Demons of My past

Chapter 10

Chapter: 10

What kind of drugs was I on? Had I taken some kind of pill I don't remember. Where did my ballsy attitude come from? Not that I wasn't grateful for it. It felt good to hit him it did. But, I shouldn't have done it. I should have known better. What had I been thinking? I ran to the elevator the moment I went through the door. I didn't want to see if he would come after me.

'Great Zainab what a way to start your new life with the man' I scolded myself.

I huffed angrily at myself as I walked down the hall to my suite. How was I going to face him later? I was going to have to go down to greet the people and join the party. With a heavy sigh, I slowly opened the door to my suite and walked in leaning against it as I closed it shut.

"There you are," exclaimed Aunt Ruqya

I opened my eyes to see her coming towards me.

"I was beginning to think you ran away. Where did you go? you had me worried," she smiled

Leading me toward a chair in front of the mirror.

"Oh....I just went out for a breath of fresh air. I'm just a bit nervous" I lied.

For some reason, I didn't want to tell her about my mom or get all serious again.

"Zainab?" she asked looking at me through the mirror.

"Hmm... ya?" I asked turning to look at her.

"Darling is that Yunus's jacket? What are you doing wearing it? Last time I saw him he was wearing it," She asked with a raised eyebrow completely confused.

'oh shit what was I going to tell her'

I gulped looking around, how should I explain it. That after her son put this wonderful warm jacket, with the amazing scent, around my shoulders, I repaid him by slapping him in the face.

"Um.....Ya, it's his. He gave it to me when he saw me outside. I hadn't had anything on and it was cold out," I smiled.

That hadn't been a lie at all. I breathed a sigh of relief. She smiled.

"How sweet. Here, why don't you take it off" she said taking the jacket from my shoulders. I stopped myself from resisting her.

"There now let me fix this hijab" she bent down and started to fix the hijab a bit better around my head.

As she cooed and gushed how pretty I was, I couldn't help but wonder what it would have been like had it been my mom there. But I quickly pushed the thought away, I wasn't going to deal with any more of that drama today.

"There all fixed. All you need is for Kawthar..." she was cut off by a girl exiting the bathroom.

She was slender with a nice warm face. But what caught my attention were her eyes. They were the nicest hazel eyes I had ever seen. They were big and round but at the same time, gentle. She was very pretty but you could see that she was a woman that had been through a lot with the strength that could be seen in her.

"Oh here is Kawthar, I had asked her to do your makeup darling. Have you two met before?" she asked.

We shook our heads

"Well then now is the best chance. Zainab meet Kawthar, Kawthar meet Zainab" she introduced us

We both said our salaams to each other.

"Well, I'm going to leave you two together. I have to go down and see where my husband is and greet the guests" she said with a smile.

she kissed me on the forehead and hugged Kawthar before she walked out of the room.