Chapter 1
Ilayda reached in the building where her dorm was, she walked towards her dorm dragging her suitcase and reached her dorm, she unlocked the door as she walked inside her eyes widened out, she witnessed a girl kissing a boy, the boy wasn't wearing shirt while the girls was under him on the couch but fortunately nothing more inappropriate than that, they didn't acknowledge ilayda's presence until she covered her eyes with her hands and her suitcase dropped on the floor which startled both of them, as they looked towards ilayda they both pulled back abruptly, the boy put on his shirt aggressively while mumbling curse under his breath, completely frustrated by her presence, the girl spoke first "h-hey.... You can see we are not doing anything" ilayda peeked out from between her fingers and then removed her hands, the boy kept glaring at ilayda then aggressively walked passed by her while mumbling "Miss Meddling" and he left the room, ilayda's head snapped back towards the boy and shouted "HEY!!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!! THIS US MY DORM!!! DON'T EVER CALL ME THAT I'LL CUT YOUR TONGU-" before she could complete her words the girl placed her hand on ilayda's shoulder and spoke while closing the door "hey leave him, he is just like that.." ilayda nodded slowly then locked the dorm and pulled her suitcase and throw it on the bed before started unpacking and spoke "you have to tell your boyfriend to not come here often" the girl chuckled and spoke "I don't have a boyfriend he's not my boyfriend" ilayda paused and looked back at her, then asked "then your fiance?" The girl shook her head, and ilayda sat down on the bed and asked hesitantly "husband" the girl chuckled and laid down on her bed and spoke "of course not!" Ilayda got more confused and asked "then what, girl?!" The girl answered "he has nothing to do with me.... He is just my... Actually we were in a situationship" ilayda raised her eyebrow in judgement and the girl spoke playfully "you are not judging me, are you?" Ilayda pulled her hands up in mocking surrender and answered "don't blame me, you just gave me reason to judge you" the girl chuckled and ilayda started unpinning her hijab as the girl spoke "I'm Jessica by the way... You can call me Jess" ilayda smile and answered "I'm ilayda" Jess asked "you are Muslim right?" Ilayda moved towards her suitcase and started unpacking it again and answered "allhumdulliah! And that's the reason why I almost went to coma when you told me you kissed your situationship partner" Jess answered "oh c'mon, I know it's weird but everyone has a crush on him, he's so handsome... I'm sure you'll start liking him too" ilayda paused and looked back at her in disbelief "girl! You think I'll have a crush on a man who just called me Ms Meddling!" Jess laughed and spoke "he got frustrated because you ruined our moment" ilayda gave her a disbelief look, and Jess spoke "okay okay I understand this is your room too he was stranger her" ilayda shook her head and spoke "let's forget about Mr iblis " Jess furrowed her eyebrows and asked "what is iblis now?" Ilayda shook her hands dismissed and spoke "it means devil that's it, you tell me about yourself" Jess sat down and hugged the pillow and spoke "there is nothing special about me, I'm Jess, of course a student and I love clubbing partying having fun and making friends" ilayda chuckled and spoke "partying? Clubbing? That's a pretty good and honest answer" Jess asked "tell me about yourself" ilayda smiled and answered "myself ilayda, no siblings, love good people, and of course I'm a Muslim" she pointed towards her unpinned hijab which was still on her head, then ilayda take off her scarf and under cap and revealed her dark brown long hair, Jess covered her eyes and yelled "hey what are you doing?!!! You are not allowed to show your hair" ilayda flinches and looked towards Jess before started laughing, Jess peeked out but then hide her eyes, ilayda sat down on jess's bed and pulled her hands away from her eyes and spoke "hey hey! Look at me you can see my hair you are a woman too" Jess asked almost innocently "is it allowed? I don't want to make you a bad person" ilayda pinch jess's chubby cheeks gently and spoke "awww it's allowed, it's okay" Jess looks at ilayda's gentle and soft expressions and spoke "you are not like what they told about you" ilayda got confused before understanding immediate "oh so someone told you about that Muslim terrorists thing?" Jess nodded and ilayda smiled, then she asked "ammm tell me one thing.... If I steal your pen would you blame my whole family for it?" Jess shook her head and ilayda answered "that's right... Just because some Muslims may have created a bad image doesn't mean we all are same... We are humans too we love everyone we don't hurt anyone and you know in our religion it is strictly prohibited to harm anyone... Not even non Muslim..." Jess kept looking at ilayda with amused eyes her chubby cheeks puffed with curiosity as ilayda asked "do you know about Prophet MUHAMMAD (S.A.W)?" Jess nodded immediately "yeah he's your last prophet and I guess you guys love him" ilayda nodded with a smile and answered gentle "yes we love him and we can sacrifice our parents our kids and whole world on him and on his family, and he told us "Beware! Whoever is cruel and hard on a non-Muslim under covenant, or diminishes his rights, or burdens him beyond his strength, or takes anything from him without his consent-I will be his opponent on the Day of Judgment." which means Muslims are strictly forbidden from oppressing, cheating, or mistreating non-Muslims who live peacefully among them" Jess smiled and spoke "your prophet said nicest thing ever" ilayda smiled and stood and walked towards her bed and answered "that's why I said I can sacrifice my everything on him and his family" They both kept chatting then fall asleep.
THE NEXT MORNING
When ilayda woke up she was little late because she was so tried last night because of traveling, she saw Jess already prepared breakfast in the small kitchen in the corner of the dorm as she saw ilayda awake she spoke "morning" ilayda Mumbled "morning" ilayda get off the bed and Jess asked "want to eat bacon?" Ilayda smiled sleepily and answered "I'm sure they are not halal" and then she grabbed her clothes and went to bathroom, she changed into an ice blue wide jean, a white button up shirt and a light brown waist over her, she came out and put some butter on bread while Jess was ready she left the room while seeing "see you soon bye!!" Ilayda spoke "bye Allah Hafiz" those last words slipped from ilayda's mouth casually. She hurriedly complete her breakfast put on camel brown colour hijab and put on her black boots then left. As she reached campus she went straight towards her class as she entered the glass was completely filled but one seat was empty on back, she went and sat down on the seat, there was one seat beside her with bag on it which means like someone was already sitting there, the bell ring and everyone sat down on there place, as boy come and sat down beside ilayda as she looked towards him one word rolled down her tongue "iblis"
"Your smile trips over my quiet thought,
and suddenly my heart forgets what it was taught."
Love you all
