyes popped open at the amount of followers he had. All she could think of was "seriously?!" it explains the attitude he carried around with him. she then moved to his following and was even more shocked that he is following 23 people and she was the 24th! she opened up the list and scrolled down to see nothing but one family name ..





"ShaymaAlX, AliAlX, BaderAlX, NoorAlX, MisharyAlX, AhmedAlX, AmnaAlX, ..etc"




His whole following list was his family and three different family names which she assumed were his friends. this guy is a loser on twitter if you compared following to followers. she opened up his tweets and it was the slap across the face. he had three tweets, the earliest was months ago. 




Nanna: "who sees your face says you have seen a ghost" 




Jenna: "Nan"




Nanna: "whats worng?"




Jenna: "he followed me on twitter?"




Nanna: "Huh?! followed you were?!"




Jenna: "twitter ..you know that blue bird thing on your iphone"




Nanna: "oh where you kids talk gibrish that I dont understand?!"




Jenna: "bil'9ab6 .. sawali follow"




Nanna: "and what would you do?!"




Jenna: "I dont know .."




Nanna: "whatever you do, I know your wise enough .. let me go see what they have done for lunch? are you staying?"





Jenna: "yeah"




her grandmother got up and Jenna was left alone in the garden to think of her next move. she didnt want to move forward but something inside of her pushed her too. No one has ever challenged her before and this guy needed to be taught a lesson not to mess with her again. she clicked the follow back option and squeezed her eyes shut knowing she just stepped into grey waters ! she placed her phone on the table and within seconds it buzzed.




- very nice of you baby girl to follow back, Thank You! -




Jenna stared at the message she just received and her fury started to boil with in her. who does he think he is to call her babygirl? he doesnt even know her that well to be this friendly with her?! they are NOT even friends in the first place!!




- Stop calling me that -




She punched in the words rather than typed them and waited for a reply. 




- Kaify -





-  Mush kaifk! - 





- Iv hired you, I will call you whatever I please - 





- WHAT?! -





- read it again -





- your truly an Ass! -





- hopefully as fine as yours! -





- im going to block you right this minute -





- ill find a way - 





- A3la ma fe 5ailk erkaba - 





Jenna throwed her Iphone on the table and exhaled deeply, furiously and madly only to have her phone ring at her with an unknown number! She hesitated at first but she had a feeling who was on the other end of the line and she wasn't about to back down, Jenna was never a coward when it came to a battle and she wasn't about to start! She hit the green button fully aware of the storm that was about to hit.



" We got off the wrong foot"




" you think so?! well let me correct you .. we got off on the wrong two feet! *click*"



With that Jennah hanged up in his face with a grin not caring how bad of a reaction he would have!