I Don't Love You. Yet.

|chapter 1|

Salwa

I wake up to the sound of my... Yes you guessed it. My goddamn alarm! I absolutely hate the sound of it. But again that is the point..you know to wake up a heavy sleeper like moi. Yuh I know a little french. What about it-

Anyways, I turn it off and sit up straight on my bed. It's 6:30 in the morning. I'm always the first one to wake up. That's because I'm a piece of shit and I need to get all dressed up... for what? Going to school- And I don't want to start my day with yelling at my family to hurry their asses out of the bathroom.

I start off my school day with closing my eyes and telling myself: I don't want to gooo. I hate school. I don't want to gooo. But I'll have to. Just to see my friends.  I sigh. I get up and freshen up in the bathroom. I put on some concealer cause girl I don't want to scare people away just by looking at them with my horrid eye circles. I also put on some mascara and lip gloss. I come back to my room to pick out my outfit for today. I don't have anything to wear, I say to myself. Which is obviously also a part of my morning routine.

I look outside to check the weather. I notice that it's raining now and I see a few people wearing a light jacket. I go back to my closet and pick out a red hoodie with black leggings and some white shoes. I know, basic. Cause girl I ain't trying to go through the hassle of carrying a jacket with me the whole day. And shall I add that I'm an expert at losing things in a matter of a minute.

Now I have to go wake up my brother. Why? Because he's also a piece of shit but for the opposite reason. Dude doesn't set an alarm and wants me to wake him up. I have to do it just because my dad drops me and him to school and because I don't want to be freaking late. Oh yeah, and he's my older brother, Maaz. We're hella close and he's only an year older than me. Making him a senior and me, a junior in high school.

I quickly eat and put my shoes on to leave. I get to my dad's car and guess who's missing. MAAZ. Wow what a surprise. He's still inside eating while I'm gonna- Oh look there he is. Thank you soo much for coming sir. I really appreciate it. Such an honor it is to not be late to school for once.

We're on our way to school now and I take out my phone to check messages from my friends and cousins. I have a group chat with my two cousins, Sophia and Sania, and my three best friends from school, Ayima, Ayaan, and Harris. Sophia and Sania are sisters. All of us are the same age. My cousins and my friends are all close too. They met when I invited Ayima, Ayaan, and Harris to Sania's and Sophia's older brother's wedding. We all sat at the same table and we just clicked I guess. Now we have a whole groupchat where  everyone just writes absolute bullshit. Sania and Sophia don't go to the same school as us so we are all connected by that one groupchat.

I arrive at school and go to my locker. I begin to take to take my books for my first class when I hear a loud BOOM close by! I move my locker door and see Ayaan facing me while leaning on my neighboring locker.

"It's 7:30 in the morning. Can you tell them to get a room?" Ayaan said closing his eyes.

I look slightly to the right to see what he's talking about and I see Ayima and Harris. Oooooh I say to myself. I close my locker and jump in front of Ayima and scare her. Ayaan is still trying to get some shut eye leaning on the locker.

"Gimme some attention too!" I say pouting. I love teasing these two.

"Ugh. Go away Salwa." Harris responds while smiling. Ayima chuckles and Harris looks at her.

"If good sir and miss ma'am are done with their little session. Can we perhaps get to class?" I say laughing as I go behind them and drag them with me by their shoulders. I look back at Ayaan and now he's smiling with his eyes closed.

"Do you want me to give you an invitation card Ayaan?" I say trying to annoy him. He gets up and put his arms around Harris. I go next to Ayima and do the same. And now its the four of us walking in the hallways, in our own little world.