Can I Be Your Mrs?

5: "I Got These For You"

She took her bunch of tissue, her phone and MacBook before she left. She softly knocked on his door and walked inside with tentative steps, her ankle didn't hurt as much as it did when she woke up, but it wasn't flashy as well. She found herself a spot in her usual sofa before she looked up at him, "Good morning."

He had his eyes fixed on his screen and he only looked up to her when she had given up a reply from him and began switching on her system. "Will you mind sending..." Her words were cut off by a sneeze and she blew her nose afterwards before she continued, "Sending me the works, please? I'll review them now and sort everything out."

He only nodded his head and Jalilah rolled her eyes at him, she hated this cold look on his face. She knew she only knew this version of himself but she had seen a sparkle of a warm Yazeed within him yesterday. She believed that this wasn't his real self, as if he had been hiding behind this cold body of his for a very long time.

Throughout her stay in his office, she kept sneezing and blowing her nose that she wished she could go back to her apartment, to her room and sleep until her body was tired of sleeping. When it was finally zuhr time, and he still hadn't uttered a word out to her, she was the one that kept talking with her sore and tired voice when necessary. She watched as he walked out of the office without even informing her that he was going to pray like he used to. What the hell was wrong with this man? She wondered and shrugged off her shoulder, standing to her feet when she saw Wafiyya's message that she was waiting for her.

She left for the elevator and that was what she realized that Wafiyya was waiting for her at the down floor, and now she had no other chance. Looking around their floor, she saw there was no one but him, walking toward the elevator and she knew history had to repeat itself. She masked up her emotions and walked behind him in a cool manner one would think it was so cool for them to walk side by side without sharing a word out.

It wasn't until they entered that he noticed she was the one following him. She sneezed some more and blew her nose while her head throbbed for the umpteenth time. She placed her palm on her forehead and felt her temperature while she winced softly. "Ya Rabb, I'm so sick..." Another sneeze came. She kept reciting 'Alhamdulillah' as required in Islam but he hadn't said anything, that riled her up.

"I get it, if you can't speak to me because of your reason which I don't know of, but can't you at least pray for me after I sneezed like it is required in Islam? I know you're my boss and all, but no one is beyond correction, right?" As much as she resisted the urge to roll her eyes at him, she couldn't. That was something she did whenever she was annoyed, and right now, she was even frustrated.

He looked at her, their eyes met for a split second but there was no reply from him. He looked away from her and kept staring at his phone screen. She knew she would be either thrown out of this company because of what she was going to do to him or he would beat the hell out of her if he was the abusive type. Because there was no way she was going to let this slide.

She moved an inch close to him and placed her hands on akimbo. "I do respect you, but what you're doing right now is something I find so annoying that I might not be able to control myself. Why don't you at least voice a word out?" She spoke through gritted teeth, but all Yazeed did was stared at the distance between them and he took his eyes back to his phone.

She sarcastically waved her hand over his face and spoke again, "I'm not being persistent so you could speak to me, rather, I was pointing out what Allah asked us as Muslims to do. When someone sneezes, and if he or she says Alhamdulillah, you have to pray for that person's forgiveness and yourself. And if you in case don't know about it..." She wasn't able to complete her sentence when he looked up at her and their eyes met. Did she ever mention that his eyes could unnerve her soul in a matter of seconds? Because they did now, and she instantly lost her voice. He stared deeply into her eyes for more than a minute before he tucked his phone into his breast pocket and walked out of the elevator, that was when she noticed that they were down already.